I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 60

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Chapter 60. The Butterfly Who Holds Grudges (2)

 

The students were flustered.

 

‘Was Ruins angry about the auditing passes?’

 

“Professor, the auditing passes are, well…!”

 

But Ruin’s gaze became even more menacing.

 

“People never know when or where they might fall ill. You could end up that way right now. Shall I make it happen?”

 

When the topic suddenly shifted from auditing passes to the Princess, the students stammered. They simply couldn’t keep up with this professor’s topic changes.

 

“No, that’s not what we meant…!”

 

“Your words are short.”

 

At his seemingly supportive words, Judith looked at him in surprise, while the students squeezed their eyes shut.

 

‘Damn it, weren’t the professors supposed to be at dinner?!’

 

So there was only one thing to say.

 

“…Professor! Did you enjoy your meal!”

 

“I’ll answer after giving Goldmoon 50 penalty points.”

 

No, Professor…!

 

However, Ruin clicked his tongue.

 

‘Doesn’t that damn Hero bastard even teach his students character lessons?’

 

Well, whatever. He was a guy obsessed with Fire Butterfly.

 

‘The reason he built Haven was obviously to make the professors do his work for him.’

 

「There might be some profound reason behind it.」

 

‘Yes, profoundly to recruit workers to exploit.’

 

And this situation was quite understandable too. Since Goldmoon revered the Imperial Princess, they would naturally find the Grand Duke House, which supported a different Prince, distasteful.

 

‘Are they ostracizing the Princess instead of their master, the Imperial Princess?’

 

But that didn’t mean he had any intention of forgiving them.

 

“Hand over the auditing passes.”

 

“…Yes.”

 

The Goldmoon students pulled out papers from their pockets.

 

“Hand over the money too.”

 

They bit their lips as if about to cry. Since they had used school property for private gain, it was natural for it to be confiscated, but…

 

“You’ll return it later, right…?”

 

Instead of answering, Ruin smiled.

 

The students became anxious. Usually, items confiscated from students are returned after a certain period. Yes. If it were a ‘normal’ professor.

 

“…You’re going to return it, right…?”

 

Ruin smiled even more, and the students became even more anxious.

 

You are going to return it, right?!

 

Ruin cheerfully collected the money and put it in his pocket.

 

Only then realizing their money had been taken, the students screamed internally.

 

‘That demon!’

 

That’s when it happened. As Ruin turned around, his eyes met with the Imperial Princess who had stood up abruptly.

 

“Ah.”

 

The Imperial Princess’s heart fluttered when their eyes met, but for some reason, Ruin openly let out a deep sigh. It was a sigh that seemed to reach the ocean depths.

 

Even his gaze was like looking at a dog taking a dump. How could that be the look one gives the Empire’s Imperial Princess?

 

Ruin arbitrarily tore a page from a nearby student’s practice notebook, wrote something on it, and approached the Imperial Princess. At this sight, the Imperial Princess’s heart unknowingly began to race.

 

‘Why is he approaching me?’

 

He had been completely ignoring her until now, but had he developed some interest?

 

He even took the Imperial Princess’s hand and skillfully spread her fingers. The Imperial Princess gasped in surprise at his hand movements, but Ruin placed something in the Imperial Princess’s palm.

 

‘A note?’

 

At Haven, becoming a private tutor was common since it counted as Achievement depending on who you taught. And she had been following him around, volunteering as a teaching assistant while cleaning Ruins’s research lab…

 

Soon the Imperial Princess’s face brightened.

 

‘Then could this be a private tutoring note?’

 

Had her efforts finally borne fruit!

 

“Karin Winberg.”

 

“Y-yes, ah, yes yes!”

 

-Additional assignment list.

 

-Failure to complete will result in prohibition from attending all ‘Ruins Wayne’ lectures

 

…Eh?

 

The Imperial Princess blinked as she looked at the paper before her.

 

What is this…?

 

“It’s punishment for not managing your friends.”

 

What?!

 

Ruin said he had no more business here and swiftly left the library.

 

“….”

 

The Imperial Princess’s expression was worth seeing.

 

* * *

 

As he left the library, Ginseng Superior at his side made a comment.

 

「You’re particularly cold to the Imperial Princess.」

 

‘It’s education.’

 

「Isn’t it just that you dislike people in power?」

 

‘No.’

 

「Then is it the Imperial Palace?」

 

Ruin ignored him.

 

The Imperial Princess wasn’t important right now.

 

‘I thought I’d finally met the Princess who doesn’t even attend classes.’

 

Because of those damn Gold Gate bastards…!

 

‘Where did they go?’

