I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 139

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Chapter 139. Why Is That There?

Well, anyway.

The second thing Ruin demanded from the First Prince was…

“You know the 2nd Prince’s true identity, don’t you? Stop watching and copying him.”

“…!”

How dare you covet my treasure?

You’re an enemy before you’re a disciple.

That’s why he had driven in that warning.

‘But now the problem is this.’

Speaking of the Regressor, it came to mind.

The reason why Ryle Winberg, that Regressor, deliberately showed himself at this party.

‘Right, the “Acorn” is supposed to appear here.’

The Acorn, meaning the Artifact that the Regressor needs.

‘And he’s supposed to get it from Rose Isles.’

What exactly is the Artifact she possesses?

So as soon as Ruin entered the Party Hall, he kept a close eye on Rose. But he didn’t sense any particular aura.

‘Well, I haven’t regained all my power yet either.’

The Skills he had recovered so far were about three.

【Shadow Hands】

Creates tentacles that extend like arms from one’s shadow to manipulate or pull objects at short distances.

【Shadow Sense】

Reads the mass and presence of objects within shadows.

【Demonification】

Transforms into shadow. No Physical Power can affect it.

Those techniques he used when fighting Toad and beating up Echo.

And Ruin was currently collecting tribute to regain the techniques he had lost. Not just to recover the techniques he originally used, but to obtain even the highest-grade techniques he had never acquired before.

‘The grade of skills that can be retrieved depends on the amount of tribute.’

Well, originally he hadn’t considered the ranking battles, so he didn’t need high-grade or supreme-grade skills, and even then he had only acquired skills that would help with espionage, but still.

‘Since troublesome bastards like spies from the Five Evils and Special-Grade Wanted Criminals have gotten involved.’

The situation was likely to escalate beyond the level of information warfare into full-scale combat. So Ruin made his decision.

‘I’ll secure high-grade combat skills, even supreme-grade ones.’

And-

‘Acorn. I need to find out what that is.’

Then the next target was clear.

The 2nd Prince.

At the same time, Ruin’s eyes widened as he spotted the 2nd Prince. And for good reason – the 2nd Prince was in an unexpected location.

‘That bastard?

Why is he in front of the women’s bathroom!’

However, Ryle was waiting very seriously in front of the bathroom. He was even trying to peek inside…

“I never taught you to do that.”

“Kek!”

Ryle jumped in surprise and looked up at Ruin.

“No, that’s not it! I was waiting!”

“For who?”

“…Rose Isles.”

But why… at the bathroom?

At that disgusted expression, Ryle frowned.

“It’s all because of you…!”

What, you bastard?

Becoming a pervert is my fault?

“Because you saved Rose’s life, I can’t bring her back!”

…What is he talking about.

Meanwhile, Rose Isles came out. She was startled as soon as she saw the two of them.

“Huh. What are you two doing here?”

Flustered, she seemed to realize something and looked at Ruin.

Hadn’t she already been suspecting Ruin because of the Fire Butterfly Phlyx? Her face became serious.

“Could this be… some kind of Fire Butterfly mission?”

At those words, the 2nd Prince looked back at Ruin with a dumbfounded expression.

Fire Butterfly? What’s that supposed to mean, and what’s that about?

However, Ruin smiled brightly.

“I was just scolding my student because he was about to do something wrong.”

The 2nd Prince shook his head vigorously as if flustered.

“No! I was!”

“That’s right. His Highness Ryle was in the middle of doing something bad.”

Has this bastard lost his mind!

Finally, Ryle gritted his teeth and shouted.

“This Professor was peeping first!”

What, you punk?

Rose, who seemed shocked by those words, opened her mouth wide and looked at Ruin.

Surely… such a pervert couldn’t be Fire Butterfly, right?

However, she soon focused her attention on Ryle.

‘No, that’s not right. Ryle is a Prophet. Then could there really be something about Ruins Wayne?’

After thinking, she turned around as if that was enough.

“…Ah, there’s a lot I want to ask, but I can’t. It seems like it’s about time for them to come.”

About time for them to come?

Rose ignored the two and headed straight to the party hall entrance. And when she soon encountered the delivery man who appeared, she seemed surprised and received the item with both hands.

