Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 196

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 196

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 196

Fieldwork (1)

Ding-dong!

The bell rang while I was processing the children I brought from the market and doing paperwork. The place I am in now is a detached house outside the Academy.

There was no longer any reason to live in the dormitory.

However, I felt a little bad about the advantages of living in the dormitory.

‘Always close to students and professors, and not far from the training grounds.’

It’s an advantage, if you can call it that.

Frankly, now it wasn’t a clear benefit compared to the disadvantages.

The distance issue wasn’t a big deal because the detached house I bought was near the Seven Stars Academy. Now that I can control my magic power and output, I didn’t necessarily have to go to the training grounds every day.

All advantages that weren’t very important.

On the other hand, living inside the Academy, where there was plenty of room to snoop on what I was doing, had a high proportion of disadvantages.

“If I bought something like this, there would have been guys who would report to the elders about what I got.”

I opened the door and brought the parcel placed on the floor inside.

Several extremely large parcel boxes.

There were parcels as big as people, and parcels bigger than people.

There were easily dozens of such parcels piled up. It made me realize how many requests I had made.

[You have acquired ‘Chastity embedded whip (A+)’.]

[You have acquired ‘Killing Stone Dust (S+)’.]

[You have acquired ‘Stone Killing Bow (S+)’.]

……

[You have equipped ‘Arachne’s Magic Equipment’.]

[As a set effect, the power and efficiency of all mysteries built into the equipment are upgraded by one level!]

[Additionally, the defense power of ‘Arachne’s Magic Equipment’ is increased by the engraved magic.]

The clothes I requested for repair also arrived.

The appearance of the clothes did not change.

Instead, the overall defense power increased, and an automatic repair function was added.

And.

「Fox’s Smoking Pipe」

Grade: S+

Description: This is a work created by Gu Yaja, a heavy smoker and tobacco lover. Originally, tobacco is harmful to the body, but in order to overcome such prejudice, a rebound ability against debuffs is installed. It is full of ideas and know-how from Gu Yaja, a tobacco lover.

*Rebound effect

If you fall into a debuff state, including poison, it causes the opposite effect.

*Flavor

Adds flavor to the taste of tobacco smoked with this pipe. It is the best by-product of all the experiences of a heavy smoker.

Let’s test it right away.

Snap, snap!

I flicked my fingers.

Then, a spark flashed in the air and a small bundle of grass caught fire.

I grabbed the smoking pipe with a little smoke coming out.

Sss.

I inhaled the air.

The bitter smell of grass and the intense poison within it entered my lungs.

The dried poisonous herbs and the Hool Veron’s poisonous herbs I got from the market were mixed in an appropriate ratio to create unbelievably poisonous tobacco.

“…I can’t smoke this in front of others.”

If you smoke it in front of others, nine out of ten people will die.

Unless you have tremendous resistance to poison or a detoxification ability at the ranker level, you are likely to die instantly.

I changed my mind.

Rather, I could smoke it tactically when fighting enemies.

‘Not bad?’

I just need to handle the smell well in front of the students.

The young children kidnapped from the market were also fine.

They were already entrusted to an orphanage where I had decided to donate a large sum.

It was pocket change for me, but when he saw the amount, the head of the orphanage prostrated himself and bowed to me. It was an orphanage left by his parents, so he was barely maintaining it.

He said he wanted to sell it because of financial difficulties.

He was a man who met my preferences.

A person who is moderately greedy and moderately moral.

This is the best person to coax and manage.

[You have inhaled smoke mixed with Hool Veron’s poisonous herbs and Red Lotus Grass in a 2:8 ratio.]

[You have been poisoned by a deadly poison! Due to the reaction to the debuff by 「Fox’s Smoking Pipe」, concentration is temporarily greatly increased.]

[Remaining time: 09 minutes 42 seconds.]

I was checking the director’s identity when I noticed a message that suddenly appeared on the side of my retina. The unexpected effect of the smoking pipe.

Thanks to the concentration-enhancing effect, the information manipulation and processing of the children proceeded smoothly.

Now they are not orphans of unknown origin brought from the slave market.

They are orphans, but they have grown up in a closed orphanage.

There is no need to be in the shadows anymore.

They will grow up healthy under the warm light of the sun.

Except for one person.

“Come here, little one.”

“…I’m not a little one.”

“Then what should I call you?”

I wasn’t the only one in this house.

Several presences existed.

A girl who resembled my disciple was one of the presences.

“Okay, Erzebet.”

What was in the girl’s eyes was deep despair.

A level sufficient to ruin her personality.

She would not be able to escape this despair in the usual way.

But I know how the girl can escape despair.

“Won’t you take revenge with me?”

The target of revenge.

Anyone is fine.

“Your parents who abandoned you? The merchant who led you to the slave market? The government that left children like you to come out? Anything is fine, anyone is fine.”

Some people babble.

Revenge is empty.

It is what morons say who equate the cool feeling of having their chest pierced with the feeling of emptiness, and cannot distinguish the difference between the two feelings.

“I’ll give you strength.”

“…Really?”

“Of course.”

I’ll teach you how to fight.

I will show you the way to escape the weak.

Instead.

“Serve me. Become my henchman, my proxy, my sword, and realize my will. Then I will give you teachings worthy of my status and the violence to realize my will.”

If you want to, take revenge.

