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"

that only Kevin and I

would you

rather deal with, I would've without a doubt have chosen

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

in a business relation

someone else

just say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

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

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I

want

his hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

running away...', I muttered,

Kevin knew that I

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

did make him take the fall for

everything

at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

all is

Kevin not pissed Monica off, she would've never have

person she detested with

now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items that he

loss she made for buying the sword would

"Get in"

rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

had officially come to a

*

from the others, I

can come out

my words, black smoke rose in the

a couple of seconds, I

you for your hard

going to

made her way towards the training

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I

since moving to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of

Angelica

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

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

of Dolos. An

my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning

in the future at

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

things I could

this was good enough for

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

up in a month's time, I

it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

guess I should start making preparations

of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that

supposed to be three big events orchestrated

destroying the first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

or are they planning

on the sofa in the living

on such an important event just because one

must be something

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

Even so...

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

was the

was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

knew what their plan was could I come up with

have them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later use to

come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

I needed to

knows. Perhaps I can

I laid down on

***

the same time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked

is

remembered asking Kevin for his

was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar

I buy him

as her cheeks suddenly

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

dress, Emma silently

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

changed position. This time she was laying down face

should I

a boy before, she had no clue on what

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd

of asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her a bit. If

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

to check how much money she