I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 192

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Chapter 192. Kidnapping, Imprisonment, Mind Control (1)

After class ended.

Lily stood there looking at Ruin. Her expression wasn’t the usual bright smile.

“…Professor.”

What is it, Demon Emperor. Why are you calling me. So scary.

However, she said something unexpected.

“If someone… had been continuously rewinding your life, would you be angry?”

Ruin blinked for a moment.

Rewinding. She’s talking about ‘regression’.

That’s why Ruin let out a sigh.

Well, I can guess the reason for regression. It must be because she lost to the Hero or was defeated by the Union, something like that.

And would I be angry? Honestly speaking, it wouldn’t feel good.

But since I would go back without memories anyway, I wouldn’t remember it, and if it’s for the purpose of defeating the Hero, Pride can’t really say anything about it.

So he answered.

“…Well. There must be some reason. If it’s to protect our faction, it can’t be helped.”

Lily flinched at those words and nodded, but somehow complex emotions could be felt in her eyes. Like lingering attachment or self-blame.

And after hearing the answer, Lily, no, the Demon Emperor disappeared into the Teaching Assistant Office.

「…Will this be okay? With this? Will the Demon Emperor not regress?」

‘…At least we’ve gotten past one hurdle.’

「…But can you really feel at ease? If she regresses this time, I think she’ll absolutely never let you go. She might not give you severance pay at all.」

Ruin shrugged his shoulders.

‘There aren’t completely no ways to prevent regression.’

「…?」

‘Either kill the Demon Emperor, or control the regressor.’

Right. Because he became a professor, Ruin now had both cards available. The cards called ‘Hero’ and ‘Time Traveler Squirrel Prince’.

* * *

The Hero made all kinds of preparations to catch Fire Butterfly.

‘I must be thorough.’

Hadn’t he been deceived by him several times already.

The class was the same.

Ruin taught the students with a smile until the end. Though he said it was self-study, every time students used combat magic, he would unnecessarily interfere, saying ‘you should do it like this’, ‘you should apply magic power this way’, carefully looking after each one.

Even that ‘retirement’ joke that almost fooled him too.

‘…Retirement.’

Deep in his chest felt heavy.

The Hero had once dreamed of it too. A peaceful life without war or demons, putting down his sword. A small garden and morning sunlight, and someone by his side. A dream that had now grown dim.

And now, seeing that bastard casually speak of all those things, the Hero unconsciously gritted his teeth.

Disgust. Sadness. Jealousy… Right. How dare he think he has the right to such things?

So the next day he called Ruin.

“What’s the matter?”

Ruin opened the door and entered. That characteristic way of speaking, neat appearance. Everything was the same, so the Hero smiled.

However, that smile was so perfectly polished that it gave Ruin chills instead. The Hero’s eyes were that coldly sunken.

“Are you feeling better?”

“…Thanks to you?”

“Haha. Actually, I have business with you, Professor.”

“Ah. Yes. Then please keep it brief. I have a busy schedule.”

The moment Ruin prepared to listen briefly, the Hero got up from his seat and walked toward the door.

Click.

He opened the door. At the same time, he turned around and said casually.

“From now on, I’ll… take over your classes, Professor.”

“Excuse me?”

“Because I need to catch Fire Butterfly.”

Bang.

The door closed. More precisely, it was closed from outside.

Ruin approached with a puzzled face, tilting his head and turning the door handle.

However.

Click.

It was locked. And at the same time, the floor beneath his feet reacted.

Flash!

It was a magic circle. A magic circle rose from beneath his feet, and countless chains surged up from the floor to attack his body.

“!”

Literally his wrists, ankles, waist, even his neck.

Clank, clank!

The sound of cold iron chains filled the room.

“…Wait, what are you doing?”

For the first time, surprise was evident in Ruin’s voice.

Then came a low, calm voice from beyond the door.

“Did you know? Professor, you are currently imprisoned.”

“….”

The reason the Hero chose this room was simple. If he locked him in the Military or Demon Race detention cell, his identity would be exposed.

Fire Butterfly’s identity should only be known by the Hero himself, and only he could judge him. Conveniently, the Chairman’s Office was also a room full of Luck Power.

Well, his Luck Power, which could be called intuition, was whispering that he shouldn’t imprison Fire Butterfly here, but there was no other way.

‘I will avenge my companions and Master.’

That’s why he spoke to Ruin beyond the door.

