Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 375

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 375

Let’s Go Back (5)

I hoisted him over my shoulder. Oh, right.

“What’s your name?”

I hadn’t even asked his name.

Whether he’s a hostage or an informant, I need to know his name to ask him anything.

“……”

“Hey. Aren’t you going to answer?”

So I asked his name, but there was no reply.

“What’s your name?”

“……”

“Do you perhaps not have a name?”

I’d understand if he couldn’t speak because he didn’t have a name.

He’s not some legendary assassin raised as an assassin his whole life, and he doesn’t have the strength to resist being kidnapped while living as a researcher, so there’s no way he wouldn’t have a name.

“Hey.”

─Contractor.

“Why are you calling me all of a sudden? I’m busy asking his name right now.”

─He already fainted right after that.

“……Ah.”

No wonder he wasn’t talking.

“Why did he faint?”

─Probably because he’s exhausted. Physically and mentally. If you were kidnapped by this person and that person all day long, do you think you could stay sane?

“Why wouldn’t I be able to?”

I did it once seven years ago.

Back then, I was a prosecutor making a name for myself when I was kidnapped by a group of demons.

But it seemed like the demon group was divided into factions, and I was kidnapped here and there, making a mess of things. After a long nine days, I slaughtered all the demons in sight and escaped.

“Even if you get kidnapped, you can just kill them all and be done with it.”

─Sorry. I shouldn’t have asked.

Tamamo turned her head at my words.

She shook her head, thinking.

She usually seems like a sensible person, but when I hear these kinds of stories, I don’t know what kind of monster this guy is.

─He fainted, so what are you going to do? Are you going to force him to wake up?

“That’s not a great method. If the situation is urgent, or if he fainted over something trivial, I might, but if he fainted from exhaustion, there’s not much to gain even if I force him to wake up.”

─Then what are you going to do?

“What else? I’ll have to wait until night.”

With those words, Tamamo stared at me intently.

Her fox-like eyes questioned me with a look that subtly implied, ‘Really, you?’ So, I looked back at her.

“What.”

Am I such a devil that I wouldn’t wait for someone who fainted?

* * *

I finished all the work I had to do as the Tower Master in the morning.

In the early morning, when everyone was asleep or focused on their research, Seungwoo took the tightly bound guy to the basement of the Magic Tower.

“……”

“You’re awake.”

“……”

“If you’re awake, then speak.”

“Speak. Do I have to beat you to make you wake up?”

“I, I’m awake……!”

On the way to the elevator I saw before.

Seungwoo carefully moved his feet so as not to be seen by the other researchers.

Luna carried the researcher tied with rope on her back, but she didn’t seem tired at all. Unlike her small frame, she had considerable stamina.

─That’s not it, though.

‘Are you trying to say that the guy on my back is too light?’

─Yeah. With that height and weight, he looks underweight no matter how you look at it.

‘Well, does it matter if the hostage is underweight or obese?’

It’s better to focus on the fact that Luna is easily carrying a person right now.

“Wow! I can carry a person this easily. Did I get stronger from moving heavy documents while working as an assistant for over two weeks?”

Luna tapped her arm, saying it was worth the hard work.

She looked like she was showing off her biceps, but to Seungwoo and Tamamo, it only looked like a twig-like arm.

─……Hey.

“What?”

─Didn’t you overwork her too much as an assistant?

“I guess so. I didn’t know she was thinking that much.”

Luna was so absorbed in her strength that she raised her left hand, which was holding the rope, and was very happy.

Tamamo stared at Seungwoo as she watched the scene.

Perhaps he felt a little guilty, Seungwoo asked the man tied to the rope.

“We’re going to the basement soon. Where do we have to go from here to go deeper?”

“……You can just take it from here.”

“There is?”

“……Yes.”

He’s tied up like a silkworm in a rope, but he’s being curt.

Seungwoo glared at him once because he felt bad, and he quickly changed his tone.

Originally, the captured guy should be a little more docile.

─You said you killed everyone when you were kidnapped, not being docile.

“Hey. Are you comparing me to that guy?”

Strength, mind, and wisdom.

I am on a different level from the researcher who is helplessly tied up with ropes with all of those things. Our levels are incomparable.

Even the simple manipulation of magic that Seungwoo, who is not using magic due to his injuries, can easily beat him.

─Oh, right. Magic. I forgot about that. Let’s talk in mental speech for a second.

‘Why all of a sudden?’

We were just talking out loud, so why is that?

Tamamo asked seriously.

─How is the circuit recovery going?

‘Circuit recovery? How did you know that? I was doing it unconsciously, without even thinking about it in my head, just in case.’

─I taught you sorcery, so would I not know that?

‘Well, if it’s you, you’d be able to see the truth of the contents I packaged as a thesis.’

Before sitting in the position of Tower Master.

So, from the time I was in the good-looking position of chief researcher, Seungwoo searched for a way to restore his body to its original state. It was difficult to treat carelessly because anything could happen every day in the world where Luna and the allied forces, the Four Horsemen, and the Calamities existed.

‘Unlike the scenery of a city where many people are starving to death, the Magic Tower is very rich in resources. Enough to sit still and do research for a few days.’

Thanks to that, I succeeded in making some progress.

I was able to recover to a state close to, if not completely, perfect.

“Hey, how do I get to the lowest floor from here? Is there another way?”

Seungwoo, who had returned to the road to the basement, asked.

The researcher answered the question diligently.

