I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 90
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Chapter 90. Humanity’s First Discovery Was an Apple (2)
Bang!
The scream even came from the bathroom. Then a thunderous roar like a bomb exploding echoed, and something rolled out across the floor.
“An apple?”
The students could only stare with expressions asking what the hell was going on.
“Ru, isn’t that Professor Ruins?”
“Wh, what on earth is happening…?”
…Right, so Ruins was terrorizing the students.
By some unknown criteria, Ruins carried around a giant sack and threw apples at every student he saw.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
No, they were called apples, but when Ruins threw them, they were more like cannonballs.
Even the apples without any magic enchantment shattered the protective gear the students were holding to pieces-
Crack!
“Weak. Do you think such pathetic shields would be of any help?”
“No, I… Kyaaaah!”
Thwack!
He precisely hit the students’ vital points, knocking them unconscious. Even the combat department students collapsed foaming at the mouth.
“Hmm. Giel, C-grade. Low, B-minus grade. Don’t you dare call yourselves Haven students anywhere.”
He even graded the students after knocking them out! There was no stranger behavior than this.
The students were greatly confused.
“What’s going on?”
Ruins knocking down renowned students with just a single apple was one thing, but what was even stranger was the common trait among the fallen students.
‘Aren’t they all prophecy-type ability users?’
There were prophetic dreamers, future seers, prophets, and even fortune tellers.
What was curious was that all the students seemed prepared as if they knew Ruins would attack. Either running away, hiding, preparing some kind of protective gear, things like that.
“Hey, hide quickly!”
“Damn, hiding’s useless! All the first years already got hit!”
“How can you compare us to mere first years?! Defense…!”
“Fuck! What defense! Even the professor who tried to stop him got hit by apples and was carried away!”
What…? A professor?!
‘Crazy!’
Even so, hiding in bizarre places like the women’s bathroom, school pillars, ceiling, or animal feed boxes-
Creak!
“The coffin was quite creative.”
“Kyaaaah!”
Ruins found them all no matter where they hid.
Even if they used their brains and hid tightly in dormitory rooms where professors couldn’t enter…
“Gaaaah!”
They collapsed with their necks strangled by underwear. It was strangulation.
Same thing if they hid in the restaurant-
“Bleurgh!”
The soup they were secretly eating turned into mint chocolate flavored soup and they collapsed. It was poisoning.
By that point, everyone was puzzled.
“Why is he only targeting prophecy-type students?”
Even meticulously recording their ability scores one by one.
So rumors spread.
‘The Head Professor is conducting a secret evaluation!’
‘It’s to search for missing people!’
‘It’s a Fire Butterfly special task force…!’
‘No. He’s trying to drag them to graduate school!’
All kinds of speculation ran wild. The teaching assistant also had to look at it strangely.
“Professor, the treatment room is full… Mrs. Wilson is protesting, asking you to stop sending kids there.”
That wasn’t all.
“Professor Ruins! Please stop catching the kids!”
“We can’t attend classes because we’re too busy treating the kids!”
The Healing Arts professors even came directly to the Demon Hunting Research Lab to protest.
At this, Lily smiled awkwardly at the voices of the protesting professors outside the door and asked.
“Is, is this okay?”
“It’s fine. I made sure to break their bones properly so they’ll heal quickly.”
“What?! No, that’s not what I meant…!”
“Well, if that’s the case, I’ll join in the healing too.”
At those words, the other professors rushed in and shouted.
“You can’t! Are you planning to kill the children!”
Finally, under the glares of the professors, Ruin clicked his tongue.
“Anyway, the students themselves knew they’d be carried to the hospital, so they prepared thoroughly. No students will die.”
“…Professor? That’s not the issue… No, wait. You said they knew they’d be carried to the hospital?!”
At Lily’s question, Ruin looked at her with disgust.
“Isn’t that obvious? If prophets can’t see their own future, they should be expelled. Especially when a student has already gone missing.”
“…!”
Lily was surprised for a different reason.
“No wonder you were writing something so carefully yesterday…!”
Yesterday, Ruin had spread out the registry and written down the attack locations, attack positions, and number of attacks one by one. Very slowly at that. She had wondered why he was doing that…
「So you prepared to make sure the prophets could clearly read their own futures?」
‘That’s right.’
When prophets face a crisis, the standard response is to try to prevent it or avoid it.
‘By looking at their level of preparation, I can gauge how accurately they performed their prophecy. Even if someone is hiding their power, I can easily find out.’
「…I understand that. But you said you’d do it naturally enough not to be caught by the regressor?」
‘Doesn’t this look natural from any angle?’
…Let’s not even talk about it.
「I get it, but why apples specifically?」
‘Isn’t it obvious? If I use weapons, the students will die.’
Though they already look half-dead.
「Something moderate like a ball would work.」
‘I hate apples.’
