Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 110

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 110

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 110

Temil Village (5)

The eve after the storm had arrived.

I stared blankly at the status window, as if looking at the aftermath of a real storm.

“…Maybe a real storm would have been better.”

If a real storm had come, we could just rebuild as long as there were no casualties. But in my case, it was just a metaphor, so there was no easy solution.

Everything I had planned was destroyed and turned into ruins.

Like fertile land becoming barren.

The butterfly effect had caused too many tectonic shifts.

[The content of ‘Main Quest: Egg of the Apocalypse’ has been changed.]

[The quest has been adjusted and will be re-output.]

I had already experienced a quest being adjusted once before.

Just like with the last [Killing Stone], this was also an adjustment caused by deviating from the set route. That’s what I thought.

However, one thing that was different compared to last time was.

[Main Quest: Apocalypse and the City]

[Description: The impending apocalypse in the future. At its center is the egg that gives birth to the apocalypse and the nest in which it is contained. They are waiting for the moment of birth in the other world where eternal winter reigns, deep in the heart of the city.

The egg is a world in itself, and the creature inside breaking through the shell is the same as one world meeting its end. If you want to prevent the end of the world, find the egg and break the shell before it breaks on its own.]

[Clear Condition: Destroy the ‘Egg of the Apocalypse’ without fail]

[Success: ??? (Unmeasurable)]

[Failure: In 5 years, a minimum of ??? (Unmeasurable) deaths, maximum extinction of the species.]

The risk of failure had increased several times over.

The reward for success is now something I can’t even guess what I’ll get.

What on earth caused it to change?

‘The number of possible cases… is not that many.’

Either my memory is wrong.

Or the students who are not here have caused a major accident that could disrupt the scenario, or something from the outside has intervened.

─It’s getting bigger and bigger. Shouldn’t we get support from outside, not just students, at this point?

Tamamo, who was observing the system through my retina, said.

As she said, if it’s not just a massacre, but the species itself is threatened with survival, we have to get support by any means possible.

Even if it means revealing that I came from outside the novel, if I can save countless people, what can’t I do?

But the problem is─.

“─It’s blocked.”

─I know… I don’t know who did it, but they must be pretty good.

The safety device given to students and supervisors.

The device connecting space and space is blocked.

It’s not easy to go out from the inside or come in from the outside.

If I had to choose between the two, the latter would be relatively easier, but if I did that, the kids’ midterms would be ruined.

“If I ask for help from the outside, I’ll end up giving up the exam. If I send an SOS signal once with the camera on the drone, the chairman, who must be grinding his teeth after the last attack, might come.”

─Isn’t there any way to be flexible?

“No. No matter how much I complain that it was a danger that could turn into a big deal, if outside help comes in, the students will automatically be given 0 points.”

─That’s ridiculous. The enemy, whoever they are, can come in without any restrictions, but if you get help to stop them, you’ll be penalized. The tendencies of those in power don’t change in any era.

I agree.

Regardless of the era or world, vested interests often show inflexible behavior. That’s why I hated that *pose* [demeanor] and ended up rising to the highest position among the vested interests, but nothing changed easily.

So now I just live with it.

“It’s going to be hard with the magic you teach me, right?”

─Don’t ask me something you already know. Even if I use my main body, it’s hard to undo something of this scale. Unless… I destroy the space itself.

“That’s a bit difficult. If you destroy the space itself, not only the NPCs and invaders in this world, but also the students will die.”

─But you and I will survive. There will be no threat to the species.

The sacrifice of the few for the sake of the many.

That’s what Tamamo was talking about.

“Don’t be ridiculous. If I was going to make that choice, I wouldn’t have come here in the first place.”

─Then what are you going to do? You know very well that the time to choose is not long. So hurry up and choose.

I’m already dead anyway.

Whether to choose the many and turn a blind eye to the few.

Or choose the few and put the many in danger.

The choice is yours.

Then I’ll have to give up.

“The many and the few. I’ll take both.”

─Then what are you giving up?

“Me.”

If I have to sacrifice something to hold something in my grasp, I will gladly give up myself.

No matter how small, grades are the future of the students.

It’s not something I can easily give up.

So I’ll gladly take the many (大) and the few (小), excluding myself (我), which is relatively worthless.

That’s how I’ve lived.

It was the philosophy and *raison d’être* [reason for being] of a man named Baek Seung-woo.

If I can win, if I can save more people, I will gladly burn my body. That was the last lesson I learned from the deaths of my teacher and mentor.

The lives of the people and the future of the students.

I will definitely take care of both.

* * *

I had no sooner made up my mind than.

“W-Wait a minute. You’re arresting the teacher?!”

“…Are you serious?”

“Should I freeze him?”

I was in crisis.

It was because Termia suddenly said he was going to arrest me.

He nodded at the students’ words.

“That’s right. I didn’t know he was your teacher, but I clearly heard the captured bandits call him their leader several times.”

Wow, I got caught like this.

To be honest, it’s true that I’m their leader, but it’s not like I wanted to be.

Still, if it were the usual me, I would have bowed down to him since he seemed like an important NPC, but.

“Can you stop interfering, you fanatic religious zealot? I’m sorry, but I’m not in the mood to accept you.”

“Y-Yes…?”

Right now, I wasn’t in the mood to maintain my composure.

All my plans had gone awry, and my head was a mess, so hearing those words made my irritation boil over.

The mask fluttered, and the personality hidden inside was slowly revealed.

If it were the usual me, I would have noticed the abnormality and immediately fixed the mask, but I was too confused to do so, and the mask and the inner self hidden inside were revealed, causing a slight cognitive dissonance.

