I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 259

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Chapter 259. Teacher (2)

A very long time ago.

A command came down to Ruin.

[Extort and raise the Hero Candidates.]

He immediately scanned the preliminary information.

‘Rabian Crawl… Upper-class hero. The records say “went crazy for money and abandoned the children entrusted to him before running away.”‘

A guy without even a speck of sense of duty.

But actually, Ruin thought it was understandable.

‘They’re called Hero Candidates, but… they were essentially just test subjects.’

Those children were experimental subjects that the Union had forcibly injected with Luck Power. Most were bastard children of noble families or abandoned commoner children. Children who were forcibly dragged away, given injections, subjected to rituals, and had their Luck Power twisted.

The result? It was close to failure. Seven children remained, but there were no results worth calling achievements.

The children extracted from the experiment lab were eventually sent to a remote plateau. Under the pretext of ‘practical learning’ against the Demon Emperor.

‘Practical learning… They were essentially abandoned.’

The higher-ups had already given up hope. They had no interest in the hero-raising project, let alone providing personnel support.

So the one who was forced to take on that position was Rabian Crawl. A project no one wanted. A sinecure that would take at least several years, with no achievements or honor. It seemed rather natural that he would take a large sum of money and run away.

‘…That’s probably why the higher-ups contacted me to create an “identity.”‘

Ruin took a ship toward the plateau.

The land that could only be reached by passing through five cave tunnels, completely isolated from the human world, was exhausting enough to make even Ruin, who had received spy training, pant heavily.

And at the same time-

“Woof, woof!”

Chomp chomp! It was a land where beasts tearing apart and eating corpses was a daily occurrence.

Ruin clicked his tongue.

‘The worst of the worst for educating children.’

At that moment, one corpse being eaten by wild dogs entered Ruin’s field of vision. Ruin instinctively frowned. Through the tattered clothes, he could see a familiar ornament.

‘…Union nobility insignia?’

He hurriedly chased away the wild dogs and checked the corpse. Skin pale white as if it had never seen proper sunlight. Scholarly attire. And ornaments and identification.

‘…Rabian Crawl.’

It was certain. A miserable corpse with its entrails spilled out, but the identification and the large sum of money in the leather bag proved his identity.

Ruin left the fallen corpse behind and shouldered the heavy leather bag. Rabian Crawl’s death was ironic, but for Ruin the spy, it was a perfect opportunity. His identity, his money, his equipment. He could take and use it all.

“Now… that place where the Hero Candidates are waiting.”

A dilapidated house. However, young voices leaked out from that place.

“He’s here.”

“He really came.”

Giggle giggle, small children were gathered inside the house. However, that laughter wasn’t innocent, but closer to the laughter of evil spirits before their prey.

“How insolent. Should we kill that bastard too?”

“Let’s kill him!”

“Hehe.”

At that moment, wild dogs came rushing out toward Ruin who had opened the door and entered. Fangs stained with the smell of blood glinted as they charged.

Ruin narrowed his brow. His wrist turned smoothly, and shadows extended like blades, slicing the necks of the wild dogs.

“Yelp!”

“Grrrrrrr…!”

Blood and fur scattered as the wild dogs rolled on the floor. The children’s eyes widened.

“What…? He really finished them off?”

That’s when it happened. The children laughed as if this wasn’t their real purpose.

Sure enough.

“Go! Elaine!”

A shadow suddenly dropped from above Ruin’s head. A blonde boy raised his sword high and struck down at Ruin.

“You die too!”

Flash!

However, Ruin’s body had already disappeared.

“What?!”

Elaine’s sword sliced through empty air and got buried in the old floor.

And-

Thwack!

“Ugh!”

He got hit in the stomach by Ruin and went flying.

“Elaine Saint, nine years old… Right, so the rumored bastard of the Saint ducal family was here.”

The children’s eyes shook with shock.

“Impossible! Elaine’s sword missing its target…?”

Immediately, a sharp whistle rang out.

At that moment, the remaining wild dogs all leaped up simultaneously.

“Bite! Tear them apart!”

However, one by one, the wild dogs were consecutively slammed to the ground. They were dragged away with their necks pierced and legs broken.

Ruin spoke coldly toward the child.

“Yuri. Nine years old. Ability to communicate with animals. Correct?”

The little girl’s eyes widened.

“Yuri!”

Then, the children all stood up at once. Two children who appeared to be siblings.

“This bastard!”

The energy flowing through their bodies was by no means ordinary. The Luck Power injected through experiments rippled, forcibly pulling up their still immature bodies.

‘…These kids already have this level of reflexes.’

Ruin smiled briefly. Children he was meeting for the first time. However, they were the ‘Hero Candidates’ he would have to teach from now on.

“Larina, Richen. Eleven years old. Twins, they said.”

Bang-!

The children rushed at him simultaneously. However, one had their arm broken and was slammed to the ground, while the other was caught in mid-air and tumbled down.

“Hiren. Ten years old.”

“Kailen. Nine years old.”

