I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 269

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Chapter 269. Butterfly’s Disciples (2)

As soon as the shocking banquet ended, the class assignment list was announced. Cheers erupted among the students.

“Ohhh! We’re in the same class as the Hero Candidates!”

“Aina in Red Moon? Amazing!”

“Gold Gate has Yuri! That kid who looks like a doll!”

Students from each dormitory enthusiastically welcomed the Hero Candidates, but the expressions of the three in question weren’t particularly bright.

“…Silver Moon? You’re in Silver Moon?”

Aina glared at Hiren menacingly while grinding her teeth. Yuri also crossed her arms and frowned with her delicate brow.

“You’re the only one who got to go under Teacher?”

“You didn’t pull some trick, did you?”

Hiren smiled gently and shrugged his shoulders.

“I was just lucky.”

But Aina’s eyes showed she absolutely didn’t believe him. Hiren was a genius with an IQ over 200, the smartest among them, and also devoted to their teacher. It wouldn’t be strange if he had devised some strategy.

But Hiren smiled.

“It really was a coincidence.”

“Ugh. That’s too much. We want to be with Teacher too…”

Yuri also muttered with eyes full of dissatisfaction.

“How long have we been waiting for the day to become Teacher’s disciples again…”

Ruin quietly sighed as he watched his disciples.

‘…As expected.’

He had known from the beginning that Hiren would enter Silver Moon. Among his disciples, he was the child with the most outstanding intellect and excellent crisis management abilities. He could be considered a genius type like Elaine.

However, their directions were completely different.

-Hiren

-Ability: 【Crisis Dice】

-Characteristics: Creates dramatic reversals in critical situations. His momentary luck power surpasses Elaine’s.

-Weakness: However, he’s a child who only survives on the edge of a cliff. Since it only works on the premise of ‘crisis,’ he’s almost powerless in ordinary combat.

Hiren possessed a brain rarely seen even in the Union, but his physical abilities weren’t outstanding.

Like this, the Hero Candidates had talents that didn’t fall behind Elaine’s in terms of luck power alone, but each had one flaw.

‘Yuri has weak mental fortitude, and Aina makes frequent mistakes.’

That’s why they ultimately chose Elaine, who had the most hexagonal balanced type, as the Hero.

‘Well, still, it would have been difficult to face Cobra at that time.’

Because Cobra is strong.

‘It must have become a trauma.’

Even Elaine couldn’t maintain his reason in front of Cobra.

That’s why pretending to be dead and disappearing had always weighed on his mind. He was glad to meet them again now. Of course, just because he met his former disciples didn’t mean he planned to discriminate among the students he taught.

‘It would be troublesome if rumors spread that Fire Butterfly raised the Hero.’

That’s why Ruin spoke calmly.

“Hiren, come to the Silver Moon Supervisor’s Office. I’ll tell you the rules.”

“Yes.”

Hiren answered briefly and smiled. A strange joy lingered in his eyes.

On the other hand, Aina and Yuri looked dejected.

“We can see Teacher during Demon Hunting Studies class, but we can only see him during class time.”

“We could see him more often if we were in the same dormitory…”

The two stood there looking gloomy. Because earlier, Ruin had said this to them:

“Don’t follow me too much like before. In this place, old memories are nothing but a hindrance.”

Those cold words kept bothering them. The thought crossed their minds that he might think of them as mere objects of a mission.

Aina’s eyes wavered.

‘Were we… just a mission to Teacher?’

Yuri bit her lips tightly.

‘We met again with such difficulty…’

‘Is he trying to keep his distance now?’

But then it happened. As Ruin passed by, he gently patted the back of their necks.

“…!”

Both of them flinched at the same moment. The touch of his fingertips on the back of their necks was so warm.

It was a habit that the cold Teacher Ravian used to do long ago. An affectionate expression unique to their blunt teacher, though he probably thought they didn’t know.

“…!”

Both their faces brightened simultaneously. But Ruin didn’t look back. He just walked calmly among the other students, conversing with the professors as usual.

Of course, there was someone who was quite displeased with that scene.

“…What? Why only those kids?!”

It’s the Hero.

Hiren, who was beside him, spoke gently.

“Elaine. Act like an adult. You shouldn’t be jealous of your friends.”

Elaine was dumbfounded by those words.

‘Who was the most jealous one?’

That’s right. Hiren’s problem was jealousy.

As evidence, in childhood, whenever he received even a pat from Teacher, Hiren would hide his belongings that very day, and they often fought. In severe cases, he would abandon him or even smash his things to pieces. Still, since he was precious family, they would quickly make up…

But now, whether they’re family or not, that’s not what’s important.

“…He’s never done it to me even once.”

“Hm?”

“That ‘patting the back of the neck’ thing.”

Hiren chuckled at Elaine’s complaint.

“Are you envious of something like that?”

“Why doesn’t he do it to me!”

Hiren burst into laughter as if it was absurd.

“Are you, humanity’s strongest, really being jealous over something like that?”

“I’m Teacher’s student too. This is discrimination!”

“You’re all grown up, so it would be gross.”

The Hero grabbed the back of his neck as if annoyed.

“No. He’s been discriminating since we were young. My Master has… always treated me only as the ‘Hero,’ and that bothers me a bit.”

Even when he first came to this Academy, Ruin didn’t see him as a student. He just treated him like a hateful bug.

Then Hiren chuckled softly.

“That’s because you childishly destroyed and modified the Academy as you pleased while trying to catch Fire Butterfly, isn’t it? Surely this place was once ‘someone’s’ ‘precious house’ too.”

