I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 61

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Chapter 61. Special Grade Wanted Criminal (1)

 

Damn it all.

 

Ruin trembled as he looked at the blank recommendation letter.

 

-I hope you’ll take care of the business of whoever brings this letter.

 

It was roughly a handwritten personal letter asking them to look after Ruins Wayne.

 

But Charlie’s signature, the most important part, was missing. It seemed he had stopped writing the letter midway and hastily changed his approach.

 

‘Originally he told me to handle it with the recommendation letter.’

 

Thinking about it, that was just like Charlie’s personality. The common type who wasn’t honest with himself. Worried that Ruin might be rejected with just a letter, he had chosen to come along from the start.

 

「What a kind friend.」

 

‘Unnecessary kindness for me, though.’

 

Still, whatever, it doesn’t matter.

 

「Oh, so you’re going to rescue him?」

 

‘It’s a handwritten personal letter anyway. If they’re mages from the Whiskey Family, they’ll recognize the handwriting. This should be enough.’

 

「Please go rescue him…」

 

Ruin brushed the dust off his clothes as if annoyed.

 

‘If Charlie is Haven’s hero, he should know how to get out on his own. I can’t interfere with Charlie’s training.’

 

「You just don’t want to get involved with Special Grade Wanted Criminals…」

 

Well, fighting with those guys would be inefficient.

 

‘Still, I could at least report it to the Union-‘

 

That’s when it happened. Just as Ruin was about to turn around nonchalantly.

 

Whoosh!

 

“!”

 

Charlie’s bag that Ruin was holding suddenly burst into flames. It was instantaneous.

 

The flames spread across the floor, carving bizarre characters.

 

-If you don’t come right now, your friend dies!

 

The flames seemed panicked, worried that Ruin might not come.

 

Ginseng Superior looked around in alarm.

 

「Looks like they’re watching from nearby?」

 

But that wasn’t what mattered to Ruin.

 

The recommendation letter he was holding had also turned to ash and scattered… what?

 

What scattered?

 

Rustle.

 

Ruin fell silent as the recommendation letter turned to ash and flew away from his grasp.

 

So the only recommendation letter containing Charlie’s handwriting had…

 

Ruin didn’t say anything for a while.

 

Blood vessels quietly bulged on his ice-cold face. Then his lips slowly curved upward.

 

“…How annoying.”

 

For a moment, the temperature in the air twisted slightly.

 

* * *

 

Western Dock No. 3.

 

Arriving at the dock where gas lamps and magic lamps coexisted, Ruin adjusted his coat and surveyed the surroundings.

 

The desolate warehouse district. Dust had accumulated with no signs of human traffic, but there was one warehouse that was uniquely open. Ruin slipped inside.

 

Inside, there was someone bound tightly with chains, groaning.

 

“Ruins!”

 

It was Charlie. He looked at Ruin with apparent joy. Then he shook the chains binding him and said.

 

“Just untie this, if you just untie this I can get those guys… Gah!”

 

Ruin flicked his finger. Instantly, flames soared with the sound of friction cutting through the air.

 

The flames engulfed Charlie, melting his skin and muscles. It was Flame Kill, the fire of Tribulation Fire that reduced humans to bone.

 

At that sight, Ginseng Superior, who was hiding in Ruin’s suit pocket, screamed.

 

「What are you doing, you crazy bastard!」

 

Ruin trampled the collapsed floor.

 

‘Useless bastard.’

 

「What?! Hey, no matter how pissed off you are, to do that to a comrade…!」

 

Ruin rubbed the back of his neck as if annoyed.

 

‘It’s fake.’

 

「What?」

 

‘I said it’s fake.’

 

The air instantly became quiet.

 

Ruin approached through the smoke and pressed the mushy Charlie with his toe.

 

‘He looks like Charlie, but his true identity must be an explosive doll.’

 

[♥Yes. Master, did you call me~♥]

 

No. I didn’t call you, so go back in.

 

Ruin waved his hand dismissively and trampled the fake Charlie underfoot as he spoke.

 

“The moment I tried to release the chains, it would have exploded. Then the plan was to kidnap me after I collapsed. That’s right, I’m talking about you guys hiding here.”

 

Even the air seemed to freeze under that cold gaze.

 

Those hiding in the warehouse felt chills from the dropping temperature.

 

‘He noticed that?’

 

‘A replica that’s barely different from a human?’

 

‘How—’

 

“How did I distinguish it, you ask?”

 

“!”

 

Ruin’s lips curved upward.

 

“You can hide the appearance, but you can’t fool the smell. As soon as I entered, I caught the faint scent of explosives. Only Charlie had a different smell.”

 

Those in hiding doubted their own ears.

