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"

low voice that only Kevin and I could hear, I softly

would you rather piss off, Monica or

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

she was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly

I was in a business relation with

it was someone else rather

let's just say that

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the

definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation,

don't want to talk about

in dismissal, Kevin entered

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

end, Kevin knew

Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

was somewhat

him take the fall

defense, everything turned out

than being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

they say, all is well that ends

Monica off, she would've never have been

she detested

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

buying the

"Get in"

the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

the King's Crown hotel, I

auction had officially come

*

from the others,

you can

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

for a couple of

you for your

to

Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

moving towards the

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

Angelica could now train without

when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

An item that would prove extremely

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

the future at

mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for

things

this was good enough

faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

coming up in a month's time, I

plans for it, they

"That reminds me..."

I

start making preparations for the

start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making preparations

the tournament, there were supposed to be three big events

event, the banquet, there were supposed to be

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they planning

on the sofa in the

wouldn't give up on such

be something

on the Monolith watch, I could not figure

Even so...

were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down

that was the perfect

thorough investigation of everything that was happening in

their plan was could I

that I wouldn't be able to escape from,

way I could come up with

that, I needed to spend the next

Perhaps I can even benefit from

as I laid down on my

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her bed with her hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

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

is coming

remembered asking Kevin for

was, Emma remembered putting it

buy

as her cheeks suddenly

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

silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts entered

gift. I'm just thanking him for all

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

should I buy

bought a gift for a

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know,

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

how much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money she had available before