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"

that only

it isn't. Who would you rather piss

who I would rather deal with, I would've

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

business

it was someone

let's just say that

"ah..."

his mouth. Deep

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want

in dismissal,

I muttered, whilst following

the end, Kevin knew that I was

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

was somewhat

make him take the fall

defense, everything turned out just

at Kevin, Monica was quite

all is

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

detested with all her

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

the

"Get in"

she rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

officially come to a

*

from the others, I

you can

rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure

a couple of

for your hard

going to the training

made her way towards the training

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of

great insulating system, Angelica could now train

had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

mask in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future schemes

the future

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

things I could

was good enough for

my strength progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

month's time, I wasn't planning on

they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

start making preparations

only a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I

there were supposed to be three big events

banquet, there were supposed to be another two

However, they never occurred.

or are they planning something

sofa in the living room, I

on such an important event just because one

must be something

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

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to

was the perfect recipe for

a thorough

what their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create

come up with proper countermeasures

I needed to spend the

Perhaps I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid down

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma

"Hm?"

phone, Emma opened her calendar and

birthday is

she remembered asking

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

buy

her

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

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked

I'm just thanking him for all the help I received from

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

should I buy

was stumped. Having never bought a gift for a

'Should I ask Ren?'

there was

don't know, I'd

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

money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

just realized that she

to check how much money she