I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 67

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Chapter 67. What Kind of Young Master Are You? (5)

 

Echo, who had been beaten up by Ruin, cursed while struggling.

 

“Damn it!”

 

Ruin, having successfully caught Echo, immediately threw Echo into the warehouse, and Echo cursed at Ruin for it.

 

“You cunning bastard, you’re worse than human, you beast-like bastard… You won’t be satisfied until you tie up my hands and feet!”

 

“Yeah, yeah. Keep going. I’m collecting evidence of your profanity for a lawsuit.”

 

Then Echo raised his middle finger.

 

“You unlucky bastard who’ll break your finger while signing! Gah!”

 

“Looks like it was your hand that broke.”

 

“…”

 

Echo, whose middle finger had snapped clean off, rolled on the floor with his eyes rolled back.

 

“Aaaaah!! Shit!”

 

Why did I get caught by this bastard!

 

No, why did I do something conscientious at the last moment!

 

Echo, who had been flopping around like a fish, clutched his head.

 

If he had just thought about it a little, he should have immediately realized it was this guy’s trap. Because this guy is a devil who creates all kinds of situations with a Thousand Voices to manipulate circumstances! There’s no way such a bastard would negotiate in good faith.

 

‘This king of Deception!’

 

So this bastard was like that from the beginning!

 

When was it. Certainly during the time when he himself was active as a Special Grade Wanted Criminal, Fire Butterfly suddenly appeared. Right. Under Nox’s orders. His mission was simple.

 

-Steal the classified documents that Special Grade Wanted Criminal Echo possesses.

 

Since he was extremely wary and specialized in escape, it wasn’t an easy job. In fact, all of Fire Butterfly’s juniors who had approached him returned half-dead.

 

But Ruin, who had been watching Echo as a target, said one thing.

 

“Tsk, it’s D-grade mission level.”

 

Ruin smoothly transformed into a cat and approached Echo. Because Echo loved cats but was a cat daddy who was terribly hated by cats.

 

So at Echo’s feet, he put on an appropriate act-

 

“This crazy, damn it! The cat! This damn tuxedo cat did Kneading on me! Ugh! Butterfly! Butterfly, butterfly! Huuuumaaah!”

 

Echo loved cats more than anyone, but was hated by cats. Approaching such an Echo was simpler than breathing for Fire Butterfly.

 

In fact, while Echo was excitedly preparing food and snacks, Fire Butterfly quickly grabbed the classified papers in his mouth and ran away.

 

Having done that, currently.

 

“I should have recognized it from when you played with my pure heart. I shouldn’t have gotten involved with this crazy Deception bastard. Waaah.”

 

“That’s the 4,894th time you’ve told that story. Aren’t you tired of it yet?”

 

“Obviously you used Deception when you backstabbed the Hero too. What did you transform into when you backstabbed the Hero?”

 

“Is that important right now.”

 

“It’s important! Yesterday when that bastard came to catch me, those eyes, you should have seen them! I could feel how pissed off he was at Fire Butterfly!”

 

Well… I did transform into something that would piss him off. In fact, when my Superior later received the mission completion report-

 

“How despicable. You’re not even human.”

 

“I’m from the Demon Race though.”

 

I have that memory.

 

Echo let out a bitter laugh.

 

“Well, could it be worse than my glass-like pure heart?”

 

No. It would probably be more infuriating than some cat.

 

Soon Echo widened his eyes and asked.

 

“Right. So now you’re going to sell me out to the Hero? The dignified Fire Butterfly who has secured a position in the Union?”

 

If he’s infiltrating as a Union professor, he would need achievements. A Special Grade Wanted Criminal would be very useful for such achievements.

 

But-

 

“Let’s join hands.”

 

Echo doubted his own ears.

 

Fire Butterfly? To him? That despicable bastard who always uses him as bait to escape?

 

“Ha, it’s probably another lie anyway. How can I trust the words of a guy who’s never even shown his face?”

 

“Then you’ll believe me now.”

 

“What?”

 

A moment of silence.

 

Soon Echo’s scream burst out.

 

“That’s your real face?!”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“…”

 

Echo froze.

 

Ruin tilted his head.

 

“Why?”

 

Echo was crying.

 

“Shiiiit! This world is unfaaaair!”

 

“?”

 

Echo grabbed his head in frustration.

 

“I thought you didn’t go around in your original form because you were disgustingly ugly!”

 

“That’s only when I’m working. When I’m not working, I live normally too.”

 

“What? So normally you enjoy daily life with five women hanging off you?”

 

…Let’s not talk about it.

 

In the first place, everyone who approached him died because of ‘Misfortune’ anyway. Especially the more Ruin gave his heart to someone, the more misfortune befell them.

