I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 123

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Chapter 123. Military (3)

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Ruin, whose eyes had gone half-mad, opened the box.

He opened it, but…

“…?”

A question mark appeared on Ruin’s face.

The inside of the box was simply empty. All that remained was a golden chain that seemed to have been wrapped around something.

“…?”

…Huh?

…What?

After staring blankly for a long time, Ruin bit his lips tightly.

Just then, the military agents came running.

“Professor Wayne! Did you catch that suspicious thing!”

They were following Ruin respectfully. It was Letius’s order. Since Ruin might have truly awakened the Special Grade Wanted Criminal and opened their heart, it meant they acknowledged him as their commander.

But that wasn’t what mattered to Ruin.

“This.”

“Yes?”

Ruin’s head turned with a creaking sound.

“This, who took it?”

…Pardon?

Ruin’s expression was terrifying. His expression wasn’t human. It was enough to freeze everyone who saw it.

“Here… the item that was in this box. Who took it?”

The soldier flinched and panicked.

For some reason, he carefully watched Ruin’s reaction.

“Ah, that… a few days ago… a student from Haven Silvermoon and Professor Wayne’s younger sister…”

“…No way.”

“…Adeline Wayne took it.”

Ruin, who had caught the snake bastard with his shadow, grabbed the back of his neck.

No, seeing that the snake bastard came here, he must have been targeting the strong power emanating from this box.

Didn’t the Regressor say something like that too?

“A Special Grade Wanted Criminal will use the Military’s Blessing Box to escape from prison.”

If it was the Demon Emperor’s Heart, his power would have grown stronger, so the talk of escape makes sense too.

So I’m grateful that they evacuated it before the Special Grade Wanted Criminal could steal it, but why of all people!

‘Besides, if it’s Adeline, she’s my relative!’

「Still, isn’t this chain something really precious?」

At the same time, seeing it, Ruin pressed his brow.

‘Right, I remember now.’

This… is a precious treasure I had hidden away because it’s a valuable Special Grade Artifact. I thought I could offer it to Ginseng Superior, who’s particularly interested in Union items, and exchange it for a valuable skill or Cursed Artifact.

And Union’s Special Grade Artifacts? They all had such high Luck Power that I was wondering if there was something I could use to suppress it moderately.

So…

‘While looking for something to wrap this around, I just casually wrapped it around the Demon Emperor’s Heart!’

Ginseng made an expression asking if he was serious.

「…What kind of treatment is that for a Demon Emperor’s heart…」

* * *

“What?!”

Echo’s scream echoed loudly through the Chief Research Laboratory. The Magic Stone Fragment he was holding in his hand fell to the floor.

“It’s good that you found your Special Grade treasure, but you’re saying the Demon Emperor’s Heart was in that box?! Ugh!”

“Mouth.”

“Yes.”

Ruin, who had kicked Echo once, sighed and crossed his legs. Echo’s lips twitched.

“…But. That thing…”

Echo paused for a beat before asking.

“…Your younger sister took it?”

“…Yeah.”

“…Ha, wait a minute. Let me organize this. The Demon Emperor’s Heart disappeared from the Military, your younger sister took it, and now you-”

“I’ll have to meet this body’s real relatives. The Watchdog Family that catches Demon Race spies, no less.”

At Ruin’s brief words, Echo squeezed his eyes shut.

‘Why is this bastard’s life always so damn complicated?’

“So you want me to make you a ‘disguise tool to hide your identity’? Fine. Good.”

Echo nodded and tied his hair into a ponytail.

“I’ll have to craft another item after a while. What should I make? A bloodline certificate? A paternity test?”

Ruin shook his head.

“No.”

“Huh?”

Ruin said firmly.

“Make me something to beat up my siblings.”

“…”

Silence.

“Are you serious…?”

“It’s a joke.”

Ruin said expressionlessly.

“…About half.”

“You’re… really pissed off right now.”

Ruin looked up at the ceiling.

