Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 100

You are no saint either…
Port City, Urona, Mid-Night.

Hotel Night Camper, Rooftop.

“What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”

Shin stopped looking at the moon on the horizon and glanced in the direction of the voice, and sure enough, Jareth was standing there, leaning his back against the wall.

“Oh, you are back? It’s been three days since you disappeared all of a sudden…”

Hearing Shin’s words, Jareth was quite surprised in his mind; he had been in a dark underground cave, so he didn’t see the sun rise and set.

Moreover, he was so engrossed in examining the details in the dungeon that he neglected to check his smartphone, leaving him unaware of the passing of time.

“Yeah, I was enjoying the vacation in the mountains… I went there to pass time while hiking…”

“What about you? What’ve you been doing?”

Hearing Jareth’s question, Shin shook his head and said in a calm voice,

“Nothing much; I have just been wandering around in the city… I was hoping to come here with my wife; without her, I don’t feel so happy at all… This trip seems bland to me…”

Shin gazed at the moon and spoke.

“You know… I promised to give her all the happiness I could, and here I am now, making her angry at me… Sigh, I am such a horrible man…”

Hearing those words of self-loathing, Jareth smirked a bit and said,

“hoh, so you are self-aware after all! Good! Knowing your own mistakes is the first step to improvement….”

Blood veins popped up on Shin’s forehead after hearing Jareth’s merciless insults.

“Tch! Can you be a bit serious sometimes, bruh!? I am talking about the real difficulties of my life here!”

Jareth suddenly had the urge to say,

‘Double those difficulties and give them to the next person!’

But he refrained from saying it, as it would undoubtedly enrage Shin.

“I am always serious, though… By the way, how’s the training session going?”

Shin ignored the fact that Jareth was deliberately changing topics and decided to go with the flow.

“Well, I only checked on them today in the evening; they were getting swept away by massive sea waves…”

“Also, there were several earthquakes all of a sudden… All in all, the sea was quite restless today, so the students were really having a lot of difficulties in training…”

Hearing those words, Jareth’s facial expression remained the same, but he felt guilty in his mind.

‘Ugh, those earthquakes and sea waves were likely created by the massive mana bomb bombardments I did in the underground dungeon…’

Shin suddenly narrowed his eyes and said in a quiet voice,

“By the way… let me tell you a secret… Gazid and Yoseh… those two are secretly dating!!”

“They always fight with each other in front of us, but I saw them eating happily with each other in an ice cream café!!”

“I was so shocked that I nearly got caught peeping at them…”

Jareth shook his head and said,

“What’s so surprising about this… Yoseh has been helping Gazid avoid going to jail for his illegal monster experiments; the whole university knows that there’s something going on between them…”

Except for Jareth and Thomas, most of the professors are either married or are dating.

Even Aria has a fiancé, so she isn’t worried about marriage either.

Thomas has dedicated his life to his work, so he likely won’t marry so soon until he finds the right person, and Jareth is totally devoid of social life.

He doesn’t have any friends; he has no connections in high-ranking people’s social circles; and he has no motivation for marriage either.

‘I left my heart with Shiina in the previous world; I don’t think I will be able to marry anyone else now…’

(Keep in mind that he doesn’t know that Shiina has died; he thinks she’s still alive…)

Seeing that Jareth wasn’t interested in the topic of Gazid and Yoseh, Shin started talking about something else.

“I also saw Thomas trying to hold cats in a cat café, but it turns out he’s bad with animals, and they run away from him like plague… It was quite hilarious to watch that sad expression on his face… haha…”

Jareth shook his head and waved his hand towards the ground.

[Basic Magic: Float!]

A wending machine flew up from the ground, and he put a coin in it to get a juice can for himself.

Once he was done, he placed the wending machine back at its original location on the side of the road.

Ever since he has learned magic, he has become quite lazy in these aspects, and nowadays he does everything with magic.

He didn’t want to go down to grab a juice can, so he made the whole wending machine float in the sky.

He glanced at the starry sky and sipped the juice before saying,

“In other words, you have been stalking everyone all this while…. You are putting assassins to shame…”

Shin ignored the whole process of Jareth making the wending machine float and replied in a proud voice,

“Hehe, this is not stalking; this is called keeping a careful eye on your coworkers… I was doing that so that I could help them anytime if they got into trouble!”

