I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 156

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Chapter 156. Head Professor vs Head Professor (7)

Meanwhile, the captured Heizen’s face was stained with bewilderment.

‘This doesn’t make sense… Why isn’t the truth serum working?’

That truth serum was by no means ordinary.

A supreme-grade toxic truth serum that had been proven effective through dozens of clinical trials, even on special-grade demons and Aegis agents. He had even heard suspicious intelligence about ‘Ruins Wayne’.

But why-!

“Why, why isn’t it working… Why…!”

Just as Heizen was leaning against the wall muttering,

Thunk!

A sudden impact sound echoed against his forehead.

“…Ugh?!”

It was a headbutt.

The culprit was Karin Winberg. The Imperial Princess had mercilessly rammed him with her forehead.

“This bastard really… I’m going to kill you!”

Her face was fierce as she grabbed his collar. Heizen staggered back a step with a flustered expression.

“Imperial Princess, please calm down!”

One professor rushed over in alarm, but Karin shouted angrily.

“You sent the kids to their graves, and now you were planning to send the Professor there too?!”

…That was her reason for being angry?

However, Karin was serious as she recalled the scene before her eyes. Ruins Wayne. A man who seemed like he wouldn’t bleed even if stabbed. That same man had collapsed so suddenly. She had never even seen his face so pale before.

Karin clenched her fists tightly. Her heart felt so stuffy she was going crazy.

“What kind of ingredients did you put in that truth serum…! Did you mix in poison?!”

…It was alcohol.

“What would make that heartless, tearless cold-blooded person turn so pale and suffer like that!”

…It was just a hangover.

Karin gritted her teeth.

‘It would be troublesome if Ruins died…’

My craftsman, you can’t die.

No, it wasn’t simply because he was a craftsman.

Honestly, she never expected it. That he would throw himself toward her. That he would get angry on her behalf. No knight, mage, or royal family member had ever done that…! She didn’t know the reason, but at that moment, Ruins was the first adult who had genuinely gotten angry for her sake.

However, Heizen rubbed his forehead and ground his teeth.

‘He’s completely tamed both the First Prince and the Imperial Princess to his liking.’

It was hard to endure the humiliation.

Then there’s no choice.

He made eye contact with the Assassination Studies Professor nearby.

But the professors who didn’t know this fact sighed. They had no choice but to.

“Chairman. Don’t tell me… you’ve been hiding him all this time?”

At Charlie’s words, the Principal tried to step forward.

“Moving Heizen to Black Moon was a decision by the Board of Directors, and the Chairman was absent at the time-“

“It’s fine.”

The Hero lightly raised his hand to cut off the words.

“When I wasn’t here, the Board of Directors handled things as they pleased… but since I knew the situation afterward and still turned a blind eye, it’s the same as hiding him.”

Protests erupted simultaneously.

“Why on earth!”

“What do you think of us…!”

But the Hero didn’t blink an eye. Like a cold sun, he spoke expressionlessly.

“It was also a request from His Majesty the Emperor. But…”

In fact, it was also to prevent Heizen from easily escaping to another country or another academy. So he used that desire to return as Head Professor, making him handle the dangerous Black Moon without pay.

“Black Moon is like Haven’s detention center. A place to contain dangerous students.”

The Hero smiled thinly.

“You think you’re managing those students, but in reality, you were the one being contained there.”

The conference room held its breath. Heizen’s face gradually hardened.

As expected.

“We needed someone to handle the dirty work that no one else wanted to take on. Besides, you were the only ‘witness’.”

“…!”

“The missing students. Only you know who among them died, who was captured, and who was abandoned.”

Heizen’s face turned pale.

The Hero smiled brightly.

The one who killed the students back then was a special-grade wanted criminal impersonating Fire Butterfly. Right, it wasn’t Cobra or Toad. There was still one vicious bastard they hadn’t caught yet.

‘Spider.’

According to rumors, he had deep connections with Fire Butterfly.

“So the promise to return the Head Professor position was a complete lie. You never intended to give up that position in the first place.”

Heizen’s face turned pale. His eyes mixed with distrust and despair as he barely managed to speak.

“…Then, everything until now… you’ve been deceiving me?”

The Hero smiled brightly and nodded.

“Yeah. It was a complete lie. Sorry~ I’m not exactly the good-natured type either.”

Heizen’s lips trembled.

“His Majesty won’t stand for this!”

“Yeah. I, the owner of this academy, won’t stand for it.”

“…This is impossible…. I… I’m the Head Professor….”

