I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32. The Classroom is Quite Nice

Haven’s central lobby.

This was where everything about Haven was posted – wall posters, Haven’s current affairs, grade rankings, lecture news, community updates, and more. Naturally, it was always crowded with people.

And right now, all those students were gaping with their mouths wide open. It was because of a lecture announcement.

“What is this?!”

“Professor Lindsey’s healing arts lecture time has been changed!”

“Why at this time?”

“…Wait. Isn’t this the same time as Professor Ruins’ healing arts lecture?”

“What?!”

Screams echoed throughout Haven. Even the magical creatures called ‘Frix’ that flew around carrying news were in chaos.

The paper airplanes that had been flying around busily like aircraft transformed into various shapes as they delivered news to their owners.

[Professor Lindsey Grens’ ‘Healing Arts: Popular Treatment Methods’ lecture time changed! Changed!]

[Changed from 2 PM to 9 AM!]

[It overlaps with Professor Ruins Wayne’s ‘Healing Arts: Unpopular Treatment Methods’! You have to drop one of them!]

The students who received the news were dumbfounded.

“What? The same time?”

“Damn, I couldn’t register for Demon Hunting Studies this time so I was going to try Professor Wayne’s class. Now I can’t take it!”

“Professor Lindsey doesn’t usually do morning classes, does she? What’s going on?”

“This is Lindsey trying to mess with Professor Ruins, isn’t it?”

“She’s telling us not to take Wayne’s class, damn it.”

Complaints erupted among the students.

There were many who wanted to attend the much-talked-about ‘Ruins Wayne’s’ class. After all, he was the person who had made Gold Gate submit.

But what could they do even if they wanted to attend?

“Professor Lindsey’s is a major course, and Professor Ruins’ is a general education course…”

There was a difference of 3 credits versus 1 credit. The answer to what they should choose was already decided.

“I guess I have to choose Professor Lindsey’s…”

Meanwhile, this news also reached Ruin’s ears.

“Professor! What should we do!”

Teaching Assistant Lily entered the Demon Hunting classroom. Inside the spacious classroom was the owner of the room, reading a book.

It was an elegant place that looked like viewing a black diamond, but with weapons and birdcages decorating the walls, and red carpet flowing like blood between them—

The sight of a bandaged figure with only candles lit in such a place was utterly eerie.

Teaching Assistant Lily hurriedly ran to the front row where Ruin was.

“Professor! Professor!”

“Call me three times and I’ll tear your mouth apart.”

“Ah, ah, I’m sorry! But what should we do? The students who finally joined the healing arts class are moving to Professor Lindsey’s side!”

Despite interference from the healing professor, thanks to the ‘voluntary’ participation of his cute disciples, ‘Healing Arts: Unpopular Treatment Methods’ had gained many students. It was almost comparable in numbers to the top-rated Professor Lindsey’s healing arts class.

But no matter what, general education couldn’t beat a major course. Because it had more credits.

“If the date and time are the same, they’ll go to her side…!”

Just then.

The actual mastermind behind this incident barged into the Demon Hunting classroom.

Bang!

“Do you understand now?”

“!”

Throwing open the solid door, a woman who appeared to be in her thirties appeared. The intelligent-looking blonde woman walked confidently toward Ruin.

The 3rd year Gold Gate students who had come to see Ruins even though there was no class stirred as if asking what was going on.

“Isn’t that Lindsey?”

“Looks like she blew her top because Professor Ruins is eyeing her classroom…?”

“Lindsey’s always been petty, never lending her classroom to other professors.”

“Usually people give up when intimidated, but our Professor Ruins won’t give up and wants to use that classroom.”

“Heh, why won’t Lindsey lend it? Did she hide a honey jar?”

“Who knows. Maybe she hid some dirty money.”

As soon as the words fell, chalk flew toward the student’s forehead.

“Gah!”

The student fell backward. It was Lindsey who had thrown the chalk. Ruin’s eyebrows rose.

Soon Lindsey slammed the classroom door shut roughly and looked at Ruin.

“Even with underhanded tactics, you can’t beat a major course! Know your place as general education!”

It seemed she was angry that Ruin had mobilized her students.

“Threatening students to make them attend your healing arts lecture.”

“It wasn’t threatening, it was persuasion.”

The students eavesdropping from outside fell silent.

