I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 267

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Chapter 267. A Butterfly That Wants to Settle Down (3)

Inside the lecture preparation room.

Ruin regretted it the moment he set down his coffee. The atmosphere was tense.

“…You’re here again?”

The owner of those words was Zera.

He didn’t know how long she had been there. Her face bore her characteristic ‘princess smile,’ but Ruin immediately recognized that the smile wasn’t genuine. He could feel the thorns in her words.

Lily, no, the Demon Emperor leisurely turned her head.

“Again? I’ve returned as a teaching assistant.”

“That’s right. How many days will you last this time? You suddenly disappeared last time, and I had to clean up all the mess you left behind.”

Zera smiled coldly.

Ruin pressed his eyebrows.

‘…Princess! Your opponent is the Demon Emperor, the Demon Emperor!’

No, honestly, there’s no way she doesn’t know it’s the Demon Emperor. After the Demon Emperor caused trouble and disappeared during the last outdoor class, he had told her everything.

But soon the Demon Emperor, no, Lily smiled brightly.

“There were some family matters. I’m sorry for disappearing so suddenly.”

“….”

Ruin remained silent.

‘The Demon Emperor is quite formidable too.’

So now she’s decided to pretend she’s not the Demon Emperor?

Then Zera smiled brightly, as if thinking of something.

“This worked out perfectly. I was busy with wedding preparations, but now I have an extra pair of hands.”

“My goodness, you’re getting married? Congratulations.”

The Demon Emperor clapped joyfully.

Then Zera also smiled brightly.

“Yes. With Professor Ruins!”

“….”

In an instant, Lily’s, no, the Demon Emperor’s head turned with a creak.

“…What did you say?”

Ruin choked on his coffee.

“Cough! Wait, that’s….”

“Professor Ruins?”

“Oh. Didn’t the Professor tell you?”

Zera tilted her head.

“I’m already his fiancée. The Professor chose me himself.”

Ruin looked at the Princess while coughing.

Princess! Why are you doing this to me!

Lily’s smile became even more chilling.

“Marriage… who, with whom?”

“With the Professor.”

A brief silence. Lily’s eyes wavered slightly before instantly settling.

Ruin wanted to get up and run away.

‘This is 3 seconds before explosion.’

Soon the Demon Emperor said “Oh,” and approached Ruin with her arms crossed. The situation of a superior leaning her face toward a seated Ruin… pure terror.

“I’d like to know what this is about.”

Then Ruin cleared his throat and whispered to the Demon Emperor.

“I told you, didn’t I. That I had to find the hidden Deceit….”

At those words, the Demon Emperor’s expression hardened slightly.

“Deceit…?”

He roughly understood what kind of situation had occurred. That guy is a daughter-fool after all.

‘More precisely, he cherishes his daughter to use her as a ‘tribute.”

Well, Ruin using the Princess for his operation was understandable. If it’s just that much, he could understand….

“Don’t worry. We’ll ask the Demon Emperor to officiate the wedding.”

“….”

“Ms. Lily. What’s wrong?”

“Ah. Right. Officiate.”

She was smiling, but the temperature of the air dropped.

Ruin, who was drinking coffee, felt it instinctively.

‘Ah, the Demon Emperor. She’s pissed.’

“Ah. Of course, Professor, you don’t need to worry. I’ll take care of everything.”

Ruin glanced at Zera.

‘…Are you really planning to go through with this?’

Lily looked at Zera with a slow, irritated smile. As if to say, ‘Right. So this is Hunger’s daughter. I want to kill her but can’t lay a hand on her since she’s my subordinate’s daughter, huh?’

Ruin sighed and whispered to the princess.

“Zera.”

As Ruin approached, the princess went ‘Heuuk heuuuk, Lord Ruin’s breath-‘ and banged her head against the wall.

Ruin blocked her head with his hand and said.

“Get a grip. Didn’t you say it was just a joke back then?”

“You’re not really going to do it with that foul-tempered Demon Emperor anyway.”

“…?!”

No, Princess!

When he turned around, the Demon Emperor’s gaze had turned into an axe. However, she looked like she couldn’t dare touch her, so Zera smiled sheepishly.

“Hey, even if it’s a joke, honestly that Demon Emperor isn’t right as Lord Ruin’s match.”

Lily’s eyes flashed.

“Why?”

“Why? The Professor is a Union person, isn’t he?”

A moment of silence.

“…Ah. That’s right.”

“….”

Ruin sipped his coffee.

It seems the princess… has decided to tease the Demon Emperor.

And there were those listening to this conversation from outside.

“….”

It was the Hero. He was frozen in the exact position of trying to open the door and enter.

Seeing this, his old friend Hiren who came with him smiled gently and said a word.

“Elaine. Doors aren’t weapons~ You can’t break them~”

“….”

“You also can’t think about getting married in his place~”

“….”

“And you definitely can’t think about marrying off your nephew instead~”

Why not?!

* * *

“Are those the kids?”

“They look around our age?”

“They look like 3rd years, right?”

