I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 87
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Chapter 87. The Suspicious Butterfly (3)
The corners of Ruin’s mouth curved up coldly.
‘There’s only one Regressor I know now.’
Someone so strong that with a Shadow demon’s body, he couldn’t even dare think of facing them.
They were even clever. All the bastards claiming to be Regressors had been completely eliminated by that person. None other than because they knew Ruin could use Regressors or Prophets.
So Ruin had one less card to play.
It was Ruin who…
‘To so kindly reveal their existence like this.’
If I just catch this bastard, I can recover both my severance pay and the boxes.
「But Regressors are really masters at hiding.」
‘That’s why we need to make them come out on their own.’
「On their own? How?」
‘Fire. Any creature will come running out if their house catches fire.’
「Oh.」
So Ruin was puzzled. If a Regressor was hiding in Haven, why would they be here?
‘Regressors don’t waste time carelessly. They only take actions that benefit them.’
And being a Regressor, their skills would be outstanding too.
Such a person would deliberately stick to a military academy? It’s like saying a Sword Master would start as an academy freshman.
Of course, there could be various reasons like connections or past attachments, but still.
‘There’s definitely something here that will cause a major upheaval in the future.’
This place wasn’t just a simple school. It was Fire Butterfly’s house, and underground lay massive severance pay and all sorts of precious treasure chests.
And the recent prophecy.
“One of your treasure chests will be discovered in Haven, and the Union will be engulfed in unprecedented shock.”
Right. Putting together various clues, what the Regressor was after was most likely Fire Butterfly’s treasure chest.
Then the next problem.
‘Which treasure chest is the Regressor targeting?’
Naturally they’d target all the chests, but well.
Ruin pulled out an old newspaper from his pocket as his answer.
-4th Ghost Story. A phantom chest appears in the Red Dormitory. No one knows where it will appear. You must not face the chest. If you encounter it, you’ll be dragged to the afterlife.
-From Haven’s 7 Great Ghost Stories
There was also a student who said this about it.
“There’s a ghost story incident in the dormitory where items disappear!”
That strangely bothered him. This was Fire Butterfly’s intuition. Moreover, if ‘this item’ was exactly as he remembered, it wouldn’t be strange for a Regressor to want it.
‘Are they planning to eliminate their nemesis with this? Or did they die because of it?’
He couldn’t know yet. But Ruin, who already knew the item’s identity, smiled.
‘Well, anyway, if it’s that artifact, the next thing to disappear would be a ‘person’.’
At those words, Ginseng Superior was horrified. This bastard seemed to be trying to use that again like last time.
「…You bastard, are you really planning to make a student disappear? To get the dormitory supervisors fired by holding them responsible?」
Then Ruin spoke as if asking what nonsense that was.
‘Even I’m not screwed up enough to kidnap a student. If I were going to do that, I’d rather kidnap a professor.’
…What’s the difference?
Anyway, if there really was a Regressor, recovering his severance pay would become easier too.
‘There’s no way a Regressor wouldn’t know about the event where the chest appears.’
And the method to draw out the Regressor was simple. The simplest among them was finding those showing suspicious behavior, but it wasn’t easy since Haven had so many eccentric professors and conspicuous students.
‘Starting with the Chairman being like that.’
He couldn’t openly approach suspicious people in the first place. Regressors would run away if they felt even the slightest bit of strangeness.
Then…
* * *
“Today’s class will change from the scheduled content. I’ll substitute it with a practical assignment.”
Demon Hunting Studies time.
The students stirred at Ruin’s words.
“He says practical. Why all of a sudden?”
“Doesn’t Demon Hunting Studies have practical components? It must be a rehearsal.”
“Oh! Finally a practical session!”
“Then what kind of practical…”
At those words, Ruin calmly walked to the front of the blackboard and said.
“There have been successive mysterious disappearance incidents at Red Gate Dormitory. Everyone thinks of it as just a ghost story, but this isn’t a simple ghost story.”
He wrote something on the blackboard with sharp taps.
-Assignment: Write a tracking report on the Red Gate Dormitory missing items ghost story and submit within 5 days.
-Bonus points will only be given to those who uncover the cause of the disappearances.
The 2nd Prince flinched upon seeing that text.
Ruin smiled coldly at him.
If he’s really a regressor, there’s no way he wouldn’t know what this means.
‘What he wants must be this artifact.’
Then, a student raised their hand.
“But students from other dormitories can’t enter Red Gate Dormitory.”
“Is this an assignment exclusive to Red Gate?”
At those words, Ruin casually pulled something from his pocket and waved it around. It was the dormitory supervisor’s badge.
“It’s fine. I’m currently the acting Red Gate supervisor.”
「When did you steal that…」
Steal?
He borrowed it. This morning, through completely legitimate procedures.
Charlie, whom he found this morning, was still groaning from the diarrhea medicine. He looked even worse today than usual. So Ruin sympathetically patted Charlie’s shoulder.
“Did you get attacked or something? I can see bruises.”
Ruin, who had sent shadows to startle Charlie in the middle of the night, felt sorry for him. He was somewhat sincere about it. He had just tried to create a ‘ghost incident’ to make Charlie voluntarily step down from mental exhaustion, but Charlie had unnecessarily tried to catch the ghost and ended up falling from the third floor on his own.
“Didn’t you see the culprit’s face? I’ll catch them for you.”
「…The real culprit is you when you think about it. You crazy bastard.」
Ignoring Ginseng Superior’s nitpicking, Ruin approached Charlie with a smile.
