I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94. Precious Acorn (2)

 

Thwack!

 

Ryle, kicked by someone, flew far away.

 

“Kugh…!”

 

He was hit precisely in the temple. It was a shock that felt like his skull was splitting.

 

Ryle, who flew mercilessly and crashed into the wall, covered his mouth. His stomach churned, and when he exhaled, blood gushed out.

 

Ryle’s consciousness grew distant. His head was shaken so badly he couldn’t regain his senses. But even in that moment, he was bewildered.

 

‘I couldn’t sense any presence at all!’

 

At the same time, a murderous voice mixed with disgust was heard.

 

“I thought he wasn’t normal, but this bastard is completely insane?”

 

It was Ruin. He walked toward Ryle, seemingly furious to the top of his head.

 

With fresh red blood on his black leather gloves and neat gentleman’s shoes, he no longer looked like a professor but something else, yet even that appearance exuded elegance.

 

Ginseng Superior frantically tried to stop him.

 

「Hey hey, calm down! That kid’s a prince! A prince!」

 

‘Fuck. So what if he’s a prince.’

 

「You should at least control your strength!」

 

‘I did control it. If I hadn’t controlled my strength, that bastard would be dead.’

 

Ryle, looking dizzy, wiped his nose. The nosebleed flowing from both nostrils messily smeared across his face.

 

His hearing was poor and his vision was blurry. But he could immediately tell who this obnoxious voice belonged to.

 

“…Ruins Wayne? Kugh!”

 

Ryle was kicked once more.

 

“Do you just call your professor by name?”

 

「Hey hey, right now only your speech is Ruins Wayne but your personality is Fire Butterfly. Show some restraint.」

 

However, Ruin completely ignored this and looked down at Ryle with cold eyes.

 

“I wondered why the stupid squirrel wasn’t returning to his nest. So he was doing foolish things in a place like this.”

 

At those words, Ryle flinched.

 

‘What? Nest?’

 

For a moment, he felt an ominous feeling. It was an anxiety as if his house had already been ransacked.

 

But that was only momentary, as Keizel’s voice, who had been kidnapped, burst out.

 

“Professor Wayne!”

 

Seeing Ruins, Keizel was completely relieved.

 

“Professor, Professor…!”

 

So relieved was she that Keizel burst into tears she had been holding back.

 

“Sob! Professor, you weren’t captured too, sob! were you? That’s right, isn’t it. Sob!”

 

At that sight, Ruin sighed.

 

“Do you think your professor is as incompetent as that prince? Of course I came to find you.”

 

“Waaaah…!”

 

The girl who had been calm even when looking at Ryle, saying she would save him instead, finally burst into tears. She must have been bravely enduring her fear all this time.

 

At that sight, Ruin ruffled his hair.

 

‘Hah, I tried not to get involved with the Union anymore because I didn’t want to get scolded by the Demon Emperor.’

 

Ruin extended his hand quite gently.

 

“Come, come here. But don’t use magic power.”

 

“B-but if I don’t use magic power, the monster will-”

 

“It’s fine. That’s not a monster, so you won’t be eaten.”

 

“Huh? Huh? It’s not a monster?”

 

“Right, that’s an artifact. It reacts to magic power.”

 

“!”

 

As soon as those words fell, Ryle’s eyes became murderous.

 

That bastard knows about my item?

 

However, Ruin made an expression as if it was pathetic.

 

“Why are you making such a stupid expression? Oh, you didn’t think only you knew about this, did you?”

 

“…!”

 

Ruin roughly grabbed and lifted up the mass of tentacles.

 

Squirm squirm.

 

The way it wriggled while wrapped around Ruin’s hand was like an octopus or squid. Of course, for a marine creature, it had no suction cups, and the translucent tentacles were strangely smooth.

 

“This is a living, moving biological artifact.”

 

Well, if there’s a drawback…

 

Squish! Squash!

 

Slime-like tentacles clung to Ruin’s face. It looked like it was trying to give him a kiss.

 

‘The problem is that it likes me too much…’

 

There was a good reason he had locked it away in the vault. This thing would try to cling to him like a koala whenever it got the chance.

 

And why this was a problem was…

 

“Ugh. Get off me. I can’t use my magic power.”

 

That’s right.

 

This artifact’s name was ‘Forced Restraint’. Its power was a ‘binding ability that reduces the magic power of whoever it grabs to zero’, so when this thing clung to him, he couldn’t use his abilities.

 

Of all things, what the 2nd Prince was after was his artifact.

 

“I guess the ‘Ruler’s Time’ artifact alone isn’t enough to satisfy you.”

 

At Ruin’s words, Ryle’s face turned deathly pale.

 

‘My artifact… how does that bastard know about it?’

 

No, that’s not what’s important.

 

“Hand that over!”

