I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 22

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Chapter 22. What Kind of Guy Is This? (4)

Ruin furrowed his brow. His gaze was directed toward the confident student.

‘Goldsky.’

The guy he had tried to grab by the head like a radish and throw off the rooftop.

‘Don’t tell me he noticed something back then?’

Well, it’s not easy for an ordinary mage to have that kind of grip strength. He was a demon born from monsters after all, so he was stronger than humans, but…

‘Did I reveal too much strength?’

Damn it. What is this? What does he think he knows?

Then Goldsky whispered seriously.

“Fire Butterfly.”

Thump.

「See! He knew it was Fire Butterfly after all!」

“-‘s plan, the legendary great mage who thwarted it.”

…Huh?

“The legendary battle mage who was active on historic battlefields.”

…Huh?

“The top disciple of the ‘White Mage’, am I right?”

…What?

However, Goldsky glanced at the seal mark on the inside of Ruin’s right arm.

It was a seal mark created when evil was sealed by Ruins Wayne’s ‘God’s Right Hand’. The one that looked like ‘keeping’ magic at first glance.

Perhaps because of that, Goldsky’s face turned red.

“That Keeping Magic is the White Mage’s only symbol! And I heard rumors that after the White Mage retired, his top disciple inherited that name and has been secretly active…!”

No. Student? You’re having a big misunderstanding.

Ruin rubbed his forehead.

‘White Mage.’

So he was the Union’s great mage who used Keeping Magic.

Keeping Magic is daily life magic used without incantations. It’s used for things like lighting fires or providing warmth. It’s also used as support magic, utilized by knights to keep magic on their swords.

In other words, it’s generally used by imbuing it into objects.

But there was a legendary mage who directly imbued that Keeping Magic into his body and swept through battlefields with silent casting. That was the White Mage, the Union’s great hero.

I heard he was a righteous person belonging to the Secret Order who defeated demons on battlefields and helped those in need.

Coincidentally, the location of the keeping seal mark is exactly the same…

‘But what should I do? That’s not me.’

However, Goldsky covered his mouth as if moved, as though he had encountered the real thing.

“I never thought that legendary battle mage would come to Haven! This is truly an honor…!”

Excuse me, student?

“The bandages on your face are also to prevent enemies from recognizing your face, right? Because you can’t let them know you’re from the Wayne Family…!”

Excuse me?

But Goldsky didn’t seem to hear him.

“Ah, don’t worry! Only I will know this fact!”

Goldsky whispered like that, sent him a look of respect, and entered the classroom.

“And… oh right, Professor! Be careful with the bandages!”

Bandages?

“It seems like Professor Kalon’s disciples are planning to do something.”

Hmm. Actually, what’s driving me crazy isn’t the bandages but this.

「Puhehe-hupukya-hak! A Union hero, Fire Butterfly is a Union hero…!」

‘…This is driving me crazy.’

Well, he seems to be having some strange misunderstanding, but… let’s just leave it be.

‘I didn’t say he was right.’

With that, Ruin handed the envelopes to the Teaching Assistant.

“Check if all the amounts are correct. If not, reject them immediately.”

“Yes!”

“If possible, reject them all.”

…What?

“They need to learn that there are things in this world that money can’t buy.”

Oh! Is this education for the students? Even against that Gold Gate that no one could touch?

The Teaching Assistant shouted as if moved.

“Yes! I will definitely reject them all!”

No, I said fire him.

“The Professor’s courageous educational policy! It will serve as a deep inspiration to the Teaching Assistants as well!”

…That’s not it.

Anyway, it was problematic.

There were two buildings in the Professor Research Building that Ruin was targeting, and Research Building 1, which was Ruin’s goal, looked too old and was usually used by newcomers or Teaching Assistants.

So there was a professor he had scouted through his friend-making strategy, but the problem was that professor’s gender and the structure of the research lab.

‘She’s a woman.’

「What?」

‘Moreover, that building is like dormitory quarters, so there’s only one room. I can’t stay there late into the night.’

「Before that, do you see yourself naturally thinking you can enter a female professor’s quarters?」

In other words, he’d have to become friends with another male professor and enter that place, but there was no way there would be another professor staying in such a shit hole at Haven…

But that’s when it happened.

“My goodness! So the rumors were true!”

A voice that sounded like he’d been caught red-handed came from behind. The students were greatly startled by that voice.

“That’s Charlie, and Madam, and Defense Studies.”

“Why did those professors come here?”

The protagonist of the friend-making strategy had brought some strange guys along.

「You called the Defense Professor to become friends, right? To ask for some help with classes.」

‘Yes. He lives in the shit hole, and he was the only one who smiled when sending Kalon to his doom.’

However, Charlie walked into the classroom with big strides, as if he’d caught him red-handed.

“Ruins Wayne, to think you’d accept bribes from students as soon as you became Head Professor…”

“There’s a late student. I’m closing the door.”

Bang!

“Gack!”

As the door closed, the professors hit their heads. The sound was quite loud, so the late student nearby turned pale instead.

When groaning sounds came quite loudly from beyond the door, Ruin finally opened the door again. Then he looked at them as if wondering what these idiots were doing.

“Why are professors here?”

