I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 7

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Chapter 7. Butterfly Preparing for Employment (1)

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The moment Sparrow’s chilling final warning echoed through the air, a door opened.

Clang!

“Damn it! This doesn’t work either!”

For a moment, Ruin thought he had opened the door. However, surprisingly, it was the door to the adjacent stall that had opened.

“Damn Haven! Releasing such birds in the meantime!”

It seemed someone else had been hiding in the next stall as well.

Sparrow spoke to the man.

[Curse Power detected]

“Fine, here! I’ll give it to you, so inspect it all you want. I accidentally brought research materials with me!”

[No. Head.]

“What?”

[You, demon head.]

As soon as the seemingly amused words ended, a terrible sound echoed through the air.

Crunch, crackle – the sound of something being chewed, torn, and broken could be heard. Even the sound of several creatures fluttering over could be heard.

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

Ruin squeezed his eyes shut as something he didn’t want to imagine came to mind.

Finally, the slurping and chomping sounds ended, and the sound of predators echoed from outside the door. It was the sound of the birds leaving.

Ruin felt relieved.

‘Is it over now?’

Then once those things left, he could also leave…

[Strange. I still sense demon energy.]

Thud.

It was a terrible sound.

[Demon scent still lingers.]

Ruin became alert, thinking it was finally his turn.

Indeed, Sparrow tapped on Ruin’s stall with its beak.

[Is someone there?]

‘Tch.’

Ruin quickly pulled out ‘something black and soap-shaped’ from his pocket. It was one of the items he had just obtained from the Gatekeeper.

【Demon-Scented Naphthalene (Lowest Grade)】

Curse Power-based item. Emits demon scent.

It was an item used as a trap to lure demons.

Ruin quickly unwrapped it and pushed it into the adjacent stall. Soon, bang! the door opened.

[So it was this.]

[It was this.]

[Is it a cleaning tool?]

Good. They fell for it…

[Confusing item. Let’s get rid of it.]

Wait, getting rid of it would be troublesome! I’ll get caught!

Finally, at the moment when his hand gripping the knife was sweating.

[No. This is school property. If it breaks, we’ll have to pay compensation.]

[Then it’ll be deducted from our salary.]

[…Let’s just go.]

[Let’s go.]

‘Phew.’

When the presence of the birds completely disappeared, Ruin finally put his knife away.

Opening the door and coming out, he saw a man whose head had been grotesquely chewed up. A gentleman’s suit stained with blood. Waistcoat with cravat and vest. From his attire, he seemed like an outside visitor.

And looking at the possessions scattered from his document bag…

“This guy was also an interviewee.”

He had the exact same Interview Notice as himself. This person was probably also someone who came for the Principal’s interview.

‘Doesn’t seem to be from the same unit though.’

However, he was definitely from the Pride organization. That’s because he had communication devices that Pride would use.

It looked like a necklace, but this was something spies used. Using this would connect him to this guy’s colleagues or superior?

‘Looks like he came under orders to infiltrate Haven.’

Well… he ended up getting caught by the birds and died.

No, honestly, he himself had been in danger too. Fortunately, the other sparrows didn’t notice, but didn’t one of them sense his energy?

‘At this rate, forget the interview – I’ll get my head torn off by the sparrows first.’

Well, the typical solution would be to enter when the guards are sleeping.

But they say birds hear words spoken during the day and mice hear words spoken at night. If you simply try to enter at night to avoid the birds, you’ll just end up having your guts eaten by other monsters instead.

That’s why Ruin took out his items.

【Gatekeeper’s Spear】

【Gatekeeper’s Clothes】

【Gatekeeper’s Necklace】

【Gatekeeper’s Underwear】

【Reluctantly Written Universal Pass】

【Demon-Scented Naphthalene】

【Gatekeeper’s Eyeball】

These were seven items he had obtained by defeating the Gatekeeper ten times.

When he demanded the remaining three items, the Statue pleaded that it had nothing left to give. It begged him not to take the eyeball.

He wondered if a Statue could actually feel pain, but anyway, he left the rest as debt.

‘Well, the Hero isn’t the homeowner, so he wouldn’t know the House’s command words either.’

So he wouldn’t know how to deactivate the Gatekeeper either, nothing to worry about.

‘Anyway, thanks to the Gatekeeper, I’ve achieved my second objective.’

Ruin’s first objective was ‘passing through the Main Gate’.

His second objective was obtaining ‘at least 3 magical items’.

These were essential tasks to complete before the Principal interview, plans Ruin had made earlier.

‘Actually, the second plan was the more difficult one.’

Originally, he had planned to raid the Professor’s Archive despite the risks, but luckily he obtained all the magical items from the Gatekeeper. The timing was perfect too.

‘Thanks to that, I can now execute this as well.’

And that was—

“Altar.”

