I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158. I Received a Request (2)

“I brought money! Please take care of my kid!”

The one who burst through the door was… none other than the Assassination Studies Professor.

In her hands were two heavy bags of gold coins. No matter how you looked at it, it was excessive for tuition.

‘…Did she really come?’

Ruin got up from the medical ward bed with a tired expression.

Well, it was true that he had decided to use her in this direction since she seemed like a useful money source parent…

At the same time, the Assassination Professor’s Nephew who followed behind said in bewilderment.

“Aunt… Is this really okay? Professor Ruins has nothing to do with assassination… He’d die if I just poked him.”

At that moment, Ruin wiggled his finger.

“Come at me.”

“…Excuse me?”

Instantly, Ruin’s figure in front of him disappeared like lightning.

“Huk, hup?!”

With the sound of choking breath, the nephew’s body was lifted into the air and flew into the wall.

Bang!

At the same time, the medical ward wall caved in and the bed next to it toppled over.

“Ugh… What, what is this…!”

Violence that would understandably draw complaints.

However.

“You should have sent him flying with a broken neck! That would be worth the money!”

The Assassination Studies Professor’s resolute cry.

“…Are you really my aunt?”

Ruin was dumbfounded, but on the other hand, his eyes sparkled.

“Amazing… Aunt! He seems like he could kill people better than you!”

“…Neither aunt nor nephew are quite right in the head…”

Ruin let out a deep sigh. Then he slowly turned around to look at the nephew.

“Now, Chapter 1. Peerless Solitary Island. You’ll learn this.”

“Oh…! Aunt! Amazing! I think I’ve heard that secret technique name from grandfather! I could cry!”

“Right? Learn it well!”

The nephew nodded seriously.

Ruin took one step.

And…

…didn’t move.

About 10 seconds like that.

“What’s next?”

“…Why aren’t you moving?”

“From here on requires additional payment.”

“…Excuse me?”

“That movement just now was basic level 1. Now, if you want to know the next level-“

Ruin extended his hand.

A gesture meaning gold coins.

“We’ve passed one line, so you need to pay more.”

“No, no! At this rate, how much more do we have to pay!”

Just as the Assassination Studies Professor was about to protest.

“Aunt… I want to learn this technique…”

The nephew’s eyes became moist.

“…Haaah. Fine. I got it!”

One more bag of gold coins.

Ruin nodded satisfactorily. And this time, slowly, with very refined movements, he demonstrated the second motion.

He first slightly twisted his left foot diagonally to lower his center. Then with his right foot, he slid as if skimming the floor, drawing a semicircular trajectory.

The nephew’s eyes lit up in admiration.

“Wow… so the foot goes like this…! What’s next, what’s next?”

“That’s hand movement technique. Separate payment.”

“Eek?!”

The Assassination Studies Professor covers her mouth.

“…At this rate, you’re saying you’ll charge separately for head movements, hand movements, and foot movements?!”

“Yep.”

“It’s a scam! This is a scam!!”

“Auuuunt!”

In the end, the Assassination Studies Professor paid additional gold coins again.

Ruin smiled brightly.

“Watch carefully.”

He raised his fingertips in the air, and with his index and middle fingers together, drew a single line. Smoothly, yet without any wavering.

That single movement alone made the nephew’s eyes waver.

“Now, this is one movement. If you connect this, the technique is complete.”

The Assassination Studies Professor tilted her head.

“But that’s just the basic form… What about the actual stabbing method?”

Ruin extended his hand again with an expressionless face.

“That’s rare grade. You need to pay more.”

“What kind of scammer is this!”

Just then, the treatment room door opened and Echo cautiously approached.

“Um… Pr-… Professor Ruins. I have something to tell you.”

“Later. I’m in the middle of class right now.”

Echo whispered in his ear.

“Well… Judith’s memory… wasn’t erased.”

“…”

“Don’t look at me like that. It really wasn’t erased-“

Ruin slowly turned his head. Even though his eyes were swollen and hollow from his hangover, a rotten stillness flowed in that gaze.

“Uh… I mean, I didn’t expect it either-“

However, Echo’s explanation didn’t continue to the end.

Thwack!

Ruin’s hand shot out like lightning, grabbing Echo’s neck.

“Wait, calm down!”

The next moment, he lifted Echo’s body high into the air. Then he twisted his center as if spinning him over his shoulder and slammed him straight down onto the medical ward floor.

Crash!!

‘Spinebuster.’

Echo’s back was crushed against the floor in an L-shape, literally becoming one with the floor. Several hospital beds shook from the impact.

“…Ugh, ahh!”

“…There’s one thing to do before the next payment.”

Ruin turned his head and spoke to his nephew.

“If you want to make the next payment, kill this bastard first.”

Echo was bewildered.

“What?!”

“Then I’ll specially waive the rare grade payment.”

The Assassination Studies Professor’s eyes flashed.

“Kill him!”

* * *

Ruin swept his hair back as if tired. To think all this happened because one memory deletion didn’t work properly… His head hurt more than his hangover.

Beside him, Echo muttered curses while applying bandages.

“Damn it… Do you think I came here to do this kind of thing?”

Muscle pain and scratches appeared all over his body. It was understandable. Just moments ago, both the Assassination Studies Professor and her nephew student had seriously attacked him.