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Something caught Ruin’s eye as he left the library. A clear sky, with a single black dot floating leisurely.

 

‘What’s that?’

 

It looked like an ordinary bird.

 

But a sneer escaped from Ruin’s lips.

 

“…Such dedication to disguise.”

 

He muttered and lightly flicked his finger.

 

Snap!

 

With that small gesture, the air burst into flames. Fire shot up through the sky, engulfing the Frix, and the bird disappeared with a chirp.

 

Bang!

 

People nearby were startled.

 

“Aah! What was that just now!”

 

“A bird caught fire!”

 

While students murmured in surprise, professors came running.

 

“What was that just now? Professor?”

 

“Was there a demon hiding or something?”

 

Ruin turned around.

 

“It was Pride’s surveillance targeting Haven.”

 

“What?! Wasn’t it just a bird?”

 

“I didn’t sense any Curse Power at all…!”

 

At those words, Ruin smiled slightly.

 

“That’s exactly the problem. There’s only one thing capable of such disguise.”

 

At those words, the professors’ faces hardened.

 

A professor from the Magic Department spoke up.

 

“S-surely not a Special Grade Wanted Criminal?”

 

The professors stirred uneasily, but Ruin smiled wickedly for once.

 

* * *

 

“Tch. The Hero?”

 

Echo shook his hand at the stinging sensation.

 

There was only one person in the entire Union who could see through his disguise.

 

The Hero.

 

‘I heard he recently returned to Haven.’

 

It was a Frix crafted so precisely that even decent mages couldn’t notice it. Yet it was destroyed with a single burst of magic power? And without leaving any trace?

 

Echo bit his lip.

 

‘When Fire Butterfly was around, I didn’t need to worry about things like this.’

 

He slowly raised his head.

 

The ruined chapel. This place that once called upon God’s name had long since collapsed, and incomplete candles flickered roughly.

 

But now, like a thrill of silence, beings began to reveal themselves one by one from the shadows.

 

‘Special Grade Wanted Criminals’.

 

They were those who had left the worst massacre records in continental history. Living disasters that even the Union government couldn’t control, so Pride had to directly put ‘leashes’ on them to manage them.

 

And currently, their target was the Union and Haven.

 

Yes, that was the case-

 

“What? You failed to kidnap a Haven professor?”

 

A thick voice erupted from one corner of the chapel. Echo lightly raised his head.

 

“Who is this professor?”

 

“Ruins Wayne.”

 

At that moment,

 

Thud!

 

A chair roughly fell backward as one wanted criminal shot up.

 

“Damn it, that money source! I told you to secure the VIP for sure. I said don’t send low-grade, low-grade!”

 

At that outcry, someone with a young appearance stood up. And then-

 

Crack.

 

He snapped the noisy man’s neck just like that. It was literally instantaneous.

 

The man trembled under the candlelight and then quietly stopped. His breath had ceased. No one was surprised. That was the rule of this place.

 

“Don’t take out your anger after failing.”

 

The boy who said this wiped his blood-soaked hands on his clothes.

 

“So, was it really low-grade?”

 

The reporter swallowed his saliva.

 

“We sent enough high-grade…”

 

“Then that human beat the high-grade?”

 

A moment of silence fell.

 

“Moreover, he’s now become a Demon Hunting Professor at Haven.”

 

At those words, Echo’s eyes, who had been listening, narrowed.

 

‘Demon Hunting Studies.’

 

Haven’s symbol and the frontline of Demon Race extermination.

 

And recently, the mysterious contact that had reached him.

 

‘That was definitely Fire Butterfly’s contact.’

 

The location was near Haven.

 

Suddenly, the back of his neck felt chilly.

 

That guy is alive. And he’s moving.

 

“…Shouldn’t we back off?”

 

Just as his eyes were rolling around like that.

 

“Haha. Brother, what’s wrong. You look like you’ve seen Fire Butterfly or something.”

 

“!”

 

What appeared was the Special Grade Wanted Criminal ‘Toad’.

 

The handsome man was a famous bomb manufacturer obsessed with human dissection, a madman who had caused terrible casualties on the continent.

 

“There are many useful ability users there. From prophets to revivalists to special ability users…”

 

Toad spoke while tapping the corpse storage container strapped to his back.

 

“What can’t we solve?”

 

Then someone quietly said.

 

“The leash.”

 

Everyone fell silent.

 

That’s right. Around the necks of Special Grade Wanted Criminals was the ‘Absolute Seal’ placed by Pride.

 

There was only one way to remove what suppressed magic power. Miracle-level magic power, namely the existence of the ‘King of Mages’.

