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"

my head repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin and

Who would you

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

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

now that I was in a business relation with Melissa, things weren't that

was someone

that

"ah..."

his mouth. Deep in

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation,

want to talk about

hand in dismissal, Kevin

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

knew that

wasn't

'That aside...'

was

did make him take the fall for

defense, everything turned out just

angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

they say, all is well

she would've never have been able to discover

one person she detested with

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

loss she made for buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I entered the

officially come to a

*

the others, I returned to

can come out

the air

Angelica for a couple of seconds, I

you for your

going to

head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training

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

insulating system, Angelica could

to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An

of possibilities had opened up for

the future at

ranked, I could only use it

things I could do with the

good enough for

faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long

the tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning on using the mask

plans for it, they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

I

making preparations for the

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

there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated by the

destroying the first event, the banquet,

However, they never occurred.

or are

down on the sofa in the

on such an important event just because

must be

watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had in

Even so...

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

the

so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

what their plan was

be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to

could come up with

to spend the

Perhaps I can

laid down on

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one

"Hm?"

on her phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

is coming

she remembered asking Kevin for

was, Emma remembered putting it on

I buy him

her cheeks suddenly

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

her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts

meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the help I received from

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

I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know,

a gift irked her a bit. If possible

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

realized that she couldn't

check how much money she had