I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149. Royal Food Taster (2)

“It’s truth serum ingredients! First, get the Chairman detoxified!”

Principal Charlotte shouted while holding onto the Hero’s collapsed body. Healing Arts professors came running over, and medical staff also rushed over in a panic.

“The toxicity is strong! First, we need to stabilize…!”

“If we’re too late, there will be aftereffects!”

“…Ah, the taste was a bit strange… To think it was this kind of poison…”

“Chairman, stay conscious!”

“I’m… the Chairman… yet I was defeated by a dormitory supervisor…”

“Don’t lose your memory! And don’t make strange last words!”

Ruin said something.

“Chairman, what’s your bank password!”

“I will catch Fire Butterfly (Papilionem ignis ego capiam)!”

“Uncle! Are you insane!”

Oh. I learned something good.

And there were two people looking down on the Hero being carried away on a stretcher. It was Ruin and Callon. Callon asked seriously.

“So, how did you install poison in the Head Professor’s office?”

“It’s simple. The Blackmoon Dormitory Supervisor’s ability is ‘Mind Control’. What if the supervisor used a Black Moon student?”

At those words, Callon doubted his ears.

“What? Mind Control? That ability is definitely…”

“Yes. The Head Professor from that incident one year ago. Heizen. He might have been displeased with me being the new Head Professor?”

“…!”

Callon’s face hardened.

The Principal pressed her forehead and let out a deep breath.

“I remember. One year ago, after the Demon Hunting Studies incident…”

When all the professors were tracking ‘Fire Butterfly’, the Hero had said.

“The Blackmoon Dormitory Supervisor was injured while tracking the culprit of the incident, so he would wear a mask because of those scars.”

A moment of silence.

Ruin bristled with indignation, feeling somewhat wronged.

‘I went through all that trouble wrapping myself up in layers to hide my face… and him?’

Just ended with one word from the Hero?

‘This is unfair, so I’m getting rid of it.’

「…Why are you acting up again?!」

But at the same time, the Principal stroked his chin and said something unexpected.

“Then the poison that brought down the Chairman makes sense too.”

Huh? Makes sense?

Wasn’t it because of Misfortune?

The Principal whispered in Ruin’s ear.

“There’s a high possibility it was Imperial Poison. And the Former Senior Professor was close to His Majesty the Emperor…”

What? Imperial what?

At Ruin’s expression, the Principal looked pitifully at the Hero being carried away groaning on a stretcher.

“The Hero has one unique weakness, you see.”

“A weakness, you say?”

“Yes. He must obey His Majesty the Emperor’s commands. Even Luck Power doesn’t work against those blood commands. If it’s poison mixed with the Emperor’s blood, then his ‘Fortune’ becomes powerless too.”

At that moment, Ruin froze.

Wait a minute-

Just now…

Didn’t he just say something really dangerous?

‘I think I just heard how to kill the Hero.’

More than that, is it okay to reveal the Hero’s secrets like that?

At that expression, the Principal smiled gently.

“It’s because I trust Professor Ruins.”

No! You shouldn’t trust me the most!

I’m the enemy!

* * *

‘I learned the Hero’s weakness.’

According to the Regressor, the Hero dies before the Union falls.

However, since there’s a law that the higher one’s Luck Power, the more ‘absolutely immortal’ they become, I wondered how someone with maxed-out Luck Power could possibly die.

At that point, Ruin began to understand various facts.

First, the reason the Hero overlooked the incident of expelling the Demon Hunting Professor. No, more precisely, the reason the Hero said he couldn’t destroy the Imperial Princess’s magic.

The reason was simple.

‘At that time, the Imperial Princess’s Magic Circle Core was the Imperial Palace’s mark.’

It was even written with the Imperial Princess’s blood.

So it made sense. The Imperial Princess’s blood contains the Emperor’s blood. Naturally, as a Hero, he couldn’t get close to it.

And the reason why Imperial Descendants are swarming at Haven? Perhaps the Emperor sent them on purpose for surveillance? Then it makes sense that his relationship with the Emperor is bad.

‘If he was forced to do things he didn’t want to do using his weakness as leverage.’

Ruin shook his head. What’s important right now is dealing with the Blackmoon Dormitory Supervisor.

But before that…

Grumble.

‘…Let me eat something first.’

I’m too hungry to use any skills.

Ruin took out magic paper and wrote exactly three lines.

-【Senior Professor’s Office Teaching Assistant Recruitment】

-Hourly wage: 20,000 Quid

-Job description: Simple tasks. Meals provided.

Less than 30 minutes after the announcement went out, Teaching Assistants crowded in front of the Senior Professor’s office with no room to step.

“20,000 per hour, that’s insane!”

“Plus, it’s the Senior Professor’s first public recruitment!”

Noble Family Students with outstanding specs, from those who usually coveted Ruins to those who admired him.

But what greeted them was…

“It’s a test.”

