I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 199

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Chapter 199. You Call Him Master? (4)

That day was Master’s birthday. To be precise, Master didn’t even call it a birthday.

“It’s meaningless. Nothing will change just because a number increased by one.”

He spoke indifferently as always, but still said this at the end.

“I’ll at least buy the snacks you like.”

The disciples were excited by those words. A day when they were finally allowed to go out from the remote dormitory in the remote area. A small ripple occurred in their quietly flowing daily life.

It was anticipation and excitement. It was a time when they felt something more than family, not just a simple master-disciple relationship.

So they prepared a party. They made a small cake, hung balloons, and stuck paper with crooked writing saying ‘Congratulations’ on the wall. Everything was for that day.

But the tragedy began when someone knocked on the door.

“Master?”

He opened the door. And at that moment, the world changed.

“Feels like being the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, doesn’t it?”

The person standing at the entrance wasn’t Master. A man with blood smeared around his mouth, only his eyes blazing.

‘Cobra.’

He began the slaughter without any warning.

“Aaaaah!”

“Ren! No, Ren!”

That day, the dormitory was stained with blood. Ear-splitting screams, severed arms, scattered desks, torn curtains… The only one who survived in the chaos was Elaine. Even that was by chance.

But then it happened.

“Kugh… What are you doing!”

Cobra suddenly lost his grip on Elaine. Struck by misfortune, he stepped back.

He didn’t miss that opportunity. Elaine grabbed a knife. Still young hands, still trembling eyes. But he succeeded in precisely stabbing Cobra’s eye with a MacGyver knife.

Cobra screamed and fled. Only silence remained after he disappeared in an instant. The early evening dormitory was stained red with blood.

“…”

Elaine quietly looked around. Blood-stained chairs. Traces of companions whose forms were unrecognizable… In the middle of it all was a fallen paper bag.

When he carefully opened it, snacks came out.

“This is… what Aina liked… this is… what Ren liked… this is… what Yuri liked…”

They had been waiting for the party. Believing only in those words that Master would buy them.

But now, there was vivid blood on the snacks. Master’s blood-stained coat was crumpled on the floor.

Young Elaine concluded.

“…Master is dead too.”

After that, regular contact was cut off for 140 days.

When the investigation team came from the Union, no food or belongings remained. There was only one child who had buried his companions in the ground alone, neither crying nor responding when spoken to.

Elaine had originally been abandoned at the Hero training institution for being a bastard of the Saint family. The only place he had to stay was this small house in the mountains from the beginning…

Now everything had disappeared.

He had lost everything.

Thus Elaine was called a monster with luck power who survived even in an environment where his friends and master were massacred, and was sent to the Union’s military. Elaine grew up in the military with the scarlet letter of being the sole survivor.

But now-

That master might be alive.

“…No way.”

That day, only Master’s blood-stained coat remained, so everyone thought he was dead. They believed so even though Master’s body was never found.

But now, the one standing there bleeding while holding a magic wand.

‘Ruins Wayne.’

Elaine’s gaze toward him began to tremble. Complexly intertwined memories and emotions suddenly overwhelmed him.

‘I need to… check this directly.’

However, Ruin was standing there dazed for a different reason.

‘The regression magic… stopped?’

The magic circle had been severed at some point. The Demon Emperor had clearly tried to give up this timeline and regress, but the magic didn’t activate.

Wondering what happened, he glanced to the side. The Demon Emperor’s face was hardened.

‘Could this be something unplanned…?’

At the same time, Ruin’s eyes flashed.

‘Then… my severance pay is still safe?!’

That was what mattered to Ruin. If the route was maintained as planned, there was still a chance.

At that moment, commotion erupted.

“The Demon Emperor has infiltrated Haven!”

“Chairman!”

The professors shouted. Overwhelming power was leaking from Lily’s body. Lily’s eyes were no longer those of a teaching assistant either.

The teaching assistant’s clear smile disappeared, and the Demon Emperor’s intimidating gaze took its place. The air became suffocatingly heavy.

[Ruin.]

Her voice from far away rang in his ears. It was a voice that seemed to directly squeeze his heart.

[Come here.]

…What?

[I think I’ve been too lenient with you. There’s no more talk of severance pay now. Stay by my side.]

Ruin instinctively stepped back. No, he tried to step back.

But his body wouldn’t obey. From his ankles to his waist, it felt like invisible strings were wrapping around him. Black chains had even caught hold of his shadow.

[This route has already failed. Then the right answer is to retrieve you at this point. Let’s go home.]

As she reached out her hand, the chains wrapped around Ruin’s body. Ruin gritted his teeth.

“Who said I would follow you?”

[You don’t have the right to refuse.]

Lily’s eyes gleamed deeply. A mad gaze, as if she was looking at Ruin before her as ‘the Demon Emperor’s possession.’

“You’re mine. Even if you die, even if you regress, you must stay by my side until the end.”

“Ha… Are you insane?”

Ruin gritted his teeth and struggled with his body. However, the chains seemed to have penetrated deep into Ruin’s essence, his very heart, binding him tight. As if his lifeline itself had been grasped, he couldn’t escape.

That’s when it happened.

Swish.

Light flashed.

The Hero’s holy sword lightly cut through the chains.

“I won’t let you take him!”

The Hero’s shouting voice was chilling.

“That person is my person!”