Today wasn’t just a simple event day.

It was the class assignment ceremony for the Hero Candidates.

That name alone was enough to draw everyone’s attention. The children who had been hidden deep in the medical ward until now were finally being revealed to the world.

The new students still looked awkward in Haven’s symbolic twin-winged uniforms mixed with white and black.

Among the female students, there was one beauty who radiated sunlight like the Hero, and in complete contrast, one cold beauty who looked like black crystal.

In comparison, there was only one male student. The cheerfully handsome male student smiled like a smiling angel, but like a smiling Buddha, his true thoughts were unreadable.

Standing neatly without their neckties on yet, they were legendary miracle survivors in themselves.

The Principal opened his mouth from the podium.

“As you already know, these new students are comrades who fought alongside the Chairman in the past. They were raised as Hero Candidates and became Pride’s targets, but this time they were safely rescued with the help of the Hero and Professor Ruins.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire banquet hall shook.

“Hey, it’s true! The Chairman’s friends!”

“Really? Those kids are the ones from the textbooks…!”

Amidst those cheers, everyone’s gaze naturally focused on one person.

That was none other than Ruin. Because strange rumors had already spread throughout Union.

“Professor Ruins cried.”

“What? That Ruins?”

“Our Professor?!”

“That bastard demon king cried?”

Whatever was so shocking about that. Ruin had to endure all kinds of questions from professors, the journalism club, and students all day long.

‘Why did you cry!’

‘You know how to cry too!’

‘Why do those kids call you teacher?’

‘What’s your relationship with the past Hero Candidates?’

‘There’s no way Ruins Wayne could have contact with people from 50 years ago!’

However, Ruin, who was receiving the attention of all Union Heroes at once, crossed his arms and looked at the sky as if it was none of his business.

‘This is troublesome.’

「For someone troubled, your skill at feigning ignorance is quite something.」

‘The female students keep asking me to cry just once more, which is truly troublesome…’

「…Is that the problem?」

‘It is a problem.’

What kind of demand was being created here?

Right now the journalism club was sprinkling pepper to see Ruin’s tears again, and the Assassination Studies Professor was throwing grenades while taking pictures. This was practically a battlefield.

Meanwhile, the Union professors were genuinely curious about what relationship Ruin had with the Hero Candidates.

“Surely the Hero Candidates’ teacher was the Aegis Agent, Rabian Crawl, right?”

“He’s a figure from over 50 years ago… what relationship could that have with Professor Ruins?”

They were starting to suspect after all. The Principal was also looking with suspicious eyes as if he couldn’t understand.

“….”

The scent of suspicion rose strongly. Even when asked, the Hero only answered like this.

“Fire Butterfly interfered during this rescue operation. Professor Ruins helped us greatly at that time. That’s why the children think of the professor as their benefactor. It’s like how a newly awakened beast thinks the first person it sees is its parent.”

“Fire Butterfly interfered?”

“Yeah. Fire Butterfly originally tried to kill us when we were young too. You know?”

“Yes. Because of that incident, only Uncle survived….”

“Right. And the Hero Candidates are superhumans. He’s probably trying to prevent them from becoming Haven’s military strength even now.”

“…Ah.”

The Principal nodded, but still had suspicious eyes. Similarly, Charlie poked Ruin’s side.

“Hey. About your teaching assistant.”

His gaze turned toward the teaching assistant’s seat. There sat the newly returned teaching assistant, Lily—that is, the Demon Emperor.

Charlie whispered quietly.

“Is it really okay to let that thing back in?”

Ruin furrowed his brow. In fact, he too had been appalled by the Hero’s choice to bring in the Demon Emperor.

‘To make her come back with that face, of all things.’

The Demon Emperor had gone on a rampage during outdoor class with that face and disappeared. If the Demon Emperor returned with that face, it was obvious as fire that the Heroes would be suspicious.

So he had gotten angry at the Hero out of worry.

“What are you thinking?”

Then the Hero opened her big eyes even rounder, as if asking why he was angry, as if asking what obvious thing the spy was questioning, and answered.

“She has to come with that face so everyone’s attention will be drawn to that woman instead of Master!”

“…Huh?”

“If everyone monitors that woman, surveillance on Master will naturally decrease. Then no one will notice Master’s identity!”

“….”

In other words, she was bait to protect Fire Butterfly.

Realizing the Hero’s scheme, Ruin silently pressed his forehead.

‘…Ruthless.’

The Hero might seem thoughtless, but she wasn’t humanity’s commander for nothing.

“And isn’t this method the same way Fire Butterfly has been betraying humanity all along?”

“….”

Was she mocking him?

“Wouldn’t Master have done the same thing in this situation?”

Well, that was true… but seeing his disciple copy his actions exactly, how should he put it….

‘They say children are mirrors of their parents… the guilt.’

The Demon Emperor and Hero really used each other without reserve. For Ruin, it was despairing.

‘So world peace through marriage really is impossible.’

「You’re the only one who thinks that’s possible!」

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