Let the world know how unfair your life was.

‘Actually, the choice has already been made.’

I’m definitely not forcing it.

If the girl wanted a normal life, I could just put her in an orphanage like the other children. It was true that her talent was a waste.

However, forcing her to walk a path she did not want could cause unnecessary backlash.

I respect choices.

However, I know when I look at her eyes.

Those eyes are not those of someone who is contemplating.

[You have equipped ‘Butcher’s Dagger’.]

I gave Erzebet a dagger.

A dagger with irregular iron teeth embedded in the blade like a saw blade or gear.

As the name suggests, it was a dagger suitable for butchery.

Creak! Creak─! Creak──!!

The sound of bones grinding.

The sound of blood vessels, muscles, and organs being torn was buried in the sound of bones being cut.

This is the only way to inflict flesh wounds and break bones without causing any harm to oneself.

Cut the meat and break the bones.

The target of that pain was the merchant who had locked Erzebet in a cage.

The slave trader, with a gag in his mouth, couldn’t even scream properly.

You can see the body being cut at a glance.

In front of the merchant who is experiencing terrible pain.

Thump!

The dagger fell to the floor.

Immediately after, the flower-like girl raised her fist.

Soon, the fist was stained with blood along with the sound of tearing flesh.

The girl chose revenge.

I grabbed her soaked hand.

The surprised girl tried to pull her hand away, but her skinny, weak muscles could not even shake off my strength.

“Now, let’s go together.”

“……Okay.”

From the beginning, there was no intention to shake it off.

She chose me.

She craved revenge and power.

I don’t know who the target is.

Until she tells me, I had no intention of asking her directly. Because I wasn’t that clueless.

I didn’t care whether Erzebet’s target of revenge was her parents or the government.

Unless she was harassing innocent people, I had no intention of interfering.

I just hoped that this disciple wouldn’t get too hurt.

* * *

Two days have passed since Erzebet committed her first murder.

During the weekdays, Baek Eunho was taking her in at his mansion.

I would have liked her to be taken care of at the orphanage during the weekdays, but the director said that there was a subtle atmosphere with the children brought from the slave market.

‘Maybe it’s because she’s a child I took in.’

The love given at the orphanage may not be enough.

But it’s not lacking either.

However, the more you receive love, the more full you become.

The children were jealous. So, I entrusted her to Baek Eunho for the time being.

In my case, the attention of those around me is too focused.

No one in Baek Eunho’s family cares about him at all.

Thanks to that, even if a child was added to the mansion, no one felt anything strange.

As a side note, Baek Eunho told Erzebet to call him Uncle Baekyul, and he seemed to like the name I gave him quite a bit.

The two, who seemed to have gotten closer to some extent, came to the promised place together. Mugung and Chaehwa also arrived.

We gathered right in front of the dungeon and first distributed supplies.

For reference, I sent the documents related to the dungeon last night.

Then, the higher-ups, who had work to do, were very happy to die. Of course, that’s sarcasm.

I heard that if you start working so hastily, it takes a very long time to fix it. But so what.

I am the nominal head of the family and chairman.

How can they protest against me?

‘With this opportunity, the department in charge of managing the guild’s operations, assets, and schedules realized that they couldn’t do anything to me.’

The nine elders of the family.

The nine tails of the guild.

Excluding one overlapping person, only a total of 17 people can ignore me.

This means that there are 17 political enemies that I must eliminate.

My two sisters are relatives.

I can just crush them on my own.

The problem is the guys who don’t share blood.

Ah, I don’t share blood with my sisters either.

Wow, the family tree is complicated.

As I scratched my head with the thought that it was annoying.

Feeling uneasy at the sight, Erzebet quietly approached and hugged my ankle. It seems she is afraid of her first dungeon.

It’s going to be difficult if you’re already like this.

There is still a long way to go.

“Don’t worry.”

I hugged Erzebet warmly.

Tears and snot were on my clothes, but I didn’t care.

More than anything else, it was necessary to soothe Erzebet’s fear, so I just hugged her in my arms without thinking and stroked her head.

Swish, swish.

Like a mother stroking the stomach of her sick child.

I stroked her head endlessly.

“You will never die. You will never go back to that 거지 같은 [Geoji gateun – Korean slang for ‘beggarly’ or ‘shitty’] life.”

A timid girl.

A child with many scars.

I intended to pass on the 「Vampire’s Successor」 to this child.

This power is not necessary for me.

So, I plan to pass it on to someone who needs it.

That person is Erzebet.

If I pass this on, the things she fears will gradually decrease. Those who have power do not easily succumb to fear.

I hugged Erzebet and gave her a little bit of magic power.

[The target is a 「Descendant of the Vampire」. If you pass on more magic power than this, there is a high probability that you will be robbed of your skills and heritage.]

“Speak properly.”

System, be reasonable.

It’s not being robbed.

“I am passing it on. Be careful with your words.”

Being taken away is different from being passed on.

I have no intention of entrusting all the burdens to this child.

The quest, 「Vampire’s Successor」, does not have a set number of people. Anyone who has acquired two or more vampire legacies could participate.

Unless you know how much heritage there is.

It is not easy to predict how fierce the battle for succession will be.

It could be easy or difficult.

However, the fruit that can be obtained at the end will surely be sweet.

I want that fruit.