I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 52

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Chapter 52. What the Hell Is This (1)

 

Ruin, covered in congratulatory flower petals, was rarely left speechless.

 

Head Professor? What the hell does that even mean?

 

“Congratulations!”

 

Congratulations my ass, what is this?

 

Teaching Assistant Lily, who had set off the congratulation cannon, smiled brightly.

 

“The Chairman expressed his gratitude for fixing the Barrier Tower and driving away Fire Butterfly.”

 

What does that have to do with being Head Professor?

 

“He said he wants you as a colleague.”

 

So why does that lead to this?

 

“Isn’t Head Professor a position determined by various evaluations like experience, achievements, and professor votes?”

 

“But the Chairman’s recommendation letter takes first priority, right?”

 

Ruin, grasping the situation, grabbed the back of his neck.

 

‘In other words, he just arbitrarily promoted me to Head Professor.’

 

Ruin said with disgust.

 

“I’ve never done anything to deserve such a recommendation letter.”

 

“Hmm. So it says ‘Defense magic capable of passing through the Gatekeeper, physical resilience that couldn’t be possessed by Catalun, charisma that captivated the students, sense of justice in discovering and reporting a professor’s criminal acts, expertise and courage in healing students and preventing Fire Butterfly’s schemes in advance… He was moved by your pure heart that serves only Union, not for any monetary gain’…”

 

“…”

 

It was all because of money though.

 

Ginseng Superior at Ruin’s side was dying of laughter.

 

「Perfect. I said I’d waive the interest if you infiltrated as Head Professor.」

 

Ruin was flabbergasted.

 

‘Are you kidding me?’

 

Even if he could avoid the interest, the difficulty level was completely different.

 

Just infiltrating Haven, which was crawling with Heroes, was already hanging by a thread, and what? The top professor position? Haven’s face and Madam?

 

More importantly, did they know what kind of position Head Professor was?

 

“Being the Hero’s right hand is amazing!”

 

Right! As the Hero’s aide, his closest confidant!

 

Which meant it was a position that required always staying by the Hero’s side—

 

“You’re also the Union’s Supreme Battle Commander!”

 

Damn it!

 

What if they handed Union’s military forces over to Fire Butterfly! Union, is this really okay with you guys?

 

“The Principal is also a Battle Commander, so you two will be working together! Love-love!”

 

All that love-love talk and I’ll get struck by lightning!

 

「Plus you’re the head of Haven’s professors. So doesn’t that mean even that annoying seaweed-head is your subordinate?」

 

Ruin’s enlightened expression turned sour.

 

‘Yes, yes. I’ll make them each bring an apple box as a congratulatory gift.’

 

「Apple box? What’s that?」

 

‘It’s a thing that exists.’

 

Ruin sighed and ran his hand through his hair.

 

‘This is driving me crazy.’

 

Of course, he would normally take on the job. Because the interest was worth 50 years. It would be strange not to do it when they were offering to eliminate that much money.

 

But even considering that, the Head Professor position was too much.

 

‘Honestly, it’s SS-rank difficulty.’

 

Even though Fire Butterfly only took on S-rank and above missions, this wasn’t just SS-rank—it should be classified separately as SSS-rank.

 

To put it simply—

 

‘It’s like sticking your head in a starving tiger’s mouth all day, or becoming a fish in a busy sushi restaurant and surviving for a month.’

 

Ginseng Superior was exasperated.

 

「You’re the type who would beat up the tiger and set up house in the aquarium…」

 

That wasn’t all.

 

「Why are you leaving out the money you’ll receive as Head Professor?」

 

Ruin coughed.

 

…Of course, if he ran the numbers, the Head Professor position was honestly more profitable—

 

‘But you know how well the Hero can smell the Demon Race.’

 

「Hey, this house blocks the Hero’s ‘Fortune.’ So wouldn’t ‘Misfortune’ have the advantage?」

 

…Ahem, right. With those conditions, it was honestly doable.

