I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 25

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Chapter 25. Let’s See You Do Well (2)

While the Principal was flustered, the Teaching Assistant looked at Ruin in surprise.

“My goodness, Professor! What happened to your appearance?!”

And for good reason, his appearance when he arrived at the Teaching Assistant Office was a mess. His neatly fitted formal suit was disheveled carelessly, and leaves were stuck all over his clothes.

“Did you have an accident?!”

No. It’s just because I ran a 1-hour distance in 5 minutes.

Ruin sighed as he took off his coat and hat.

‘To think I’d end up devouring such a guy.’

So, Ruin overslept again. That’s why he ran to Haven like crazy. Since his Professor’s Office was still being cleaned, he was commuting here until then.

But still, even so.

‘This time I set 10 alarms before sleeping.’

It was useless. When he woke up disheveled like a bird’s nest, the sun was already high in the sky, and the wind-up clocks had become wreckage, failing to greet Ruin.

And that wasn’t all.

Seeing how his forehead hurt, it seemed ‘Incomprehensible Genius’ had activated again this time too, making him bang his head and faint.

Thanks to that, he who had never once experienced tardiness, oversleeping, or laziness in his entire life was frustrated.

‘A genius who feels stress from wake-up alarms.’

As if asking why he got stuck with something like this even after devouring, Ruin leaned against the wall.

Actually, he didn’t devour people often. Because while ‘Devour’ that consumed people had the advantage of being able to continuously use the devoured person’s abilities, it also absorbed strange traits.

For instance, if you devoured someone with ‘kleptomania’ or ‘murderous tendencies’, it would transfer directly.

Even if the target was in a corpse state, it wouldn’t disappear either. Like a stench that doesn’t wash off easily.

But he had no choice but to devour Wayne. First, if he left him as is, the corpse would be discovered and he wouldn’t be able to impersonate Wayne.

‘It would have been awkward to just leave him there too.’

Anyway, considering his facial condition and wondering why this genius treatment that would make even the Hero cry was like this.

‘…Laziness suppressed even his talent.’

Due to his personality matching his traits, he couldn’t even utilize the abilities he had…

「But couldn’t you suppress it with your traits?」

Yeah, I thought so too.

Why?

【Noble Selective Eating】

Seeks out and selectively eats only what’s good for my body. Applies to everything.

【Inhuman Absolute Diligence】

Extreme absolute diligence. Grants the will of a sage including patience, kindness, humility, purity, temperance, etc.

These were precisely Ruin’s traits.

Fire Butterfly had survived with just these two traits until now. Even if strange traits came in, he suppressed them all. So he thought it would be fine this time too.

「Pfft! Diligence lost to laziness. How is it, the temptations of the secular world are sweet, aren’t they?」

‘Be quiet. I’m just slow to adapt this time.’

To be swayed by the traits of someone he devoured, the Shadow King has his pride.

Meanwhile, Lily, who was hanging up Ruin’s coat, looked puzzled.

“Professor, didn’t you say you’d be commuting from Professor Charlie’s dormitory, not your own residence?”

“…”

At those words, Ruin quietly bristled with even more frustration.

Right, that’s what I said!

And yet!

‘Charlie, that bastard… useless.’

When he went to cheerfully take over Charlie’s room, it was the worst in the Research Building.

To head to the underground vault, a ‘tunnel’ operation was essential, but Charlie’s room was right next to the security facility with many watching eyes, and in the opposite direction from the vault.

There was a reason why the ‘tunnel’ operation was necessary here.

So, Ruin entered the Professor Research Building and went into the secret passage leading underground, but-

“?”

There was some otherworld space created underground. So, why is there a Hero Memorial Hall underground… what? Hero Memorial Hall?

Ruin, looking around as if he couldn’t believe it, rarely let out a scream.

“What is this!”

「Illegal extension.」

So there was a path underground, but a room had been created as if to block it. And it was a Hero Memorial Hall!

