I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 193

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Chapter 193. Kidnapping, Imprisonment, Mind Control (2)

Ruin’s eyes sparkled.

‘If it’s the smell of money, there’s no mistake.’

It’s the severance pay box!

That box is somewhere in this room.

‘The box in the Chairman’s Office was the jackpot.’

Ruin’s heart began to pound. His hands searching for the item became busy.

However, since the Chairman’s Office was so spacious, it seemed like it would take quite a while to find it.

“Come out.”

He summoned shadows and scattered them. The shadows wriggled and seeped into various places.

That’s when it happened.

[Master, I found it! Found it!]

“You found it!”

A wriggling shadow brought a treasure chest.

But it wasn’t Ruin’s severance pay box.

‘What’s this?’

Did that Hero bastard hide this?

Ruin carefully opened the lid.

Creak.

Inside was an old notebook and a palm-sized Swiss Army knife. On the notebook’s cover was handwritten text.

-「To Elaine. –R」

Ruin’s fingertips stopped for just a moment.

‘…R.’

It was his own handwriting.

Ruin opened the old notebook. Records filled with familiar handwriting. Combat theory, strategy practice, and….

-Master scolded me again today. But he also praised me.

-He told me not to swing the sword, but to swing my will. I still don’t understand well.

His hand stopped at that page.

Right. That’s how I taught back then. As a spy, I taught those children things I couldn’t do myself.

Ruin slowly stroked the notebook.

‘…He still had it.’

The Hero hadn’t forgotten. He was still that child from back then.

However-

“…So what?”

Ruin muttered indifferently.

“What would change because of that.”

The past is the past.

Ruin muttered as if hypnotizing himself.

A spy must not get emotionally invested in each role they’re assigned. Right, that must never happen.

So he shouldn’t have felt emotional attachment to the disciples who were killed by Cobra either. The moment that happens, he’s disqualified as a spy.

That’s why Ruin picked up the Swiss Army knife that was in the box. It was from his Rabian Crawl days. The cursed item he used to protect Elaine from Pride.

But why Pride specifically, not Cobra?

Ruin recalled the command from that time.

[Among the disciples you raised, keep only one child alive who has the most potential to become a Hero.]

[However, there must be a flaw. If there’s no flaw, don’t leave any survivors.]

A flaw.

In other words, it meant to choose a child who seemed unlikely to survive long. Whether physically weak or having some weakness.

Because at that time, Pride’s purpose was to send a self-destructing Hero to Union.

Of course, Elaine had no such flaws. But Ruin falsely reported that Elaine had flaws. Because he wanted to save at least one of his disciples. Because he was sick of just following orders as a spy.

“Elaine, keep this and think of it as me.”

Having that could make it seem like there was a flaw. In reality, the Hero was able to escape Pride’s surveillance.

“That child seems to be under some curse. It’ll be difficult to maintain his condition.”

“That child keeps having magic power backflow. He won’t last long.”

“He keeps missing targets. He has hand tremors too. In the long term, he’ll reach his limits.”

Well, I never expected he’d steal the Pope’s item and awaken as a Transcendent.

Pride also thinks Elaine’s flaws disappeared because he awakened as a Transcendent.

‘It’s all memories now.’

Ruin reclaimed his power that was contained in the Swiss Army knife.

Swoosh!

Considerable power returned to him. Originally it was power meant to protect his disciple, but it’s useless now.

Thus Ruin put the items back in the box. Along with the emotions from his Rabian Crawl days.

‘What’s important now is escaping.’

This bastard knew that he was Fire Butterfly.

‘I don’t know what he’ll do to me.’

To put it bluntly, he might really do some weird ‘imprisonment kidnapping mind control’. In other words, he needed to find his severance pay and run as quickly as possible. That’s why he moved the shadows again.

That’s when it happened.

[I smell treasure from over there!]

Treasure?

Ruin looked up at the ceiling where the shadow had indicated. At the same time, he frowned.

‘There’s a magic circle that makes you faint if you get close.’

“That Hero.”

He sighed. Whether it was to knock him out for trying to escape, or what.

Half amused, half annoyed. Ruin slowly raised his hand.

Dispel the barrier?

Normally he would have to use Dispel Magic to carefully destroy it, but…

“Get lost, damn fortune.”

That Hero bastard is actually easy to deal with.

‘He trusts his own Luck Power too much.’

He was the type to roughly cast simple magic and then smash through with strong Luck Power.

Well, since Haven is a place that weakens Luck Power, even weak misfortune should be able to suppress fortune.

Sure enough, Ruin stretched his hand toward the ceiling and his eyes flashed.

“Misfortune Level 1.5.”

Boom!

Dark, heavy energy exploded from beneath his feet. It was pure misfortune that distorted the flow of luck.

The moment that power collided, the Luck Power was torn apart smoothly—

Crackle!

The entire ceiling vibrated.

And then.

Crash!

The entire ceiling collapsed.

At the same time, a heavy treasure chest rolled down from inside it.

Thud!

Ruin caught it and his face brightened unusually wide.

And for good reason—Ruin’s treasure chests had weight-reducing magic and subspace magic cast on them. Yet the chest was incredibly heavy.

‘Which means…!’