「So?」
‘Today’s Haven meal menu was supposed to be apple pie.’
「…」
Thanks to Ruin, the apple seeds dried up, and the apple pie that was this month’s special meal was canceled.
The Shadow God was dumbfounded by such extreme pickiness.
「So, picky eater. Are you going to continue this apple throwing?」
‘I should move on to the next target now.’
Ruin turned his gaze to the student list.
-Ryle Winberg.
It was the 2nd Prince.
* * *
“What? You were discovered by Professor Wayne?”
Bang!
At the 2nd Prince’s angry shout, Kedrick squeezed his eyes shut.
“I’m sorry, Your Highness. Please kill me.”
Though he had told Ruins he was a client, Kedrick was actually a knight serving the 2nd Prince. Even if he was still green, he had betrayed his master because of unrequited love, so he had nothing to say even with a thousand mouths.
The 2nd Prince struck Kedrick across the face. Though Kedrick was knocked down by the force, he quickly got back up. Fierce red eyes looked at Kedrick.
“The reason I keep you alive is because your ability is rare.”
“Yes…”
The 2nd Prince turned around roughly. At the same time, he gritted his teeth.
‘If the professor knows, it might not end with just expulsion.’
That’s right. The 2nd Prince was someone who had experienced the future. A regressor who had been killed by the 1st Prince at a crucial moment and returned to the past several times after that.
He had returned to kill the 1st Prince, who would eventually become Emperor. That’s why he chose Red Moon and sought out the Princess.
But what?
‘He even knows about the existence of the box and restraint artifacts?’
That’s why the 2nd Prince’s eyes couldn’t help but turn fierce with wariness.
Originally, he had planned to keep him confined like Charlie until he found all the boxes hidden in Haven, but if this was the case, well.
‘I’ll clean up here and escape from Haven.’
It would be better to move to another location before that guy learned about him.
However.
“Groooooan.”
“R-Ryle, Your Highnessss…”
“?!”
What’s this?
A zombie-like group crawled over and grabbed onto Ryle’s boots.
“Your Highness, run away….”
“What?”
“That demon bastard is targeting Your Highness….”
Demon bastard?
At that moment, the student who had grabbed Ryle’s foot collapsed, coughing up blood.
“Kugh!”
Along with the student’s scream, something rolled and fell with a thud. Ryle was bewildered.
‘A, an apple?’
Just as he wondered what it was, he felt a chilling presence.
The students who spotted Ruins hiding among the trees turned pale as sheets.
“Y-Your Highness!”
“Please escape!”
“!”
Ruins, who had climbed up the tree, casually threw an apple.
Unlike the other prophets, the 2nd Prince looked extremely flustered. He appeared completely unprepared for this situation.
Perhaps out of consideration for this, the flying apple was also much slower than those thrown at the others.
However.
Thwack!
The apple struck the 2nd Prince’s head precisely, as he failed to dodge in time.
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Ryle Winberg.
The second prince of the Imperial Palace, child of the Imperial Consort. While the Imperial Princess showed exceptional talent in magic, Ryle was a swordsman who displayed genius in swordsmanship, but he was a student Ruin hadn’t expected much from.
Because of his ability.
‘Instant Precognition.’
He was an ability user who could see one second into the future. And the reason why that ability was useless was—
‘Because it’s completely unhelpful to others.’
First of all, one second was annoyingly ambiguous. It wasn’t enough time to read the future and inform someone else about it, and you couldn’t change anything significant with just one second.
‘At least since he’s a swordsman, it would help in combat.’
Just reading the trajectory of an attack one second ahead would be a great help in battle.
In other words, it was purely an ability for personal use.
Fire Butterfly had no need for it. Of course, raising students was a professor’s Achievement. One might argue it could be useful for that purpose.
‘Right, it might be somewhat useful.’
The problem was that this ability was only useful to masters of special grade or higher.
One second. Determining victory or defeat within such a short time was the domain of masters.
Experienced swordsmen with good intuition might manage, but mediocre ones couldn’t make their bodies follow even if they read the trajectory one second ahead.
‘Rather, that information would disrupt their movements and leave them open to counterattacks.’
The battlefield was a place where even perfect unity of body and mind barely guaranteed survival.
‘Such an ability would actually be poison.’
That’s why Ruin had judged Ryle to be a worthless hero.
Yes. He definitely had thought that, but…
‘Hmm?’
The 2nd Prince collapsed after being hit by the apple. A gleam appeared in Ruin’s eyes, who had thrown the apple.
“Your Highness!”
“Argh! Even Prince Ryle in the end!”
Students and professors came running in shock.
“Your Highness!”
“!”
When the 2nd Prince collapsed, Ruin’s gaze completely changed. A face as if certain of something. At the same time, his lips curved up coldly.
“Got you. Regressor.”
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