I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 86

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Chapter 86. The Suspicious Butterfly (2)

 

“Failed.”

 

“Disqualified.”

 

“Do you take the professor for a fool?”

 

“Even if mold wrote this, it would be better than this.”

 

Each time Ruins threw down a report one by one, the students’ faces grew pale. No, beyond growing pale, they were becoming zombies.

 

‘No way, Professor Ruins, are you serious?!’

 

‘Not a single person passed their report?’

 

When the last report finally fell to the floor, the students were horrified.

 

Ruin looked at the students with a disgusted expression.

 

“Not a single one passed. The professor is disappointed in you all.”

 

Then at least give us normal assignments!

 

He assigned ultra-high difficulty tasks like explaining ‘the method to cure the Princess’s incurable disease’ and creating ‘the torture drug formula that even the Herbology Professor failed at’, and then what?

 

“Only five people submitted reports? Even for a difficult assignment, only five out of hundreds is too much.”

 

You’re the one who’s too much!

 

“I haven’t even given midterms yet, so I can’t make everyone retake the course already.”

 

Were you planning to give everyone F’s? You crazy bastard?

 

“I have no choice but to accept different reports. This time, make sure you bring them.”

 

And this is what came out of that.

 

-Submit reasons why you want to learn Ruins Wayne’s 【Painful Healing Studies】 in 100,000 characters or more (1,000 sheets of parchment).

 

…Setting aside the content, 1,000 sheets of parchment!

 

At this point, isn’t this just tormenting the students?

 

“The ones tormenting are you guys who submitted this garbage.”

 

Ruin clicked his tongue and swung his staff. Then reports floated in the air, fluttering open.

 

“I told you to submit assignments, and this is what you bring me?”

 

It was a report with one character per page, filling 1,000 sheets. There were even tricks where they enlarged the letters to giant size to fill 1,000 sheets.

 

No, most of them did that. The content was even sentences like ‘I love you, Professor. I love you. I love you.’ Ruin’s eyes couldn’t help but turn menacing.

 

“If your brains don’t work, at least be sincere. Your brains don’t work, so I gave you alternative reports, and you waste paper and are lazy too?”

 

The students couldn’t lift their heads.

 

But humanly speaking, wasn’t 1,000 sheets too much?

 

“Did you really think I meant to write 1,000 sheets?”

 

…Yes. It seems like something you would do, Professor.

 

“I see. Whether in battle or politics, understanding the opponent’s intention is the top priority. Tell me the intention behind this assignment.”

 

…To build arm strength?

 

“If I wanted to build arm strength, wouldn’t it be better to make you do push-ups rather than this?”

 

…Yes. It seems like something you would do.

 

“This assignment was clearly intended for you to preview ‘Painful Healing Studies’ and to test your sincerity. If you hadn’t used such tricks and honestly wrote just 10 pages, I would have passed you.”

 

At those words, the students’ pupils shook violently.

 

…You would pass us just by looking at that?

 

They had shocked expressions on their faces.

 

‘That heartless professor?’

 

「Right. You were planning to exhaust the kids with assignments and use that as an excuse to cancel classes.」

 

Half right, half wrong.

 

Ruin picked up the Haven documents. Haven’s goals for this year were written there.

 

‘Special Grade Wanted Criminal’ → ‘High-Grade Demon Race'(╥﹏╥)

‘Special Grade Wanted Criminal’

‘With just this level of students, you want them to catch high-grade demons? Are you kidding?’

 

Hero, that sociopath. Is he planning to get all the kids killed?

 

Ruin could only sigh at the Hero’s choice to set Haven’s target as ‘high-grade demons.’

 

‘Does this damn bastard think that because it’s easy for him, it’ll be easy for students too?’

 

It’s even more infuriating to think he probably felt proud thinking ‘I did well by not setting it as Fire Butterfly, right?’

 

Anyway, to make them capable of clashing with high-grade demons, this level won’t do. That’s why Ruin sighed while throwing the students’ reports.

 

“I can’t believe no one noticed the real intention behind this assignment.”

 

…Re, real intention?

 

Ruins swung his staff and wrote letters in the air.

 

-Submit reasons why you want to learn Ruins Wayne’s 【Painful Healing Studies】 in 100,000 characters or more (1,000 sheets of parchment).

 

“I gave you such an easy hint, and you still don’t get it?”

 

A, a hint?

 

“Why do you think I specified over 100,000 characters and 1,000 sheets of parchment?”

 

…Because Ruins is annoyingly picky?

 

“If I really wanted to make you write lines, I would have specified the parchment size, text spacing, paragraph spacing, font style, and font size too.”

 

…You’d even limit character spacing? You crazy bastard?

 

“100,000 characters refers to character count, which is usually a unit used for books.”

 

“!”

 

At the mention of books, the students gasped as if they realized something.

 

Sure enough, Ruins spoke.

 

“Among the things I’ve written, there’s a book called 《Why We Must Learn Painful Healing Studies》. It’s a 100,000-character, 1,000-page book made of parchment material in standard format.”

 

“Ah…!”