“Cool your head in there and think about going to catch Fire Butterfly together.”

At those words, Ruin blinked his eyes. He looked at the door with a face that showed he didn’t understand, then tilted his head very slowly.

“…Huh?”

That expression was a mix of bewilderment, slight contempt, and a smile flustered by unexpected sincerity.

* * *

After the Hero left.

Click.

Confirming the sound of the door being completely locked, Ruin burst into a bitter laugh.

“…Ha. How disgusting.”

A sneer crept onto his lips. Even under the suffocating pressure of the chains, he leisurely rolled his eyes instead.

‘Imprisonment? Me?’

It was like an ant saying it would cage a tiger.

Why?

‘…No, there’s no need to ask why.’

The answer was already there. The Hero was convinced that he was ‘Fire Butterfly’. That made sense, as he recalled that comment he’d heard long ago, like a joke.

“If we catch Fire Butterfly? Kidnapping, imprisonment, mind control. We have to do it all.”

‘Right. You were that kind of guy.’

Ruin hmmed and slowly rolled his eyes.

Well, currently the handcuffs suppressing magic power and the restraining chains wrapped around the floor were all problems, but…

‘…Where is it, the surveillance artifact.’

The biggest problem was the watching gaze.

‘No, not just surveillance.’

Buzz buzz.

He could even sense the presence of an artifact with mind control magic cast on it. He didn’t know what kind of mind control magic it was, but his intuition told him it was extremely dangerous.

‘This… I should prevent it from activating first.’

Of course, he didn’t know where it was hidden, but that was nothing.

‘Are they ignoring my spy experience?’

Ruin whistled low. Then the dark shadows cast throughout the Chairman’s Office all writhed at once.

Swoosh…

From behind curtains, under bookshelves, in the shade of flower pots, shadows dragged out surveillance artifacts one by one.

Small, complex eyeball shapes, feather-like transmission devices. As they crawled and fell to the floor, Ruin smiled brightly and crushed them one by one.

Crack! Crack!

The artifacts shattered like bones. Only then could he truly breathe freely.

Next were the handcuffs.

They were even special handcuffs that sealed magic power, but…

“Ha. Are they taking me lightly?”

Snap!

Ruin lightly applied force and shattered the handcuffs’ chains.

‘They shouldn’t think of my strength by human standards.’

Of course, he’d only broken the chains so he was still restrained, but it didn’t matter.

‘As long as there are no watching eyes…’

Suddenly, his eyes flashed.

【Demonification】

His body softly melted and transformed into shadow.

A cold flow of darkness, instantly taking the form of the Shadow King. The handsome young man disappeared, and what stood tall on the chains instead was a dark silhouette with blade-like energy flowing through it.

In this situation, handcuffs? Leash? All useless.

Swoosh.

The shadow’s body passed through all those restraints as if no physical constraints meant anything to it.

Finally escaping leisurely from his bonds, Ruin returned to his original human form.

“The idea of trying to confine me with something like this is even more laughable.”

Wasn’t it ridiculous from the start?

After all, there was a ‘treasure chest’ that the Squirrel Prince had mentioned in this room. So he had been wondering how to infiltrate the Chairman’s Office.

“To confine me here… Hero, are you an idiot?”

Well, the question was where it was located.

However, that wasn’t a particularly difficult problem either.

‘I’ll just destroy everything and find it.’

A very simple solution.

Barbaric, but the most efficient method.

Ruin lightly placed his palm against the wall and whispered softly.

“Ruin.”

The moment he uttered it, space trembled. Even in that room where Union’s Greatest Luck Power was activated, Ruin’s Curse Power operated without hesitation.

Crack!

One side of the wall shattered completely. Lime powder scattered in all directions.

Bang! Bang!

And as if letting things be, he destroyed the floor as well.

Bang!!

Stone cracked and wood flew. Even the metal structures developed cracks.

Others would be horrified, asking if he planned to turn the Chairman’s Office into a complete mess, but what did he care.

‘Who locked me up first?’

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Ruin diligently smashed up the room. He even destroyed places that didn’t need to be broken.

That’s when it happened.

“!”

After everything was destroyed and even the Luck Power was withdrawn, he felt a faint presence somewhere in the room.

Ruin’s eyes gleamed sharply.

‘No doubt about it. It’s the presence of a treasure chest.’

Moreover…

[I smell money, Master!]

It seemed to be a retirement fund box after all.

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