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"

a low voice that only Kevin and I could hear,

you rather

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

as a truly angered Melissa.

now that I was in a business relation with

was someone else rather

just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

his mouth. Deep

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I

I don't want to talk about it

his hand in dismissal,

away...', I muttered, whilst

the end, Kevin knew

Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

did make him take the

defense, everything turned out just

at Kevin, Monica

they say, all is well that

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

one person she detested with

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

made for buying the sword

"Get in"

the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown

auction had officially come to a

*

the others, I

can come

in the air and Angelica's

for a couple of seconds, I thanked

for your hard

going to

Angelica made

"Aye"

figure moving towards the training grounds, I shook my

Angelica had been spending most of her time in the

great insulating system, Angelica could now train without holding

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

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

in the future at

so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would

limit on the things I could

was good

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

month's time, I wasn't

it, they were for

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

making preparations

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

supposed to

banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

give up or

sofa in the

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

must be something

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

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit down and

was the perfect recipe for

the next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and out

I knew what their plan was

them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much

with proper

that, I needed to spend the next month

can even

laid

***

same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule.

is coming up

asking Kevin

was, Emma remembered

buy him a

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

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

Emma silently shrieked

just thanking him

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

I

was stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had

'Should I ask Ren?'

and Kevin were, there

know, I'd

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

much money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't spend too much money on the

how much money she had available before