I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 114

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Chapter 114. It’s Been a While? (2)

Rumble!

“Kugh…!”

Toad gritted his teeth. Blood flowed from his cracked skin. But he wiped the blood away and smiled.

Damn Fire Butterfly!

“Senior, you’re really strong. I acknowledge it! Yeah, this is how Senior should be. This is getting even better!”

He was panting, but his laughter didn’t stop.

“But, Senior. I haven’t just been playing around all this time either!”

Just when one might wonder what nonsense he was spouting, the ground shook.

Crack!

“!”

An earthquake occurred. So what was going on—when that thought crossed his mind—

“I ‘removed the leash.'”

“What?”

At the unexpected words, Ruin’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

Removed the leash? Without Judith Isles?

Then Toad laughed with a snort.

“Why are you so surprised? I’ve been picking and eating guys with lots of magic power all this time. You know too, don’t you Senior? What the conditions are for removing the leash.”

“…!”

No way.

Toad licked his lips.

“That’s right, exactly. I picked only guys with lots of magic power and aged them well before eating them.”

This crazy bastard.

To remove the leash, one had to ask Pride to remove it, or someone with vast magic power had to release the leash.

But there was an easier method than that.

‘I just need to have more magic power than the magic power in the leash.’

Devour.

In other words, that bastard caught and ate those with abundant magic power to increase his own magic power quantity.

The problem is that demon race magic power won’t work.

「That bastard, don’t tell me he ate humans?!」

That’s right. Toad had consumed the magic power of those who possessed Luck Power.

In other words, cannibalism.

This had already been forbidden by the Supreme One hundreds of years ago. And for Ruin, who disliked the act of devouring itself and wouldn’t even devour his own kind, this was an absolutely unacceptable method.

At that disgusted expression, Toad smiled leisurely.

“As expected of my noble senior. Don’t look at me so savagely. That’s why senior is weaker than us.”

A change occurred in Toad’s body as he spoke those words. Light flashed from Toad’s neck, and finally the sealing formation wrapped around his neck was revealed.

‘Leash.’

That was the shackle of power that Pride had forcibly created, a suppression device placed on him for being a Special Grade Wanted Criminal.

But at this very moment, those shackles broke.

Crack!

An explosion occurred as if the air itself burst. At the same time, Toad’s arm, enlarged with magic power, tore through the air. From that impact, Ruin’s body was sent flying.

“Kugh!”

Toad laughed as if he was having the time of his life. His energy had become completely different from before. As proof of this, he burst into laughter.

“Phew…! Wow! Only half of it’s been released but it really feels refreshing!”

He looked at Judith Isles with regret.

“If that girl were here, we could release all the leashes of us wanted criminals. Well, I guess I’ll be satisfied with this much for now.”

Toad looked at Ruin languidly.

“How strange. I’ve been released like this, but…”

That was a pitying face as if looking at someone weak.

“Why has senior’s… leash gotten even tighter in the meantime?”

“….”

Ruin remained silent. Blood trickled down from his forehead. Toad seemed to understand the situation and shrugged his shoulders.

“Ha, our poor senior. How tightly are you being controlled by Pride’s higher-ups? You should have betrayed them like us from the start. What’s left from maintaining loyalty to those higher-ups?”

At that moment, Toad disappeared. His speed was completely different from before.

“Kugh!”

Ruin’s body was sent flying again. The ground cracked and dust shot up. Toad growled with a face filled with madness.

“Look, senior’s gotten old too. Hahahaha! Fire Butterfly’s name would cry. Now I might be able to compete with that ‘Fire Butterfly’ senior too?!”

Kwaaaaang!

Another explosive sound echoed.

That was the moment.

Twitch!

Judith’s hand, who had been unconscious, twitched.

‘…This is… curse power?’

It was so strong that her soul reacted before her mind. And the familiar wavelength mixed within it. Judith intuitively realized who was fighting.

‘No doubt about it.’

One was the demon who had kidnapped her, and the other was ‘that person’. Her benefactor who made her heart race just by looking at him…

Eventually, from within her distant consciousness, Judith’s mouth opened.

“…Fire…But…terfly?”

Ruin’s movements stopped.

Heavy silence.

Ginseng Superior, startled, hurriedly shoved his head into Judith’s mouth.

「Child! Chew this! Chew it hard!」

Then Judith unconsciously began to chew on it. Her eyelids slowly lowered again. Her eyes grew faintly hazy, intoxicated by Ginseng’s strong curse power.

“…Yes, …Professor Ruins…”

However, Ruin’s reaction was much faster.

“It’s still time to be sleeping.”

In an instant, Ruin descended like lightning beside Judith and brushed her eyelids. With the strong curse power, Judith fell asleep as if fainting.

Confirming this, Ruin furrowed his brow.

‘Did she perhaps hear my conversation with Toad?’

Well, since she seemed to hear it in her sleep, I suppose that’s fortunate.

‘I’ll need to use Echo later to erase her memory completely.’

Ruin silently caught his breath and stood up. Blood was on his lips, but his eyes had become much colder than before.

He cracked his neck left and right.

“…Ha. I didn’t want to use this where a student was present.”

