I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 206

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Chapter 206. Encounter with the Master (3)

“Cobra said he couldn’t kill me because of your interference.”

The Hero wiped his bloodied lips and stared straight at Ruin.

“Why did you save me?”

All around was quiet. Ruin fell into contemplation about how to answer. Eventually, the hesitating Ruin let out a short laugh.

“Why, you ask?”

Ruin raised the corners of his mouth with a cold expression.

“Because you’re a test subject.”

“…Excuse me?”

“I needed a ‘lucky human’ who could somehow survive for a long time.”

Ruin tapped the desk with his finger.

“In the end, it was because of your Luck Power. Thanks to that, I made good use of you.”

Ruin smiled mischievously. That smile pierced the Hero’s heart like a dagger.

“Be proud that you survived. You were quite an excellent specimen for my experiments.”

Ruin turned around as if his business was now finished. Then he laughed as if remembering something belatedly.

“Oh right, don’t forget to deposit my severance pay.”

Leaving only that laughter behind, the door slammed shut.

The Hero, left alone, hung his head and ground his teeth.

“…Lies.”

He clenched his fists and bit his lips.

He put that much care into a test subject?

“That can’t be right.”

* * *

The students were murmuring.

“Isn’t that the Hero?”

“Right. Humanity’s strongest, the only one who can match the Demon Emperor.”

“Why is someone like that here?”

“Don’t tell me he came to attend Professor Ruins’ class?”

“Is he that level of professor?”

In the stirring atmosphere, Ruin pressed his temples.

“…Chairman. Why are you here?”

“Huh? This is a school and a classroom. Of course I came to attend class.”

The students stirred again.

“They say humanity’s strongest came to learn from a professor!”

When even the professors started stirring, Ruin touched his brow.

“I have nothing to teach you. You should apply for a meeting instead.”

“You’d refuse anyway.”

Well, that’s true.

Ruin sighed.

“Fine. Then today’s class will also be practical, so come out from the front-“

Right at that moment, the Hero lightly stepped up onto the podium.

Ruin’s eyes turned fierce.

“Chairman, get down.”

“Ah, I’m the teaching assistant today.”

Who asked you to do such a thing.

“Today’s class will be replaced with a practical lesson to find out ‘whether Professor Ruins Wayne is the Hero’s master or not’!”

“?!”

The students stirred.

“The Hero’s master?”

“Amazing. You’re saying that professor is humanity’s strongest’s master?”

“Come to think of it, I think I heard His Holiness the Pope say that too.”

“What? He’s the person who created humanity’s strongest?”

Ruin’s eyebrows twitched.

The Hero smiled brightly.

“So. I’ll ask the professor one question.”

The Hero calmly took out Frix and projected Ruin’s past activities into the air.

[Haven Head Professor, former agent theory.]

[White Mage.]

“Now, everyone. Look at this. This is strong evidence supporting that Professor Ruins Wayne could be the Hero’s master.”

“…”

Unable to bear it any longer, Ruin spat out a word.

“Chairman. If you act crazy here, you’ll be the one getting expelled.”

“If I get expelled, I’ll just tell the Pope to build me another school.”

…This bastard is really going off the rails.

“I’m looking for a master I parted with long ago. So I’d like you, Professor, to prove whether you’re my master right here.”

The students erupted in explosive cheers.

Ruin pressed his temples firmly.

‘Just ignore it. Ignore…’

However, the Hero said something even more ridiculous.

“Please hit me. Like you used to.”

…Isn’t this crazy bastard insane.

But the students cheered in unison.

“Waaaah!”

“If the Hero and Professor fight, who would win!”

“Obviously the Hero, right?”

Ruin gritted his teeth inwardly. Now it had become awkward to ignore.

Finally, Ruin swiftly pulled out his magic wand from his coat. Seeing this, the students got even more excited.

“Is that the Union Head Professor’s staff?”

The Hero stood confidently with his arms crossed.

“Good. Professor. Come at me anytime.”

Come anytime?

