I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 50
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Chapter 50. You’ve Decided to Become the Demon Emperor!
The Hero hastily turned his head.
At his reaction, the Heroes’ eyes widened.
“Chairman?”
“What’s the matter?”
“No-”
The Hero felt an extremely powerful presence.
‘It was definitely just for a moment, but my barrier reacted.’
The barrier that reacted was the one spread out in Haven Underground. It had been installed to prevent enemies from digging tunnels and coming up.
But that reacted?
‘Don’t tell me Fire Butterfly attempted to infiltrate underground?’
It was an absurd notion, but since he was such an unpredictable fellow, it was entirely possible.
So, just how unpredictable was Fire Butterfly-
That bastard was a crazy son of a bitch who, when you set up ironclad security to prevent him from stealing secret manuals, would steal the entire library building instead. He was truly a disaster.
And now, someone had tried to enter this Haven, which was called a ‘tomb’ among the Demon Race. Who else could it be?
‘Could it really be that guy?’
The Hero’s eyes turned sharp.
That’s when it happened.
“Chairman!”
“Lord Elaine!”
The Special Grade Heroes summoned to catch Fire Butterfly gathered around the Hero.
Seven in total. Seven Special Grade Heroes, each capable of protecting a nation alone, had assembled. All to catch a single butterfly.
However.
“We ultimately lost the butterfly.”
“We’re sorry. It was Fire Butterfly appearing for the first time in 50 years…!”
The Hero sighed.
“It seems we were all played by Fire Butterfly.”
“Pardon?”
“Fire Butterfly’s purpose must have been to gather all the Heroes in one place.”
“…!”
The Special Grade Heroes flinched.
“Us?”
“Why would he do such a reckless thing…!”
The Hero furrowed his brow.
“Well, I’ll have to ask him directly.”
What?
Directly?
At that moment, the Hero’s hand sliced through the air. Then a flash of light shot up before their eyes.
Flash!
The flash that seemed capable of splitting a mountain precisely bombarded a specific point.
“Gah!”
It was near Haven’s Main Gate.
The Heroes doubted the scene before their eyes. The earth split from the Hero’s power, and finally a person who had been hiding underground revealed himself.
“A Demon Race spy?”
“He was hiding in such a place!”
No one had noticed.
The Hero smiled as brightly as spring sunshine.
“A special grade Intelligence Agent, I see. You hid well, but I have a good nose for these things.”
“…!”
The Intelligence Agent tried to flee urgently, but when the Hero casually picked up a tree branch and threw it, the Intelligence Agent tripped and fell.
It was Luck Power.
Thud!
The fallen demon gritted his teeth and looked at the Hero.
“Damn it, by something like this…!”
“Who’s behind this?”
The Hero, armed with a celestial voice and smile, approached as if coaxing a child.
“Is it Fire Butterfly?”
“Don’t you dare speak that person’s name!”
“My, Fire Butterfly is quite popular.”
Soon the demon, captured by the Heroes, glared at the Hero as if to kill him.
“Hero! You don’t know our pain! The death of comrades, the death of family, do you even know that crushing agony!”
Then the Hero smiled and warmly embraced the demon. And then whispered coldly.
“Sorry. I’ve never felt pain before.”
“…!”
At that chilling remark, the demon’s eyes flashed in startled surprise.
The Heroes who instantly noticed the movement of magic power flinched. Just as they were about to step forward, the Hero blocked them as if to say he would handle it.
“Chairman!”
The demon’s magic precisely avoided the Hero.
No attack could work against someone with the highest luck power. Even if he tried to stab himself with a knife, the blade would break.
He was a human who wouldn’t even get bitten by mosquitoes or trip and fall. Attacks were meaningless against such a person.
Sure enough-
Bang!
The demon’s arm that tried to directly attack the Hero was broken instead.
“Gaaah!”
The demon’s sword even ended up in the Hero’s hands, and when the Hero casually touched the sword, the demon’s heart exploded.
Pop!
As the demon’s body burst into chunks of flesh, the Hero looked flustered.
“Ah. Oh no. It was a self-destruct device. Sorry.”
