I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 165

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Chapter 165. The Students Who Returned (2)

The students had returned.

This fact shook the entire Union.

Last year, the students who had suddenly disappeared.

Their names were erased for going over to Pride, their photographs were removed, and wasn’t it a time when no one could speak their names aloud?

Those faces they thought they should forget, thought they had forgotten, were now revealing themselves again at this very moment in the medical ward.

The students who arrived at the medical ward couldn’t open their mouths.

“Isn’t that kid who went missing last year… Cyril…?”

“He was alive…!”

To someone they were seniors, to someone they were juniors, and to someone they were the most precious friends in the world.

At this sight, Princess Karin bit her lips hard. Her sworn sister had at least returned in body, but hadn’t the other students not even had their corpses found?

‘And yet…’

Everyone had returned alive.

Moreover, it was none other than Ruins who had brought them back. That’s why the Blue Moon students were struck speechless. Because of what Ruin had said in class.

“If you want, I’ll take care of the Head Professor from a year ago for you.”

That promise wasn’t empty words. He had truly kept it. He had even brought back those who were lost, alive. That alone was already enough.

The first to burst into tears at this scene was an Information Department student. They were the ones who had no solid backing like other dormitories and no place to express their grievances.

And yet.

“Sob… ugh…”

He covered his mouth but couldn’t hold back.

“…Professor…”

When one person cried, the Blue Moon students surrounding them also began to shed tears one by one.

The Information Department that had to maintain coldness as an iron rule. They had learned that emotions cloud judgment and had always upheld that principle, but just this once… they absolutely couldn’t hold back.

“You brought them back… Really…”

“…Professor…”

There were students hugging their friends and crying loudly. Hadn’t he even sacrificed his own life to save the students?

Gratitude.

And reverence.

When the Blue Moon students shed tears, Blue Moon Supervisor Lionel was flustered and didn’t know what to do, while Information Department Chief Professor Matthias smiled bitterly.

Matthias’s smile in particular was subtle.

‘Did he save students again?’

Just like with himself.

Meanwhile, Judith and Ruins’s younger sister Adeline were surprised in a different sense.

‘Professor…’

‘Ruins… used his own lifespan?’

They turned pale and headed somewhere.

And at that very moment. On the other side, chaos was breaking out in a different sense.

The Hero and Union’s strongest being, Elaine, was holding onto Ruin.

“You must become a Transcendent, Professor!”

“…Huh?”

Ruin frowned.

Transcendent? What’s that?

“One who has surpassed human limits! A being who can become a living legend that neither dies nor ages! That’s a Transcendent!”

Ruin let out a cold laugh.

“…Do I need to do something like that just for using about 30 years of lifespan?”

Then the Hero foamed at the mouth.

“No, Professor, even if we estimate generously, you can only live to about 60 years old now!”

“…Isn’t that living quite long?”

“That’s ridiculous! I can’t accept something like that!

What are you going to do if you can’t accept it?

However, the Hero was almost in tears.

“Professor… you have to fight Pride together with me!”

Ruin was dumbfounded.

Fighting together until 60 years old.

‘This bastard has no intention of ending the war.’

“Anyway, you must become a Transcendent. You can’t die like this. I’ll share the secret method of becoming a Transcendent with you!”

‘No thanks.’

Of course, it was a secret method that others would have pricked up their ears excitedly to hear.

But Ruin’s eyes were half-closed instead. Becoming a Transcendent meant becoming a powerhouse at the level of being used as a national weapon – was he crazy?

‘…National weapon? What’s that? You’re telling me to become on the level of the Hero, Demon Emperor, or Five Evils. I hate that kind of thing.’

Getting stronger is good, but not publicly. I’ll get stronger secretly. Do you think I’d be bound to the country for life working like the Hero?

‘I’m going… to retire!’

But the Hero who saw such enlightened eyes seemed to interpret it in a strange direction.

“Don’t make that expression like you’ll gladly leave once you’ve raised all the students! Never, never again… don’t use that magic!”

Ruin sighed.

I’m going to use it though.

‘It’s not like I’m using my own lifespan anyway.’

“No! We still have to catch Fire Butterfly together, Professor!”

Let that guy go.

Ruin looked at the Hero with distaste.

More than that, hasn’t this kid become more emotionally sensitive than before?

“Why do you want to catch Fire Butterfly so badly?”

“Professor Ruins wants to catch Fire Butterfly too.”

Ruin’s eyes wavered slightly.

‘Ah… I did say that during the interview.’

Flustered, Ruin cleared his throat.

“Me? Well, he’s my parents’ enemy.”

The Hero nodded.

“As I thought, I figured Professor had the same reason as me.”

“…Is it because of your grudge from the Heart battle, Chairman?”

