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"

a low voice that only Kevin and I could hear, I

isn't. Who would you rather

someone asked me who I would rather deal with, I would've without a doubt have chosen

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

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

someone else

say that things wouldn't really

"ah..."

out of his mouth. Deep in his heart he also shared the

was definitely

"See, even you agree!"

advantage of his hesitation, I pointed

don't want to talk about

dismissal, Kevin entered

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

end, Kevin knew that

angry Melissa wasn't

'That aside...'

anger was

did make him take

everything turned

angry at Kevin, Monica was quite

say, all is

off, she would've never

she detested with

caught him, she would be able to take

loss she made for buying the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

rolled the window of the limousine

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

last look at the King's Crown hotel, I entered

auction had officially come to a

*

the others, I returned to

you can

smoke rose in the air and Angelica's

a couple of

for

going to the

Angelica made her way towards the

"Aye"

at Angelica's indifferent figure moving towards the training grounds,

this new apartment, Angelica had been

insulating system, Angelica could now train

training as the isolating

train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

a wooden mask appeared in my

"The mask of Dolos..."

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

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

in the future

highly ranked, I could only use it for short periods of time before my mana

limit on the things I could do with

this was good enough for

progressing at a much faster rate compared to others, it wouldn't be long till I

up in a month's time,

for it, they

"That reminds me..."

up, I

guess I should start making

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

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

completely destroying the first event, the banquet, there

However, they never occurred.

give up or are they

on the sofa in the living room,

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

must be

could not figure out what the

Even so...

wasn't going to just sit down

that was the perfect

planning on doing a thorough investigation of

plan was could I come

escape from, I

way I could come up with proper countermeasures for

I needed to spend the next

Perhaps I can

muttered as I laid down on

***

same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

with her hair scattered, Emma hummed to

"Hm?"

opened her calendar and checked her schedule. Suddenly, something

Kevin's birthday is

she remembered asking Kevin for

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

I buy him a

her cheeks suddenly

to buy a gift

dress, Emma silently shrieked as a

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

was no meaning behind her action, Emma changed position. This time she was laying down face flat on her

should I

for a boy before, she had no clue on what

'Should I ask Ren?'

and Kevin were, there was a chance he would know

don't know, I'd

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

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

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

check how much money she had available