 

But no matter how tempting it was, Fire Butterfly had his pride. If they thought he’d be hooked by mere money, they were mistaken…

 

At that moment, Lily held something out.

 

“Oh, by the way, this is the research funding and salary you’ll receive when you become Head Professor.”

Ruin froze when he saw the paper Lily unfolded. The section with the amount written on it was more brilliant than the light of a gold mine, no, more radiant than the Virgin Mary holding Jesus during the Second Coming.

He had been shocked even when becoming full professor and department head professor, but Head Professor… it was just on a different level. Even God had something to say about it.

 

「These guys… they really do have money rotting away. Union gods, I’m envious.」

 

Ruin felt frustrated.

 

Damn it, that dog-like Luck Power that gets gold dust even when playing at the beach…!

 

Though Ruin, who was distant from money due to his innate misfortune, felt strangely irritated, it was still fine.

 

‘Good. I’ll use this to my advantage instead.’

 

Rich people exist to be milked dry anyway. Ruin’s eyes flashed as he found something he wanted.

 

“I’ll consider the Head Professor position.”

 

Lily was overjoyed.

 

“The Chairman will be delighted too. Then I’ll bring him right away.”

 

“No. There’s no need for that.”

 

“Pardon? Oh, you’re going to go directly…”

 

Ruin put on his coat.

 

“I’ll take the Head Professor position, but I have absolutely no intention of working with the Chairman.”

 

…? But you’re the Chairman’s assistant?

 

“That’s why I said I have no intention of working with him.”

 

As Ruin left coldly, Lily blinked with a squirrel-like face.

 

…Pardon?

 

“…Pardon?!”

 

* * *

 

“What? Professor Ruins is a spy?”

 

The Principal looked at Kalon and the professors with bewilderment. They had come because of the Fire Butterfly incident.

 

The Principal tilted his head.

 

“Wasn’t the Fire Butterfly incident explained by the Chairman?”

 

That’s because the explanation was unconvincing! And he’s protecting Ruins Wayne with ridiculous reasons!

 

‘Originally, the Chairman never appointed Head Professors through connections.’

 

Because it was such an important position.

 

But what about this time? Designating Ruins as Head Professor without any voting or evaluation?

 

That position was one of the most sensitive in the Union. So everyone had to be on edge. Especially Kalon, who had been a strong candidate for the next Head Professor, spoke up.

 

“Ruins Wayne wasn’t originally such an outstanding person. A person who was called a quack and driven from the lecture hall suddenly starts solving cases left and right.”

 

“Since he was driven out, maybe he developed his abilities? If any of you experienced such a thing, wouldn’t you do some self-development?”

 

“Even so, it’s too fast!”

 

Ruins Wayne being that level of genius?

 

Charlie, his classmate, also stepped forward.

 

“A guy who couldn’t even fight becomes a Battle Mage in just a few years. And now Advanced Elemental Magic…! The level is too different!”

 

The Principal, with fingers interlaced, smiled beautifully.

 

“It’s very heartwarming to see colleagues praising each other.”

 

“Principal!”

 

The Principal’s cold eyes narrowed.

 

Well, he said that, but being cautious wasn’t bad. Among spies, there were high-level ones like Fire Butterfly.

 

Right. That noble butterfly who, as the Demon Emperor’s dog, never surrendered even in the face of money.

 

“Well, if it’s Fire Butterfly, he’ll show his tail in class soon. Fire Butterfly would never do anything for students.”

 

* * *

 

The students watched Ruin’s mood.

 

“Professor.”

 

“What.”

 

“Today is… ‘Life Rescue Studies’ time.”

 

“So what.”

 

“Life Rescue Studies is Professor Kalon’s liberal arts class. Why is Professor Ruins here…?”

 

“Are you complaining that I’m substituting for a class that was scheduled to be canceled, for the sake of your educational rights?”

 

“Ohh…!”

 

Is he that serious about student education!

 

But it’s strange.

