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 and I could

isn't. Who would you

asked me who I would rather deal with, I would've without

crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with

business relation with Melissa, things weren't

was someone else

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

"ah..."

mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I

I don't want to talk

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

running away...', I muttered, whilst

the end, Kevin knew that I was

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take the fall for

my defense, everything

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

all is well that

Monica off, she would've never have been able

she detested

had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items

for buying the

"Get in"

rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel,

officially come to

*

separating from the others, I returned to

can

words, black smoke rose in the

Angelica for a couple of seconds, I thanked

you for your hard

to the

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds, I

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her

Angelica could

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An item that would prove extremely

had opened up

in the future

so highly ranked, I could only use it for short

put a limit on the things

was good

it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

with the tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning on using the

did have plans for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

making preparations for

till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I

the tournament, there were supposed to

event, the banquet,

However, they never occurred.

or are

sofa in the

knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event

must be something

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

Even so...

planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for everything to

was the

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

plan was could I come

net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to

with

that, I needed to spend the next

who knows. Perhaps I can

I laid down

***

same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one

"Hm?"

calendar and

birthday is

she remembered asking

was, Emma remembered putting it on her

buy him

her cheeks

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

dress, Emma silently

There's no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the help I received from

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

I

stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy

'Should I ask Ren?'

Kevin were, there was a chance he would

know, I'd

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

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money