The Author's POV

Chapter 230

"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"

low voice that only Kevin and I could hear, I softly

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

who I would rather deal with,

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

a business relation

if it was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the same sentiment as

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

want to talk

hand in dismissal, Kevin

away...', I muttered, whilst following him

knew

Melissa wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was

him take

everything turned out

at Kevin, Monica was quite

is well

off, she would've never have been able to discover

one person she detested with all her

him, she would be able to

made for buying the sword

"Get in"

the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

had officially come to

*

from the others, I returned

you can come

black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's

at Angelica for a couple of seconds, I thanked

you for

to the

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the

Angelica had been spending most

insulating system, Angelica could now train

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

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

An

possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when

in the future

use it for short periods of time

put a limit on the things I could

was good enough for

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

the tournament coming up in a month's time,

for it, they

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

start making preparations for the

only a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament,

there were supposed to be

event, the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are they

sofa in the living room, I

up on

must be

I could not figure out what the Monolith

Even so...

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

the

thorough investigation of everything that was happening in

what their plan was

that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather

up with proper countermeasures for when the

to spend the next month

Perhaps I can even

as I laid down on my

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

her calendar and checked her

birthday is coming up

asking

remembered putting it

I buy

muttered as her

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

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

just thanking him for

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

I

a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know,

her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

check how much money

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