Persuasion… Yes.

You persuaded us. Yes…

Dozens of eyeballs rolled around.

‘Of course, if his non-major subject is that level, I’m curious how amazing his healing arts would be.’

It was half threatening, but honestly, some attended out of genuine curiosity.

However, Lindsey looked at Ruin as if he were pathetic for a new professor. She hadn’t moved her lecture to the same time slot as Ruin’s for nothing.

“Do you understand? My class is so popular that even non-majors come to attend. If the time slots are the same, no students will go to ‘Unpopular Treatment Methods.’ With this, ‘Unpopular Treatment Methods’ should prepare to be canceled again.”

But then it happened.

“…P-Professor Lindsey!”

Lindsey’s teaching assistant came into the classroom while glancing around nervously. The male teaching assistant who seemed to have come to fetch her whispered that she needed to leave immediately.

“Professor. This is terrible…!”

Lindsey’s eyes sharpened.

“What now?”

“Well, you need to come quickly! We’re getting a massive number of course withdrawal inquiries!”

“What did you say?”

Course withdrawals? What’s going on?

As Lindsey looked flustered, a light chuckle pierced through her ears.

It was Ruin. He was smiling somewhat mischievously.

“Right. Your ‘Healing Arts’ is certainly a popular lecture that even non-majors come to attend. But-“

Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

“My ‘Demon Hunting Studies’ is a lecture that all students in the school must take.”

“!”

“Although there were issues with the ‘Professor Expulsion’ incident, Demon Hunting Studies is a required subject for Haven graduation. Unlike someone else’s lecture.”

Wh-what?

“What that means is…”

Ruin closed his book with a thud.

At that moment, Frix devices rang out from everywhere.

[Additional news about Demon Hunting Studies!]

[Taking 【Healing Arts: Unpopular Treatment Methods】 grants passage of 【Demon Hunting Studies】 midterm exam!]

[No matter how you think about it, 【Demon Hunting Studies】 seems more beneficial!]

[Students who miss 【Healing Arts: Unpopular Treatment Methods】 are certified fools!]

Lindsey’s face turned pale as stone at the sounds coming from the students’ Frix devices.

What’s happening?

‘Demon Hunting Studies midterm exam passage?’

Has this man gone insane!

Indeed, tremendous commotion could be heard from the corridor. It was like a wave of cheers rushing in.

“Hey, did you hear!”

“I heard!”

“Just taking the course means passing the ‘Demon Hunting Studies’ midterm!”

“Damn, but isn’t dropping Lindsey’s class and taking ‘Unpopular Treatment Methods’ still a gamble?”

“What are you saying! ‘Demon Hunting Studies’ is a major subject! It’s a 5-credit required course! How can you compare ‘Healing Arts’ to that!”

“There are plenty of other courses to replace Lindsey’s anyway.”

“That’s true!”

Since the door happened to be wide open, Lindsey’s face lost all color as she heard those voices clearly.

Ruin, who heard the same thing, laughed cynically.

“Now, who will be the one losing out with the same date and same time assignment.”

Lindsey trembled with rage.

‘Ruins Wayne!’

To come out this childishly and petty?

However, she soon calmed her anger. Well, honestly, she was the one who started the childish provocation first. Having regained her composure, she laughed as if it was ridiculous.

“Professor Wayne. Do you think students are idiots?”

“Not idiots, but morons.”

…Professor.

The students quietly shed tears.

Lindsey spoke as if telling him not to look down on students.

“Students aren’t bats that follow around such trivial perks. They’re true students who carefully register for courses by discerning the ‘real professors’ with passionate enthusiasm for learning.”

No… the perks are more important.

The Goldmoon 3rd years covered their faces.

‘Ruins, that demon bastard who told us to jump off the rooftop wouldn’t give a nice midterm exam…’

‘I can’t even guess what kind of exam he’ll give, damn…’

‘But he’s saying he’ll just let us pass it, so we absolutely have to grab this chance. This is an opportunity!’

“Anyway, Professor Wayne, you seem to be some scholar wannabe who majored in Healing Arts too.”

Lindsey was the top professor in the Healing Arts field. While she was confident in her abilities, the real reason she was acting this way was also to make her opponent give up.

Usually, other professors would get fed up around this point and say they’d give up the classroom. Ruin would surely do the same.

