I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 122

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Chapter 122. Military (2)

“That’s right. I asked if this is your playground! This is a Restricted Access Zone where Special Grade Wanted Criminals are detained! This isn’t a place for you to enter carelessly!”

Letius glared at Ruin while berating him, even omitting his Head Professor title.

Originally, within the framework of the Military, a mere ‘Professor’ couldn’t even present their business card. Of course, Haven’s Head Professor was recognized as having a position equivalent to a Commander as the Hero’s aide, but Ruin was just a newcomer now.

That’s why Ruin didn’t get angry. Instead, he burst into laughter mixed with mockery.

“Someone who regards this place so seriously, showed me such a fake? Isn’t that more like a playground?”

“!”

Letius’s eyebrows twitched. Bewilderment flashed beyond his pupils. Though somewhat subdued compared to before, he laughed hollowly as if he wouldn’t back down.

“Have you forgotten where you’re standing? This isn’t the Academy, it’s the Military. I can’t expose this entire Detention Zone to danger because of you alone.”

So he meant the substitution was justified.

But Ruin picked at his ear.

Yeah. Since you got caught, you’re just deflecting. How utterly petty.

‘Then I have my methods too.’

Ruin deliberately shrugged his shoulders and turned his gaze toward the Hero. Ruin knew. That the Hero was currently trying to score points with him.

Sure enough.

“The joint class with Chairman Elaine has meaning beyond an ordinary class for both me and the students. To defile it like this…”

“Defile it and what? If you’re upset, are you going to complain to the Chairman? Do you think you’re something special just because you scored one little achievement?”

At Letius’s sneer, Ruin let out an exaggerated sigh.

“No. It’s the opposite. Since my reputation is so poor, I feel like I’ve caused trouble for the Chairman who gave me a joint class. I suppose I should stop the joint classes after this last one.”

Letius burst into laughter as if that was obvious.

“Ha. That’s not even funny. The Chairman is a busy person. Joint classes? Regardless of this incident, such things will never happen again in the future-”

That was the moment.

“So, you took it upon yourself to play around?”

The Hero’s sharp voice cut in. It was more resolute and cold than ever before.

Letius instinctively turned his gaze and bowed his head briefly. Cold sweat broke out.

“…I apologize, Chairman. However, standing before a Special Grade Wanted Criminal prisoner with students is a clear violation of military regulations.”

“That’s right. A regulation violation.”

The Hero’s innocent eyes changed eerily.

“Then, would cutting off the Commander’s head right here and now also be a military regulation violation?”

“…!”

Letius’s body froze stiff.

A silence where even breathing wasn’t permitted—that was the terror of death.

The Hero’s eyes held neither joy nor anger, but simply belonged to someone who could casually toy with another’s life and death without a care.

The students and agents all froze in the chilling silence. Only Ruin was smiling annoyingly.

Then, snap—the sound of fingers snapping was heard.

“Of course it’s a joke. Why are you so stiff?”

Was it really a joke?

The Hero smiled.

“But you must have felt that I’m extremely angry right now, haven’t you?”

His mouth was smiling, but his eyes remained the same.

The frozen Letius immediately wiped the smile from his face.

“I apologize.”

Ruin let out a light chuckle.

Well, the Hero would be scary. That emotionless Hero could easily cut off Letius’s head for the Union’s benefit.

‘Well, his psychopathic tendencies seem to have gotten worse than 50 years ago.’

That might be natural.

‘The Hero loses emotions as the price for using his abilities.’

Thanks to his Luck Power, his characteristic hopeless optimism still remained, but back in the old days he had a warm, Hero-like appearance.

But now it had nothing to do with him.

Letius nodded with his lips pressed tightly together.

“…But that prisoner is a valuable strategic resource. If an accident happens, the responsibility…!”

“At least Commander Le-whatever wouldn’t be thinking of taking responsibility, would you?”

“!”

Ruin butted in annoyingly.

“So I played a fake prank.”

Letius glared at Ruin. This bastard was being cheeky using the Hero as a shield.

But he couldn’t lose.

