The Author's POV

"Did you manage to retrieve all of the stolen goods?"

Asked Amber as she sat on a large leather chair. Before her, a female secretary politely nodded her head.

"Yes, we have Madam"

"Mhm, how much would we have lost if Ivan had succeeded?"

"That..."

The secretary hesitated.

Brushing her hair to the side, Amber's brows knit and her tone became stern.

"I want a clear answer"

Instantly the atmosphere turned sullen.

"2.7 b-billion U"

Closing her eyes, the secretary mustered up her courage and revealed everything that she knew.

"huuu..."

Hearing the sum, Amber took a deep breath.

She then looked at her assistant and asked once again. She wanted to make sure she didn't mishear.

Unfortunately for her, she did not mishear as her secretary shook her head.

"2.7 billion U, am I hearing incorrectly?"

"U-unfortunately not, Madam. After investigating we found a lot of the auctioned items to have been replaced with fakes. Excluding the sword, the last item, everything that was stolen had an accumulated value of 2.7 billion U"

"Haaa...alright, you may leave"

Letting out a long sigh, Amber dismissed her secretary.

'2.7 billion...'

Although this was within her estimation, hearing the number still threw Amber off. This was a lot of money.

Even she, a ranked hero as well as the owner of multiple businesses would need at least a couple of decades to be able to save up that much money.

"Thank you, Madam, I hope you have a good night"

"Yes, yes"

Dismissed, the secretary bowed her head. Amber casually waved her hand in response. She needed to be left alone.

'”Clank!

Closing the door behind her, the servant left the room.

Silence prevailed over the room as Amber quietly picked up some papers and looked through them.

'”Flip! '”Flip!

For the next thirty minutes, Amber skimmed through the stack of papers.

Written on them were the details of the incident as well as other information regarding the times retrieved from Ivan's dimensional storage space.

'Sigh, I can't seem to be able to concentrate...'

After a while, Amber put the papers down.

Just thinking about the whole situation gave her a headache. In fact, her head was already starting to hurt.

Opening her desk drawer, Amber took a small cylindrical bottle and took out a pill.

"If not for Monica, things would've turned out disastrous..."

Taking a glass of water, Amber downed the pill and muttered.

Had it not been for Monica, her night would've been a sleepless one.

Most of the responsibility for the incident would've been put on her, and in all likelihood, she was going to be the one who would have to pay a large portion of the damages.

"To think that there was a day where I would have to thank Monica. The world is truly something..."

Bitterly laughing, Amber leaned back on her chair and covered her eyes with her arm.

She was tired.

...

Outside the King's Crown hotel...

"See, everything worked out just fine"

With a smile on my face, I patted Kevin on the shoulder.

All in all, everything worked out just fine.

Rather than remaining angry at Kevin, Monica actually thanked him and completely forgave him.

Everything worked out just fine. There was no need for Kevin to remain angry at me.

"Don't touch me!"

Smacking my hand away, Kevin grumpily made his way towards the limousine that was a few blocks ahead.

"Oh, come on! It wasn't that bad. Monica is not even angry at you!"

"It doesn't matter. You backstabbed me"

"Tsk, if we're talking about selling out shouldn't we be talking about you?"

Clicking my tongue, I rebutted.

"What about me?"

"Did you forget about the fact that you literally exposed our conversation to everyone a couple of hours ago?"

"What? that's different"

In response to my argument, Kevin's brows knit.

"Is it though?"

"Yes, it is"

voice that only Kevin

Who would you rather piss off,

asked me who I would rather deal with,

she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

I was in a business relation with Melissa, things weren't

was someone else rather than

just say that

"ah..."

Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his

don't want to

his hand in dismissal, Kevin

running away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew that I

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

take the fall

everything

angry at Kevin, Monica

they say, all is well that ends

not pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to discover

detested with all

that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the

buying the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I

had officially

*

from the others, I

you can come

the

at Angelica for a couple of

for your hard

going to the

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I

new apartment, Angelica had been spending most

system, Angelica could now train without holding

worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An item that would

of possibilities had opened up for me.

in the future at

only use

on the things I could do with the

this was good enough for

at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able

tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning on using the mask anytime

did have plans for it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

start making

left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew

to be three big events

the first event, the banquet, there were supposed to be

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are

sofa in the living room, I

on such an important event just because one of their plans

must be something

not figure out what the Monolith had in plan

Even so...

they were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down

was the

a thorough

plan was could I come up with

set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later use to my

come up with proper countermeasures for

I needed to

can even benefit

laid down on

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of

"Hm?"

phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

is coming

ago she remembered asking Kevin

was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that

buy

muttered as her

wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift for a

helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

gift. I'm just thanking him for

behind her action, Emma changed

I

a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

there was a

don't know, I'd rather

get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't want to

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend

how much money she had