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"

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

isn't. Who would you

rather deal with, I would've without

a

in a business

was someone

let's just say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

my statement, Kevin opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his

don't want to talk

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

I muttered, whilst

the end, Kevin knew that

wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

was

him take the fall

everything turned out just

Kevin, Monica

is

not pissed Monica off, she would've

one person she detested

him, she would be able to take back all of

she made for buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's Crown

officially come

*

from the others, I

you can

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

a couple of seconds,

you for your hard

going to

her head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

towards the training grounds, I shook

new apartment, Angelica had been spending most

system, Angelica could now

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

train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful

in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially

in the

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

the things I

good

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

time, I wasn't planning on using

did have plans for it, they

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

I should start making preparations for

only a month left till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making preparations

were supposed to

banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they planning

sofa in the living

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

be something

not figure out what the Monolith had in

Even so...

they were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and wait for

that was the perfect recipe for

the next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and out

plan was could I come up with the appropriate

be able to escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net to later use to

could come up with proper countermeasures for when the

I needed to spend the next month

knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from this

muttered as I laid down on my

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and

Kevin's birthday is

she remembered asking Kevin for

told her when his birthday was, Emma remembered

buy him a

as her cheeks suddenly

Why would I need to buy a gift for

dress, Emma silently

no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the help I

changed position. This time she

I buy

Having never bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue on

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there

don't know,

to help her get a gift irked her a

money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

bank account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on the gift

needed to check how much money