“If my siblings were pushovers, I wouldn’t be doing this.”

“…?”

“My younger sister is a Full Bloom user of ‘Misfire’ ability, and my younger brother has ‘Distrust’ ability.”

“…A Full Bloom user of Misfire? What is this, a flower shop?”

A ‘Full Bloom User’ refers to someone who can use Full Bloom abilities that only special-grade heroes can wield.

And my younger sister’s Full Bloom ability ‘Misfire’ is what kind of ability…

“An ability to never be attacked.”

“Crazy…”

It wasn’t for nothing that the Wayne House was a graveyard for Pride spies.

“Sigh… Then why don’t you seduce the younger brother? The second son isn’t a Full Bloom User yet, right? That side would be much easier.”

But Ruin became serious.

“That side is more problematic in a different way.”

“What?”

“Distrust.”

“…Huh?”

“He reads thoughts in real time.”

“…Damn it.”

Echo held her forehead.

“That kind of thing is there from childhood? What kind of family are they that everyone’s overpowered…”

“Unlike Pride gods, Union gods are the result of humans deifying them. To counter the primordial Pride god, they’re bestowing increasingly twisted abilities.”

“The Union folks are really creepy. But the Hero’s companions must have been much stronger than that, right? How did you manage to deceive such a Hero and completely destroy the Union forces?”

“No. Deceiving the Hero was actually easy.”

“What? What did you transform into?”

“The Hero’s lover who was thought to be dead.”

“…”

“Why?”

Echo stared at Ruin for a long time before throwing out a comment.

“…You’re really not human.”

“I’m a demon.”

Wicked bastard.

However, Ruin sighed.

“Well, it’s a cost-ineffective method that can’t be used twice. The emotion of ‘what if’ is the most reliable way to break down defenses. Half of espionage starts with emotions, not swordfights. Once emotions open up, what follows is nothing but ruin.”

“…Feel a little sorry for the Hero.”

“If I hadn’t stopped the Hero then, Pride would have been completely annihilated.”

“…I really don’t want to be friends with you.”

“?”

Echo seemed to understand why the Hero considered that incident his shame.

When someone precious you thought was dead returns alive, who wouldn’t have a mental breakdown?

Especially if it was a missing person whose death wasn’t even certain, it would have been even harder to deny.

“Then don’t tell me the reason the Hero wants to find you desperately is…”

“Revenge. Or he wants information about the lover I transformed into.”

Fire Butterfly cannot transform into someone he has never actually seen. In other words, he knows information about the missing person.

Well, saving the Hero in his youth or bringing ruin to him was all done under orders anyway.

-Save the child with the most promising potential.

Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

That’s when it happened.

Beep beep!

The professors’ Frix devices rang.

-[Emergency Notice]

-Recipients: All Haven Faculty.

-Fire Butterfly, Cobra, Toad. Simultaneous search operation for three major terror suspects initiated. Especially if concealment related to Fire Butterfly is detected, Union treason charges will apply.

Echo fainted.

Treason charges? It seems the Hero is really serious this time.

And even Cobra?

“Cobra is that extremely greedy and vicious bastard among us. If that son of a bitch gets out, don’t tell me he’ll start a ‘Hierarchy War’…!”

As Echo’s face turned pale, Ruin sighed.

This bastard is also one who doesn’t participate in hierarchy wars.

“It’s fine. Cobra will come after me.”

“Huh. Is that really fine?”

Ruin frowned and muttered quietly.

“…Should I use this?”

* * *

Adeline Wayne let out a long sigh as she stood in front of the dormitory bulletin board.

“…Is this even a school.”

What covered the entire bulletin board was none other than Ruins Wayne’s name.

-Combat Magic Summary – Professor Ruins’ explanations were amazing.

-Selling Professor Ruins’ Practical Magic Analysis Textbook!

-Head Professor battle, want to see it again! Professor Ruins is the best!

