Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 186

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 186

Substitute Lecture (1)

It’s only natural that an arm must be missing to attach a prosthetic arm.

A prosthetic arm is, by definition, a component to replace a limb.

But what if an arm grows where the prosthetic arm is supposed to be attached?

‘Well, what else? You have to cut it off from the moment you need to attach the prosthetic arm.’

The answer is simple.

If it can’t be attached, make it so the prosthetic arm can be attached.

To do that, I have to cut off my left arm.

The prosthetic arm, “Arketrave,” was made for those who had their arm severed from the shoulder and became disabled. This also means that it has to be cut off up to the shoulder.

Tu-deuk, tteuk!

I unbuttoned my clothes and took off my top.

Then, a pure white body was revealed.

Seeing that, Nam Hwa-yeon’s expression, who seemed ready to make a fuss like many girls, stiffened.

Like she saw something she shouldn’t have.

Next to her, Chae-hwa patted her shoulder as if understanding.

“You’re both looking at me like I’m a zoo monkey. It makes me embarrassed when you stare like that.”

“Ah, no, I didn’t mean to…….”

“It doesn’t matter if you did. You can look at my bare skin as much as you want, but the scars on it are not something I can show to others.”

Burns, torn or cut wounds.

Things that can be lumped together as scars were abundant on my body.

These had been on my body for so long that they could never be erased unless I used the elixir that the family was keeping precious.

In intense battles, clothes and flesh are often torn.

‘I’ll have to get used to this kind of reaction in the future.’

Sreureuk, I thought as I unwound the black bandage wrapped around my left arm with my right hand.

Then, the black arm hidden inside revealed itself to the world─.

─Seize!

Someone grabbed my left arm tightly.

When I turned my head to the side, I could see that it was Teacher Chae-hwa.

She opened her mouth while holding my left arm very tightly, so that I could never hide my arm behind me.

“Hey, you! How many knife marks did you make?!”

“!!!”

Chae-hwa got angry.

The black arm held in her hand was full of foreign marks and blood-hardened scabs.

A trace that a person without good eyesight would not have seen because it was buried in the surrounding black color.

However, it was a clear trace of a sharp weapon for Chae-hwa, who had built a career as a doctor.

“You, did you hurt yourself?”

“……Rather than self-harm, it was just a kind of experiment.”

“Don’t lie. Does it make sense that a guy who experimented on his own body has such clear knife marks on his wrist?”

It’s unfair.

The knife marks weren’t just on my wrist.

I experimented to figure out the speed and level of regeneration because it regenerated no matter how much I hurt my left arm, or even cut it off completely.

Although I experimented so much that the pure white bandage turned black, and even “Hyper Regeneration” could not completely erase the scars.

Well, I can’t say that I didn’t have such intentions at all.

Anyway, what’s unfair is unfair.

I put on the face of an innocent man to get through the current situation.

The eyes of someone who cares about me so purely were a little uncomfortable.

“What’s even this bandage?”

“It’s the Holy Cloth I received.”

“Yes, it’s the Holy Cloth I gave you. I gave you the Holy Cloth that I had prepared for medical use to suppress the stinging magical energy similar to the one coming from your left arm.”

I gave it to you.

It was as if she was saying, ‘You thought I wouldn’t know?’

“The Holy Cloth is pure cloth. It maintains cleanliness while maintaining its pure white color in any situation.”

“Is, is that really true?!”

“Looking at that, you didn’t know at all.”

“Chae-hwa, what does that mean? I don’t know much about holy objects or divine things…….”

Nam Hwa-yeon’s knowledge of magic was greater than anyone else in the world, but she was not very knowledgeable about mythology or things related to it.

To her, mythology was just an element or story that was good to reproduce with magic.

It didn’t have any more value than that.

Rather, Chae-hwa, who had learned healing and medicine, was well-versed in mythology.

Most holy objects bring positive effects to humans, and most of those positive effects are related to treatment and healing.

“The Holy Cloth is a cloth that imitates the original. Even if it’s nailed and bleeds a lot, the cloth has the power to eat the blood and disinfect it. The fact that such a cloth has been dyed so black means…….”

“It means it’s so dirty that it’s lost its power.”

“That’s right.”

My left arm is dirty and negative.

The arm that was born with sin was the concept of extreme incompatibility for the Holy Cloth, so it was only natural that the cloth, which should always be white and clean, was dyed black.

Anyway, I cut off this impure arm to attach the prosthetic arm.

I gave vibration to the wind’s blade with magic, and cut it off neatly from the shoulder.

Seogeok seogeok.

When I cut off the thick bone, hideous blood vessels and nerve bundles revealed their appearance. Areas that should never be exposed to the air in the first place.

Perhaps because of this, the speed at which the arm regenerated was very fast.

The arm that was cut off and fell to the floor scattered like ash in the wind, and black cells bubbled up from the cut shoulder, forming blood vessels.

‘Is it a race against time……!’

I cut off the black cells with the wind’s blade.

After that, when I attached the prosthetic arm to my shoulder, the magic engraved inside the prosthetic arm began to connect with the severed blood vessels and nerves.

“……It’s not a very good feeling.”

Chen replaced the blood vessels.

It replaced the nerves.

Soon, it replaced the bones and muscles.

The moment the cold sensation of iron and silver completely replaced my left arm, I realized that one side of my body was not human.

And, right then.

“……!!!!”

I opened my mouth, but only the sound of wind that had lost its way came out.

My arm hurts so much……!

It felt like my body was burning.

It’s not a metaphor or a joke, it’s really as hot as if my whole body was branded with a hot iron.

Moreover, the Yang energy in my body combined with the abnormal heat to cause even greater pain. The heat from my left arm tightened my heart and tormented my eyes.