Seeing this, Ryle gritted his teeth in anguish.

“…Ugh…!”

Ruin, who noticed the situation, made an incredulous expression.

“…All that fuss was just over a package?”

I thought it would be something more impressive since it was the acorn the Regressor was after.

If it’s a package coming to the party hall, it would be party-related items at best. Yeah, accessories or flowers, something like that.

At that look in his eyes, Ryle gritted his teeth and shouted.

“That’s not just anything! It’s the White Mage’s artifact!”

White Mage?

As Rose unwrapped the package, a small silver object emerged from inside.

‘A pocket watch?’

At that moment, Ruin nearly stopped breathing.

‘That’s…!’

It wasn’t some White Mage’s item.

It was the item he had lost 50 years ago when he got caught in a space-time rift. His own artifact that he had forgotten about, or rather, thought he had lost.

‘…Why is that here?’

As if asking what was going on, Ruin glared at Ryle. Ryle bit his lips while looking at Rose.

“Originally, Rose Isles dies and the First Prince takes it.”

“What? How?”

Instead of answering, Ryle recalled that time.

Rose Isles was possessed by Cobra and then slit her own throat to die. While everyone was in shock, the delivery man had arrived.

The delivery man was greatly flustered and didn’t know how to handle the package, so the First Prince took it.

“Give that to me.”

“Pardon? But you strictly ordered that only the recipient could receive it…”

“I’m her partner. The fact that she had it brought to the party hall instead of home means she intended to give it to her partner.”

Yes, he had taken it away like that. But this time it ended up in Rose’s hands.

Ryle, who had been recounting what happened then, ground his teeth.

“Originally, I was going to get it before Rose Isles died and Henry could steal it…”

Ruin’s expression soured.

So in the end, you were waiting for her to die. You piece of trash.

Smack!

“Why are you hitting me!”

“You trash bastard.”

As expected, Regressors are impossible to deal with.

Anyway, I understand what happened.

‘That item would certainly be useful.’

That item was, simply put, a Subspace Artifact. In the form of a gourd bottle that could suck in anything, it had slots for each numbered area so things could be stored separately.

More importantly… that was something he had used. Meaning, there was already ‘something’ inside it.

For instance, stolen Union Secret Techniques, books, weapons and…

“There are things like Demon Beasts inside that too.”

I know… There was one demon who came because of the ranking battles, but I just locked him up because he was annoying.

Ryle’s eyes became fierce.

“I was also killed by that Demon Beast.”

‘Oh… I need to do the ranking battles anyway, so since it’s bothersome, should I just release it during class time?’

「…Didn’t you just hear that this guy died?」

Ryle continued speaking.

“And that’s an item Fire Butterfly will get. The First Prince will probably give it to him.”

“Oh.”

Is that so?

“Most importantly, there’s an item inside that can destroy Union. Fire Butterfly will use it. We must go get it.”

“!”

In that moment, Ruin realized what would be used to destroy Union.

But… only he could use that thing.

So did he really destroy Union?

Well, maybe that’s not what’s important right now.

That’s why Ruin quietly approached.

“What is that item?”

“Don’t touch it! That’s… a war trophy I obtained through bloody competition with the Hero!”

“…War trophy?”

“I bought it at an auction.”

“…Wait, an auction?”

Why did his own item end up as auction merchandise.

“Were you interested in the White Mage’s items?”

“Because it belongs to the person who drove out Fire Butterfly.”

Certainly, the White Mage is famous for driving out Fire Butterfly.

“So there’s a rumor that Fire Butterfly is trapped inside this.”

…He’s not trapped.

“There’s also talk that the reason he hasn’t been seen for 50 years is because he was caught by the White Mage.”

…That makes sense.

But more importantly, why has his own item become the White Mage’s item?

“This mark on the back of the watch! The price went up tremendously because of this proof that it’s the White Mage’s!”

…Oh. Really?

I didn’t know. It was there from when I first got this item.

‘It seems someone must have picked up what I dropped and put it up for auction.’

“Anyway, if Fire Butterfly was trapped inside, I said I’d try to get him out, and I had a huge fight with the Hero about it, but in the end I won the bid. You should have seen how frustrated he was.”

