I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 196

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Chapter 196. You Call Him Master? (1)

The Hero was bewildered by everything.

‘Rei.’

At first, he wondered if Fire Butterfly had disguised himself again.

Her face, that expression. The appearance of that lover he thought was dead… Had the fake returned again? Was that cruel joke repeating itself once more?

But Ruin was beside her. He said this:

“Pull yourself together, Chairman.”

It wasn’t Fire Butterfly.

Then she was the real Rei.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, all his thought processes stopped. His head went completely blank. He couldn’t even breathe.

Because the only emotions he had left behind, the last emotions he had gripped tightly without forgetting, were his ‘memories of his Master’, his ‘anger toward Fire Butterfly’, and his ‘longing for his dead lover’.

Only by keeping those emotions could he maintain his center in this world gone mad, and become the blade that would slay the Demon Emperor in place of the crumbling Union.

So he thought his heart would stop.

But his mind still worked.

‘Could a human from 50 years ago still exist looking exactly the same now?’

If that were possible, it would only be a half-blood, or a Transcendent, or a powerful magic user.

But she was none of those.

Then there was only one remaining possibility.

‘…Did she make a contract with a Demon Beast?’

His lips went completely dry.

Was this Pride’s doing? Was Fire Butterfly shaking up his surroundings again in a different way this time?

But then that Ruin kicked the Hero. Then he said:

“What’s in front of you is a Demon Beast, so pull yourself together.”

…Wasn’t this Fire Butterfly’s doing?

His confusion deepened. That’s why the Hero just stood there in a daze, watching Rei being dragged away.

Standing in front of the empty room, the Hero ended up hearing the conversation leaking out. That one line he heard then:

“Who would have thought my disciple would have such poor judgment of people. You definitely said that.”

At that moment, the Hero’s fingertips trembled.

“…Disciple?”

The door creaked open. Discovering the Hero, Rei approached him with a sorrowful face.

“Elaine!”

Rei hugged the Hero.

In contrast, her gaze toward Ruin was cruel and cold, like someone who had finished an old revenge. As if she was taking the Hero’s side and trying to deal with Fire Butterfly who was interfering with her.

Rei said:

“You said before that your Master died at the hands of a Special Grade Wanted Criminal, right? That’s him. He came to me, knocked me unconscious, and copied my face.”

“!”

“Since he calls you disciple, he must have killed your Master and worn his skin. It’s Fire Butterfly’s style of mockery.”

At those words, the Hero’s face cracked like ice with hairline fractures. The Hero’s eyes slowly turned toward Ruin.

There were no words. But his breathing became labored.

And for good reason – the Hero remembered recent events.

‘Master was alive.’

Just recently, he had left a letter and disappeared. He had definitely witnessed that face… Could it be.

‘…Could it be!’

Had that also been Fire Butterfly’s disguise? Had his real Master been murdered by Fire Butterfly that day?

The Hero’s face fell into despair.

To think that the one who had raised him and given him hope had died after all. His vision became distant. It felt like the ground he was standing on was collapsing.

Reality became hazily distorted. Ruin before his eyes no longer looked like a human form.

A black shadow.

A shell of deception.

A nightmare wearing a mask of lies.

That very nightmare was trampling on his most precious memories.

Sure enough, the Hero’s mouth slowly opened.

“That day… the day you killed the Hero Candidates-“

His pupils shook. An incomprehensible hypothesis unfolded in his mind like a horrific picture.

“Don’t tell me you stole Master’s face then.”

Ruin didn’t open his mouth. That silence seemed to affirm everything.

“Then…”

The Hero’s pupils shook greatly.

“Then the Master I met recently too.”

His breath stopped.

“…That was also you, wasn’t it.”

Thump.

The sound of his heart dropping. Not an unbearable truth he didn’t want to believe, but the pain of hoping for a believable lie cast a shadow over his face.

Ruin said nothing. The scene unfolding before his eyes was quite a spectacle.

…Where on earth should he even begin to set things straight.

‘I can’t exactly say that I was your master from the beginning.’

The master who had actually been assigned was a traitor who had joined hands with Pride to sell out the candidates.

He was the one who filled that void. The master’s position, the children’s future – he, Ruin, had shouldered it all.

But his essence was still that of a spy. The mission he was given was ultimately to raise the Hero candidates only to kill them. In the end, it was his fate to kill his disciples with his own hands.

So there was no point in saying anything. No matter what explanation he gave, it would only sound like excuses to Elaine. That’s why Ruin kept his mouth shut.

Over that silence, Rei gently embraced Elaine. She quietly smiled while holding the Hero in her arms.

“Poor Elaine…”

Cold poison dripped from her voice.

“One master’s mask would be enough to toy with a single Hero.”

