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 and I could hear, I

you

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

was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with her than

was in a business relation

if it was someone else rather

let's just say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

want to

his hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

I muttered, whilst following him from

Kevin knew that I was

wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

take the fall for

my defense, everything turned out just

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

is well

off, she would've never have been able

she detested with all her

would be able to take back all of the

for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

she rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

officially come

*

separating from the others,

you can come

words, black smoke rose in the

at Angelica for a couple

for

going to the

made her way towards the training

"Aye"

moving towards the training

been

great insulating system, Angelica could now train

to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An item

in my hand, a lot of possibilities had

the future at

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

a limit on the things I could

good enough

at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize

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

they were for

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

guess I should start making

start of the inter-academy tournament, I

to be

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

However, they never occurred.

or are they

on the sofa in the living room,

I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important

must be

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

Even so...

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

the

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

their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later

way I could come up with

to spend the next

who knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from

as I laid down on

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her

is

asking Kevin for

remembered putting

I buy

as her cheeks

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

onto the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

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

behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat

should I

for a boy before,

'Should I ask Ren?'

and Kevin were, there was a chance he would

know, I'd rather

her get a gift irked her a

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much

how much money she had available