I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 38

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Chapter 38. I’m a Professor, and I’m Going to Take a Self-Imposed Break (3)

Here’s the problem. The superior bastard’s attention is so excessive that I can’t get any work done.

So what do you do?

「Wait for the superior to leave work?」

‘Just kick the superior bastard out of the company.’

「….」

That’s why Ruin was now at Haven’s Clock Tower. Because this place had the item to kick the Hero out of Haven.

「What about just being a professor? Your classes are getting pretty good reviews.」

He was right.

Since he got the job with difficulty, he just worked hard enough not to get fired, but apparently that was getting good reviews too.

So other professors also took interest and came to visit, but well, Ruin’s real purpose was severance pay.

‘From now on, I need to structure my classes toward finding severance pay and methods to chase away the Hero.’

「…Won’t that just spread rumors about your unconventional classes instead?」

‘Shut up.’

So Ruin tapped the tower’s wall with the back of his hand.

Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap-tap.

The moment he tapped out the Morse code, something amazing happened.

Rumble rumble rumble.

The bricks moved by themselves, revealing a hidden room.

Soon Ruin peeked through the gap and checked the condition first. It was full of dust.

‘No signs of anyone entering.’

It was full of dust.

Inside the secret room, document piles were stacked like some treasure mountain. They were all things Ruin had collected – various secrets of national figures.

Honestly, if you picked up any one page from here and threw it to each faction, it would be enough to turn the nation upside down.

But he came here for a different reason.

Clank!

Ruin pulled out a bag from the corner. It was a square wooden bag, and inside was a small communicator. And this old-style communicator was the real purpose for Ruin’s visit here.

Ginseng Superior immediately recognized what that object was.

「Oh, this is something you can contact your companions with, right?」

‘That’s right.’

Yes. This was exactly the method to kick out the Hero!

‘Use my companions to lure the Hero outside!’

He planned to use Pride agents as decoys. And Pride elite agents were at a level that would make even the Union nervous.

‘There’s no way the Hero would stay still knowing such guys are moving near Haven.’

He was humanity’s role model, after all.

In other words, this was his secret weapon to chase the Hero out of Haven.

But.

「It’s been 50 years – will they listen to you?」

‘When a great senior tells you to do something, you have to do it.’

Ginseng Superior looked at Ruin with disgust.

「Poor kids. Because of money from a senior who’s been missing for 50 years, they’re about to fight humanity’s strongest….」

If they have complaints, they can become seniors themselves.

「Seed, let me give you advice. Try to become a good superior like me.」

Excuse me? I had to rob the Demon Race’s Greatest Treasury because of your snacks, didn’t I?

Anyway, yes, I needed to call my juniors with this….

“It’s not working.”

「The machine has sense. It’s telling you not to bother your juniors.」

“No. This is….”

Ruin closed his eyes. Then he grasped the magic circles spread throughout Haven.

It wasn’t easy, but he was the ‘King of Shadows’. His power reached wherever shadows existed.

After a moment, all the spell techniques of magic within the shadow domain entered his mind. That’s how he could figure it out.

“Tsk. There’s defense magic blocking communications.”

「Oh, as expected of a military base.」

It was magic that prevented contact with the outside unless you had Haven’s code. There was no need to figure out whose doing this was.

‘Kalon Gloucester.’

Since he was from one of the 8 Great Houses with the ‘Defense’ secret technique, it wouldn’t be strange for him to be in charge of Haven’s defense.

Of course, he had jokingly mocked them as the house that got robbed by Fire Butterfly, but actually, the power of the 8 Great Houses was no joke. The 8 Great Houses were the Union’s guardians.

Of course, the important thing was that Fire Butterfly had already thoroughly robbed that house.

‘Breaking through isn’t the problem.’

It was a problem that could be solved just by touching Kalon. The problem was that Kalon kept trying to run away whenever he saw him.

No, honestly, the problem was that he looked at him with disgust like looking at a cockroach and disappeared with a whoosh even when spotted from 500 meters away.

“It’s his own fault. Having his pride crushed to that extent.”

Well, even so, it was a cute level for Fire Butterfly.

That’s why Ruin was about to go out. Lily worried, saying ‘Ah, the Chairman will be coming soon!’ but Ruin said one thing.

