Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 294

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 294

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 294

Leader (4)

Baek Seok-ho vanished, just like that.

Only the traces of blood splattered everywhere from the explosion of his giant arm, a gruesome reminder of his death, remained.

“Seriously, what a pointless kill.”

I went through all that trouble to kill him, but got nothing out of it.

When you kill a monster, you can get a lot of magic stones and byproducts, but Baek Seok-ho was just ridiculously difficult to catch.

“And if you were going to die leaving nothing behind, you could have at least died cleanly. What am I supposed to do with all the mess you left around?”

The blood splattered from the explosion of the giant arm spread widely, covering the walls of buildings and the park. Cleaning all that up will cost a fortune.

Of course, since Baek Seok-ho was the one who caused the incident,

The Nine Tails Guild will be responsible for the compensation.

Moreover, he killed a lot of people and completely devastated the area.

The Nine Tails Guild will also compensate for this.

‘The family will probably deny everything and remain consistent with ignorance.’

Even if Baek Seok-ho was one of the family’s elders, he was just an elder.

If his actions have absolutely no connection to the Cheonho Baekga [Thousand Fox Baek Family, a prominent clan], they will evade responsibility. And that’s not wrong.

‘I didn’t even imagine that Baek Seok-ho would become a demon.’

No one expected him to become a demon.

But if you add the seasoning of incitement and fabrication, it will become a very delicious dish.

‘Let’s go rest for now.’

I needed a rest right away.

* * *

After the battle.

I headed to the main family home instead of my own house.

The main family home was also technically my house, but…

Well, there was no place as uncomfortable as this.

Moreover, the people here seem to be uncomfortable with me as well.

“Hey, the Lord is passing by.”

“Shouldn’t we go and greet him?”

“In principle, yes, but the elders are the real power holders in the family right now. I’m worried that if I greet him, I might get on the wrong side of the elders.”

The servants were too busy trying to read the atmosphere due to the family’s power struggles.

“Didn’t you guys see the news? The elders must be in a panic right now.”

“Why?”

“Look it up after work. It seems like something big happened to the elders as a group, so in the future, servants like us might have to pledge absolute loyalty to the Lord.”

The servants were anxious because they knew what was happening outside.

I left them behind and headed to my room.

The highest place in the mansion.

I entered the Lord’s room, which only the current Lord can enter, and immediately sat down in a chair and turned on the TV. As soon as I turned on the news, the events that had happened from this morning to afternoon were being reported.

The number of confirmed deaths was written at the bottom of the news.

I watched the gradually increasing numbers and took out a bottle of alcohol and a cup from the cabinet next to the chair.

“The stage is being set up really nicely.”

It’s a pity that many people died, but if I use this as an opportunity to purge most of the elders, return their money to me, and seize power, I can save more people.

About 48,000 people.

I don’t know how many more deaths there will be, but I couldn’t stop their deaths with my own power.

The victims were caused by my weakness.

At least, in order for their deaths not to be in vain, it is best to concentrate all the power within the family as a result of this incident.

“May the deceased rest in peace. I hope… they can find peace in the afterlife.”

Sip.

I drank alcohol from the cabinet and prayed for the souls of the victims.

Is it because it’s expensive whiskey? I felt a hot sensation in my body.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get drunk.

My body has perfect immunity to poison.

Drunkenness is also a type of poison.

Therefore, my body’s immune system will never allow me to get drunk.

I only enjoyed the scent of the whiskey and the subtle heat rising in my chest.

“I wish I could get drunk at times like this.”

I had a perfect body that was not swayed by drunkenness before.

Now, I have a body that boasts perfect immunity to poison, so I have never been drunk. However, I know very well how people change when they get drunk.

Due to the nature of the military, discipline is inevitably strict, but.

The battlefield is a different story.

If you don’t relieve stress in some way, you don’t know what kind of accident will happen. So, the front-line troops were careful about drunkenness, but they still enjoyed drinking and getting drunk as a pleasure.

When you get drunk.

For that moment, you can forget everything.

The body of a dying person, the exploding abdomen, the empty seat of a colleague, the feeling of death strangling the neck every moment, etc.

They were able to forget everything that was driving them crazy and just laugh everything off.

Of course, sometimes there were guys who cried and complained.

But the end was always laughter.

Alcohol makes people brave lions, but in the end, it turns them into staggering dogs. This is a big disadvantage of alcohol, but the soldiers who see the sight also enjoy that appearance as a form of entertainment.

“I want to get drunk too.”

Then and now.

I didn’t understand their emotions.

At the time, I was a minor and couldn’t drink alcohol, and even after I turned twenty, my body’s detoxification ability was so great that it started detoxifying as soon as alcohol entered my system.

To me, alcohol is just a kind of tea.

A tea with a good scent and a unique smoothness.

Even now, I was essentially drinking tea with a woody scent and praying for the souls of the people. The fact that I accompany the memorial of the victims with alcohol is just imitating people who are trying to forget the pain with alcohol.

