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"

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

Who would you rather piss off, Monica

would rather deal with, I would've without a doubt

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

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

someone

say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

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

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

want to

dismissal,

away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew that

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take the fall for

everything turned out just

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

they say, all is well that ends

Kevin not pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to discover

person she detested

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

for buying the sword would

"Get in"

the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I entered

auction had officially come

*

the others, I returned

you can

rose in the air

couple of

you for

to the

Angelica made

"Aye"

figure moving towards the

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train

to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would

mask in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for

in the future at

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

put a limit on the things

good

others, it wouldn't be long till

time, I

they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

start making preparations

tournament, I knew that I had to start making

were supposed to be three big events orchestrated

the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

up or are they planning

in

on such an important

must be something

the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan

Even so...

I wasn't going to just

that was the

next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough

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

to escape from, I would much

with proper countermeasures for when the situation

to spend

I can even benefit from this

laid down

***

same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

her calendar and checked

Kevin's birthday is

asking Kevin for

had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar

buy him

her cheeks suddenly

I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift

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

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

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

I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a

know,

get a gift irked her

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

check how much money she had available