“If the Chairman looks for me, tell him I stepped out briefly because Professor Kalon’s life was in danger. I’ll be back soon.”

“What?!”

His life?!

And the place he headed to was none other than the Defense Studies classroom.

After waiting a bit, a familiar face appeared. It was Kalon. He was holding a letter and seemed to be waiting for someone. His face showed slight expectation.

Ruin feigned innocence and opened the classroom door.

“Did you also come because the Chairman called for you, Professor?”

“?!”

Kalon’s expression upon seeing Ruin was worth watching. Kalon was recently the very person getting scolded by the Chairman because of Ruin.

So he had a ‘why the hell are you here’ expression, but Ruin answered.

“I also came because the Chairman called for me.”

“The Chairman. Called you?”

His look suggested he almost said ‘a bastard like you?’

“Yes. I rushed over after receiving a letter.”

At the same time, Kalon’s expression soured as he immediately caught on to something.

“You sent this, didn’t you?”

Kalon crumpled the letter he was holding. Ruin smiled mischievously.

“What do you mean?”

“Didn’t you send this?”

“I’m not sure what you mean, but seeing you come out like a shy girl who received a love letter, your secret meeting partner must be someone precious.”

Kalon threw the letter away while glaring at Ruin as if to kill him. The carelessly thrown letter had writing on it.

-Let’s go catch Fire Butterfly together! ★♫╰ ^∇^)╯♬※

-2 PM, at the Defense Studies classroom. Elaine.

Ruin had simply recycled the Hero’s letter that came to him.

“This is identity fraud.”

“I simply lost a letter I received. It seems to have accidentally ended up in your room, Professor. Thank you for finding it. You’ve worked hard.”

“….”

Is this bastard serious?

Kalon took a deep breath and ran his hand through his hair. It was his own fault for falling for it.

Sure enough, Ginseng Superior laughed as if he deserved to be hated.

「That guy keeps making appointments with the Chairman, but the Chairman has stood him up several times saying he’s waiting for you.」

That’s unfortunate.

「But why did you specifically ask to meet at the Demon Hunting classroom?」

‘So he’d think they were going to give him the Demon Hunting class and come running frantically.’

「…Are you a demon?」

Even suspicious people tend to lose their reason when faced with what they most desire. In fact, Kalon had waited for the Hero with expectation, thinking it was real.

So Kalon threatened with fierce eyes.

“Next time it won’t be a letter but a summons that flies your way. I’ll destroy the Wayne House.”

“Oh. Such a heated reaction. Then how about I give you one more to collect in your desk drawer?”

Sparks flew from Kalon’s eyes. Eventually, as if it was wise not to exchange words with Ruin, he tried to go outside. Ruin stopped him.

“It would be troublesome if you just left when I called you out of concern.”

“What are you doing?”

What am I doing? I’m trying to stuff misfortune into your body.

“As a healer, I can’t just pass by an emergency patient.”

“Emergency patient?”

“I wonder where our special-grade hero got injured.”

“!”

Kalon subtly hid his hand behind his back. His pinky finger was wrapped in bandages.

“Your finger looks uncomfortable to use.”

Kalon’s eyes turned cold as he flinched for a moment.

Certainly, it was as Ruin said. Usually special-grade heroes rarely even get scratches due to their luck power, yet his bone was actually broken.

Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

‘Curse of Misfortune.’

Traces of the Goddess of Misfortune remained around the bandages. It was black mist visible only to those about to die and to Ruin’s eyes.

So he was certain.

‘As expected, this guy was the one erasing Owen’s super regeneration ability.’

【Possibility Annihilation (Ability Removal)】

Separate from his family’s secret technique, that was Kalon’s power. In short, it was the power to eliminate abilities, and it was notorious in Pride.

But what Ruin was interested in wasn’t that.

‘Misfortune is already cast on him?’

When I used misfortune to dispel Owen’s ability, did it affect the caster as well? Originally this was impossible, but it seems the power of ‘misfortune’ has grown stronger.

‘This is a rare stroke of luck.’

Originally, against a special-grade hero, I would need to make contact at least ten times to slowly break down their defense wall—

“I’ll give you special treatment.”

With this, I can resolve it in one shot.

Ruin’s eyes turned cold. And in an instant, the destruction ability activated—

Crack!