…You’re only now noticing the professors?!

No, at that level, he must be doing it on purpose. The students were dumbfounded, but no one showed it.

Charlie gritted his teeth while clutching his face.

‘This rude bastard!’

More than that, I couldn’t avoid a closing door?

It was hard to believe, but that wasn’t what mattered. He had come to expose Ruins’s lack of skill.

Of course, he had run into the Defense Professor on the way, and was surprised to hear that Ruins had asked for help with classes.

‘None of the professors ask for help with classes.’

The Defense Professor seemed moved, but the situation made sense.

‘He must be trying to use a skilled professor because he lacks ability.’

Not a chance.

“Accepting bribes from students!”

“…Bribes?”

When Ruin’s eyebrows rose coldly as if asking what he was talking about, Charlie flinched. It was annoying that Ruins was quite tall and he had to look up, but it couldn’t be helped.

“I already heard everything. Well, you must have thought it worked out well. Since Gold Gate only has noble children, you thought it would be profitable. So…”

“It’s etiquette education.”

…What?

Ruin’s voice, cutting off his words cleanly, was ice-cold.

“The students trapped me with content unrelated to class, and in the process damaged my clothes.”

At that cold voice, the color drained from the Gold Gate 3rd Year Students’ faces. They suddenly remembered the moment they were counter-attacked.

Sure enough, Ruin’s voice echoed exactly like it did then.

“Every action comes with responsibility. Feel a sense of responsibility for attacking others – I educated them with the most understandable objects. Is there some problem?”

“Ha! Education? I’ll bring this matter up as an agenda item at the faculty meeting. Wayne. Then you’ll be fired immediately, won’t you?”

Charlie laughed as if it was obvious.

“The ringleaders could be expelled, but the reason you’re not doing that is because of the bribes, right? Well, I don’t know if you could even use the strong measure of expulsion against ‘those’ parents in the first place-“

“Then let’s expel all Gold Gate 3rd Year students. Actually, that would be more convenient since there would be fewer students to teach.”

…What?

…Everyone?

As soon as the words fell, the students’ faces turned pale. Like the rooftop incident, Ruins was a lunatic who would really do it if he said he would. What are you saying to such a guy!

Sure enough, a riot broke out.

“Those who came here without knowing anything, please leave!”

The first to step forward was Goldsky.

“And what’s in the envelopes isn’t money, but pledge documents!”

When another student joined in, Charlie rarely flinched.

“…P-pledge documents?”

“Pledge documents saying we’ll pay compensation as donations! Not bribes!”

D-donations?

At that, Ruin shrugged his shoulders. Of course, when it came to donations, there would be no problem if he decided to pocket the entire amount. In fact, about 1% of him really was considering it.

“What are you going to do with the kids’ pocket money?”

“!”

“Well, if you’d prefer expulsion, we can go that route.”

As Ruin tried to tear up the pledge document, other students screamed and rushed over. The students who barely managed to grab the document that was about to be torn glared at the intruding professors.

“This matter has already been resolved, so please leave immediately!”

“That’s right, these are the same people who wouldn’t even come in before because they were afraid of being humiliated by students!”

“I’m so sick of looking at you people!”

“!”

When the Gold Gate students pushed the Self-Defense Professor away, the professors looked extremely shocked. What? These brats who looked down on professors were taking the side of a specific professor—no, Ruins Wayne?

Even Kalon’s disciples who had snitched to Charlie for favors looked flustered. They never expected their classmates to react like this. Even Goldsky, who had been extorted the most money?

Students from other dormitories who had come to class were also murmuring about what was going on with those Gold Gate students.

But then, laughter burst out. It was from one of the professors who had come along.

“Professor Wayne certainly has a way with words. But Demon Hunting Studies isn’t a subject that can be handled with eloquence alone.”

“Healing Professor.”

“Teaching Assistant. Could you call it 【Healing Arts: Popular Treatment Methods】? It gets confusing with Professor Wayne’s 【Healing Arts: Unpopular Treatment Methods】.”

“…!”

Teaching Assistant Lily bit her lip.

Was she picking a fight with Professor Wayne right now?

Then she walked over with clicking steps and continued speaking elegantly.

“Isn’t it natural for us to be curious about your abilities, Professor? This isn’t just any position—Demon Hunting Studies is a role that commands the Union Military and leads other professors. So please cooperate with us.”

At those words, Ruin looked up at the ceiling with dead eyes.

Ah, how annoying.

Because of Ruins Wayne’s ‘Natural Annoyance,’ his acting as Ruins Wayne wasn’t coming out well. Actually, at this point, wasn’t this already his true self? Anyway, it was annoying.

The friend-friend strategy had already gone down the drain, so he’d probably need to come up with a new plan… Ah.

‘Charlie Whiskey. Come to think of it, isn’t that guy the target residing in the target Shit Hole?’

「Oh! Then the friend-friend strategy is possible after all!」

‘That’s right. I just need to take his room away from him.’

Ginseng doubted its own ears.

「Wait? Wasn’t the goal to become friends? The friend-friend strategy?」

‘As long as I get the Professor’s Research Office, that’s all that matters. If the result is the same, it’s the same thing.’

…That’s not right though?

It’s completely different though?

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