I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 99
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Chapter 99. Choose the Head Professor (2)
Haven was in an uproar.
“Kalon and Ruins are going to duel with their professor positions on the line!”
“Crazy! They bet their professor positions?”
“So one of them is getting fired?”
“The Chairman gave Kalon four luck gems…”
“Wait, that means he’s planning to fire Professor Ruins!”
The dormitory cafeteria became a battlefield. Food trays were rolling around everywhere, and even senior students rushed out into the corridor to whisper among themselves. Even some professors were frantically asking “Is that really true?” trying to gather information.
The conclusion reached in an instant was simple.
‘This isn’t a fight. It’s an implicit dismissal.’
The atmosphere in the Information Department was particularly different. Instead, it had sunk heavily. And for good reason—
‘The Hero’s actions always have strategic purposes.’
There was someone who knew this fact better than anyone. Lionel Croft, who belonged to the Information Department and was both the Blue Moon dormitory supervisor and an active Aegis agent.
Lionel monitored the situation through Pricks and took it seriously.
‘Does he really think Ruins Wayne is Fire Butterfly?’
Then this wouldn’t be a simple test, but a situation where discovery could mean death.
At that moment, Ruin, the actual person involved, frowned at the forest entrance. The test paper he was holding ended with just one line.
-Bring back treasure from inside the cabin in the Black Forest.
However, compared to the very brief test paper, what was the actual situation?
Kalon officially took on the role of obstructor, and the Chairman sent in strange monsters under the guise of difficulty adjustment. Thanks to this, the surrounding atmosphere had heated up to the level of a ‘deathmatch with professor positions on the line.’
Well, that was fine up to that point.
‘They said I just needed to enter the cabin.’
Crack!
When Ruin entered the cabin in the Black Forest, his vision changed with crackling lightning. At the same time, Ruin found himself outside the cabin.
“…”
In short, it was a structure where trying to enter the cabin would get you kicked outside.
It was banishment magic. It was enough to make one’s blood boil.
‘I can’t even enter in the first place, so what am I supposed to find and bring back. Damn it.’
It must be Professor Kalon’s doing.
But what really bothered Ruin wasn’t being affected by this magic.
‘I expected this much.’
Actually, this trivial thing didn’t matter at all.
‘Ruin’
Bang!
When Ruin struck down the door with his fist, something amazing happened. The cabin door filled with magic was smashed to pieces.
Since Ruin magic was originally derived from misfortune magic, it basically possessed misfortune attributes, with ‘debuff’ built into its basic properties.
So while the added effect of ignoring the opponent’s defense made it more destructive…
‘…Did I smash it too much?’
Regardless, what bothered Ruin was the special-grade artifact he sensed inside.
‘Heavenly Evil’s Bewitchment.’
It was an object that read the opponent’s memories and manifested ‘what they most wanted to see’ or ‘what they most feared’ to cause mental collapse.
Honestly, it crossed the line by far for testing a colleague.
Moreover, this was an object Ruin knew well.
‘Isn’t this the Hero’s artifact…?’
「Oh my, I remember. Pride was affected by that thing so many times. Such a nasty thing should be quickly gotten rid o…」
‘Should I sell it and buy some land in the capital area?’
「…」
Ginseng Superior spoke as if dumbfounded.
「…You can disable the artifact, right? It seems like they’re determined to make you fail.」
‘Do you think this is my first or second time disabling something like this?’
As Ruin emerged from the cabin, those who had been hiding in the distance quietly appeared. They were teaching assistants wearing invisibility cloaks.
Fortunately, thanks to wearing artifact cloaks, it seemed Ruins Wayne hadn’t noticed them, but…
“Hey, aren’t we going to get in big trouble? This isn’t raising the difficulty, it’s deliberately interfering.”
“Well, you know what Professor Kalon’s intention is.”
“Right. He said he’d put our names up. If we briefly bother the new professor and get our names on a paper, it’s rather profitable.”
“And when else would we get to legally mess with a professor? Honestly, it’s fun.”
Thanks to this, all the Combat Department teaching assistants had brought artifacts in droves, determined to make achievements, and were all clinging to this task.
Well, if they got caught, it would be the end for them…
“No way we’d get caught when we’re even using artifacts, right?”
…was what they thought for a moment.
“Aaaaah!”
“?!”
A scream echoed through the forest. It wasn’t far away. The scream even sounded somehow familiar.
Right. This voice is…
“Those are our research lab kids?!”
That wasn’t all.
“Aaaah!”
Bang!
“Kyaaah!”
Bang!
“Graaaah!”
Thud!
Along with the screams came explosions… no, sounds of the ground shaking. The Teaching Assistants who were hiding couldn’t help but have their eyes shake. Especially if those voices belonged to their companions.
‘What’s going on?’
‘What happened!’
Weren’t they all hiding using stealth items because they were afraid the Professor would come looking for them?
“L-let’s hide again for now.”
“Right!”
If they just used this, even that Professor wouldn’t be able to find them. They hurriedly threw on their cloaks and held their breath.
But-
Flutter!
“?!”
“An invisibility cloak this time. You must have money overflowing.”
Th-this voice!
The Teaching Assistants whose forms were revealed turned pale as sheets. The one who lifted the invisibility cloak that no one else could ever find with one hand was none other than Ruins.
