Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 380

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 380

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 380

I Didn’t Want to See It Here (5)

The city of hundreds of thousands of people had no name.

This vast territory had no name either. It wasn’t so strange that an orphan who survived by eating garbage in the alleys also had no name.

That’s how he lived day by day.

One day, he participated in an event that distributed bread for free to the beggars who lived in the city’s alleys.

“Since bread is given out one per person, please write your name here.”

One per person. Write.

It was too difficult of a phrase for an orphan who had never learned to read.

They were words that could be easily refined, but the people who were handing out bread as volunteers didn’t do that.

The boy didn’t know much because he hadn’t learned, but he seemed to know why the volunteers used such difficult words.

‘Because they want to show off.’

Their clothes were clean. They were rich enough to have property left over even after giving one piece of bread to all the beggars in the alley.

The volunteers gave bread to people in order to show off themselves, to prove that they were better people by giving charity to the beggars, and for psychological superiority.

Impure motives. It was such an obvious intention that even a boy who hadn’t learned could tell, but no one delved into that fact.

‘They’re giving out bread, so what.’

Does pride fill your stomach?

Do other people do anything special for you?

Just take the bread and leave it.

The boy received the bread.

“Little friend. Did you write your name? What’s your name?”

“Simon.”

It was the name of a bed he saw on a flyer that had just fallen on the street.

He gave himself that name.

Just to eat a piece of bread.

The nameless boy created a name.

* * *

“…It reminds me of the old days.”

It was a memory from about ten years ago.

Simon chuckled as he looked back on how foolishly he had lived in the past. There was an edge to his laughter.

“I lived starving so much back then.”

“…”

“Do you know how it feels to be hungry?”

“…”

“It’s really a terrible feeling. Huh? You don’t know? Well, it’s natural that you wouldn’t know. You’ve never been out of that solution until now. You’ve never eaten food, so how would you know the feeling of emptiness and fullness?”

“…”

“Ah, don’t be angry. I’m sorry. I was wrong.”

“…”

Simon spoke to the glass tube.

Beyond the thick glass tube was a woman floating naked in the solution, looking like she had just been born. The woman was curled up in the solution like a grub and was comfortably closing her eyes.

She wasn’t even in a state to answer.

Even if she could answer, it was nearly impossible for sound to travel beyond this thick glass tube.

“Anyway, both of our lives are so unfortunate.”

“…”

“Why unfortunate? I felt sorry for you, trapped in the glass, every time I came here, but I ended up wearing a leash around my neck too.”

“…”

But Simon talked to the other side of the glass tube.

Only he would know whether it was just a monologue or a real conversation.

“Those people were incredibly cruel. Maybe both you and I won’t make it past today.”

“…”

“Huh? You don’t think they seem like bad people?”

“…”

“Do you have any basis? Did you foresee the future with your ability?”

“…”

“…A feeling? Not something like future prediction?”

“…”

“Well, it’s not that I don’t trust your words. Other people’s feelings are one thing, but your senses, which are close to extrasensory perception, are much more accurate than the city’s weather forecast.”

Your senses are enough of a basis.

Simon nodded, talking to himself and answering himself.

Then, suddenly, his head turned upwards.

“You said you felt a familiar feeling from that man, right?”

A streak of electricity flashed in Simon’s eyes as he stared at the ceiling.

Electricity so clear that it was visible in his eyes. Simon adjusted the voltage and spread the electricity widely like a spider web. The widely spread electricity became a net and occupied the entire 66th floor and reached the 65th floor.

Pazzzzzzzzzzz!

Simon’s hair stood on end.

Simon, who expanded his domain in an instant with a small spark, muttered.

“Such a cruel person?”

“…”

“I just checked. Most of the people up there are dead. Many died last time when a few young kids infiltrated the basement, but they didn’t suffer such devastating damage.”

“…”

“People who deserved to die? Because they nonchalantly used other people as test subjects. It wouldn’t be strange if they themselves died as meaninglessly as their test subjects someday. Honestly, that’s true.”

They are colleagues in the same industry, but seeing them put people into experiments with blank expressions sometimes scares me.

I even wonder if those cold-blooded people are the same humans as me.

But still. Those people had their own justice and beliefs. The happiness of the many with the sacrifice of the few. They were people armed with ideologies that pursued extreme efficiency, like researchers.

But.

“At least they weren’t people who deserved to die like that.”

If those people were to die, that day would surely be the day their ideals became reality and they truly achieved the happiness of the many.

“…”

“My thoughts on their end?”

“…”

“Well, I’ve never thought about it, but it wouldn’t be a good ending at least.”

Because those people are.

“The people who tormented you.”

“…”

“In this world that’s already hard to live in, the people who made it even harder for you.”

“…”

“Thinking about it like this, I’m not in a position to talk about others. If it were me, I would have killed those people miserably too.”

They were the people who tormented Eve.

Simon understood the researchers’ ideals. For the sake of the city, for the sake of more people, only the minimum number of people need to be sacrificed.

The woman in the glass tube, Eve, was also included in that minimum.

No, from the start, I don’t even know if it’s right to call her a person.

