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"

repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin and I could hear,

you rather piss off,

me who I would rather deal with, I would've without

as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with

was in a business

was someone else

say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the same

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation,

whatever, I don't want to talk about

dismissal, Kevin entered

you're running away...', I muttered, whilst

Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

take the fall

everything turned out just

than being angry at Kevin, Monica was

all is well that

would've never

she detested with

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

buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

as she rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

had officially

*

the others, I

can

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

couple

you for your

going to

Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

moving towards

this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her

system, Angelica could now train without

longer had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy from leaking

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in the

a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future

in the

only use it for short periods

on the things I could do with the

was good enough

it wouldn't be long till I would be able

time,

did have plans for it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

guess I should start making preparations for

tournament, I knew that I

supposed to be three big events orchestrated by

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

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are

the sofa in the

they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one of their plans

be something

figure out what the Monolith had in plan for the

Even so...

on doing, I wasn't going to just sit

was the

month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening

I knew what their plan was could I come up with the

be able to escape from, I would much rather create

with proper countermeasures for when

that, I needed to spend the next month

who knows. Perhaps I can

laid

***

same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of

"Hm?"

and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something caught her

is

asking

told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting

I buy him

her cheeks

wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts entered

I'm just thanking him for all

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

should I

stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she

'Should I ask Ren?'

her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know about what Kevin

don't know, I'd

of asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she

money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on the gift

how much money she had