 

“But why is Professor Wayne…?”

 

Wasn’t he on bad terms with Kalon?

 

But Ruin got worked up.

 

‘Why indeed.’

 

It’s because the Hero keeps coming to find me!

 

‘Hero bastard, I didn’t know he could smell me just by getting close.’

 

During the Fire Butterfly incident, I could get by because there was the bomb package I had sent, but now I don’t even have that. In other words, I absolutely must not run into that Hero bastard.

 

‘But I still want to receive the Head Professor salary.’

 

「Did your conscience die?」

 

Anyway, today I also refused when the Hero suggested meeting with the Principal for a conference.

 

“Tell him I can’t because I have class.”

 

“Eh, yes? But Professor. You don’t have class today.”

 

“Make one.”

 

“Yes? Yes? B-but the Chairman wants to see you…”

 

“Do you think the Chairman has the right to interfere with students’ right to learn? Setting up an appointment on the same day in the first place? Does he have no sense?”

 

And so a hypocritical class was born.

 

“Professor Kalon suddenly complained of acute diarrhea during our tea time, so I ended up taking over for him.”

 

「Did you slip him diarrhea medicine…」

 

This guy is committing human elimination instead of human rescue…

 

「Huh? But how did diarrhea medicine work on a special-grade hero?」

 

‘I put in Catalun’s magic power that I extracted last time.’

 

「…Crazy bastard. If you eat that, your heart usually stops first?!」

 

‘He’s a special-grade hero so he’ll be fine. Though he’ll have to stay in the bathroom for about a month.’

 

「…The fact that you think that’s fine makes you the crazy one…」

 

Of course, the professors thought highly of Ruin for substituting classes. Usually they were too busy with their own classes to help others. Since professor evaluations were relative grading, they figured they should just take care of their own classes.

 

But-

 

“Most importantly, Fire Butterfly appeared the day before yesterday. As a Haven Professor, I cannot just stand by and watch this. So today I will specially substitute with a Demon Hunting Studies lecture.”

 

If you substitute a class, it counts as your own class.

 

It was written in Article 398, Section 12 of the 《Haven Higher Education Academic & Administrative Operations General Rules (9th Revised Edition)》 that professors barely knew existed. It was a clause the Principal created in anger because of professors who abused class cancellations like eating meals.

 

And most importantly!

 

-Separate allowance payment.

 

Right! Special allowance comes in!

 

If it’s a Department Head Professor’s class, even more comes in!

 

The students who didn’t know this were happy.

 

‘It’s a Fire Butterfly special lecture!’

 

‘Nobody else has handled it this way.’

 

‘Good. If it’s substituted with a special lecture, we should listen well.’

 

“Therefore, today’s class will proceed until midnight.”

 

…What?

 

It’s 10 AM right now…?

 

The frozen students raised their hands.

 

“Um, Professor. I’m sorry to say this, but this class is only one hour long… And Professor Kalon never did this either…”

 

“If you have complaints, get out.”

 

“No sir.”

 

Still, if the professor is putting this much enthusiasm into it, is he planning to teach something incredible?

 

“Right. I’m planning to do something special.”

 

“Ohh…!”

 

How special must it be to have an all-day Fire Butterfly special lecture!

 

Ruin dropped a thick dictionary in front of the expectant students.

 

Thud!

 

“Copy it.”

 

What? Huh? What?

 

Not a lecture?

 

“Copy it.”

 

…The 1,000-page one?

 

No, more than that-

 

-《The Most Useless Achievements in Union》

 

…Copy this?

 

…This isn’t even related to Fire Butterfly anymore, is it?

 

“Anyone with complaints, speak up. It’s ‘horrible’.”

 

That means a failing grade!

 

The students wrote lines while crying, but Ruin opened his book looking satisfied.

 

‘Good. Even I think I’m a wonderful Head Professor. I deserve to receive a Head Professor salary.’

 

「I’m telling you your conscience is dead.」

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