I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 85

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Chapter 85. The Suspicious Butterfly (1)

 

「What the hell is that?」

 

Along with the voice, someone scurried away in a hurry.

 

At the same time, someone approached Ruin’s side with a sigh. It was Anna Hunt, daughter of the Chaser family. The student who had acted up during Shadow Class and received the task of draining all the water from the Sacred Pond.

 

So Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

 

‘Come to think of it, that kid belonged to the First Prince’s faction.’

 

Then there’s a high possibility she knows about the regressor too.

 

Meanwhile, Anna looked at the items placed beside the tree and sighed.

 

“That princess is leaving things behind and running away again.”

 

The items left behind were vitamin drinks and snacks. The carefully wrapped envelope was a bonus.

 

‘Judith Isles.’

 

Princess Judith would always hover around Ruin like this, and whenever she was caught, she’d startle and leave only the items behind.

 

Anna was annoyed by this.

 

“Geez, is she some kind of pervert? Why does she keep secretly watching the Professor?”

 

Ruin was puzzled.

 

“You don’t seem to like the Princess.”

 

Come to think of it, Anna Hunt followed the First Prince, didn’t she.

 

“Do you dislike her because the Princess rejected the First Prince’s proposal?”

 

Then Anna, surprised, shouted as if asking what nonsense he was talking about.

 

“What? What?! Why is the First Prince being brought up here! It’s not that, it’s because of her that Professor…!”

 

“Me?”

 

“Ah… it’s nothing!”

 

Anna turned her head away and pouted.

 

“So, did you find the family crest?”

 

“I… I found it.”

 

When Anna held out the crest, Ruin checked the time with his pocket watch.

 

“1:45:23 PM. Exactly two weeks. Now I don’t need to come out anymore either.”

 

“Ugh…”

 

At those cold words, Anna tried to say something but kept her mouth tightly shut.

 

Actually, she was very grateful that Ruin came to this pond every day. This whole incident was because she had stupidly defied the professor and lost her crest.

 

‘To make time every day and watch over me until the end.’

 

Normally, a professor wouldn’t care whether a student who defied them found their belongings or not.

 

However, Ruin’s purpose was different.

 

‘From the beginning, I can extract various important information just through conversation with upper-class children.’

 

And above all, the reason Ruin had been waiting until now was one thing.

 

Ruin jumped into the Sacred Pond with its exposed bottom. Then he strode with his long legs toward the center of the pond, and even that sight was so cool that Anna was impressed.

 

But regardless, Ruin picked up a small box buried in the mud. It was exactly the treasure chest of the Sacred Pond that Ruin had been looking for.

 

‘So it was this after all?’

 

Ruin sighed as if he had expected it. What was inside this treasure chest was a jewelry box, and this jewelry box was, well.

 

‘An item I can’t use right now.’

 

It was an item he had taken from a regression ability user in the past. And the password to open this was ‘the future Emperor’s reign title.’

 

In other words.

 

‘It’s an item that can’t be used unless there’s a regressor.’

 

It would be really convenient if there was a regressor.

 

So he asked Anna.

 

“By any chance, is there a prophet around the First Prince?”

 

“There are many prophets. He’s very interested in future matters.”

 

“Among them, who is the person the First Prince pays the most attention to?”

 

“Hmm. It would be the 2nd Prince, right? His prophecy abilities aren’t that great, but surprisingly, His Highness pays attention to him.”

 

At those words, Ruin narrowed his eyes.

 

‘The 2nd Prince?’

 

* * *

 

The First Prince smiled at the unexpected news.

 

“Really? Anna said she won’t come to the gatherings for a while?”

 

“Yes. It seems Professor Wayne made Anna Hunt do some digging.”

 

At the word “digging,” the First Prince, who had been playing chess, burst into laughter. He had the same silver hair as the Imperial Princess, but unlike the Imperial Princess with her cat-like eyes, he was a striking young man with languid, crocodile-like golden eyes.

 

If it was the Chaser family, he had sent her knowing full well there would be trouble with the Demon Hunting Professor, but still.

 

“That count’s daughter obediently followed what the professor ordered?”

 

“Well, Professor Wayne threw the Hunt family’s seal into the pond…”

 

At that, the First Prince smiled crookedly.

 

“Well, honestly he didn’t need to do that. He could have just ordered a servant to do such menial tasks.”

 

But he went out of his way to do it himself?

 

It meant Anna had taken a liking to Ruins Wayne. On top of that, he had healed the princess.

 

“Hmm, I didn’t know Ruins Wayne was such a capable person.”

 

Interesting.

 

Professor Kalon claimed he accidentally revealed Owen’s ability, but honestly the First Prince didn’t believe it.

 

‘Could it be that Ruins Wayne himself discovered the special admission student’s ability?’

 

Perhaps he had regression abilities. Otherwise, he couldn’t have easily healed the princess.

 

‘Then wouldn’t he be better than Kalon?’

 

He was a talent that must be secured.

 

Just then, the Prime Minister, his political opponent, gauged the First Prince’s mood.

 

“Are you alright with this? Princess Judith was someone Your Highness had shown interest in…”

 

The First Prince waved his hand dismissively.

