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"

voice that only Kevin

isn't. Who would you rather

who I would rather deal with, I would've without

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

in a business

someone else rather than

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

No words came out of his

definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I

I don't want to talk about

in dismissal, Kevin

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

Kevin knew

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

him take

my defense, everything turned

than being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

is well

off, she would've never have been

person she detested with all

had caught him, she would be able to

buying the sword would quickly

"Get in"

the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I entered

had officially come to a

*

separating from the others,

you can

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

Angelica for a couple of

you for your hard

to

Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds, I shook

apartment, Angelica had been spending most

system, Angelica could now train without

detected when training as the isolating

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

An item that would prove extremely useful for me

hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future schemes

in the

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

on the things I

good

others, it wouldn't

coming up in a month's time, I wasn't

plans for it, they were for way

"That reminds me..."

up, I

should start making preparations for the upcoming

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

supposed to be three big

completely destroying the first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

or

on the sofa in the living room, I

I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just because

must be something

Monolith watch, I could not figure out

Even so...

were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just

the perfect recipe

was planning on doing a thorough

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

could come up with proper countermeasures for

needed to spend the next

can even benefit from

laid down on

***

same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

her calendar and checked her

birthday is coming up

asking

was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that she

I buy

her cheeks suddenly

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

silently shrieked as

just thanking him for all the help I

action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat

should I

bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue

'Should I ask Ren?'

suddenly struck her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there

don't know, I'd rather

help her get a gift irked her a bit. If

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

realized that she couldn't spend too much

much money she had available

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