Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 171

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 171

Reorganization (1)

A sickroom that couldn’t even compare to the infirmary.

There’s no question that this sickroom was prepared for someone important, but in all my years as a doctor, I’ve never seen a place so desolate.

The woman in charge of the health office at Chilseong Academy stood blankly, seemingly in great shock.

“This is the space where you treat your representative?”

I can’t believe the sight before my eyes.

State-of-the-art medical equipment that ordinary citizens would find too expensive to use even once is all in this room.

Yes, it’s a place that seems financially comfortable.

But somehow, I don’t feel any human warmth at all.

It was too bleak to believe that a man was sleeping here right now.

“Did no one come in? Family, doctors?”

There wasn’t even the slightest trace of anyone who should have come in at least once if there was a patient here.

“You guys, who have made it your profession to save people, are you sticking your feet into politics, unbefitting of your position?”

“Professor Chaehwa, please calm down.”

“Calm down? I think it’s not me who needs to calm down, but you guys who are burning with greed for money.”

Not a teacher, but a professor.

She accepted the changed title naturally.

That’s because she had worked at this hospital a few years ago. The doctor she was talking to now was also working at the time.

Now he’s called the Hand of God or something, but she didn’t care.

“Please calm down. Your words and actions are rough, unlike the usual Professor Chaehwa.”

“Words and actions, what the hell are you talking about? Why, should I speak like usual? You pathetic doctor, there’s an even more pathetic guy than you over there. Is it that hard to treat him even once?”

“…Professor.”

A health teacher known for her gentle demeanor and using honorifics even with young students. Thanks to that, she was popular, and there were quite a few who secretly admired her.

The doctor in front of her was also a man who once secretly liked her.

However, he was no longer a man who liked someone, but a foolish fellow entangled in money and interests.

“Is it even possible for me to do the treatment from beginning to end? Is it even possible that I, who left the medical field a long time ago, performed surgery on such a young man?”

“…We didn’t even plan to accept patient Baek Seungwoo in the first place.”

“There’s a young man here! Your chairman is hurt! And you’re just making excuses since a while ago, is that what a doctor does?”

There is no answer.

Health teacher, Chaehwa, felt a headache coming on in the current situation.

The hospital refused to treat Baek Seungwoo.

Thanks to that, she performed the surgery herself to somehow secure the golden time [the critical window for effective treatment].

Thanks to that, his life was barely saved, but he is not completely cured yet. He needs a potion of higher grade or above, and one of the best experts among active doctors.

Not a woman like her, who felt disillusioned with the medical world that only sees patients as money and took a job as a health teacher at the academy.

A real active doctor was needed.

But nothing was in place.

It wasn’t that the patient Baek Seungwoo didn’t have the money to buy potions, or that the doctors were too busy, even though he was nominally the same as the actual owner of this university hospital.

He didn’t receive any treatment.

All there was was a large space to serve the noble guest of the Cheonho Baekga [Thousand Lake Baek Family, a powerful clan].

Chaehwa dismissed the doctor at the behavior of the higher-ups who clearly didn’t want to treat the injured Baek Seungwoo. She threw a flowerpot at his head.

Thanks to that, only the two of them were left in this large space.

“…You’re a really unfortunate guy too.”

Last time he hurt his body, I thought he was a young master who used his body roughly.

Even his family was treating you harshly.

He was a man who had just become a young man.

Frankly, if he wore a school uniform and insisted he was a boy, he could be treated as a slightly mature student in some cases.

That’s how much Seungwoo still hadn’t shed his boyishness.

The early 20s are originally such an age.

“I became an adult, but my actions are no different from before, and I’m an immature brat who is not used to the responsibilities that adults have to bear.”

But this guy carried everything alone.

Probably since he was quite young.

“Did he receive this treatment from the time his parents died? If so, I think I can sympathize with why he was called a thug.”

It’s not understanding.

It’s empathy.

Empathy that if I were in that situation, I would have acted like that too.

Soon, empathy became sympathy, and she began to understand Seungwoo.

“Those guys seem to want you to die, but I’ll restore you as much as I can. So, it’s up to you to decide whether to punish or execute them afterwards.”

Seungwoo lay with a complexion as pale as a corpse.

She sat next to him and injected her magic power into his body, increasing the speed of his recovery, and then got up from her seat.

This was the best she could do at the moment.

Even if she wanted to take a more effective method, Seungwoo’s body couldn’t handle it.

His left arm was blown away, and his whole body was burned, causing significant damage to his muscles and nerves. The circuit containing his magic power was excessively overheated and twisted, and his body, with layers of wounds, complained of extreme fatigue.

Chaehwa, who couldn’t do anything, murmured quietly and left the sickroom.

“I don’t know what Nam Hwayeon is doing, but even though her first disciple is in that state, I don’t know why she doesn’t come to visit him even once.”

If she says she can’t come because of magical enlightenment, I’ll have to kill her.

Chaehwa knew the woman called the Demon King well because she had been friends with her for a long time. Nam Hwayeon was definitely the kind of person who would do that if enlightenment came.

But she didn’t know.

That it was not the teacher but the disciple who was getting enlightenment.

“…Ugh.”

The delayed enlightenment rushes in while he is unconscious.

While sleeping, he could not distinguish what was right and what was wrong.

The traces of the long years spent on the battlefield were trying to react instinctively.