The Heroes groaned. That luck power that could kill a viper just by stepping on it while walking…
But what was even more surprising wasn’t that.
“Cough, cough…!”
“You’re not dead?”
Despite self-destructing, he didn’t die.
This was also thanks to the Hero’s luck power. The problem was that the demon’s vocal cords had burst, making interrogation impossible…
With the Hero’s usual luck power, this would be absolutely impossible, but-
“Is this truly Fire Butterfly’s reputation at work?”
“…!”
The Heroes were greatly shocked by those words.
Fire Butterfly, the only existence that the Hero’s luck power didn’t work on, and thus could interfere with it.
“Then today’s commotion too…”
“Right. He’s a clever one. It must be a commotion to assess our full strength – how many Heroes are stationed at Haven, what abilities they have, how many can be mobilized under Fire Butterfly’s name.”
Still violent and supremely arrogant. To do something that other demons wouldn’t even attempt out of fear.
‘Did he come to destroy Union’s heart under the Demon Emperor’s orders?’
Embarrassingly, the Hero didn’t know Fire Butterfly’s face, gender, or even age. Despite frantically capturing and torturing demons, even the great Pride Intelligence Agency didn’t know his identity.
The Hero turned around.
“We’re returning to Haven.”
The professors and teaching assistants who had all rushed out of Haven due to the Fire Butterfly commotion looked flustered.
“But if we return like this, won’t it look like we were played by Fire Butterfly…!”
“It’s fortunate no one was hurt. Are there any other problems?”
“There’s a very big problem.”
What?
The one who approached speaking ominously was seaweed-haired Calon. As both a Special-class Hero and Haven’s professor, his eyes bulged.
“Ruins Wayne is not here.”
“!”
Calon gritted his teeth.
“Fire Butterfly appeared, yet the most important Demon Hunting professor is absent. Does that even make sense?”
Other professors also approached, saying it was a valid point.
“As soon as the Chairman called, not only all professors but even teaching assistants came running.”
The Demon Hunting professor exists to catch strong demons like Fire Butterfly. The Head Professor position wasn’t given for nothing.
“Yet how could the Demon Hunting professor be absent from such an incident…!”
“We must thoroughly investigate where he is!”
As the professors tried to attack Ruin, the Principal frowned. The Hero answered as if to check them.
“Ah. If it’s Professor Wayne, I saw him inside Haven.”
“Excuse me? Inside Haven?”
“He was fixing the barrier.”
“Excuse me? The barrier?”
The Hero cupped his chin.
Come to think of it, wasn’t Ruins already patrolling after sensing demonic energy? In other words, couldn’t this be seen as him having detected Fire Butterfly’s scheme ‘in advance’…?
The Hero’s eyes sparkled.
“So, where is Professor Wayne now?”
The Special-class Hero in charge of tracking tilted his head and hesitated.
“What’s wrong?”
“Well… he’s heading toward his research lab…”
Kallon was flabbergasted by those words.
“Slacking off?!”
Just then, as if the communication connection with Ruins had been established, Lily listened to the Frix and said.
“Well, he says he sensed an intruder’s presence in the West Lecture Building where the Healing Magic Classroom is located, so he checked with the Healing Arts professors.”
“What!”
“But he says it seems like it was a mistake, so he’s going home. He says there are many things in the Head Professor’s office that the Demon Race might target.”
The professors and Kallon were dumbfounded.
‘What? Things the Demon Race might target? Is he joking?’
Wasn’t that just a roundabout way of saying he was going to call it a night!
“That’s a lie! He’s slacking off!”
However, the Hero’s face became serious.
‘Certainly, my barrier reacted from the direction of the West Lecture Building where the Healing Magic Classroom is located.’
Was it a coincidence?
Or could it possibly be Fire Butterfly himself?
The Hero’s eyes changed.
‘No, Professor Wayne’s face was bare for him to be Fire Butterfly.’
He could tell at a glance whether it was a Human Skin Mask or Transformation Magic. Such petty tricks wouldn’t work on the Hero and Principal.
So that meant it was a bare face.
