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

it isn't. Who would you rather piss off, Monica or

me who I would rather deal with, I

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

was in a business relation with

was someone

that

"ah..."

of his

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his

whatever, I don't want to talk

in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered, whilst following

knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

anger was

did make him take

my defense, everything turned out

angry at Kevin, Monica was

say, all is well

off, she would've never

person she detested

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

the

"Get in"

rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

the King's Crown hotel, I

had officially come to

*

others, I returned

can come out

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

couple of

you for

going to

Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

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

been spending most of her time in the training

insulating system, Angelica could now train without

detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy from

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

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

the

highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods

put a limit on the things I could do

good enough

at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

time, I wasn't planning on

have plans for it, they

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

should start making

start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that

supposed to be three

event, the banquet, there were supposed to be another

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are they

the sofa in the

the Monolith well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one of their

must be

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

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit down and

was the

on doing a thorough investigation of

what their plan was could

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

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for

I needed to

who knows. Perhaps I can

I laid down on

***

same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to the tune of

"Hm?"

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

is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin for

Emma remembered putting it on her

buy him

muttered as her

am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift for a boy

her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a

no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the

meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat

should I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd rather

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

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

check how much