So when he asked the security team why something like this was in the basement, the Security Guard smiled brightly and said.

“Oh, that! The Chairman made it.”

Why? To frustrate the landlord?

“There’s a suspicious labyrinth under Haven. Of course, the Hero wanted to explore it, but it’s full of mazes and would be dangerous for students and professors too, so he blocked it off. It would be troublesome if enemies invaded through underground too, right? So he made it into a memorial hall and study room for the students.”

Ruin had no choice but to clutch his head.

Could it be that the entire Underground Labyrinth had become like this?

‘This way I can’t get to the vault!’

「As expected of Fire Butterfly with ‘Misfortune’. Unlucky.」

Ginseng Superior clicked his tongue.

In fact, while Seed was strong enough to be called the God of Misfortune, his luck itself couldn’t be said to be particularly good. Honestly, he was unlucky but devoured everything with his skills.

「No. In this case, is the Hero’s luck power too high? Since it interfered with Fire Butterfly’s plan.」

However, Fire Butterfly didn’t give in to such a memorial hall.

‘If it comes to this, there’s no choice.’

「Oh. Are you going to reveal your identity to the Hero and negotiate?」

‘I’ll dig a tunnel.’

「….」

Fire Butterfly. Even going as far as digging tunnels…?

Had he fallen that far…?

But Ruin’s eyes gleamed as if this was actually good.

‘While I’m digging, I’ll activate traps to screw them over.’

「…Didn’t you say you were retiring?」

Of course, if there was a problem-

‘Ugh… To dig a tunnel, I’ll need to find another base.’

So he reported to the room owner first. It was a habit from being a low-level employee.

“I decided not to use your room since it’s a piece of trash room after all.”

“What?!”

When Ruins, who Charlie thought had come to visit him, left after saying only that, Charlie made an expression as if harboring resentment for some reason, but who cares.

‘The important thing is that I gained something from Charlie.’

「The things you stole from Charlie’s room?」

‘That’s not it.’

Ruin asked Charlie.

“Are the rooms of the Healing and Defense professors who came with you somewhat usable? Unlike poor you, they seemed wealthy.”

Upon hearing that, Charlie gritted his teeth, then for some reason grinned wickedly. Then he led him to the Healing Professor’s research lab.

Originally, it was a place that was hard to enter easily due to the professor’s territorial behavior, but Charlie brought him there because he was pissed off.

“I’ll make sure to tell the Healing Professor properly. That Professor Wayne is coveting this place!”

Charlie seemed to be trying to start a fight between him and the Healing Professor, but thanks to that, Ruin, who confirmed the internal structure, was rather grateful.

‘Good. This is closest to the vault room.’

Location-wise, it was right underground. There was no strange Hero Memorial Hall or anything like that either. Plus, he could even use the Tunnel Operation. It was an operation that normally couldn’t be used easily, but this place was different.

‘Because of the professor’s territorial behavior, people don’t use it outside of class hours, so it’s optimal.’

So this time, should he crush the Healing Professor and take over the classroom? When he asked his teaching assistant.

“You can’t take another professor’s research lab through sparring or anything like that!”

…Damn.

So that wasn’t allowed!

“If that were possible, the Senior Professor’s Office would receive battle challenges every day and couldn’t hold classes!”

That’s true.

So when he asked the teaching assistant if there was no other way, the teaching assistant said something unexpected.

“It would work if your class became popular enough to need that classroom, right? But it probably won’t work. The Healing Professor who owns that classroom is popular and has high pride, plus that classroom is also exclusive to department heads… so she probably won’t yield the classroom easily.”

Yield? Who said anything about resolving it so peacefully?

Actually, the way to take it over is simple.

“Then I’ll have to teach Healing classes too. It’ll work if I get more students than that woman.”

“Professor? Didn’t you say having fewer students was more convenient?”

“That changed. Just now.”

“What?!”

“Healing Arts is a discipline for sick people. There shouldn’t be anyone who can’t take the class because there’s no room.”

