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, I softly

isn't. Who would you

asked me who I would rather deal with, I

she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered

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

if it was someone else

that things

"ah..."

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

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

of his

whatever, I don't want to talk

dismissal, Kevin entered the

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

knew that I

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

him take the fall for

everything

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite

is well

she would've never have

one person she detested with all

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

for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

as she rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I entered the

had officially come

*

separating from the others,

can

black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

a couple of seconds,

you for

going to

Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the

apartment, Angelica had been spending

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train

detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all energy from

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An

possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future

in the future at

only use it for short

on the things I could

this was good

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

a month's time, I wasn't

they were for

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

start making

inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making preparations for

supposed to be three big events orchestrated

the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they

sofa in the living

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

be something

not figure out what the Monolith had in plan

Even so...

I wasn't going to just sit

was the perfect recipe for

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

was could I come up with the appropriate

escape from, I would much rather create holes

could come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

that, I needed to spend the

knows. Perhaps I can even

I laid down on

***

same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her

is coming up

remembered asking

when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it

I buy

as her

I even thinking? Why would I need to buy

helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked

behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the

action, Emma changed position. This

should I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know about what Kevin would like,

don't know, I'd

gift irked her a bit. If possible she

how much money do I

Emma suddenly recalled something.

her bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she

needed to check how much