I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 185

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Chapter 185. Marriage Commotion (1)

“…Marriage?”

Rose froze completely without even wiping off the training mud stuck to her face.

When the rumor that swept across the training ground in an instant, the words ‘Imperial proposal,’ seeped into her ears, her heart nearly stopped.

“Imperial Princess, you say…?”

No, more than anything, Ruin had said this.

“I have no interest in marriage.”

That’s what he had said.

“So it works because she’s an Imperial Princess?!”

Rose stabbed her training sword straight into the ground. It was anger. A heart-tearing hot rage she had never felt even on the battlefield.

She didn’t know why, but she was furious.

“Fine. Just fine.”

The corners of her mouth turned up, but that smile wasn’t pleasant at all.

* * *

That morning, Haven was seething like a volcano on the verge of eruption.

“Did you hear? Professor Ruins is marrying the Imperial Princess!”

“No, but more than that… won’t we not be able to take the Professor’s classes anymore? Isn’t he retiring?”

Every dormitory lounge, the library, even the corners of the underground restaurant.

Ruin pressed his temple with one hand. He could feel the gazes of all students and all professors pouring down on him.

“It wasn’t this bad during the Princess Rose incident….”

Students bombarded him with questions even during class.

“Professor, is it true that you’re getting married?”

“Then what happens to the classes?”

“No matter what, if you marry into the Imperial family… you’re retiring, right?”

This time even the Teaching Assistants rose up in protest.

Unlike with the Princess, this was incomparable because the moment he set foot in the Imperial family, he would have to step down from his professorship. Professorship doesn’t allow concurrent positions.

“Professor…. Are you really getting married?”

Tears were already welling up in the Teaching Assistants’ eyes. They were sincere.

Hmm. Seeing them this sad, I guess I wasn’t too bad as a professor after all.

“If you marry into the Imperial family, you’ll retire, and then… there won’t be any more benefits….”

…Benefits? What kind of benefits did I ever provide?

“Your face is the benefit.”

…These guys?!

Then another Teaching Assistant quietly spoke up from the side.

“So are you really… marrying the Imperial Princess?”

“…There’s no way that would happen.”

‘The Demon Emperor definitely won’t stay quiet about this anyway. Marriage would be betrayal.’

If he really married the Imperial Princess, the Demon Emperor’s side might conclude that ‘the guy who borrowed money ran off with another woman without even paying back.’ That would be a declaration of all-out war.

「But in this case, they’d be taking you as a son-in-law, so couldn’t you demand an enormous marriage dowry?」

At those words, Ruin suddenly remembered something.

‘Marriage dowry…?’

That is to say….

‘…If I receive as much as my severance pay as a marriage dowry…?’

Ruin unconsciously muttered.

“If the amount matches my severance pay, I might consider it.”

The moment those words came out, all the Teaching Assistants froze. And then….

“Whaaaaaaat?!?!?!?!”

A Teaching Assistant clutching their heart and collapsing.

A Teaching Assistant tearing up documents while screaming.

Even a Teaching Assistant whose eyes lit up as they pulled out a calculator.

“Wait, how much is Professor Ruins’ severance pay?!”

“That’s not the problem! The Professor is-! considering-! marriage!”

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“…Marriage, huh. Well, it’s not bad.”

The attendant was surprised by Karin’s words in Heaven’s Garden.

“…Are you serious?!”

“Yes. Political marriage is unavoidable anyway. If that’s the case, then ‘Haven’s eccentric professor’ whom everyone praises would be better than the tacky princes from neighboring countries that the Emperor’s side would offer.”

“Do you have… special feelings for the Professor?”

At those words, Karin fell silent.

Ruins Wayne, he possessed a kind of independence and intimidating presence that couldn’t be fully expressed with the word ‘eccentric.’

And….

“…Trying to presumptuously teach me, an Imperial Princess.”

He always seemed to speak humiliatingly to her, but she had recently realized that it was actually for Karin’s sake.

Yes, not long ago….

Karin was heading to the classroom where Ruin’s lecture was held with her usual neat and arrogant stride.

‘That eccentric professor, what kind of harsh words will he throw today.’

As she was about to enter the classroom, she heard unexpected words.

“Professor, could I… change groups? Being in the same group as Imperial Princess Karin is a bit scary and burdensome.”

At those words, the air in the classroom turned cold. Everyone couldn’t say it openly, but they all seemed to find being with Karin burdensome.

Karin stopped trying to enter and closed her mouth. She wasn’t hurt or displeased. Well, it was a familiar situation after all.

That was the moment.

“Do you mean you’re scared because she’s royalty, or do you mean you’re too incompetent to handle your partner?”

The atmosphere instantly split. Most students blinked in surprise, and Karin also subtly widened her eyes at the unexpected reaction.

