I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 238

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Chapter 238. A Friend Has Come (2)

A situation that could only be seen as a miracle. These were the first words that flowed from the lips of the girl who opened her eyes.

Though her voice was weak, Ruin’s heart felt as if it had stopped and was being squeezed.

“…This can’t be.”

Ruin’s eyes froze.

Then, the girl groped through the air as if she couldn’t see ahead.

“Teacher?”

“…!”

Ruin couldn’t say anything.

“Strange…. I felt Teacher’s presence.”

He reflexively stepped back.

‘Why… did she come back to life? How….’

Then the Hero lifted the girl into his arms.

“Aina!”

He looked at Ruin with joy.

“Look, Master! Aina has opened her eyes!”

Ruin gritted his teeth and turned around sharply.

“Master!”

Instead of answering, Ruin briefly let out a single phrase.

“Echo. Hurry up and manipulate.”

“…Ah… uh… right.”

Echo glanced around cautiously. He could intuitively grasp what the situation was.

A boy and a girl.

The children the Hero was embracing were all around 15 years old.

And the word flowing from their lips was Teacher.

Echo instantly saw through everything.

‘Those must be… Hero Candidates.’

That’s how it connected logically.

…How did that child end up with such a fate.

Echo seemed to understand.

‘If Fire Butterfly had been the ‘protector’… those children wouldn’t have died.

In other words, the children died by Fire Butterfly’s hand.

Evil endured by himself in the name of a spy’s mission.

But the children he killed coming back to life? That would surely be a miracle and hell for Fire Butterfly at the same time.

‘A sin he doesn’t want to face….’

Echo realized the truth. This was an emotion he had experienced himself.

‘…Well, it’s not exactly the same though.’

Those who died from artifacts he made.

Enemies who came seeking revenge.

Beings who sometimes came back to life, sometimes became shadows of resentment.

‘I roughly understand what Butterfly’s feeling.’

That’s why Echo turned his head to look at the Hero as if he understood. He was telling him to move aside.

However, the Hero holding the girl in his arms was glaring at Echo with sharp eyes. It was a completely different, eerie gaze from when he looked at Ruin.

“Do you think someone like you could suppress my Luck Power?”

Echo shrugged his shoulders.

“Ah, right right. Hero. First put down that little girl and let’s talk.”

The quick-witted Hero’s eyes flashed. Instead, he held the girl in his arms tighter and shouted.

“If this child is here, you can’t use your ability!”

Echo’s expression hardened.

“No… it’s not that, there’s no need for two victims unnecessarily-“

“You can’t use it!”

The Hero was resolute. Echo’s patience reached its limit.

“This bastard…!”

He roughly grabbed the Hero’s head with an angry curse.

The Hero didn’t back down either.

“You let go!”

“You’re the one who should let go!”

Eventually, the two struggled while pulling each other’s hair with the girl between them. Rather than a deadly confrontation… it was closer to an unseemly scuffle.

“This bastard, I didn’t like you from when you were by Master’s side!”

“What do you think is so great about you?! Giving only Butterfly things like blank checks! I did more work!”

Ruin completely ignored the two of them and approached the Emperor.

The Emperor’s mind was already collapsing. It had to be. Thanks to his ancestors’ magic, he couldn’t even die while being split in half.

With eyes bloodshot from killing intent and pain, the Emperor muttered.

‘…It hurts. It hurts enough to kill me…!’

He desperately tried to activate his ancestors’ magic to heal his body. Blue light of recovery flickered from his fingertips.

However, Ruin’s lips slowly curved upward.

“It would be troublesome if you tried to get comfortable so easily.”

When Ruin flicked his fingertip, the Emperor’s healing spell extinguished like a flame.

“Kugh!”

The pain of worms boring into his heart made it impossible to cast magic. The Emperor’s eyes twisted with despair and rage.

But it was fine.

‘If someone just discovers me-‘

He just had to endure a little. If any of his subjects discovered him, they would heal him.

But as if to shatter that hope, Ruin gently caressed the Emperor’s cheek.

At that moment, black smoke emerged from his fingertips and spread along the Emperor’s skin. It was none other than the curse of ‘Misfortune’.

“Now no healing magic will work on you.”

The recovery magic the Emperor was trying to cast withered away as soon as it touched the black smoke.

The Emperor’s pupils became even more bloodshot. Now his body would harbor only pain while being rejected by healing light.

“You must taste the exact same pain as my disciple.”

Ruin’s voice echoed low and eerily as he grabbed the Emperor’s hair.

The Emperor trembled and ground his teeth.

“How dare you…!”

But at that moment, Ruin’s index finger touched the Emperor’s lips.