…Why fight over something like that.

“Of course, the Hero said Fire Butterfly couldn’t possibly be trapped in a mere pocket watch like this, but for some reason he wanted to have it. It must be because of his Luck Power, right? Then wouldn’t there be a high probability it’s connected to Fire Butterfly?”

As expected, he reacted to it being Fire Butterfly’s item. Terrifying Luck Power…

But well, the Hero doesn’t matter.

“Ah, so you bought it to give to me?”

“…What? What did you say? Ah?!”

Before the words were even finished, Ruin’s hand shot up. The pocket watch was in that hand.

“I’ll gratefully accept it.”

“Wh-what bullshit!”

Rose was horrified and tried to get her watch back, but Ruin was too tall for her hands to reach it at all.

“Seeing that you tried to receive it directly at the party hall, weren’t you planning to give it to your partner?”

At those words, Ryle flinched beside them.

‘This bastard…! He’s using it like that?!’

Ruin looked down at Rose who was hopping up and down and smiled leisurely.

“I was just needing a subspace artifact, so this worked out perfectly. Thank you so much, Princess Rose.”

“I said no!”

“I saved you from a Special Grade Wanted Criminal today too. Let’s call it repayment for that.”

“Repayment?”

“Why, the kiss-”

“Ahhh! Stop it!”

Rose screamed.

* * *

In the end, Ruin obtained the artifact.

Though Rose persistently followed him around, Ruin clicked the button on the pocket watch.

Then a powerful wind blew and Rose almost got sucked into the pocket watch.

“Ahh! What is this…!”

Ruin pressed the pocket watch button again and spoke seriously.

“This is an extremely seriously dangerous item. It would be good if you entrusted such dangerous items to a Demon Hunting Academy professor.”

…You’re reading from a textbook right now.

That was her expression, but Ruin took Rose’s hand.

“I don’t want to put the Princess in danger unnecessarily.”

“!”

When their hands touched, perhaps remembering when they had kissed, Rose’s face turned bright red, and she unconsciously jerked her hand away.

At this, Ruin smiled as if feeling bitter.

Rose clutched her head as if she was doomed. No, don’t make such a bitter expression with that face!

“I apologize. As a member of the Wayne Family, I’m also bound to pursue Fire Butterfly. Since it’s our family’s long-cherished wish, I made a rather rude request. I’ll return it to you.”

“Ah…”

Rose, her face flushed red, turned her head away sharply.

“If that’s really the case… under the condition that you investigate and share the results, and that you return it… it’s fine.”

Then Ruin returned to his usual cold eyes, as if he had never shown that tender gaze.

“I’ll return it to you in 100 years.”

“What did you say?! Hey, give it back!”

Anyway, Ruin, who had succeeded in fairly obtaining the artifact, chuckled softly.

Of course, when he brought it to the party hall, the Hero did say something with a sulky expression.

“Going around receiving gifts from other women, you’re really promiscuous.”

What is she talking about.

“I could give you something even better. So tell me how you drove away Cobra!”

…Get lost.

Now, with this, the risk of the treasure chest being discovered has disappeared for the time being.

‘I’ve also obtained a Demon Beast, so I can solve the troublesome midterm exam too.’

「…Are you really going to take the midterm with that thing.」

However, Ruin was serious.

Because…

‘Bonuses are given to dormitory supervisors based on the test scores of their dormitories.’

As if he would miss out on that!

「…So that’s why you went to look at land the other day?」

‘It’s good to dream big.’

He had looked at a plot of land that was still at a cute level but big enough for a house. It was land for a rental business after retirement.

Of course, building a house would cost more money than expected, so he’d have to work harder, but that was fine.

‘Now, shall I go collect my severance pay.’

Ruin gulped down his coffee-flavored milk.

That’s when it happened. Lily came running in urgently. Her face was very bright.

“Did you hear?!”

What now?

“If it’s about the midterm exam prep, we already did-”

“That’s not it, a Papal Priest is coming to visit! To see Professor Ruins!”

The coffee milk Ruin was drinking streamed down from his mouth.

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