Ruin said firmly.

“From today, all Teaching Assistant candidates will be treated to meals by me.”

“…What?”

“And only those who survive will become Teaching Assistants.”

…Those who survive?

The true nature of the test was just one thing.

-Ruin’s ‘Meal Poison Detection’ Competition.

“Ueeeeek!”

“My insides… my insides are coming out…!”

“This… this isn’t wine! This is blood!”

The Teaching Assistants collapsed one by one. Each time, Ruin clenched his fist and said.

“Failure. Impact Healing.”

Bang!

Teaching Assistants being carried away after getting hit once each. It was nothing short of hell.

The person who survived through that hell was exactly one.

Long purple hair. Fair and smooth skin, a straight nose bridge and elegant eyebrows. Resolute eyes that contrasted with her noble dignity.

“I am Zera! I am ready to take on all duties for Professor Ruins!”

Ruin raised his eyebrows slightly.

She’s fine even after that poison?

‘Oh… She’s quite useful?’

But at that moment, a somehow familiar scent brushed past his nose. The fragrance was certainly different, but this… this was definitely a scent he knew?

Intuition whispered to him.

This is not an unfamiliar face.

When Ruin stared intently, that Teaching Assistant for some reason blushed and banged her head against the Wall.

Thud thud thud thud thud thoom!

And at the same time, he realized.

‘…Ah. It’s the Princess.’

* * *

Ruin was finally able to have a meal. As if making up for all the meals he had missed, he was quietly chewing and swallowing pie.

Sitting next to him was the newly selected Teaching Assistant, the Princess.

And she too was a special-grade demon and an excellent spy. It was perfect disguise.

‘Good. Let’s pit the Papal Priests against the Special Grade Fugitives.’

The Princess was the daughter of Five Evils. In terms of pure combat ability alone, she was stronger than him. She was a reliable ally.

‘She was caught by the Hero back then, but the Hero is beyond normal standards. If I give her Misfortune, she’ll be invincible.’

Of course… her eyes were overflowing with subtle madness.

‘Lord Ruin, I like you so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much so much.’

That’s what she seemed to be saying.

Watching these two people, the existing Teaching Assistant, Lily, couldn’t hide her bewilderment. She looked back and forth between the two with her mouth half open, then finally burst out shouting.

“Professor! Wasn’t I the only Teaching Assistant you had?!”

Ruin stopped chewing his pie and tilted his head.

“…Why is it like that again?”

“You can’t hire someone like this who drools while looking at you as a Teaching Assistant!”

Ruin turned his head to look. Indeed, there was a slight bit of drool at the corner of Zera’s mouth. Her eyes were still fixed only on Ruin as she unconsciously wiped the drool with the back of her hand.

And when her eyes met Ruin’s-

Thud thud thud thud thud!

She started banging her head on the desk.

“….”

Lily wondered if she had seen something wrong and carefully observed Zera. Her slightly open mouth, unnatural smile, her gaze looking at Ruin even while banging her head against the wall…

She wasn’t sure, but her intuition told her.

That one’s really crazy…

Of course, in the Combat Department, she often heard that she herself was crazy too…

“That person doesn’t seem to be in her right mind at all…”

At her whispering to Ruin, Zera’s eyes grew coldly dark. She sent a telepathic communication to Ruin.

[Senior. This Union pig, may I eliminate him?]

The tone was respectful, but the content was murderous.

Ruin responded without much thought.

[Lily tears apart demons with her bare hands. Please step back.]

[…?!]

The telepathic communication was cut off, and Ruin casually chewed his pie. His cheeks puffed up slightly, moving cutely like a squirrel. That sight was apparently so adorable that Zera, who had been convulsing, went “Kukukuku-kwakwakwang” and banged her head.

At that, Lily looked at Zera with a serious expression.

‘…Somehow it seems like a crazy woman has entered the Demon Hunting Department Teaching Assistant Office.’

Regardless, Ruin felt his mind clearing a bit now that his stomach was full.

‘First, I need to find out why the Emperor is going around the Former Senior Professor.’

Of course, there were reasons he could guess.

Especially from the reason why he remained calm even when putting his own son in Black Moon, and the reason why he put Heizen as the Blackmoon Dormitory Supervisor, his intuition told him.

‘Heizen’s ability is Mind Control.’

In other words, he’s afraid of Noah’s Word Spirit ability. Yet the fact that he doesn’t kill him means he desires that power.

Adding to that, seeing him even support the Grand Duke means he recognizes him as one of the successors.

Then if it becomes known that this side is more capable of controlling Noah, wouldn’t he be able to demand a blank check from the Emperor too?

‘Right. I’ll demand severance pay from the Emperor!’

Seeing Ruin’s crazed eyes, Ginseng Superior said a word.

「…Could it be that the Union’s destruction is because Fire Butterfly bankrupts the national treasury?」

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