If it were his usual body condition, he would have known.

Now, as a half-cripple, he couldn’t even resist properly.

Flowing into his body.

He accepted all the enlightenment that was strangling his unconsciousness.

Irresistible knowledge.

Having accepted all of that, he had a dream.

It was a very old dream.

* * *

A huge room with a quiet silence.

There were huge chairs around a huge round table.

Sitting there were nine elders and two women.

─Thump!

With the sound of hitting the table, everyone’s eyes turned to the direction of the sound. There was a girl with a flushed face with an incomprehensible expression.

“What are you all talking about now!”

“Little miss, please calm down.”

“Calm down, my ass. Can you calm down in this situation?!

The round table of Cheonho Baekga.

This place, where the major and minor affairs of the family are decided, is the most formal place in the mansion.

So, there is rarely a loud noise, but…

I can’t stand it without doing this.

“My brother has collapsed now. The head of the family has collapsed, but is it okay to skimp on elixirs and top-grade potions?!”

“Little miss.”

“I know! I want to say that elixirs are few in the family, and top-grade potions are difficult to make even 10 a year, so it’s difficult to take them out.”

Cheonho Baekga has been doing numerous businesses and businesses under the name of Cheonho Group. Now, there are various products such as player equipment and home appliances combined with magic.

Originally, the foundation of the Cheonho Group was Cheonho Pharmaceutical.

It was a company that was called the world’s best pharmaceutical company, both in the past and now.

“But it’s strange. When the elders are sick, they use top-grade potions without hesitation, but the person who is written as the representative of the company does not receive that benefit…”

The owner of Cheonho Pharmaceutical is Baek Seungwoo.

But he didn’t have the real power.

Perhaps because it is such a large pharmaceutical company. Because there are many elders drooling over it, the power of Cheonho Pharmaceutical is largely divided into 10.

Nine elders and her sister.

Of the 10 divided powers, all that goes to Baek Seungwoo is money.

Vast amounts of money.

That’s all there is.

Even though he has the world’s best potion company.

All the owner can do is see the huge number stamped on his bank account. Of course, money is good.

In fact, if you are sick, it is difficult to treat even if you have a lot of money.

And in cases like now, it’s hard to treat even if you have a lot of money, but rather, it’s a situation where it’s hard to treat because you have too much money.

For the elders, the head’s property is…

Money to put in their stomachs someday.

So, they plan to use this as an excuse to squeeze as much money as possible from the head.

Of course, it is also a good scenario for them if Seungwoo dies from his injuries worsening. They can just eat everything without looking at anyone.

Baek Seolha closed her eyes tightly at their appearance.

‘Even if my damned brother is incompetent, he saved the students, how can they be so heartless.’

Not just the elders.

Her sister is the same.

She was older than herself, and she was just listening silently with no interest. Baek Seolha thought at the sight.

The people of the family ostracize Baek Seungwoo, calling him the black-haired disaster.

Saying that the black hair will contaminate them with pure white hair. But in fact, those with white fox tails and fox ears are also black.

Eventually, the meeting ended.

Baek Seolha did not show any signs of getting up from her seat, leaving behind the elders who had decided to abandon Baek Seungwoo.

While she was doing that.

Time passed, and it was time to eat dinner.

In the hallway, a boy was walking happily, patting his full stomach, as if he had eaten a lot.

His identity was a child of a collateral line [a relative from a less direct line of descent].

He was the bottom of the Cheonho Baekga, who was less talented than others and had no good qualities, so he could not aim for the position of the nine elders.

“Wow, I had a good dinner today… I can’t believe the food is so good.”

Even if it’s the bottom, the bottom of a rich family is different from others.

What if that rich family is the best in Korea and one of the leading companies and families in the world?

Even if there is not much wealth to leave to future generations, there is no need to worry about food, clothing, and shelter thanks to living in a mansion comparable to a castle.

Furthermore, the allowance received under the name of dignity maintenance was by no means small.

It’s not comparable to the elders, but it’s enough to enjoy sufficient luxury compared to ordinary people.

“Tomorrow is the weekend. Should I go shopping?”

The boy, who was rolling around in his room on the outskirts of the mansion, turned on the internet to find out what was popular these days.

A luxurious life that would have been hard to dream of originally.

The boy, who was satisfied with his life, was looking at his cell phone with a smiling face.

Tak─!

He dropped his cell phone on the desk without realizing it.

There was a video that rose to the top of real-time search, so he turned on the video without much thought.

The boy who was watching the video stared at it, his neck stretched out.

“No. Absolutely not. That shouldn’t be.”

He covered his face with both hands.

As if trying to hide himself from the video.

He desperately closed his eyes.

But the video he had just seen flashed through his mind.

As if he had pressed repeat, the red burning field was replayed several times in his mind even when he closed his eyes. It was a very familiar sight.

Not only that.

A familiar face, familiar clothes, familiar fire.

All the elements were accurately pointing to the past.

A past I never wanted to remember.

“…Let’s go for a walk for a while.”

The boy, whose head was in turmoil, immediately grabbed his coat and went out of the house.

He was so flustered that he didn’t notice that he had left with the cell phone video playing.

The only light shining in the dark room.

A video playing emptily in an empty room.

It was Baek Seungwoo’s performance in the reverse side world with somewhat poor quality.