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"

head repeatedly, in a low voice that

would you rather piss off, Monica or

who I would rather deal

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

was in a business relation

was someone else rather

that things wouldn't

"ah..."

opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

don't want to talk about it

his hand in dismissal, Kevin

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

end, Kevin knew that I was

Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

take the

defense, everything turned

Kevin, Monica was

they say, all is well

pissed Monica off, she would've never have

person she detested

she would be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from

the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I

had officially

*

separating from the others, I returned to

can

smoke rose in the air and

a couple of seconds, I

you for your hard

going to the

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

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

Angelica had been spending most of her time in the training

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

train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for

possibilities had opened up for me. Especially

the future at

ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before

put a limit on the things I could do with the

this was good

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

time, I wasn't planning on using the

it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

I

start making preparations

tournament, I knew that I had to start making

supposed to

the banquet, there were supposed to be

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning something

on the sofa in the

Monolith well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one

must be

not figure out what the

Even so...

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

the perfect recipe for

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

knew what their plan was could I come up with the

I wouldn't be able to escape from, I

up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

I needed to spend the

who knows. Perhaps I can

as I laid down on

***

the same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

and

birthday is coming

asking Kevin for his

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

I buy him

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

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

Emma silently

gift. I'm just

Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat on

I buy

never bought a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd

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

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

how much money