Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 213

Aftermath (3)

The long weekend ended, and a weekday arrived.

I prepared to go to work early in the morning.

Originally, I would have just stuffed any food with nutrients into my mouth, but now that there was another member in the family, I had to pay attention to the taste as well.

“I guess pasta is too heavy for breakfast.”

“……I like it.”

I was putting in the effort for breakfast since it would be difficult for me to take care of lunch separately.

I was worried if her newly awakened digestive system could quickly absorb the noodles. Of course, I wasn’t worried about myself, but about Erzebet.

My digestive power wouldn’t be defeated by mere noodles.

I was worried if Erzebet, who was still young and hadn’t had proper food for a long time, could handle it.

If digestion is difficult, I should prepare a light breakfast.

I was thinking of coming back home for lunch to make food, but she managed to put the noodles in her mouth with a fork while half-asleep.

With a very delicious expression.

‘……Delicious. It’s soft and delicious.’

Erzebet picking up noodles with a blunt children’s fork.

What she is eating now is carbonara with a lot of bacon, and a well-baked baguette is placed next to it.

By the time I changed my clothes, she had already finished eating.

It seemed like she had licked the plate clean, so it wouldn’t take long to wash the dishes.

For reference, magic takes care of the dishes.

It’s such a convenient world.

Except for the fact that disasters equivalent to destruction will come several times in the next few years.

“……Have a good day, Dad.”

“Okay, I’ll be back soon. Just have some cake and bread for lunch, and I’ll make dinner myself.”

“……Okay.”

Now that I was about to go to work, Erzebet, who was rubbing her face with a sleepy expression, either because she wasn’t fully awake or because she was full, said goodbye.

I stroked her head and gave her a warning.

“Don’t open the front door if a stranger knocks.”

“What if an important package comes?”

“There is no such thing. Even if there is, it’s a package sent while I’m not here, so it can’t be that important.”

Even if it’s a really important item.

If it’s a package sent during my working hours, which everyone who needs to know knows, the other party’s intentions are suspicious.

In all likelihood, it’s not for a positive reason.

Erzebet’s safety was much more important than that.

「Pyrokenesis」

With my unique magic, flames intertwined in the air and soon seeped into the gaps of the faint letters surrounding the mansion.

I raised the rank of the defensive magic surrounding the mansion by one level.

The breath of fire was imbued in the magic.

It had both defensive and interception functions.

The mansion, which has defense and durability beyond a bunker, is now safe.

Even if an outsider with enough power to break through the bunker comes, a loud noise will inevitably occur in the process of breaking the mansion’s magic.

This mansion is a building near the Academy.

If something happens, I can respond immediately.

The preparation was perfect.

* * *

A crowded faculty room.

The assistants, who were in a state of chaos preparing for the final exam, were busy moving around, preparing for classes and exams. Large exams like midterms and finals at Chilseong Academy are usually held outside.

This year, there were so many incidents that it was changed to a written exam on campus.

The problem was that the professors and assistants of each subject started racking their brains to prepare for the written exam that was not scheduled.

How to conduct exams for subjects such as martial arts and hunting, which use the body, and which part of the textbook to use for exams with a lot of content to memorize, such as magic and healing.

It was difficult from the beginning.

“It’s from 108p, right?”

“Hey, since when have we been following the textbook? We should just hand out handouts to the kids.”

“That doesn’t make any sense. Ah, I’m really going crazy. From the beginning, what kind of written exam do you take for martial arts? It’s a class where you only train every period.”

However, Professor Nam Hwa-yeon’s team was not as chaotic as expected.

Nam Hwa-yeon, who was drafting the final exam, created the exam range and exam content in one day. All that was left was for the assistants to solve the problems themselves and determine whether they had reasonable discrimination and difficulty as a final exam.

However, what could be seen as a problem.

“Me…… Was I actually stupid?”

“Why can’t I solve this easy problem? It’s a problem that can be solved by simply putting it into a formula. Why, why?”

“Actually, weren’t these exams to filter out us, not the students? Yes, that must be it. Otherwise, there’s no way I’d be stuck from question 5.”

These problems, even the assistants can’t solve.

Most of the assistants are graduates who have completed all the courses up to the 3rd grade.

So it’s not common to struggle with just 1st grade problems, but this was a completely different genre. It was full of problems that shook all the common sense they had learned so far.

The perspective of looking at the problem itself was different.

It was a difficulty level worthy of Nam Hwa-yeon.

But the assistants were out of their minds because of the difficulty of the problem, so how about the students?

They can never solve it.

It’s fortunate if they solve even three out of 30 questions.

I thought that student would probably get a grade of 1.

But life is about shouting affirmation in the midst of countless denials.

“I’ve solved everything.”

“Really? Did you grade it?”

“There’s no need to. These are problems that are perfect for the level of 1st graders, so I didn’t struggle much.”

“If you say so, I don’t need to see it anymore.”

Assistants solved the problems to check the problems, and then Nam Hwa-yeon stood as the supervisor. Nam Hwa-yeon, who examined all of their solutions, graded my test paper as 100 points.

It was a funny thing.

I’m not a kid.

To receive a 100-point test paper just because I got all the students’ problems right.

I felt a little embarrassed.

But the other assistants’ reactions were different.

“Is that real?”

