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"

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

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

rather deal

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

a business relation with Melissa, things weren't

was someone else rather

that things

"ah..."

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

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

want

dismissal, Kevin entered

running away...', I muttered,

knew that I

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take the fall for

defense, everything turned out just

than being angry at Kevin,

is well that ends

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been

person she detested

she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from her.

buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown

had officially come to

*

others, I returned to

you can come out

black smoke rose in the air

couple

you for your

going to

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds,

this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her time in the training

insulating system, Angelica could

demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

had finally laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An

a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially

the future

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

put a limit on the things I

this was good enough

faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I

with the tournament coming up in a month's time, I

did have plans for it, they were for

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

I should start making

tournament, I knew that I had to

the tournament, there were supposed to be

first event, the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

up or are they planning

down on the sofa in the

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

be something

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

Even so...

on doing, I wasn't going to

the perfect

was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that

knew what their plan was could I come

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

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for when the

I needed to spend the next month

Perhaps I can even

I laid down on

***

time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

on her bed with her hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

and checked her schedule. Suddenly,

is coming up

remembered asking

her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her

I buy him a

as her cheeks

need to buy a gift for him?

helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

gift. I'm just thanking

meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat

I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

there was a chance he would know about

don't know,

gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

she couldn't spend too much money on the gift

how much money she had