I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 116

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Chapter 116. Taking Back Again (1)

Rustle rustle.

The Medical Magic Entity crawled around, suturing the area around Toad’s eyes. After a moment, the Healer spoke.

“It’s finished… I barely managed to reattach the one surviving eye, and the other one… I plan to replace with an Artificial Eye.”

“Artificial Eye?”

Toad’s eyebrow raised.

“Why an Artificial Eye? Couldn’t it be regenerated?”

“Well… the left eye has a strange energy that can’t be replaced by any Magic.”

“Is that so?”

Toad smiled coldly.

“Yes. I’m sor… Huk!”

And at that moment, the Healer’s neck was grabbed.

“Wait…! Sir…”

Before the frozen Healer’s words could even finish, the Healer’s neck was twisted.

Crack!

The Healer collapsed, spitting blood.

“Now, so who’s going to heal me next?”

The surrounding Healers trembled and begged for their lives.

“Really, really, it’s impossible for us.”

“Un, unless it’s the Mage King…!”

Veins bulged on Toad’s neck.

“Because of that Mage King!”

However, as if giving up, he sat back down crossing his legs again. Then he irritably picked up the Black Eyepatch placed on the table and roughly tied it on.

Toad started to feel his face with his fingertips but stopped. Paranoia and shame boiled up simultaneously.

‘Fire Butterfly… that bastard….’

The hole pierced in his pride hurt more than the wounds remaining on his body.

As he left the medical room, the agents around him glanced at him. These were people who would have bowed their heads and passed by normally. But now they silently averted their gazes.

There was no fear, no respect. Only pity and wariness toward a ‘failure’ lingered.

‘…Right. This is who I am now.’

Toad silently headed toward the underground corridor.

‘The place where the Five Evils are.’

It was a place he would never have come to originally. Until now, he had believed he was sufficient without the Five Evils.

‘But the result is this pathetic state….’

It was ridiculous.

But that’s why he had come to this place. And when Toad lit the candle, laughter could be heard.

[You’ve lost an eye in the meantime.]

A strange shadow appeared and formed a human silhouette before Toad.

It had a human appearance, but that inhuman dangerous aura was Catalun.

The god of disease, gluttony, and infection.

The most persistent ‘researcher’ among the Five Evils.

Toad bowed his head for the first time.

The Five Evils were Pride’s highest authorities and simultaneously Great Demons who could corrupt even gods. They were also five absolute values that disrupted the world’s balance, and the deepest roots that allowed Pride to be maintained.

In short, they were beings who couldn’t be defined by simple terms like higher-ranking demons. Beings who researched, reproduced, and even evolved evil.

Catalun let out a subtle smile. His fingertips swept across Toad’s eyepatch.

“Well, well. Is this what that ‘Fire Butterfly’ did to you?”

“…Yes.”

“Good. I’m relieved I’m not the only one interested.”

At those words, Toad’s eyes wavered.

What? Relieved?

“Everyone’s watching Fire Butterfly, you see.”

“…Everyone?”

Catalun slowly pressed down and swallowed his rotten tongue.

“‘Death’ has already moved, ‘Violence’ is itching for a fight, ‘Deception’ wants the Demon Emperor’s Heart, and ‘Hunger’ is… preparing her wish. I want Fire Butterfly’s head.”

In other words, all of the Five Evils were interested in ‘Fire Butterfly’.

In fact, the news that Ruin was in Haven had reached the ears of all the Five Evils.

“The power that child possesses is real.”

Fire Butterfly was a ‘variable’ in this world. A variable that could interfere with or control the power of the strongest beings.

And now, Toad had returned after being thoroughly crushed by that variable?

“That location was too disadvantageous from the start.”

“Because it was the Hero’s nest?”

“No. That place is a ‘temple’ favorable to Fire Butterfly.”

What?

Haven is a temple?

Whose?

“So, are you ready to accept my power now?”

Toad did not answer.

Instead, he quietly knelt down.

Because he realized that pride alone could no longer help him reach Ruin.

* * *

Adeline Wayne.

The Wayne Family’s eldest daughter, Ruins Wayne’s younger sister, and an elite commander that the Union Military was proud of.

She entered the Union Military Headquarters. It was her long-awaited ‘official return’ after tracking Fire Butterfly all this time.

But as soon as she set foot inside, she felt it. The atmosphere had changed.

‘…Strange. The mood has oddly shifted.’

The military officers who would have welcomed her in the past were now, well. For some reason, they all either avoided her gaze or greeted her somewhat awkwardly.

It wasn’t reverence or rudeness. They were just being extremely cautious. Even the officer who she thought would normally mock her mercilessly for failing to catch Fire Butterfly due to their usual bad relationship…

“Well… the Fire Butterfly incident is truly regrettable… but the Wayne Family always works hard for us. We can only be grateful.”

“…?”

…Did these bastards all take some kind of medicine?

Adeline’s eyebrows twitched.

When Fire Butterfly was officially marked as an enemy of the Union, the Wayne Family was the first to face suspicion and accusations.

“The Empire’s watchdog failed to function properly, causing Princess Lucherin’s plan to annihilate Pride to collapse as well!”

The Wayne House had always been subject to envy and jealousy as the Empire’s watchdog, but it became even worse due to the Fire Butterfly incident. Especially after losing her parents to Fire Butterfly, it became even harder to endure.

Today too, she expected to be subjected to public criticism at the meeting for “letting that bastard escape,” and thought she’d have to hear about her incompetent eldest son again upon returning home after so long.

Yes. That’s what she expected.

“Please give my regards to your eldest son as well.”

…What?

Just now, to whom…?

For a moment, her head nearly tilted in confusion. Moreover, the usual venomous remarks that would persistently follow her—

“Is the eldest son still playing with dolls instead of inheriting the family?”

