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"

repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin and I

you rather piss off, Monica

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

wasn't as crazy as a truly

was in a business relation with Melissa,

was someone else rather

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

"ah..."

No words came out of his mouth.

definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

I don't want to talk about it

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

muttered, whilst following him

Kevin knew that I

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

take

defense, everything turned out just

Kevin, Monica was quite

is well that

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

one person she detested with all her

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

she made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel,

had officially come to

*

others, I returned to

you can come

smoke rose in the air and Angelica's

couple of

for

to

Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards

been spending most

its great insulating system, Angelica could

longer had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in the

of possibilities had opened up for me.

in the future

I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would run

a limit on the things I could do

this was good enough for

much faster rate compared to others, it

time, I

I did have plans for it, they

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making preparations for

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

tournament, there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated by the

destroying the first event, the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

up or are they

down on the sofa in the living room,

give up on such an important event just because one of their plans had

be

I could not figure out what the

Even so...

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

was the perfect recipe

or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation

their plan was could I come up with the

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

with proper countermeasures for

to spend the next

Perhaps I can even benefit from

laid

***

same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

her phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her

Kevin's birthday is coming

asking Kevin

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

I buy

as her cheeks

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

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

just thanking him for all the help I

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

I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd

her get a gift irked her a bit.

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

her bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't

check how much money