Right. Back then, Ruin had transformed into the Hero’s lover who he thought was dead, and destroyed the Union Forces and Knights of Radiance from within.

After that day, the Hero felt great responsibility and sealed his emotions, and Fire Butterfly became a more terrifying name to him than even the Demon Emperor.

“That’s part of it. I can’t kill the Demon Emperor without killing that bastard. And-“

“Do you want to ask Fire Butterfly? About your lover’s whereabouts?”

“!”

At that surprised look, Ruin sighed.

“The professors all keep quiet about it, but they roughly know. Fire Butterfly needs traces of someone to transform into them. They think you’re looking for traces of your dead lover, Chairman.”

Honestly, he could tell him about that part. Whether that guy’s lover was alive or dead.

‘Well, that one used you and abandoned you anyway.’

But the Hero, who couldn’t know that, said:

“Honestly, yes. Whether Fire Butterfly met ‘the living Ray’ and copied her appearance, killed Ray and wore her skin, or copied her through ‘some other method’… I’m insanely curious about that, but there was another reason.”

Another reason?

“I had close friends who were Hero candidates like me, and we were receiving Hero lessons in a secret location by the Union. That location happened to be discovered by Pride. According to later intelligence, Fire Butterfly found it out.”

…He didn’t find it out.

I knew from the beginning.

“And this time, one more new reason has appeared.”

A new reason?

“Actually, I had a precious Master.”

I know. It’s me.

“Cobra said it was Fire Butterfly who killed my Master.”

Ah… Cobra. Saying unnecessary things.

Ruin looked at the ceiling.

The Hero revealed his killing intent.

“Master was a very important person in my life. I will definitely avenge Master.”

Hmm.

Since I’m that very person here, I can’t say anything to him.

* * *

The Hero’s face was full of complex emotions as he came out after finishing his visit.

‘Professor Eren… created Fire Butterfly Frix.’

That he ‘created’ it could mean Professor Eren might be Fire Butterfly himself.

So as soon as the incident ended, he sat Echo down for interrogation, but-

“Waaah. I’m really not Fire Butterfly.”

It was like this.

Most importantly, his intuition didn’t kick in. He didn’t feel that chilling tension and heart-pounding sensation from when he met Fire Butterfly.

‘For Fire Butterfly, he’s somehow… sloppy.’

Of course, Professor Eren was incredibly strong. If not for the suspicious aspects, he was talented enough that he’d want to take him to Rhine immediately.

However, the ‘something’ inside him was different. If it were Fire Butterfly, he should have felt that killing intent. Cruelty. Emotionless ruthlessness…

He didn’t feel any of that from Professor Eren, who was like a gentle breeze.

So he thought that the real Fire Butterfly existed separately, and Professor Eren might have impersonated him. That would also explain that ridiculously exhibitionist Fire Butterfly.

‘Then who is the real Fire Butterfly?’

So he pulled out a notebook from his chest without hesitation. It was that suspicious notebook Professor Eren had dropped.

-【Special Grade Wanted Criminal】

-Spider: 4 minutes later, Haven City.

-Echo: 30 minutes later, Northern Grasslands of Delia.

-Cat: 4 minutes later, Helios Desert.

This was actually a shocking item that could shake the entire Union just by its existence alone.

Truly a prediction record that even AEGIS couldn’t access. If what was written was real, they could catch all the Special Grade Wanted Criminals.

However, there was only one name the Hero was fixated on.

The Union’s nemesis.

Pride’s calamity.

His ‘enemy’…

His fingertip touched that name.

-Fire Butterfly: 10 minutes later, Haven Southern Forest.

His eyes narrowed thinly. Luck Power began to flow through his fingertips. The power to make things go as the Hero desired. The power to burn away forged information.

Crackle!

The letters writhed. The ink spread as the characters distorted and revealed their true form.

-Fire Butterfly: 10 minutes later, Haven Healing Magic Classroom.

In that instant, his heart sank with a thud.

‘Haven?’

Fire Butterfly was inside Haven?

More than that, the Healing Magic Classroom?

‘What?’

It was so close that the Hero thought this seemed fake instead.

But there was no time to hesitate. The Hero closed the notebook and quickly turned his steps.

He arrived at the classroom in no time. Quiet chairs and desks, air that still held warmth. The Hero sat inside, held his breath, and waited.

-Fire Butterfly: 3 minutes later, Haven Healing Magic Classroom.

Would he really come? Or perhaps… was even this notebook Fire Butterfly’s trick?

His heart pounded more and more.

“…Make him come. Just once.”

1 minute 20 seconds-

54 seconds-

19 seconds…

The Hero took a deep breath.

His fingertips trembled.

His heart raced.

3-

2-

1…

Creak!

The door opened.

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