The first to notice this fact was Tamamo, who was looking down at the whole scene from behind.

─Oh my, something interesting is about to happen.

Instead of giving a warning, she seemed to think something interesting was about to happen, so she covered her mouth and slowly erased her presence.

And the next to sense something strange was Termia.

“This is…! What on earth…!”

He looked around and realized that the feeling was coming from the fox beastman.

A beastman who is presumed to be the leader of this vicious group of bandits.

I heard that ordinary beastmen don’t come out of the cozy southern forests, but strangely enough, he’s here in the northern part of the country where winter never ends.

It’s amazing, but that’s not a reason not to arrest him.

Termia decided to bring a rope from the village and tie him up until the charges were dropped.

And his feelings were revealed through his face, the direction of his feet, and his gestures.

“…Ha!”

It came right into my eyes.

I’ve lived my whole life observing and hunting other creatures.

I’ve analyzed the next course of action and behavior patterns of all kinds of monsters with completely different appearances. If I wanted to, I could know what the same people are thinking.

Ha, really.

I’m so annoyed.

I scratched my head and dyed my eyes purple in the sense that I wanted you to be annoyed too.

At that moment, things that shouldn’t be seen in the monochrome world began to appear.

“I can see your karma.”

“What nonsense…!”

Termia, who had brought the rope at the absurd words, suddenly stopped.

To tie me up with a rope.

You, to me?

The sinner in my eyes was not me.

“You killed your parents with your own hands? And very brutally.”

“…!!!”

[Skill, ‘Yoma Eye’ analyzes each of the vengeful spirits entangled with the target.]

[Among the vengeful spirits entangled with the target ‘Termia’, there are two individuals with completely identical genetic traits.]

[99.7% chance of being presumed to be ‘Termia’s’ parents…]

……

It’s certain.

The two vengeful spirits presumed to be his parents were dyed black and looked like evil spirits.

A typical *pose* [appearance] seen by an enemy.

Vengeful spirits that cling to a loving family are not so turbid.

The only time a family member is dyed in such a turbid light is when they kill a family member or inflict damage or impact equivalent to it.

“You’re joking too much. My parents, although they have already passed away as you said, I swear I have never committed such a heinous act.”

“Really?”

“Of course.”

“Even if you swear on the magic oath and the oath of loyalty to your lord?”

“!!!”

His reaction suddenly changed when the story of the lord and loyalty came up.

Haha, I thought he was a stoic guy because he covered his body with cold, hard armor, but he’s more interesting than I thought.

I thought I could use this kind of personality in many ways, but Termia’s eyes beyond the helmet were burning as if my thoughts were subtly revealed through my expression or atmosphere.

“You have eyes that look like you’re going to kill someone.”

“…That could be you.”

“Ha, haha, kill me if you can.”

“Ha! That’s just bluffing. As you said, I, who killed my parents, don’t think I’ll hesitate to kill you!”

“…No, that’s not what I’m trying to say.”

Termia confidently confessed his parricide.

That’s not what I wanted to hear.

I just wanted to say one word of resolve.

“If you try to kill me, at least be prepared to die together.”

“What does that…”

Termia closed his mouth when he saw my eyes while speaking.

Why all of a sudden?

He showed a startled look earlier, but now he was too still and calm.

It was like he had witnessed something indescribable.

And that was actually the case.

‘Is that what human eyes are supposed to look like…?’

Termia, who had served all kinds of orders as the lord’s knight for seven years, had reached the point where he could read the approximate emotions just by looking at people’s eyes.

Beautiful and attractive face and proportions that even she, who had built a wall against romance, could see.

However, in contrast to that, there was an infinitely pure murderous intent.

There is no malice or good intentions in that emotion.

Termia frowned in his helmet at the alien *pose* [sight] of calmly spitting out the words that he would kill himself without showing even a speck of emotion.

He’s not crazy.

He definitely has reason (理智) [intellect].

But the fact that he says such things so casually shows that he is emotionally twisted somewhere.

Well, how many people live their lives without having an aspect that is not twisted?

That’s what I thought at first.

“…….”

Immediately after the conversation.

The beautiful fox beastman didn’t even blink an eye, and his pupils were just moving around as if he was trying to observe all of his actions.

If you move your hand, move your hand.

If you move your leg, move your leg.

If you move your whole body, you take a step back and put your whole body in your sight. There was something more fanatical than Termia’s knighthood, who swore absolute loyalty to his lord.

‘I think I’ve been caught by a crazy bastard… If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have said anything…’

Termia tried to avoid his gaze as much as possible by wearing his helmet properly.

As time went on, the vitality in his eyes faded, and it felt like something dark was slowly rising.

He thought that he would not be able to fulfill the order given by the lord, the baron, if he argued, so Termia just silently headed to the village chief’s house.

“…….”

Silently.

“…Ah, but you know.”

It’s annoying.

……Silently.

“…Why are you here? Did you admire the knights and dress up as a knight in this remote village?”

More annoying.

……Silently.

“…Or were you abandoned by your lord? Hmm, if there’s no answer, the former is more likely… no. The latter is also likely enough.”

……Silently.

“…Or are you just a retard?”

The final blow.

It seemed like Termia’s brow was furrowing at the whispering from behind. Of course, you can’t see the brow because he’s wearing a helmet.

“Hey, you crazy bastard! If you have something to say, say it in front of me with dignity!!”

In the end, Termia could not remain silent.

Baek Seung-woo smiled at the *pose* [reaction] and immediately hid his smile.

He’s really, surprisingly easy to handle.

That was the only good thing.