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"

voice that only Kevin

you rather piss off,

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

weird, she wasn't as crazy as a

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

was someone

just say that

"ah..."

Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

don't want to talk about it

dismissal, Kevin entered

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

the end, Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

him take the fall for

defense, everything turned out just

Kevin, Monica was

all is

off, she would've

detested with

able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from her.

loss she made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

as she rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's Crown hotel,

had officially

*

others, I

can

in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared

a couple of seconds,

for

going to

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds, I shook

to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of

insulating system, Angelica could now train

to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy from

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that

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

in the

could only use it for

limit on the things I

was good

my strength progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't

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

they were for way

"That reminds me..."

I

guess I should start making

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

were supposed to be three big events orchestrated by the

the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they planning something

the sofa in the living room, I

up on such an important event just because one of their

must be

could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan for

Even so...

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

that was the

the next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening

was could I come up with

them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I

come up with proper

that, I needed to

can even benefit from this

as I laid

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one

"Hm?"

and checked her schedule.

birthday is coming up

she remembered asking

birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she wouldn't

buy

as her cheeks

need to buy

silently

I'm just thanking him for all the help

there was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time

should I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was

know,

gift irked

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too

to check how much