 

Ryle’s goal was that ‘Forced Restraint’ artifact. He had regressed for that, and entered Red Moon to obtain it.

 

‘And now he’s interfering with me?’

 

And as a regressor who had lived through the same seasons countless times, Ryle had already reached the level of a master in terms of combat prowess long ago.

 

‘I’ll take it by force.’

 

However, Ruin easily caught Ryle’s arm as he rushed forward quickly.

 

Swoosh!

 

Then he threw him down and knocked him over. Stepping firmly on his head was just a bonus. It was mockery as if he were handling a chick.

 

At the same time, Ruin struck the neck of the shocked Keizel, knocking him unconscious.

 

“Hmm. Stepping on a member of the Imperial Family’s head is a grave crime among grave crimes, punishable by execution. There shouldn’t be any witnesses.”

 

Though Ryle was dumbfounded at being trampled under his shoe, Ruin commanded the tentacle.

 

“Now, hurry back to where you originally were.”

 

The tentacle ignored the command and tried to cling to Ruin’s face, but-

 

“Move before I lock you up in the warehouse again.”

 

The tentacle made a whining sound and became dejected, then soon used magic.

 

Flash!

 

Actually, this tentacle was something Ruin had been keeping as a pet to prevent intruders.

 

But it was so cowardly that it would disappear with spatial movement magic at the slightest provocation. It had no effect as a guard dog, so he had locked it away in the warehouse.

 

‘It probably kept wandering around the house even after I disappeared.’

 

Being cowardly, it would wander around eating magical items when no one was around, and happened to catch a student’s eye.

 

That’s when their view changed. The tentacle had moved them to the dormitory garden with spatial movement magic.

 

Along with that came sounds close to screaming.

 

“Professor Ruins?!”

 

The dormitory supervisors who spotted Ruin came running urgently.

 

“What happened… Gasp!”

 

“Keizel?!”

 

“Your Highness Ryle!”

 

They were shocked to see the two that Ruin had brought out.

 

“You found them both?!”

 

“Keizel is!”

 

“He’s fine. Just fainted for a moment.”

 

The supervisors were genuinely relieved. The Silver Moon Supervisor collapsed and shed tears.

 

As supervisors who managed the students, how much their hearts must have raced at the news that students had gone missing. If something had happened to them…!

 

“Thank you! Originally this was something we should have resolved, but Professor Wayne…!”

 

“But why was Your Highness Ryle at this time… Cough!”

 

Then, the 2nd Prince gritted his teeth and pushed away the professors.

 

“Your Highness! Your Highness Ryle!”

 

Ryle instantly went up toward the dormitory stairs.

 

Rushing back to his room, Ryle gritted his teeth. Ruin’s words kept spinning endlessly in his head.

 

“I guess the ‘Ruler’s Time’ artifact alone isn’t enough to satisfy you.”

 

That human knew exactly about his artifact.

 

‘No way. No way…!’

 

Ryle’s face hardened as he hurriedly returned to his room.

 

‘The door is open?’

 

That wasn’t all. The inside of the room was in disarray. It looked as if thieves had broken in.

 

The moment Ruin’s face came to mind, sparks flew from Ryle’s eyes.

 

Slam!

 

Ryle frantically fumbled under the desk. Sure enough, the space under the desk that only he knew about was slightly open.

 

Ryle’s face turned pale. He hurriedly manipulated the lid several times, and the secret space opened. Then artifacts came pouring out from inside.

 

“Phew…”

 

Ryle felt relieved. Fortunately, the items were still there.

 

However.

 

“Oh, so it was there after all.”

 

“?!”

 

At the familiar voice heard by his ear, Ryle’s heart nearly dropped.

 

Ruin chuckled right next to his face.

 

“I guessed the location, but it seemed like traps would activate if I just opened it.”

 

“…!”

 

This crazy bastard, when did he get here!

 

However, Ruin smiled thinly.

 

“I knew if I just touched it a little, you’d show me how to open it yourself. So that’s how you open it. Well, as expected from a student level, it wasn’t much.”

 

Grr!

 

Ryle gritted his teeth and pulled out the necklace artifact he had found.

 

‘Ruler’s Time.’

 

The artifact glowed. At the same time, Ryle drew his sword.

 

His target was Ruin’s neck!

 

‘No matter how quick you are, it won’t matter!’

 

[Ruins Wayne cannot avoid my attack.]

 

Ryle’s eyes glowed as if using magic.

 

He was certain. Just as he wished, Ruin would be unable to avoid his attack and would be killed.

 

In other words, this artifact’s effect was ‘changing the action 1 second later to whatever he desired’.

 

‘Die.’

 

However, that was the moment.

 

Crack!

 

“Gah!”

 

Ruin lightly dodged the sword strike and broke Ryle’s arm. Then he pressed him down against the wall.

 

Clang!

 

The sword fell.

