Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 158

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 158

The Teacher’s Grace is Easily Forgotten (3)

You never know what’s long or short until you measure it.

I didn’t need to measure the gap between me and that guy to know it in my bones.

I was simply helpless against the mass attacks he wielded, doing nothing but dodging.

「Blink」

A short-range spatial movement embedded in the shoes.

Although it was a far cry from my 「Sunstep」, even using this wasn’t easy right now.

“For a big guy, he’s fast too. If I didn’t have these shoes, I’d be dead soon.”

I barely managed to avoid the tail attack.

But it was just barely, so I often got hurt while dodging.

Moreover, these injuries weren’t minor; they were quite severe, and excessive bleeding was making me feel faint.

‘He’s not giving me a single opening.’

─Well, isn’t that because you stoked his anger?

Yormungandr, who tore off his burning palate.

Certainly, after allowing me one attack, he stopped joking around or attacking half-heartedly.

He was seriously trying to kill me with all his might.

While he was rampaging like that, the acrobatics that were embarrassing to even call a fight between me and Yormungandr escaped the hill.

It was quick, thanks to the unpredictable movement path of my 「Blink」 and his huge body bumping around.

Before I knew it, I was in a residential area.

I couldn’t move easily because I was surrounded.

“……This is bad.”

I never expected or even thought about it.

That the opponent who had cornered me several times could actually move more than twice as fast, catching up to my movements.

I couldn’t easily conceive of it.

That was my miscalculation.

Thud─!

A single reverberation.

A sound weaker than the tail attack that forcibly cultivated the frozen ground was heard. But that attack properly targeted my abdomen.

Kugugugugung─!

Hit directly by the tail, my body floated into the air.

There was no time to defend or recover.

The floating body crashed into a building, finally stopping after smashing through several houses.

“……Sh, sh.”

I couldn’t even curse properly because of the blood rising in my throat.

The muscles throughout my body were torn apart by the previous attack.

Except for the vital areas, all the bones were broken or turned into small fragments. Fortunately, I managed to block the damage to my organs with overflowing magic power, but the loss of magic power was beyond imagination.

The magic power that had been overflowing until just now was now only at the level of an average student.

‘It was a losing game in many ways.’

My body is in this state now.

Shortening my lifespan was a confirmed future.

I wonder how much longer I can live with this body.

I suddenly wondered about the lifespan of this body, but that’s something I can think about after returning to the original world.

[74% of the city’s population has died. Destruction is accelerating!]

[Progress: 91.2%]

[You have almost reached the end of this world. You have proven your qualification to skip as many common afterstories as you want.]

[Would you like to clear the Otherworld?]

[Accept] and [Decline] appeared before my eyes.

I bought enough time for the students to escape, and Yormungandr, seeing my figure stuck in the building, no longer focused on me.

Now I can escape and get treatment, and it’s all over.

I can escape from this tiresome Otherworld.

Just as I was about to press [Accept] with that thought.

Thump, thump.

I heard footsteps.

Since I could return anytime now, I wondered what the sound was and turned my head. Purely out of curiosity.

Because of that, I didn’t press [Accept], and I could find two dolls.

“……Are you okay, Oppa?”

“Yeah.”

My eyes were a little dark because they were stained with blood from fatigue, but both were children I remembered.

They were the siblings who led me to the sewer, so in a way, I couldn’t forget them.

“O, Oppa, are you really okay……?”

“I’m okay. Let’s go quickly.”

“Where to……?”

I thought as I listened to the siblings’ conversation.

‘It’s a pity. They don’t seem to have a proper guardian, and even the place they had has been taken away.’

The Revolutionary Army in the sewer.

Perhaps the sewer where they were was the siblings’ home.

That home has disappeared forever.

It disappeared in a locational sense.

The people who made up that place were all annihilated.

Even if a very small number survived, they would probably be ‘enlightened’ and become madmen rushing through the city like crazy zombies.

‘Even this city is over now.’

The children have nowhere to go anymore.

The city’s destruction is a foregone conclusion to anyone.

Even if the children escape outside the city and survive, I don’t think these two young children can withstand the cold wave of the north that even chills me to the bone.

Sooner or later, they will starve to death, be killed by snakes, or freeze to death.

Well, they’ll die somehow.

I didn’t feel any great emotion about that fact.

These children are already dead.

It’s like the already dead children are showing me their dying 모습 [appearance].

‘There are no students. Only children are left.’

Therefore, on the one hand, I felt relieved.

Unlike those siblings, my students managed to survive while achieving the feat of conquering the Otherworld.

How could I not be happy as a teacher?

‘……I’m glad.’

Although I can’t save a single person on this land.

I’m so glad that I can safely send out only my students.

Now I will also press [Accept] and return to the Academy.

I stretched out my hand, which was trembling with broken bones, and at the moment I was about to go outside.

……Something was bothering me.

It wasn’t the siblings, the students, or the demons.

‘……My body is heavy.’

