The Author's POV

Chapter 230

"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"

voice that only Kevin and I could hear, I

you rather

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

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

that I was in a business relation with

it was someone

say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I

don't want to

his hand in dismissal,

muttered, whilst following him from

Kevin knew

angry Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

was

make him take the fall for

my defense, everything turned

being angry at Kevin, Monica was

they say, all is well

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

one person she detested with all her

able to take back

buying the sword would

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

the King's

had officially

*

from the others, I returned to

you can come

rose in the air and

Angelica for a couple of seconds, I

you for your hard

to

Angelica made her way

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds,

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

Angelica could now

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would

in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for

the

I could only use it

a limit on the things I could do with

good

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

a month's time, I

they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

making preparations

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

tournament, there were supposed to be three big events

the banquet, there were supposed to be another two

However, they never occurred.

or are

in

they wouldn't give up on such

be something

not figure out what the

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit down

was the perfect

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

was could I come up

up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from,

come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

that, I needed to spend the next

knows. Perhaps I can even benefit

I laid down

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

on her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the

"Hm?"

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

birthday is

ago she remembered asking Kevin

he had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it

I buy him

as her cheeks suddenly

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

silently

just thanking him for all the help I

action, Emma changed

I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance

don't know,

irked

how much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money

much

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