 

But Echo’s pupils shook with shock.

 

“Huh, what? Then this isn’t work right now? You’re infiltrating Haven for Intelligence Agency work.”

 

“The Intelligence Agency has nothing to do with it. I’m here for personal business.”

 

“Personal? The higher-ups allow that?”

 

“Well, the location happens to be the enemy nation’s heart. Our interests overlap.”

 

“Not because you’re the Demon Emperor’s lover?”

 

In the end, Echo got hit.

 

“So, what do you need this time? You’re better at copying people than me, so obviously it’s an object, right?”

 

“The Hero’s signature.”

 

Echo broke out in an ominous sweat.

 

Of all things, the Union Commander’s signature? The difficulty and risk are too high.

 

“What are you going to use it for?”

 

“Max out a loan and run. Oh, you’re the culprit.”

 

“…You crazy bastard!”

 

「Right. I think so too.」

 

When Ginseng Superior patted Echo’s back, Echo asked what the hell this guy was.

 

“What the hell is this monster bastard! Where did you pop out from-”

 

“My patron deity.”

 

“…You were a god, sir!”

 

Echo prostrated himself flat and bowed at light speed.

 

That made sense, since Union gods were cases where heroes became deified. So if you consider gods as patrons, Pride were literally gods. That’s why Pride worships things as they are.

 

Even so, it was fascinating to see Echo groveling to Ginseng Superior.

 

But then.

 

“If it’s the Shadow God, aren’t you that great deity? Oh my, great god, please take this wicked fellow away.”

 

“?”

 

Though Ruin had never seen his true form, he seemed to be quite something anyway.

 

‘Even so, he’s just a drunkard.’

 

At Echo’s desperate plea, Ruin casually continued speaking.

 

“Well, signature aside, first we need to change Frix’s appearance…”

 

[♥Master? Are you trying to abandon me?♥]

 

Scary. Don’t appear like that.

 

Ruin pushed Frix away and sighed.

 

“Sigh… As you can see, Ruins Wayne’s Frix is in this state.”

 

Echo suppressed his laughter with a snicker.

 

“Ah. Okay. I’ve confirmed what the problem is. If it’s this kind of story, that’s different. You know I charge expensive rates, right? Personal requests are naturally more expens…”

 

“Money?”

 

Bang!

 

Ruin’s eyes turned murderous as he put his feet on the table.

 

“Did the word ‘money’ just come out of your mouth?”

 

“…”

 

“You were after my severance pay. Why are you conveniently leaving that out of the conversation?”

 

Echo’s heart dropped. Suddenly the temperature in the warehouse seemed to drop by 10 degrees.

 

“Severance pay, you say. Wasn’t it military funds…?”

 

“My severance pay!”

 

“More than that, severance pay? Are you retiring?! Why would an active agent!”

 

“That’s how it turned out.”

 

“Are you injured somewhere?”

 

Echo’s eyes sparkled as if this was an unexpected windfall. Just as he seemed ready to spread bad rumors, shadows began seeping out from around Ruin.

 

Though both were special grade wanted criminals with their powers sealed, the power of ‘Monster Kings’ transcended imagination in the first place. No wonder Echo had prostrated himself.

 

However, Ruin muttered casually.

 

“Fire Butterfly should disappear.”

 

“What?”

 

“Anyway, I want a comfortable farming life. In that sense, if you target my students, you die. You know that, and tell the other bastards too.”

 

“…How did you end up with a priestess?”

 

Sparks flew from Ruin’s eyes.

 

“If students get kidnapped, the school closes! My money! Retirement!”

 

“I got it, I got it! Don’t strangle me! Gack!”

 

Echo seemed to have a lot to say as he looked aggrieved.

 

“Judith Isles can’t be helped! Five Evils Catalun is targeting her! You should just ignore that girl too. Catalun has dibs on her.”

 

At those words, Ruin frowned. Because what the Hero had said earlier still scratched at his heart.

 

“Moreover, Judith Isles can’t use magic or even her legs. She has no value as a fighting force. Instead, she’s a troublesome burden who could provide tremendous magic power if she falls into enemy hands.”

 

Judith, who had been treated not as a person but as a piece of baggage.

 

‘Well, that’s how they treated a princess. In a way, you could call it thorough egalitarianism.’

 

No matter how much of an efficiency advocate Ruin was, such ‘profit calculations’ clearly crossed the line by his standards.

 

‘A chairman trying to kill his own student for the greater good.’

 

Was that the Union Commander’s policy?

 

It was disgusting.

 

And Ruin realized the source of that disgust.

 

‘Is it because I’ve also been treated like a piece of baggage?’

 

Anyway, looking at the Hero’s actions, he didn’t seem to have any intention of protecting Judith, and would rather choose to kill her efficiently.

