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 Kevin and I could hear, I

isn't. Who would you rather piss off,

someone asked me who I would rather deal

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

was in a business relation

if it was someone else rather than

that things

"ah..."

came out of his mouth. Deep in his

definitely

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

want to

his hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

running away...', I muttered, whilst following

end, Kevin knew that I was

angry Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

make him take

defense, everything turned

being angry at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful for

they say, all is well

pissed Monica off, she would've never have been able

detested

that, now that she had caught him, she would be able to take back all of

for buying the sword

"Get in"

the window

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

look at the King's Crown hotel, I

officially come to

*

the others, I returned

you can

the air and Angelica's enchanting

couple of seconds,

for

to the

head in acknowledgment, Angelica made her way towards

"Aye"

Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training

Angelica had been spending most of her time in

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train without holding

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

could train

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

into my bracelet, a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

on the mask of Dolos. An

of possibilities had opened up

the future at

I could only use

the things I

good

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

time, I wasn't planning on using the mask

they were for way later into

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

making

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

supposed to be three big events orchestrated

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

However, they never occurred.

up or are

in

on such an important

be

on the Monolith watch, I could not figure out

Even so...

doing, I wasn't going to

the perfect recipe

thorough investigation of everything

was could I

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

I could come up with proper countermeasures for when the

that, I needed to spend the next month

who knows. Perhaps I can even benefit from

I laid down

***

time, in a different

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

scattered, Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

Emma opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something

birthday is

asking Kevin for

his birthday was, Emma remembered putting it on

buy him a

as her cheeks suddenly

am I even thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift

helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as

behind the gift. I'm just thanking him for all the help I received from

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

should I

gift for a boy before, she

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know,

irked her a

much money do I have

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

check how much