This is all I can do for them.

Sending them off with alcohol.

Oh, of course, I’m also giving condolence money to the bereaved families.

I put in a considerable amount.

However, the condolence money is for their surviving families, and it is not actually for them.

As the elders usually do in these situations.

I chugged whiskey.

Gulp, gulp.

I drank whiskey straight from the bottle.

The whiskey had a pretty high alcohol content, so it felt like a fire inside.

My esophagus burned hot, but this was just a ticklish level of stimulation.

Just a few hours ago, I endured lightning with my body.

Thanks to that, the threshold for heat has greatly increased.

It was a sensation that even heavy drinkers would find too hot and painful, but I didn’t care and took out a new bottle of whiskey and chugged it straight from the bottle.

“The scent is good.”

I don’t get drunk, but the scent is good, so it goes down well.

It was natural because it was expensive alcohol.

There is no non-luxury alcohol among the alcohol stored in the main family home.

I drank exactly 6 bottles of whiskey that others would have a hard time drinking even once in their lifetime, and just as I was about to open the 7th bottle.

Grab!

Someone put their hand on my shoulder.

“Lord. You’ll damage your liver if you keep doing that.”

Baek Eun-ho, my hidden shadow in the main family.

“It can only be damaged if there are toxins that can damage it. By the time it reaches the liver, it’s already been detoxified.”

“Is that so?”

“Let’s talk about my detoxification ability and immune system. In the first place, I can’t defile my body with just anything, so there’s nothing more to talk about.”

“…Then let’s get to the main point.”

Baek Eun-ho took out a fluttering piece of paper from his pocket.

He handed a few pieces of paper to me.

I held the bottle of whiskey in my right hand and lifted the paper with my left hand.

The paper was filled with as many sentences as possible in small letters. Without any easy-to-see visual materials like pictures, the paper was densely packed with small letters on the front and back.

If the font size was increased and auxiliary visual materials were added, the number of pages would increase unnecessarily, making it cumbersome to store, so this method was chosen to convey information as efficiently as possible.

“It’s natural that related articles are coming out, but everyone seems to be getting the information right. It hasn’t even been 24 hours yet.”

“The reliable information is written on the 3rd paper, the information that has no physical evidence but only circumstantial evidence is written on the 4th paper, and the information that has only circumstantial evidence is written on the 5th paper.”

“Remove the 5th paper. Speculation without even circumstantial evidence will only obscure my subjectivity and intuition.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Gulp, gulp, I drank alcohol to warm my insides and scanned the information, and I was able to get a rough idea of the situation.

“Two groups moved. The government and the association.”

“The government made an official announcement less than 24 hours after the incident, and the association criticized the Nine Tails Guild.”

“Well, it doesn’t make sense for a mere newspaper and broadcasting company to obtain such detailed information in just one day. If the government’s official announcement follows, then this level of accurate information is understandable.”

The paper contained all of the government’s announcements, word for word.

The six principles, cause and effect, and the exact details of the incident.

They announced everything they had found out.

The purpose was obvious.

“The government is planning to revive the guild.”

“…It seems like that’s the case.”

“They are releasing accurate information in advance to focus attention on the government, and they are preparing to stir up public opinion depending on the information they release in the future.”

This incident spread widely.

People mourned the dead and expressed anger at the ruined city. At the end of that anger, of course, were the Cheonho Baekga and the Nine Tails Guild.

They criticized and cursed the family and the guild.

However, people still did not understand the details of the incident.

Until the government releases highly truthful information.

The newspaper and broadcasting companies eagerly took the information, which was as detailed as if they had watched it from the side, and the anger of the people who understood the circumstances and context began to burn towards a clearer target.

The spark was bigger than expected.

It couldn’t be helped. So many people died that it was natural for the spark to burn brightly.

However, the government used its head here.

The Cheonho Baekga and the Nine Tails Guild.

Both groups are representative groups of Korea and can be described as lifelines. The amount of money the two groups earn in a year is astronomical.

So what happens if something unpleasant happens in those two groups?

Of course, you have to cover it up.

People’s attention is focused on the government at the right time.

People wanted more information from the government, and the government could reduce the objectivity of the information and increase the subjectivity according to their tastes.

“This is too greedy.”

Someone came into the stage I set up with muddy feet.

Unpleasantness was rising.

Should I overturn this? Or not?

While I was contemplating.

“…Ha, where did they take this?”

When I looked at the back of the last paper, there was a photo attached for the first time.

Baek Seok-ho floating on a large amount of blood.

His explicit corpse was there.

The source of the photo was a newspaper article.

The title of the article was a pun that I had drowned the leader of a group to death.

‘…Oh. If you only look at this photo, it looks like he was drowned in blood.’

Seriously, there’s a really crazy guy here.

Leader (首長) is Water Burial (水葬).

What kind of crazy bastard wrote this?

“I like it more than I thought?”

This news title. Rather, it’s a bit crazy, so I like it.