I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 162

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Chapter 162. Execution (2)

Echo screamed.

Right before his eyes, the Hero’s eerie red eyes gleamed.

“Professor Eren~?”

A tone that was cold yet mixed with feigned friendliness.

“You can make Fire Butterfly Frix too?”

Damn it! What are you doing climbing up here!

Echo rolled his eyes. Let it be known that Echo was extremely cautious. There was no way he would carelessly make someone else’s Frix just anywhere without being careful.

That’s right… This is the top of the dense Dye Vat Tower! He had even set up double and triple barriers!

‘But what the hell is this bastard!’

Does he think this is some playground you can see while passing by?

However, somehow knowing how to find this place, the Hero sitting lightly like a bird grinned wickedly.

“Wow, our professor, you’re quite talented? I had no idea.”

Echo let out a hollow laugh and stepped back.

“Haha… It’s for experiments. Research purposes. I used to teach Frix classes too. Before. I applied that knowledge, applied it.”

“Heeee…”

The Hero tilted his head slightly. Like a child hearing an interesting riddle, his eyes sparkled as he asked.

“But isn’t it strange?”

“…What is?”

“Frix that precise can’t be made with ordinary magic, right? Besides, that’s not just any butterfly, it’s a ‘Fire Butterfly’. A legendary being that others might see once in a lifetime, if at all.”

The Hero’s eyes gleamed even more.

“But how did you make it so identical? Normally you couldn’t make it like that without seeing it directly, right?”

Echo, not even noticing his face turning pale, waved his hands in the air.

“Yes! I saw it just once when it stole my things!”

“Hmm. Anyway, you were able to make it.”

“Th, that’s right.”

The Hero’s gaze became even more frightening.

“Then by any chance, Professor Eren… are you Fire Butterfly?”

“…Whaaaaat?!”

Echo’s soul nearly jumped out of his body.

“How could that be! Ah, that’s ridiculous! I’m just a speechless graduate from a defunct school! How could I! Become such a terrifying existence that toys with the Union! I’m someone who awakened to Frix late in life!”

The Hero lowered his gaze downward, then slowly raised it as he spoke.

“…Then shall we… check once?”

What? Check what?

Bang!

A powerful wave of Luck Power swept through the surrounding space.

Crash!

As he turned his fingertip, a sword of light was created in mid-air. That was the Hero’s exclusive weapon.

And then-

Thud!

The tree above Echo’s head was cleanly cut through.

Echo barely managed to slip away and evade.

“Hey, what are you really trying to- Aaah!”

At another incoming strike, Echo went down toward the ground.

However, the Hero landed softly like a falling willow leaf and smiled with anticipation.

“Ah, you’re dodging? Your skills are good.”

“Th, thank you?!”

“Judging by your skills… you’re indeed close to a Special Grade Wanted Criminal.”

“What?! Wh, what are you saying-“

“Otherwise… this level of reaction speed wouldn’t come out.”

The Hero lightly spun his sword in a circle as if catching a fly.

Bang!

At the same time, an amazing sight unfolded. All the trees within about a 1km radius were cleanly cut down.

Echo, who barely managed to dodge, was truly on the verge of tears.

…There had been a forest, but it disappeared in 1 second.

‘Damn it! What kind of attack range is this!’

Damn. As expected, for reasons unknown, being with the butterfly always led to this. Strangely, he always became unlucky. All the misfortune of a lifetime at once- no, should I say he experiences everything he shouldn’t have to experience in the world.

“Wait a minute, wait! I’m really not a demon but a citizen! I pay taxes! I have a citizen ID too!”

Then the Hero muttered with a face that looked genuinely delighted.

“…I see. You’re a demon.”

“…What did you say?!”

“Professor Eren. You’re a demon, right? Fire Butterfly, right?”

“Don’t speak as if you’ve already decided the outcome!”

Bang!

Echo finally unleashed explosion magic. A powerful blast wrapped around the Hero and pushed him back.

The Hero, his pure white clothes now damaged, stepped back and raised the corners of his mouth.

“Oh, nice. That magic, where did you learn it?”

“Self-taught!”

The explosive magic Echo unleashed erupted again, and intense light spread throughout the forest.

“Professor, why are you running away? Normally when someone asks a question, don’t you just answer?”

“What you’re doing isn’t questioning! You don’t swing a sword while asking questions!”

Echo shouted while deploying a magic circle.

“Illusion, 6x Replication!”

Pop!

Instantly, Echo multiplied into six people. Each running in different directions.

The Hero narrowed his eyes. Then he pointed precisely at one of them.

“Ah. I hope it’s that one.”

Bang!

When he threw his sword in a straight line, the real Echo screamed and tumbled down from that direction.

“Damn, how did you know?”

“Intuition?”

Insane Luck Power!

‘Damn, I’m really not Fire Butterfly!’

He really wasn’t.

But the Hero, who couldn’t know that, followed and grabbed his sword before it even hit the ground. The Hero’s eyes held certainty.

