I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93. Precious Acorn (1)

 

What appeared before Ryle was Ruin’s Treasure Box that he had been searching for.

 

The eyes of Ryle, who wore his hood deeply, changed.

 

‘It’s here.’

 

The box was crawling around by itself, looking like a hermit crab wearing an upside-down box.

 

Swish.

 

Ryle raised his sword toward the box. The box, noticing this, flinched in surprise and tried to waddle away to escape.

 

Swoosh!

 

Remembering Ruins’ words, Ryle pulled out a purple orb from his pocket. It was a Mana Orb filled with magic power.

 

At that moment, the box shook violently. Simultaneously, tentacles burst forth from inside the box with a gurgling sound. The tentacles instantly swallowed Ryle whole.

 

Gurgle!

 

Ryle, wrapped in vines, disappeared somewhere while submerged in darkness.

 

After a while, Ryle emerged through the vines and found himself in an unfamiliar place.

 

‘Underground? Is this a hidden space in Haven?’

 

It was a place where all sorts of artworks were tangled together.

 

Among those portraits, Ryle saw an unexpected painting.

 

‘Ruins Wayne?’

 

Though it seemed to be from childhood, it resembled him.

 

However, that was only momentary, as Ryle discovered tentacles frantically devouring the Mana Orb.

 

‘I’ll take that artifact.’

 

Just as Ryle was about to cut the tentacles—

 

“Mmph mmph! Please save me!”

 

“!”

 

He saw a woman struggling while bound by tentacles. Ryle immediately recognized who she was.

 

Haven uniform with a red necktie.

 

‘The student who went missing along with Charlie.’

 

Originally, this person was supposed to be found as a corpse, but was she still alive at this point?

 

At the same time, he seemed to understand why the professors couldn’t find her.

 

Squirm squirm.

 

The tentacles munching on the orb were holding various things.

 

Weapons imbued with magic power, scrolls… basically, they were happily devouring anything that contained even a little bit of magic power.

 

Among them, the most important thing was a card.

 

‘A student ID?’

 

Haven’s student IDs had transmission magic cast on them, so if someone went missing, professors could track and find them.

 

However, these tentacles were an artifact that devoured magic power and forcibly put targets into a ‘zero magic power’ state.

 

‘It must have devoured the student ID’s magic as well.’

 

Then, the bound student noticed Ryle.

 

“Th-there! I don’t know who you are, but please help me for just a moment!”

 

However, Ryle pulled his hood down deeply and frowned.

 

‘Someone who’s going to die anyway. No need to get involved.’

 

* * *

 

11:50 PM.

 

The dormitory supervisors were in complete uproar.

 

Of course, this time it wasn’t because of a ghost, but because of the crow gentleman.

 

“What? You found the missing student?”

 

Lionel Croft, Blue Moon dormitory supervisor and active Aegis agent, looked at Ruin with cold eyes. His gaze clearly held suspicion and wariness.

 

However, Ruin seemed completely unbothered by such looks and casually held out something in his hand.

 

“To be precise, I should say I found that student’s student ID.”

 

What Ruin held out was a blood-stained student ID.

 

-Keizel Fitzroy.

 

“…This is!”

 

“It’s Fitzroy’s card!”

 

“Isn’t Fitzroy the cadet who disappeared from the dormitory!”

 

After checking the student ID following the other supervisors’ words, Lionel quietly spoke.

 

“Where did you find this.”

 

Lionel’s gaze was frightening. Ruin made a somewhat troubled expression.

 

“Actually, it’s His Highness the 2nd Prince.”

 

“What?!”

 

Lionel’s voice rose. The sudden name brought tension to the dormitory supervisors’ faces as well.

 

Ginseng Superior was dumbfounded by that shameless statement.

 

「I wondered what you were making Echo do again. You were forging that, weren’t you? Isn’t he an AEGIS agent? What if you get caught?」

 

‘We won’t get caught.’

 

The fact that this man was an active agent was something I had already discovered during my investigation of the professors. And this card was also for tracking students.

 

But no signal had been detected for several days? That already meant there was a problem with the card.

 

‘Well, I can guess what kind of situation it is.’

 

So it doesn’t matter if I use it like this.

 

Sure enough, Lionel spoke.

 

“I don’t know why His Highness has this, but I’m worried. Is he in the dormitory?”

 

Ginseng Superior was incredulous.

 

「Hey… why would he be in the dormitory? Didn’t he go to get the treasure chest right now?」

 

‘Be quiet.’

 

The dormitory supervisors who confirmed the student ID hurriedly moved toward Red Gate Dormitory. The supervisors were already on edge from the incident of the missing student. It would be a lie to say they weren’t having all sorts of thoughts after seeing the blood-stained student ID.

 

“Since curfew is from 11 o’clock, he should be inside the dormitory.”

 

The dormitory supervisors rushed toward Ryle’s room. Ruin was also able to naturally slip in among them. No one suspected the Head Professor.

 

“Your Highness, Your Highness? Are you sleeping?”

 

They called out to Ryle desperately, but there was no answer.

 

“Should we open the door?”

 

“But it’s His Highness’s private space?”

 

Then Ruin said a word.

 

“Since there’s no answer, I’m worried something might have happened.”

 

At those words, the stiff Lionel nodded.