Echo had nearly died twice, essentially.

The first reason he nearly died was the Assassination Studies Professor’s nephew.

“Kill that guy and I’ll specially waive the payment.”

He didn’t know what payment meant, but the student’s eyes changed.

“I really want to learn this technique!”

“What?! What! Suddenly!”

But at that moment, Echo’s body reacted reflexively. He precisely twisted the nephew’s wrist, swept his ankle, and lightly threw him away.

Thud!

The student bumped his head against the wall with a thunk and rolled down. The air instantly turned cold.

“…Professor Eren.”

The Assassination Studies Professor’s voice was low and clear.

“Just now… you dodged that?”

“Well… there’s something called reflexes-“

“Don’t tell me you were a hidden master?”

“Wait, something’s going strangely wrong here…”

Her eyes flashed.

“Going wrong? Professor Eren, weren’t you just a scholar?”

From that point on, Echo really nearly died. The Assassination Studies Professor drew her knife, and fierce real killing intent covered the room.

Even as Echo frantically ran away, the professor kept chasing him.

“What’s your identity? Those are movements from someone who’s rolled around in the Underworld.”

“No, why are you analyzing that?!”

“Then you die. You’re also one of those people, and you came here to pay Professor Ruins, right? Judging by your unfamiliar face, you’re not from our Rhine, but you’re after the same Secret Technique? You’re a target for control? Please die.”

“Don’t talk so weirdly!”

And that scene was witnessed by the Hero, who had come to visit the sick.

As soon as he opened the door, there was Echo doing somersaults in the air, the Assassination Studies Professor’s sword chasing behind, and for some reason, an angry Ruin. The Hero was purely impressed, going “Ooh-“

“Oh! That Assassination Studies Professor is moving seriously. Professor Eren, how about just going to the Assassination Division classes? Since you’re in the Combat Department, you keep sticking around Professor Ruins. He won’t even associate with me.”

“…Don’t be jealous over something like that! Don’t let your eyes roll back!”

Echo almost teared up because the Hero was really trying to send Echo to the Assassination Division.

‘Crazy bastard. The Assassination Division are crazy people whose classes involve killing professors.’

Eventually everyone was kicked out by Ruin. Left alone with Echo, Ruin said one thing.

“Stop crying. So, what’s this about Judith?”

“Just what I said… It seems her memory wasn’t erased.”

Ruin grabbed Echo by the collar.

“Altar.”

With those words, an altar appeared. Though its form wasn’t visible, he could tell from the ominous black light shooting up from the ground.

As he was about to throw Echo into it, Echo screamed.

“What are you trying to do!”

“I’m finding a use for you.”

“What the hell are you talking about?!”

“No matter how I look at it, you’re useless, so I should at least grind you up as a sacrifice for our race.”

“No! You shouldn’t have done something that would get caught in the first place! No, that’s not it. Fire Butterfly, I was wrong! I was wrong!”

At the same time, Ruin, who had thrown Echo down, was puzzled.

‘Judith’s memory from that time wasn’t erased?’

That’s strange.

That can’t be.

“Isn’t that your mistake?”

A long time had passed since then, but the way Judith looked at him hadn’t changed at all. No, he actually thought they’d gotten a bit closer… The Grand Duke’s reaction, who kept giving him gifts asking him to become his son, hadn’t particularly changed either.

‘If she knew I was Fire Butterfly, it wouldn’t be this quiet right now.’

Could it be the calm before the storm? To deliberately make him let his guard down?

Rather, Judith seemed happy to be with him. Recently, they even went to eat cake together. Her face was red all day, probably because it was hot, which made him feel sorry for her, but no matter how much he thought about it, it didn’t make sense.

Ruin asked coldly.

“Then what about Noah’s side?”

“That… that side also has memories that won’t be erased… Ack!”

「Can I just devour that thing?」

Ginseng Superior’s shadow grew menacingly large and writhed like tentacles. Echo wiped away tears again.

‘My fate, really.’

Ruin asked.

“So, did you figure out the cause of why it won’t be erased?”

“In the case of that Little Kid named Noah, didn’t you say he harbors a Five Evils Demon Race?”

Ruin understood everything from that one statement.

“Ah… It’s because of the hierarchy.”

Noah harbored a Demon Race that had been expelled from the Five Evils in the past. In other words, naturally it was Five Evils hierarchy.

And their hierarchy was below that. Simply put, because their hierarchy was lower, their techniques didn’t work.

‘Misfortune worked, so I let my guard down…’

Does that mean Misfortune is a higher grade than even the Five Evils?

‘Well, it is a grade that even suppresses the Hero.’

Well, it didn’t matter.

Judith’s side… was probably just a mistake.

Noah’s side would be fine since the Five Evils was on his side.

* * *

The imprisoned Heizen was waiting for the Assassination Studies Professor’s answer. He had just asked him to kill Ruins.

And finally, the answer he’d been waiting for came.

Thud!

A hidden paper that came tucked between his meal.

Heizen hurriedly unfolded the paper. It was a reply to the cooperation request for ‘Ruins assassination’ that he had sent to the Assassination Studies Professor.

What was written inside, which he had been waiting for, was just one sentence.

-Sorry~! These days you can’t do assassination without paying~!

…What?

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