I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126. Younger Sister (3)

「…A legend who stakes their life on severance pay.」

‘…Please keep your mouth shut.’

Ignoring Ginseng Superior, Ruin spoke again.

“So please hand over the item you received from Adeline.”

Lionel frowned.

“…Even if you’re from the Wayne Family, why do you want it so badly?”

Ruin crossed his arms and answered shamelessly.

“Because I like dried seafood?”

“…Excuse me?”

Has this bastard lost his mind?

At the look that said ‘then go buy some at the market,’ Ruin shamelessly took a sip of the coffee Lionel had been drinking and narrowed his brow.

“I don’t want to see my younger sister get caught up in strange sugar daddy rumors.”

“What?!”

Adeline cried out in shock.

“What do you mean! No, really, why are you like this?! I’m not doing anything like that!”

Ruin turned his gaze to Lionel and spoke firmly.

“So, the dried seafood.”

Lionel pressed his temple. He had seen all kinds of people, but this combination was a first.

“…It’s already gone.”

Ruin’s eyes turned coldly dark.

“Did you sell it off or something?”

“No.”

Lionel quietly shook his head.

“We sent it to the branch.”

“…!”

The room froze. Ruin’s fingertips trembled violently.

“…The branch?”

No way.

It can’t be.

However, Lionel let out a short breath.

“The Aegis Branch. To be precise, the ‘Material Recovery and Analysis Department.’ All demon race items we receive are sent there for analysis.”

Since the other party was from the Union’s Wayne Family, he seemed to be readily providing information.

But Ruin wasn’t grateful at all.

“Then that dem… dried seafood…”

Ruin’s voice crawled lower.

“…went there.”

“Yes. So give up on eating the dried seafood.”

Ruin slammed the desk with a bang.

“Tell them to return it immediately.”

“Excuse me?”

Lionel’s expression was worth seeing.

Why is this bastard acting like this over a piece of dried seafood?

“It’s dangerous explosives, so immediately!”

Startled, Lionel looked at Ruin with suspicious eyes.

“Explosives? There was no report of such dangerous elements to the Military.”

Ruin didn’t bat an eye.

“Of course. You guys sent it without even knowing what it was.”

It’s the Demon Emperor’s Heart! Do you guys even know what that thing looks like!

However, Lionel’s gaze narrowed.

“Don’t tell me, without any evidence-”

“I heard directly from ‘Toad’ that there are explosives inside that box.”

At that moment, the air in the room froze again. Lionel and Adeline’s expressions hardened.

T-Toad?

「You’re deflecting again, what a master….」

‘Shut up. My severance pay is on the line right now.’

Because there had been a terrorist attack just recently, Lionel’s eyes held an even sharper wariness. Those were the eyes of an AEGIS agent.

“…You made direct contact with Toad?”

“Yes. Only Princess Judith and I met with Toad. You wouldn’t know even if you wanted to.”

Fire Butterfly shrugged his shoulders teasingly with a brazen attitude.

“He said the Special-Grade Wanted Criminals hid detonation devices throughout Union facilities. That box is one of them.”

Ginseng Superior whispered quietly.

「This… like this?」

Lionel’s eyes were already like blades. Not those of an ordinary Blue Moon Supervisor, but the instincts of an AEGIS agent flashed.

“But the professors haven’t received any instructions.”

Ruin said curtly.

“I already reported it to the Chairman.”

Lionel showed a suspicious look.

“…To the Chairman?”

Ruin smiled slightly.

“Of course. I’m very close with the Chairman. I’m someone who always values the chain of command.”

「Every time you open your mouth, it’s a lie….」

‘If I misdirect the report, it’s not a lie.’

Meanwhile, Adeline looked at Ruin with a face that couldn’t follow the flow of the conversation.

‘What the… Oppa, why are you really acting like this…?’

Now, rather than suspecting ‘he might be a spy,’ she was more filled with the question ‘isn’t he really hiding something absolutely tremendous?’

“Well then, let’s end the questioning of this shady Dormitory Supervisor who’s targeting my younger sister here.”

“?!”

Ruin lightly wrapped things up and turned around.

