I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 167

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Chapter 167. Shocking Identity

Ruin froze, literally, while holding the Pricks in his hand.

‘Turn the Royal Blood into puppets.’

‘Let’s end the Imperial Nation.’

‘For the Britannia Republic.’

He quietly closed the Pricks again. Then he shouted as if dumbfounded.

“The real Ruins Wayne… This bastard was a revolutionary?!”

Echo was shocked.

“A, a revolutionary…!”

What kind of existence were they.

In short, they were rebels trying to overthrow the Imperial Palace. They moved in cell organizations so the Imperial Palace couldn’t catch them, and recently their power had grown considerably, making them a coup group that the Imperial Palace absolutely had to capture.

Even Fire Butterfly was understandably shaken.

‘Where did things go wrong?’

This bastard, wasn’t he just an otaku obsessed with dolls? More than that, why would a noble otaku be doing revolutionary activities?! Did he want an aristocratic republic?! Or did he simply want to establish an otaku nation?

Of course, there were quite a few seditious books and royal criticism notes in the real Ruins Wayne’s library. But Ruin had just brushed it off as… ‘Since he’s from a marquis family, he probably has some pretentious writer’s disease.’

‘Damn it.’

Ruin grabbed the back of his neck. Because he suddenly understood everything – the recent incidents of the First Prince and Second Prince following him, even Imperial Princess Karin offering him a gift of ‘trust’, and the Emperor sending him a request to ‘educate the child’.

‘Without knowing it, I was getting close to the Imperial Princess and Princes… and steadily proceeding according to the revolutionaries’ plan!’

And revolutionaries were people who would cut off the heads of the Emperor and Imperial Descendants and hang them in the square… so naturally…

‘From their perspective, being part of a coup is a much bigger crime than being a demon.’

Finally, Ginseng Superior said a word.

「If we get caught, let’s just say you’re Fire Butterfly instead. Isn’t that better than being a revolutionary?」

‘…Then the Hero will chase after me happily.’

Then the afterglow of the Pricks flickered once more.

[P.S. ‘That’ Department Head Professor is on our side, so you can trust him.]

“…”

Which Department Head Professor? What kind of spy bastard is hiding as a Department Head Professor? Don’t tell me, it’s ridiculously Kalon? Is it Kalon?

Wasn’t the fact that he had the First Prince as his student and pretended to have a bad relationship also actually a disguise?!

[And the ‘Chairman’ is still dangerous. His Luck Power is too strong. Never face him alone.]

…Though it should be fine since misfortune is suppressing the Luck Power.

[Anyway, you continue with Operation 【Puppet】. We’ll keep using Fire Butterfly to divert the attention of the Imperial Palace and Hero.]

…So you guys were the impersonators?

‘More than that, what’s this about puppets?’

What did it mean to turn the Imperial bloodlines into puppets?

Puppets… puppets… That phrase was branded in his mind like a hot iron.

‘Don’t tell me.’

Ruin had a sinking feeling.

‘Don’t tell me this bastard is connected to the ‘puppet manipulation’ ability?’

That made sense, since both the Prince and Imperial Princess were attending Haven together. And if that ‘puppet manipulation’ was… an ability that could turn people into puppets…?

‘Don’t tell me it’s something only the Mage King could do…’

Still, now it finally made sense.

Why there were so many gaps in Ruins Wayne’s records. Why he had been a wandering lecturer for so long. And why he was executed.

‘So that’s why the real Ruins Wayne was executed in the past.’

Before the regression, hadn’t Ruins Wayne taken Heizen’s truth serum and confessed that he was a revolutionary? Since the Hero was on the Imperial Palace’s side regardless of personal relationships, he had him executed.

At the same time, Ruin thought he understood why the Healing Department Head Professor had so readily given up his position.

‘He understood it as a request for help with revolutionary business!’

He didn’t know the details, but if that position was needed for the mission, he would gladly give it up.

‘Damn it, I should have been more suspicious when the Healing Department Head Professor readily handed over his position.’

This was just great.

‘Haha, this damn wandering curse. Just when I thought about living as a professor, this happens. Is it trying to prevent me from staying in one place for long?’

「As expected of the man of misfortune, even when borrowing an identity, you borrow this kind of identity.」

Exactly.

‘As expected. Let’s quickly grab the severance pay and run.’

But now that it had come to this, he couldn’t just run away. Because if he did, there would be a strange misunderstanding that Fire Butterfly was a revolutionary.

Which meant…

‘After retirement, it’s safer to secure an impenetrable land and allies that no one can reach.’

And the Imperial Palace and the Hero. There were only two places in this world where those two could not approach.

One was the Demon Emperor’s Land.

‘But I’d have to be crazy to live with the Demon Emperor.’

Right. A land where even the Demon Emperor could not approach.

There was only one such place in the world.

‘The Holy Empire.’