“That prisoner is currently in forced sleep due to his defense mechanism activating. There’s no point in seeing him right now anyway…!”

Ruin couldn’t help but chuckle at what he heard.

“Is that so?”

He tilted his head nonchalantly.

“Then what, should I wake him up for you?”

Silence.

“…What?”

Letius’s eyes widened.

Ruin smiled slyly.

“That thing the incompetent military is struggling with. I asked if I should forcibly wake him up for you.”

* * *

Ruin smiled brightly.

“Now. Kids. I deliberately had them bring a ‘real Special Grade Wanted Criminal’ for your educational rights. Watch carefully.”

The Grade Representatives’ pupils shook at Ruin’s terrifying words.

‘No. We don’t need to see it…’

‘…How did things turn out like this.’

‘More than that, Professor is the scariest thing right now… He’s scarier than the Military Commander right now.’

The students trembled, but regardless, Ruin was in a good mood.

‘With this, I’ve almost confirmed the location where the treasure chest is.’

From the beginning, Ruin never expected these bastards to actually show him a real Special Grade Wanted Criminal.

Why?

They had just been terrorized by a Special Grade Wanted Criminal right before this. When they should be sealing away even one more, would the military be crazy enough to show a Special Grade Wanted Criminal for educational purposes?

‘That’s ridiculous.’

So from the start, his plan was to use the Hero and students as shields while detecting magic power related to the box within the military security zone.

But things went better than expected…

「Well, it probably worked because I thoroughly scratched the Hero’s pride.」

Ahem.

Anyway, what’s important is that I found the location of the treasure chest.

‘Now that I’m this close, I can feel it.’

It was the aura of the treasure chest.

It was definitely in a nearby room. And judging by the mass I could sense from the shadows in that room, that room was…

‘A warehouse?’

At that moment, the Hero’s eyes flashed as she looked at Letius.

“This time it’s real, right?”

“Y-yes…”

It would be real. After provoking her like that, if they didn’t bring one this time, it would be like demonstrating they wanted to die at the Hero’s hands.

‘Using the Hero as a tool is quite convenient.’

Good to know.

“But he’s been in that state continuously since we captured him.”

In the empty white room, the guy was sitting on a chair.

Letius, whose hostility had considerably diminished, glanced at Ruin. Could he really wake up the wanted criminal? If that were truly the case…

Meanwhile, Ruin crossed his arms with indifference.

“It’s fake.”

“?!”

The Hero’s eyes flashed, and Letius was greatly flustered.

“No, this time it’s really real!”

“No, I mean the appearance.”

“?!”

This bastard?

Ruin tightened his gloves.

“This is like a shell. Like a snake shedding its skin. That’s why it looks like it’s sleeping.”

“What do you mean-”

“We’ll know if we wake it up.”

Ruin approached Cobra.

“Ah, it’s dangerous to get that close!”

Before Letius could stop him, Ruin roughly grabbed the Muscular Man’s head. Then he unleashed a magical strike.

‘Ruin!’

Finally, with an explosion, the Muscular Man’s body was torn apart.

Bang!

The Agents and Students reflexively ducked down. But what burst out wasn’t flesh, but something like a shell.

“That’s!”

The man’s body split in two, revealing a different form inside.

It was a woman.

Everyone was shocked.

“That’s Cobra?!”

“It was a woman?!”

Ruin said coldly.

“If this were the real Cobra, it wouldn’t be lying here like a corpse.”

“Wh, what do you mean.”

“This is Cobra’s Sister.”

“!”

“Then what we caught isn’t the Special Grade Wanted Criminal?”

“More precisely, it’s a stand-in.”

After all, Cobra is currently imprisoned because of him.

The students gaped at Ruin’s shocking words.

“But he even sent his younger sister into the academy? What a vicious bastard…!”

“No. We need to think about it the other way. The fact that he prepared a substitute means the real Cobra is moving somewhere else right now.”

「Moving? What’s he moving for? He’s locked up because of you…」

‘Shh. Be quiet.’

But then it happened. The woman’s body writhed strangely like a zombie.