It sounded as if the Goddess of Misfortune was cackling with laughter. Misfortune was instantly injected through his pinky finger.

“!”

Then, sensing something, Kalon’s expression changed as he grabbed Ruin’s collar with killing intent.

“What are you doing?”

Ruin was genuinely surprised.

Could he have sensed me using misfortune?

Kalon muttered menacingly.

“This is just a scratch from an experiment. I don’t need treatment from a quack like you.”

Ah. He was just being wary because Ruins is a quack.

“Would the infamous ‘Undertaker’ please refrain from laying hands on a special-grade hero?”

…Undertaker? What’s with that terrifying nickname?

Well, it doesn’t matter either way.

‘Now I can break the communication magic.’

I could immediately feel the ‘communication interference’ magic circle within the shadow domain growing dim.

‘I need to handle this before Kalon notices.’

Ruin feigned innocence and brushed off his suit.

“I called you here to apologize for the previous incident, but if that’s how you feel.”

“!”

An apology? From that Ruins Wayne?

Kalon looked flustered. Thanks to this, Kalon, who had been trying to avoid talking to Ruin, spoke up.

“Just to be sure, let me ask. Were you the one who treated Owen?”

“Who knows? I did get a good look at Her Imperial Highness’s dazed face though.”

Kalon bristled at the cheeky response.

As expected, this loudmouth needs to be dealt with here.

At the same time, dangerous magic power gathered in Kalon’s hand.

【Possibility Annihilation (Ability Removal)】

He judged it would be better to remove Ruin’s ability.

And just as that dangerous touch was about to reach Ruin, crack! The wall between them split apart.

At the same time, a professor jumped down in front of them.

“Wow, you’re Professor Ruins? You’re much more handsome than the rumors say!”

“!”

“Professor Ran.”

Kalon frowned.

The one who appeared was a woman with cherry blossom-like hair and graceful movements. The Assassination Studies professor smiled brightly.

“Professor Ruins, could I try cutting your throat?”

What?

At that moment, crack, the wall they were standing on split apart.

“No good? Professor Ruins has such fair skin, it looks like it would be really soft.”

Ruin was speechless.

…Is she insane?

But despite appearances, she’s a special-grade hero.

‘Ha. These Union lunatics. Let’s not deal with them.’

Having achieved his objective, Ruin completely ignored them and disappeared.

Then Kalon glared at her with extreme displeasure.

“Why did you suddenly appear and interfere?”

It had been a chance to deal with Ruins, but she had ruined everything.

At those words, Ran looked genuinely confused.

“Huh? What? Interfere? I actually saved you, Professor Kalon.”

“What?”

The Assassination Studies professor looked at where Ruin had left and grinned.

“You were trying to remove Professor Ruins’ ability just now, weren’t you?”

“…!”

Kalon’s eyebrows shot up. Then Ran laughed, saying it was good he didn’t.

“If you had tried to remove his ability, Professor Kalon’s life would have been in danger instead.”

What? Life?

“It’s just a feeling, of course.”

‘A feeling.’

At Ran’s gaze, Kalon furrowed his brow.

The Assassination Arts professor has the sharpest instincts in Haven. Thanks to that, demon spies die before they can even plan anything.

“More than anything, that person acts like a gentleman and puts on airs, but he’s a really brutal man. It’s like a beast wearing a formal suit. If he had gone further, Professor Kalon’s canine teeth… no no, your teeth would have been knocked out, right?”

What? Teeth?

“Teeth my ass…”

“!”

He dodged the Assassination Arts professor’s attack? Wasn’t she just aiming at the wall?

Kalon became serious.

“Did Ruins really dodge your attack?”

“Huh? Maybe not. It might have been another missed attack too.”

“…Which is it.”

“Which one? Well, I still want to slice Professor Ruins’ neck. How can I hold back when I see such smooth, soft skin like that! Kyaaah!”

“…”

Is this woman a pervert?

Still, I can’t ignore someone with the sharpest instincts in Haven.

“Hey, tell me again what kind of feeling it is. If Ruins is actually special-grade and hiding his power…”

“Kya, ignoring me makes me more interested in Professor Ruins. What does he like? Does he like severed heads?”

…As expected, that can’t be right.

…Of course that can’t be right.

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