Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 163

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 163

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 163

The End of a Certain World (3)

The Realm of Swordless Underwater.

Though his hands were empty, the sound of cutting that rang out the moment he swung was unmistakably that of a sword.

Having swung the sword of his mind, Seungwoo stared blankly at his opponent, unable to calm his trembling body.

‘Did it… did it cut? I don’t have the confidence to swing it one more time.’

The Mind Sword is the ultimate realm that swordsmen dream of, and at the same time, the strongest trump card and tactical weapon a martial artist can wield.

It is that difficult to master.

And it requires an absurd amount of magic and mental power to handle.

Look at his current state.

All that magic power has drained away, making his emaciated body look even more gaunt. Now, all that remained for Seungwoo were his dwindling life force and the Yang and Gang energy gathered in his heart.

‘I hope this is the end.’

Thud, he collapsed forward.

His body wouldn’t move as he wished.

It had been trembling since earlier, and it seemed like he was having severe convulsions.

Unable to lift his head after falling forward, Seungwoo relied on for his vision.

‘By the way, where are the siblings?’

provides a bird’s-eye view from the sky.

It would be easy to see what he wanted in an open space, but in a street where all the buildings were destroyed like this, it was not easy to capture what he wanted.

‘If this were a normal situation, I would have quickly found them by linking it with 「Yoma Eyes」.’

Due to the impact of using all the magic power in his body with that one strike, his purple eyes regained their original red light.

The reason he was still maintaining was that, because it was an ability with a time limit, he could use it for a while even if all his magic power disappeared.

“Teacher!!”

“W-What did you just do to make that guy drop his head like that?!”

“That’s not important right now. Did you suffer any internal injuries?!”

Noisy voices.

He didn’t even have the strength to lift his head, so he had no way of identifying their faces, but it wasn’t difficult to know who they were.

What kind of teacher wouldn’t know his own students?

“Hey, this is serious! I thought it was just dehydration or magic depletion at best, but this is almost a death throes.”

“……I can’t recover from this with my skills.”

“Is it that bad? You can handle some injuries with your healing abilities, right?”

“……Not only internal injuries, but even external injuries that are easy to treat are beyond my ability to handle. ……It seems like it’s impossible without the school nurse.”

The students who had rushed over examined Seungwoo’s body.

While they were examining his body, Seungwoo thought.

‘When did they get here so fast? There was definitely quite a distance between them. Did they learn 「Blink」 magic like I inscribed on my shoes?’

After thinking about it carefully.

He came to the conclusion that his sense of time was distorted.

His senses were so twisted that he thought the students had suddenly appeared near him. There was no other way to explain it.

“Hurry up and save him! Right, potion. Where’s the potion?!”

“We left it on the ground because we were running in a hurry. It’ll probably be broken by now.”

“How can you be so sure! Just wait a moment, I’ll go get it quickly.”

“Isabel! If you go, how will Semina hold onto that monster?!”

“T-That’s……”

Whether the students were shocked by the sight of their dying teacher, some of them couldn’t make proper judgments.

In the first place, what kind of judgment could you expect from a freshman who had just entered the academy?

“S-Still, shouldn’t we give him first aid so that it’ll be easier to get treatment after returning to the original world? I’ll be right back. Please take care of that guy!”

“……Guys.”

So, he moved his lips, using all the strength he had to speak.

Wow, it’s really hard to say even a single word.

“Teacher!”

“I’m glad to see that you’re not dead yet, Teacher. I almost thought something terrible had happened.”

“……Are you okay?”

“……I’m not dead yet.”

Only ‘yet’ though.

There was no reason to create a funeral atmosphere already.

“Teacher, why don’t you press [Accept] and leave? If you leave it like this, something really bad might happen.”

“I also agree with Izzy’s opinion. We have to take responsibility for our choices, but you only came along as a supervisor. We can somehow handle the fighting.”

“Yes, Teacher. You should take a rest.”

“…….”

Words that made him feel that they were worried about Seungwoo.

Considering the rumors of the human named ‘Baek Seungwoo’ that were widely spread in the world, he was momentarily moved by the reaction that could never have come out.

He had to say what he had to say.

“……It’s not me who should run away, it’s you guys who should go first.”

“Yes?”

“Teacher, don’t be stubborn. You’re really going to die if you do that.”

Die?

Die, me?

Certainly, his body, which had become terminally ill and felt like it was gradually wearing down, was infinitely close to death, but Seungwoo was the man furthest from death in the world.

Even though he stood on the front lines because he wanted to die.

He, who had become a symbol of victory without dying, was devising a way to live somehow. So, it shouldn’t be me who they were worried about.

“……Worry about yourselves.”

“!!!”

He hadn’t become so pathetic that he would hear such nagging from students who hadn’t even experienced war yet. So, at the moment he was about to add the words to run away quickly.

─Kugugugugung!

The ground vibrated.

However, this was neither the sound of Jormungandr resisting, nor was it a harbinger of another landslide.

Just.

Crack!

It was the sound generated by Jormungandr, who had devoured its own flesh, striding across the earth, leaving behind something black.

“Wh, what is that?”

“It suddenly turned white?”

“Hey, hey! Stop it quickly. Isabel, stop it quickly!!”

“I can’t. It’s moving too fast, so I don’t have time to restrain it!”

─Kugugugugung!