Ruin slowly raised the corners of his mouth in a cold smile.

“Then let’s begin the practical lesson. The lesson name is ‘Skull Correction’.”

As soon as those words ended-

Bang!

Ruin’s staff struck the Hero’s forehead. To be precise, he aimed for the nerve point to make him collapse instantly. The Hero’s pupils shook violently.

But-

“Urgh…!”

The Hero endured it. He gritted his teeth and endured to the end.

“…This much isn’t enough proof.”

Oh? You’re enduring?

Ruin moved to the next step without hesitation.

Thwack!

Thwack thwack!

Ruin’s staff mercilessly pummeled the Hero.

‘Since it’s a staff made from absolutely unbreakable ore, it should hurt quite a bit.’

Sure enough, the Hero who was being beaten mercilessly screamed.

“Ack! Wait, ack! Time, time!”

“Time my ass.”

“No, do it properly!”

However, Ruin completely ignored him and kept hitting.

Thwack thwack!

Smack smack!

Ruin’s staff struck the Hero’s body with satisfying impact.

But at that moment, the Hero’s hand shot out like lightning. Then he grabbed Ruin’s staff.

“Do it properly, I said!”

Instantly, Ruin’s eyes narrowed coldly. A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and veins of anger clearly rose on his brow.

“…A student dares to rebel against a professor?”

Ruin’s low voice instantly dropped the temperature of the classroom.

However, the Hero, who was actually delighted, spoke without a moment’s hesitation.

“Now you’re in the mood to do it properly…hueok!”

Crack!

Before he could finish speaking, Ruin’s fist struck the Hero’s abdomen.

Instantly the Hero’s body bent. A blow that precisely pressed down below the solar plexus, closer to bone-crushing than striking.

“Kheuk…!”

His body flew backward through the air. Even his steel-like abdominal muscles couldn’t withstand it.

Ruin’s eyes flashed coldly.

“A student, rebelling in my class?”

Ruin cracked his knuckles as he approached. The sound of his shoes echoed coldly in the classroom.

Ruin wiped the blood flowing down the back of his hand and slowly clenched his fist. Then an uppercut precisely aimed at the Hero’s chin!

Crack!

A heavy sound of jawbone creaking echoed.

Thwack!

“This is an academy.”

Thwack! Thwack!

Slaps flew consecutively toward the Hero’s cheeks. The force was enough to snap his neck sideways and push his body backward.

“And class is currently in session.”

Bang!

Ruin’s hand blade struck down sharply as if slicing through the Hero’s chest. His entire torso throbbed instantly.

“Guh…!”

The Hero’s body was sent flying.

Crash!

He slammed onto a desk, and the desk legs snapped satisfyingly.

The students held their breath.

“…Wow, he’s really beating him up.”

“That’s not healing, that’s just assault, right?”

“More importantly, he’s pummeling humanity’s strongest right now…!”

“That professor is really an overpowered character…”

As the Hero staggered to his feet, Ruin stepped forward first. Then he skillfully tripped the Hero’s thigh, sending him tumbling.

“Guh!”

In that moment, the Hero collapsed pathetically to the ground. Just as he was about to get back up—

Grab.

Ruin’s hand roughly seized the Hero’s hair. At the same time, his knuckles pressed against the scalp, violently twisting the strands of hair.

“…!”

That grip was like a predator snatching the nape of its prey.

“Listen carefully, Chairman.”

Ruin’s low voice. It was sharp and cold like a blade. His eyes held killing intent, and his fingertips were sharp enough to tear flesh.

“I don’t know who your master was, but—”

Misfortune curse power swirled faintly around Ruin’s wrist.

The Hero’s vision wavered instantly. It overlapped with a memory of his master twisting his wrist while preparing to strike.

“At least they wouldn’t have acted like this.”

Thwack!

Ruin’s fist landed squarely, twisting the Hero’s jaw to the side.

Bang!

The Hero’s head slammed into the wall. The sound of cracking bricks could be heard. He didn’t lose consciousness, but the impact made the Hero’s body slump down. The students’ mouths fell open.