At the Hero’s cry, Lily’s lips twisted with disgust. The Demon Emperor’s voice overlapped and echoed.

“Your person? Don’t make me laugh.”

And then came the explosion of magic power.

Black beams of light and golden light collided head-on.

An explosion that seemed to split the world. People screamed, and professors deployed shields. Golden and black energy tangled together for a moment, tearing the surroundings to shreds.

Eventually, the professors’ shields couldn’t hold and burst. From within, the Demon Emperor’s form emerged.

“Hero. You dare to block me? If you truly care for that child, the one who should disappear right now is you.”

Veins bulged on the Hero’s forehead.

What did you say?

“Explain those words.”

“Because of you, that child always dies. Your very existence means that child’s freedom will never come.”

At that moment, the Hero’s power wavered unstably. For an instant, doubt appeared in those eyes. The Demon Emperor, not missing that, shouted.

“So die. For this child’s future.”

As she brought down her hand, space tore apart.

Shuaaaak!

A black spear.

A spear of darkness that tore through space itself was formed. It was the Demon Emperor’s killing move that had devoured countless mages in an instant in the past.

“Farewell, apostle of justice.”

The spear shot up. Directly toward the Hero’s heart at a speed no one could stop.

That’s when someone’s gaze moved urgently. It was Ruin. He frowned and whispered.

“…Miss.”

‘Misfortune activated.’

Screech.

The world went awry. The space-tearing spear followed its original trajectory, but just before that, the ground suddenly shook.

‘…Now? At this timing?’

The Demon Emperor’s attack wavered for a moment, and the Hero’s body was pierced.

“Chairman!”

Blood splattered. However, the heart was intact.

Ruin was relieved, and the Demon Emperor gritted her teeth.

“…Ruin, just now. What did you do!”

Ruin caught the staggering Hero’s back. Then he said nonchalantly.

[If the Chairman dies too, I think I’ll really get fired.]

Before those words could even finish.

Swish!

The body of the Hero, who they thought had fainted, reflexively moved his shoulder and swung his sword. With unfocused eyes, but precisely.

Though his consciousness was severed, his body chosen by the god of battle was moving like magic.

“…!”

The Demon Emperor’s eyes shook greatly. It was carelessness. In fact, that should have been called a ‘miracle’ rather than luck.

Crackle!

Space tore like black cloth being ripped, and the Demon Emperor’s body collapsed. The Demon Emperor’s form scattered and disappeared like dust, as if black butterflies were dispersing.

Thus ended the practical Demon Hunting Studies class.

* * *

The day they returned to Haven, the school was literally in chaos.

“What?! The Demon Emperor?! The Demon Emperor appeared?!”

“The students… the students are safe, right?!”

“They’re safe thanks to the Head Professor! But…”

“The Hero… was severely injured!”

“More than that, what’s the relationship between the Demon Emperor and the Head Professor?”

The Hero’s injury. And the relationship between Ruins Wayne and the Demon Emperor became the topic of discussion.

‘Well, I somewhat predicted this would happen when the Demon Emperor went on a rampage.’

Ruin simply said one thing to the professors with a troubled expression.

“It’s a stalker.”

“?!”

“They’re one-sidedly courting me.”

“??????”

Even amid the confusion, the medical ward was quiet as if holding its breath.

There lay the Hero with bandages wrapped around his head, and Ruin silently watching him. Ruin was checking the Hero’s condition in his capacity as a Healing Professor.

But inside, it was different.

‘It’s a miracle he’s still alive. Is this really the power of luck?’

At that moment, the Hero’s eyelids trembled and slowly opened. Ruin calmly greeted him.

“Are you conscious?”

The Hero looked at the ceiling and muttered.

“…You must have something to say.”

“Not really.”

Ruin played dumb. He already had the face of someone who had roughly sorted things out and wiped his mouth clean.

‘Anyway, I just need to play dumb and collect my severance pay.’

Then the Hero let out a deep sigh.

“…I have no choice.”

Then he took something out, click.

“…?”

The cold sound of handcuffs.

Those handcuffs connected Ruin’s wrist to the Hero’s wrist. Ruin turned his head with an incredulous expression.

Handcuffs?

Is this crazy bastard serious?!

But the next words were even more shocking.

“As of today, Professor, you are fired.”

“…What?!”

“The reason is that we cannot keep someone with many secrets at the school.”

At those words, Ruin was genuinely dumbfounded.

‘No, this bastard really… really fired me?’

How could this happen! After all the suffering I went through trying not to get fired…!

“…Instead-“

The Hero closed his eyes with a tired expression.

“These handcuffs are an item imbued with luck power. Even if you run away, they’re designed to always bring you back to me.”

“…?”

“I realized that imprisonment is meaningless for you, Professor.”

“…”

“So… you won’t be able to escape with this. Let’s interrogate you slowly…”

The Hero trailed off, then fell asleep as if fainting without even listening to Ruin’s reaction.

Ruin stared blankly at the handcuffs on his wrist.

“Wait, hold on. Then I have to go to the bathroom together too… No wait. This is kidnapping. You’ve crossed the line, seriously…!”

However, the next morning. When the Hero opened his eyes-

“…!”

Ruin was not by his side.

“What, why isn’t he here!”

The Hero was bewildered.

But the disappeared Ruin was equally bewildered. And for good reason…

“Fuck, what is this.”

Ruin had also been kidnapped.

To the Holy Empire.

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