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 and I could

isn't. Who would you rather piss off, Monica

me who I would rather deal with,

was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a

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

it was someone else rather

just say that

"ah..."

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

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want to talk

in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered,

end, Kevin knew that I

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

him take

defense, everything

at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

they say, all is well

would've

person she detested with all her

that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from her. Me

made for buying the

"Get in"

rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown

had officially

*

from the others, I returned to

can

the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

for a couple of seconds,

you for

to

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

moving towards

had been spending most of her time in the

Angelica could now train

demonic energy being detected when training as the

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

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

in the future at

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

a limit on the things I could

this was good enough

rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully

the tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning

they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making preparations

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

supposed to be three

first event, the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they

in

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

be something

I could not figure out what

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for everything

that was the

I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and out of

what their plan was could I come

them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would

I could come up with proper countermeasures for

that, I needed to spend the next month

who knows. Perhaps I can even

laid down on my

***

same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

is coming

asking Kevin for his

her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she wouldn't

buy him a

her cheeks suddenly

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

her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts

gift. I'm just thanking him for all the help I received

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

I buy

stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue on what

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd rather

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

much money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too

how much