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"

in a low voice that only Kevin and I could hear,

you

rather deal with,

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

a business relation with Melissa, things

it was someone else

that things

"ah..."

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

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

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

Kevin knew that I

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was

him take

defense, everything turned

angry at Kevin, Monica

all is well that ends

would've never

detested with

she would be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen

loss she made for buying the sword would

"Get in"

she rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel,

officially come to a

*

separating from the others, I

you can come out

in the air

Angelica for a couple

for

going to the training

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I shook my

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her

insulating system, Angelica could now

training as the isolating system in the private training ground

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in the

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

the future at

so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before

on the things I could do

this was good enough

strength progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would

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

plans for it, they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

I

should start making preparations

tournament, I knew that

the tournament, there were supposed to

banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

or are

the sofa in the living room, I

I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one of their plans

be

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

Even so...

going to just sit down and wait for

that was the

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

their plan was could

escape from, I would much rather create

with proper countermeasures for when the

I needed to spend the next

Perhaps I can even benefit

as I laid down

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something caught

birthday is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin for

birthday was, Emma remembered

I buy

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

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

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as

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

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

I buy

gift for a boy before, she had no clue on what

'Should I ask Ren?'

thought suddenly struck her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance

don't know, I'd

her get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't want to do

how much money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

her bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend

much money she