I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 109

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Chapter 109. Attack vs Defense (4)

Ruin turned his head with a light smile.

“Answer me. Silver Moon Supervisor, Cruna Yeager.”

At that smile, Ginseng Superior whispered.

「Seed? Didn’t you say you didn’t want to stand out? That you’d handle everything moderately in front of the Grand Duke?」

“No, should I say the culprit of the kidnapping incident?”

「Ah, I don’t know. I definitely warned you.」

The Professors were shocked by Ruin’s cold smile. Because the person he was looking at was none other than the Silver Moon Supervisor.

“The culprit… surely you don’t mean…”

“That’s right. The culprit is the Silver Moon Supervisor, Cruna Yeager. It’s you.”

The accused Cruna looked at him as if asking what nonsense he was spouting.

“What do you mean by that?”

“The Dormitory is practically a hideout for Dormitory Supervisors only. Don’t you think it’s perfect for hiding ‘something’?”

“!”

“For instance, a kidnapped creature.”

At the same time, the Professors flinched.

That means surely…!

“Yes. The Spirit Guardian is still inside the Dormitory.”

“!”

“If it were a simple disappearance case, we’d search around inside the Dormitory, but if it’s a kidnapping case, it’s different. We’d naturally think that both the culprit and victim had left Haven. Common sense dictates that a kidnapper wouldn’t wander around the crime scene.”

And the reason for impersonating Fire Butterfly?

That’s simple.

“Common sense would say that Fire Butterfly wouldn’t kidnap a Spirit Guardian and hide inside the Dormitory. It would make us even more certain they’d gone outside.”

“But if that’s the case, it didn’t have to be Fire Butterfly specifically…!”

Ruin chuckled softly.

“Because Fire Butterfly is the target that Haven professors would react most sensitively to. All the professors would mobilize.”

Yes, just like how he had recently driven the Hero out of Haven.

“In fact, didn’t even that fool… the Chairman get lured out recently?”

“!”

Seeing that incident, Cruna probably became even more convinced. That Fire Butterfly was someone who could even divert the attention of major Heroes.

That’s why it was so detestable.

“So you impersonated Fire Butterfly. To drive all the professors outside. Then you were planning to take it out afterward. In fact, the Silver Moon Supervisor kept insisting that students and professors should be moved to the auditorium, and when I said the dormitory was safe, he hastily left that message.”

“That message being…?”

“The message about kidnapping the Spirit Guardian.”

“!”

Everyone’s bewildered gazes turned toward the Silver Moon Supervisor and Ruin.

“But why would the Silver Moon Supervisor kidnap the Spirit Guardian?”

“R-right! I have no reason to…!”

At those words, Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

“Well. Maybe to let terrorists into Haven? Or perhaps you hid bombs.”

Instantly, the color drained from the Silver Moon Supervisor’s face. He became paler than ever before.

Ginseng Superior looked on with surprise.

「Oh, so that guy was the one who made contact with Hades?」

The professors began to murmur.

“What? Terrorists?”

“Haven is called an impregnable fortress. That’s how difficult it is to infiltrate from the outside. But there’s just one thing. The dormitory building has an old passage connected to the outside. It’s a passage that wasn’t blocked off because the Spirit Guardian protects it. And only the supervisor can use that passage.”

Then Cruna raised her voice as if to block him.

“If you keep accusing people without evidence, I’ll sue you!”

Then Ruin’s golden eyes smiled eerily.

“If you’re going to claim innocence, you should have wiped off Professor Eren Nocton’s blood.”

“…!”

Cruna was startled and examined his cloak.

“Ah, sorry about that. It was just a pattern on your clothes. My eyes are getting dim.”

“!”

…That bastard?

“If you’re going to glare at me with such burning eyes, at least wash off the smell of blood first. I’m quite particular about scents.”

“Kuk, if you keep spouting nonsense…!”

Just then, the professors began to murmur.

“Professor Eren Nocton? Wasn’t he just absent without leave?”

Echo… Why did you end up with such an image?

“No. He was attacked by that professor.”

“Why!? Why would he attack a colleague!”

“Who knows. Maybe he saw something he shouldn’t have? Well, probably saw a bomb or something.”

“!”

Cruna flinched at that smile.

Ruin continued to smile.

“And since he’s the Silver Moon Supervisor, he would have locked him up in the Silver Moon Supervisor’s Office.”

Cruna laughed as if he’d been caught red-handed.

This guy is digging his own grave.

“Fine, go ahead and look! There’s nothing in the Silver Moon Supervisor’s Office! But if there’s nothing there, I’m suing you!”

He’s not an idiot, so who would create a situation where they’d be suspected? That’s what Cruna thought.

It should have been that way…

“Professor Eren!”

“No way, look at all this blood…!”

‘Why is he there!’

Echo, covered in blood, was found in the Silver Moon Supervisor’s Office. Cruna turned pale as a sheet.

‘Why is the guy I buried in the ground there!’

Ruin was indifferent to that reaction.

Why, you ask? Well, why indeed.

「Master! I moved it! I moved it!」

「Master! This guy is the culprit! This guy is the culprit! This guy is the culprit!」

The Shadow Creature that had been hiding in Echo’s shadow buzzed excitedly, asking for praise.

That shadow was the very one Ruin had used when educating Anna from the Chaser Family. The creature that had even transformed into Ruin before followed him very devotedly.

Just then, the Grand Duke laughed as if finding it interesting.

“I knew the writing on the wall was meant to lure us outside, but I didn’t know who the culprit was. How did you figure it out?”