“?”

Just as Toad was about to ask what he meant—

Clang!

A strange sense of alienation bloomed in Ruin’s pupils.

At that moment, Toad felt something eerie.

“…What is this?”

The air had changed. The flow of mana was twisted. The barrier he had set up was subtly distorted.

“Wait… this is…!”

Toad finally realized it. From the moment blood flowed from Ruin, all the luck in the surroundings was deteriorating.

Ruin slowly walked toward where Toad was. To Toad, that figure felt extremely bizarre.

“I’m an unlucky guy. Always have been. The ending was always tragic.”

His shadow rippled. The shadow stained with blood moved eerily.

“But what if that unlucky guy becomes even more unlucky?”

Toad swallowed his breath.

“…What are you talking about! Misfortune?”

Ruin did not smile. He simply stared quietly at his own palm.

Then-

Fassssss.

The world around him began to break down one by one. First, the insects crawling on the ground flipped over and flew up. As if they had lost gravity, they writhed like snakes while twisting through the air.

Soon after, the tree branches began to dry up and turn black as if bruised, swelling from the inside. It looked as if the bark was peeling from inside to outside, as if devouring itself.

And the sky. The clouds moved slowly. But they also moved in the opposite direction at the same time. Even the shadows were in the opposite direction.

Even the air was strange. He breathed in, but the breath he had exhaled first came back into his lungs. The flow of space was becoming twisted.

Even the wind went awry. The airflow that had been flowing as a tailwind suddenly began swirling at one point, then started tightening around Toad’s collar.

It was a terrifying sight. As if the world was malfunctioning, centered around Ruin alone.

Yes, all things were dying, surviving, and repeating in strange ways under the single law of ‘misfortune.’ This was literally the collapse of the ‘rules’ themselves.

Ginseng Superior clung tightly to Judith’s head and struggled, afraid that misfortune might splash onto him. No, he even blew wind, worried it might befall Judith.

It was enough to make Toad’s lips tremble.

“Wh, what is… this…?”

Toad launched an attack at Ruin, but the attack didn’t hit. No, suddenly his own Frix flew up on its own and self-destructed.

“What do you mean what. ‘Misfortune’ always follows me around.”

【Misfortune Injection】(Stage 2)

‘Burst.’

Zzzeong!

If Stage 1 misfortune was the level where minor bad things occurred, Stage 2 onwards was the first stage where the world’s rules became unstable.

As evidence of this, cracks began to form in the ‘flow of luck.’ For instance, enemy actions would go awry or failure rates would spike dramatically.

Yes. Like when an enemy attacked, there would be a certain percentage chance that ‘their own head would fly off’ or something like that.

Sure enough, Toad’s magic power slashed his own throat.

Puhak!

“…Kerhuk! What is… this…!”

Toad’s body trembled. Blood gushed out from his throat.

“How does this make sense…?!”

Ruin smiled without even wiping away the blood.

“I don’t know. I’ve lived my whole life experiencing such unreasonable things. Ah, speak of the devil, misfortune has come again.”

When Ruin pointed with his hand, Toad flinched.

There was no attack. Nothing happened at all. Yet quietly, Toad’s eyeball slowly slid down.

“…Ugh, uaaahhh!”

One eye burst.

Toad had no time to scream as he pressed his hands to the ground. His body swayed, and his vision twisted.

“What… what…! You, what did you just do…!”

Then Ruin’s shadow enveloped Toad like mist.

Soon, where the shadow disappeared, Ruin appeared. Ruin grabbed Toad’s hair and spoke quietly.

“You talk too much.”

At that moment, pop- Toad’s left eye was plucked out without any warning.

“Uaaaaaahhhhh!”

A scream erupted. Blood spurted out, and Toad’s body was thrown backward.

Ruin walked forward silently. Shadow spread like waves at his feet.

“Be grateful, I pulled it out on purpose. If I hadn’t, your brain would have burned up.”

Those words shattered Toad’s mind once more.

“Kuaaaaaahhhhh!”

Toad covered his entire face with his hands. Blood continued to flow from where his left eye had been completely torn out.

“…You crazy bastard!”

With a face mixed with fear, rage, madness, and defeat, Toad screamed like a roar.

Healing, he needed healing!

He instinctively looked around for someone.

‘Judith Isles!’

That damn Mage King candidate!

‘If I devour her for magic power!’

Ruin also noticed that intention but couldn’t use his power. The stronger the misfortune he used, the more temporarily he couldn’t use his shadow ability.

In the meantime, Toad transformed his body and lunged at Judith. Those massive teeth swallowed Judith’s body.

Crunch!

But before that, Ruin threw his body and wrapped around Judith.

“Kugh!”

The teeth carved out more than half of Ruin’s neck and shoulder. Blood droplets scattered in the air. Toad’s eyes flashed as he tore off the flesh.

“If Senior wants to be devoured instead, I won’t refuse!”

Ruin snorted. Then he grabbed Toad’s head and smiled.

“If you targeted my student… you have to pay the price.”

What?

Ruin’s arm tore through the air as if by instinct.

“Kaaaaaaack-!”

Toad’s remaining eye burst.

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