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

you

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

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered

a business relation with

someone else

say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

don't want to

his hand in dismissal,

muttered, whilst following

knew that

angry Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

anger was

him take the

my defense, everything turned out

Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

say, all is well

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been

she detested with all

able to take back

for buying the sword

"Get in"

she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

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

auction had officially come

*

the others, I returned

can come

the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

Angelica for a couple

you for your hard

going to

head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I shook my

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

great insulating system, Angelica could now train without

worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training

could train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An item that would prove extremely

a lot of possibilities had opened up for

in the

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

put a limit on the things I

this was good enough for

much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't

coming up in a month's time,

did have plans for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

I

should start making

a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had

supposed to be three big events orchestrated by

the first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

up or are they

sofa in

wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one

be

could not figure out what the

Even so...

going to just sit down and wait for

was the perfect recipe

or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation

what their plan was could I

be able to escape from, I would much rather

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

needed to spend the

Perhaps I can

laid

***

the same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked

Kevin's birthday is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin for his

her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that

buy him a

her

I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him?

Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of

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

changed position. This time she was laying down

should I

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

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know,

her get a gift irked her

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't spend too much

check how much money she had available before