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

you rather piss off, Monica

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

a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

was in a business

was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

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

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I

don't want to talk about it

dismissal,

I muttered, whilst following

knew

Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take the

my defense, everything turned

at Kevin, Monica was

all is well that ends

not pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able

detested with all

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

she made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

had officially

*

others, I

you can

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

for a couple of seconds,

for your hard

to the

made

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training

been spending most of her

great insulating system, Angelica could

no longer had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

An item that would prove extremely useful for me

had opened up for me. Especially when

the

mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it

limit on the things I could do

was good

to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

month's time, I wasn't planning on

it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I

I should start making

inter-academy tournament, I knew that I

there were supposed to be three big

the first event, the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or

on the sofa in

that they wouldn't give up on such an important

must be

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

Even so...

were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for

was the perfect

next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that

was could

able to escape from, I would much

could come up with proper countermeasures for when the

to spend the

Perhaps I can even benefit from

I laid down

***

the same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

on her phone, Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule.

birthday is coming

she remembered asking Kevin

his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she wouldn't

buy him a

muttered as her cheeks

Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought

silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts entered her

behind the gift. I'm just thanking him

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

should I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

Kevin were, there was a chance he

don't know, I'd

Ren to help her get a gift irked

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

realized that she couldn't spend too much money on the gift for

how much money she had