I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 51
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Chapter 51. Was it real?
「Hahaha, you should have seen that seaweed-head’s face.」
‘Kalon may look old, but why are you making fun of someone else’s face? That’s not right.’
「That’s not what I meant, why are you dissing someone else’s face, you crazy bastard!」
Ruin had briefly stepped outside Haven. After finding the treasure chest, there was something he needed to confirm. He completely ignored the Hero’s love call to go catch Fire Butterfly.
‘He’s probably distracted by the captured demon anyway.’
「Isn’t that captured girl your colleague?」
‘Not a colleague. She seems like a rookie.’
「Isn’t she from another team in the Intelligence Agency?」
‘She’s from a team, but we’re rivals.’
No wonder they put more handcuffs on her the moment they saw her, even though she was the same race.
Ginseng Superior looked at him with eyes that said he was the devil incarnate of personality, but Ruin just stroked his chin thoughtfully.
That was because she mistook him for the Hero’s torture technician and tried to self-destruct.
‘Instead, I dug her an escape route to get out alive. If she’s a pro, the rest is up to her.’
「Oh, Fire Butterfly showed such kindness?」
He didn’t know anything about Fire Butterfly, but he was grateful she drew the Hero’s attention. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to come out alone like this.
‘Still, seeing that a special-grade intelligence agent targeted this place, there must really be something good in that vault.’
What could it be?
Finally, Ruin arrived at his destination.
It was a cathedral.
The place he was guided to was a confession room for confessions. It was a room barely big enough for one person to sit.
As Ruin sat in the chair, the door closed.
“Little lamb. What business brings you to call for the eighth room?”
“I came for confession…”
Before Ruin could finish speaking, a weapon came flying.
Swoosh!
It flew through the gap in the window made for conversation.
Despite the sudden attack, Ruin quickly caught the weapon.
Crack! Crack!
Soon, as he opened his fist, the blade fragments that had been like bullets fell down in pieces.
The priest admired from beyond the wall, seemingly impressed.
“What? You’ve gotten stronger since I last saw you.”
“Well, thanks to allies doing nothing but foolish things, I’m gaining good abilities.”
This was an ability Ruin gained through ‘God’s Right Hand’ by touching Haven’s barrier tower core.
【3x Ability Enhancement】
An ability that temporarily enhances one’s own or others’ abilities. ‘Union Magic Enhancement’ had evolved into Ruin’s unique magic.
Then the female priest smiled contentedly and sat down with her legs crossed.
“Are you among the living or the dead? Good to see you, King of the Borderline, ‘Fire Butterfly’.”
“Are you sharpening your scissors to pluck the fruits of heaven, ‘Kingslayer’?”
Then the beautiful priest laughed heartily.
“I’m surprised. I thought you died in Haven long ago. Moreover, I never expected that Fire Butterfly would walk around with his real face.”
“Isn’t it mutual? The commander of Pride Intelligence Agency’s infiltration division is playing with priests with her bare face.”
“But I am surprised. Even though I said I wasn’t student material, I never thought you’d actually enter as a professor. You’re probably the only one who could infiltrate that Haven. I wonder if it’s really reckless or amazing. And a plant butler, so unlike you? I wondered what you were planning to do after retirement – were you thinking of starting a flower farm?”
“Shut up. When you get down to it, this whole mess happened because you idiots stupidly lost territory.”
Sasha Chef.
Commander of Pride Intelligence Agency’s 1st Division.
She was the direct superior Ruin had visited first after his return. She was part of Pride’s leadership and the only one besides the Demon Emperor who knew Fire Butterfly’s face.
She was also the one who sent Ruin a message recently. And Sasha was the one who deposited his severance pay.
That’s why Ruin’s brow had to furrow.
“Did you really deposit all the severance pay in the first place? You’re not scamming me by saying you deposited it when you didn’t, right?”
As Ruin’s eyes turned menacing, Sasha’s eyes became even more menacing.
