The Academy’s Undercover Professor – 34



◈ Episode 34 A step toward the truth (3)

Ludger still can’t forget that moment.

Those clear eyes that looked up at him while licking his injured mother.

The innocence in which he smiled and said he was thankful even when magic was used to kill him.

I can’t forget it.

I can never forget it.

“I don’t know! How do I know! Beyond that who the hell are you!”

“I don’t know?”

Ludger threw Bellbot Rickson who was holding him by the collar to the floor.

Bellbott who was old and in poor health fell to the floor and clutched his waist.

“Wow. “What are you?”

“Do you know what this is?”

Ludger took out an experimental drug from his pocket and threw it in front of Bellbot.

A red liquid that looks like melted ruby ​​contained inside a transparent glass tube.

There was no way Bellbott who had given instructions for making this would not have recognized it.

“This this.”

“Do you understand now?”

“What do you want from me? “Are you asking for money?”

Belbot realized that his opponent was taking advantage of his weakness and took a low stance.

Not only was he skilled enough to sneak into his room he even had drugs from an experiment he was involved in although I don’t know how he got it.

Could it be the Nightcrawler Knights of the Security Bureau?

‘Damn it! How on earth does that bug brother get things done!’

What do you think they were thinking when they invested so much money?

Wouldn’t he miss the test subject’s escape and have this unidentified human come to his residence?

But that didn’t mean I could express my dissatisfaction right away.

I don’t know who the man in front of me is but I’m sure he holds the line of life here.

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“Now I won’t hold you responsible for sneaking in. And since you came to see me secretly I guess you have something you want right?”

“What do you want?”

“okay. What do you want? Is it also money? Because I have a lot of money. “I can give you as much as you want.”

However the answer that came back to Ludger was far beyond Bellbott’s expectations.

“answer.”

“What what?”

“Answer the question I just asked.”

“That’s the question you asked.”

Belbot tried his best to think about Ludger’s question.

I was wondering what to do with a 7-year-old child.

Bellbot opened his mouth wondering if anything would happen.

“Were you the one who eliminated the test subject that escaped?”

“….”

“haha! That’s right! It was you! Should I have said this? Huh. I guess the reason they suddenly threw me was because there was a misunderstanding between us. “Thanks to you the situation didn’t escalate too much.”

“For now just answer whatever I ask.”

“Oh okay okay! That must be the 7-year-old child test subject right? What’s the problem with that? “I have already become a monster and it would have been better for me to die before other people found out.”

“….”

“Aren’t they lower class people who don’t even know they exist anyway? No matter how many of those people die what’s the cause for sadness? Rather they made a noble sacrifice by giving their lives and producing great results.”

A noble sacrifice.

Bellbot Rickson truly thought so.

Even if a few workers poor people and other lower class people rolling around in the mud of society die what does that have to do with them?

Low-level things that are of no help to society.

Rather if they as test subjects become the cornerstone of perfecting a drug that brings youth to humans.

Isn’t that the way to go beyond yourself and contribute to humanity?

“Even if a dirty citizen works hard in a factory for a thousand days how much money can he make?”

Rather it is much more productive to use that meaningless life in a more valuable way.

Being a test subject for someone to develop drugs.

That’s what it meant to Bellbot.

“Is the answer sufficient?”

“okay. “Enough is enough.”

“then….”

“It was too much.”

Quack!

Ludger grabbed Bellbott by the neck.

Bellbot’s eyes widened and he grabbed Ludger’s forearm with both hands but his clumsy grip was too strong for his old body to fight back.

“Cruk! “Why why!”

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Bellbot’s eyes were protesting towards Ludger like that.

Ludger did not answer but instead held the bottle containing the drug he had brought in front of Bellbott’s face and poured it into his mouth.

Grumble!

Bellbot desperately tried to resist but even that was impossible because his neck was being held.

Gulp.

A red drug passed down Bellbott’s throat.

At the same time changes began to occur in Bellbot’s body.

“Bwak! Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

With pain as if his body was being torn apart Bellbott’s body slowly began to swell.

Ludger let go of Bellbott’s neck and stepped back to watch the scene.

The skin full of wrinkles became taut due to the ravages of time and soon it split on the left and right and hair grew in abundance.

But his changes did not stop there.

The hair that had grown fell out revealing red-hot bare skin and it began to swell like a bubble.

Bellbot drank all the medicine in one bottle.

In fact considering that the test subjects received only a small amount of the drug they could not handle even that and mutated severely.

The amount that the now-old Belbot drank was already far beyond the standard.

“Aaaah! why! why!!!”

Even as his body was torn twisted and transformed Bellbot had no choice but to shout that out to Ludger.

When his face became strangely distorted and half blended with the appearance of an animal.

What came out of Bellbot’s throat was neither a human cry nor an animal cry but something else.

Krraaaaaaaaaa!!!

“No matter what I say you won’t even understand me let alone repent.”

Then you don’t have to understand.

Instead feel the same pain you caused others.

Ludger lifted the sound blocking spell he had deployed.

Tiriririririn!

At the same time an alarm corresponding to magical power rang throughout the mansion. What followed was the roar of Bellbot who had become a monster.

Wow!

“What do you mean?!”

“It’s an intruder! “I heard it in Bellbott’s quarters!”

“Mr. Bellboat! “Mr. Bellbot!”

thud! thud!

Security came from outside and knocked on the door.

Eventually the locked door broke and sturdy men came rushing inside.

Among them was a freelance wizard hired to guard the bellboat.

“It’s a monster!”

“Where did this monster come from?”

“Everyone get out of the way!”

The wizard immediately used flame magic and burned the monster.

Despite its grotesque appearance the monster caught fire very easily.

The life force was so persistent that the process of burning and regenerating the body and burning it out continued.

