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 and I could hear, I softly

Who would you

I would rather deal with,

weird, she wasn't as crazy as a truly

that I was in a business relation with

was someone else rather

let's just say that things wouldn't really be

"ah..."

of his mouth.

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I pointed

want

in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

him take the

defense, everything turned out just

at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

they say, all is well

would've never have been able

detested with

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

made for buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

as she rolled the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's

had officially

*

separating from the others, I

can come out

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

couple of

you for

to the

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

moving towards the training grounds,

Angelica had been spending most of

system, Angelica could now

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

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An item that would

a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially

the

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

put a limit on the things I

good enough

a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

a month's time, I wasn't planning on

they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making preparations

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

were supposed to be three big events

event, the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they

in the

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

must be

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

Even so...

planning on doing, I wasn't going to just

the perfect

a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and

their plan was could I come up with the appropriate

up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to

up with proper countermeasures for

to spend the next

Perhaps I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid down on

***

the same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma

"Hm?"

and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something

Kevin's birthday is

she remembered asking

remembered putting it on her calendar so that she

buy him a

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

wait, wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of

meaning behind the gift. I'm just

meaning behind her action, Emma changed position.

I buy

for a boy before, she had no clue

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd rather

Ren to help her get a gift irked

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

her bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she

much money