I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155. Head Professor vs Head Professor (6)

While everyone held their breath and looked at Ruin, he opened his mouth with a very calm expression.

“I am Ruins Wayne, and I’m currently after the Chairman’s money.”

Money?

The Hero looked at Heizen as if asking what this was about, but Ruin’s words didn’t stop there.

“And… I’m hiding quite a lot of things.”

“…!”

A spark of hope flared up again on Heizen’s face.

“Now you’re finally saying something proper! As expected!”

But the next words were completely unexpected.

“For example… that I find the students cute?”

“…Excuse me?”

“I want to take care of each one of them, but it’s unfortunate that my personality doesn’t allow me to do so.”

“….”

A moment of silence.

Then suddenly, murmurs arose among the students.

“Whoa, Professor Ruins was that kind of person?”

“So he was originally a tsundere?!”

“No way, I’m so moved…”

“I saw the professor smile slightly when he was collecting test papers yesterday… That was sincere…!”

The students’ eyes became moist, and some screamed in excitement.

“Professor Ruins!”

Ruin pressed his hand to his forehead as if embarrassed.

“This is why I didn’t want to say such things…”

At that moment, Heizen shouted with a dumbfounded expression.

“Wait, what. Was that just now a confession?!”

Ginseng Superior, who was nearby, quietly asked.

「It’s, it’s truth serum, right? Is this okay?」

Ruin snickered.

‘It’s just truth serum. Do you know how much I’ve consumed so far.’

He said while holding up and shaking the transparent bottle.

‘I’m immune to most truth serum components.’

Ruin was planning to use the truth serum to extract what he needed from the Hero instead.

Sure enough.

“If you give me land to raise an army, I can cultivate it well for you, but you’re misunderstanding. Are you stupid.”

“Really? Land? That would be enough?”

“It’s truth serum, so it must be true, right?”

The Hero was moved. To think he even wanted to raise the Hero Corps!

Of course, in reality it meant he wanted a place for the shadow residents to go and to raise shadow soldiers, but there was no way he could know that.

“Understood! That’s not difficult at all! I’ll give you a land deed right away!”

Ruin smiled.

Good. Success. Our kids have a home!

At the same time, the Hero approached with an expression that said ‘This is my chance!’ Then he slyly grabbed Ruin’s arm.

“Then really, really… you’re not Fire Butterfly, right?”

Ruin hesitated.

“Well. I might be Fire Butterfly.”

“…Huh?”

The Hero’s face instantly hardened.

“What… did you just say?”

Ruin closed his eyes.

‘Ah… shit. This truth serum seems pretty strong. What kind of ingredient is this.’

「No. In this case, isn’t it a Luck Power problem?」

The Hero’s face became serious.

“What did you just say?”

Ruin opened his mouth again with a dazed expression.

“I might be Fire Butterfly too… or I might be Charlie… Professor Kalon might actually be Fire Butterfly too. That guy can transform into anyone… hic.”

“…?”

“…Hic.”

Hiccups.

Everyone looked at Ruin in disbelief.

“…Hiccup?”

The Hero, noticing something, looked at the bottle again with surprised eyes.

“Don’t tell me this has alcohol in it!”

“It seems that way…”

Ruin blinked drowsily.

‘Damn. I’ve tried countless torture devices and truth serums, but alcohol is a first for me.’

That’s right. They say drunk words are sober thoughts—alcohol does make you confess everything… It’s a very good truth serum.

Soon Ruin spoke.

“Professor, snap out of it…!”

“I’m not drunk.”

Ruin suddenly approached Heizen and tried to make him drink the truth serum.

“If it’s such a good truth serum, we should share it.”

He really seems drunk?!

You seem really drunk?!

In the end, Heizen was grabbed by the hair and forced to drink a truth serum, then coughed violently.

“Wait, mmph! Mmph!”

“Ah, yes…!”

All the professors were flustered.

“Ah, yes…!”

All the professors were flustered.

Then, the hero approached again with a serious expression.

He was silent for a moment, then answered clearly.

“…Severance pay.”

Ruin’s eyes wavered slightly. Everyone’s gaze turned toward him.

He paused for a moment in silence, then answered with certainty.

“…severance pay.”

“…What?”

With those words, Ruin collapsed in a spinning motion.

Thud!

“I didn’t know Professor Ruins was such a lightweight!”

At the professors’ and students’ outcries, Ruin responded not with words but by lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling. Dark circles had settled heavily under his eyes, and his lips were dry.

‘I didn’t know either….’

The bitter, chemical taste characteristic of a strong hangover remedy still lingered in my throat. To be honest, this was the first time in my life I had ever been drunk.

Throughout all his operations, infiltrations, and mysterious dealings, Ruin had always transformed into someone else. In other words, since he was always wearing someone else’s mask, he had never had the chance to know even ‘how weak his own body was to alcohol.’

Moreover, in his current original state, drinking alcohol itself was dangerous.

‘Curse of Misfortune.’

When alcohol disrupted his emotional control, there was a risk that misfortune would spiral out of control.

