I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 142

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Chapter 142. What? A Priest of the Papal Court? (3)

“Ah! A blessing has descended!”

“Really?! Did the magic really activate?!”

“Hey, this isn’t acting, right? It’s real, right?!”

“You can really use Offering Magic?!”

“Wow, then Ruins really did create Offering Magic!”

The murmuring soon turned to astonishment.

In the center of the activating Magic Circle stood a student with a hood pulled deep over their head. Sacred seal marks appeared on their hands, glowing golden.

“…But… what’s with that guy?”

“I’ve never seen that kid before. Was there someone like that among the students taking the class?”

Ruin quickly glared at the flower pot.

I told you not to give any blessings until I give the signal.

‘I’m cutting off fertilizer and sunlight supply.’

Then Ginseng Superior panicked.

「…Th-this isn’t something I gave. That guy… forcibly took my blessing…!」

Not a blessing, but theft of power.

It looked like a divine blessing, but in reality, it was the plundering of the nearest god’s power.

‘What was stolen?’

「…Just one Stealth Blessing.」

That’s a relief.

Ruin approached that student.

“Who are you?”

Right then, the expressions of the Imperial Princess, First Prince, and 2nd Prince hardened.

For a moment, a freezing aura flowed between the three of them. Their gazes were directed toward the figure in the hood.

But before the face under the hood could be properly seen, the child hastily turned around. Anyone could see it was an escape.

Ruin immediately moved.

‘Move!’

Then the curtain moved and wrapped around them. The student squirmed inside the curtain.

As Ruin tried to approach closer—

Thud.

Someone’s hand blocked his path.

When he turned his head, there stood the First Prince with neat blonde hair and a smiling face.

“That child is from Black Moon, Professor Wayne.”

“….”

Black Moon was where dangerous ability users within Haven were classified and kept. Indeed, the child’s necktie was black.

“You’ll only get disgustingly entangled if you carelessly interfere. Problem children, dangerous groups, surveillance targets… Well, in short, they’re experimental subjects that the Union has given up on.”

Ruin didn’t respond.

“You’ll only suffer losses if you get involved. The Chairman didn’t create Black Moon for no reason.”

Black Moon. That place was closer to a detention center.

But before that, there was something else that bothered him. This aura he felt from within the curtain.

‘…What is this scent?’

He sensed a strangely familiar scent.

‘…This is my item.’

At first, he thought it was an illusion.

But the closer he got, the more certain he became.

‘That bastard really has my item!’

Soon, as the boy tried to emerge from within the curtain, Ruin swiftly threw his body forward. Then he immediately bent the boy’s waist and pressed him to the ground.

“Stop.”

“…Let go!”

At that cry, Ruin’s hand was instinctively repelled.

Bang!

In an instant, an unidentifiable wave burst forth from the boy!

It was definitely Curse Power. And it was Five Evils-level power that ordinary demons couldn’t produce. Even Ruin couldn’t help but be inwardly flustered.

‘What the hell. Why does this kid have the power of the Five Evils-‘

But Fire Butterfly wasn’t one to back down here either.

Crack!

“Ack!”

Ruin covered the child’s mouth and grabbed the child’s arm.

The child was easily subdued, but the energy was definitely unusual. Ruin furrowed his brow and slowly reached out his hand to search through various parts of the child’s clothing.

‘What on earth could be there…’

What his fingertips touched was an artifact. It was definitely one of the artifacts that Ruin had buried in his vault.

But the problem didn’t end there.

‘Wait… There’s something more.’

Ruin’s heart pounded unpleasantly. As he searched the child’s clothing further, the child gripped the items tighter as if trying not to let them be taken.

Soon a cool and murky object touched his fingertips. In that moment, Ruin’s heart sank with a thud.

‘…This, could it be.’

It was similar to that damn texture that had caused him to raise such hell not long ago.

‘Right. The dried seafood I touched not long ago…!’

Sure enough, when Ruin pulled out the child’s hand, he realized his mistake.

This was the Demon Emperor’s Heart…!

‘…Crazy!’

Why is this here?

In an instant, his eyes became Fire Butterfly’s eyes.

At the same time, a memory from the past came to mind. Something Sasha had once said casually.

“The Demon Emperor’s Heart was split.”

Ruin could roughly guess why it had been split.

‘I’m sure they said a thief once targeted my vault.’

Of course, he heard that the theft failed due to the Hero’s defense-

Surely the Hero’s wide-area strike had ‘swept through the vault,’ hadn’t it? That’s why there were several treasure chests scattered around right now.

And thinking about it, there was no way the heart of someone like the Demon Emperor would take a direct hit from such power.

‘Then… did this heart also escape back then?’

It was possible. Either it had split itself in wariness of the Hero’s Power, or it had really been torn apart.

Ruin’s mind, rarely flustered, began to work rapidly.

‘Then did this child pick up one of those fragments?’

Or had someone else picked it up, and he received it from that person?

