I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 82

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Chapter 82. Why Did It Turn Out Like This (1)

 

The professors swallowed hard at the sight that filled the entire library.

 

“What is… that scene?”

 

“Are those all kids taking Professor Ruins’ class?”

 

It wasn’t even exam period, yet they were voluntarily holed up in the library.

 

But the students themselves were actually dying.

 

“Damn it…! I don’t understand the principle!”

 

“No matter what books I reference, there’s not even a trace…”

 

“Professor! This isn’t right…!”

 

Write about the principle behind the miracle that cured an incurable disease? And submit this by next class – is he truly a devil?

 

Of course, Ruin had said ‘easily obtained answers are easily forgotten’ and promised to give them the solution if they submitted this assignment, but the problem was the grade!

 

Was that all? Ruins had also assigned them to write a Demon Hunting Studies report. The problem was its content.

 

-‘Ruins Wayne’ created a torture drug for prisoner interrogation that even the Herbology Professor failed to make. Write about what combination was used to create this torture drug.

 

Damn it! How could they possibly know something that even the Herbology Professor failed at!

 

Moreover, this wasn’t even related to Demon Hunting Studies!

 

“…A letter? Do we have to submit a letter in the end?”

 

At those words, someone bit their lips. It was the Imperial Princess.

 

‘That absolutely cannot happen!’

 

The problem was the faction nobles who were making a fuss about Judith being healed.

 

“What if the Grand Duke’s daughter becomes able to use magic!”

 

“Should we try bringing Professor Wayne as the Imperial Princess’s private tutor?”

 

“If it’s an imperial command, he’ll listen.”

 

What? A command? Would that even work on a man who treats the Imperial Princess like dog food!

 

There was no way Karin wouldn’t notice those eyes that looked at her with disgust. What Karin was actually concerned about was something else entirely.

 

‘She already finished Ruins’ assignment?’

 

This morning, she had seen Judith submit hers first. Meanwhile, she couldn’t even write the first line.

 

‘What on earth did she write?’

 

But what was even more surprising wasn’t that.

 

“Hey, hey, isn’t that the Herbology Professor?”

 

“That’s Gransia!”

 

The students looked out the window in shock.

 

An elf was walking somewhere. Her gaze was calm like deep obsidian, and in those eyes was the coldness of a hunter, not a botanist.

 

At the same time, she was a target that Ruin had once approached as a lover for a mission.

 

The students whispered among themselves.

 

“Why is that reclusive loner who never leaves the Herbology Greenhouse…?”

 

“Huh? She’s entering the Demon Hunting Classroom?”

 

“What? Don’t tell me she came looking for Ruins?!”

 

“Come to think of it… Gransia had asked. Whether the rumors about Ruins Wayne’s matchmaking were true.”

 

As if realizing something from those words, the students were simultaneously horrified.

 

* * *

 

Fire Butterfly pressed his brow at the situation where all kinds of disasters were converging.

 

‘Why- why did it turn out like this.’

 

So the small-framed beauty standing before him was Gransia Farewell.

 

…His ex-lover.

 

A genius with an IQ of 228, a legendary hero who created countless inventions and brought miracles to the Union.

 

One of the people who had been frantically searching for Fire Butterfly ever since being betrayed by him.

 

The biggest culprit who forced Ruin to cancel the ‘Garden Route Plan’.

 

Most importantly. A woman who, after being backstabbed by Fire Butterfly, had refused to meet with anyone and lived the life of a hikikomori.

 

But why was such a woman here…

 

“Nice to meet you.”

 

I’m not happy to see you.

 

“I’m usually shy around strangers, but I feel comfortable with you as if we’ve met long ago.”

 

Would you just turn around and leave?

 

Ruin had a headache. Well, this woman had many people with precognitive abilities around her. She had supposedly taken on loads of disciples to use for ‘Fire Butterfly hunting’.

 

In fact, among Gransia’s disciples was an Imperial Prophet. So he could give her medicinal herbs she’d like as a gift and ask her to introduce him to that prophet, but…

 

‘Gransia remembers the aura of my curse power.’

