The Author's POV

Chapter 230

"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,

Who would you rather piss off, Monica or

I would rather deal with, I

as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with her than

a business

someone else rather than

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

my statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the

definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation,

want to talk about

his hand in dismissal,

running away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew that I was

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

him take the

everything

than being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

say, all is well

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

she detested

she had caught him, she would be able to take back all

she made for buying the

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

had officially come to

*

others, I returned to my

you can come

rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared

at Angelica for a couple of seconds,

for

to

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds,

apartment, Angelica had been spending

great insulating system, Angelica

had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An

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

the

could only use it for short periods of time before

the things

was good

to others, it

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

plans for it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I

I should start making

only a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I

the tournament, there were supposed to be three big

the banquet,

However, they never occurred.

or

on the sofa in

that they wouldn't give up on such an important event

be something

Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to just sit down

was the perfect recipe

I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

was could I come up

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

with

needed to spend the

I can

laid down

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

scattered, Emma hummed to the

"Hm?"

and

Kevin's birthday is coming

she remembered asking Kevin for

when his birthday was, Emma remembered

buy

her

I need to buy a gift

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked

no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the

action, Emma changed position. This time

I

never bought a gift for a boy before, she

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he

don't know, I'd

Ren to help her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

needed to check how much money she

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