 

‘He can distinguish that?’

 

‘In this warehouse full of explosives?’

 

As if reading their thoughts, Ruin said.

 

“I should be able to distinguish at least that much. If I’m a Haven Demon Hunting Studies professor.”

 

Those in hiding held their breath. As expected of a professor from Haven, called one of the Five Great Academies.

 

‘Among them, the professor who caught Fire Butterfly.’

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Bullshit! Didn’t you just get pissed off and notice?!”

 

“!”

 

A familiar voice came from the ceiling.

 

“Ruins, you bastard…!”

 

It was Charlie. He was hanging from a net on the ceiling. He was breathing heavily and shouting at the top of his lungs.

 

“Tell me honestly! Explosive smell my ass. You just noticed because it was me!”

 

“You know me well. A high-ranking hero’s luck power wouldn’t be inferior to this kind of flame.”

 

“What, you bastard?!”

 

In other words, perfectly distinguishing by smell was a lie.

 

Ruin sighed cynically.

 

“Where would some Union hero get taken hostage, get taken hostage?”

 

“What are you saying! I came because they said you were taken hostage!”

 

Ah. So that’s what it was.

 

It seemed Charlie had conversely fallen for a dummy trap in the form of Ruins Wayne. As evidence, a man who looked exactly like Ruin was lying collapsed.

 

“I was trying to save your ass! Damn it! I must have been crazy!”

 

Ruin raised one eyebrow in displeasure.

 

“You? Save me? Why?”

 

At his look asking why he would save him, Charlie said one thing.

 

“No matter how much of a dog you are, outside Haven we’re colleagues!”

 

Is that so.

 

Ruin immediately snapped his fingers.

 

Kwang!

 

Flames engulfed Charlie.

 

“Cough! Huk! Cough! You son of a bitch…!”

 

“? Why is he real?”

 

Charlie collapsed, coughing up blood.

 

“…Damn… Ruins… Wayne, just you wait…”

 

Well, anyway, that’s not what’s important.

 

“Why are you with the students?”

 

“!”

 

Not far away on the ceiling, another student was also captured.

 

“Sob, sob…! Professor!”

 

“You’re even the friend who goes around with Judith Isles.”

 

A Red Moon student, like the princess’s attendant. That student told an unexpected story.

 

“I came out with the princess to buy gifts for you and Professor Wayne, and we met Professor Charlie. But Professor Charlie’s appearance suddenly changed into a demon…!”

 

A gift? Mine?

 

“What about the Princess?”

 

“Fortunately, the Princess was taken away by her guards before she could be kidnapped, but…”

 

“I see.”

 

This confirmed it.

 

“Echo is here, isn’t he?”

 

“!”

 

At Ruin’s question, Charlie’s profanity-filled face hardened. His eyes seemed ready to spout their usual frivolous gossip, but in an instant they transformed into the eyes of a hero standing on a battlefield. Because he had heard a name worthy of such a reaction.

 

‘Echo? Fire Butterfly’s right hand?’

 

This was a name that would make the entire Union sound a full military alert.

 

Echo was a famous ‘Mind Breaker’ who said ‘creation comes from the act of destroying something.’ He killed soldiers with his Memory Manipulation, Confusion, and Mental Breakdown abilities, and was a Special Grade Wanted Criminal classified as Red Threat Level by the Union.

 

‘Naturally less threatening compared to Fire Butterfly who’s Black Threat Level, but…’

 

Fire Butterfly was just beyond classification – Red Threat Level alone was an extinction-level threat.

 

However, Ruin smiled. Only Echo could have the skill to create human dolls this precise.

 

“Then is the bomb side ‘Toad’? Don’t tell me those two joined forces?”

 

At that muttering, Charlie was almost horrified.

 

What was this bastard saying? Echo alone would shake the Union, but Toad too? He was even curious about Ruin’s mental state for speaking so casually about it.

 

‘If it’s true, the Military Academies should unite!’

 

But Ruin stomped on the ground.

 

Well, it didn’t matter either way. It was fortunate to so easily draw out traces of Echo, who once hidden could never be found even in death.

 

“The price for making me work twice is-”

 

Then a blade filled with killing intent shot out from inside the warehouse.

 

Clang!

 

Ruin tilted his head back to dodge the blade.

 

“A Demon Hunting Professor crawling in on his own feet – how fortunate!”

 

“Today we get a valuable hostage!”

 

…Huh? Hostage?

 

Well, it didn’t matter either way.

 

Ruin placed his hand on the ground.

 

‘Ruin.’

 

Crack!

 

With tremendous pressure, the ground cracked and split. While the demons staggered in confusion, Ruin, who had vanished in an instant, appeared before them.

