Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 38

Potion making event! Part-1.
Principal office, Meeting Room.

“So, what I am trying to say is, to lure the culprits who have been pulling the strings from behind, we should organize an event in the university itself…” (Thomas)

Just when Thomas was trying to put his thoughts forward, Shin suddenly intercepted and said in a doubtful tone while staring at the empty chair of the principal.

“Where did that old man go all of a sudden?” (Shin)

Hearing Shin’s rude tone, Thomas frowned a bit and said in a calm voice:

“Please refrain from making rude remarks, we are in a meeting right now…” (Thomas)

Shin wasn’t intimidated by those words in the least, he clicked his tongue and said:

“If that old man isn’t here, then is it even worth the trouble thinking about organizing an event, we will need his permission in the end anyway…” (Shin)

“You don’t need to worry about that, I will personally go and submit a report to him about this, It is very likely that he will agree if we all work on this project…” (Thomas)

Jareth who was quietly sipping the tea while watching all the drama unfold had different thoughts than the two of them.

‘In the first place, aren’t we just working here as employees? Why are we working so hard in the first place… the employer is absent, we can just slack off and lay flat at this point…’ (Jareth)

‘We can enjoy free salary while doing the basic minimum of the work… like why work more than you are paid for?’ (Jareth)

As Jareth used to work for a shady company in his previous life, he has quite a lot of experience in the corporate world’s inner workings.

Most employers think that the employees should work their best while making the minimum wage.

They want to reduce the employment cost as much as possible, thus they try to put pressure on the employees to work harder with various shady tactics.

But the experienced employees all know these ways all too well, thus they do the bare minimum of the work and never show off their skills.

Those who show off too much, generally end up getting the most amount of work while still being paid the same as others.

As they say: ‘Those who stand out the most, gets oppressed the first…’ (Source: Trust me, bro…)

Jareth glanced slightly at the other professors who were just sitting silently like him and were pretending to be mysterious and a thought came to his mind:

‘It seems they also have the same wisdom as me… no matter the world, money rules above all…’ (Jareth)

Jareth had no qualms against people worshipping money as the supreme truth.

They say that you can never buy happiness with money.

‘If you have money, you may be sad, but you will be sad while driving a supercar at least…’ (Jareth)

Just when Jareth was pretending to be mysterious and was busy thinking about how to ask the principal about increasing his salary, Shin suddenly pointed his finger at him and said:

“Hey! What do you say Jareth? I will agree to hold this event if I get to compete with you!” (Shin)

As his happy thoughts about bathing in money were interrupted by Shin’s unpleasant voice, Jareth frowned and glared at Shin.

“You? Compete with me? Go look in the mirror again…” (Jareth)

“D*mn you! You have the nerve to underestimate me?” (Shin)

“Underestimate? When did I say was even estimating your patheticness?” (Jareth)

Veins appeared on Shin’s forehead as his face reddened in anger.

“Let’s go fight right now! I will beat the sh*t out of you today!” (Shin)

“Hmph, says the guy who was done in by a mere one-eyed overgrown pest…” (Jareth)

“Ugh… you!” (Shin)

Shin became even more frustrated when Jareth mentioned him being defeated by the Cyclops just the other day.

Just when things were about to escalate, the principal finally appeared.

He directly teleported in his chair.

“Ahem! Calm down everyone, It was my mistake that I got late for the meeting…” (Nathan)

“No worries, Principal…” (Thomas)

Shin and Jareth also went silent after the principal appeared out of nowhere.

Jareth’s face remained cold but he was quite surprised in his mind.

‘hmm, I don’t think the principal showed that he had teleportation magic in the game… did the game developers give him hidden abilities that were never mentioned in the storyline?’ (Jareth)

Although Jareth was a bit surprised, he didn’t think too much about it.

The world of the game has now become real and many hidden details that were not in the game have appeared, so Jareth already expected unforeseen events to happen.

Unaware of Jareth’s thoughts, the principal glanced at all the professors and said:

“I got late because I accidentally noticed a familiar evil mana fluctuation earlier, and went to investigate it, but it seems the other party has disappeared without leaving any traces again…” (Nathan)

“I suspect that this evil cult ‘Flase Dome’ has some kind of high-grade artifact that can conceal presence… or can help the user retreat via some kind of spatial technique…” (Nathan)

“Which means pinpointing their exact location is a near impossible task…” (Nathan)

Hearing Nathan’s solemn voice, all of the professors nodded their heads in understanding and thought about various countermeasures in their minds.

