The Genius Professor Wants An Easy Life - Chapter 6

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Chapter 6
“Apologize to him at once for your rudeness.”
“That is… I…”
“Come now! Hurry!”
Hans displayed excessive loyalty, shooting me furtive glances.
The look of ‘Please praise me,’ and my head began to ache.
“This… this…!!”
Kael glared at me as though he wanted to cut me down.
“I will never forget what happened today. Just you wait and see, brother.”
With a chilling warning, he spun on his heel and vanished, leaving me with an awkward expression.
‘He’s cute, I’ll admit that. But if we keep running into each other, it’ll be exhausting. I should just avoid him from now on.’
I cleared my throat.
“We’re wasting time standing here. I’ll head up.”
It was time to deal with the Spirit Lord.
* * *
The Duke’s House possessed over three hundred years of history.
The Family Mausoleum was equally vast and magnificent.
-Maxim Ecclesia
I stared at the coffin placed at the center of the mausoleum.
Beneath it lay the sealed Spirit Lord.
A sudden doubt crept in.
‘Can I really do this?’
I knew the strategy.
The problem was the difficulty.
‘In the game, you need at least three main characters of the mage class to clear it. And even then, not until third year.’
Naturally, all sixteen main characters are geniuses.
I have to accomplish alone what three geniuses could do together.
‘I’ve come this far—I can’t back down now. But I need some kind of insurance, in case things go wrong.’
It’s not as though I’ve succeeded at everything on the first try.
The important thing is having a contingency plan for when things don’t go according to design.
As I was mulling this over, an unexpected voice rang out.
“Brother, I demand you apologize for what you said to me earlier.”
It was Kael.
Still upset from before, he’d followed me here!
He was drawing mana up aggressively, as though trying to intimidate me.
It was threatening, but at that moment a brilliant idea came to me.
‘If I use Kael, this might just work.’
I glanced at the Sealing Formation.
It was riddled with cracks.
After hundreds of years, the Sealing Formation had grown desperately weak.
Like a cracked dam, even a small impact could shatter it.
In the game, too, careless mistakes cause the Sealing Formation to fail.
‘Instead of touching the Sealing Formation myself, I’ll provoke Kael into breaking it. When things go wrong, I’ll pin the blame on him.’
In other words, if I succeed in capturing the Spirit Lord, the credit is mine. If I fail, Kael bears the responsibility.
Call it ruthless if you like.
But that’s how people survive in an earthling’s world.
“I told you to apologize,” he demanded.
As Kael’s killing intent grew fiercer, the Sealing Formation began to crack faintly.
Not enough yet.
“Fine. I apologize.”
“You do?”
“Yes. Calling someone incompetent when they’re already insecure about their abilities—I should have been more considerate. From now on, I’ll make sure to say only pleasant things, taking your inferiority complex into account.”
Well.
Even I found the words contemptible as I spoke them.
‘If I were my old self, I could never have said something so nasty. The Black Flame Dragon’s Charisma… maybe it’s actually useful?’
Sure enough, the effect was flawless.
Kael let out a furious roar.
“Brother!!!”
His aura surged far more violently than before.
Still not quite enough.
I’m sorry, but bear with me a moment longer.
“If you won’t accept even gentle words, I truly don’t know what you want from me. Kael, you are lacking—that much is undeniable, isn’t it?”
“Ugh!!”
“What a shame. The fact that you won’t acknowledge your own shortcomings tells me you’ll never improve. But I suppose when your vessel is only that wide, there’s nothing to be done.”
“I told you to shut your mouth!!”
Kael was about to hurl himself at me.
Rumble!!!!
The Family Mausoleum trembled.
The Sealing Formation had shattered!
‘Perfect!!’
I raised my voice.
“You reckless fool! Your arrogance has toppled the Sealing Formation binding the Spirit Lord!”
“What, what do you mean?”
Kael’s face drained of color.
He understood his mistake at last.
“I, I have to summon Father at once!!”
“The Family Mausoleum—what, you think our ancestors’ resting place deserves to crumble?”
“But, but I don’t have the power to face the Spirit Lord….”
“You’re always prattling about responsibility. Yet when responsibility truly calls, you turn into a coward.”
‘You’re not going anywhere. We fight together!!’
Two would certainly be better than one.
I’d been dismissive of him, but a second-year student at Star Rank 3 was still a remarkable achievement.
Right on cue, the message appeared as I’d anticipated.
<Gambler’s Judgment activates before combat!>
-If Kael is used as a shield: Probability of defeating the Spirit Lord: 90.3%
The odds had soared to well over ninety percent!
“But, I truly cannot—”
“I’ll do it.”
“…Pardon?”
“I will be the one to destroy the Spirit Lord. You simply follow my lead.”
With a 90.3% victory rate now in hand, I spoke with absolute confidence.
“What nonsense are you spouting? You haven’t even reached Star Rank 1, have you?!”
Then came a sound that made the blood run cold.
-KYIAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
A wail that pierced the very soul.
The Spirit Lord was breaking free.
‘…Is it really 90.3%?’
My pea-sized coward’s heart trembled violently.
“…Trust me.”
My voice sounded faintly unsteady, but I pretended not to notice.
Kael clenched his teeth.
“Damn it, blast it! Fine, I understand! But you must flee!!”
“Hmm?”
“It’s my responsibility that thing broke loose, so I’ll do whatever I can to hold it back! You staying here won’t help—get Father as fast as you can!!!”
I shook my head.
“Didn’t I tell you to trust me? You just keep that thing at bay for three minutes… no, five minutes.”