 

“Special-grade wanted criminals aren’t opponents you can just beat down with brute force alone. When trying to catch them, investigating their background and past records is essential. If you had referenced this book or brought this book with you, it would have been an A+. Don’t just try to build strength, but make an effort to learn more about your opponents.”

 

The students seemed shocked and clutched their heads.

 

So that’s what it was! It really was an easy assignment!

 

Ruins had deliberately given such an assignment to enlighten the students.

 

To think such a thing existed, we had no idea…

 

“Well, since this book didn’t sell a single copy and went out of print, it would be difficult to find any remaining copies on the market.”

 

“…”

 

As expected, he’s just tormenting us!

 

“Therefore, I’ll add another assignment.”

 

“Aaaah!”

 

When Ruin mentioned a new assignment, the students cried out in despair.

 

Seeing this, Ruin recalled what he had heard from the Principal.

 

“You’re still avoiding the Chairman, aren’t you?”

 

“I don’t want to be with someone who suspects me.”

 

“You must be quite angry.”

 

No, actually I’m not angry at all. Rather, I’m using that excuse to receive all sorts of monetary gifts, so it’s good for me.

 

Most importantly, the Principal had said this.

 

“Still, if your anger doesn’t subside, I’ll personally visit the Wayne House to meet the acting Family Head and tell them I’d like to help with the Wayne Family’s business.”

 

Please don’t do that.

 

‘Considering the Hero’s patience roughly, I have about a week left.’

 

Before then, I need to think of a way to keep the Hero from following me around.

 

The best method would be to use the dormitory area that even the Chairman can’t enter. In other words, becoming the ‘dormitory supervisor.’

 

Moreover, coincidentally, the mission to ‘find a supervisor who collaborated with terrorists’ had just come in. For Ruin, who didn’t want a war to break out, it was a mission he would have to take on anyway.

 

Then there’s only one method.

 

‘Student recommendation.’

 

Since student recommendation is also one of the ways to become a supervisor.

 

“Well, if I become the supervisor, your assignments might decrease. Instead of assignments, there would be more one-on-one customized education.”

 

“Ooh?! Professor Ruins as supervisor?”

 

“Kyaa! His face is a blessing!”

 

“By any chance, are there any problems you’re experiencing in the dormitory?”

 

“There are! There are!”

 

“There’s a ghost story incident where items disappear!”

 

At those words, there was a student who frowned.

 

He was none other than the 2nd Prince.

 

‘As expected, he’s aiming for the supervisor position.’

 

No matter how he thought about it, it was strange.

 

‘Ruins Wayne had no interest in the supervisor position.’

 

What exactly is happening in this cycle?

 

‘Has some variable I don’t know about interfered?’

 

Anyway, that wasn’t what was important.

 

‘If that guy knows about the treasure chest.’

 

He had to hurry. To obtain that box, he had deliberately regressed and chosen Red Gate Dormitory.

 

That’s why he sighed.

 

‘I didn’t plan to go this far originally.’

 

He had no choice but to use the same method from the previous cycle that got ‘Ruins Wayne expelled from Haven.’

 

* * *

 

Returning to the Senior Professor’s Office, Ruin was dumbfounded.

 

Lily was bewildered beside him.

 

“Go, goodness, what is this!”

 

The entire Senior Professor’s Office was in complete chaos, all messed up.

 

“A robber must have broken in!”

 

When Lily panicked and tried to call the investigation team, Ruin grabbed her.

 

“Calm down. With Haven’s ironclad security, there’s no way a thief could break in.”

 

“Then!”

 

“It could be an insider, or an employee who was bribed.”

 

“But why on earth!”

 

Exactly. Why on earth?

 

Ruin rubbed the desk with his finger and furrowed his brow.

 

‘They have skill, but this isn’t the work of someone from the same industry.’

 

In other words, an amateur.

 

Did they think he was that easy a target?

 

‘At most, it’s probably just some petty prank by the professors-‘

 

But that’s when it happened.

 

“!”

 

Ruin looked down at the open desk drawer and was rarely surprised. And for good reason…

 

「Huh? Isn’t this that box we found at the Sacred Pond? Why is this here?」

 

That’s right. It was the box they had retrieved from the Sacred Pond. An item stolen from a regressor in the past, a box that Ruin could never open because he didn’t know the password.

 

Because of that, even though he knew the contents were precious special-grade items, he couldn’t use them.

 

-Opening condition: Enter the title of the 43rd Emperor.

 

The current emperor was the 42nd, so the 43rd would be a future emperor’s title that hadn’t been decided yet, that no one knew.

 

But…

 

Shake.

 

Ruin’s eyes grew serious as he shook the box.

 

‘The contents are empty?’

 

The box was so heavy that others might not notice, but they couldn’t fool Ruin, who could distinguish even a 1-gram difference.

 

「The contents are empty?」

 

‘It means they took the contents and locked it again.’

 

「What?! That’s possible?! That means they solved the password!」

 

That’s why Ruin’s lips curved upward. There was only one person who could solve this password.

 

Right. Those shameless thieves who steal everything in the world as if it were theirs, just because they know information about the future.

 

‘A regressor.’

 

Ruin smiled with certainty. It was the eerie gaze of a hunter who had discovered precious prey.

 

‘You’re hiding, aren’t you? In Haven?’

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