 

“Oh, the princess? It doesn’t matter. I wasn’t serious about the princess anyway.”

 

Of course, it was a bit regrettable to lose the immensely powerful Isles ducal house.

 

‘That’s why it’s even more surprising that they approved Ruins Wayne.’

 

In fact, his reason for trying to heal Princess Judith wasn’t for the princess’s sake, nor for the Grand Duke’s house.

 

It was simply because of the ‘Second Prince’. The princess was someone the Second Prince was putting tremendous effort into courting.

 

Those around him found the First Prince’s reaction strange. They might lose their heads, so they couldn’t dare speak openly to the prince, but still.

 

‘His Highness’s behavior is eccentric by anyone’s standards.’

 

The world believed the First Prince had moved to Red Moon because he had a bad relationship with the Imperial Princess, but that wasn’t actually true.

 

He had transferred from Gold Gate, where he was doing well, to Red Moon because of the Second Prince who entered a year late.

 

Moreover, the reason the First Prince was still in his fifth year when he should have already been a graduating senior was because he kept adding more courses.

 

Even those courses were very miscellaneous and incomprehensible minor subjects. They thought it might be due to his lazy nature, but his close associates knew.

 

‘They’re almost identical to the courses the Second Prince is taking.’

 

Perhaps sensing that gaze, the First Prince’s languid eyes narrowed cunningly.

 

“Prime Minister, do you know? ‘Prophecy’ and such has limitations as a leader’s ability. It sees too near a future. Even if one can occasionally see the distant future, it’s the same—it’s useless because you don’t know when exactly it will happen.”

 

The retainers’ eyes narrowed.

 

Was the target of the expression ‘prophecy and such’ referring to the Second Prince?

 

“So, do you know what’s more useful than prophetic abilities?”

 

“I’m not sure.”

 

“It’s directly experiencing and returning from the future. Those living in the present can never defeat those who have experienced the future.”

 

“Certainly, those who know the future would inevitably be the strongest.”

 

However, the First Prince chuckled.

 

“But do you know who’s more frightening than such a person?”

 

“?”

 

The First Prince smiled triumphantly.

 

“It’s the one who figures out who that person is and uses them.”

 

* * *

 

‘That guy is Ruins Wayne.’

 

The Second Prince was surveilling Ruin walking across the campus.

 

He found this situation very strange and unfamiliar. Above all, what he couldn’t understand most was—

 

‘…Karin submitted to a professor?’

 

Imperial Princess Karin was his half-sister.

 

And the reason the Second Prince had left the Imperial Princess alone in her ‘professor expulsion’ activities was because he knew it was part of the ‘flow’.

 

‘Karin gets abandoned by the heroes due to the demon hunting professor expulsion incident.’

 

Her power was very strong, but having unfortunately earned the hatred of the professors who were heroes, she had no one to help her even until the moment of her death.

 

In that sense, one could say Ruins had saved the Imperial Princess and the students belonging to Gold Gate. They had been reprimanded by Ruins instead, before completely falling out with the heroes.

 

‘Yes, unlike previous cycles, you could say they saved their lives.’

 

Additionally, Princess Judith would suffer from her illness and eventually take her own life.

 

In other words, the future had changed.

 

All because of that one man.

 

But the Second Prince had a different reason for being concerned about Ruin.

 

‘I heard rumors that he’s aiming for the Red Moon dormitory supervisor position.’

 

That’s why he had even come to substitute for the ailing Red Moon dormitory supervisor Charlie.

 

For the Second Prince, this was very troublesome. That’s because there was an important ‘treasure chest’ in ‘Red Moon Dormitory’. A treasure chest he had to secure even if it meant regressing.

 

But.

 

‘Ruins Wayne. Could he possibly know about ‘that box’?’

 

That’s right. What the 2nd Prince was targeting were the special blessed ‘treasure chests’ hidden throughout Haven.

 

Of course, those were actually Fire Butterfly’s assets hidden in Haven… but well.

 

‘Could he possibly be targeting the same thing?’

 

Otherwise, there’s no way the busiest Head Professor at Haven would even aim for the dormitory supervisor position.

 

So he felt a moment of alarm, but he shook his head. The matter of those blessed ‘boxes’ bestowed by God was something only he, who had experienced the future, knew about. There was no way that professor could know.

 

‘In any case, the future must not change any further.’

 

At least, he had to obtain all the boxes before the incident where half of Haven’s students would die due to ‘terrorists’ occurred.

 

But if he didn’t stop Ruins Wayne here, it might change into an even more terrible future.

 

Of course, there was something truly terrible that was separate from this.

 

-Notice-

 

The existing 【Healing Arts: Popular Treatment Method】 course by Professor Lindsey Grens is cancelled and will be merged into Professor Ruins Wayne’s 【Painful Healing Studies】.

 

Setting aside the fact that during his leave of absence, the Healing Arts class he had been attending well had suddenly changed to some strange class…

 

-Notice-

 

Submit a 100,000-character essay (1,000 sheets of parchment) on why you want to learn Ruins Wayne’s 【Painful Healing Studies】.

 

*Failure to submit will result in 0 points for midterm and final exams.

 

-Ruins Wayne

 

…What the hell is this assignment!

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