Ruin spoke slowly.

“Karin Winberg has a strong personality, but she handles work perfectly. To call that scary and avoid it is the same as saying you can’t even handle the reputation you’ll carry in actual combat ahead.”

He slammed the attendance record shut and added.

“If you don’t like it, repeat the year. There are no easy groups here.”

At those words, the student lowered his head, and the surrounding murmurs also died down.

Karin realized at that moment. The reason why Ruins poured particularly humiliating words only on her, the Imperial Princess.

It was to prevent her from becoming ‘some special existence.’ His harsh words weren’t meant to isolate her from others… rather, they were a counterbalance that filled that gap.

Behind that eccentric professor’s indifferent face was a warmth slightly different from others. The coldness she had felt as contempt had actually stemmed from sincerity.

Karin crossed her arms and said.

“Well, it’s a bit annoying, but it’s fine. To become Emperor, it would be beneficial to keep that person by my side.”

“Ha…. Then you’ll need to propose.”

“Propose?”

“Yes. Since the Imperial side brought it up first, naturally Your Highness should do it.”

At those words, Karin stiffened.

“I need practice! Transform into Professor Ruins right now!”

The attendant felt like his soul was leaving his mouth. Just when he thought he had escaped from imitating Ruins, was it starting again?!

“Just get used to it! If he becomes your husband, you’ll have a deeper relationship anyway!”

Karin was suddenly startled.

“Wha, wha, what? A deeper relationship?!”

In her mind suddenly appeared Professor Ruins’ very neat but secretly quite muscular silhouette….

“You, you, you, you’re saying such outrageous things at school!”

“Huh? Won’t you be having more intimate political discussions?”

“Ah, ri, right! Right! Political relationship! Right!”

Karin screamed internally, “Aaaaah!”

‘Aaaah! What am I thinking!’

Karin fanned her flushed face with a fan and nodded her head vigorously.

But at that moment, a quiet presence cut through the garden.

“It would be better to… keep your fantasies in moderation.”

“…Ju, Judith?!”

Startled Karin turned around with a gasp. There stood Judith, her rival competing for the Mage King position, holding a book.

“A student wasting time imagining her professor’s physique.”

“Wha, wha, what?! I didn’t do that!”

“Nothing has properly progressed, yet you’re already finishing everything in your imagination alone.”

“Agh! That’s not what I meant!”

However, Judith frowned her delicate eyebrows.

“Anyway, in the end you’re planning to become Mage King through someone else’s power.”

“Wha, what?”

Judith knows Ruin’s identity. So she suddenly had that thought. Could infiltrating the Imperial Palace be Fire Butterfly’s mission?

“…Is this perhaps his mission.”

“…What?”

“Never mind. Good luck. Though I doubt the professor will accept.”

At those words, Karin momentarily hesitated.

What? What does Judith know?

No, actually it was true that Judith was closer to Ruins. So Karin thought she needed to drive in a wedge somehow.

Perhaps that’s why. After much deliberation, Karin sent Ruin something like a marriage proposal letter that read ‘Oh, please become my shining sun.’

However, Ruin, who actually received it, looked at it as if reading a novice’s letter and….

“….”

He ruthlessly gave Karin F’s in all subjects.

* * *

Late afternoon, Haven Campus.

Ruin’s younger brother, Leonhart Wayne, sat on a bench calmly sorting through the ‘voices’ pouring into his head.

The thoughts flowing from inside his mind were noisier than the students’ chatter.

[If Professor Ruins marries the Imperial Princess… who will teach our classes?]

[Professor Ruins… Now even the Imperial Palace? So jealous…]

[I should have confessed to the Professor…]

Leon smiled in disbelief.

‘Brother, you’re more popular than I thought. I only knew you as an oddball.’

As he was listening to the thoughts floating around all of Haven, something… one unpleasantly jarring thought stabbed into his head.

[Marriage with the Imperial Palace. Should I destroy the Union… Or should I kill our pretty Fire Butterfly, Ruins.]

“…!”

In an instant, Leon’s eyes snapped open.

‘Fire Butterfly?’

That wasn’t the thought of an ordinary student. No, it was too cold and alien to be a ‘human’ emotion.

‘Who is it?’

Was someone hiding in Haven?

Leon began moving as if tracking that person. He followed a shadow that went around the building toward the old experiment building.

The voice continued to be heard.

[Is this route also a failure in a different sense? Should I kill and start fresh again.]

He slowly entered where the voice had come from.

“…Who’s there?!”

The moment the door creaked open-

Swish.

Something struck the back of Leon’s neck.

“…!”

His consciousness rapidly faded. The last thing that crossed his awareness was someone’s ominous laughter.

“You heard.”

Thud.

His body quietly collapsed.

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