I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 256

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Chapter 256. The Pissed Off Butterfly (2)

Ruin was dumbfounded.

A blank test paper.

Paper that hadn’t even been touched, as if avoiding Misfortune out of fear.

Ruin immediately called out the student who had submitted this blank paper.

A moment later, the door creaked open and a student entered. The same earnest face as always, but something in his eyes was subtly wavering.

“Professor… You called for me?”

Ruin rolled a small doll fragment in his hand and smiled quietly.

“I saw your test paper. It was blank.”

Ruin’s eyes sharpened.

“So why don’t you tell me why you submitted a blank paper, Owen.”

That’s right. The student who submitted the blank paper was none other than Owen, the commoner-born Special Admission Student chosen by the Hero.

He was a Healing Department student who had been bullied and ostracized for having the same ability as the First Prince, until Ruin took him in.

“Owen. Your ability overlaps with the First Prince’s, doesn’t it?”

“…Have I ever told you about my ability?”

“Do you think your professor doesn’t even look at students’ academic records?”

“Ah…! Oh! I see! I’m sorry!”

“Even… even if it’s similar, mine just speeds up recovery a bit. I was rated as having the lowest-grade talent. It’s completely different from His Highness the First Prince’s amazing ability. I only got Special Admission because I did well on the written exam…”

“No. Your ability is ‘Super Regeneration.'”

Right. The 1st year student, Owen.

Name: Owen

Ability: 【Super Regeneration】(Maximum Special Grade)

Advantage: Regeneration close to immortality

Disadvantage: Unawakened

“A zero-point test paper from a Special Admission Student? What are you trying to pull?”

Owen remained silent, then smiled as if troubled.

“Well… I’m sorry. I was so nervous… No matter how much I looked, the words wouldn’t register…”

“The problems were easy enough that even Goldsky, Haven’s blockhead, could solve them. You couldn’t solve this with a Special Admission Student’s brain?”

“It was, it was a pathological problem.”

“Pathological my ass. You were too scared to touch it because you were afraid Misfortune would befall you.”

“Huh? Misfortune? What do you mean…”

When Owen flinched, Ruin sneered inwardly. Then instead of answering, he tossed something in front of Owen.

“This came from one of the Hero candidates in the medical ward. Care to explain it?”

“…What is this? Are you asking me to analyze it?”

That was the exact moment.

‘Misfortune, 3rd stage.’

The terrifying aura of Misfortune extending from Ruin’s body targeted Owen like hunting prey.

Shiiiiik!

Just as it was about to snatch Owen—

Bang!

Owen activated his power. Then he raised the corner of his mouth as if greatly troubled.

“…Don’t carelessly brandish such power, Ruin.”

The voice was still Owen’s, but mixed within that resonance was the sneer of a stranger.

‘…Deceit.’

It was the true face of one of the Five Evils.

Ruin swiftly drew his magic wand and spoke coldly.

“So it was you after all. Owen, no… Deceit.”

“Using 3rd stage so carelessly like that. Are you doing this because the Hero is here, because you have something to rely on now?”

Last time, he had recklessly used 3rd stage power just because the Hero was beside him. He had even tried to use 4th stage, hadn’t he.

“It’s an ability that burdens your body too, so you shouldn’t use it so recklessly.”

Owen smiled gently. As if all of this had actually been a game.

“Still, I should give you credit. You’re the first to draw me out this far.”

The innocent smile had already disappeared from Owen’s face. So Ruin found it amusing.

“Who would have thought you’d be hiding among the students, playing the role of an outcast against your nature. How impressive.”

Owen smiled as if troubled.

“Are you mocking me right now?”

Deceit. True to his name, he possessed thousands, hundreds of different faces. The reason Master Natasha could appear here and there, everywhere at once, was because she received blessings from this bastard.

There was a clear difference from Fire Butterfly. While Ruin had a main body and wore fake faces, this bastard’s everything was his main body.

“You’re probably curious why I was being bullied by the First Prince, right?”

“Not at all?”

“?”

Ruin laughed as if disgusted.

“The reason is obvious.”

“!”

“You were copying the First Prince’s ability, weren’t you.”

“!”

Owen looked at Ruin with surprise.

As expected of Pride’s legendary spy. Had he figured out even that much?

Ruin let out a hollow laugh.

“What I’m curious about isn’t what you were doing. It’s why someone who’s one of the Five Evils would covet an immortality ability.”

Owen sighed.

Since things had come to this anyway, there was nothing left to hide.

He boldly spread his hands.

“To make the Wish Stone into a being of perfect immortality.”

The Wish Stone?

“The Wish Stone isn’t complete yet, so it keeps breaking. It shatters after using a wish once or twice.”

“Why are you the one doing that?”

“Why? Who do you think made that stone?”

Who?

‘I did hear that there was someone who made the Wish Stone—’

“Me.”

Deceit’s voice was cold and confident.

“To be precise, us. I had collaborators, but I made it.”

Ah.