Because she was the result of hundreds of years of research by the researchers. Everyone had no qualms about using her as a test subject.

Simon stroked the glass and made a gloomy expression.

It was at that moment.

‘It’s okay now. Everything’s okay.’

“…Eve?”

‘You don’t have to be tied to me anymore.’

“…What do you mean?!”

‘Do as you please.’

“What is that… !”

‘Since he’s here, he’ll somehow solve it.’

A voice that shouldn’t be heard reached Simon’s ears.

“Eveeeeeee!!!”

Simon immediately called her in a hurried voice.

Crack, crack, crack.

The surface of the glass tube began to crack.

It was impossible. It was a glass tube with technology that compressed hundreds of years of know-how. Even if this city were to be destroyed, even if the 1st class monsters or higher beings that are passed down in the city’s destruction myth were to step on it, the glass would not break.

Not even a scratch would appear.

This glass tube was a conceptual object created based on such an idea, so it could never be destroyed by physical force.

“There is only one case where the glass tube breaks.”

That is only when the glass tube has fulfilled its role.

“…!”

Simon knew Eve well.

He prided himself on knowing the glass tube well because it was one of the elements that made her up. Simon, recognizing the grasp of the situation, emitted electricity from his fingertips. Blue lightning flickered.

Pazzzzzzzzzzz!

The net of blue lightning covered the glass tube.

If the lightning was so clear that it could be seen with the naked eye, the current would be considerable. Nevertheless, the current did not cause any impact on the glass tube. The glass tube was still protecting the inside from physical impact.

“The elements that make up the tube are not wrong yet.”

I can somehow turn it back now.

Simon, who believed so, spread the net wider and denser at that moment.

Clang.

A piece of glass that made up the glass tube fell off.

“…Huh?”

Simon picked up the glass shard with a blank expression.

Sharp and transparent shards. It was a very small shard, but the fact that this glass shard popped out meant.

“…Ah.”

It meant that it would soon burst because it could not withstand the pressure of the internal solution.

Simon gave up on running away.

He immediately protected his neck and crouched down.

‘It’s going to explode!’

The pressure inside the glass tube is beyond imagination.

It was a pressure that surpassed even the bottom of the deep sea. Moreover, that solution was a very special solution, so it would explode the moment it was exposed to the air.

Crack, crack, crack, crack!

The sound of the glass completely splitting.

The sound that followed was.

Kwagagagagagagang!!!

A huge explosion that echoed through the lowest floor.

Simon, who protected his neck, received an impact that felt like his ears would burst.

Whether there was a lot of solution inside, the explosion did not end in a single burst but caused a chain reaction in succession. It was like a hand grenade.

The difference was that what spread in all directions was not metal but glass, and that the explosion far exceeded that of a hand grenade. That was about it.

I’m going to die.

Simon, who had resigned himself, closed his eyes tightly.

“The explosion is happening so loudly.”

Thud!

Something fell to the floor.

Did a huge piece of glass fall?

With that thought in mind, he gently opened his eyes and saw a man reaching out his hand. The man who kidnapped him. The new researcher who introduced himself as the current Magic Tower Master.

“…Su?”

He was suppressing the explosion.

“How on earth…?”

I confirmed that you were on the 65th floor.

How can you be here?

When Simon asked in surprise, Seungwoo silently pointed upwards.

Following his finger, Simon raised his head, and there was a huge hole in that place.

The Magic Tower always builds its walls and floors sturdily because it conducts dangerous experiments. In particular, the basement, which is more difficult to repair than the ground, is built much more strongly. And now.

“The floor is뚫렸어 [뚫렸어 is Korean for ‘pierced through’]…뚫렸어 in the shape of footprints.”

That hard floor collapsed so easily.

Seungwoo, not caring whether Simon was surprised or not, felt the sensation of the surrounding electricity sticking to him. Seungwoo lightly shook off the unnatural movement of the electricity with his magic power.

But the end of this current was connected to Simon.

Thinking about it, it seems like this guy’s ability.

“Is it an ability to emit electricity?”

When I think about it, that snake eyes, Adam, seemed to have a similar ability.

“…!”

Flustered!

Simon trembled his shoulders and looked up.

The ceiling was뚫렸어 [pierced through] with footprints.

He used Jingak to뚫렸어 [pierce through] the hole.

“Let me go down with you too.”

Whoosh!

Luna followed down through the hole.

Simon looked through the hole with the current.

No other biological signals are felt. It seems that he killed the previous Magic Tower Master. He must have obtained all the necessary information through interrogation.

“Su. Are you okay?”

“Why all of a sudden.”

“Because you have a piece of glass stuck in your face.”

“Oh? It’s really stuck.”

“Don’t tell me you just found out about it? Doesn’t it hurt? It must hurt a lot.”

“Ah, this? It’s okay because it’s fake leather.”

Seungwoo took off his face.

To be exact, he took off the fake leather he had wrapped around his face.

He said he was okay, but he looked regretful, saying that he had thrown away valuable leather here. The moment he saw his face revealed like that.

“Y-you are…?”

Simon’s pupils dilated.