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"

my head repeatedly, in a low voice that only Kevin and I could hear, I softly

Who would you rather piss off,

me who I would rather deal with,

a truly angered Melissa. I'd

business relation with Melissa, things

it was someone

that things

"ah..."

came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I

whatever, I don't want to

hand in dismissal, Kevin

away...', I muttered, whilst

end, Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

make him take

my defense, everything turned out

than being angry at Kevin, Monica

is well that

Kevin not pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able to discover

one person she detested

able to take back all

made for buying the sword

"Get in"

the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

auction had officially come to a

*

others, I returned to

can come out

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

for a couple of seconds, I

for

to the

acknowledgment, Angelica made her way

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the

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

Angelica

when training as

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

had finally laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that

mask in my hand, a lot of possibilities had

in the

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

limit on the things I could do with the

this was good

rate compared to others, it wouldn't be

tournament coming up in a month's time, I

plans for it, they were

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

making preparations for the

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

were supposed to be three big events

completely destroying the first event, the banquet, there were

However, they never occurred.

or are they

on the sofa in the living

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

be

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

Even so...

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

that was the perfect recipe for

so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that

plan was could I come up

able to escape from,

with proper

to spend

I can

as I laid down

***

same time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

on her phone, Emma opened her calendar and

birthday is

she remembered asking Kevin

was, Emma remembered putting

I buy him

muttered as her cheeks

would I need to buy a

dress, Emma silently shrieked as

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

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

I buy

for a boy

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know, I'd rather

get a gift irked her

how much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much

check how much money she had

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