 

Should he say she remembers the scent? Since approaching as lovers meant spending time closely together, that aspect was somewhat problematic.

 

Especially since Gransia was an elf, she was quite sensitive to auras. She would notice even the smallest thing. It was only because Ginseng Superior was here now that he could hide his aura.

 

Sure enough, Gransia stared intently at Ginseng Superior.

 

“What’s this?”

 

“…It’s a precious medicinal ingredient, so I always keep it nearby for observation.”

 

So please lose interest…

 

“What kind of medicinal ingredient is it?

 

Ugh. I managed to get past the Principal fine, but now that a real Herbology Professor is asking, it’s hard to answer.

 

Of course, to other professors who wonder why I always carry Ginseng Superior around—

 

“Ah, this is a precious item for researching invisible spectrum response-based composite plant hallucinogenic inducers.”

 

“Excuse me?”

 

“To be precise, it’s a ‘bio-recognition basic reactive sample’ made by combining trace amounts of aurora saponin and ruplin crystals. It’s a plant-type hallucinogenic reversion species rather than human, so it has low digestibility, and its magic power frequency is abnormally warped, making it a fascinating material that reacts to both demon and spirit realms. Ultimately, I observe it daily for the 9th stage reaction of advanced medicinal stability experiments.”

 

“Ah…?”

 

“Ah?”

 

“…Ahhh.”

 

“Ah! So it’s for research purposes!”

 

“I don’t know what it is, but I can tell you’re doing incredible research!”

 

…I managed to deflect with such sophistry, but you can’t fool an expert after all. In the end, Ruin had only one answer.

 

“…That’s difficult for me to tell you.”

 

“Why? I know you carry it around every day. Does it perhaps have some identity-concealing properties?”

 

Ugh. How perceptive. Did she notice something?

 

But Fire Butterfly wasn’t one to lose to something like this.

 

“Research plagiarism is an important issue, so I can’t tell you.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Gransia, being a scholar, immediately understood. But even so, as if sensing something from Ginseng Superior, she stared intently at the ginseng.

 

“…It seemed to be alive.”

 

「Yes! You recognize my worth. You’re also a pretty child, so I’ll specially give you the chance to serve me…」

 

“If it’s alive, I was going to cut it in half and take some…”

 

「…Kyaaahhh! Seed! Save me!」

 

The elf blinked and asked.

 

“Can’t you lend this to me for a moment? Then I’ll grant you whatever you want.”

 

Whatever I want?

 

‘Then could you introduce me to a Prophet?’

 

「…Hey! I’m really going to be dissected!」

 

Unable to let Superior be dissected, Ruin quickly changed the subject.

 

“So what business do you have with me, when you don’t usually attend faculty meetings?”

 

Then Gransia held out a piece of paper instead of answering.

 

-‘Ruins Wayne’ created a prisoner interrogation torture drug that even the Herbology Professor failed to make. Write down what combination was used to make this torture drug.

 

“…”

 

Ginseng Superior looked at Ruin as if he were crazy.

 

「…Why did you provoke them!」

 

‘It wasn’t provocation.’

 

Ruin became serious.

 

He had deliberately given such an assignment. Because he needed to explain why the Princess (prisoner) would headbutt and body slam whenever she saw Ruin.

 

Since he had made the excuse that it was because of a torture drug, shouldn’t he at least possess that torture drug? The Healing Professors had indeed gone into an uproar.

 

“It was a prisoner that no torture drug worked on. What manufacturing method did you use!”

 

“We need to inform the academic world about this!”

 

“If done well, this could become an invention to control the Pride demons!

 

No, it would be troublesome if Pride were controlled.

 

…The bigger problem is that I can’t even make such torture drugs.

 

That’s why I had the smart Haven students deduce the combination method.

 

‘If I write it like that, the students will research by referencing the torture drugs written by the Herbology Professor.’

 

It would be better to make excuses than to create something from nothing. So I can only answer like this.

 

“It was a hint I gave to the students, but I’ve committed a discourtesy.”