 

Ryle, whose neck was choked by Ruin’s forearm, gritted his teeth in disbelief.

 

“Ruler’s Time didn’t work…gah, on you?!”

 

“Ruler’s Time my ass. More like Amateur’s Time.”

 

“!”

 

Ruin’s eyes narrowed as he kept one hand in his pocket.

 

“So the regressor was able to pretend to be a prophet thanks to this?”

 

Ryle activated the artifact again.

 

[Ruins Wayne releases the strength from his hands for 1 second.]

 

However, Ruin chuckled. Then he put even more strength into his forearm.

 

“Gah!”

 

For Ryle, who was being choked, it couldn’t help but be bewildering.

 

‘Damn! Why isn’t it working…! If it comes to this, I have no choice.’

 

He wiggled his fingers. Then the ring on his middle finger flashed with an ominous light.

 

That was the moment. Just as red letters were about to be secretly engraved on the ring.

 

Crack.

 

Ruin broke Ryle’s arm.

 

“Argh!”

 

Then he quickly pulled off the ring. Having instantly guessed what Ryle was about to do, he looked at him with disgust.

 

“This guy was way more insane than I thought.”

 

“!”

 

This artifact was ‘Black Rose’.

 

It was a bomb, but the problem was the core embedded in it.

 

‘Ether?’

 

It was the same thing Echo had used during the Haven City terror attack last time.

 

In other words, its power was enough to just blow away a small city. Haven would just be blown away.

 

He was curious about where this was obtained, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

 

“You’re trying to turn other people into dust just to kill me? Ah. You think you can just regress again and run away?”

 

Soon as Ryle tried to use another artifact, Ruin broke his left arm too.

 

Crack!

 

“Argh!”

 

Ryle desperately tried to escape, but Ruin broke the legs that were trying to flee as well.

 

Crack! Crack!

 

Finally, as Ryle tried to bite his tongue in extreme pain, Ruin quickly pulled something from his pocket. It was an apple.

 

Thunk!

 

“Mmph!”

 

Ryle was dumbfounded as he was forced to bite the apple.

 

This crazy bastard! There were still apples left!

 

However, Ruin’s eyes flashed.

 

“How dare you try to commit suicide. Do you know how I obtained this golden goblin? You think I’d let you die?”

 

“!”

 

“You’ve gone back to the past about ten times now, haven’t you?”

 

This time Ryle’s expression was filled with shock. He seemed more surprised than ever before.

 

At that look asking how he knew, Ruin’s eyes narrowed.

 

‘I guessed and got it right.’

 

Well, he had expected it. When the number of regressions reaches a certain point, one either goes insane or reaches the level of a sunfish. If human, their mind would collapse on its own and walk the path of extinction.

 

But Ryle?

 

‘He hasn’t gone insane, and still has the leisure to think he can change the future.’

 

Then he’s at just that cute level, I suppose.

 

But at that level, he should know most future information.

 

Most importantly, a regressor was targeting the treasure chest? Then naturally he must know the vault’s location in detail too, right? If he’s a regressor, he’d obviously know that much, right?

 

Ruin’s mind couldn’t help but race.

 

‘Very useful indeed.’

 

「Eh, he meets your standards?」

 

‘Yes, that’s right.’

 

Rather, those who’ve reached a certain number are just troll trash who don’t listen and are hard to handle, with no sense of responsibility. Bastards who cause trouble at the drop of a hat, then run away alone claiming to reset their lives.

 

At least he was their natural enemy, so they would turn pale and run away rather than act arrogantly around him.

 

Meanwhile, Ryle’s eyes widened.

 

“How dith you know? (How did you know?)”

 

‘Because I know someone with similar abilities.’

 

…is what he couldn’t say.

 

So Ruin cracked his gloved knuckles.

 

“I think I can give you that answer in about a week.”

 

“Wha? What doeth that mean…? (What? What does that mean…?)”

 

“Even so, I can’t let you get arrested for insulting the imperial family. I need to heal you.”

 

Ryle was dumbfounded.

 

After already crippling the prince’s limbs, what?

 

“What doeth that have to do with a week later…? (What does that have to do with a week later…?)”

 

“My healing seems to be a bit painful. Usually they wake up after 3 days, but spend 4 days in a daze.”

 

What? What does that mean…?

 

“Hmm. It’ll be faster for you to experience it directly.”

 

What?

 

Ruin gathered magic power in his fist.

 

‘Impact Healing.’

 

Along with that golden power, Ruin’s fist struck down on the prince’s solar plexus.

 

Crack!

 

“Kugh!”

 

“Well, don’t worry.”

 

Crack! Crack!

 

Ryle felt his consciousness grow dizzy.

 

“Wait, thtop! (Wait, stop!)”

 

“The healing effect is guaranteed.”

 

“Thtop! Thtoooop!”

 

Ryle’s consciousness cut out.

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