“Do you think I’d scam you over something like that! You idiot! Do you even know how many years our Intelligence Agency starved just to give you money! You bastard!”
With weapons ready to fly, Ruin pressed his brow. Provoking that temper would only hurt him. He couldn’t risk getting assigned a mission here.
“I understand. I came here because I’m curious about something.”
“I’m telling you in advance, salary advances are not allowed.”
I never said I’d continue spy work.
He frowned.
“I heard intelligence that Pride Intelligence Agency was targeting the vault in my house.”
“So?”
“And my house became Hero Academy. You said you lost the land because you lost to the Hero, but didn’t you lose it on purpose?”
A strange killing intent flowed. There was no way she wouldn’t know what his words meant.
“So. In other words, we betrayed you?”
“Yes. To be honest, I suspect that Pride pulled some tricks to prevent my retirement.”
“…You’re getting cocky.”
Her gaze turned cold. Along with murderous pressure, a long awl was aimed at Ruin’s neck.
“The moment you suspect a colleague, the relationship is over.”
It wasn’t for nothing that she was an executive of Pride. If she set her mind to it, she could even eliminate Ruin.
But that was only for a moment.
“I blocked all the schemes trying to prevent your retirement.”
At the same time, the awl that punished troublemakers disappeared.
“!”
Sasha was fond of her subordinate Ruin.
Honestly, Fire Butterfly’s retirement? There was no way Pride wouldn’t be in chaos. The upper hierarchy said they should create non-existent crimes to tie him down, but his direct superior Sasha handled it all.
And yet…
“I honestly didn’t expect the house situation. I never imagined the Hero would actually take over such a place.”
Ruin doubted his own ears.
What?
“Such a place?”
“…In the first place, what were you thinking when you bought that house?”
Why, indeed.
“They gave me a half-price discount because it was an accident property.”
“…”
The superior’s face as she held her forehead was worth seeing.
But her sighing ‘this is just like him’ was only momentary-
“No wait, that house might actually benefit you. You definitely bought something incredible. You might have already received all its benefits.”
“?”
“It seems the Hero’s Luck Power doesn’t work well there.”
“So that bastard took it knowing it was disadvantageous territory for him?”
“Of course. They said it was a house his Luck Power told him to absolutely never choose.”
“Absolutely never choose means…”
“A prophecy fell that the Hero would die in that house.”
“!”
In other words, it was a house where he himself might die.
Thinking about it that way made it even stranger. What on earth was that Hero bastard’s intention in establishing Haven in such a place?
「Could his obsession with Fire Butterfly have made him live in that house?」
…How chilling.
Ruin looked up at the ceiling.
“Then what about Pride Intelligence Agency trying to rob my safe? Was that false information?”
“Ah. That.”
The superior grabbed the back of her neck as if remembering something she’d forgotten. Ruin’s eyes turned menacing at that sight.
“Were you really trying to rob it?”
Don’t tell me you bastards were really after my treasure?
“Real or fake, are you crazy! What do you do when you steal the Demon Emperor’s heart and put it in your safe!”
“…??”
「…???!」
「You didn’t put something that could be Pride’s lifeline in there, did you? For example, the Demon Emperor’s heart! Ahaha!」
‘…’
「Seed? It’s a joke. Laugh!」
‘…’
「…?!」
…That was real?! Damn!
Ginseng Superior screamed like Van Gogh’s The Scream.
「The, the Demon Emperor makes his heart into a separate object and stores it outside, right?」
‘…Yes. That’s why he doesn’t die even when stabbed by the Hero.’
But still, to think Pride’s leader’s life is in my safe.
‘How damn nerve-wracking.’
“The Demon Emperor told us not to tell you, but the upper hierarchy is already in chaos! What if the Hero finds out about it!”
Fortunately, it seems the Demon Emperor isn’t angry.
“What does the Demon Emperor say?”