“Aina. Nine years old.”

Crack! Crack!

The children’s bodies fell one after another. A tense silence settled over the house. Ruin dusted off his hands in the air and smiled coldly.

“Nice to meet you. I am Rabian Crawl, who will be teaching you from now on.”

The children’s eyes widened. Confusion, fear, wariness. But at the same time, a strange sense of anticipation that ‘finally an adult has come’ also flashed by.

Ruin slowly looked around at the children. Just how neglected had they been? Their matted hair was stuck together, and flies were sitting on their eyes and wounds. Their white clothing had turned black with holes, and their bodies reeked of mold.

The food piled in the corner was half-rotten with insects crawling over it. The dates on the ingredients revealed that no one had visited this place for at least a month.

‘…I can feel to the bone how the Union treats these children.’

“Well, first of all…”

When Ruin swept back his long hair, the children flinched and stepped back. Was it because of the memory from the research lab that ‘adults mean pain’?

“We did wrong! Please don’t hit us!”

“Please…”

Ruin looked down at the children for a moment, then bluntly said.

“It would be good to wash up a bit.”

“…!”

Ruin used Shadow to firmly grab the children. The children screamed and resisted, but eventually went into the water forcibly with basins overturned on their heads.

Black grime rolled off their bodies being washed for the first time. The white skin that was revealed looked rather unfamiliar. The children cried and wailed even while being washed.

“…”

And then mealtime.

The children didn’t even know how to hold spoons, forks, and knives. As rice grains scattered on the floor and they tried to grab meat with their hands, Ruin lightly tapped their hands.

“These are tools used by humans, not test subjects. Learn properly.”

The children’s eyes trembled with fear and confusion. They had been confined in research labs since around age five, growing up only repeating Luck Power experiments. Meals had been substituted with nutritional supplements and convenience foods, and they had never learned play, education, or manners.

Ruin slowly closed his eyes.

“…To call them heroes who will defeat the Demon King, they haven’t even become human yet.”

Ruin sighed as he organized the children’s records.

1. Elaine.(Male, 9 years old)

-Ability: 【Absolute Fortune】. Creates ‘successful results’ in any situation.

-Characteristics: His sword has never missed even once. The concept of failure doesn’t exist.

-Weakness: The distinction between his own skill and luck becomes ambiguous, risking falling into excessive arrogance.

2. Yuri.(Female, 9 years old)

-Ability: 【Beast Language】. Thanks to forcibly injected Luck Power, can read animals’ emotions and language and even forcibly dominate them.

-Characteristics: Commands wild dogs like limbs and has excellent survival skills in the wild.

-Weakness: As her bond with animals is strong, she receives great mental shock when animals are hurt.

3. Kailen.(Male, 9 years old)

-Ability: 【Fortune Replication】. Can ‘mimic’ the fortune of those nearby to temporarily produce the same effect.

-Characteristics: Can imitate others’ techniques and others’ luck to briefly copy them.

-Weakness: Imitation is weaker than the original.

4. Hiren.(Male, 10 years old)

-Ability: 【Crisis Dice】. Causes dramatic reversals in fatal situations.

-Characteristics: A child who only survives at the edge of cliffs. His momentary strength surpasses Elaine’s.

-Weakness: Only operates on the premise of ‘crisis’, so is nearly powerless in ordinary combat.

5. Aina.(Female, 9 years old)

-Ability: 【Arrow of Coincidence】. Whatever projectile is thrown, it will definitely hit an ‘important spot’.

-Characteristics: Even throwing a pebble will pierce vital points or weak spots of machines.

-Weakness: Even she herself cannot know where it will hit

6. Larina. (Female, 11 years old, twin younger sister)

-Ability: 【Fortune’s Intuition】. Instinctively senses the ‘right choice’ for future events.

-Characteristics: Rarely makes mistakes when choosing paths, trusting people, or making simple choices.

-Weakness: Intuition becomes clouded with major contextual choices (life, war, etc.). Only specialized in minor judgments.

7. Richen. (Male, 11 years old, twin older brother)

-Ability: 【Misfortune Reflection】, transfers misfortune that befalls him to others.

-Characteristics: When accidents happen, the person next to him gets hit instead.

-Weakness: Since it manifests unconsciously, close allies suffer the most damage.

Ruin’s eyes gleamed as he looked at the chart.

‘Now then, who should I make into a Hero.’

* * *

While Ruin organized the materials, the children lay on warm blankets for the first time instead of cold floors. He didn’t know where they came from, but the blankets covered the children warmly as if they were alive.

All the children had been washed clean and were spotless. But only their eyes remained clouded as before.

“Hey.”

The first to speak was Kailen. With wet black hair clinging to his cheeks, he muttered with a strange expression.

“The real Teacher Ravian… we killed him, didn’t we.”

The children’s gazes crossed instantly. Eyes mixed with fear and curiosity.

“Then who is that person?”

“Why is he being nice to us?”

Murmurs spread among the children.

They all knew. That the one named Ravian had already died by their own hands.

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