“Well, since you’re a precious friend, I’ll at least help you recover.”
When Ruin cracked his leather-gloved fist, Charlie’s face hardened.
“Wait. What are you doing.”
He wasn’t the Self-Defense Professor for nothing – he seemed to immediately sense something ominous. So he was about to ask what kind of nonsense this was, but-
‘Impact Healing.’
Golden light swirled around Ruin’s hand. This was the healing magic he had obtained while dealing with Lindsey. It was important magic that would help Ruins avoid suspicion as a Healing Professor.
Well, the process of ‘hitting to heal’ was completely beyond Ruin’s common sense, so he hadn’t been using it-
“Consider it an honor. This is my first human experiment.”
“What, you bastard?”
“I can’t exactly conduct human experiments on students.”
“Wai- Kyaaaah!”
That’s how he handled it.
And approaching the unconscious Charlie-
“What? It’s hard to move so you want me to take over as supervisor? Got it. I’ll take care of your duties for you.”
That’s how he ‘borrowed’ it.
Even while unconscious, Charlie struggled not to let go of the supervisor badge, but Ruin slapped his cheeks and took it away.
「…Crazy bastard.」
And now.
Ruin smiled at the students and said.
“Charlie needs rest for a while due to aftereffects from my treatment. Don’t worry.”
The students murmured.
“I saw it this morning. The Professor treating Charlie.”
“Charlie had bruises on his face but they all disappeared.”
“Even his fracture was healed in one go. It looked like an injury that would last a long time…”
“Painful Healing Studies really is effective!”
The students looked at him with respect, but Ruin ignored them.
‘I can’t believe this kind of magic actually works.’
Even the fractured area had healed stronger than before. In short, it was a buff magic that made the body more robust.
Of course, since it was ‘Impact Healing,’ the downside was that the treatment process was painful…
‘Well, it cleanly cured external injuries, internal injuries, even irritable bowel syndrome, neuralgia, and herniated discs, didn’t it?’
That’s why the Healing Studies elderly professors rushed over saying ‘Please let us get hit like Professor Charlie too!’ which was quite troublesome.
“Anyway. From now on, all students can enter Red Gate Dormitory. It’s limited to 5 days, so freely -interact with each other and find things to learn from other dormitories while you’re at it.”
“Ooh!”
Turning around, Ruin checked his watch.
‘This should make the regressor react.’
「Hmm, what if it’s a regressor who’s not interested in this ghost story or doesn’t know about it?」
‘Then they’re a stupid fool not worth dealing with.’
* * *
Practical class day 2.
As Ruins said, the students diligently wandered around Red Gate Dormitory.
“So, Professor Wayne said that demons might be involved in this missing item case?”
“Yeah. Since Haven was originally demon territory, he said there could still be low-level demons remaining.”
“Oh, then let’s find them first.”
The students ran around excitedly with tension and curiosity, while Ruin watched each of them intently.
The professors were impressed by this sight.
“They’re practicing tracking within Haven in advance. It’s a safe rehearsal since the professors can watch.”
“I suppose he’s starting cautiously given the recent incident!”
“This Demon Hunting professor really seems different. I’ve never seen students stick to the library like that before.”
“More than that, watching over each student so carefully – isn’t his passion amazing?”
Well, in reality he was just trying to find the regressor. Ruin watched the scene with satisfaction and dusted off his hands.
‘Now, once this is over, shall I go finish dealing with Charlie.’
Of course, he didn’t really intend to “deal with” him. Well, no matter what, he couldn’t kidnap the dormitory supervisor for personal reasons without justification. Even if it was bothersome, he’d have to keep feeding him diarrhea medicine.
「At this point, just kidnap him…」
Just as Ruin was watching over the next student.
“P-Professor! Something terrible has happened!”
Teaching Assistant Lily rushed over to Ruin urgently.
“What’s all the fuss about.”
“Well, one student and Professor Charlie have been kidnapped from Red Gate Dormitory!”
What? Who?
「What, did you lose patience and kidnap them already?」
I haven’t even tried yet.
The campus was in chaos over this unexpected disappearance incident. Though absurd, Ruin inwardly thought this worked out well.
‘If Charlie can never be found, Red Moon could become the dormitory supervisor.’
「…You crazy bastard.」
‘I’m joking. This must be the regressor’s doing.’
「What? Why!」
‘If people go missing, the dormitory will be closed down.’
And what this meant was.
‘This is clearly preliminary work to access the box.’
He thought the regressor would definitely show some reaction, but kidnapping of all things.
‘This regressor is more aggressive than I thought?’
Still, an important clue had emerged.
‘The regressor is a Red Moon student.’
If they were in a position where they couldn’t access Red Moon, they wouldn’t have induced a closure. Rather, they would have taken advantage of this opportunity. In other words, it meant they were a student who could freely enter and exit the dormitory.
Then the scope was significantly narrowed.
‘The most suspicious ones are the princes.’
That’s why he was taking this roundabout approach.
‘No matter what, I can’t grab a prince by the collar and interrogate them.’
That would mean execution if done wrong.
While he was thinking this.
“But…”
Lily continued speaking.
“The problem is… they say the culprit who kidnapped them was ‘Professor Ruins’…!”
“…What?”
「…Is this also the regressor’s doing?」
Ruin’s lips curved up in a grin. However, his eyes weren’t smiling at all.
‘This bastard is crossing the line?’
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