“Shh.”

His golden eyes curved as a demonic smile spread.

“Please stop speaking. It would be better if you didn’t say anything more, Your Majesty.”

The Emperor’s brow twitched.

What did that mean…

Ruin muttered nonchalantly.

“I just changed the conditions. To ‘die if you speak more than seven syllables’.”

The Emperor’s face turned pale.

“…What?”

“Ah, now you have one syllable left.”

Ruin smiled coldly.

“Unfortunately, you’ll have to bury that last syllable in your heart forever.”

The Emperor’s breathing became rough. The fact that speaking more would end his life brought terror.

Then, Ruin leaned down and whispered in the Emperor’s ear. That voice pierced his ear like a sharp blade.

“So try living your whole life carrying that one syllable, ‘Former King’ Your Majesty.”

The Emperor’s eyes rolled back.

What did he say?

* * *

Ruin hurriedly used the teleport facility to return to Haven. Amid the chaos of students and professors running around frantically, the Magic Tower mages approached with bowed heads.

“Professor Ruins!”

However, Ruin frowned from the start. He had to.

‘…Damn it. My house is destroyed!’

Shattered pillars, collapsed roof, blown-away walls.

‘How much will all those repair costs be!’

Instead of sighing, Ruin glared at the mages with murderous eyes. The Magic Tower mages trembled apologetically as they reported.

“The Special Grade Fugitives… suddenly seemed to change their strategy and altered their behavior. Instead of searching for the king, they started randomly destroying school buildings…!”

Ruin half-closed his eyes and muttered inwardly as if spitting.

‘As expected. They changed course to search for my military funds… no, my severance pay!’

His fists clenched automatically.

The ‘Retirement Fund Box’ still somewhere in this school. If those bastards laid a hand on it…

Soon Ruin entered the forest, his eyes flashing.

Swoosh-

Ruin’s shadow instantly stretched and enveloped all of Haven.

And shortly after, what was dragged out screaming from the darkness was none other than the Special Grade Wanted Criminal, Cat. The beastwoman had her ears flattened and tail standing straight up.

“Hiiik…!”

Ruin looked down at the cat’s eyes with a cold expression. Then he murmured lowly.

“…Don’t you want to remove that leash?”

The cat’s pupils shook greatly for a moment.

“…!”

Then Ruin smiled slowly.

“Will you choose to remove the leash, or choose that measly money?”

The cat narrowed its brow.

Ginseng Superior also said a word.

「You have no intention of freeing them anyway.」

‘I don’t, but they’ll have no choice but to believe.’

Ruin smiled lightly.

“If you understand… tell them all to gather.”

The air froze coldly. Ruin’s gaze gleamed with murderous intent that said he would blow their heads off immediately if they defied him.

The cat gritted its teeth. But eventually nodded.

That’s right.

Ruin smiled. From now on was important for a successful retirement.

* * *

As the massive doors of the Imperial Palace opened wide, the waiting nobles came flooding in. As soon as they saw the Emperor’s figure, they all knelt down in unison as if they had been waiting.

“Long live His Majesty!”

“We were so worried about Your Majesty’s safety that our throats were parched!”

There had already been chaos from news that the Imperial Palace was attacked.

At this, Fake Emperor Echo’s throat was parched and he coughed dryly. But trying to appear dignified like an emperor, he stiffly raised his chin.

“Ahem… Ahem. Everyone… you’ve all worked hard.”

The nobles exchanged puzzled glances. Normally, dignity and arrogance should have filled that position. But now an unfamiliar expression mixed with anxiety and awkwardness occupied it.

“Since when has His Majesty been… so humble?”

The nobles’ whispers spread like waves. Noticing this, Echo felt like he would suffocate under the pressure to act like an emperor.

“The governance of this Empire… I ask for your continued support.”

Instantly, the nobles’ eyes widened.

Asking for continued support with governance…?

That’s when it happened.

From one side of the Imperial Palace, Ruin, who had hidden his body in the shadows, pressed his brow. The shadow stretched out like a snake and immediately poked Echo’s side.

‘More confidently. Act like an emperor.’

Echo broke out in cold sweat and forced a smile while spreading his arms wide.

“I, I am the Empire itself! …Something like that! Hahaha!”

The nobles’ complexions grew even paler.

The legendary spy Ruin’s insides boiled with anger.

‘What kind of marketplace peddler nonsense is that…’

Soon Ruin’s chilling voice flowed from Echo’s shadow into Echo’s ears.

“If you don’t manage your expression properly, I’ll really make you live like that for the rest of your life.”

“….”

Echo’s pupils shook desperately.

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