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"

my head repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin

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

I would rather deal with, I would've without

as a truly angered Melissa. I'd

in a business relation with Melissa,

it was someone else

that

"ah..."

statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation,

whatever, I don't want to talk about

dismissal, Kevin entered

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

the end, Kevin knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

take the

defense, everything turned out

Kevin, Monica

they say, all is

would've never have been

she detested with all her

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

buying the

"Get in"

the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown hotel,

had officially come to

*

separating from the others, I

can come out

the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared

a couple of

you for

going to

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

moving towards

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her time

its great insulating system, Angelica

energy being detected when training as the isolating system in

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

the mask in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when

in the future at

because the mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my

on the things I could do

was good enough

to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

month's time, I wasn't planning on using the mask anytime

I did have plans for it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

guess I should start making preparations for the upcoming

till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making preparations for

there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated by

first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are

down on the sofa in the living room,

up on such an important event just because one of

be something

figure out what the Monolith had in plan for the

Even so...

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

that was the perfect recipe for

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

their plan was could I come

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

way I could come up with proper countermeasures

needed to spend the next

knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from this

laid down on

***

the same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and

is coming

remembered asking Kevin for

was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she

I buy

as her cheeks

thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

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

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

I

bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue on

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would

know, I'd rather

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

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't spend too much money on the

needed to check how much money she had available before