My strategy would grow more powerful the longer I had to prepare.
The longer Kael held out, the better my chances.
Though five minutes from Kael was probably impossible.
“Don’t worry. I can do this. I will guide you through this.”
“!!”
Had my Black Flame Dragon’s Charisma just taken effect?
Kael’s pupils trembled faintly.
The corners of my mouth curled upward.
“As your brother, I will show you my greatness. You will come to revere me.”
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Lunatic.
That was Kael’s true name for him in his heart.
Everything that Ban had done up to now was so despicable that even “trash” would be too kind a word.
‘Why was such a thing born into our family. And why, of all people, as my brother.’
Mana Insensitivity couldn’t serve as an excuse.
Half of it was simply garbage.
‘That damned bastard will never change.’
Yet when he returned home from the Academy after a long absence, strange rumors awaited him.
Ban had changed.
Into someone even more insane.
‘He’s developed delusions of grandeur?’
The violent outbursts had quieted, or so they said, but viewed another way, this was far more troubling.
There was no telling what catastrophe he might cause.
And that fear proved well-founded.
-You’ve worked so hard, and only reached Three-Star Rank? Should you ever need my instruction, I would be honored to teach you.
What absolute nonsense.
And not ordinary delusion either!
‘Damn it—how did I make such a mistake?’
Kar knew the Sealing Formation binding the Spirit Lord had weakened over the long centuries.
His rage at his brother had caused him to slip up in ways that should have been impossible.
‘Five minutes. I have to hold out at least five minutes.’
He wasn’t taking Ban’s boasting at face value.
If matters reached that point, his father would surely arrive in time.
-KIAAAAAAHHHHH!!
At last, the Spirit Lord revealed itself.
‘Can I do this?’
Kar’s hands and feet turned ice-cold.
The Spirit Lord hadn’t yet fully recovered its power.
It wouldn’t reach even a tenth of its former glory, but that was still far beyond what an Academy student like Kar could face.
‘If I were truly a genius…’
Kar clenched his fists tight.
-You fall short—that’s simply fact, isn’t it?
Bitter as it was, Ban wasn’t wrong.
Three-Star Rank in his second year was indeed a remarkable achievement.
But that was by the standards of ordinary students.
The true prodigies.
They made him look shabby.
The inferiority surged back up, and he ground his teeth.
“I am here; do not worry.”
More of Ban’s insane prattle.
“Shut up!!”
Whoosh!!
Holy Blast.
A Materialization-class Attribute spell at Three-Star Rank.
The most powerful exorcism he could currently muster.
Yet the Spirit Lord barely flinched, taking no real damage at all.
-GOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!
He’d only stirred its temper.
“Striking with Materialization-class magic won’t work—you’re just wasting time. Its Astral Body isn’t complete yet; you must target that weakness. First, deploy the Soul Binding spell.”
A One-Star Rank Control-class spell.
‘How could such a basic spell possibly work?’
“What are you doing? Now!”
There was such force in Ban’s voice that Kar found himself obeying without thinking.
Whoosh!
Soul Binding unfurled.
A foundational Control-class spell meant to ensnare minor spirits.
It shouldn’t stand a chance against the Spirit Lord.
“From there, perform a Sigma conversion on the mana from the five-directional star point, then twist it toward the three-directional plane.”
“!!”
The instruction made no sense.
‘Hell! I don’t know!!’
He shut his eyes tight and followed anyway—and something impossible happened.
Blazeeeee!!
The star laden with mana trembled, and the binding attribute surged to its maximum.
‘This… this is comparable to a 4-Star Rank suppression spell?’
Of course, it wasn’t exactly the same as a true 4-Star Rank spell.
It fell short in every aspect—stability, precision, everything—yet the binding effect alone had magnified to a perfect crystalline moment.
“Why are you standing there dazed? Keep layering Soul Binding and deploy it continuously. After that, move into the 2-Star Rank manipulation spell, Holy Exorcism…”
Kal followed the instructions as if entranced.
—Roooaaaarrrr!!!!
The Spirit Lord shrieked and thrashed violently.
It was actually working.
‘This… this can’t be real.’
Kal turned to look at Ban in disbelief.
Ban stood perfectly composed, arms crossed, her expression utterly serene—as if all of this were merely routine.
‘Not delusion. Not madness.’
But there was no time to dwell on it.
Crash!!
“Grraahhh!!”
The binding magic shattered.
As time wore on, the Spirit Lord’s strength had begun to surge back.
“There’s no way around it now. Two minutes left—hold on however you can with shield magic.”
“!!”
It was absurd.
How could anyone possibly last two minutes against such a creature?
But.
“You can do it. I’ll help you.”
‘Damn it!!’
Kal swore under his breath and obeyed Ban’s words.
He couldn’t understand himself.
But what made even less sense was this:
“Use Astral Body attacks. Move your mana through Reverse Conversion.”
“Concentrate mana at the star points to reinforce the shield’s fractures.”
“Next…”
Theories that bore no resemblance to anything taught at the Academy.
If the professors had heard it, they would have thrown stones, declaring he didn’t understand the first thing about magical theory.
‘But it’s working.’
Kal’s shield—barely 3-Star Rank—was holding back the Spirit Lord’s onslaught.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Ten seconds, twenty, thirty, one minute—time crept forward.
Then.
Five minutes had passed, as promised.
But his father had not arrived.
Exhausted beyond measure, Kal couldn’t move a single finger.
Despair was welling up when—
Ban stepped forward in front of him.
“Well done. My turn now.”

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