At that moment, he reached out his hand and gently pressed Adeline’s forehead.

“From now on, if anything happens, rely on me instead of other people.”

That way bastards like Aegis won’t butt in, damn it.

But Adeline’s eyes shook greatly.

“…!”

Those words were unexpected.

The person who always drew lines and built walls was now extending his hand instead of building a wall. Like offering an umbrella. So she couldn’t say anything.

Ruin left her there and casually walked out of the Supervisor’s Room. His neat formal suit, steady steps, masculine back… He was cool. He had the kind of appearance that would make anyone fall for him.

But the moment he elegantly turned the corner of the corridor-

‘…Damn it alllllll!’

Ruin screamed internally. Frix hurriedly popped out from his hand.

[♥Master, who should I blow up and kill…♥]

“Shut up, Code 000!”

-Classified Communication established.

Ruin’s voice as he walked hurriedly was more urgent than usual.

“This is Fire Butterfly.”

[Pride Division 1, responding.]

“Emergency situation. ‘Shield’ has intercepted ‘VIP’s’ heart. Currently in transport. Requesting support. Pursuit team formation level 5. Tactical command code, Blue Wing.”

[Confirmed. Tracking team deploying immediately.]

And exactly 15 minutes later-

1st tracking team failed.

[Target not secured. Deviated from expected route. Possibility of deception.]

2nd Tracking Team, arrived at the scene but target escaped.

[Suppression failed.]

3rd Tracking Team, suffered counterattack.

[Report: Total equipment loss. One agent lightly injured.]

Total time elapsed: 1 hour.

At the continued failures, Ruin closed his eyes.

‘…This is ridiculous. AEGIS is this good?’

Were skilled Black Agents moving on their side too?

With this level of transport capability, the transfer might already be complete. That’s why only two words floated in Ruin’s mind right now.

‘Retirement impossible. Severance Pay retrieval impossible.’

Ruin’s eyes flashed.

Then there’s no choice but to break in.

* * *

AEGIS Branch Facility, the entrance shrouded in thick morning fog.

Among the armed soldiers stood one Agent in charge. Brian. He was waiting silently in military uniform with his arms crossed.

“Commander!”

He quietly nodded and extended his hand.

“The item.”

The AEGIS Agent saluted and carefully handed over the box.

“An unidentified group persistently targeted this box. The opposition is suspected to be Pride. If so, perhaps this item contains Pride’s classified information—”

“Good work. I’ll handle the rest.”

“Yes!”

Meanwhile, as he moved, Brian carefully read through the reports. His gaze was sharp. Among them, one phrase from Lionel’s report caught his attention.

‘The hero of this Toad incident, Ruins Wayne. His reaction is too extreme for mere Dried Seafood—’

That one line bothered him. That’s why Brian, who had come out to the entrance, extended his hand to the approaching agent.

“The item.”

“Pardon?”

Confusion appeared on the agent’s face.

“You already received it though…?”

“What?”

“5 minutes ago, already…”

…What did he say?

Brian, looking bewildered, glanced toward the entrance. Thick fog. And within that fog, the presence of someone who had already vanished.

For a moment, he felt a sinking realization.

“Intruder!”

When he shouted those words, the surroundings stirred.

“What? That can’t be!”

Shock and anger were already overlapping on the commander’s face.

The commander’s office they rushed to was spotless.

The only thing different was a single paper rabbit, folded impossibly elegantly, sitting on the desk.

When he unfolded the paper, inside was a single line written in the commander’s own handwriting.

-Receipt confirmed. Handle the administrative processing yourselves.

Brian’s fingertips trembled.

Not a single fingerprint remained on the paper, and even all the surveillance Pricks inside the facility had been destroyed.

In other words, ‘someone’ had been in this branch facility just moments ago and had leisurely escaped, mocking all security systems.

There was only one person capable of pulling off such a stunt.

“Fire Butterfly…!”

The infamous shadow.

Though AEGIS officially doesn’t acknowledge his existence, he’s the one who always vanishes while mocking all intelligence networks. The commander couldn’t help but grit his teeth.

“Don’t tell me he was here just moments ago…!”