“Now that things have come to this, what can we do? Since it’s expulsion, the academy probably can’t give you severance pay either. Sorry~”

That’s when it happened.

“Then where does that severance pay go?”

Everyone was surprised by those words.

The back gate creaked open. All the professors flinched and turned their heads.

“Professor Ruins?”

“Is your hangover alright….”

However, Ruin asked as if that wasn’t what mattered.

“Never mind that. Where does that professor’s severance pay go?”

“…Pardon?”

…Why are you asking about that?

“That thing. It gets transferred, right?”

…What gets transferred?

It seemed Ruin was still not fully sober.

Just as the Principal was about to speak with a troubled expression, the Hero chuckled and said.

“…There’s no way it would-“

“If not, I’ll leave tomorrow.”

The Hero smiled as if coughing up blood.

Professor Ruins, when you drink, you become a blackmailer….

* * *

Echo swallowed nervously as he came looking for Noah.

Normally he would have made some playful joke, but now he didn’t have that luxury.

“…This bastard, did he hide it under the bed again?”

The Head Professor’s office.

Under the bed, there was a sealed space like a secret vault. And Noah was inside it.

“Mmph mmph! (Please save me!)”

Noah was struggling with his mouth gagged. His whole body was tightly bound by thin, black shadow tentacles, and the more he moved, the tighter the tentacles squeezed.

Echo shook his head and sighed.

“That butterfly bastard. This time he even tied up a kid who’s still wet behind the ears.”

Of course, from Echo’s perspective of being hundreds of years old, even the butterfly who wasn’t even a hundred was just a kid.

In reality, while Ruin was around his mid-to-late twenties in social age, he was a bit older in demon beast years.

‘Well, for a Monster King, he’s just a little king who barely cut his umbilical cord.’

In that sense, other Monster Kings might find Ruin adorable if they saw him.

Anyway, that wasn’t what mattered. What mattered was that this kid couldn’t be left in a state where he remembered things about the butterfly.

“Now, wait a moment. This will be over quickly~”

Echo flicked his finger. Memory erasure magic spread like gentle smoke from his fingertip.

‘Mind Cut.’

Noah stared blankly into space for a moment, then soon clutched his head.

“…I feel dizzy.”

Success.

Echo nodded lightly.

Of course, normally he would have left without checking his perfect technique, but this time was different. This time he had to properly confirm whether the memory had been erased.

Why?

‘That kid Judith…. She definitely didn’t forget about Fire Butterfly.’

So he sat down and checked with Noah as well.

“Now, here’s a quiz. If you don’t answer properly, you die. Whose retirement money is hidden in this academy~?”

Noah opened his mouth with vacant eyes.

“…Fi, Fire Butterfly’s retirement money…?”

“….”

In that moment, Echo’s expression hardened. A bead of sweat trickled down his forehead.

…As expected, the memory… wasn’t erased.

‘Why?’

No, that’s not what’s important.

Echo covered his face with his hands.

‘…I’m dead meat.’

* * *

The faculty meeting room was in chaos.

“So severance pay really was his goal….”

Even a handover?

The Hero sat with his legs crossed, chin resting on his hand.

“…He’s that serious about retiring?”

The Chairman’s voice was trembling somewhere.

“…Severance pay means ‘changing jobs,’ doesn’t it?”

“To be precise… it could be resignation, or even retirement.”

“Either way, it means he’s leaving Haven!”

“There’s a possibility it was a slip of the tongue due to alcohol. They said the truth serum contained alcohol-“

“Then that makes it even more credible!”

Bang!

The Hero slammed the desk. And for good reason – on the desk was an imperial decree document sent down from the Imperial Palace. Thanks to that, his eyes were blazing with their characteristic intensity.

“Look! The Imperial Palace is trying to scout him! This means he’s going to the Imperial Palace! Since when have you been in cahoots with the Imperial Palace? This is a backdoor deal! Doing this behind my back!”

His nephew held his head.

“Chairman, please calm down-“

“No, no. This is a serious matter. It’s a national loss. Professor Ruins is the Union’s hope.”

“….”

What to do?

Money won’t work, honor won’t work… What should I use to keep him?

Just then, the Chairman’s eyes flashed.

“Professor Ruins seemed to care quite a bit about his students.”

“…Excuse me?”

The Hero’s eyes gleamed as he stood up. His expression looked as if he had reached some incredibly brilliant conclusion.

“Let’s take the students hostage.”

“….”

At that villainous look in his eyes, Principal Charlotte’s blood pressure shot up.

“Uncle, please….”

You’re the Chairman!

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