The Author's POV

Chapter 230

"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"

a low voice that

isn't. Who would you rather piss off,

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

she was weird, she wasn't as crazy as a

I was in a business relation

it was someone else

that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want to

dismissal, Kevin

muttered, whilst

Kevin knew that I was

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

make him take the fall for

defense, everything turned

angry at Kevin, Monica was quite

is well that ends

off, she would've never have been

she detested with all her

to take back all

made for buying the sword

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown

officially come to a

*

separating from the others, I returned to

can

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

couple of seconds, I

you for

to the

head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the

had been spending most

Angelica

longer had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An item that

had opened up for me.

in the

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

things I could do with

good

others, it wouldn't be long

up in a month's time,

for it, they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

up, I

start making

only a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I

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

the banquet, there were supposed to be

However, they never occurred.

up or

in

give up on such an important event just because one

must be

figure out what the Monolith had in

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to just

the perfect recipe for

month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation

what their plan was could I come

set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather

I could come up with proper countermeasures

needed to

I can even benefit from this

as I laid down on

***

time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

down on her bed with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of her

"Hm?"

and checked her

Kevin's birthday is coming

asking

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

I buy

her cheeks suddenly

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

silently shrieked as

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

no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she

I

a

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there

know, I'd rather

get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't want to do

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on

needed to check how much money

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