“Well, I-”

“That story about having a good sense of smell isn’t a complete lie, is it?”

“!”

The Grand Duke’s red eyes flashed dangerously. It was a dangerous look that suspected Ruin’s true identity.

“Among all the dormitory supervisors, how were you so certain it was Silver Moon?”

How, you ask? Well, how indeed.

In truth, he had noticed the culprit long ago even without the shadow.

‘First, since he was in contact with Toad, I roughly guessed what the plan might be.’

Toad was a bomb maniac who preferred installing bombs on people rather than buildings.

‘And to enter Haven from outside, the dormitory passage is the only route.’

Ruin knew this well since he was the Landlord.

Of course, it wasn’t an easy passage to infiltrate. Because the dormitory had a Spirit Guardian protecting it.

But if you had a ‘Supervisor Badge,’ even that became useless.

‘With a supervisor badge, you can just pass by without the Spirit Guardian’s surveillance.’

So he must have confidently lent his supervisor badge to Toad. Not knowing that Fire Butterfly had stolen the supervisor badge not long ago.

“Oh my, oh my! I’m dying!”

“Quickly, some medicine…!”

“Good grief, what did you eat for lunch to be brought in with food poisoning!”

“Damn it, are you the only one available!”

“Healing? Are you trying to kill us! You plague bastard who turns even a cold into a 100% fatality rate!”

“That’s too harsh. Even I get hurt when you call me that.”

“Then what should I call a quack if not a quack!”

“Well, don’t worry. I’ll use my specially effective medicine on you.”

The one he stole back then.

And the Supervisor Badge is fake?

The Spirit Guardian must have realized the situation and came running, only to notice the entire terrorist plan. So they dealt with the Spirit Guardian to silence them.

“If you keep making false accusations!”

As Cruna protested his innocence, Ruin pulled out a familiar object from his chest.

It was a silver metal badge beautifully engraved with Haven’s symbolic seal mark ‘Cross Wing’ and Silver Moon’s symbolic dolphin-

In other words, it was Silver Moon’s Supervisor Badge, called the ‘Corridor of Geniuses’. Cruna’s eyes couldn’t help but roll back.

“Your bastard had it!”

So that’s where the real one went! Because of that thing, the Spirit Guardian discovered the situation and he ended up in a miserable state!

However, Ruin smiled menacingly like a crocodile.

“Why are you like that? I just picked up what you dropped.”

“Nonsense!”

“And you kidnapped the Spirit Guardian and locked them in the old warehouse of the dormitory. Professor Eren must have been caught by you while searching that place and was dealt with.”

「…Was that the place you ordered Echo to search?」

‘I needed to create visible evidence.’

「…So you hired Echo for that purpose from the beginning?」

Isn’t that obvious?

Ruin had already noticed where the bomb was hidden through Shadow Search.

‘Actually, I was going to create it even if there wasn’t any.’

「…Hey.」

‘Well, I couldn’t use the students since they might actually die. Well, Echo was quite helpful for what he is.’

Vicious. Really vicious.

In the end, Cruna gritted his teeth.

“Kuk!”

There was no doubt. When they went to the medical ward with food poisoning, he must have switched it then.

That’s why it was even more suspicious.

‘What on earth was his purpose?’

“You bastard, what’s your true identity! A Hero Professor doing petty theft! And a Demon Hunting Professor deliberately targeting the Supervisor position, what are you trying to do here in Haven… Gah!”

“I was examining the Supervisor Badge because it smelled of the Demon Race, and I discovered something interesting.”

Ruin activated the Supervisor Badge. Information about professors and students flashed by rapidly.

“Several students have marks like this carved on them.”

It was an X Mark.

“As you can see, the students’ information has X Symbols marked on them. Based on this, wasn’t it a list of students to kidnap?”

The professors were startled.

“Kidnap students?”

“That’s right. Unlike other dormitories, Silver Moon has many free-spirited geniuses. It wouldn’t be strange if they suddenly disappeared. Yes, even if they suddenly vanished as bomb materials, there wouldn’t be much trouble.”

“…What do you mean! Explain in detail!”

“Do you mean turning students into bombs?”

Cruna gritted his teeth.

That bastard stole someone else’s stuff and now…!

“Don’t believe the words of such a spy!”

However, even hearing the word spy, Ruin was strangely relaxed. The reason was simple.

“But I noticed that Judith Isles also has a mark on her. This is also your doing, isn’t it?”

…What?

What the hell is he talking about now.

“Look here. The Princess also has an X Symbol marked on her, doesn’t she.”

“Are you crazy? Why would I kidnap the Grand Duke’s daughter.”

“The reason you kept trying to lure students to the auditorium was also for that purpose. To kidnap Judith Isles in the midst of the chaos.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! I have nothing to do with Judith Isles!”

Suddenly, an ice-cold voice pressed down on the Supervisor’s Room.

“‘Nothing to do with me’?”

“!”

“Right. Then what’s this Check Mark?”

Cruna, who had been frightened by the Grand Duke, desperately shouted.

“This is unfair. I really didn’t put an X mark! In the first place, that child is Toad’s…! Gasp!”

“Ah. Right. So you’re admitting you tried to kidnap her?”

“…!”

The Silver Moon Supervisor turned deathly pale. Just as the Supervisor was about to say it was a misunderstanding, the Grand Duke released his magic power.

Thud!

The Supervisor’s breath was completely cut off by the Grand Duke’s powerful magic power.

“G-Grand Duke. P-please spare me….”

Watching the Supervisor about to die, Ginseng Superior made a disgusted expression.

「When did you mark the Princess again?」

Just now.

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