“…He took my ‘first,’ so it’s not strange… he said.”
Ruin’s face soured.
The superior’s expression with interlocked fingers was serious.
Well, she respected her subordinate’s private life, but given the scale of the incident, she couldn’t help but ask.
“…Is it true?”
Ruin looked disgusted as if he’d bitten into a bug.
“He’s always been one to joke too much.”
“Boring guy. That’s just like you, I suppose.”
The superior said.
“Anyway, what were you thinking putting something like that in your safe?”
…would they have known when they put it in?
“Anyway, that’s why the upper levels deployed agents. If the Hero finds out, Pride is finished.”
‘So that’s why another team from Intelligence Agency Division 1 was deployed. How unfortunate for them.’
Pride Intelligence Agency (N.O.X) has divisions 1 through 9, where Division 1 is infiltration, Division 2 is assassination, and Division 3 is technical. Division 6 is tracking, Division 9 is records, and so on.
Of course, even within the same Division 1, teams don’t get along well. They’re bound to be rivals because of performance evaluations.
“Therefore, while you’re retrieving your severance pay, you’ll also need to find the Demon Emperor’s heart. So I’ll cooperate fully with your trip to the vault room.”
“Well… if that’s all.”
This is actually a good thing.
“You haven’t been to the vault room yet, right?”
“No. There are various problems, so I need to dig a tunnel.”
“Well, handle it yourself. It’s not like you’d dig a tunnel carelessly. As long as the Hero doesn’t know there are treasure chests underground, he won’t move either.”
…I’d be dead if they found out several treasure chests had leaked out.
“The problem is that since Intelligence Agency agents are moving, the special-class fugitives are getting restless for no reason.”
“Ah. Those troublemakers.”
They’re the type who move at the slightest smell of money.
“Right. If they get restless for no reason, the Hero might notice the heart’s existence in reverse. Then it’s over.”
Ha. Suddenly our peaceful house has become some kind of battlefield of the century.
“Well… I’ll keep that in mind. I’m not sure if I can handle the ‘special-class fugitives’ since they’re strong.”
The superior was dumbfounded by those words.
‘What’s he saying when he’s probably the strongest one.’
Enemies even the Union fears, special-class fugitives. The name that Fire Butterfly belongs to isn’t originally an official designation used by the Union.
They are those who committed grave sins in Pride, demons among Pride’s special-class who are so strong and violent that no one can handle them. In other words, they meant special-class criminals.
The upper levels put sealing devices on them instead of execution, and allowed them the freedom of release in exchange for occasional deployment.
And ‘Fire Butterfly’ was the strongest among them. He was dangerous enough that even other special-class fugitives were wary of him.
“Now that your business is done, I have something to discuss too.”
“I didn’t say I’d listen.”
“It’s a message from the Demon Emperor.”
…What? A message?
“He asked who told you to fix the Union’s barrier so well.”
Ruin broke out in cold sweat.
Damn. Did I get caught already?
“But he said he’ll let it slide since you seem to have gained a good ability in the process.”
Phew. Looks like I’ll survive without dying.
“Instead, he said if you can’t repay 10% of the interest within this month, he’ll have you turned into taxidermy.”
Ruin looked up at the ceiling.
Ugh… This is urgent.
“If that’s difficult, become a Head Professor and steal information from Haven’s Secret Zone. Then you won’t have to repay the interest.”
“Are you crazy? Head Professor? There’s no way they’d put a newcomer in such an important position. And being the Hero’s colleague? The difficulty level is on a different dimension. I won’t do it.”
Besides, the Hero’s Luck Power wouldn’t allow Fire Butterfly to become Head Professor anyway.
* * *
Right. That’s what happened, but…
When Ruin returned to Haven, he doubted his own eyes. It was because of the banner hanging in the classroom.
-Congratulations on your appointment as Head Professor!
“Congratulations! Professor Wayne!”
What the hell is this?
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