The Hero sat slumped, blood dripping, and muttered.

“…This movement is… Master’s…”

Then Ruin whispered deeper and more mercilessly, as if telling him to listen well.

“How many times do I have to tell you that I killed your master.”

Thwack!

After kicking the Hero away, Ruin lightly dusted himself off.

“Now, today’s practical lesson ends here. Activate Impact Healing magic and then beat them up like this.”

The classroom finally stirred with delayed gasps.

“Wasn’t that professor a mage?”

“Damn, isn’t he stronger than the combat priests?”

Meanwhile, the Hero who had slumped to the floor roughly wiped the blood flowing from his chin with the back of his hand.

Despite being humanity’s strongest, he had never once defeated his master. Because his body would freeze up just thinking about his master.

But…

‘Why are all his movements… exactly like Master’s…?’

* * *

“So now it’s you two after the Chairman.”

Ruin pressed his brow as if getting a headache. Before his eyes sat two troublemakers from Haven with shameless faces.

1st Prince Henry Winberg.

Second Prince Ryle Winberg.

Well, if these feuding brothers came together, it probably wasn’t anything too serious…

“I came to enroll in Gransia Academy.”

Yeah, this isn’t just a serious matter, it’s an extremely serious matter. Damn it.

‘Why are all my disciples like this?’

No, more precisely, why do only the ‘disciples I want to pretend I don’t know’ cling to me like this?

At that moment, polite Henry and cheeky Ryle each spoke.

“Abandoning your disciple is unthinkable.”

“You said you’d make me Emperor.”

…Another pair of obsessive ones…

-Did you flee to the Holy Empire to avoid my daughter?

‘…No, that makes three.’

Ruin sighed as he carefully folded the Emperor’s handwritten letter that Henry had just brought.

This was unbelievable. He was just a professor who got fired from Haven. But for the Emperor to personally write and send a pleading letter – what kind of hellgate is this?

‘Well, maybe it’s an opportunity.’

The Imperial Princess seemed unable to come because she was busy attending classes after he gave her all F’s, and these slackers had many uses.

In that case, he should make use of them while he could.

“Fine. Enrollment is impossible, but I can arrange for you to attend classes as exchange students.”

“Really?”

“Of course, you’ll need my permission.”

Henry and Ryle’s expressions hardened simultaneously. This was clearly conditional approval.

And knowing what they wanted, Ruin spoke deliberately slowly.

“Ryle Winberg.”

“…!”

“Go retrieve my severance pay from Haven without the Hero knowing. You can do that, right?”

Ryle’s eyes narrowed. He seemed unable to tell whether this was blackmail or an opportunity, but eventually he bit his lip and nodded.

“…If that’s your command.”

Ruin shifted his gaze to Henry.

“First Prince, I have something I’d like you to ask Princess Lucherin on my behalf.”

“Great-aunt Lucherin?”

“Actually, I have a heart condition.”

“?!”

At this calm confession, both princes’ expressions hardened.

A chronic illness?

“Why are you telling us something like that now! How bad is your condition?”

“You said you’d make me Emperor, but you hid something so important? Is it a fatal disease?”

As both jumped up in apparent panic, Ruin shook his head.

“Don’t worry. It’s not contagious. At most, only I will die from it.”

“Is that the issue right now? A fatal disease – why are you revealing something so important only now? Then if I may ask, how much time do you have left?”

To the princes’ questions, Ruin answered nonchalantly.

“About a year?”

That’s roughly how long his contract with the Demon Emperor had left.

But at that moment, the surrounding temperature seemed to freeze. The princes’ expressions hardened simultaneously.

“One year…? Only one year?”

That’s all he had left?

Both turned even paler, but Ruin himself casually rested his chin on his hand. As for the Solitude Curse that the Demon Emperor had planted in his heart… maybe he’d leave that to Lucherin.

‘Then I won’t have to repay the debt.’

Ruin smiled.

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