-Revealing this person’s true identity! Come in if you’re curious.

“…”

It was enough to make her dizzy.

Just then, a familiar sound reached her ears.

“Adeline-!”

A blonde young man came running over, waving his hand.

Goldmoon 3rd Year. Goldsky.

“I heard you returned to school? We’ve been taking Professor Ruins’ classes lately, and they’re really amazing.”

Adeline’s expression turned cold as she raised her eyebrows.

“…Whose class?”

“Professor Ruins Wayne! He’s really cool. So knowledgeable… and his magic is strong too!”

He whispered to Adeline.

“Come to think of it, when did you find out that the Professor is a disciple of the ‘White Mage’?”

…What kind of bullshit is this now. Why is that Union great hero’s name coming up.

Adeline’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

“I don’t know about that, but I can tell you’ve become Ruins Wayne’s lackey. Right?”

Well, if it were just Goldsky acting like this, she wouldn’t even bother talking.

-Imperial Princess directly requests tutoring from Professor Ruins?!

-First Prince and 2nd Prince auditing Ruins Wayne’s classes?

-Is this the beginning of a full-scale succession war for the throne?

-Is Duke Isles taking Ruins Wayne as his son-in-law?

Adeline laughed like someone who had lost her mind.

‘The Imperial Princess, the Grand Duke, the First Prince, the Second Prince. And… even the students.’

She felt dizzy.

“Now it’s really impossible to crush this man no matter what I do.”

Even as she said that, her fingertips trembled slightly. And for good reason, since her brother’s name made her teeth chatter.

Why?

That bastard was someone who prioritized his own fear over his younger siblings, even during the moment when the adults were fighting over inheritance issues after their parents died to Fire Butterfly.

Her brother, who was seventeen at the time, had written out an inheritance waiver with his own hand and said this.

“I’ll just live quietly. Responsibility and such… forget it.”

The grown kid couldn’t even say such words properly and had to write them on paper to hand over.

So their parents’ belongings and wealth were stolen away bit by bit, and the situation became so serious that the young siblings, not even ten years old, had to worry about making ends meet.

The villa had been taken away long ago, and even the mansion was completely lost. She barely attended the academy on a scholarship. It was like that until Adeline, who had barely grown up, came to her senses and reclaimed their wealth.

They had suffered so terribly…

But the very person who should have taken responsibility just holed up in his room playing only with female dolls.

‘…It was truly disgusting.’

Those eyes, those eyes that could never look at people!

He couldn’t even have normal conversations, let alone take magic lessons. A failure who couldn’t even summon Frix and couldn’t control his emotions.

That’s why the Wayne Family people didn’t speak of him.

‘That Ruins Wayne is now a hero?’

He saved Princess Judith, and now even the imperial heirs are following behind her brother?

Adeline’s eyes turned cold.

‘Most of all, taking off the bandages is the strangest thing.’

No matter how much he had healed his face, it didn’t make sense. A person who was more pessimistic than anyone, busy running away, and couldn’t even properly face his own reflection?

‘…I have no choice but to confirm it with my own two eyes. It might be fake.’

It could be an act, or it could be a body double.

Yes, that’s what she thought.

“Excuse me. The Head Professor asked me to deliver this.”

A teaching assistant politely handed over a letter.

“…To whom?”

“Professor Ruins Wayne said to deliver it to Miss Wayne from Silver Moon.”

Adeline looked at the teaching assistant as if dumbfounded, then slowly took the envelope.

‘What nerve to contact me.’

She had been planning to speak to him first, but he beat her to it. With a letter, no less.

‘What could he possibly want to say.’

Reflecting on the past? Or maybe asking to get along well since they’ll see each other at the Academy? An apology?

She quietly tore open the envelope. The neat handwriting seemed to reflect that remorse on the paper…

-Demon Hunting textbooks: 139 major types, 487 minor types, copy all by hand. Failure to comply will result in failing all subjects.

-Ruins Wayne

…Huh?

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