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"

low voice that only Kevin and

you rather piss off, Monica or

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

as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with her

I was in a business

it was someone else rather

let's just say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

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

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

whatever, I don't want to talk about

dismissal, Kevin

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

the end, Kevin knew that I

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take

my defense, everything turned

than being angry at Kevin,

all is

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

person she detested with all her

him, she would be able to take back all of the items that he

she made for buying the

"Get in"

shouted as she rolled the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's

officially come to

*

from the others,

can come out

my words, black smoke rose in the air and Angelica's enchanting

at Angelica for a couple of seconds,

for

to

in acknowledgment, Angelica made her

"Aye"

moving towards

this new apartment, Angelica had been

system, Angelica could now train without

her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped

train all

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item

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

in the future at

use it for short

on the things I could

this was good enough

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

coming up in a month's time,

have plans for it, they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched

guess I should start making preparations for the

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

to be three

first event, the banquet, there were supposed to be another two

However, they never occurred.

they perhaps give up or are they planning something

sofa in

I knew that they wouldn't give up on

must be

on the Monolith watch, I could not figure

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit down and wait for

that was the perfect recipe for

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

plan was could

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

with proper countermeasures for when

needed to spend the

Perhaps I can

muttered as I laid down on my

***

the same time,

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

hair scattered, Emma hummed to the tune

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule.

is coming up

she remembered asking Kevin for his

had told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her

buy

muttered as her

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

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

the gift. I'm just

was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This

I buy

was stumped. Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue on what to

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd rather

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

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

that she couldn't spend too much money on the gift

to check how much money she had available