“If the professor did that, it must be real.”

“This means that a new powerhouse has been decided. Senior Bang Seok-hoon died in an accident, and the chief assistant has been spending less time with the professor recently.”

“Hey, he’s the head of the Baek family. There’s no way he’d be the professor’s close aide.”

“Well, it’s more likely to be an equal collaborator than a close aide.”

“……That makes sense?”

Recently, Nam Hwa-yeon and I have been moving together a lot.

Nam Hwa-yeon asked me to work as an assistant in class.

An order from a superior that cannot be refused.

There was no reason to disobey, so I put all the 1st grade textbooks in my head. I not only memorized it, but also learned all the applications using it.

Thanks to that, Nam Hwa-yeon’s exam was easy.

The problem is from the students’ point of view.

I couldn’t erase the thought that it would be a little, just a little difficult.

“Professor, let’s ease the difficulty of the exam.”

“Why? That’s a test paper designed to prevent perfect scores from the beginning.”

“None of the students will be able to solve all of these problems.”

“Including the assistants.”

“……Let’s make an exception for me.”

It wasn’t a difficult problem for me.

The contents of the problem were all applications and extensions of what I learned in the first grade.

Instead, it was not a problem that could be solved from the student’s point of view.

From an omniscient point of view.

A magician who can grasp all the problems could solve all of these problems. Usually, even one problem is difficult.

“Professor, I don’t care if you’re going to make the 1st grade 20 points. If you do, you might be called by the chairman [of the academy].”

“I’m stronger than that muscle man. He’s an old man who’s already past his prime. By the way, does that score mean 20 points out of 20 points?”

“Of course, 100 points is perfect. I don’t know about performance evaluation. Midterm and final exams are always 100 points at the highest score.”

Nam Hwa-yeon nodded at the absurd tone.

She must have been aware that the problem was very difficult.

Nevertheless, the reason why she entrusted the assistants to review such problems was to grasp the approximate level of all the assistants.

No, it must have been just to tease them.

In fact, Nam Hwa-yeon decided to revise some items.

“Okay, if you say so, I’ll revise 5 questions.”

“……Thank you.”

“Instead, you have to make the problems.”

“……I think there will be repercussions if I make the problems. To the assistants, the students, and the other professors.”

“I’ll only put my name on the maker. You can make as many problems as you want. Instead.”

Hoo, Nam Hwa-yeon’s breath reached my ear.

At the time when the assistants, regardless of men and women, covered their mouths with their hands and spread their imaginations while watching the scene.

“─Don’t make problems that would tarnish my honor. Got it? I have high expectations for you now, my disciple.”

“……Yes, I will follow the teacher’s words.”

Nam Hwa-yeon’s subtle tone.

I nodded at the tone.

Only then did Nam Hwa-yeon go her way.

As soon as she was out of sight, I took a breath.

Oh, I thought I was going to suffocate.

How great is the pressure?

As the level of a magician increases, I couldn’t help but instinctively know how far away Nam Hwa-yeon was.

I turned on the news on my phone to take a break.

I was trying to see what was going on in the world.

Just in time, an article about me came out.

To be exact, it was an article about the villain wearing a fox mask, saying that they would add him to the existing four major villains and call him the five major villains.

‘Oh my, I’m not on the same level as these guys.’

The four major villains.

Meaning four evil people, they are literally those who have committed countless evil deeds with human bodies.

Among the demons, there are some individuals who meet these conditions.

Unlike the demons who gave up on humans, among those who have human bodies, there were originally only four.

A murderer who caused blood with blood, Blood Demon (血魔).

A madman who kills even innocent citizens without hesitation to kill demons, Exorcist (驅魔).

A pervert who soaks the blood of a strong warrior into the sword to remove the rust from the sword, Sword Demon (劍魔).

An illegal licensed doctor who performs unknown illegal procedures on civilians, players, and monsters, Strange Demon (怪魔).

These are the four major villains.

They are not demons, so I can’t dare to name them together, but from the association’s point of view, they are both similar types of guys, so they attached the demon (魔) to the name.

And that’s.

It was the same for me, who was selected as a villain along with those guys this time.

─And the black flame demon, Fire Demon (火魔).

“I suddenly became one of the five most famous villains in the world.”

At least for humans.

Should I be happy that my notoriety has accumulated so quickly?

Should I not?

It was difficult in many ways.

“If you think about it in detail, did I kill that many people?”

Hundreds in the slave market.

Two hundred at the masquerade.

Killing about a thousand people was all.

Human rights existed in this world, but incidents often occur because there are many factors that threaten life.

About 1,000 people die in incidents once a year.

I was the subject this year.

‘No matter how I think about it, I don’t know. Is it so wrong to kill a thousand people?’

It’s something I can’t understand with general emotions.

At least for me, killing bad people was familiar.

I’ve killed over a thousand people so far, but in this world, I’ve become one of the worst criminals for killing just a few bad guys. Of course, I could consider it to some extent because all the people I killed were people with power.

Certainly, the weight of human life and human rights is a little different.

The world I lived in wasn’t like this.

If you’re unlucky, a group of monsters that crossed the defense wall would devastate the village.

Death was too prevalent.

No matter how much I want to understand this world.

I couldn’t understand this part at all.

Maybe, I’ll never understand it.