I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16. You Broke That?

At that moment, one of the third years muttered. He was a student who hadn’t used barrier magic on Ruin.

“Tch, is he getting petty revenge?”

“What? Revenge?”

“What else could it be? Calling us to the rooftop on such a cold day. I didn’t even attack that professor. What is this, collective responsibility?”

“Collective responsibility is right though… We’ve been driving out professors all this time…”

“What do I care? That’s not even my business. He should’ve just scolded the ones who attacked him. That idiot’s being annoying, I have nothing to do with this…”

That’s when it happened.

Grab!

“Gasp!”

The muttering third year student’s head was lifted up like a radish being pulled from the ground. Ruin had grabbed his head and lifted him up.

The student, lifted about a span high, turned pale as a sheet. Even looking again in shock, it was definitely true that Ruin had lifted him with one hand.

‘Crazy, what kind of grip strength…! Isn’t he a mage?’

His head felt like it would burst like a slime.

Then, a cold voice fell into his ears.

“Name.”

“Pardon?”

“Last. First name.”

“William Goldsky!”

“Right, Dongsky.”

“It’s Goldsky!”

“Right, Goldsky. Tell me with your own mouth what subject Demon Hunting Studies teaches.”

Feeling like he’d be killed if he didn’t speak, William Goldsky opened his mouth frantically.

“It’s! A comprehensive subject that teaches everything – attack, tactics, defense – all to face the Demon Race, Haven’s representative subject!”

“Right, so you tried to catch Fire Butterfly with that pathetic barrier magic.”

“Th-that was!”

Ruin’s eyes turned menacing.

“But what if you encounter a demon that doesn’t work on?”

“Pardon?”

“And what if a situation like this happens?”

“What do you… Aaaah!”

Goldsky couldn’t continue speaking and screamed. His heart nearly dropped. Ruin had walked to the rooftop edge while still gripping only his head.

Then he extended his hand, holding Goldsky outside the rooftop building. If Ruin just let go, he would immediately fall from the rooftop to the first floor.

Realizing there was no ground beneath his feet, Goldsky turned pale as a sheet. The students also jumped up in shock.

“P-Professor! What are you!”

Soon Ruin turned his head.

“Red-haired first year over there. If you want to save this guy, stab the one next to you.”

“What?!”

“If you can’t do it, then you jump down.”

What, what did he say?

“P-Professor!”

“Or instead of sparing these ones, should I kill your family?”

“!”

“If you don’t like that either, I could spare your family and kill everyone in Haven instead.”

The students trembled all over. They realized the meaning of what Ruin was saying.

In real situations, they might be forced into either-or choices that required abandoning humanity and values. If they had no way to protect themselves and lost the initiative.

Sure enough, Ruin spoke.

“Do you understand? The Demon Race are cunning bastards. Fire Butterfly even more so. In situations like this, what could the likes of you possibly handle?”

“…Urgh!”

“Demon Hunting Studies isn’t just about catching demons – it’s also a class for learning defense arts to protect your body. Yet you’ve been teaching underclassmen instead of professors?”

The third year students were completely speechless.

Ruin spoke to the sobbing Goldsky.

“Do you understand? All this time, you haven’t been teaching underclassmen – you’ve been stealing their right to preserve their lives.”

“…Sob!”

“If you had encountered Fire Butterfly here today, you would have all died. Since you senior students stole the underclassmen’s lives, atone with your own lives.”

“W-we were wrong! Professor!”

“If everything could be solved by saying you were wrong, there would be no tragedies in this world.”

As his grip started to loosen, Goldsky’s sobbing voice grew louder.

“We were foolish and didn’t think that far! Please! Just one more chance!”

“Ha.”

Ruin put strength into one hand as if annoyed. Then he hurled Goldsky like throwing a flour sack.

Crash!

“William!”

Goldsky, thrown against the rooftop wall, finally fainted from terror.

Ruin dusted off his black leather gloved hands.

Really, he just needed to find the safe, so what was he doing with all this nonsense?

“If you crawl up one more time, it won’t end with just jumping down.”

“….”

“Answer.”

“Yes, sir!”

At the crisp response, Ruin felt satisfied but also looked up at the sky with a groan.

Ah. I acted on impulse, what should I do? Originally, I was just going to threaten them to jump and finish warmly with a Principal-like moral lecture.

Goldsky got on my nerves so I went a bit overboard.

‘Won’t I get complaints from parents about this?’

The Ginseng Superior I left in the classroom would laugh at this.

‘Damn it. I can’t cause problems if I want to get a professor research office.’

Instead, I seem to have become the center of the problem. In fact, aren’t they all sitting down biting their lips?

‘What should I do? Should I pretend to comfort them now?’

No. That would damage my dignity as the Wayne Family eldest son.

Ruin sighed.

‘Damn it. Can’t help it. I’ll have to find another way.’

However, the students were shocked in a different way. They thought they were acting for their beliefs, but it turned out they were threatening their juniors’ lives.