But at that moment, Echo caused another explosion and fled.

“Cough!”

The Hero lightly coughed from the spicy smoke and was about to give chase again when—

“Stop it, Uncle!”

Principal Charlotte and the head professors appeared.

“Were you getting distracted again?!”

The Hero seemed dumbfounded.

“Distracted? That person imitated Fire Butterfly’s Frix.”

“Professor Ruins has gone alone into where the surviving students are right now!”

At the Principal’s words, the Hero fell silent for a moment.

“Alone?”

“Yes!”

“There?”

“Yes! All by himself!”

The Hero’s thought process seemed to freeze.

Charlotte, sensing it was working, continued speaking.

“We are officially searching for missing persons here. Drawing your sword against a professor just now… is that justified?”

The Hero narrowed his eyes. Soon he slowly sheathed his sword and muttered.

“…You’re right. This isn’t the time for this.”

The Hero put his sword back.

That’s when it happened.

‘!’

There was something fallen on the ground.

It was a notebook that Echo had dropped.

* * *

Echo, having barely escaped, was gasping for breath.

“I almost really died.”

More than that, truly humanity’s strongest. With just one sword swing, my life flashed before my eyes thousands of times.

What kind of existence was Fire Butterfly, who had toyed with such a monster?

That’s when it happened.

“…Echo?”

“…Butterfly!”

“What? I thought the Hero killed you?”

This bastard.

“Well… no, before that, I have something important to tell you.”

“What is it?”

“Could you promise not to kill me?”

“Just listen first.”

“No, just promise me. That you won’t kill me.”

“Fine.”

“The Hero caught me making Fire Butterfly Phlyx.”

A moment of silence.

Whoooooosh.

Shadows burst forth from Ruin’s body.

He got caught doing that?! Then the Hero will start getting suspicious!

“Thanks to that, the Hero suspects I’m Fire Butterfly…”

Oh. That worked out well!

Ruin’s eyes sparkled as he patted Echo’s shoulder.

“Keep drawing attention like that while I collect my severance pay. From now on, you’re going to be Fire Butterfly.”

“What the hell?!”

But that was brief, as Ruin perked up his ears. Ruin brought his index finger to his lips and turned his head.

“…Let’s talk about that later. There’s something we need to do first.”

“…What?”

“The students are alive.”

“!”

Where Ruin pointed, small cocoon-like structures hung densely. Some of them were even moving slightly.

Squirm. Twitch.

“…Those… are they the kids from a year ago?”

“It seems so.”

Ruin released his shadow ability.

“We should rescue them first. Fortunately, the owner of this place isn’t here…”

That’s when it happened.

In the stillness without wind or sound, a voice seeped into his ears.

“You’ve grown a lot, youngest.”

Ruin flinched.

There was no mistaking this voice.

‘Execution.’

A brother and senior who had truly cared for him. At the same time, the traitor who had killed all the other brothers except Sasha and Ruin before disappearing.

“Did you come to see your big brother?”

As soon as those words ended—

Swish.

Something passed by.

And the next moment.

“Urgh?!”

Echo’s throat was seized. At the same time, his body was lifted into the air. Ruin didn’t even have time to react.

Whoosh! Crash!

He was slammed head-first into the ground.

Thud!

The sound of old wood splitting.

The stones piled in that spot shattered to pieces.

“Grgh…!”

Echo gritted his teeth.

‘Is it Spider?’

That bastard was special grade among special grades, making him incredibly difficult to face even for fellow Special Grade Wanted Criminals.

Then, the opponent said something unexpected.

“Echo. I’ve heard a lot about you. Your blueprints were handed over to Pride’s upper echelon. You became a Special Grade Wanted Criminal for trying to eliminate them because they were going to be used as weapons.”

“!”

“Since then, you’ve been going around destroying and setting fires because you’re afraid your creations will be used as weapons.”

Echo was surprised.

How did he know that?

“Your master is with me. Won’t you work together?”

“…!”

…Who’s with him?

But there was no time to collect his thoughts. Threads wrapped around his body and snapped his arm.

“Argh!”

When it tried to target his leg next, Ruin immediately kicked Echo away. Thanks to that, he could avoid the attack aimed at his leg.

However, Echo’s right arm was already bent at an abnormal angle. On his skin remained thin marks carved by slender threads.

Right, Spider hadn’t attacked but had left a ‘mark’.

“Echo!”

As Ruin stepped forward, Echo, covered in blood, gritted his teeth while struggling to get up.

“Butterfly, don’t get involved. The Monster King must not die!”

Was This Bastard putting on airs at a time like this?

That’s when it happened.

A familiar man appeared from deep within the forest.

“I didn’t kill him. Not yet. Your big brother still has some affection left for you, Ruin.”

Ruin frowned.

Right. He wouldn’t kill him. Instead, he’d break his legs so he couldn’t escape.

Sure enough, a powerful strike came flying—

Ruin did something unexpected.

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