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

would you

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

a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather

a business relation with Melissa, things weren't

was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

of his

whatever, I don't want to talk about it

in dismissal,

away...', I muttered, whilst following

the end, Kevin knew

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was

did make him take

my defense, everything turned

than being angry at Kevin,

they say, all is well

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

detested

be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from her.

loss she made for buying the

"Get in"

the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown

auction had officially come

*

separating from the others,

you can come

smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared

couple of seconds,

you for your hard

going to the

made

"Aye"

towards

to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her time in the

its great insulating system, Angelica

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me.

the

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

things I could

good enough for

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

month's time, I wasn't

they were for

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

making

of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start

supposed to be three big events orchestrated by

the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

or

on the sofa in the living

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

be something

not figure

Even so...

planning on doing, I wasn't going to just

the perfect recipe

on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was

once I knew what their plan was could I come up

a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from,

could come up with

needed to spend the next month

I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid down on

***

the same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

down on her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed

"Hm?"

her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something caught

is

asking Kevin for his

his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar

buy him

as her cheeks

wait, wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked

I'm just thanking him

action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying

I buy

a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

Kevin were, there was a chance he would

know, I'd rather

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

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much

how much