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"

that only

would you

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 than

I was in a business relation with Melissa,

was someone else

let's just say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

his

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation,

want to

dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew that I

Melissa wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take the fall for

everything

Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

say, all is well that

Kevin not pissed Monica off, she would've never have

one person she detested with

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

loss she made for buying the sword would

"Get in"

the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

King's Crown hotel, I

officially come to a

*

separating from the others,

can come

in the air and Angelica's enchanting

at Angelica for a couple of

for your

going to the training

Angelica made her way towards the training

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the

Angelica had been spending most

its great insulating system, Angelica could now

training as the isolating system in the private

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask

"The mask of Dolos..."

Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in the

lot of possibilities had opened up for me. Especially when planning future

in the future at

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

a limit on the things I could do with the

good enough

strength progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be

with the tournament coming up in a month's time, I wasn't planning

have plans for it, they were for way later into the

"That reminds me..."

I

should start making preparations for the

till the start of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I

were supposed to be three big

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

However, they never occurred.

up or are

in the living

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

be

on the Monolith watch, I could not figure out what the Monolith had in plan for

Even so...

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

the perfect

on doing a thorough investigation

was could I

than have them set up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would

with proper countermeasures for when the situation

that, I needed to spend the next month

who knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

her phone, Emma opened her calendar and

birthday is

ago she remembered asking Kevin for

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

I buy him a

as her cheeks

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

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as

no meaning behind the gift. I'm just thanking

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

I buy

for a

'Should I ask Ren?'

how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a

don't know, I'd rather

get a gift irked her a bit. If possible she didn't

how much money do I

Emma suddenly recalled something.

Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too much money on the

needed to check how much money she