 

“Let’s open it.”

 

One of the supervisors used the master key, but the door wouldn’t open.

 

“Wait, why won’t the door open…!”

 

Ruin smiled secretly.

 

Regressors are very cautious.

 

‘So obviously he must have put additional locking magic on it.’

 

However, Ruin spoke as if very worried.

 

“Don’t tell me there’s ‘someone else’ inside?”

 

“…!”

 

At Ruin’s words, the supervisors turned pale.

 

The supervisors hurriedly pulled out their staffs and used unlocking magic. Normally, this would be absolutely impossible. But the situation was what it was.

 

“Open it!”

 

Just before Lionel cast the magic dispel, Ruin lightly touched the door with his finger.

 

‘Misfortune Injection.’

 

He disrupted the 2nd Prince’s locking magic.

 

However, the door opened easily to Lionel’s magic. Ruin was impressed.

 

‘Oh, so saying he’s an AEGIS agent wasn’t an exaggeration.’

 

Originally, I was going to make him fail a few times. But even with Misfortune Injection, opening a door like this was nothing to him?

 

His skills are considerable.

 

‘I shouldn’t mess around.’

 

「You’re doing everything except not messing around. It seems like you’re already toying with him.」

 

Creak!

 

However, those who entered inside were bewildered.

 

“Your Highness?!”

 

He’s not there.

 

“Where could His Highness be during curfew…!”

 

Ruin worriedly interjected again.

 

“If His Highness has also gone missing, it would be serious, so we should search for him.”

 

At the word “missing,” the supervisors’ expressions changed and they went out to look for the 2nd Prince.

 

Only Ruin remained in the room. Ginseng Superior in his pocket asked.

 

「What’s your purpose?」

 

‘I told you. I’m going to find the acorn that the squirrel preciously hid away.’

 

「How?」

 

‘Like this.’

 

Ruin lightly knocked over the items on the desk.

 

Crash!

 

It looked as if a thief had broken in.

 

At the same time, Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

 

‘When people realize a thief has broken in, they tend to check their safe first.’

 

After finishing messing up the room, Ruin climbed onto the dormitory roof and checked his pocket watch.

 

“But the runaway squirrel is later than expected.”

 

* * *

 

“Pl-please help me!”

 

The student gasped for breath as she pleaded for help from Ryle. However, Ryle looked at her with a furrowed brow.

 

‘Keizel Fitzroy.’

 

She was the unfortunate student who would go missing from Red Gate Dormitory and eventually be found drowned in the lake seven days later. He remembered how her parents came afterward, wailing and demanding to know what Haven had done to their child they’d entrusted to them.

 

However, Ryle had no intention of saving Keizel.

 

‘She’s destined to die anyway.’

 

He didn’t want the future to be twisted. Ruins Wayne alone was enough deviation from his expectations.

 

But Keizel was gasping while worrying about Ryle.

 

“Are you okay? Were you captured too?”

 

Keizel stretched out her hand as if telling him not to worry. She was trying to pull out the student card that the tentacles were holding.

 

“Don’t worry! If I can just get that out…! I can send an SOS signal! Or maybe… don’t you have a card?”

 

Ryle sighed.

 

“I don’t have one. I don’t bother carrying it around.”

 

“Then…! Just wait a moment!”

 

At the same time, Ryle swung his sword. The tentacle holding the student ID was cut off.

 

Ryle picked up the fallen student ID card. Keizel looked relieved as if everything would be fine.

 

“With that, the professors should be able to come rescue us!”

 

However, Ryle, who had been looking at the card with a cold expression, snapped the card in half.

 

Crack!

 

“Huh?”

 

Keizel’s face turned pale. Ryle tossed the broken card aside.

 

“I can’t let my plans be ruined because of you.”

 

“Wh-what?”

 

“It would be troublesome if the professors came now.”

 

He let out a sigh.

 

“Sigh, but I’ll save you once I finish my business, so just sleep for a while.”

 

But that’s when it happened.

 

Angered by having its arm cut off, the tentacle attacked Ryle. It seemed to be throwing a tantrum about the pain.

 

Ryle frowned at the unexpected attack from the tentacle. It was more troublesome to obtain than he thought.

 

‘Tch, I need to get that thing to kill the bastard who will destroy the Union.’

 

Ryle had no intention of leaving alone the First Prince who would destroy the Union, and that damn Fire Butterfly bastard.

 

But then it happened. The hood that Ryle had been wearing deeply because of the tentacles was pulled off.

 

At the same time, Keizel was startled.

 

“R-Ryle, Your Highness?”

 

At that voice, Ryle flinched in surprise.

 

‘Damn.’

 

It would be troublesome if his identity was discovered!

 

Moreover, if she was from the Fitzroy family, wasn’t she one of the First Prince’s people? He couldn’t let her witness him obtaining the artifact.

 

Therefore, Ryle’s red eyes turned cold.

 

“This won’t do. I’ll have to eliminate you.”

 

“What?!”

 

His sword gleamed menacingly.

 

“Well, if I say it was the artifact’s doing, the professors won’t be able to do anything about it.”

 

Just as Ryle was about to eliminate Keizel—

 

“Has this bastard gone insane.”

 

Along with a familiar voice, Ryle was kicked in the face.

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