It was obvious without even opening it. So he quickly set the chest on the ground and opened the lid.

Click!

At that moment, brilliant golden light burst forth.

Seeing the contents, Ruin covered his mouth.

Gold coins. Real gold ingots that could be converted based on ancient currency standards. The sealed condition was good and the weight was considerable.

‘It’s really my severance pay…! I finally found it!’

Moved, Ruin spent a long time silently and carefully poking them with his fingers as if he couldn’t believe it. Like a child asking ‘Is this real?’, ‘It’s not a dream, right?’

His eyes sparkling, Ruin suddenly slapped his own cheek. Then he calmly returned to his normal eyes and counted the gold ingots. Since subspace magic was also cast on it, there would actually be more inside than what was visible.

“…1 million, 2 million, 3 million…”

The shadows beside him also swayed and danced.

[Master is happy!]

The Shadow Butler also nodded.

But then—

“…7 million, 7.3 million…”

Ruin’s hand stopped. His eyebrows were slightly furrowed. He started counting again.

And a moment later, treasure calculation complete. Ruin’s eyebrows wrinkled even more roughly.

“…Damn it.”

He shoved his hand into the chest. At the same time, with complete sincerity, he let out an annoyed sigh.

“One box isn’t enough!”

A silent expression of rage. He pressed his lips together and checked the chest again, but no matter how he looked at it, this was only ‘part of his severance pay’.

The Shadow Butler read his master’s mood.

[Perhaps… is it installment payments, Master?]

“…No. Say something that makes sense. I never made an installment contract.”

[Then…]

“The amount of severance pay is so large that even subspace magic has its limits.”

Ruin immediately got pissed and sent Frix to Sasha.

[Oh, Fire Butterfly. What brings you to contact me first….]

“Why did you split up the severance pay? Why didn’t you put it all in one place? Are you even a professional?”

[?]

A moment of silence.

Shortly after, a tremendous sound echoed as if the other side had finished grasping the situation.

[Do you even know how much money you demanded before spouting such nonsense! You think all that would fit in one box! I even scraped together every last coin from the branch facility for you, you ungrateful bastard!]

Ruin covered his ears as they nearly burst.

At the same time, he seemed to hear his late master’s teachings from somewhere.

“Pensions and women should be managed separately for mental health. That’s the first rule of a spy’s honey trap.”

“…Haah.”

His head throbbed.

Master. I’ve lived exactly as you taught me, so why does my mental health only keep getting worse?

‘Well, this much would be enough to escape….’

If he combined all the money he’d extracted and scraped together even his soul, it would somehow be possible.

But if things came to this….

‘I have no choice.’

* * *

The Hero opened the door to the Chairman’s Office with steps slightly faster than usual. Inwardly, he was slightly nervous.

‘I wonder if the confinement was uncomfortable.’

‘Still, it was a necessary measure… I hope he wasn’t displeased.’

‘…Maybe he’s reflecting even without saying anything.’

With such thoughts, he opened the door….

“…Huh?”

The moment he saw inside the room, the Hero’s eyes widened.

The room was in chaos. Bookshelves had fallen over, cracks ran through the walls, parts of the floor were broken through….

Most importantly-

“…He’s gone.”

Ruin had disappeared.

The Hero’s face froze. Alarms rang in his heart.

“He escaped…?!”

…Damn it!

On the floor were broken handcuff fragments, on the walls were traces of barrier ruptures, and in the air still lingered the aura of mind control magic that hadn’t yet dissipated. The Hero ruffled his hair.

“No, how?”

Those handcuffs were advanced magic-sealing type. Moreover, he had even used mind control magic in parallel to invade Ruin’s inner self…!

Was it too weak?

“More than that, how did he… break free and escape…?”

And that too from the middle of the Chairman’s Office filled with luck power, how?!

His heart dropped with a thud.

‘I finally caught Fire Butterfly!’

Fire Butterfly must have come to Haven with a purpose. He needed to find out that purpose and win him over.

‘I need to get revenge for Master.’

He needed to win him over, make him taste humiliation, then execute him later…. How could he let Fire Butterfly slip away again when he had finally caught the butterfly…!

That’s when it happened.

“Are you looking for me?”

“?!”

The startled Hero’s head whipped around.

‘He didn’t escape?’

The Hero’s gaze changed completely.

However, Ruin leaning against the doorway waved one hand with a very carefree expression. Broken handcuff pieces dangled from that hand. As if they were war trophies.

“Well, since you kidnapped an innocent person for no reason, I broke free a little.”

The Hero was speechless. But as if that wasn’t the end, Ruin dropped the handcuffs to the floor with a thud. Then he continued speaking as if having an ordinary daily conversation.

“Oh, I think I suffered serious psychological damage from being imprisoned. So I submitted a bill for psychological damage compensation.”

Ruin smiled leisurely and added.

“It will be deducted from the Chairman’s account. The legal basis is… ah, Union Basic Law Article 12-3. ‘Involuntary isolation acts are subject to damages compensation.'”

“…”

“No objections, right?”

How could there be no objections?

“Then I’ll spread rumors to the Union that you’re a pervert who imprisons head professors.”

“….”

The Hero’s expression was worth seeing.

…This isn’t right?

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