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"

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

Who would you

rather deal with, I would've without a doubt have

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa. I'd rather

that I was in a business relation with Melissa, things weren't that

someone else rather than

just say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

opened his mouth. No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he

was definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation,

don't want to talk about it

dismissal, Kevin entered the

muttered, whilst following him from

Kevin knew

Melissa wasn't someone

'That aside...'

was somewhat

did make him take the fall

everything turned out

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

say, all is

Monica off, she would've

she detested with all her

from that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of the items that he had stolen from her.

she made for buying the

"Get in"

the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

at the King's Crown hotel, I entered the

had officially come

*

from the others, I returned

can

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

for a couple of seconds, I thanked

for your

going to the

acknowledgment, Angelica made her

"Aye"

towards

new apartment, Angelica had been spending

Angelica could now train

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

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden

"The mask of Dolos..."

An

lot of possibilities had opened

in the

mask was so highly ranked, I could only use it

a limit on the things I could do

this was good enough

compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to fully utilize the

tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning on using the mask

for it, they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making preparations

start of the inter-academy tournament,

to the tournament, there were supposed to be three big events orchestrated

event, the banquet, there were supposed to be another

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they planning something

the sofa in the living room, I

wouldn't give up on such an important event just because one of

must be something

the Monolith watch, I could not figure

Even so...

I wasn't going to just sit down

that was the perfect recipe for

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

their plan was could I come up with

be able to escape from, I would much

could come up with proper countermeasures for when the situation

needed to

can even benefit from this

I laid down on

***

time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her

is coming up

ago she remembered asking Kevin for

when his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on her calendar so that

I buy him a

as her

wait, wait. What am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for him? I've never bought a gift for

Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts entered her

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

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

I

bought a gift for a boy before,

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

know,

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

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

realized that she couldn't

to check how much money she had available before