Ginseng Superior looked at him as if amazed.

「…Isn’t that like going into a tiger’s den to avoid a fox?」

‘No. The Holy Empire also has good golden land that’s off-limits to priests.’

It was the place where the castle of the worst Demon King had stood hundreds of years ago. That place was currently under the Pope’s jurisdiction.

「…A Demon King’s Castle, so you’re really going to become the Demon Emperor! Oh, I welcome it! You have enough talent!」

‘Be quiet.’

Anyway, he needed to make the Pope an ally – an absolute ally that neither the Imperial Palace nor the Hero would dare to mess with.

Just as Ruin was racking his brain over how he could obtain that land, Echo suddenly screamed.

“Butterfly!”

“Yeah.”

“My eyes aren’t playing tricks on me, right?”

“Yeah…?”

Outside the window, there was a shabby figure approaching the Senior Professor’s Office. Someone in beggar’s clothes, trembling and shaking their legs while holding a rod like a staff as they returned…

“Isn’t that the priest we abandoned to the spider?”

“He’s alive.”

He was alive.

Echo was horrified.

“Butterfly, he’s coming. He’s coming this way!”

“Ha.”

Ruin quickly rushed out of the Senior Professor’s Office.

Sure enough, as soon as the priest they had abandoned to the spider spotted them, he ground his teeth furiously.

“You… you…!”

“Ah, I’m glad to see you’re alive.”

Ruin greeted him with a bright smile.

“You bastards worse than the damn Demon Race!”

The priest suddenly shouted.

“Why are you so angry?”

“Why? Why? Whyyy? How dare you act innocent when you abandoned me there and ran!”

“I thought a priest like you would exorcise the spider well.”

Ruin responded nonchalantly.

“By the way, what happened to the spider?”

The priest grabbed the back of his neck. His face looked like terrible memories were resurfacing.

That damn bastard! The spider had taken him, left alone…

“…It played with me like handling a young bird, then threw me down into the canyon. My arm was dislocated, my leg was broken, and I almost lost my mind…!”

Echo was genuinely impressed.

“And you survived and came back? That’s amazing… What’s with that body?”

“Don’t whisper among yourselves, you demons!”

Ruin frowned slightly.

“You keep calling us demons, but when you say that, we find it quite unpleasant.”

“You actually smell like demons!”

At those words, Ruin took a deep breath and pulled out his pocket watch.

“That’s probably… because of the demon we had captured in here. Didn’t you see a demon when you went inside?”

The priest’s eyes widened.

‘…There was one inside. A really strong one. Could that guy have actually captured something like that?’

But he was called back out before they could fight… No, that’s not the issue here.

The priest’s gaze soon turned to Echo.

“Then what about the smell coming from that guy?!”

Ruin’s lips curved up slightly.

“That’s… probably because he’s Fire Butterfly.”

“…What?!”

This time Echo was even more shocked.

“Hey, man? What are you talking about!”

“The Hero is actually suspicious of him. Originally I wasn’t going to reveal this since it’s a major investigation direction… but I have no choice.”

Ruin turned his head to look at the priest.

“Let’s arrest this Fire Butterfly together.”

“What?! Wait a minute-“

Echo stepped backward.

But the priest seemed uninterested, his sharp eyes flashing.

“Right. Fire Butterfly sounds good. But… what about our priest who came first? Where did that fellow go?”

Ruin’s expression hardened slightly. The priest looked straight into Ruin’s eyes.

“Until I see that person, I can’t trust anyone.”

Ruin reluctantly clicked the pocket watch.

Click!

Then the priest was sucked back into the pocket watch.

Whoooosh!

Ruin said a word to the shocked Echo.

“Now, swallowing the priest is all something you, Fire Butterfly, ordered.”

Echo was horrified.

What, you bastard?!

Whether Echo was surprised or not, Ruin shook the pocket watch vigorously. Maybe the demon inside would take care of the priest somehow.

“Anyway, I’m going to work now.”

At the same time, Ruin hurried toward the medical ward. The Healing professors in the medical ward welcomed Ruin.

“Ah. What brings the hero who saved the students here…?”

“There are still more people to save.”

“Pardon?”

Instead of answering, Ruin turned the hands of the pocket watch and clicked it. Then something amazing happened. About ten boys and girls came stumbling out from inside. Right. They were the apprentice priests who had been kidnapped from the Holy Empire.

Ruin had also brought these foreign students in the pocket watch while he was at it. Spies originally use anything as a card.

‘I brought them thinking I could extort ransom from the Papal Court.’

「…At this point, aren’t you just a villain?」

But their usefulness had just emerged.

“I rescued the apprentice priests who were kidnapped from the Holy Empire from Spider’s hands.”

“What?! You did, Professor?”

“Yes, I rescued them with great difficulty.”

Since it’s come to this, he’ll win over the Pope as an ally before securing his severance pay.

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