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"

my head repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin and I could

it isn't. Who would you rather piss

me who I would rather deal with, I would've without

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

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

if it was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

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

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

I don't want to talk

in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered,

the end, Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

take the

everything turned out just

being angry at Kevin, Monica

is

she would've never

detested with all her

now that she had caught him, she would be able to

made for buying the

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's

had officially come to a

*

others, I

can come out

in the air and Angelica's enchanting

couple of

for your hard

to the training

made her way towards the training

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds,

since moving to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending

great insulating system, Angelica could now train without holding

about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove

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

in the future at

was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would

things I could

this was good enough

at a much faster rate compared to others, it

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

did have plans for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

start making preparations for the

left till the start of the inter-academy tournament,

to be three big events orchestrated by

destroying the first event, the banquet, there were supposed to be another two

However, they never occurred.

or are

the sofa in the living room, I

Monolith well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because

must be

could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan for

Even so...

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

was the perfect recipe for

doing a thorough investigation of everything that

once I knew what their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the

way I could come up with

that, I needed to

I can even benefit from

laid down

***

the same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the

"Hm?"

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

Kevin's birthday is coming up

remembered asking Kevin for his

birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that

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

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

the gift. I'm just thanking him

there was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat on her

I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know,

gift irked her

how much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she

check how much money she had available before