 

“No. Thanks to that, students ask many questions in Herbology class and participation has increased, which is good, but that’s not why I’m here now.”

 

Then why did you come.

 

“That drug. What did you make it with?”

 

So she’s asking about that after all. The Healing Professors also asked how I made it, which was troublesome.

 

「…You don’t know how to make or distinguish drugs.」

 

‘I certainly can’t make them.’

 

However.

 

“Student Judith Isles got the correct answer.”

 

「…You’re handling it this way?」

 

‘There were no apparent problems, and she’s a student who always has excellent grades in Healing Arts. No problem.’

 

So would you please go back quickly?

 

“If you ask the teaching assistant to check that report, you should be able to confirm it.”

 

“I already checked and made it.”

 

So fast. You lazy bum.

 

Ruin smiled with a gentlemanly grin and pointed to the door.

 

“Oh! Then your curiosity must be satisfied now. Unfortunately, the prisoner has already escaped so there’s no subject to experiment on. Well then, please go back now.”

 

“I sensed Fire Butterfly’s curse power from that potion.”

 

Ruin flinched.

 

…What?

 

“I said I sensed Fire Butterfly’s magic power from that torture potion.”

 

…Why would you sense something like that from there?

 

Ruin’s pupils shook at this fact he himself didn’t know. This woman already remembered his scent. So if even a little bit of his energy leaked out, she would notice immediately.

 

‘Did the clan head’s stealth function leak out?’

 

At Ruin’s frightening gaze, Ginseng Superior froze. It was funny, if anything, how he was frozen in a Venus pose, afraid of being kidnapped by the Herbology Professor.

 

「I did my job properly! Besides, you said it was sensed from the potion!」

 

Then why on earth?

 

“At the end of the materials in that report, there was something like this. Tea leaves that Professor ‘Ruins Wayne’ was drinking.”

 

Ruin almost spat out the tea he was drinking.

 

Judith! Why did you put something like that in!

 

「You didn’t read the report to the end?!」

 

‘It was written in technical terms so I didn’t know.’

 

But why is his energy being sensed from there?!

 

At the same time, Gransia smiled. However, cynicism flowed within it.

 

“Well, the reason doesn’t matter. What’s important is that ‘Fire Butterfly’s scent’ was sensed from this potion.”

 

“…”

 

Ruin’s eyes reflexively wavered. Then the woman with glasses approached close to Ruin’s face. As if this was the real purpose she came for.

 

“Don’t tell me… you’re not ‘that guy’, are you?”

 

Ruin took a short breath and looked into the air.

 

“That guy, you say. I’ve never seen such a person.”

 

“Is that so. Then… that’s a relief.”

 

Gransia narrowed her eyes.

 

“I can’t kill the Head Professor that the Chairman likes.”

 

Damn it!

 

Unlike his inner scream, Ruin clasped his hands with a cold face.

 

“Fire Butterfly tracking is the Front Lines’ responsibility. Professor, please focus on rear support and education. Don’t forget your duties.”

 

The woman twisted her lips.

 

“You’re hiding something.”

 

“…”

 

“Well, don’t worry. I basically distrust everyone.”

 

Ruin felt relieved.

 

But-

 

“So I’m going to try using this.”

 

“?”

 

Gransia took something out. It was a glass bottle.

 

“Fire Butterfly tracking potion. To be precise, it’s a magic potion that only reacts to Fire Butterfly. The moment you smell it, you show hallucination symptoms and feel ‘unbearable’ ‘pleasure’. It’s quite an interesting potion, isn’t it? It’s been disappointing since no one has ever shown a reaction to it.”

 

The moment the Herbology Professor was about to open the bottle cap-

 

Thud.

 

Ruin’s hand sharply pressed down on it.

 

“Wait a moment.”

 

“…?”

 

Ruin spoke calmly.

 

“Using something like this where students are present violates health regulations.”

 

Right, this is basically an ‘aphrodisiac’ mixed with love herb.

 

“It’s not toxic. There’s no problem, is there?”

 

There is a problem, me!

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