‘Fire Butterfly has no reason to reveal his bare face himself.’
Didn’t he hear that he revealed his face himself during the Healing Arts lecture?
‘Fire Butterfly isn’t stupid enough to do such crazy things.’
He was the type who tried to hide his face until the very end.
To say he revealed it by exploiting a loophole, there were more losses than gains. The Union was overflowing with wealthy magnates who had bet their entire fortunes to catch Fire Butterfly.
In this situation, if even his face was revealed, it would cause chaos. That clever bastard wouldn’t do such foolish things.
So that couldn’t be it.
‘Professor Wayne suddenly disappeared while talking with me.’
After that, there was a reaction from the underground barrier.
Then, as if finally realizing something, the Hero’s eyes widened.
‘Could it be that he sensed Fire Butterfly’s intrusion then?’
So that’s why he disappeared?
If so, does that mean he sensed Fire Butterfly before I did?
“As expected of the watchdog Wayne Family. He has an amazing ability to smell Fire Butterfly.”
“Pardon?”
The Hero’s face became serious.
“I should seriously consider Professor Wayne as a colleague.”
“Pardon?!”
Kallon and the professors were incredulous.
A colleague?
“That bastard… I mean, that person? Why!”
“His intuition is amazingly good. Earlier when I suggested we go catch Fire Butterfly together, he ran away.”
At those words, Kallon and the professors let out hollow laughs.
‘He ran away from the Chairman because he was afraid his skills would be exposed.’
“He must have such excellent intuition that he even noticed I’m a workaholic. I am the worst as a superior though.”
“That’s not true!”
The professors cried out in opposition close to screaming, but the Hero’s eyes became serious.
Originally, he thought he was just a fairly outstanding hero, but that wasn’t the case.
‘Professor Ruins might be Fire Butterfly’s natural enemy.’
That excellent intuition and nose were absolutely necessary for the Union.
‘He’s a talent that must be recruited even if we have to give him money and honor…!’
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The professors who returned from business trips were turned upside down by last night’s news.
“Is it true that Fire Butterfly appeared yesterday?”
“What about the Demon Hunting Professor!”
At the faces hoping for even a mistake, Kallon’s brow twitched.
On the other hand, the Healing Arts professors were all smiles.
“The Chairman was very pleased that we protected the internal barrier.”
“What?!”
“Hehe, as expected of a giant in the Healing Arts field.”
The Healing Arts professors smiled contentedly, while the other professors just hit the innocent wall.
That’s why Kallon was furious. Not only did they score points with the Chairman, but there was also a meeting all night afterward. It was about countermeasures against Fire Butterfly and a reflection session.
But all the Special Grade Heroes came, yet Ruins was washing his feet and sleeping at that time?
It was right then.
“Oh? It’s Professor Ruins!”
At the exclamation of Ran, the Assassination Studies Professor, Kalon’s head turned with a creak. He spotted a tall man coming to work carrying a flower pot next to the faculty meeting room.
Kalon immediately blocked Ruin’s path.
「Oh? Seaweed head.」
Ruin raised one eyebrow.
Hmm. After working his ass off last night covering the tunnel entrance while those pathetic heroes were gathering, now it’s this guy?
“Why didn’t the Demon Hunting Professor show his face at all yesterday?”
Ruin sneered as if it was absurd.
“You let Fire Butterfly escape, and now you’re taking it out on me? How pathetic.”
“Why didn’t you respond to the assembly and meeting that gathered the Special Grade Heroes!”
“Obviously. Because I’m not a Special Grade Hero.”
“…What?”
Ruin shrugged his shoulders.
“Are you deaf? I’m not a Special Grade Hero, so there’s no problem with not responding to the assembly.”
Kalon held back the curse that was about to come out.
How did someone who’s not even Special Grade end up becoming a Demon Hunting Professor, the pinnacle of all professors?
Meanwhile, the words of the Assassination Studies Professor who came with him were even more infuriating.
“Wow! That’s crazy! So you have that level of skill without being a Special Grade Hero? Amazing! Please give me your autograph!”
“…You should just keep quiet.”
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