Ruin instinctively felt something was wrong. At that moment.

“Fire Butterfly…”

“!”

Ruin was rarely surprised.

The woman’s voice roughly scraped through the air. With her eyes rolled back white, she harbored hatred and killing intent.

“Finally… the day has come to tear Fire Butterfly apart.”

Ruin flinched.

“If it weren’t for Fire Butterfly!”

Ruin frowned.

This wasn’t just rambling. Clearly Cobra was venting his hatred through his younger sister’s mouth.

‘Mind control… no, consciousness overlay?’

Like with the Demon Emperor recently?

Then, the Hero who had drawn his sword was approaching.

But at that moment.

“If it weren’t for Fire Butterfly! That day, I could have completed my mission at Isaac Plateau and killed all the Hero Candidates! But that bastard interfered!”

“!”

The approaching Hero’s eyes wavered for a moment.

A familiar place name.

An unforgettable memory.

‘Isaac Plateau.’

Memories of childhood, when Hero Candidates lived peacefully together under their teacher’s guidance.

But that peace was shattered to pieces by the sudden invasion of Demon Invaders.

The blood-stained house and corpses were still vivid before his eyes.

So it was Cobra’s doing?

And she was the one who killed ‘Teacher’?

“How dare you interfere with me! Even though you received the same mission to kill Hero Candidates, you did such a thing!”

…And Fire Butterfly’s doing?

The Hero’s eyes turned fierce.

But Cobra shouted.

“Tell Fire Butterfly! My imprisonment ends today and I have regained my freedom, now I’m coming to kill you!”

At that moment, the woman’s body began to swell up.

“Rampage Magic?!”

“Kuk! Get away!”

“No, it’s already too late-”

In that chaos, Ruin quickly threw the Tentacle Plant at the woman. As the Tentacle Plant attached, Ruin swung the Head Professor’s Magic Wand.

Flash!

Then something amazing happened. The woman’s swelling body stopped.

This was the power of ‘Magic’ that Ruin had asked the ‘God of Magic’ for. At the same time, he used powerful Flame Kill Magic.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Ahhh!”

Boom!

Intense flames engulfed the Detention Cell. The interior of the Underground Isolation Room was instantly caught up in fire and storm.

Ruin cast ‘Magic Absorption’ in that chaos. That was Fire Butterfly’s unique skill. He hadn’t planned to use it, but to calm the current situation, it was right to eliminate the Magic Power first.

Then dense Magic Power extracted from the red flash flowed into Ruin’s fingertips. It was Cobra’s power. At the same time, Ruin felt his Magic Power growing stronger.

‘She was certainly a strong one.’

When the Magic Power Absorption ended, the woman’s body collapsed with a thud like a doll with cut strings. No explosion occurred.

Ruin sighed as if tired.

‘…So Cobra’s release date was today.’

At the same time, something burst out from the woman’s neck. In the form of a small, agile rattlesnake, it was Cobra’s consciousness fragment and main body.

‘That’s the bastard that was spouting nonsense.’

The snake disappeared instantly into a crack in the wall.

Seeing this, Ruin’s eyes sparkled.

‘Now’s my chance!’

An opportunity to freely roam around the military under the pretense of catching that thing! In other words, an opportunity to retrieve the treasure chest!

Ruin dashed out without hesitation.

“Chairman. Please handle the cleanup on your own.”

“Huh? Wait a moment! I have something to ask!”

“My three sizes are a secret.”

“That’s not what I—”

So I have nothing to do with it, you bastard.

Obviously he was going to ask about the ‘Hero Candidate’ murder case that Cobra had blabbered about, but well.

‘I erased that memory the day I quit being the Hero Candidates’ ‘teacher’ through death.’

* * *

Ruin headed straight to where the treasure chest was located.

‘Demon Emperor’s Heart! Or severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay! Demon Emperor’s Heart! Severance pay!’

Ruin’s eyes were unusually crazed.

Then, a box caught Ruin’s eye.

‘Found it.’

He swallowed his saliva and opened the box.

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