Drowsiness was coming, my eyes were heavy, and the hand I stretched out was slowly heading towards the floor. It was like the feeling that the strength of my whole body was slowly draining away.

The feeling that I couldn’t resist closed my eyelids.

Flash─!

Soon, it made me open them again.

‘I,’ who opened my eyes with a small slit, suddenly realized that my body was excessively heavy.

Only then did I slowly examine my body.

Very carefully.

“……There’s no other 병신 [idiot] like me.”

Words filled with emotion for someone who is self-deprecating.

“Judging from the fact that I barely protected the vital organs, I’ll barely survive.”

An excessively stable tone compared to reciting one’s life and death. If it were a normal person, they would have felt fear in their dying body, but the man was not.

Because this is no longer my body.

I don’t care what happens anymore.

“Anyway, it’s a mess. Judging from the fact that all the backgrounds and characters in the area are made of magic power, it seems to be inside a dungeon.”

The man, who had roughly grasped the situation, thought that he should return everything to the starting point first. To do that, he had to do something about that snake.

So he opened his mouth.

The voice flowing from his mouth was like that of another person.

A voice that seemed to be reciting by borrowing the vocal cords of another race.

The language, which was filled with a solemnity and mystery that was hard to believe was a human voice, was truly inhuman(非人間的).

『Mother.』

「Lingualism」

He searched for her in a language that even high-ranking wizards could not easily recite.

A being without a proper subject.

To call her is to call the mother who supports our feet without distinguishing the world.

『My mother. Mother of all things.』

It’s not calling ‘my’ mother.

The birth mother of this body died a long time ago, and the soul is from another world. Calling is the primordial mother.

Mother Earth.

『There is a brother here who has forgotten your devotion.』

Kugugugung!!!!

The more he recited the words, the more the ground rumbled.

With the vibration, snow and dust spread everywhere.

『There is a sister who has mistaken your love and sacrifice for granted.』

Even if the land is covered in ice, the land is the land.

Even though it is not a blessed land where grains and plants grow abundantly.

The land is all the grace of the mother.

It is the sacrifice of the mother.

『This place is now full of blind people who are blinded by the depth and beginning of the sea and cannot see your end that will one day hang over them.』

Those who rampage on such land are those who have forgotten the mother’s love.

Those who are truly blind know that it is wrong, but they have no choice but to embrace it.

Even though they can see clearly, pretending to be blind and taking the mother’s grace for granted is the greatest sin in the world.

It is a sin comparable to original sin.

『Everything born on this land is yours, so please take back the grace and mercy you have willingly embraced from those who are unworthy.』

Humans and demons.

The mother’s embrace, which encompasses all races without distinction, is wide, but everything is hers. Anyone who forgets her mercy will pay the price for their unworthiness.

And the price.

Kugugugugung──!!

It shook the mountain range.

The giant snake tilted its head at the phenomenon of the ground rumbling even though it didn’t move.

However, it soon felt the vibration becoming unusually large and tried to move quickly.

But it was already too late.

Yormungandr’s body is long.

Its body is large enough to wrap around the mountain range once.

The guy who had both his tail and head in the city naturally pulled his body out towards the mountain range.

Thud! Kugung!

Snowballs and small pebbles falling on the guy’s body.

It was only enough to put a few scratches on the hard scales, but the guy felt it with his animalistic instinct. The impact of that vibration was not the end.

As if responding to that guy’s instinct.

────!!!!

The ground rumbled.

The earth rumbling again was incomparably larger than the previous one.

The vibration that echoed throughout the area, including the mountain range, turned the burned buildings into rubble and broke the buildings that were not.

Even the trees that had endured the northern winter had their roots pulled out.

Things in the mountain range, even thousand-year-old rocks, began to weaken in their foundations, and began to pour down with the snow and soil coming from above.

A landslide occurred.

However, it was incomparable to a normal landslide where soil and sand were simply swept away.

As if spewing all the snow and rocks that make up the mountain range in this direction.

The landslide, boasting overwhelming mass and speed, quickly covered Yormungandr’s body.

Kikiriririk─!!

A short, thick sound.

A scream that was hard to believe came from the snake’s mouth was heard.

“With this, the guy’s body is fixed with rocks and wood fragments. Now all I have to do is pierce the fixed target…….”

The man trailed off.

He judged that it would be difficult to finish because his body was in pain.

His specialty is magic, not recovery.

Of course, there was a field that explored healing among the schools of magic, so he could do some first aid.

However, the two fields are different enough that there is a separate field of healing, so he cannot make his body condition enough to finish the snake.

“I should have recited 「Lingualism」 one more time.”

Just as he cleared his throat and tried to cast a spell again.

Kagaang─!

A huge, sparkling flash aimed at the snake’s mouth, and it immediately closed its mouth.

Because if it opened its mouth, even she would be swept away.

“……It’s been a while.”

The man looked at the vicinity of the snake’s mouth with a hint of joy.

Then he fell backward as if his film had been cut off.

The corners of his mouth as he fell were somehow pitiful.