“Ah, so. Press the panel below there, and press it as I say.”

Following the researcher’s instructions, the elevator’s destination was changed.

Not the first basement floor, but the lowest floor.

He told me everything so easily because he wanted to live so badly.

Thump!

When I got on the elevator, it went down faster than before.

Thanks to the glass walls, I can see all the scenery of the basement.

“There were facilities like this.”

At first glance, the basement facilities were modern.

A scene that doesn’t match the medieval atmosphere of the city at all. I had been aware of this since I got on the elevator to the basement, but the facilities in front of me are the latest models even in modern times.

There were so many devices that you couldn’t even get on the market.

“Is there a possibility that there are other players who have entered this world besides us?”

No, there is no such possibility.

I put it in my mouth just in case, but I know better than anyone else that this is not the case. This place is like a remote area located farthest from the system.

‘The portal to the Inner World doesn’t open to such a distant place.’

Since I was injected with knowledge about space from Nam Hwa-yeon, I have gained some insight into space-time. Thanks to that, I easily found out this fact.

In the case of this world, the system does not reach it at all, like the world where the Calamities existed, but it is difficult for the system to exert influence because it is on the precarious position beyond the palm of the hand.

The students who came here are special.

In general, there is no one who can reach this world.

That is my conclusion.

“Then the conclusion is that all these facilities are the result of their own development in this world.”

But isn’t it too much that only the basement has developed?

“No matter how unfair the development of technology is, this is too biased to one side.”

The city is medieval. The Magic Tower is staying in modern technology.

Even the Magic Tower has a clear division in the degree of technological development between the ground and the underground. The basement boasts the development of modern technology, but it boasts expensive facilities that only a small number of research groups can possess even in modern times.

“No matter how I think about it, it’s strange.”

It is difficult to explain this imbalance without something intervening.

But it’s clear that no outsiders have intervened.

“……System?”

Is it perhaps the result of the system’s intervention?

Seungwoo thought with his arms crossed.

If that bastard intervened, there was a good chance. Even if it is a world within the system’s domain, if it is not easy to touch, it would have been possible to interfere like when he contacted the demons under the pseudonym Simon.

But the possibility was not that high.

If that guy had intervened, the Magic Tower’s festering wound would have been much bigger than I realized. But I couldn’t rule it out either.

If there is no definite information, an open mind is a more useful tool than anything else. Seungwoo thought so and stepped forward.

Ding!

The elevator finally arrived at the end.

The lowest floor, 66th floor.

It was a vicious number that was the opposite of the 77th floor above ground.

I was carefully considering whether this number had any meaning.

“…….”

The flexible thoughts and all sorts of speculations in my head flew away at once.

In an instant, my head became as white as a blank sheet of paper.

The sight before my eyes was that shocking.

The facilities on the lowest floor were simpler than I thought. Rather, the facilities on the first basement floor were more miserable and cruel. All that was here were a few mechanical facilities that could be seen on the first basement floor and a glass tube large enough for one person to enter.

That was all.

“That’s a person, right? And a pretty woman, too.”

Luna said.

She stared intently at the white-haired woman who was asleep with her eyes closed in a glass tube filled with a special liquid. Even if the same woman saw it, she could sense the fact that she was beautiful from afar.

It was a beauty that could make your heart flutter.

Ah, of course, she was heterosexual.

‘I’m like this.’

What about him?

Luna turned her head and looked at Seungwoo.

Even though Seungwoo was like a stone, she had a strong feeling that he would not be able to come to his senses the moment he saw that woman. And that thought was right.

Seungwoo couldn’t come to his senses from the moment he saw the woman in the glass tube.

It was like… It was as if he had heard the news of the death of a close friend in a completely unexpected place.

“Huh?”

News of death?

Even if I think about it, that’s a bit strange.

In Luna’s eyes, Seungwoo was not falling in love at first sight, but making a sad expression. It was the first time she had seen Seungwoo’s expression.

“…….”

Step, step.

Seungwoo stepped forward without a word.

He instinctively reached out towards the glass tube.

Thud.

His hand was blocked by thick glass.

Nevertheless, Seungwoo’s hand reached out to the person floating in the glass tube.

─……This is wrong.

“T, the inside of the glass tube can’t be touched, right? But why?”

“…….”

─He won’t hear you. Right now, this guy is completely lost in his own world.

“His own world?”

─That’s because.

It’s been a while since he’s seen his friend’s face.

It’s understandable.

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

─Anyway, there’s something like that. In this situation, the only way to awaken his mind is to inflict an attack that would be life-threatening. Can you do it?

“How can I make this person feel life-threatening!”

He’s a monster who crumpled even the White Knight like that, and captured as many as three Calamities who have far surpassed human comprehension. Even if Luna does her best, it is clear that she will be attacked by the magic that she reflexively wields.

─Then what. We’ll have to wait until he comes to his senses.

“How long will that take?”

─It’ll take a while, won’t it?

She’s his only friend.

Seungwoo, who didn’t care whether the two were talking or not, stroked the glass tube.

As if he couldn’t understand the current situation at all. He stared at the woman beyond the glass tube with a blank look. Her face, body shape, and even minor details were perfectly similar to her.

So much so that you would think they were the same person at first glance.

“……Eve.”

She looked just like her.

“Why on earth.”

I don’t know anything in detail, but I could be sure of one thing.

The woman in this glass tube is not her. However.

“Is your trace here?”

It was clear that it was Eve’s trace.