I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 144

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Chapter 144. What? A Priest from the Papal Court? (5)

“You… what the hell did you just do!”

Ginseng Superior shouted, almost screaming.

Ruin answered while dusting himself off.

“Dealt with the priest.”

“Dealt with?! A clergyman?!”

“Yes. I eliminated a dangerous element.”

Ginseng Superior’s face turned pale.

“Is this okay…?! She was an official priest?! Someone with an affiliation! What are we going to do about the cleanup!”

“Before that, we just need to collect our severance pay and run.”

“Hey! That’s not the point right now!”

“And the priest isn’t what’s important.”

“…Then what is important?”

“That Black Moon student who swallowed the ‘heart’.”

Ruin gritted his teeth as he came up from underground. He absolutely had to find out how that brat got his hands on his treasure.

But at that moment, the sound of numerous footsteps came pouring from the direction of the underground passage entrance.

“Professor Ruins!”

In an instant, the Hero came running along with several professors.

“We heard you suddenly disappeared alone with the priest… We were shocked!”

Relief flickered in the Hero’s eyes upon finding Ruin.

“We thought… something might have happened…”

Ruin raised his eyebrows slightly and replied.

“Is there something to be surprised about?”

“Well…”

A moment of silence.

The Hero closed his lips, then spoke carefully.

“To be honest… I thought Professor might have been eliminated by the Papal Court.”

Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

“…Do you still suspect me of being a spy?”

“It’s more because Professor Ruins’ abilities are so outstanding-”

“Would the Papal Court do such wicked things?”

“Even if not, the Papal Court doesn’t like me.”

“!”

The Hero pressed his brow.

The Hero Candidate Friend frozen in ice, not even breathing. That existence sealed deep within the Imperial Palace.

Because of that, the Papal Court hadn’t dispatched a priest, and even now Haven was operating without an official clergyman.

‘…Well, we at least found corpses for the other children, but we couldn’t even find Teacher’s corpse.’

That remained as a lingering resentment.

But it wasn’t something to tell Ruins.

“So, about the priest…?”

At the professors’ question, Ruin smiled like a fox.

“Ah. That person? They said their business was finished and left.”

“…Excuse me?”

Question marks appeared on all the surrounding faculty’s faces at once.

“So suddenly… this quickly? They didn’t even tour the Academy?”

“Yes. We had a deep and insightful conversation about Healing Arts, and they said they’d come again. Oh, and they heard there were demon beasts around Haven and went out to exorcise them.”

Ruin had instantly created a reason for the priest’s delayed return.

The professors were actually delighted.

“Oh! Is this full-scale support from the Papal Court?”

Several professors asked in admiration.

“If it’s alright, I’d like to hear details about the conversation you shared…!”

“Please tell us what kind of support it is!”

At those words, Ruin turned around with an elegant model pose.

“I’m busy, so I’ll be going now.”

It was an escape.

* * *

As soon as Ruin fled, he contacted Second Prince Ryle through Frix. When Ryle connected, his voice was urgent for some reason.

[Are you with that Black Moon kid?]

“I don’t know why you’re curious about that, but I’ll ask you straight. Were there Blessing Boxes at Black Moon?”

[…N-no, no?]

He’s lying.

“You should know it won’t be fun if you lie. I’ll abandon you.”

[…There were, no, there were. Many of them.]

As expected.

So his belongings had indeed been at Black Moon. That’s why Ruin immediately returned to the Chief Research Laboratory.

He looked down at the student from Black Moon. The student was tightly bound by the tentacle plant.

“Mmmmph! (Let me go!)”

Ruin ignored him.

The information surrounding him was virtually nonexistent. No name, no background. Even his Frix wasn’t registered.

“…Black Moon. Fitting for a problem child dormitory.”

It was a dormitory shrouded in mystery. Even the dormitory supervisors couldn’t know their information. They didn’t even know who was there.

Anyway, in that sense, he didn’t know what this kid did, but…

“…If he had a precious status to begin with, they wouldn’t have stuck him in a place like Black Moon in the first place.”

So this was something he could do.

“It’s going to hurt a bit.”

“…?”

Ruin let out a very short sigh and-

Crack!

He struck the solar plexus with his fist.

“Kugh!”

The boy who was struck precisely in the solar plexus clutched his abdomen as if suffocating and widened his eyes. He burst into a series of coughs and bent his waist.

Ruin immediately examined his body.

“Hmm… I thought he’d vomit if he hadn’t eaten long ago, but… nothing’s coming out. Don’t tell me it’s already gone down to his digestive system?”

No! The Demon Emperor’s Heart!

If I leave it like this, the Hero will notice!

“Then there’s no choice. I’ll go with the second method.”

He pulled out a crude brown medicine bottle from his pocket. The label read:

-Powerful Diarrhea Inducer-Ultra-High-Speed Metabolic Decomposition Type

It was even stronger than what he had given Charlie so far.

The child who saw the bottle began trembling with a face filled with terror.

“Wait… what are you trying to…?!”

“Now, it’s time to take your medicine.”

The child tried to run away as if pleading for his life.

But his opponent was Ruin.

Crack!

Ruin grabbed the child’s hair with one hand.

Even desperate screams were useless. The struggle was brief, and the liquid went deep into the child’s mouth.

The boy rolled his eyes back and trembled violently.

“Aaaaah…! It feels like my mouth is on fire…!”

