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"

that

isn't. Who would you rather piss off, Monica or

deal with,

was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd

I was in a business relation with Melissa,

it was someone else rather than

say that things

"ah..."

words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the same sentiment

definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I

whatever, I don't want to talk about

in dismissal, Kevin entered

muttered, whilst following

Kevin knew that

Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

take the fall

everything turned out

Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

all is

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

one person she detested with all her

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

for buying the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel,

had officially come to

*

others, I

you can come

in the air and

at Angelica for a couple of seconds, I thanked

for your

going to the training

acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards

new apartment, Angelica had been

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train without

her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when

the

so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods

limit on the things I

this was good enough

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

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

have plans for it, they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

I

I should start making

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

were supposed to be three big events orchestrated

destroying the first event, the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning

down on the sofa in

they wouldn't give up on such an important

be something

the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the

Even so...

planning on doing, I wasn't going to

was the

doing a thorough investigation of

what their plan was

that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to

with

needed to

knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from

as I laid down on my

***

same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

bed with her hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

calendar and checked her schedule.

is coming

asking Kevin

his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on

buy

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

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

Emma silently shrieked as a

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

changed position.

should I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd rather

help her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money she had available