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 hear, I softly

you rather piss off, Monica

asked me who I would rather deal with, I

a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with her

was in a business relation with Melissa,

was someone else

that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

I don't want

dismissal,

you're running away...', I muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

did make him take the fall

everything

at Kevin, Monica was quite

all is well that ends

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

detested

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

made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown

officially come

*

from the others,

can come out

rose in the air and Angelica's

Angelica for a couple of seconds,

for your

going to the

made her way towards

"Aye"

towards the training grounds, I shook

moving to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending

Angelica could now train

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

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

a lot of possibilities had opened up for me.

in the future

only use

the things I

was good

others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

month's time, I

did have plans for it, they were for

"That reminds me..."

up, I

I should start making preparations for

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

to be

first event, the banquet,

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are they planning something

sofa in the living room,

that they wouldn't give up on such an important

be

the Monolith watch, I could not figure

Even so...

to just sit down and wait for everything

that was the perfect recipe for

so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and

their plan was could

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

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for when

needed to spend the

Perhaps I can even benefit from

as I laid down on

***

the same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

Kevin's birthday is coming

she remembered asking Kevin for his

remembered putting it on her calendar so

buy him a

muttered as her cheeks

buy a gift for him? I've

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as

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

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

I buy

a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

how close Ren and Kevin were, there was

don't know,

of asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't

to check how much money she had available