I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 246

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Chapter 246. Seventh Evil (2)

Getting pissed off?

I had my doubts, but seeing this guy’s reaction—one of the Seventh Evil—I think I get it now.

‘Did he really put a leash on his comrades and make them work for him?’

Of course, Darkan immediately played dumb.

[There was no such thing as the Seventh Evil! Forget all about it! Ignore that nonsense!]

Then Ruin let out a light, mocking laugh.

What a joke, this bastard.

Soon Ruin lifted up the Demon Emperor’s Heart. Black flames spread as the seal marks on its surface pulsed like a heartbeat.

‘I’ll absorb its power.’

As his cold will descended, the heart trembled uneasily. The vibration was strong enough to shake the entire dormitory.

‘Well, since he’s such a powerful guy, absorbing some of his power probably won’t even register.’

In other words, absorbing power to this degree wouldn’t endanger the Demon Emperor’s life. Of course, removing it would weaken his power.

As the absorption began, a strong energy immediately circulated. Ginseng Superior’s voice grew excited at this.

「Hahahaha! My power is getting stronger too! Thanks to you!」

Darkan’s eyes widened.

[No, you bastard, that power I should be eating… And you’re using it to strengthen some God!]

Ruin didn’t answer. Instead, darkness boiled up from his body.

‘Misfortune, Stage 1’

The invisible power of calamity, just this once, materialized like black mist and spread outward.

Cracks appeared in the walls, and stone fragments fell from the ceiling with soft thuds. Even the light of the dormitory’s magic circle flickered and dimmed.

[Ugh!]

He wasn’t a Great Demon for nothing—even the aura of misfortune that shouldn’t be visible seemed to appear before his eyes. As proof, he tried to avoid the misfortune energy spreading out like black mist.

[You bastard! Using something like that to threaten me!]

Threaten? So something like this counts as a threat?

At Ruin’s gaze, Darkan’s body trembled with a start. The being before his eyes was no longer a worthless shadow, but one of the former Seventh Evil who had once been his comrade, and now a calamity that overwhelmed him.

Sure enough, Darkan gritted his teeth.

[That power can eliminate even Great Demons! As Pride, you shouldn’t do this!]

Then Ruin, having noticed something, slyly raised the corner of his mouth. He smoothly pulled down his glove and undid a button with a flick.

“Speak.”

It was just one word, but underlying it was not a command or threat, but the aura of ‘misfortune’ itself. Ruin asked slowly and gently.

“The truth you know. Now, here.”

Darkan’s pupils wavered.

[Stop! I’ll tell you, so stop!]

“Speaking comes first, though?”

Finally Darkan shouted.

[Sorry, I’m sorry!]

“What are you sorry about?”

Darkan’s breathing became so labored it seemed like it might stop. His tongue stumbled and dragged as if bound by iron chains.

[We were comrades. But we used your misfortune to bring about your downfall.]

“Huh?”

The Great Demons who had existed since the beginning of time. Each one of them was a tremendously powerful darkness worthy of being called a Demon King.

However, one day, a mysterious Demon King of skeleton origin appeared and unified those darknesses. He made contracts to have them join the ranks called the Fourteen Demon Kings.

[You weren’t there.]

Ruin was misfortune itself. A wanderer-like existence that could never be caught no matter how much one wanted to catch him.

Such a Ruin had revealed himself when the current Pope came holding the hand of a young girl named Lisha.

“From now on, this child will be in charge of the Demon Race. Anyone who dislikes this? Raise your hand in advance.”

Naturally, there was opposition.

[Isn’t she just a half-blood with humans!]

“Yeah, so you don’t like it?”

[We followed you because you’re the former Demon King, but we won’t follow anyone else. We’re disbanding.]

Just as the furious Pope was about to clash with them and it seemed the discussion would fall through.

[Then I’ll take charge.]

[?!]

[Misfortune?]

[How is Ruin here?]

Ruin seemed to have taken an interest in Lisha.

[I happen to be raising a human boy. I think the two would get along well.]

[?????]

Among the Demon Race, Ruin was the only one who took Lisha’s side.

Ruin, who took Lisha away like that, entrusted a child named Elaine and Lisha to his care and trained them. However, it seemed to be a problem that the two he tried to pair up ended up liking Ruin more instead.

And currently-

Ruin, who heard that story, was dumbfounded.

‘Uh… so… originally I was the Seventh Evil, and at that time I raised both the Hero and the Demon Emperor together… is that what it means?’

And I even tried to set them up together?

No, that’s not even the main issue…

‘The Pope is… the previous Demon King?’

What kind of mess is this! Holy Empire! What the hell happened there!

More than that, that temper didn’t just come out of nowhere. I’ll have to check when I meet him later.

‘…This is dizzying.’

Ruin said while pressing his forehead.

“And the Pope allowed that?”

[He seemed to think it wouldn’t be bad. Because Lisha’s parents had fallen ill from being unable to handle Lisha’s aura. So it seemed like they came to entrust her to the Demon Race. He probably thought that someone with the Hero’s level of aura could neutralize that energy.]

I see… But instead of the two falling for each other, they ended up liking their master and adoptive father more?

[Actually, half the reason the Hero and Demon Emperor ended up at war with each other was because of you.]