“…”

“So who told you to destroy Master’s house?”

“That’s true… Huh, wh-what do you mean?! Why would Haven be Master’s house?”

When Elaine panicked, Hiren seemed to gain some certainty from that and smoothly changed the subject.

“…Actually, I’ve thought about this before too.”

“What thought?”

“Which one of us does Teacher cherish the most.”

The Hero crossed his arms.

“Don’t tell me you rudely asked Teacher such a question?”

“I did. Long ago.”

The Hero looked at him with inner expectation. Hiren smiled slightly as he recalled the past.

“Teacher. Which one of us do you cherish most?”

At that time, Teacher answered coldly while reading a book, as if he wasn’t even worth dealing with.

“I cherish you all.”

“Isn’t there a finger that hurts most when bitten?”

“Hands originally hurt when bitten anywhere.”

The Hero laughed at Hiren’s words. Somehow he felt there couldn’t be a more Ruin-like answer than that.

A person who was coldly and cruelly fair.

“…Still, I know.”

The Hero sighed as if he had no expectations.

“The reason Master chose me as the Hero. It was probably because it wouldn’t matter if I died to the Demon Emperor.”

Hiren closed his eyes briefly at those words.

“That’s probably not it.”

“What?”

Hiren, who always kept one step away from his friends and saw the forest rather than the trees, knew. He knew from childhood who Teacher had decided to make the Hero.

“It’s Elaine, right?”

“…”

“Teacher wants to make Elaine the Hero most, right?”

“No. He least wants to make him the Hero.”

“Pardon?”

“Because he seems most likely to die first.”

Hiren felt Teacher’s affection and protectiveness in those words. And he realized.

‘Ah. Teacher’s most painful finger is Elaine.’

However, Hiren didn’t tell Elaine. Because he wanted to monopolize Teacher’s love.

That’s when it happened.

“By the way, Professor.”

“Professor Ruins is giving private tutoring to the Imperial Descendants, right? There have been fierce inquiries from other students’ parents, so do you have any thoughts of expanding the tutoring?”

Ruin answered coldly to the professors’ question.

“No. I don’t want to create differences between students. The Imperial Descendants are a special case since it was His Majesty’s command.”

“For that being the case, we heard you’re also looking after your younger siblings.”

At those words, Younger Brother 1 and 2, who were passing by, shouted angrily.

“What do you mean looking out for them!”

“???”

Ruin broke out in a cold sweat. And for good reason, because whenever he was about to forget, that damn corpse Ruins Wayne would pop up every time he slept, saying ‘Please take care of my younger siblings…’, ‘Please find Riza…’ and other such nonsense.

‘I understand about the younger siblings, but who the hell is Riza?’

Ruin pressed his forehead.

So in the end, he did take care of them.

「By giving them an enormous amount of homework, that is.」

‘If that’s not taking care of them, then what is?’

「Ha, the guy who gave an F without even grading when they missed just one problem out of 1,000, is that what you should be saying?」

‘They broke their promise, so it’s only natural.’

「What a ruthless bastard…」

“Anyway, for the time being, I won’t be taking on any tutoring besides those students. I’m busy enough just with paperwork right now.”

“Paperwork?”

“Well, if I could make the professors from other academies behave obediently, I might make an exception.”

‘Professors from other academies?’

At those words, the professors’ expressions immediately hardened. It was because the evaluators had been relentlessly criticizing Haven’s performance lately.

‘Vacancy in the Demon Hunting Department professorship, consecutive poor performance.’

As a result, professors from other military academies had been mockingly gossiping.

“Haven is no longer a prestigious school but a refuge, they say.”

“Only the professors are competent, but the students can’t even follow in their footsteps, right?”

“But didn’t that quiet down thanks to Professor Ruins being there?”

Since Ruins had saved the students from the terrorist attack.

“He’s even the Mage King…”

But another professor whispered with dissatisfaction.

“That’s… they say what difference would it make if a genius professor is assigned to mediocre students. They say the professor is wasted…”

“Shh!”

“?”

The professors glanced nervously at Ruin. Ruin tilted his head, but the professors scolded the one who had spoken.

“…How could you say such things out loud! What if Professor Ruins goes somewhere else!”

“Ah… Oh!”

At those whispered words, Ruin pressed his forehead.

‘I have no intention of going anywhere else…’

I like Haven now too.

It’s just that the evaluators, based only on the past 5 years of data, are pointing out one by one whether ‘there’s a problem with Haven’s curriculum’ or ‘there’s a problem with the professors,’ giving me a headache.

Moreover, when Elaine, who received such criticism, came running while crying-

“Please help me! Master!”

…the head professor position just fell to me.

‘Well, curriculum oversight is originally the head professor’s job anyway…’

How dare they bully my disciple… No, threatening to confiscate Haven’s funding, that’s infuriating.

“Or would you help me with my paperwork?”

At Ruin’s drowning man’s gaze, the professors slowly backed away and fled.

“We, we have lectures to give.”

“We’ll be going!”

Ruin muttered as he turned around.

“Damn. Where am I supposed to create results from?”

The eyes of the three disciples watching this scene changed.

“Really?”

“There’s a way to get tutoring from Teacher?”

Soon Hiren, Aina, and Yuri whispered while keeping each other in check.

“Just so you know, I’m Teacher’s tutoring target.”

“You’re out.”

“Why don’t you two step aside?”

Whatever he thought of those jealousy-filled gazes, Ruin nodded his head.

‘I don’t know what it is, but as expected of my disciples. They get along so well.’

Then Ginseng Superior said a word.

「Does that look good to you…?」

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