 

“Among us, only one person accepts the leash without any concern.”

 

“…Fire Butterfly.”

 

When that name came up, the air in the meeting hall turned coldly heavy.

 

No one knew Fire Butterfly’s true identity.

 

“Echo, you ran operations with that guy before, right? You really don’t know anything?”

 

“I don’t know. And I don’t want to know.”

 

“Well, even I, who was his junior, never saw his real face.”

 

Toad shrugged his shoulders.

 

Fire Butterfly was Toad’s direct senior. During their Intelligence Agency days, he was the one who subdued in a single blow the man who betrayed the organization and turned colleagues into bombs.

 

Echo frowned.

 

“But why bring up Fire Butterfly now?”

 

“Because we have a detonator.”

 

“…Detonator?”

 

“A Haven student. Her name is Judith Isles.”

 

“…!”

 

“The Grand Duke’s daughter and a talent who will become the King of Mages. With that much of a mana mass… we could remove our leashes, right?”

 

“Are you crazy? There’s a Hero there, how could we…!”

 

“Don’t worry. The Hero has a bad relationship with the Grand Duke. And who does the Hero cherish most these days?”

 

Toad tilted his head and smiled.

 

“Head Professor of Demon Hunting Studies, Ruins Wayne.”

 

Echo frowned.

 

“…Don’t tell me. You’re going to kidnap that guy?”

 

“That’s right. If we just kidnap that human, the Hero will go wild.”

 

“You think you can kidnap him?”

 

At that moment, several wanted criminals in the meeting hall quietly laughed.

 

Toad, as if enjoying the atmosphere, kicked the corpse of the one who had just died.

 

“Anyway, we’re currently betting over ‘Fire Butterfly’s military funds.’ No point being afraid of maggots when making soybean paste.”

 

Instantly, the atmosphere of the entire meeting hall changed. Those military funds were an amount that could feed Union and Pride for decades.

 

With that much buried somewhere, they’d be fools as thieves not to target it.

 

* * *

 

Ruin came out to the village.

 

[♥Master, looking for an attractive bomb? Don’t forget about me!♥]

 

For now, he decided to at least find a Frix appearance modification specialist.

 

Originally, he hadn’t intended to do such troublesome things but….

 

“….”

 

Of all people, Charlie had caught him.

 

[♥Should I step on your friend too, Master?♥]

 

Charlie’s expression after seeing the maid Frix striking a brain-crushing pose….

 

Unforgettable.

 

“…Ruins.”

 

“No. That thing.”

 

“I won’t say anything more.”

 

“I said no!”

 

“I’ll write you a recommendation letter, so go change your appearance.”

 

…Unexpectedly a good guy?

 

He said there was a magic workshop in the village run by the Whiskey family. Since the mage there would be a family member, they’d help.

 

“We agreed to meet in front.”

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Someone named Charlie told me to give this to you, sir.”

 

“?”

 

‘A recommendation letter?’

 

Ruin unfolded the letter.

 

‘That guy, getting embarrassed over giving one recommendation letter….’

 

-If you want to save Professor Charlie, come to 3rd Street Western Wharf.

 

…What’s this?

 

「Threat☆ening♡Letter」

 

Ruin frowned after detecting the curse power remaining on the letter.

 

‘This is a Special Grade Wanted Criminal’s curse power.’

 

…More than that, did this guy get kidnapped by a Special Grade Wanted Criminal?

 

But that was only momentary, as he felt relieved.

 

‘It’s fine. Fortunately, Charlie left the recommendation letter behind.’

 

「Left behind….」

 

Ruin opened the leather bag neatly placed in front of the workshop to check. Obviously Charlie’s bag. And inside it, a single letter envelope.

 

“I guess they didn’t take the bag when they kidnapped him.”

 

At those words, Ginseng Superior looked at him like he was looking at a heinous criminal.

 

「Don’t tell me you’re not planning to save him?!」

 

Ruin blankly unfolded the recommendation letter. He’d already obtained the recommendation letter that was his goal, so why should he save him?

 

At his subordinate’s reaction, Ginseng Superior seemed dumbfounded.

 

「If it’s a Special Grade Wanted Criminal, he might really die, you know?」

 

‘That’s his own karma.’

 

「…You’re really not human.」

 

‘I’m from the Demon Race though.’

 

Then Ginseng Superior, as if saying ‘do whatever you want,’ made one comment.

 

「But this recommendation letter. Isn’t it missing the most important seal?」

 

What?

 

A moment later, after confirming the empty signature space, Ruin grabbed his head.

 

“….”

 

Damn it!

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