Oh… this. Was it really a love triangle fight?

[It was more that the Hero and Lisha hated each other more.]

Like siblings who despise each other…

In some sense, isn’t that the fate of Hero and Demon King?

[Anyway, the Five Evils used that to kill you. Because they knew you couldn’t lay a hand on the Hero, they used that to…]

‘The Five Evils… killed me?’

[And together with their collaborator, they created the Wish Stone.]

What a bunch of schemes.

[They told the Demon Emperor to try using the newly made Wish Stone as a test. But you didn’t revive.]

Right. This is where I must have crossed over to South Korea.

[We thought you had been annihilated. The enraged Hero used the Wish Stone to make a wish. He asked to be returned to the world where his adoptive father existed.]

Ah. So that’s how round 0 ended and became round 1.

‘So when I died in Korea, I returned here and was reincarnated as a Shadow Creature.’

Ruin pressed his forehead.

In the end, it’s all because of the Demon Emperor and Hero.

‘What a mess, what a complete mess.’

[The Pope seemed to have some regrets. He said he should have realized the danger of the Wish Stone back then and prevented its use. The problem was that he thought too lightly of it.]

So that’s why the Pope actively helped me with matters related to the Wish Stone?

‘Or maybe he’s grateful to me for being the only one among the Demon Race who took Lisha’s side.’

Ruin asked.

“Then you guys knew I was born as a Shadow Creature?”

[…I knew.]

“You did?”

[I exist wherever there is ‘frustration’. I was the one who discovered you when you were a tiny shadow. I found you rolling around in frustration because you couldn’t even climb a single cliff.]

…That’s quite an adorable reason.

Ruin pressed his forehead while recalling his tiny creature days.

Darkan continued speaking.

[I figured out the whole situation and thought it worked out well. Misfortune, you were the most elusive and strongest existence among us. I thought if I raised you well, I’d have a useful subordinate.]

“And then?”

[Anyway, so I was keeping it secret, but got caught and… even I ended up sealed.]

Ah. So that’s what happened.

“When did you figure it out?”

[When you enlisted in the Pride Army…]

Ruin felt suspicious. Because that was around the time his position changed from infantry to intelligence.

Of course, it was partly because the Demon Emperor discovered him… but it didn’t seem likely that the Demon Emperor would immediately notice his Misfortune ability upon first meeting and put him in intelligence.

But if it were guys who knew the Misfortune ability well, the story would be different.

“Don’t tell me you bastards were also behind recommending me as a spy?”

[…Kuk!]

Well, they placed me in the right position, those bastards.

‘They put me where I could make the best use of my Misfortune ability?’

No, it probably wasn’t just for that reason alone.

‘Intelligence work, namely spy work, is the most dangerous job.’

It wouldn’t be strange to die at any time, and it wouldn’t be strange to fail a mission at any time.

Actually…

[The Five Evils were pleased when they noticed you had returned and realized the Wish Stone had activated properly. The other Five Evils were just waiting for you to fail your spy mission. They wanted to use any failure as an excuse to capture you and put a leash on you.]

But I never failed a mission? Damn it?

‘You were too good at your job, that was the problem.’

[Right, you being too good at your job was great, but because of that, they couldn’t put a leash on you either. So they decided to make you go on a rampage.]

Ruin’s eyes turned cold.

Ah, don’t tell me the Five Evils deliberately orchestrated Master’s incident?

With that thought, something curious came to mind.

“Master… who is Natasha?”

[Kugh]

“Tell me.”

[She’s a clone of Lisha created by the Wish Stone…]

A clone.

‘So that’s what it was after all.’

But the real problem was something else.

[The Five Evils and Natasha had aligned goals. Natasha wanted to eliminate Lisha and become the real Lisha herself. The Five Evils wanted to put a leash on you.]

So that’s why Natasha tried to use her disciple Ruin to kill Lisha in the first cycle.

[As the price for failing to kill the Demon Emperor, they were going to put a leash on you.]

But Ruin died, and the Demon Emperor killed the Hero, obtained the Wish Stone, and gained the regression ability.

[Natasha is Lisha’s clone. Even after regression, she naturally remembers everything.]

“!”

Ruin flinched for a moment.

Then Master knew that the Demon Emperor and he were lovers in the first cycle, yet still…?

[She deliberately stole you away from Lisha. And cooperated with the Five Evils. Natasha to become Lisha, the Five Evils to put a leash on you. They decided to kill Lisha using the Power of Misfortune. Natasha died while experimenting with that.]

Now I understand why Spider fought with Master.

‘She noticed this.’

Ruin was dumbfounded.

So when Master was dying and said it wasn’t his fault, that’s what she meant.

Ruin felt a strange sense of betrayal rising up.

Then, who did he love?

“Why did the Five Evils go that far? What did I do?”

[Because the other guys’ powers don’t work on you. And they were afraid you might regain your strength.]

Ruin let out a bitter laugh.

Those great Great Demons, why?

“I already reincarnated as a lowly demon beast, yet they fear an impossible return to being a Great Demon?”

[No. You can become a Great Demon again. Whose do you think the ‘Nameless Temple’ belongs to.]

The Nameless Temple?

…Don’t tell me, Haven?

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