When emotions collapse, no one knows where that misfortune will strike. That’s why he had lived his entire life with restraint, moving only under careful calculation.

But this time….

‘A truth serum developed based on alcohol components.’

The moment that harsh liquid went down his throat, his body released all its tension on its own.

Ruin became intoxicated by this. His mind floated away, his emotions grew strangely soft, and words that could have been his true feelings or mere nonsense spilled from his lips.

But at the same time, something curious arose.

‘So, what exactly did the real ‘Ruins Wayne’ confess?’

With that one confession, the Emperor’s command was issued, and with that one confession, he was ultimately executed.

He quietly closed his eyes. The hangover would disappear soon. But a storm was brewing over what Ruin had said.

* * *

Ruin clutched his throbbing head. Next to him, he heard laughter as someone held their stomach laughing.

“Puhaha! This bastard, were you really drunk?”

Echo, who had popped out from somewhere.

In his familiar white shirt and knife-sharp organized jacket, with his usual pretentious piercing in his left ear. Ruin glared at such a free-spirited Echo.

“Where the hell have you been wandering around? Huh?”

“….”

This bastard?

“So butterfly. What did you do with the priest?”

“…I ran away for a bit because of the priest. You’d handle the priest well, wouldn’t you?”

This bastard?

“So, Nabi. What did the priest do?”

“I trapped them in a labyrinth.”

“…Labyrinth? Not killing her?”

“It’s too risky to directly eliminate a Papal Priest.”

And from the beginning, Ruin trusted this house’s security. This temple had so many traps that even renowned tomb raiders couldn’t find a way out and all died trying.

And most importantly, after imprisoning the priest in the labyrinth, precious ores began accumulating in the storage room. So naturally, this thought occurred to him.

‘Could it be that the priest is doing something in the labyrinth?’

Come to think of it, there were guardians inside the intruder labyrinth designed to kill intruders.

Normally, those byproducts should go to whoever dealt with them, but in this case, since she’s an intruder, do they come to the landlord?

‘Then isn’t that good?’

The ores coming out were ancient ores, useful for both classes and research. Well, the priest might cause a ruckus and escape from the labyrinth in the middle…

‘I’m sure it said that once the number of believers reaches a certain level, the house can be strengthened.’

It was in the house manual.

‘Then if I use the students, I can strengthen the house, traps, and labyrinth too, right?’

Ruin’s eyes lit up.

But for now, there’s something else to handle first.

“That’s enough about that, go do some work.”

“…What now.”

“Noah. Go erase that student’s memory.”

Echo made a fed-up expression.

“…You, what did you do again while I was gone!”

“Why. Want me to tell you in detail?”

At those golden eyes that looked ready to kill someone, Echo shook his head frantically.

“I’ll just go erase it and come back…”

Echo immediately got up to head to the Senior Professor’s Office. Since he’s imprisoned there, he could just quickly erase his memory and come back.

But that’s when it happened.

“!”

Whether she came to visit Ruin, he ran into Judith at the door.

As Judith arranged her beautiful hair and bowed her head, Echo smiled awkwardly.

“…Oh, hello, Judith!”

“Ah, yes… Hello, Professor.”

She glanced at Echo with clear eyes, then glanced again.

At this, Echo went “Ahaha” and ran his hand through his hair.

‘Haha. Our pretty girl has good taste…’

“Haven City…”

Flinch.

Echo was startled by those words. There was a strange wariness in Judith’s clear gaze.

Echo put a slight smile on his lips and muttered inwardly.

‘Could she remember meeting at that explosion site…!’

No way. That can’t be.

But the next moment.

“Excuse me for a moment.”

Judith stepped closer to Echo.

“Uh… sweetheart? What’s wrong?”

“Your left arm… may I take a look?”

“…Huh? My arm?”

When Echo rolled up his sleeve with a confused face, Judith carefully examined Echo’s firm forearm, tracing it with her fingers. Her touch was delicate, as if searching for a specific spot.

“…There’s no tattoo.”

Echo’s smile froze for an instant.

Tattoo…?

Could she be looking for the Special Grade Wanted Criminal’s tattoo?

Come on, she only saw it briefly, surely not…

“There was one… a large inverted triangle tattoo with an echo seal mark…”

She really is suspicious!

However, Echo acted nonchalantly.

‘…I covered up that Special Grade Wanted Criminal’s tattoo with skin texture long ago.’

Would he be crazy enough to still walk around with a conspicuous Special Grade Wanted Criminal’s tattoo uncovered? He had also properly covered the Special Grade Wanted Criminal mark on the left side of Butterfly’s waist this time.

‘I’m a professional at this kind of thing.’

However, Judith still looked at him with suspicious eyes.

“…Professor. You’re quite… close with Professor Ruins, aren’t you?”

“Huh? Oh, well, yes. We’re surprisingly compatible since we’re both newcomers, I guess…?”

Echo smiled mechanically.

Judith politely nodded and turned around. After taking a step, she suddenly tilted her head and muttered as if in passing.

“…So you’re close because you’re from Fire Butterfly…”

“…?”

Echo watched Judith walking away with horrified eyes.

“…Eeeeehhh?!”

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