It’s too hot to open my eyes.

It was like the liquid around the optic nerve was boiling.

My tail suddenly reacted to the pain I had never felt before in my life.

“!!!!”

It’s not a side effect.

That’s right, I had “Five Elements.” [In Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: Wǔxíng), sometimes translated as the “Five Phases”, “Five Elements”, “Five Agents”, “Five Movements”, “Five Processes”, and “Five Steps” is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs.]

I engraved it on my tail so desperately to use it in this situation.

‘”Five Elements” is the change of Qi [Qi is believed to be a vital force forming part of any living entity.], At the same time, it is a law that seeks circulation and balance.’

The necessary thing is already on my tail.

All I had to do was use it properly.

[Intense inflammation has been detected in the left arm.]

[The “Five Elements” engraved on the five tails are about to form a trend.]

A trend is a natural flow of circulation.

Right now, the hot left arm will naturally cool down after a little time and become a cold lump of metal. All I had to do was speed up that little time.

Therefore, the conflicting relationship of the five elements is used.

What is in conflict with fire is water and metal.

Since the energy of fire must be disturbed and suppressed, what was needed was the energy of water.

[The first tail, Water, reacts to strong fire.]

[Five Elements Conflict, “Water Overcomes Fire” is activated!]

[Fire is extinguished by water.]

Suppress and control the heat.

The hotly heated silver and iron gradually lost their heat when they met water.

As my body gradually returned to normal temperature, I realized that I was wiping the sweat from my forehead with my left hand. I belatedly realized that my left arm was moving freely in the pain that made me lose consciousness.

Finally, I had perfectly installed the silver arm.

[You have equipped “Arketrave.”]

[All detailed abilities are activated!]

[Special trait, “Magic Conductivity” is acquiring and accumulating information about the letters and knowledge engraved on the prosthetic arm…….]

[Congratulations! You have acquired the skill, “Five Senses Script (B+).”]

……Is it done?

I was hallucinating from the extreme pain, so it was difficult to tell whether the message in front of me was real. Thanks to the string of sentences that didn’t disappear no matter how much time passed, I was convinced.

I succeeded.

I felt a sense of relief that it was finally over rather than a sense of accomplishment.

“I’m alive…….”

It was really more painful than I had imagined.

I could endure it again if necessary, but if possible, I didn’t want to experience such intense heat twice.

I lay on the floor with a dazed look and looked at the message.

Let’s read all the sentences that come to my retina right now.

I output the next message.

[The motor skills of the left arm are abnormally high compared to other body parts.]

[The stats of “Arketrave” are output separately.]

[Strength: B+]

[Durability: A+]

[Agility: B+]

“…….”

I was speechless for a moment.

The motor skills of my left arm are higher than I thought.

If you only look at the numbers, isn’t my left arm the main body?

For a moment, I was mistaken for a rational suspicion.

‘Only my left arm is full of power.’

The weak bones and flesh of humans could not solve physical problems.

However, the prosthetic arm made of steel and silver lightly transcended such problems.

Rather, remodeling the whole body is…… a foolish question.

‘The reason why my left arm has such powerful motor skills is because it is a thing that imitates mythology. There is no guarantee that other artificial limbs will perform as well as this.’

I will not commit foolish acts by being swept away by foolish questions.

I just have to use this prosthetic arm to stop the next episode.

With that conviction in myself, I looked around.

Finally, the pain subsided and I had the leisure to check the surrounding view.

But why is it so bright?

“Why is there sunlight…….”

“Because it’s morning. It’s almost time for the students to go to school.”

“……Professor?”

It’s strange that the sunlight that doesn’t suit dawn is rising beyond the horizon.

Nam Hwa-yeon in a suit and Chae-hwa in a white gown came into view.

Both are dressed to go to work.

I, who had clearly confirmed that it was dawn just a moment ago, did not understand the current situation, and Nam Hwa-yeon came to me and stroked my head.

“This is outside the academy, so I’m not a professor but a teacher. By the way, I didn’t think it would take almost half a day to install it. It’s going to be a pain in the ass to repair it later.”

A teacher’s touch towards a student.

There was a clumsy but clear affection at the tip of her hand.

I felt her heart, but I couldn’t ignore the words I heard, so I opened my mouth.

“Half a day has passed?”

“It’s 7 a.m. now. It’s a bit of an exaggeration to call it half a day, but it’s not exactly wrong.”

I thought my body was very sore and stiff for some reason.

I was enduring that pain for 7 hours. It’s hard to say it myself, but my mental strength is also monstrous.

While I was thinking that.

Sseuek.

Nam Hwa-yeon handing me a suit.

The neatly ironed suit was definitely in my closet.

I received the suit from her without saying a word.

Then Nam Hwa-yeon said.

“Then shall we go?”

“Where to?”

Was there a place to go?

When I thought about it, there was only one, but I asked without thinking because my mind was dazed by the pain. Nam Hwa-yeon swallowed her laughter as if my appearance was funny.

“Hehe, where else? Of course, it’s your workplace.”

My workplace.

It may have been a battlefield in the past.

Now, only the academy was my workplace.

The place I had to return to.

‘A place to return to.’

I felt the trembling that the short words gave me anew.

The academy was just a troublesome place.

The work was complicated because it was all new, and everyone despised me.

Still, the work to be done was clear, so I focused only on the work without any concern.

It was definitely such a place, but at some point, it became my home where I should return. Yes, I have to go to work.

I also have to meet my students.

I had to teach them skills and sprout their beliefs.

“Ah, I haven’t been able to return to the academy since yesterday, so I haven’t been able to write the lecture plan. So today, you’ll assist me in my lecture like the first day.”

……Suddenly, I didn’t want to go.