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"

repeatedly, in a low voice that

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

deal with,

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

in a business relation with Melissa, things

it was someone else rather than

just say that things

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation,

I don't want to talk

in dismissal, Kevin

away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew that

Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

make him take the fall for

my defense, everything turned out

Kevin,

they say, all is well that

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to

person she detested with

him, she would be able to take

made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown

auction had officially come to

*

the others, I

you can

smoke rose in the air and

Angelica for a couple of seconds,

for your hard

to

Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

moving towards the

had been

system, Angelica could now

as the

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An item

had opened up for me. Especially when

the future at

ranked, I could only use it

the things I could do with the

good

rate compared to others, it wouldn't

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

I did have plans for it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I

guess I should start making preparations for

the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew

the tournament, there were supposed to

completely destroying the first event, the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

up or

down on the sofa in the living room,

they wouldn't give up on such an important event

be something

watch, I could not figure out

Even so...

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

that was the perfect

planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

knew what their plan was could I

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

come up with proper countermeasures

to spend

can even benefit from

laid down

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

and checked her

Kevin's birthday is coming up

asking Kevin for

he had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she

I buy him

as her cheeks suddenly

would I need to buy

her dress, Emma silently shrieked as

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

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

should I

Having never bought a gift for a boy before,

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd

asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't spend too much money on

needed to check how much money she had available before

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