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 hear, I softly

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

I would rather deal with, I would've

crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd

now that I was in a business relation

if it was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

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

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

his

want to talk about

his hand in dismissal, Kevin

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

Kevin knew that I was

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

was

him take the fall for

defense, everything turned out

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite

they say, all is

off, she would've never have been able to discover

she detested

from that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of

she made for buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown

had officially come to a

*

from the others, I returned to

you can come out

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

at Angelica for a couple

for your hard

going to the training

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way

"Aye"

figure moving towards the

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

great insulating system, Angelica could now

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

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in the

of possibilities had opened up

in the

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

on the things I

this was good

others, it wouldn't be

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

they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

I stretched

making preparations

the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start

tournament, there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated by the

first event, the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are they

sofa in the living room, I

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

must be

the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the

Even so...

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

the perfect recipe for

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

knew what their plan was could I

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

I could come up with

to spend the next month

Perhaps I can even benefit from this

laid

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

with her hair scattered, Emma hummed

"Hm?"

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

is

asking Kevin for his

remembered putting it on her

buy

her cheeks

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

helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad

I'm just thanking him for

Emma changed position. This time

should I buy

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd

asking Ren to help her get a gift irked her

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

frozen, Emma just realized that she

check how much money she had