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"

that only Kevin and I could hear,

Who would you

deal with, I would've without a

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

business relation with Melissa, things weren't that

someone else rather than

say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

words came out of his mouth. Deep

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I pointed

want to talk about

dismissal, Kevin entered the

away...', I muttered, whilst following

the end, Kevin knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

did make him take the fall

defense, everything turned out just

at Kevin, Monica

they say, all is well

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

she detested with all

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

loss she made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's

had officially

*

the others, I returned

you can come

my words, black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

Angelica for a couple of seconds, I thanked

you for your hard

going to

made her way

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds, I shook my

been

insulating system, Angelica could now train

detected when training as the isolating

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

finally laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely

a lot of possibilities had opened up

the

was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short

things

was good

it wouldn't be long

month's time, I wasn't planning on

it, they were for

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

guess I should start making

month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making

there were supposed to be three big

banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning something

down on the sofa in the living room, I

up on such

must be

Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan for the

Even so...

to

that was the perfect

doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and out of the

I knew what their plan was could I come up with

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

way I could come up with proper

I needed to spend the next month

knows. Perhaps I can even

muttered as I laid

***

the same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

is coming up

asking

her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar

I buy

as her cheeks

thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought

onto the helm of her dress, Emma silently

right! There's no meaning behind the gift. I'm just

herself that there was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she

should I buy

a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

were, there was a chance he would know about what Kevin would like,

know, I'd rather

a gift irked her a bit.

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

she couldn't

how much money she had available before