I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 211
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Chapter 211. The Escaped Butterfly (2)
“Fire Butterfly? You’ve figured out how to kill the Hero, haven’t you?”
There was no longer any playfulness in Sasha’s voice.
Ruin pressed his lips tightly together.
“…That’s-“
“Don’t beat around the bush.”
Sasha looked straight at him as she spoke. It was the cold, calculating gaze of a decision-maker who had approved and scrapped countless operations as a ‘Superior.’
“Do you think I’m looking at this emotionally right now?”
“…”
“This question to you, who’s in the heart of the Union, is a verification process that must be conducted.”
Ruin responded coldly.
“So what? If I say I know that method, will you tell me to execute it right now, Superior?”
Sasha took a deep drag of her cigarette and slowly exhaled into the air.
“I would.”
“The Demon Emperor originally killed the Hero to obtain the Wish Stone and gained the regression ability with it. So don’t you already know how to kill the Hero?”
“If such a thing happened in the past, it was probably by chance.”
“!”
“The Demon Emperor doesn’t know how to kill the Hero. But now you know it.”
The pressure to answer well as a Pride agent. At those words, Ruin’s eyes narrowed.
“…It’s someone’s blood. But I don’t know anything beyond that.”
Sasha stared at him silently for a long moment, then twisted her lips into a smile.
“…Fire Butterfly. You’ve given me that look before.”
“…”
“When I gave the order to kill the Hero Candidates.”
At those words, Ruin’s eyebrows twitched.
“Back then, you also said you killed them all as ordered and left only one who might benefit Pride.”
Sasha continued matter-of-factly.
“And now you. You have the exact same look as back then.”
Her eyes narrowed sharply.
“Yes, the look of someone lying.”
Ruin remained silent.
“Last time was the final time I’ll cover for you.”
“!”
Sasha crushed her cigarette on the ground.
“I won’t pry anymore. But… if you’ve figured out the method, you’ll do it yourself.”
“I submitted my resignation.”
Sasha laughed. Bitterly.
“This isn’t an order to Fire Butterfly, but to a ‘Special Grade Wanted Criminal.'”
Silence fell.
Ruin slowly raised his gaze to look at Sasha. She was staring back with emotionless, cold eyes.
“If a Special Grade Wanted Criminal defects… the Seven Black Palace and the Five Evils would consider them a target for ‘elimination.'”
“But as you said, the Demon Emperor cherishes me, so wouldn’t he protect me instead?”
“Elimination doesn’t only mean killing.”
Ruin’s lips twisted.
Right, their method of elimination meant physical mutilation, mental breakdown, lifelong imprisonment. A living hell worse than death…
“As you know, Special Grade Wanted Criminals are temporarily released on the condition of completing orders. If you disobey, you simply return to your original place.”
Ruin quietly raised the corners of his mouth. Mockingly enough to be felt as such.
“Anyway, you’re a Pride person. And Pride doesn’t forgive betrayal.”
At those words, Ruin’s eyes darkened.
“Even the Demon Emperor would understand if told you abandoned Pride.”
At those words, Ruin’s lips twisted even deeper.
‘These damn Pride upper echelon bastards.’
Beyond Sasha, the silhouette of the Seven Black Palace came to mind.
The actual control mechanism of Pride, established in the Demon Emperor’s name. That place had long been putting a leash called ‘the sin of killing the Demon Emperor’s blood relative’ around Ruin’s neck.
‘Those bastards wouldn’t let me go… even if I paid off all my debts.’
Of course, his current life wasn’t bad. Thanks to Sasha, the number of orders had decreased, and he had freedom of action, but…
Still, the existing shackles of belonging felt suffocating. Rather than being worked to death in that hell again as a Special Grade Wanted Criminal…
‘Wouldn’t it be better to deceive them by pretending to be a professor at Haven.’
He could receive compensation through Sasha too.
And as if reading his thoughts-
“Ruin.”
Sasha called to him.
“!”
Not ‘Fire Butterfly’ but ‘Ruin’. That was the name used when calling him not as a Superior or Special Grade Wanted Criminal, but as a Death Brother calling his younger sister.
Sasha looked at Ruin with a cold but concerned expression.
“As long as you stay within Pride Territory like now, I can protect you.”
Right. She would protect him. In fact, she was already giving him many conveniences.
However, there was only one condition—
Submit obediently.
‘Well, that’s not so bad either. But…’
Ruin deliberately changed the subject. Since his Superior had called him Ruin, he would match that tone.
“Do you believe what they say about the Demon Emperor regressing to obtain me?”
“Well, if it’s that Demon Emperor, it seems possible. And Ren probably knew everything.”
At that name, Ruin instinctively reacted.
“…Ren.”
He was the ‘Spider’.
Come to think of it, his life or death hadn’t been confirmed since the last time he saw him.
