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

isn't. Who would you rather piss off, Monica or

asked me who I would rather deal with, I

wasn't as crazy as a truly angered Melissa.

a business

if it was someone

let's just say that

"ah..."

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

definitely worse than

"See, even you agree!"

his hesitation, I pointed

don't want to

his hand in dismissal, Kevin entered

away...', I muttered, whilst

knew that

wasn't someone anyone could

'That aside...'

anger was somewhat

take the fall for

everything turned

Kevin, Monica was

say, all is well that

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

detested with

be able to take

buying the sword would quickly be

"Get in"

as she rolled the window of

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

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

auction had officially come to

*

the others, I returned

can

the air and

couple of seconds, I thanked

for

to the

head in acknowledgment, Angelica made

"Aye"

figure moving towards the

to this new apartment, Angelica had been spending most of her time in the training

its great insulating system, Angelica could now train without

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

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

wooden mask appeared in

"The mask of Dolos..."

finally laid my hands on the mask of Dolos. An item that would prove extremely useful for me in

possibilities had

in the

could only use it for short

on the things I could do with

good enough for

others, it wouldn't be long till I would be able to

time, I

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

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

making

of the inter-academy tournament, I knew that I had to start making

supposed to be three big events orchestrated by the

the banquet, there were supposed to be another

However, they never occurred.

perhaps give up or are they planning

on the sofa in the

well, I knew that they wouldn't give up on such an important event just

must be

Monolith watch, I could not figure out what

Even so...

they were planning on doing, I wasn't going to just sit down and

that was the perfect recipe for

I was planning on doing a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and

plan was could I come

to escape from, I would much rather create

with proper countermeasures

to spend the next month

Perhaps I can even benefit from

muttered as I laid down

***

the same time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

Emma hummed to the tune of one of her favorite

"Hm?"

calendar and checked her schedule.

birthday is

remembered asking Kevin for his

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

I buy him a

muttered as her

would I need to buy a gift

of her dress, Emma silently shrieked

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

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

should I

bought a gift for a boy before, she had no clue

'Should I ask Ren?'

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

don't know, I'd rather

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

money do

Emma suddenly recalled something.

account frozen, Emma just realized that she couldn't spend too

to check how much money she had available before