As if responding to those words, a black Altar appeared before Ruin’s eyes. It was an Altar visible only to Ruin.

At the same time, Ruin placed all the items except the underwear, pass, and eyeball onto the Altar.

Clatter!

Then something amazing happened. Flaming letters appeared above the Altar.

-1,550pt

His held points changed from 0pt to 1,550pt.

‘This should be enough to make it work.’

In that state, Ruin immediately crossed his hands and clasped them together as if clapping.

“O Primordial God.”

At that moment, something amazing happened. A voice was heard along with rippling shadows.

「Oh! My servant! How did you manage to return to the House!」

At the same time, black flames appeared above the Altar.

‘Ha, so I’m summoning this thing after all.’

「Since you called me, it must be because you need me, right? That baseless ‘misfortune’ curse is fucking annoying, isn’t it?」

This was his Superior… no, a god. More precisely, it was his ‘racial god’. Ruin’s third plan was exactly this summoning of the racial god.

How Ruin came to communicate with the racial god goes back to long ago.

So roughly, on the first day he escaped from the Shadow Habitat. A certain voice was heard.

「How curious, not submitting to fate.」

He thought he had been roughly chosen. Gods need apostles, after all.

And the moment he became the Shadow King, this shadow god openly followed Ruin around.

Well, following him around was fine, but it gave advice on everything he did, got sulky quickly, and had such picky aesthetic tastes.

Even the offerings he brought back after risking his life were thrown away for not being pretty enough, so how much trouble he had as a subordinate…

‘But the abilities are good, so it doesn’t matter.’

Thanks to that, wasn’t it useful when backstabbing the Union too?

The problem was that when it found out he had the ‘misfortune’ curse, it got angry like fire.

「Why did you come back covered in another guy’s spit! I’m your racial god! Huh?!」

Like I care.

Anyway, it meant that unlike other demons, Ruin uniquely possessed ‘two’ curse attributes. Those were ‘shadow’ and ‘misfortune’.

So it felt like serving a jealous Superior who kept nagging… Anyway, what’s important isn’t this old bastard but the abilities.

“I seek wisdom from the god to overcome hardships.”

When you offer tribute to a god, you receive grace in return.

As proof of that…

「Hmm, then with the tribute you’ve offered now, this should be about right.」

At the same time, totems that looked like voodoo dolls appeared before his eyes.

【Recovery Totem (Low-grade)】 500pt

【Enhancement Totem (Low-grade)】 500pt

【Veil Totem (Low-grade)】 500pt

【Skill Creation (Low-grade)】 1,000pt

【Skill Enhancement (Low-grade)】 1,000pt

In other words, it was shopping for items.

And the fact that despite offering high-grade tributes, he could only buy low-grade items meant this was an extremely expensive shop. There was nothing to regret though. It was certainly worth that much.

‘Anyway, this is what I needed.’

【Veil Totem (Low-grade)】 500pt

Simply put, it was a stealth artifact. In the current situation where he had to avoid the Enforcement Team and meet with the Principal, this was the best item.

Although it was low-grade so the effects wouldn’t be tremendous, it would be useful for the time being.

‘First I’ll buy this one, then maybe I should get ‘Skill Creation’ too.’

It was a natural choice. Because Ruin had offered his own power as tribute to escape from the past dimension. Simply put, he had escaped by sacrificing his skills except for the essential ones, so many skills had disappeared.

And now was even a crisis situation. Of course, originally he had no intention of fighting in this place crawling with Heroes, but currently there was even that unexpected little Sparrow.

Since more unexpected things might happen, it was good to prepare.

‘Well, it would only be a low-grade skill anyway.’

The best thing would be if no combat situations occurred at all, but there was no way something that good would happen…

But that’s when it happened.

【Corrupted- Veil Totem (Special-grade)】 1,500pt

‘Hmm?’

Unlike before, there was an artifact he was seeing for the first time.

It was strange if anything. If it was ‘special-grade’, it was really good stuff, but it was also odd that a special-grade item that would normally cost tens of thousands of points only cost 1,500pt. The modifier ‘corrupted’ attached to it was also strange.

‘What is this?’

So he asked.

“There’s an artifact I’m seeing for the first time. What are corrupted items?”

「Eh, there’s something like that?」

Ruin became serious. The attached name and price were strange, but one thing was certain – if this was really special-grade…

‘I have to choose this.’

Because normally the efficacy of ‘special-grade’ stealth artifacts he knew was at minimum items that erased demonic aura. If things went well, it might even provide cover against the Hero.

As such, it would be helpful during interviews or when going to collect his severance pay.

The problem was the suspicious name.

‘What should I do? Originally I was going to buy the low-grade veil totem.’

It was special-grade, special-grade.

After pondering for a moment, Ruin finally made his choice.

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