* * *

Adeline bit her lips.

‘…What the hell, that bastard really… What the hell is he.’

Even on the day their parents died, when her younger siblings were wailing, he was the kind of person who just locked himself in his room dusting off doll clothes.

‘But now…’

He had become a completely different person.

Most importantly, Ruins was ‘lying’ right now. Just as the Hero had Fortune Intuition, the Wayne Family members possessed a special intuition for detecting lies.

That’s why Adeline had come to find Judith.

“I have something to ask Your Highness. It’s about Professor Wayne.”

Judith blinked her eyes.

For someone who came to ask about her brother, the atmosphere was quite unusual.

Yes, this atmosphere was… more like an interrogator?

“Wasn’t there anything suspicious? For example, suspicious behavior or feeling Curse Power.”

At those words, Judith’s face instantly turned pale.

‘…Curse Power?!’

That single word set off alarm bells in her head.

‘Don’t tell me… she noticed Professor Ruins’ true identity…?’

Cold sweat formed on Judith’s fingertips. The Professor’s identity being revealed had to be prevented by any means necessary.

She barely managed to move her lips and chose her words carefully.

“Nothing like that… at all. Rather, he was warm. Much more than I expected.”

“…Warm, you say?”

Adeline’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.

“What exactly do you mean?”

Judith carefully traced through her memories.

“When I received healing. Strangely enough… I felt reassured… It was truly peaceful. Like… White Magic.”

At that moment, Adeline’s expression hardened.

‘White Magic.’

That familiar yet forbidden word. Some words flashed through her memory like lightning.

“When did you find out that he’s a disciple of the White Mage…?”

Goldsky. The words that bastard had thrown mockingly.

At the time, she had dismissed it as just sarcastic remarks.

But…

‘Dried seafood…’

The item inside that box.

The thing her brother had been so desperately obsessed with.

Come to think of it, she had heard that the last monks of the White Mage Order sealed parts of demon bodies and carried them around in ‘totem’ form.

‘…Then that dried seafood, could it really be from a demon…?’

Suddenly, a chill ran down her spine. If that were the case, then the comment about seeming to lie also made sense.

Toad bomb?

That might be the lie instead.

‘No, more than that, a White Mage…’

They were beings that the Union had officially declared ‘extinct.’ But everyone who knew that name said the same thing.

“The real one is still alive.”

“He left behind a successor.”

Adeline’s fingertips began to tremble. Her heart started beating strangely fast.

‘What if really… that ‘successor’ is… Ruins Wayne?’

What if that’s why he didn’t inherit the Wayne Family?

The reason his face was suddenly healed, and why he had been avoiding people – what if it was all because he was hiding from people while carrying out the successor’s work?

‘…No way, no way, no way…’

* * *

‘…Finally found it.’

Ruin, having released his transformation, carefully gripped the box and cautiously opened the lid. The sound of a heartbeat echoed in his ears.

‘Perfect. Inside this… the Demon Emperor’s Heart.’

The lid opened.

At that moment, an intense smell hit his nose.

“…Huh?”

Ruin stopped.

“….”

Crunch.

Inside was something neatly packaged that looked like semi-dried jerky.

“…”

Jerky. Well-dried, genuine dried seafood that appeared to be a specialty of the Croft Region.

“…What?”

Ruin slowly closed the box and opened it again.

Still dried seafood.

“…Huh?”

He closed it and opened it once more.

“…What?!”

The dried seafood in the box had no demonic energy or curse power whatsoever. It was clearly meant for snacking. Moderately drained of oil, with a somewhat junk food-like appearance.

His heart sank.

“…Someone switched it!”

Around that time, Lionel Croft was drinking tea. Then the Assistant Dormitory Supervisor knocked on the door and entered.

“Excuse me, Dormitory Supervisor. We just received a complaint from the Chairman’s Office.”

“…Yes?”

“The Chairman said it himself. ‘I was expecting Croft Specialty Jerky, but it turned out to be some strange dried seafood.'”

“….”

Lionel’s hand stiffened. His blue eyes wavered.

“…Ah.”

A mistake.

It had changed.

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