The moment those words ended. The Hero’s eyes completely flipped. Emotions boiled over. His lips trembled, his pupils shook. Golden magic power exploded from his fists. His breathing was gradually becoming beast-like.

He gritted his teeth.

In the end, Fire Butterfly had killed his precious master. Wore his face and deceived him. And now stood before him as if nothing had happened.

“…I’ll eliminate you.”

By the time those words came out, the holy sword was already summoned in his hand.

As the sky-blue metal gleamed and cut through space, Ruin let out a deep breath. He was genuinely getting a headache.

‘Fuck. Should I just beat him up?’

No wait. Let me get my severance pay first, then beat him up. He raised his hands. He wanted to try resolving this with words rather than fighting.

“I don’t know what misunderstanding you have, but-“

Ruin’s words were short and sharp.

“You need to figure out why that woman disappeared in front of you first. Even going so far as to fake her death.”

The Hero looked at Rei.

At those words, Rei lowered her head and spoke as if sobbing.

“I didn’t want to become a burden to Elaine. Pride might use me as a hostage… so I left in advance.”

What bullshit.

Ruin could only click his tongue.

‘Seriously… Spider. You sent me something troublesome.’

Meanwhile, the Hero gritted his teeth as if grieving over his master’s death. He didn’t know what judgment he had made, but his verdict regarding Ruin seemed to be decided.

“I understand that you stole my master’s face, killed him, and toyed with me until recently.”

Ruin rolled his eyes.

Well, yeah. Your master never died… and that was actually me.

Soon his eyes met the holy sword.

‘Damn. Getting cut by that would hurt like hell.’

Hero and Ruin. The moment these two special-grade beings aimed at each other-

“Professor! Chairman!”

The door burst open. Then a student rushed in, panting heavily.

“Demons! Demons have appeared!”

The tension in the room instantly flipped.

Ruin let out a hollow laugh and stepped back.

“…Finally, today’s main character has appeared.”

That Spider bastard. To think he’d dump this kind of shit on him.

Then his gaze naturally turned toward the Hero.

“Chairman who’s barking up the wrong tree. Save your anger for later. Don’t you have work to do right now?”

“…!”

Ruin left outside as if avoiding the situation.

* * *

The campsite had become a battlefield. It was because demons had attacked the campsite.

Even when Ruin arrived, it was complete chaos. He wondered why the situation was so serious, when a student shouted.

“A 1st year kid was kidnapped by a demon beast, and Goldsky saved that kid but got dragged away instead!”

Goldsky did? Something like that? The Goldmoon student who would never step forward first if it was dangerous?

“That kid said that if you’re a disciple of the White Mage, this kind of thing is natural…”

Ruin’s heart sank.

‘…White Mage.’

That was just a fake identity Ruin had created. But Goldsky believed those words. Innocently and foolishly, with bright, sparkling eyes.

“So the Goldmoon students and priests followed after them…!”

Ruin gritted his teeth.

“Is this Spider’s doing.”

That was when it happened.

“Unfortunately, it’s not Spider.”

“!”

A man who had been quietly treating the injured lifted his head and smiled brightly.

‘Spider.’

A Special Grade Wanted Criminal disguised as Ruin’s acquaintance.

It was already absurd that a Special Grade Wanted Criminal was pretending to be human, but Ruin found his next words even more absurd.

“The one who took the students—”

He pointed with his tattooed finger toward a storm-clouded peak beyond the mountain range.

“It’s the Monster King who protects this region.”

“…Monster King?”

The surroundings fell silent. Spider continued his explanation in a playful tone.

“A being that dwells in this mountain range, literally like a ‘Mountain God.’ Approaching it is taboo itself. It’s an existence that all adventurers and mages avoid.”

Ruin was dumbfounded.

“All the Monster Kings of this generation should be asleep, shouldn’t they?”

Everyone except himself and Spider had been asleep.

However.

“It has awakened.”

“!”

Is this the Demon Emperor’s doing!

The professors nearby began to panic one by one.

“If it were Spider instead, at least the Hero could handle a Special Grade Wanted Criminal…”

“But if it’s a Monster King, that’s a different story… This is on a completely different level…”

Then Ruin gritted his teeth. So he was wondering how to kill the Hero and students, and he’s using a Monster King. This is all the Demon Emperor’s scheme.

‘More than that, if it’s the Monster King from around here…’

This is troublesome. It’s a familiar face.

But there’s no choice now. If the opponent is that Monster King, the students will really die. Not only does it hate humans intensely, but it looks at them like insects.

Soon Ruin headed toward the mountain with frightening eyes. At that sight, the Hero who had followed looked extremely bewildered.

‘Fire Butterfly is going to rescue the students?’

Why on earth?

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