As it moved forward, wagging its huge tail here and there, the ground was naturally cultivated and small-scale earthquakes occurred one after another.

Its majesty was so unbelievable that it was a living thing.

The students were momentarily confused.

“……Molting and metamorphosis, huh.”

“Teacher, do you know what that did?”

“Can you lift me up for a moment? I can’t move my body from this position with my strength.”

“Just a moment.”

“Uh, I asked you to lift me up, not to carry me on your back…!”

“It’s more comfortable this way. Stay still.”

Suddenly, both hands came under his armpits.

Before he could be surprised by the sudden foreign sensation, Baek Seungwoo, who had no strength to resist, was carried on Isis’s back as it was.

There was no time to feel ashamed.

The student carrying the teacher on her back adjusted her posture and said.

“Teacher, you need to eat a lot. You’re too light, way too light.”

“……It’s not that I’m light, it’s that your strength is superhuman.”

“No, it’s lighter than what I used to use as a logging ax to get through the cold winter when I was young.”

“……Really?”

“Yeah.”

I’m lighter than an ax.

That’s a bit shocking?

Seungwoo admitted that he had been negligent in his self-care, as he was in a state of malnutrition, if not equivalent to it.

He should have taken care of his health a little instead of being absorbed in books.

But it wouldn’t have changed anything.

“So, do you know anything about that guy?”

“……Do you know what molting means?”

“Is it being reborn into a new body?”

“Yes, you know it well. The significance of molting is shedding the skin, but for magical creatures above a certain rank, molting is the same as metamorphosis.”

“Metamorphosis?”

“It means something like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.”

He was different from before.

The black body turned pure white, and the body size decreased by the amount of the cut tail.

But the presence it emits is still that of the 3rd tier [a measure of magical power].

Then it is safe to assume that it is a different entity than before.

Although the species is the same, its behavior patterns and movements are clearly different from before.

“Anything else?”

“Perhaps the speed has increased thanks to the body being reduced by more than half, but the body will be soft because it shed its skin. If you can hit it, you can catch it even with your level.”

“Really?”

Yes, if you can hit it.

Jormungandr’s greatest weapon was mass, but it gave up half of its mass. But the destructive power of such a guy is the same as before.

The speed has increased as much as the mass has decreased.

“Who among you can move as fast as lightning, or create a trap that it can’t help but fall into?”

“It’s me, Isabel, and Sung Yeonhwa.”

“Three people, huh. Then it would be better to turn the rest into support personnel.”

“Why? No matter how fast it is, if the shell is weakened right after molting, wouldn’t any attack work?”

“……Haha.”

Any attack will work now?

That’s right, but.

“Haha, do you have the ability to hit it?”

“Teacher, don’t underestimate us too much. Everyone has been trying to keep up with your classes, gradually reducing their sleep every night.”

“……There are mountains of things in the world that can’t be done with effort alone. Look at that.”

The students except for Isis, who was carrying me on her back.

They were wielding weapons and casting magic to subdue Jormungandr, who was running around, but none of them touched its body.

In particular, Sung Yeonhwa’s expression was a sight to behold when she easily avoided her sword, which boasted the speed of lightning.

She looked incredulous.

“How is it, an absurd acceleration, right?”

“It accelerates to the left to avoid it while it’s sprinting forward?”

“That’s why I said it’s hard with effort alone.”

“……Then what are the other characteristics besides that?”

Other characteristics.

Actually, I don’t know much about the characteristics other than this.

Immediately after it molted, it died by my teacher’s sword, so there was no time to check.

However, as a result of collecting various information by going through the imagery left by various people, combining them into one, and comparing them one by one.

“It’s a 3rd tier magical creature, but its main body is about the 10th tier?”

“Uh, uh…?”

“And do you remember the twin siblings we saw earlier? The monster’s core is split in half inside those two siblings’ bodies.”

“Ho, are you… are you kidding me?”

“Kidding?”

Why would I say that?

There was no reason to joke in this urgent situation.

It seems like they misunderstood that I was joking because I omitted all the explanations and talked about the conclusion right away.

“You know that each dungeon has a central boss monster or core, right? That monster is such an entity.”

“Then what does it mean that the main body and the core are split?”

“That’s an irregular situation. It’s a monster that can’t come out in a place like this, and shouldn’t come out.”

In the first place, why is a sea serpent in a place like this?

This is not an environment where it can live.

No matter how transcendent a 3rd tier magical creature it is, this land was not suitable for its survival. So, 「Jormungandr」 has a separate main body that allows it to live.

‘That was the puppy monster I saw on the roof before.’

To think that he would make his pet dog the main body of the monster.

When I saw it before, it was wagging its tail wildly while looking at its owner.

It must have been after he made the puppy the main body. It liked its owner so much that it wagged its tail even after being used by the owner.

‘……What a load of crap.’

A situation where humans are more trash than monsters.

Moreover, the owner went even further.

“Th, then what does the siblings mean again?”

“That’s literally what it means.”

“Literally…? No way, right? Then those children are……”

“……Well. I want to think it’s not, but.”

What can I do if that’s the truth?

‘There are cases where NPCs become the core of a dungeon, but I knew that there were no such artificial cases.’

In this case, there is only one cause.

The red-haired demon and the man in the robe next to him.

Simon, the demon cult worshiper.

It must be their work.

“If you kill the children, you can get rid of that monster too. That’s because those children are the core of it.”