 

“Gasp!”

 

Ruin grabbed the heads of two demons with both arms.

 

Thud!

 

And immediately after-

 

‘Flame Kill.’

 

Whoosh!

 

“Aaaagh!”

 

“Graaah!”

 

In an instant, pillars of flame shot up and the two demons turned to ash and scattered.

 

“Damn it, don’t back down. If we take that bastard hostage, even the Hero will come running!”

 

…The Hero out of nowhere?

 

At the same time, Ruin caught sight of a shadow that seemed to be scurrying away.

 

At that scene, Ruin smiled coldly and said:

 

“…Seems like you’re under some strange misunderstanding.”

 

* * *

 

The fleeing Sansa was in a state of panic.

 

‘Damn it, what the hell is going on.’

 

As Echo’s direct subordinate, he was shocked by seeing Ruin in person.

 

‘Ruins Wayne. I heard he was a bandaged guy who couldn’t use his abilities.’

 

Was it false information?

 

But then it happened.

 

“Was it you?”

 

“!”

 

At the ice-cold voice coming from the darkness, Sansa nearly fainted. At the same time, realizing that what appeared was a tall, raven-like man, his eyes widened.

 

“Damn it, a Demon Hunting Professor?”

 

No, he wasn’t a professor. Curse power was seeping out from the body of the man walking over with model walking steps.

 

Sansa felt relieved.

 

What, was he an ally?

 

“Which organization are you from? I’m a subordinate of the Great Echo… Huk!”

 

The crow-like man who had been far away suddenly closed the distance. Soon he collapsed to the ground with his head seized.

 

Bang!

 

Ruin, who had grabbed Sansa’s head as if to crack it, curled his lips with a snicker.

 

“Echo?”

 

Ruin lightly traced Sansa’s nape with his finger. There was a crudely carved ‘inverted triangle tattoo’ there.

 

An ominous triangle flowing in the opposite direction from normal. It was a mark also carved on Ruin’s body.

 

It resembled the tattoo of a special grade wanted criminal that made demons tremble just by looking at it, but it was merely a clumsy imitation incomparable to the real thing.

 

So Ruin let out a laugh.

 

“Echo, that little thing calls himself king and has his subordinates tattoo these pathetic marks. They should just draw tadpoles instead.”

 

“Who are you…! How dare you mock the king… Kheuk!”

 

Ruin’s eyes flashed as he gripped Sansa’s jaw with his hand as if to crush it.

 

“You just need to answer my questions.”

 

“…!”

 

Sansa was bewildered by the grip strength that seemed capable of crushing even stone mountains.

 

What made him this strong?

 

However, Ruin looked down at Sansa with cold eyes.

 

“First question. Is Echo, or rather the former Nox Assassination Squad captain’s target Haven?”

 

At those words, Sansa instinctively flinched.

 

He even knew Echo’s past?

 

“Don’t tell me you’re from the Intelligence Agency… Kek!”

 

“Questions are not permitted. I told you to just answer.”

 

Ruin applied force with one finger as if to break Sansa’s jaw.

 

“Well, judging by your reaction, it seems about right. Then second question. Are Echo and Toad the culprits behind the recent ‘Haven Professor Attack Incidents’?”

 

Sansa quickly turned his head away.

 

“Just kill me instead. I won’t open my mouth to the Demon Emperor’s dog-!”

 

Ruin sighed as if tired and stood up from his position. At this sight, Sansa wondered.

 

Was he going to let him go just like that?

 

But Ruin quietly bit the tip of his black glove. Then one glove slipped off, slowly revealing the bare hand underneath.

 

【Hand of Misfortune】

 

A terrible aura emanated from his right hand, which even he himself seemed reluctant to touch. An aura as if all the misfortune in the world had gathered.

 

Ruin threw away the removed glove as if annoyed.

 

“Got it? 3 seconds.”

 

What?

 

“The first opponent touched by this bare hand melted into a transparent liquid in 3 seconds.”

 

Ruin took a step toward Sansa.

 

“The second had their limbs separated and appeared in a completely different space after 3 seconds.”

 

The closer he got, the more Sansa was paralyzed with fear. An indescribable pressure and black smoke drew nearer.

 

“The third became someone whose body keeps burning but whose mind doesn’t die.”

 

And finally, right in front of his face.

 

“I’m saying it takes 3 seconds for you to transform into the most horrific form in the world.”

 

“…!”

 

Sansa’s teeth chattered.

 

This presence, the Intelligence Agency of the Demon Emperor, and the audacity to think of hiding next to the Hero—

 

And above all, that hand’s ability.

 

‘…Could it be.’

 

Could it be…!

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