Ruin smiled mockingly.

“A stone like that wouldn’t come without a price. Do you have some amazing secret method for making it?”

“We had a colleague called the Seventh Evil.”

“!”

“We used that bastard a bit.”

Ruin burst out in hollow laughter.

This bastard is casually bringing up my story?

“I heard you killed that Seventh Evil colleague by exploiting the fact that he couldn’t touch his adopted son.”

At that moment, Deceit’s eyes widened.

“What…? You knew even that much.”

Deceit was about to ask ‘Who did you hear that from?’ but just laughed, saying “Ah.”

“It was Darkan! Right. That friend was in Noah’s body… But he wouldn’t have told you the details.”

Deceit smiled as if Ruin was admirable for figuring out this much.

“Since it’s you, I’ll tell you specially. Among us Seven Evils, there was one really troublesome bastard. I liked that guy, but the others hated him terribly. So we used our adopted son to kill him. It seemed like he might interfere with what we had to do.”

Ah. So the Five Evils deliberately killed me. Using the Hero. But it seems he doesn’t know that I heard I was ‘that Seventh Evil.’

‘It’s important to extract as much information as possible.’

So Ruin played dumb.

“Interfere with what, the Wish Stone?”

“That’s right.”

Ruin’s eyes sharpened.

“…Then, what were you trying to make with the Wish Stone?”

“First, get rid of that damn Pope who prevents us from moving as we please. And the continent’s strongest who rule over the continent. If we sweep them all away, the world would become much simpler.”

“The Pope…”

Ruin’s gaze turned cold.

Well, honestly, it’s still unbelievable and astounding—

“The Pope, Saint Isaac, is the former Demon King. He was the master of you Five Evils.”

“Correct.”

He ran his hand through his hair as if disgusted.

“I don’t know how much you know, but that bastard only reincarnated as a human—originally he was a skeleton. A lowly demon beast just like you.”

“!”

Ruin was inwardly surprised.

Was the Pope’s friendly behavior toward him due to their common background as former low-level demon beasts?

“Well, that’s trivial. What’s important is that it was disgusting for such a bastard to try to make us submit.”

The former Demon King had contracted with the Five Evils and used them as subordinates. That must be what he’s talking about.

“But even now that he’s withdrawn from the Demon Race, he still interferes with us. Not interference—he tries to dominate us. As someone from the same background, isn’t that infuriating?”

“Same background?”

Ruin tilted his head.

“I’ve never heard that the Five Evils were of demon beast origin.”

Then, Deceit laughed heartily.

“Ah. Sorry. My background isn’t that background. But you’re from the same background, aren’t you.”

“…?”

“I’m not a person of this world.”

Ruin looked at Deceit with a surprised face.

Don’t tell me, that bastard. Is he saying he’s from Earth right now?

Deceit smiled.

“We’re from the same background, so who does he think he is trying to make me submit.”

Deceit shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, that’s not what’s important. I like this world. But I can’t stand watching the continent’s strongest protect the world with hypocrisy. Only when that hypocrisy is shattered can the real world begin. For that to happen, we need to start with purification using the Wish Stone. Don’t you think?”

Ruin let out a hollow laugh.

What nonsense was he spouting.

“Then let’s get to the point. What about Kailen’s body that remained in the medical ward?”

Deceit’s lips twitched as if he was barely holding back laughter.

“…Don’t get angry, Teacher? Puhup!”

Ruin realized everything from that mocking laugh.

‘So it was Deceit after all.’

Ruin stood up from his seat.

“…Were you Kailen from the very beginning?”

Owen’s lips slowly curled up as he thought for a moment.

“Yeah. That’s right. Puhup. I was curious if you could really create a Hero. I got along quite well with the Hero. Haha. That stupid bastard.”

Of course, there was a ‘real Kailen’ and he had only stolen that body at the last moment… but there was no need to tell him that. That’s what Deceit does.

Ruin asked.

“Then that day, you were the one who brought in Cobra?”

“That’s right. Well done, Fire Butterfly. When I heard the children calling for you as they were dying… it was truly the best. It seems you ended up saving those children because of lingering attachment, but now when they wake up they’ll know the truth. I don’t know why you dug your own grave knowing you’d get hurt.”

The truth—

That their Master was a spy sent by Pride, and the very person who let them die.

When Ruin bit his lip, Deceit spoke soothingly.

“So if you don’t want to get hurt, come back quickly, Ruin. There’s still a lot of work to do to properly complete the Wish Stone. We need to kill the Hero and the disciples.”

“Why should I?”

“Why? You need to follow your superior’s orders—”

Crack!

The moment Ruin’s fist struck Owen’s solar plexus—

Bang—!

Owen’s body flew through the air and crashed into the wall.

“Cough! Huk…!”

Drops of blood fell to the floor with a drip-drop.

Ruin walked over slowly. The sound of his fists cracking echoed. And at the same time—

“Hey.”

A cold smile hung on his lips.

“Do you still see me as your subordinate?”

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