That professor was also shocked in his own way. Since the magic was broken, it was already the students’ defeat. But the method was surprising.

‘Instead of this troublesome method, it would have been simple to use expulsion or penalty points.’

Even though the process was rough, to teach the purpose of Demon Hunting Studies this way.

‘We misunderstood.’

It wasn’t petty revenge like Goldsky said. Unexpectedly, he was a good professor who cared about students…

“I’ll charge you 100 times the cost for the clothes you ruined.”

“….”

It is revenge after all!

* * *

“What? What did you say?”

“Professor Wayne broke that barrier magic?”

Shock rippled through Haven’s conference room.

In the conference room, head professors, supervising professors, and teaching assistants were in a meeting. They were working on courses that would be ‘discontinued.’

Among them were courses Wayne would take on. Originally intended for him: 【Defense Studies: Unpopular Defense Arts】, 【Healing Arts: Unpopular Healing Methods】, and 【Introduction to Demon Hunting Studies: Unnecessary Introduction】.

These courses originally had about 1 or 2 students, so they were on the verge of cancellation, but this time they had 0 students enrolled, so they were subjects to be eliminated.

In other words, Ruins Wayne was destined to be fired immediately without even being able to teach.

But what did they say?

“Are you saying Professor Wayne really dispelled that magic?”

“Yes. He’s currently teaching on the rooftop.”

At the teaching assistant’s explanation, as if seeing a ghost, Professor Kalon’s expression hardened.

The Principal smiled mischievously at that expression.

“Oh my. It seems someone tried to drive him out but failed.”

But the Principal was equally surprised. Because the barrier magic problem was something he had even asked the Chairman, who was a Hero, about.

“Chairman, your face remains the same even after 50 years.”

“The only advantage of being a Transcendent.”

“You’ve heard about what’s happening at the academy lately, right?”

Then the Chairman said something unexpected.

“Sorry. I can’t solve that either.”

“You mean you can’t get involved in Imperial affairs?”

“No. I can break the magic, but the marking magic. That’s really troublesome.”

“…The strongest human who can even kill the Demon Emperor finds that troublesome?”

“Haha, even I have things that are impossible. The Imperial successors at our academy are quite formidable, aren’t they? Unless there’s the legendary Fire Butterfly.”

It was magic that even the Hero and Chairman found troublesome.

In fact, the Principal saw it the same way.

Breaking the magic itself was easy, but if you broke the magic by force, the core would also break. If the core broke, a mark would remain. In other words, no matter what you did, you couldn’t avoid the crime of insulting the Imperial family.

There was a reason the Imperial Prince who created it was called a genius. All the professors avoided it knowing this.

‘If you get that mark, you’re executed for insulting the Imperial family.’

Even Heroes couldn’t escape that. Because that magic was originally created by the Imperial Prince to execute professors.

‘A year and a half ago, there was an incident where a student close to the Imperial Prince died. Due to the professors’ complacent response.’

After that, the Imperial Prince held deep resentment against the professors. That’s why everyone was being cautious.

‘But he broke it?’

Kalon, who knew this better than anyone, let out a hollow laugh. He was closer to the Head Professor position than anyone and wanted it himself, but there was a reason he hadn’t approached it carelessly.

“I didn’t know Wayne was such an idiot. To bring the Imperial Prince’s wrath upon himself.”

Then several professors looked at Kalon. Since he had intended this from the beginning and sent the new professor into the Demon Hunting Studies class, they thought he was quite shameless.

‘He’s acting like this because the Chairman isn’t here.’

There were many outstanding Heroes at the academy. But the problem was those trying to seize real power while the Chairman was away. Even if they wanted to protest, there were differences in influence and status.

‘Someone needs to establish discipline.’

However, Professor Charlie with the monocle annoyingly chimed in agreement.

“He’s always been a bit stupid. Just look at how he can’t even heal his own face with Healing Arts and goes around wrapped in bandages.”

Now Ruins Wayne’s fate was obvious. Since he had broken the Imperial Prince’s magic, there would be a mark left behind. When the Imperial Prince saw this, he would gleefully bring his ‘Hounds’ to Haven.

“Hmm….”

The Principal slightly furrowed her elegant brow. He was a man with plenty of guts, but he didn’t seem like a fool. Had she expected too much?

Soon Professor Kalon with his seaweed-like hair smiled maliciously.

“Where did Professor Wayne’s mark remain? We should tie him up and send him before the Imperial Prince gets angry.”

“Oh, no. There was no mark. Actually, that marking magic didn’t activate at all.”

…What?

The professors stirred greatly at the teaching assistants’ answer. Demon Hunting Studies was that important a position.

“You just didn’t see it properly!”

“No, no. It’s true. Since it was the most important part, we checked several times.”

…What?!

“This is ridiculous…!”

He dispelled magic without leaving a mark? Could this mean he had solved a ‘real’ puzzle that even the professors couldn’t solve?

Professor Kalon’s faction stirred restlessly.

At the same time, the Principal smiled and said.

“The owner of the Head Professor position has been decided.”

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