The wizard also felt a sense of crisis and poured out all his magic power to create a flame.

When an hour has passed like that.

The monster’s body which could no longer regenerate collapsed.

“Huh. omg. “It’s finally over.”

“What about you Bellbot?”

“Find it!”

No matter how bad of a person he was people were desperate to find Bellboat Rickson because he was an employer who paid them a salary.

But no matter how much I walked around I couldn’t see Bellbot and I couldn’t find any trace of him.

Everyone at the scene ultimately had no choice but to come to that conclusion.

That Bellboat Rickson was eaten by that monster.

A very absurd situation.

At the same time they did not know.

A secret safe hidden in Bellboat’s room.

A safe containing Bellbott’s wealth is hidden in a secret space behind a large portrait.

That it was hijacked by someone.

* * *

“Are you here?”

The hideout that Hans told me about was a shabby house located deep in an alley in the commercial district of Lederbelk.

From worn-out signs and creaking doors to grease-filled exterior walls and windows.

However the only thing that was serious was the exterior. Once inside there was no smell and the interior was very clean.

It looks like an ordinary bar on the outside but that’s just a deception.

“You picked a pretty good place.”

“It’s a commercial area adjacent to the factory area. “It was a bit of a struggle to save it.”

“What’s the location nearby?”

“The confirmation has not been completed yet but it is clear that the ecology of the back alleys of Lederbelk is quite complex. “We need more time.”

“I see.”

Ludger said that and placed the safe he had brought on the floor.

Hans’ eyes widened with a thud.

“What is that? “It must have taken some effort to bring it.”

“not really.”

“So is this a safe? “It looks just like that.”

“okay. “It was secured with magic but it was lifted on the way so you can open it right away.”

Hans did not bother to refuse the offer.

After opening the safe and checking the contents Hans immediately closed the safe.

“…There are too many?”

“Put some of it to work. “Hide the rest in a suitable place for now.”

“Well if that’s the case it doesn’t matter to me. Rather are you going now?”

“okay.”

“You look a little tired. Please take a rest. “I even set aside a separate room for you.”

“I’ll check later. “I think I’ll come back soon anyway.”

“What status will you have when you come?”

“What suits you best when moving around in the back world.”

“Oh you mean that?”

Hans didn’t ask any more questions. Above all Ludger must have been quite tired from today’s fight.

“Take a good rest. “I will try to finish my work as quickly as possible.”

“okay.”

Ludger came out of the hideout with tired steps.

The air in the back alley where no one came and went melted stickily and stuck to my skin like glue.

Every time I walked down a musty-smelling street I could feel eyes searching this way from beyond the darkness of the deeper alley.

Hyenas in the back alleys.

They took a quick look at Ludger then realized that they were not the ones to mess with and retreated.

When he was completely out of the alley Ludger took off the hood over his head and lowered the hood that covered his mouth and nose.

As I was gazing at the Lemzier River where several steamboats were still sailing a large bell rang out from the clock tower that stood tall in the center of Lederbelk.

Dang! Dang! Dang!

It was the sound of midnight.

Ludger continued to stare at the dark Lemzi River.

Until the memory of the look in a child’s eyes flows completely into the river.

* * *

[Death of billionaire Belbot Rickson]

This was the headline that appeared on the front page of the newspaper published in Lederbelk the next day.

The death of Belbot an unscrupulous entrepreneur and one of Lederbelk’s wealthiest men was enough to heat up Lederbelk.

Even more so if his cause of death was due to a werewolf attack.

The monster was exterminated by the wizard who was standing guard inside the mansion but the fact that Bellbott himself died was a very big issue.

Some said that Bellbot had been punished by heaven while others said that he had used evil black magic and was unable to control it causing misfortune.

Reporters spent days clamoring in front of the Rickson mansion to be let inside.

Squeak.

At that time a black car stopped behind the reporters.

“huh?”

The reporters stared at the person who got out of the car with questions.

Who is it?

There were a total of three people who got off and they were all wearing the same clothes.

Black uniform with golden epaulettes.

The reporters’ eyes widened as they recognized the uniform commonly known as the black coat that only authorized personnel could wear.

“Bo Security Department!”

“That’s the Nightcrawler Knights too!”

The Security Bureau is not a particularly secret organization. On the contrary it had an enormous reputation in sunny areas and a terrible notoriety even in shadowy areas.

The reporters swallowed their saliva.

I came to the entrance of the mansion simply to gossip but if the security department came out it would be a different story.

Scoop.

One word kept ringing in the reporters’ heads.

‘It’s not like this. ‘You can’t go inside anyway so you have to write something related to the Security Bureau.’

‘If the Security Bureau steps forward it must mean that it is a serious matter. Even that person in the lead….’

Cool silver hair contrasts perfectly with the black coat with gold and red threads in harmony.

The sharp-faced woman who flipped her hair upwards to reveal her forehead was a very famous person.

Terry or Ryan Howl.

She is the head of the Marquis Ryan Howl who symbolizes the protection of the empire.

He was the leader of the Nightcrawler Knights belonging to the Security Bureau.

Her widely known nickname is Lord Protector.

The lion’s cry which has cut down countless people who pose a threat to the empire has become a symbolic word for her.

Seeing Terina moving towards the mansion with unstoppable steps reporters split off to the left and right to get out of the way.

Possessing sharp charisma she was the idol of all female knights within the empire.

“Open the door.”

When the Security Bureau stepped in even the security guard guarding the entrance couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat.

“Don’t let anyone in….”

“door.”

Terina said pointing at the guard with her fingertip.

“Open.”

“yes yes!”

The security guard who had become contemplative immediately moved.

The front door of Rickson Mansion which had been tightly shut opened wide.