‘It’s just one classroom after all!’

There was nothing good for a new professor to make an enemy of a professor who had wide connections in the academic world.

“Do you understand? So instead of such tricks, compete with skill.”

Right, so by now he should understand and back down…

However, Ruin burst into an obvious snicker.

“Skill, you say.”

A cold chill froze her spine. Ruin’s eyes smiled mockingly.

“It seems the Imperial Princess entered my lecture because of that ‘skill’?”

“Ugh!”

Lindsey bit her lips as if an unwanted memory had surfaced.

The Imperial Princess had been the first to contact her saying she would transfer to Professor Wayne’s class if it was at the same time. So in her panic, she had confronted the Imperial Princess.

“Why? Weren’t you serious about Healing Arts, Your Highness?”

“That’s exactly why.”

“Wh-what do you mean!”

“By any chance, can Professor Lindsey cure ‘Transformed Skin Syndrome’?”

“If it could be cured, it wouldn’t be called an incurable disease, would it?”

“That’s exactly why.”

“…!”

She was already more infuriated because of that.

In fact, the choices of those called the ‘Golden Generation’ were quite important to the professors. They were talents who could become ‘Special-Grade’ in the future, and the honor, status, and prize money for masters who raised the highest-level heroes were tremendous. ‘If the student is that great, just how amazing must the master be!’, roughly that kind of context.

‘In that regard, the Imperial Princess is an important resource.’

But to choose that bandaged guy? Doesn’t that mean she’s worse than that bandaged human!

Sparks flew from Lindsey’s eyes as she reached out toward Ruin. Then she roughly grabbed and tore at his bandages.

Rip!

“Kyaah!”

“Professor!”

The students who had been secretly watching were also greatly shocked. Teaching Assistant Lily pulled Lindsey away as if asking what she was doing.

But it was already too late. The bandages that came away in her hand. Ruin’s face was revealed.

“Gasp!”

The students drew in their breath. They felt breathless. It was because of the hideous skin revealed between the bandages.

‘That’s what his face looked like?’

It was understandable why he tried not to show it. Rather, they felt sorry for trying to see it out of curiosity.

‘More than that, did Her Highness say he was handsome after seeing that…?’

‘Her aesthetic sense is a bit…’

Lindsey looked at that face with disgust.

“Transformed Skin Syndrome, was it? You can cure this disgusting incurable disease?”

Ruin, who had deliberately let his bandages be torn, smiled and leaned back in his chair.

“It’s not complete yet, but I developed it. It’ll be finished soon.”

The confidence felt in that smile made Lindsey surge with emotion.

The students’ reactions also played a part.

“!!!”

“He developed medicine to treat an incurable disease? Professor Wayne himself?”

“Hey hey, if he really cured an incurable disease, wouldn’t he have the Department Head Professor position secured?”

“Are you kidding? Head Professor…”

“Huh? Hasn’t there been no case of a Healing Arts major becoming Head Professor?”

“Still, what kind of disease is that.”

Lindsey bit her lips at the whispering voices.

Being a hero in the same Healing Academia, she knew well. Ruins Wayne, who couldn’t even publish a proper paper and was ignored even in Healing Academia, what could he possibly…!

“Then prove it with a public class!”

What?

The students looked at her as if bewildered.

“What’s wrong? Your unpopular Healing Arts subject, just how amazing is its content that merely attending it allows you to pass the Demon Hunting Studies midterm? If you can say that much, it must be incredible, right? If not… it’s unfair favoritism and corruption! The other professors and the Principal won’t accept it either!”

The students quietly nodded their heads.

Well… that’s true.

Honestly, Ruins was too greedy this time…

“Then I’ll just raise the difficulty of the Healing Arts lecture.”

…Excuse me?

“Good. There’s a Healing Arts class tomorrow, so prove it then.”

“Good. I’ll show you hell-level difficulty along with my Advanced Healing Method.”

What?!

The students’ faces turned pale.

Wait. It seems like we tried to get honey as a special benefit but got more screwed instead.

The students quietly stood up. Their steps toward the Administrative Office became hurried.

‘I need to cancel the course quickly…’

“Ah. By the way, I won’t let those who already registered cancel, so keep that in mind.”

…No, wait a minute!

Professor? Isn’t this lecture fraud?

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