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

Who would you rather

would rather deal with, I would've without a doubt have chosen

as crazy as a truly angered

in a business relation

it was someone

that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

my statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

don't want to talk

dismissal,

away...', I muttered, whilst following him from

end, Kevin knew that I was

Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take the fall for

defense, everything

Kevin, Monica was quite

all is well that

Monica off, she would've never have been able to discover

she detested with

she would be able to take back all of

the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

officially come

*

separating from the others, I returned to my

you can

words, black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting

couple of

for

going to

Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training

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

system, Angelica could now train

being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An

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

in the

ranked, I could only use it for short

on the things I could do with the

this was good enough for

others, it wouldn't be long till I

a month's time, I wasn't planning on

it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making

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

supposed to be three

the first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

or are

in the living room, I

give up on such

must be

Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith

Even so...

I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for everything to

was the

was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was

their plan was could I come up with the

a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather

up with proper countermeasures for when the

needed to spend the next

who knows. Perhaps I can

I laid down on my

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

birthday is coming up

remembered asking Kevin

her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her

buy him a

as her cheeks suddenly

wait, wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift

the helm of her dress, Emma silently

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

behind her action, Emma changed position. This time

I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

struck her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would

don't know, I'd

idea of asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her a bit.

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on the gift

check how much money she had