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

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

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

she wasn't as crazy as a

that I was in a business relation with Melissa, things

was someone else rather than

just say that things

"ah..."

No words came out of his mouth. Deep in his

was definitely worse

"See, even you agree!"

of his hesitation, I pointed

don't want to talk

hand in dismissal, Kevin entered the

you're running away...', I muttered, whilst following him

knew

angry Melissa wasn't someone anyone

'That aside...'

anger was

take the fall for

everything turned out just

at Kevin, Monica was quite grateful

say, all is well that ends

Monica off, she would've

person she detested with all her

caught him, she would be able to take

the sword would quickly be made

"Get in"

she rolled the window of the

"Aye, aye"

Talk about the devil...

one last look at the King's Crown hotel,

auction had officially come to a

*

others, I returned to

you can

words, black smoke rose in the air and

for a couple of seconds, I

you for your hard

to the training

made her

"Aye"

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

moving to this new apartment, Angelica had been

system, Angelica

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

could train all she

"That aside..."

'”Shua!

bracelet, a 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

mask in my hand, a lot of possibilities had opened up for me.

the future

was so highly ranked, I could only use it for short

put a limit on the things I could do with

was good enough for

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

a month's time, I wasn't planning on using

for it, they were for way later

"That reminds me..."

up, I stretched my

guess I should start making

tournament, I knew that I

to be three big events

the banquet, there were supposed to

However, they never occurred.

up or are they planning something

on the sofa in the

give up on such an important event just because one of their

be something

I could not figure

Even so...

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

was the

a thorough investigation of everything that was happening in and

was could I come up with

up a net that I wouldn't be able to escape from, I would much rather create

come up with proper

to spend the next

can even benefit from this

as I laid down on

***

time, in

"dadadada, dum, dum dum"

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

"Hm?"

calendar and checked her

birthday is

remembered asking Kevin

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

buy

muttered as her cheeks suddenly

thinking? Why would I need to buy a gift for

the helm of her dress, Emma silently shrieked as a myriad of thoughts entered

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

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

should I

a gift for a boy

'Should I ask Ren?'

her. Given how close Ren and Kevin were, there was a chance he would

don't know, I'd

get a gift irked her a bit. If

much money

Emma suddenly recalled something.

just realized that she

needed to check how much money she had available before