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 could

you rather piss

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

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd

a business relation

it was someone else

that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his

don't want to talk

dismissal, Kevin

muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew that I

wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take the

my defense, everything turned out just

at Kevin,

all is well that ends

Monica off, she would've never

one person she detested with all her

be able to take

loss she made for buying the sword would

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel,

had officially

*

others, I returned to

can

words, black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's

for a couple of

for your hard

to the

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

moving towards the

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

Angelica

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

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An item that

possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when

the future at

mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for

things I could do

was good

rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would

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

plans for it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

I should start making

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

tournament, there were supposed to

completely destroying the first event, the banquet,

However, they never occurred.

or

sofa in the living room,

the Monolith well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event

must be something

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

Even so...

going to just

the

was planning on doing a thorough

knew what their plan was could I come up

have them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later

up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

needed to spend the next

Perhaps I can even

muttered as I laid down on

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something caught

birthday is coming up

she remembered asking Kevin for

remembered putting it on her

I buy him

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've

dress, Emma silently shrieked as

right! There's no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him

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

should I

bought a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he

know, I'd

irked her a bit.

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

how much money she