 

Well, he could understand it logically. From what he could see, Katalun seemed to have joined hands with a special grade wanted criminal to kidnap Judith.

 

But how many soldiers would be sacrificed to protect one girl who couldn’t even defend herself from them?

 

‘To make the Wish Stone appear, it’s important to minimize military casualties.’

 

He would rather blind the Grand Duke’s family and assassinate Judith.

 

The Hero was that kind of person. In other words, if left alone, Judith would either fall into Katalun’s hands or be killed by the Hero. Especially when he himself knew how to cure her.

 

“If you choose death when you could save someone, that’s just cowardly murder.”

 

Words his Master had once said suddenly came to mind.

 

Echo spoke up.

 

“Well, forming ties with the Union’s Grand Duke family would be the best. The ultimate money source. You wouldn’t have to work so damn hard and you could keep the Hero in check too. How great would that be? But give up. The First Prince is supposed to treat her anyway. That’s why we were trying to kidnap her beforehand.”

 

What? Who?

 

The First Prince?

 

How dare a mere First Prince target my money source?

 

* * *

 

Ruin walked toward the classroom with long strides, his face menacing.

 

‘I’ll treat the princess.’

 

Ginseng Superior at Ruin’s side found his behavior strange.

 

「I understand you’re irritated, but is there such a need to rush the treatment? Who else besides you could cure it? It’s the Curse of Katalun.」

 

‘That’s true, but the First Prince has been bothering me since last time.’

 

「So is there really a reason to be wary of the First Prince?」

 

Then Ruin stopped abruptly.

 

Right. Originally there would be no reason to be wary.

 

But the Teaching Assistants’ words held Ruin back.

 

“Did you hear? The First Prince is even going to attempt the princess’s incurable disease. The First Prince is also a famous healing-type ability user!”

 

“They say he can treat better than Professor Ruins!”

 

Well, that much would be fine. He could understand trying to win the Grand Duke’s favor.

 

But.

 

【Everyone But Me Should Die】

 

【Ironclad Pride】

 

「…Ruins’ trait has activated.」

 

That’s why Ruin’s eyes changed to cold mission mode.

 

‘Should I eliminate him?’

 

With Fire Butterfly’s skills, he could make someone disappear under mysterious circumstances, then be found 777 days later as an unidentified corpse with unknown cause of death.

 

「…You crazy bastard, he’s a prince, and a student.」

 

‘A lion is serious even when catching a rabbit.’

 

「…But didn’t you say you needed one more thing to treat the princess? Has that been resolved?」

 

Damn.

 

Ruin stopped abruptly.

 

What Ruin needed was the ‘Sacred Blood Covenant.’ Simply put, the blood of Pride royalty.

 

The Power of Katalun didn’t work on Pride royalty because of a covenant made in the past. In other words, it was an important tool that would protect the body from Katalun’s power when treating Judith.

 

The downside was that it couldn’t be obtained without the cooperation of Pride royalty, and since he was of such humble status, he had no connections, so…

 

‘That’s why I was planning to use a superior favor as payment for a mission later… Hmm?’

 

Ruin’s eyes narrowed at the sight of a bee attached to the window. The bee buzzed around drawing a figure 8.

 

That was a message from his superior who had just arrived.

 

‘And it’s an urgent contact request at that.’

 

But urgent at a time like this?

 

‘What’s going on?’

 

Ruin looked around and headed to a deserted area. Then he tapped the buzzing bee.

 

“This is problematic. Sending a telegram Frix right into enemy territory. Using the usual method—”

 

Then a familiar voice flowed from the bee.

 

[It’s not a matter that allows for that]

 

This isn’t that kind of matter?

 

How urgent of a problem could it be?

 

[The Princess of Pride has gone missing.]

 

Excuse me?

 

I don’t know why someone of her stature would go missing, but why are you telling me this?

 

“What’s the point of having Intelligence Agency informants then.”

 

[She went missing in Haven, where you bastard are right now. You brat.]

 

…Excuse me?

 

Why would someone like her be in Haven?

 

[She got a job at the Intelligence Agency. She likes Fire Butterfly so much, she wanted to be in the same place as him or something.]

 

What a peculiar hobby for a princess.

 

[Anyway, she infiltrated Haven, but contact was lost exactly two weeks ago. Do you know anything about it?]

 

How would I know…

 

Suddenly, Ruin froze.

 

Haven.

 

Two weeks ago.

 

‘Wasn’t that the day of the Fire Butterfly infiltration incident?’

 

And that day, surely…

 

「Didn’t the Hero catch a demon informant near the door?」

 

Ruin rarely grabbed his head.

 

That was the princess?!

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