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

it isn't. Who would you rather piss

asked me who I would rather deal with, I would've

a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal

was in a business relation with

was someone

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

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation,

want

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

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

knew that I was

angry Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take

everything

than being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

is well

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

she detested with all

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

for buying the sword would

"Get in"

the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel,

officially

*

from the others, I

can come

the air and Angelica's enchanting figure appeared before

at Angelica for a couple of seconds, I thanked

you for

to

acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I shook my

apartment, Angelica had been spending

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train without

longer had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An item that

in my hand, a lot of possibilities had

the future at

mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for

the things I

was good

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

the tournament coming up in a month's time,

did have plans for it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

guess I should start making preparations for the upcoming

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

to be three big events orchestrated by

event, the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

up or are they planning

the sofa in

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

must be

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

Even so...

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

was the

on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and

knew what their plan was could I come up with the

from, I would much rather

come up with proper

needed to spend the

can even

muttered as I laid down

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

her calendar and

is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin

Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she

buy

her cheeks suddenly

need to buy a gift for him? I've

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts

the gift. I'm just thanking

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

I buy

gift for a boy before, she

'Should I ask Ren?'

Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he

don't know, I'd rather

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

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

just realized that she couldn't spend too

check how much