However, there wasn’t much time to think.

“…What is that?”

“It looks kind of dangerous…”

“Isn’t that Demonic Energy? The feeling is really… unpleasant…”

Oh no.

The surrounding students began to stir.

Black Demonic Energy spreading visibly. The distinctive foul current swirling around the dried seafood heart.

“Shouldn’t we inform the Chairman?”

‘Damn.’

Ruin, returning to his professor’s perspective, immediately made a decision.

“This is a dangerous item. I’m confiscating it.”

Just as Ruin reached out to take the heart—

“Not this one!”

The child’s voice rose sharply.

Then, something no one expected happened.

Gulp.

“…?”

Gulllp.

“…???”

That child swallowed the heart fragment!

A moment of silence.

“Huh????”

The students who witnessed that scene and even Ruin all froze in unison.

Ruin nearly let out a rare scream. Even he hadn’t anticipated this.

A reaction immediately began in the body of the child who had swallowed the heart. The child’s body was dyed red, and a strange energy leaked out from every opening in their body.

「…Hey hey hey! That’s dangerous!」

Ginseng Superior was horrified.

「What are humans supposed to do if they swallow that!」

What was this, like accidentally ordering 1,000 units when you meant to order 10?

Ruin pressed his forehead.

This had become a big problem. Really big, properly big.

That’s when it happened.

Bang—!

The classroom door burst open.

“What’s going on?”

The students stirred restlessly.

Ruin slowly turned his head. From the divine power he could feel, he could tell who it was without even looking at their face.

Sure enough, a High Priest wearing blue vestments stood there. Definitely the person he had asked Echo to take care of.

But now, the fact that he was here meant…

‘…Echo, this bastard.’

The priest’s gaze swept over the classroom frozen in silence, then immediately fixed on Ruin. Then he opened his eyes wide.

“By any chance, are you the Head Professor?”

“…Yes?”

“It seems right. It’s written on your face.”

“…What’s written there.”

“You stand out the most in the school.”

What? Was he calling him a crow?

The priest who had been smiling at that rotten expression casually added one more comment.

“That aside… actually, Professor Eren confessed everything.”

At those words, veins bulged on Ruin’s face.

‘…That bastard really did run away.’

He immediately hoisted the student over his shoulder like a sack of rice and retreated.

“Then I’ll head to the Medical Ward. The student just swallowed a cursed object. It’s an emergency!”

The students inwardly admired Ruin for taking care of even the Black Moon student.

The priest nodded.

“Oh my, he swallowed something like that.”

“So right now-”

“Don’t worry.”

The priest smiled sweetly.

“Our faith is accustomed to such matters.”

“…Excuse me?”

Accustomed?

“We just need to perform a complete exorcism ritual!”

No!

Ginseng Superior also screamed.

「Are you insane?! If you use an exorcism ritual, the Demon Emperor’s Heart will disappear! You ignorant cleric!」

Ruin’s mind raced. To stop that priest, he had no choice but to step in and resolve the situation himself.

Right, so the demonic energy is the problem?

‘Then I have no choice.’

He pressed his fingertip to the child’s nape.

‘Magic Absorption.’

Magic Absorption formed an incredibly thin and precise magic circle in his palm, invisible to the naked eye. Ruin thrust it into the center of the child’s neck like a needle.

Crack!

Finally, the dark red energy that had been swirling around the child was sucked into Ruin’s palm like a whirlpool.

Like an open abyss, the curse power was absorbed without being able to resist even once.

‘Absorption complete.’

He had completely devoured even the demonic energy from the heart.

Of course, it wasn’t intentional, but he had arbitrarily swallowed the power of Pride’s supreme leader, so he wondered how he would explain this to his superior later…

But that wasn’t what was important right now.

Ruin closed his Magic Absorption and glared at the priest.

“With this much, the situation has stabilized sufficiently even without an exorcism ritual. The curse reaction has also been eliminated, and the source of demonic energy has disappeared. So please return-”

However, the priest sent him a suspicious look.

“…Just now, it seemed like you devoured that magic power?”

Ruin flinched.

‘As expected, she’s sharp. Truly befitting a Papal Priest.’

Sure enough, the priest’s eyes turned menacing.

“That’s only possible through Cannibalistic Consumption, which is the domain of the Demon Race…”

What to do. The priest’s eyes have changed. The way they’re subtly crazed gives me the same feeling as looking at Hero 2.

Eventually, something struck Ruin’s mind as he was rapidly thinking. He smiled calmly.

“I didn’t swallow it.”

“…Excuse me?”

“I used Keeping.”

“…What?”

Ruin slowly rolled up the sleeve of his formal suit. On that white skin, a faint seal mark was engraved.

The priest’s eyes sparkled upon seeing it.

“…That seal mark is…!”

Ruin spoke quietly.

“You know what this is, don’t you?”

The Priest seemed to be in shock.

That was definitely what the Papal Court had been searching for so desperately….

‘…The White Mage!’

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