“P-Professor…!”
“…You’re not going to tell me you were hiding with this, are you?”
The Teaching Assistants froze under his gaze that looked at them like they were insects.
…Damn! How did he find us?
“Didn’t they say this item wasn’t even detected by groups of high-ranking demons in Rhine?”
Ruin looked up at the sky as if enlightened.
Sorry. I’m not just at the level of a high-ranking demon.
However, the Teaching Assistants trembled.
“We’re sorry for interfering! We’ll immediately dispel the banishment magic…!”
“Ah, no need. I can already enter the cabin.”
‘H-how?’
Then why did he come looking for them?
Ruin coldly took out an artifact as if this was the main point. It was a wing-shaped brooch.
“Abusing the Hero’s artifact. It was you, wasn’t it? The ones who installed the hallucination artifact to interfere with me.”
Ruin’s eyes were menacing.
“This isn’t something that can be passed off as a simple punishment. This item isn’t just a simple hallucination artifact, but something that reads the opponent’s memories and destroys their mind. You dared to read information about heroes with this and threaten lives for the purpose of tormenting a professor? This constitutes a violation of Union information law.”
「Information law, that’s funny coming from you.」
‘Be quiet.’
However, the Teaching Assistants were frozen.
“Eh?! Information law violation?”
“H-hallucination?!”
The memories and information of heroes were classified. Especially for professors at Haven where the Hero was. If they were captured and had their memories read, the heart of the Union could be exposed.
Perhaps that’s why.
“Don’t play dumb. Wasn’t it you who installed it?”
“N-no, the banishment magic is right but!”
“We really don’t know about the hallucination!”
…Huh?
“How would we dare try to read the professors’ memories…!”
…Huh?
Ruin looked at the Teaching Assistants who were hugging each other and trembling. Being Teaching Assistants, they would know the terror of legal violations better than students.
Moreover, when they saw the brooch, they suddenly screamed.
“…Ah! Wait, more than that, that thing! Isn’t that it? That artifact the Chairman was looking for when he put up the notice! The one he lost at Haven!”
“That’s right. Don’t tell me the Professor found it?!”
“The Chairman was desperately searching for it!”
…Huh?
Was that what it was? I thought the Teaching Assistants had definitely installed it, so I came here beating them all up.
‘Artifacts usually get released when you beat their owner half to death.’
However, the teaching assistants seemed to realize an even more surprising fact.
“W-wait, so Professor Wayne found something that even the Chairman couldn’t find with his Luck Power?”
「Oh. Finding the Hero’s item, no less. New Professor. You’ve suddenly made quite an achievement, haven’t you?」
Ruin scowled as if looking at a pile of shit.
Hah. Of all things, it had to be something that Hero was looking for.
“Still, I never thought you’d discover it there!”
“The Board Members will be surprised too!”
“Even with the Board Members’ Luck Power, no Special Grade Artifacts came out!”
Ah right, we’re in the middle of a test.
Ruin subtly hid his smile as he put the brooch in his pocket. The teaching assistants’ eyes completely changed when they saw that.
“Is that the only item that came out?”
No. There were more, but the Hero’s item pissed me off the most so I brought it.
“There were more.”
“My goodness, not just one but several?!”
“Your Luck Power must be incredibly high!”
They looked at Ruin with respectful eyes.
In the Union, having high Luck Power is naturally valued highly. So Ruin was shameless.
“Right. My Luck Power is pretty high.”
“Then perhaps the method you used to pass through the main gate was also with Luck Power…?!”
“Right. I broke through with that Luck Power.”
Then Ginseng Superior clicked his tongue.
「What Luck Power does a demon have? Luck Power my ass.」
‘Be quiet.’
「…But if they didn’t set it up, why did that thing come out anyway? You don’t have a speck of Luck Power.」
Hmm. There was something I could guess.
So, in the 《House Manual》, clearly…
-【No.175 Hazardous Material Inspection】
【No.175 Hazardous Material Inspection】
1. All items belonging to visitors are automatically expelled to the Gateway Station (Forest Cabin) 24 hours after installation inside the house.
2. Only the landlord has the right to check those items.
‘Is it a defense system function?’
In other words, ‘lost items’ are treated as items installed in the house since they left their owner’s possession.
Anyway, there were so many items there that I thought the Union was using it as a warehouse.
‘The cabin was a lost and found center.’
Moreover, the important thing was this.
-Only the landlord has the right to check those items.
That means, in other words…
‘All items lost in Haven belong to the landlord?’
Ruin’s eyes flashed like a comet as he realized this fact.
‘It’s a good source for tribute supply, isn’t it?’
「I only accept premium items.」
‘It was annoying to find tribute for that God bastard, but now I can manage with this.’
「Seed? Are you listening? I said I only accept pretty and good things?」
‘I could even deliberately make students lose useful items.’
「…Are you really a professor?」
Anyway, the important fact learned from this incident was that this house recognizes him as the landlord.
This was huge. The Hero was paying all the house maintenance costs, but he had the landlord’s privileges.
And there were many functions only the landlord could use and facilities only he could open. Well, most of them couldn’t be used because of high maintenance costs, but with this…
‘Good. I’ll use the Hero.’
Haha! How satisfying.
While I’m at it, I’ll have that bastard buy me a few houses with his money.
Real estate business!
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