“No, it’ll be coming from your bottom soon.”

Ruin wiped his hands like a scientist who had just finished an experiment.

After a moment, the child’s face gradually turned pale.

“I… I’m dizzy…”

“The medicine’s already taking effect. As expected of a special formula.”

Now that I’ve successfully stuffed it in, all I have to do is wait.

* * *

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

“It’s not coming out.”

…Shit.

Ruin broke out in a cold sweat as he looked down at the child. The boy was crouched down as if humiliated.

It had been 30 minutes since he stuffed the ultra-powerful diarrhea medicine in. By now, the Demon Emperor’s Heart should have come out along with the foreign matter…

“Strange… Why isn’t it coming out?”

That’s when it happened.

「Is that something the guy who made his superior dig through shit should be saying?」

At the sound from behind him, Ruin turned his head.

Ginseng Superior was searching through newspaper with a towel wrapped around him. His expression was half soul-departed.

Ruin asked.

“Did anything come out?”

「…What do you mean come out! The only thing that came out was human dignity. It came out beautifully. More importantly, why are you making me do this?!」

“I’ll give you more plant fertilizer.”

「…You keep thinking I’ll fall for that kind of thing-」

“Then this time I’ll buy you a premium soil set.”

「Damn it! It’s a promise!」

Even after appeasing Ginseng Superior like that, the target object really didn’t seem to be coming out.

“Then there’s no choice.”

The child was delighted.

“Finally, freedom-”

Ruin’s eyes rolled back as he drew his dagger with a shing.

“I’ll have to cut open your belly.”

“Aaaahhh!”

“It’s fine. It’ll be so quick it won’t even hurt. Just think of it as briefly opening and closing a door.”

What is he saying!

Just as Ruin grabbed the child’s neck and was about to slice open his belly-

Frix sent a communication notification. The caller was someone Ruin knew very well.

“…Grand Duke?”

Ruin quietly accepted the communication.

[Professor Ruins, do you have time right now?]

…Why is this guy calling again.

But he wasn’t in a position to refuse.

He soon accepted the meeting request. Of course, he didn’t forget to speak to the boy.

“Good. You have a talent for spewing things out. Keep gushing like that. It’s lower body exercise and intestinal cleansing, killing two birds with one stone, so think of it as a lesson. Prove your existence by defecating.”

“Damn it!”

What is he really saying!

Soon, Ruin came to meet the Grand Duke, rolling his eyes and getting straight to the point.

“What’s the matter? Don’t tell me it’s about Princess Rose?”

“Not today.”

If not today, that means next time.

But the Grand Duke brought up something unexpected.

“I heard you agreed to… raise the First Prince.”

“Yes, my philosophy of never refusing those who seek learning remains unchanged.”

“Then, could you take on one more?”

Ruin narrowed his eyes for a moment.

“…One more… could it be the Imperial Prince you support?”

“As expected, you caught on. That’s my son-in-law for you.”

I’m not your son-in-law.

But Ruin let out a light laugh.

‘…Well, if it’s a chance to grow closer to the Grand Duke, it wouldn’t be bad.’

“Who is this person?”

Then the Grand Duke answered briefly.

“He’s at Black Moon.”

The 2nd Prince was right.

“…Excuse me, but I understand Black Moon is a place where those with dangerous abilities are confined. May I ask why you support such a person?”

There was a hint of doubt mixed in that voice.

“To be honest, I think even Judith could become Emperor.”

Since the Emperor and Grand Duke are brothers. Though the succession order is distant, you couldn’t say Judith is completely unqualified.

-One of the two will become the ‘King of Mages’.

If they become the Mage King as prophesied, they would get very close to the throne regardless of succession order.

In other words, there was no reason for the Grand Duke to risk supporting a Black Moon Student while having Judith.

Then the Grand Duke smiled quietly.

“The other Princes are each missing something important. Humanity.”

“…Humanity.”

“The First Prince has an angelic face, but inside he’s full of tyrant qualities. He’s actually smashed a guilty noble’s head with a hammer. He’s a merciless bastard like a crocodile eyeing its prey.”

…The First Prince. Was he that bad.

“On the other hand, the 2nd Prince is like a squirrel who’s only interested in his own lunch box.”

Well, that’s true. The First Prince would join hands with Fire Butterfly to destroy the Union, so he’d become a tyrant. The 2nd Prince is… a Regressor, so disregarding life is routine.

So honestly, I was surprised.

‘To see through their character without knowing their true identities and futures… experience really can’t be ignored.’

As expected of the Grand Duke, he’s no ordinary person.

“But the child I’m in charge of is warm. A child who feels emotions even over small things, who knows how to laugh and cry. Of course, in terms of ability alone, even that Hero couldn’t handle him and had to push him into Black Moon.”

“…Since you speak so highly of him, I’m even more intrigued. What is the Prince’s name? There’s no information about Black Moon.”

The Grand Duke showed him a photograph.

“It’s a secret to the world, but I trust you so I’ll tell you. His name is Noah. This is what he looks like.”

But Ruin’s expression hardened unusually upon seeing the photograph.

At that moment, the Grand Duke added.

“Oh right. He’s still young and delicate, so don’t treat him too roughly like you do the 2nd Prince.”

“….”

Ruin slowly raised his head to look at the ceiling.

“…I’m sorry, Grand Duke.”

“What?”

That Prince is already beyond rough treatment… I’m currently making him poop on newspaper….

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