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"

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

you

who I would rather deal

she wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather deal with her

that I was in a business

someone else rather than

let's just say that things wouldn't

"ah..."

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

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I pointed

want to talk about it

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered, whilst

Kevin knew that

Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

take the fall

defense, everything turned out just

than being angry at Kevin,

all is well that

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

she detested with

be able to take back all of

buying the sword

"Get in"

she rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown hotel,

had officially come to a

*

separating from the others, I

you can come

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

a couple of

you for

going to

acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

indifferent figure moving towards the training

apartment, Angelica had been spending most of

its great insulating system, Angelica

had to worry about her demonic energy being detected when training as the isolating system in the private training ground stopped all

train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

had opened up for me. Especially

the future at

the mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana would run

a limit on the things I could do with the

was good enough

it wouldn't be long till I

time, I wasn't planning on using the mask anytime

have plans for it, they

"That reminds me..."

I stretched my

making preparations for the upcoming

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

to the tournament, there were supposed to

first event, the banquet, there were supposed

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they

sofa in the living room,

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

be

I could not figure out what

Even so...

going to just

was the

next month or so I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything

once I knew what their plan was could I come up

escape from, I would much rather create holes in the net

up with proper countermeasures for

I needed to spend the next

who knows. Perhaps I can

laid down on

***

time, in a

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

her hair scattered, Emma

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her

Kevin's birthday is coming

remembered asking Kevin for his

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

I buy him a

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

need to buy a gift for

Emma silently shrieked

the gift. I'm just thanking him

changed position. This time she was laying down face flat

should I buy

a gift for a boy before, she had no

'Should I ask Ren?'

Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance

know,

her get a gift irked her a bit. If

how much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much

much money she had available before