“Professor…! So you’re saying you’ll become the Healing Department head and straighten out Haven’s discipline!”

That’s not it.

Anyway, he had to steal the students. He had to steal them, but the problem was…

‘Damn Ruins Wayne!’

Ruin beat his chest.

‘Why can’t someone who majored in Healing Arts use healing magic! Why!’

He did say on the rooftop that there was nothing he could heal, but there really wasn’t anything! It was understandable that Charlie came to block his employment out of disbelief!

That’s right. Ruin had tried to bring over the skills of ‘Ruins Wayne,’ the Union hero. Because that was the only way he could hold Healing Arts lectures.

So the abilities he barely managed to bring over while suppressing his Ironclad Pride trait were-

【Move】

Can move objects

【Exquisite Sewing】

Sewing speed greatly increases.

【Fanatical Figure Assembly】

Makes figures. Figure production speed greatly increases.

‘Damn! Not stuff like this! Healing magic!’

More importantly, why doesn’t someone who got hired at a military academy have attack and defense magic!

Ginseng Superior spoke a word toward Ruin, who was clutching the back of his neck.

「…Could it be that’s all the abilities you have?」

Ruin’s eyes flashed dangerously.

‘That can’t be right. How would such a guy get hired at Haven where heroes are crawling all over the place?’

「Well, all three are ‘special grade’ at least.」

…I don’t need special grade figure making!

Ruin let out a groan.

‘Sigh… How am I supposed to make Healing Arts the number one subject when I don’t even have healing magic.’

Since I don’t care about the classes, I just need to steal the students away.

But then it happened. Having heard something from outside, Teaching Assistant Lily came running over, pale as a sheet.

“P-Professor. This is terrible! They say the Imperial Princess has come!”

“Hmm?”

“And with a scary face, she says she wants to see Professor Wayne…!”

Is she the main instigator of the problem?

Ruin’s eyes changed as if this was perfect timing.

‘Let’s use the Imperial Princess.’

Because the Imperial Princess was the Healing Professor’s prized disciple. If he used her reputation, he might be able to steal away just the students without even having healing magic.

In other words, bait to use and discard!

「As expected of the backstabbing king Fire Butterfly….」

However, Ruin ignored this and his eyes flashed.

“The Imperial Princess definitely started ‘driving out professors’ because of that incident a year ago, right?”

“Yes. The student who died a year ago was a close friend of the Imperial Princess, and the professors’ response at the time was rather poor.”

From what he heard briefly, it seemed they were attacked by the Demon Race during field practice. The Demon Hunting Professor ran away, and other professors also ignored the students and fled.

‘If even the Head Professor ran away, it must have been a considerably high-level member of the Demon Race.’

But Ruin was a direct agent of the Demon Emperor, ranking in the top ten by skill even in Pride.

‘I know all the named members of Pride.’

So let’s use that.

Actually, the teaching assistant gave him good information.

“At the time, the Imperial Princess said that if we could help her catch that demon, she would do anything in the name of the Imperial Court.”

Anything?

‘Good.’

Ruin’s eyes flashed.

Right, I’ll gain her favor by telling her information about her enemy.

“Which demon did the professors face at that time?”

“Fire Butterfly.”

“….”

Ruin pressed his temple.

…Why does this keep happening to me, damn it!

Someone who’s been impersonating me since last time. Who the hell is it?

However, Lily was serious.

“Fire Butterfly was already a major surveillance target for Haven, but after that incident, the students are burning even more with determination to catch Fire Butterfly.”

…How unfair.

“Well, Fire Butterfly is Union’s archenemy for terrorizing the Imperial Court.”

…That one I actually did.

“Is that all? They say if you collect just Fire Butterfly’s bounty, you could buy several countries!”

…Can’t they just deposit that money directly to me?

“We will definitely catch that heinous bastard!”

Good luck with that. He’s right in front of you.

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