“Originally, Ren became a Special Grade Wanted Criminal because of you.”
“…!”
“You didn’t know the reason Spider killed all the Death Brothers?”
Ruin remained silent. He had never heard of it.
“Those Death Brother bastards tried to devour you, a young Monster King, behind Master’s back to become stronger. The Demon Emperor called Ren to stop it, and Ren killed them all as instructed.”
“So… that’s why he was excommunicated and exiled?”
“Of course. From Master’s perspective, there was no justification to protect someone who killed the Death Brothers.”
“I had no idea.”
“Was there any need for you to know?”
Sasha casually flicked her cigarette ash.
“So now only Solitude remains?”
Solitude. The bug the Demon Emperor had placed in his heart in case Ruin tried to escape.
If Ruin ran away without repaying his debt, the bug planted in his heart would gnaw away at Ruin’s heart.
This was the problem now. If he didn’t resolve this, he would die within a few months.
The Pope also pointed to his heart and said.
“Solve that quickly. You’ll really die and become a slave at this rate.”
“…Slave?”
“You wouldn’t want to become Frankenstein, would you?”
“…”
It seemed the Demon Emperor planned to insert a different heart if he died. As a doll that would only be loyal to the Demon Emperor.
“So it’s taxidermy after all…”
“You’d be lucky if it’s just taxidermy.”
“…?”
“You might become an adult-rated doll.”
“…”
Oh, God, dear God.
Ruin covered his face. He absolutely had to avoid that. His heart became urgent at the thought.
“I’m meeting Lucherin today, so something will work out.”
「Oh, seduce Lucherin and get something out of it.」
Shut up.
「Well, if it’s the Hero, she’d probably stop you from becoming an adult-rated doll.」
‘The Hero and the Demon Emperor.’
Well, I am curious about what those two are doing.
* * *
The border where dawn mist had not yet lifted.
The flag of Pride Territory slowly revealed itself in the darkness. The dark red emblem fluttered as the Demon Emperor’s forces crossed the border.
And at noon that day, a note flew into Union Headquarters.
“Commander. This is from the Demon Emperor.”
-Hand over Fire Butterfly. Otherwise, the border will no longer have meaning. I will kill you and take the Wish Stone.
The Hero read the note and said nothing for a moment. Then the corners of his mouth slowly rose.
“How ridiculous. What are you trying to do to my Master with the Wish Stone.”
He immediately gathered his staff officers. Red lines were drawn on the map.
“Block Pride. And bring me the Demon Emperor’s head!”
“But if we can’t find the Demon Emperor’s heart, cutting off his head won’t matter!”
“It doesn’t matter! First, I’ll rescue Master!”
The messengers rushed out like arrows. The Rhine War that had been quiet had begun.
Ruin, who heard the news from afar through shadows, muttered.
“…Ah, what’s all this fuss about. Why are you all making such a big deal over just me.”
Just then, while talking with the Imperial Attendant, a familiar voice burst out.
“Professor! You really came out!”
Prince Henry welcomed Ruin who had arrived at the Imperial Villa. He seemed to have been worried since Ruin had disappeared without a sound.
“Right now Haven is completely turned upside down and in chaos!”
Well, I did run away without looking back, thinking I’d gotten all my severance pay.
“Everyone’s crying and making a fuss saying Professor left to settle his affairs.”
Settling your affairs… just how much are you going to treat me like an invalid…
“The chairman is now interrogating Professor Eren, who has nothing to do with this… The man has lost his mind.”
Echo… you couldn’t escape.
“Let’s go for now.”
Following the First Prince, a magnificent place appeared. Footsteps were absorbed by the thick carpet, and old Imperial portraits hung in rows along the walls. Those gazes seemed to whisper ‘I know you.’
In front of the large double doors, the attendant stopped. Soon the handle turned and the heavy doors opened.
The first thing visible was white silk veils draped to the ceiling. Beyond them stood the silhouette of a woman.
As Ruin took a few steps closer, her hand slowly lifted the veil.
Saaaah.
Brilliant light poured out.
In that light, the woman once called the Empire’s star revealed herself.
Her hair was white as snow and her skin was beautiful like porcelain. But above all, those eyes. They were exactly as Ruin remembered them.
Ruin bowed his head deeply.
“I am deeply grateful that you would meet with such a humble person.”
Ruin continued speaking.
“As a healer… there is someone I absolutely cannot cure. I wish to ask for your insight.”
Lucherin smiled lightly. Then she cut off the tone that seemed to be trying to create some kind of smokescreen.
“Let’s stop with the pointless pretense.”
Her gaze pierced straight through Ruin. Those red lips moved very slowly.
“…Fire Butterfly. It’s been a long time.”
“…Fire Butterfly. It’s been a while.”
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