“So, for now, keep your guards up everyone…” (Nathan)

When the principal finished talking, Thomas decided to put forward the previous conversation.

“Actually, about that, we want to hold an event that will help us lure the enemies, after all, we can’t just sit and wait for them to attack us, that’s just too passive…” (Thomas)

“Hmm, that’s actually quite a good idea… but what event are you going to organize?” (Nathan)

“I don’t have a solid idea right now, that’s why I was asking the others for advice-” (Thomas)

Just when Thomas was worried that the principal would flat out reject his opinion for not having a solid idea, the professor in charge of the ‘Potion Crafting’ class interrupted the conversation.

“Actually, I have a good idea! We can hold a live potion crafting competition!” (???)

The principal narrowed his eyes and asked the female professor for further details.

“How will that help us lure the enemies, Ms. Aria Wainwright?” (Nathan)

An excited look appeared on Aria’s face as she finally got the chance to put forward her own thoughts in this meeting.

“We will invite the parents of the students and some famous people as guests for the event, with that a lot of media will be concentrated over to the live-event…” (Aria)

“The enemy will think that the attention of all the professors and the civilians has been shifted over to the live event as it’s quite stressful to conduct it properly…” (Aria)

“This will seem like a perfect opportunity to them-” (Aria)

“Bullsh*t! Do you really think that those crafty demon cultists will get distracted by this so easily? Do you take them as idiots?” (Shin)

“W-well uh…” (Aria)

Aria’s confidence disappeared like a deflated balloon after Shin criticized her idea and she fell silent instantly.

But before Aria could get depressed, the principal interjected:

“Actually, it’s not that bad an idea, we don’t have any other ways right now, so it’s better to bet at this idea instead of just sitting here and wasting our time…” (Nathan)

The brightness in Aria’s eyes returned as the principal took her side on this matter.

“The principal will need to sit at the venue of the tournament himself so that the enemy can confirm the principal being away from the university…” (Thomas)

“Yeah, we can take ‘guarding the guests’ as an excuse and station nearly all of the professors at the venue of the event…” (Nathan)

“As for whom to appoint the duty of guarding the university…” (Nathan)

All the professors stared at Shin and Jareth instantly as if they all had planned about it from the start.

“A-actually, I am still recovering from the previous fight, I-I will pass…” (Shin)

“Well if Professor Shin can’t do it, then we Ms. Aria, you will do it…” (Nathan)

Aria pointed her index finger at her own face and said in a bewildered tone:

“Me?” (Aria)

“Yes, you…” (Nathan)

Before Aria could even process the whole thing, Nathan directly teleported away and disappeared, leaving only a few words behind.

“I will leave the preparation to prof. Thomas…, the meeting is dismissed…” (Nathan)

All of the professors, including Shin happily left while gloating at Aria’s misfortune.

“Hehe, you were the one who suggested the plan in the first place, you brought it upon yourself…” (Shin)

“W-what!?” (Aria)

Aria was so bewildered by the situation that she only came back to her senses when nearly everyone had left.

Just when Jareth was about to leave too, she looked at him with pitiful eyes and said:

“I-I… uh, I am a wood magician and I don’t have any major attack spells, how will I guard the university!?” (Aria)

‘Ah, yes, this character…. She’s useless…’ (Jareth)

Jareth has interacted with this character in the game, aside from the potion recipes that she sells in the games, she is pretty much useless.

‘Well, she can make good potions I guess, but when it comes to combat she gets intimidated quite easily…’ (Jareth)

Jareth glanced at her snot and tears-covered face a frown appeared on his face.

“You just need to stand guard until the enemy shows up, once they show up, others will come over as reinforcement… and your job will be done…” (Jareth)

‘I don’t have any idea why the principal decided to give this risky job to someone like her, who can’t even kill a chicken… does he have some personal beef with her?’ (Jareth)

Jareth shook his head and left while ignoring the panicked woman.

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Author’s Notes.

Yo! It’s your beloved author here!

It seems that no woman’s tears can sway him anymore as he left his heart in Shiina’s care long ago and now he can never love anyone else again…

Question of the day.

Would you agree to take this dangerous job of guarding against a demon cult?

1. Yes (High risk, high rewards!)

2. No (I don’t wanna get fed to the demon’s statue…)

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