Academy’s Undercover Professor

you can kill me, why don’t you do it right away? Use your water magic to kill me.
Wasn’t that the title you received for that?”

“Shut up!”

“Or you can’t kill me? What a coward.”

“……Death is too merciful for a man like you.”

“You shouldn’t speak so confidently when your legs are weak and you can’t even stand properly.”

“Hey, it’s just…..”

As soon as she tried to make an excuse, Rudger pressed her forehead with his fingertips.

Casey slumped and the spears of water surrounding the area also disappeared.

“If you want to catch me, I hope you can grow your courage a little more.
The famous detective being afraid of mice discourages me.”

“………Are you in such a position to be this confident? If you were caught, you should think about running away first.”

Casey spoke in a threatening tone, but even that felt like a whining for Rudger.

“Do you think I can’t do it? I can plaster your identity on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper right away!”

“No.
You won’t.”

“Why are you so sure? That kind of bravado…….”

“Because your pride won’t allow it.”

“…….”

Rudger hit the nail on the head and Casey was speechless.

“Wow, don’t make me laugh.
I….”

“If you didn’t really need your pride, you wouldn’t have followed me secretly for three years.”

Casey could have spread the rumor like James Moriarty is alive, and he lives in disguise but she didn’t.

“Because you’re a woman who hates to borrow someone’s hand to handle things.”

The words stabbed into Casey’s heart and she gritted her teeth while stared at Rudger with blazing anger in her eyes.

“Did you know everything?”

“Yes.”

“You knew and you used me?”

“Are you angry that I’ve been using you? It’s funny to argue about that now.
In fact, isn’t it you who knows better than anyone else?”

“…….”

“If you really wanted to catch me, you would have casted a spell right away when you had a chance a while ago.”

But Casey Selmore did not.

Was she not paying attention because she was excited about achieving her goal?

Rudger didn’t think so.

“Casey Selmore, you didn’t chase me purely for the purpose of being a detective.”

What Rudger would say next, was clearly pictured in Casey’s head.

“You chased me with a personal grudge and your feelings were shallow like a child’s.”

Casey couldn’t make any retort while her lips quivered and her gaze was lowered.

“Was I wrong?”

She couldn’t argue with him because everything Rudger said was true.

It was a disgrace that the man she hated the most actually understood her better than anyone else.

She suddenly remembered what she had said to him before.

-Yes.
I thought you might understand me.

However, she criticized Rudger for committing evil, saying that he was wrong when he actually didn’t.

“You know, you know everything…….”

Her thin clenched fist trembled but no more words came out of her mouth.

She was still angry and felt insulted that he used her but she knew that Rudger wasn’t the only one who deceived her.

Casey Selmore deceived herself more than anyone else.

“I’m disappointed.”

“…….”

“At least I thought you would be different, but I guess I was wrong.”

Rudger stared coldly at Casey Selmore.
She looked as if she was about to shed tears as she lowered her head, shaking her fists.

“Then what about the Black Dawn Society…….”

“They’re annoying, so I wanted to take care of them by borrowing your hand, but I didn’t trust you.
It’s commendable that you came this far, but I don’t think you can take care of them properly.”

Casey Selmore reached for Rudger but was quickly subdued.
Rudger restrained her arms with one hand and kept them close to the wall.

He looked down at Casey whose eyes were wet with complex emotions.
However, he didn’t think of giving her any words of sympathy or consolation because he had work to do.

“I don’t intend to fit in with your pretentious play.
Get out of here if you don’t want to be swept away.”

Whether she leaves or not, what’s going to happen won’t change.

Rudger, who let go of her held hands, turned his back.

“Don’t you mind leaving me like this?”

Rudger came to a standstill.

“I know who you are in Theon…….”

“I don’t care.”

It wouldn’t matter anyway since the president knew about him.

“……The president knows about me.”

Casey, who was quick-witted, saw at once that he was involved with the president, that’s why her threats won’t work.

No matter what she says, if the president will come forward and protect Rudger so she would be the only one going to look stupid.

“If you really want to aim for me, prepare a dagger that I can’t avoid.
That way, you can at least engrave a scratch on my skin.”

Rudger’s comments were even arrogant and it was like he was declaring ‘You can never beat me.’

“If you can’t, just play detective games full of justice like before.
Don’t bother me.”

“James Moriarty.
No, Rudger Chelici.
What the hell are you after?”

“…….”

Rudger left without answering Casey’s question.

Although she didn’t ask for an answer, it hurt her pride to be ignored so openly.

“Sigh.”

Left alone, Casey sighed and picked up her magic wand that fell on the floor, then suddenly burst into laughter.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!”

Laughing almost like a madman, she soon relaxed her shoulders and sighed.

“Really.
It’s hard to pretend to be shocked.”

Casey said so and took out a piece of paper that she had put in her sleeve.
The paper, which would have originally been white, was stained blue with Rudger’s magic.

“What? Guess I’m wrong? Am I disappointed?”

After saying that, Casey immediately added her back story.

“… … I’m actually good at it.
However, this was different.”

Her teeth grinded just thinking about the man’s verbal abuse; however she was convinced that his words weren’t wrong.

She was just pretending to be okay because what she heard from him definitely shocked Casey.

“I….”

Casey sighed as she stared at the paper containing Rudger’s magic.

“Sigh.
It’s not like that.
What am I worried about?”

She looked up where the hideout of the Black Dawn Society that she was chasing was since she originally came to attack that place.

‘You don’t have to do that.’

The man said he would step up and she believed he didn’t lie.

She thought he belonged to the Black Dawn Society but he was actually hostile to the Black Dawn Society.

‘He’d better be honest and take care of everything up there.’

Considering the man’s skills, it would be natural for her to pray for the rest of the people above.

Still, she came this far and her pride did not allow her to leave without doing anything.

“Yeah.
Do whatever you want and I’ll take care of things on my own.”

As soon as her words were over a loud sound echoed through the underground sewer.