“The eldest son is always in charge of bringing shame to the Marquis House.”

Not a single one of those words… came out.

In fact, today was, how should I put it…

“Please give my regards to your eldest son.”

“I would like to express my gratitude to your eldest son.”

“The Fire Butterfly incident was… well, unavoidable.”

Even the Military spoke the name “Ruins Wayne” with reverence.

Returning to the Wayne Family Estate in this completely incomprehensible state—

“Adel! Oh my! Our Wayne Family’s pretty and sharp queen has returned!”

Another disaster was waiting for her.

Yes. It was those disgusting cousins she couldn’t stand to look at.

“Haha! Did you catch Fire Butterfly this time? No? If you had, it would already be spreading as good news, right?”

Those nauseating people who always mocked her and extorted money using Ruins’ name. Today, as always, they approached with their vulgar laughter.

Adeline clicked her tongue.

“You’re here again? I told you that the money Ruins Wayne gives has nothing to do with us. You loving cousins can handle your own squabbles.”

At those words, one of her female cousins looked dejected.

“…It’s blocked.”

“…What is?”

“Ruins sued us…”

“…Huh?”

Adeline’s expression froze instantly.

“Mental damages, extortion, trespassing, false accusations… He sued us with all sorts of charges! He even hired a lawyer!”

Her eyebrows slowly rose upward.

‘That Ruins Wayne… filed a lawsuit?’

That guy?

That brother who was always busy avoiding and hiding?

That person who always holed up in his room living like a reclusive loner, confronted someone head-on? And with those people at that?

‘What on earth happened?’

“Curious about what happened?”

“!”

As if reading her mind, the door opened and a familiar beautiful boy appeared.

The nineteen-year-old was the Wayne Family’s Second Son and Ruins Wayne’s younger brother, Leonhardt. He was an ability user who could read other people’s thoughts.

As if reading his sister’s confusion, he shrugged his shoulders.

“Our eldest brother has gotten into quite~ the big trouble.”

“Big trouble?”

‘Did he cause some accident again?’

When Adeline’s fists began trembling—

“No. That guy became a hero.”

…What?

Leon silently took out his Frix and opened magical communication. What appeared there was real-time breaking news.

-[Breaking News] Haven Military Academy. The only place with complete survival. “Ruins Wayne was at the center of it all.”

-Demon Hunting Professor shocks the entire Continent.

Adeline’s breath seemed to stop.

She couldn’t believe this situation.

“About this terror incident. Our Academy had relatively less damage… but the Chairman grabbed me and said this. ‘Can’t you please bring your brother to our Academy?’ he asked.”

The moment she heard those words, a question mark appeared in Adeline’s mind.

“Academy?”

“Yeah. He got a job. At Haven.”

“…Where?”

“Haven. And in Demon Hunting Studies too.”

“…Haven?”

…Our academy?

Adeline, a student at Haven Silvermoon, was left speechless.

‘That guy… became a hero?’

‘And… he got a job?’

‘Even in Demon Hunting Studies? Then he’s the Head Professor?’

“This is insane.”

She quietly grabbed her coat.

She needed to see this for herself.

“Yeah, sis. He personally fought a Special Grade Wanted Criminal and protected all the students with Frix. He’s like a demigod star to the kids now.”

Adeline frowned.

That couldn’t be possible. Not that shut-in loser.

“…How annoying.”

Her steps were composed, but her mind was hot and confused.

* * *

Meanwhile, around the same time.

“Good. Time to return.”

Ruin adjusted his necktie as he left the medical ward.

‘Now I can finally go collect my severance pay without worry.’

…Of course, I should settle this first before going.

Ruin entered Grand Duke Eden Isles’ audience chamber. Skipping all formalities, what he pulled out was a single document.

The Grand Duke looked at Ruin as if he found it absurd.

“You suddenly asked to meet, and now what is this all of a sudden?”

“It would be faster for you to see it directly.”

The Grand Duke checked the documents.

The Grand Duke’s eyes turned fierce after seeing the contents.

“What exactly are you trying to do right now?”

The atmosphere changed.

Ruin smiled.

“Grand Duke, you once let a demon slip away over ten years ago.”

“….”

“To be precise, I understand you intentionally ‘pretended not to see’ and let them go. A special-grade demon, no less.”

A moment of silence.

More precisely, it was political silence.

The Grand Duke’s temple twitched slightly.

“…You must have made a deal with that demon to heal Judith. I understand that too. I’m also someone who saved that child. But if this fact were to be made public… it wouldn’t be very good.”

“You-”

“No matter how much it was for your daughter, the crime of deceiving the nation is a separate matter. Law is law.”

Ruin leaned back leisurely in his chair and spoke.

“Of course, since this is the original, if this disappears, no trace would remain.”

Ruin tapped the documents again with his finger.

The Grand Duke remained silent for a while with his fingers interlaced. He just let out a deep sigh.

“So. What do you want.”

Ruin smiled with just the corners of his mouth.

“Don’t you know? I want to devote myself to student education.”

So won’t you help me collect my severance pay and retire?

But there was no need to say that.

After a moment, unexpectedly, the Grand Duke nodded.

“Fine. Well… I understand.”

It was too cool and matter-of-fact. Strangely so.

“I won’t chase after you anymore from now on. I promise.”

“…Pardon?”

Ruin narrowed his eyes for a moment.

‘Strange. Why is this man backing down so easily?’

He had even prepared himself for a lengthy argument about this. It wasn’t like the Duke’s usual behavior.

However, Duke Isles didn’t avoid his gaze. Rather, he picked up his tea with a sly expression.

Right, he wouldn’t chase after him.

But.

‘I can’t help it if my daughters chase after that bastard, can I?’

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