Jareth sighed at those words and said,

“Does being away from your wife make you lose brain cells or something? You certainly are behaving more weirdly than usual…”

[Basic Magic: Mana Beam!]

A gigantic magic circle formed in the air and fired a concentrated mana beam at Shin in an instant.

The beam was so quick that it didn’t give the other party a single second to even move before it evaporated his whole body into dust.

*Clap!**Clap!*

“I was expecting that you would take some time to figure it out, but you have really surprised me, Jareth Blaze, or should I call you Jareth Ayad now?”

A dark shadow emerged nearby, and Rahnan’s familiar face appeared in Jareth’s view.

But Jareth wasn’t surprised at all. He sighed and said,

“Why were you trying to imitate that brain-dead guy? Although he is a dumb guy, he won’t stalk others like that… It was such an obvious flaw that even a random person could have seen it…”

Although the real reason Jareth noticed something amiss was due to Mana’s singularity,

He still said that he found out about it due to his way of talking, as he didn’t want to reveal his mana singularity’s power to Rahnan.

Jareth came flying from the sea, and he had already noticed the presence of miasma near the hotel, so he didn’t directly go to his room to sleep but searched for the source of miasma.

And sure enough, Rahnan was standing on the rooftop, disguising himself as Shin.

He had been stalking all of the professors without their knowledge all this time, so what he said was all true.

Jareth narrowed his eyes and sipped the juice before saying,

“What are you planning now? Did you not learn anything after getting defeated once?”

Rahnan smiled creepily at Jareth’s words and said,

“Hehe, don’t underestimate me… I have already dug out a lot of information about you and all of your teammates…”

“Thomas, Shin, Gazid, Yoseh, other professors, and all the students—I have been looking into their backgrounds and strengths one by one…”

Rahnan walked over to Jareth’s side without any worries on his face and said, with a smile,

“Out of all of them, only you seem to be the strongest, so I came here to check if you really have what it takes to challenge me… and sure enough, you really are extraordinary…”

“You must have been the main reason why my previous plan failed, right?”

Rahnan is not a fool; he obviously has his own plans, He won’t just sit back and watch Jareth and others walk away unscathed after failing his plan.

He has already begun to gather information about Jareth and others, ensuring that his next attacks will more effectively counter Jareth and the others.

The only reason Rahnan’s previous plan failed was because Jareth unexpectedly turned things upside down, and Rahnan lacked the necessary countermeasures due to a lack of information.

But now things are different.

Rahnan stretched out his hand towards Jareth and said,

“I saw you going in the mountains and didn’t try to track you down on purpose; after all, you are good at mana detection; you could sense it if I got too close…”

“So, in your absence, I just went ahead and took a look at all of your teammates. It won’t be long before I kill you and everyone related to you, Jareth…”

“I will make you regret interfering with my plans…”

Jareth was totally unamused by that empty threat.

“Are you trying to threaten me with the lives of Shin and the others?…”

Jareth waved his hand and said,

“Don’t bother; I don’t even care about their lives and deaths; it’s useless to make me sway with that empty threat… Try something else, perhaps…”

Rahnan went silent for a moment after hearing those words.

Originally, he was going to make a plan to hurt everyone around Jareth to make him weak, but now he has decided to discard this plan.

Rahnan’s eyes narrowed as he observed Jareth’s casual expression.

‘This guy… he’s a ruthless and cold-blooded murderer; his nonchalant behavior means that he won’t care one bit about the lives and deaths of his compatriots…’

‘I will need to change my plant a bit, I guess…’

Rahnan glanced into Jareth’s eyes and said,

“You know what? I can sense how tainted someone’s soul is… And believe me, you have one of the most tainted souls that I have ever seen… You are the same as me, Jareth; you are a cold-blooded murderer…”

“How about you join my side? We can actually work together. After all, we are of the same kind from the heart… you are no saint either, so stop pretending to be one, Jareth Ayad…”

After saying that, Rahnan’s shadow disappeared into nothingness once again, and the rooftop went silent in an instant, leaving Jareth alone standing behind.

‘The night sky was always meant to be dark… You were the one who mistook me for a saint, not me…’