Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 220

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 220

Human Body Magic (5)

When I regained consciousness after fainting, the first thing I saw was bright light.

Checking the time, thankfully, nothing absurd happened like fainting for over a year as in movies. It was just morning.

A morning when I should be getting ready for work.

Anyway, aside from fainting until morning, why am I in bed?

“Did Erzebet move me?”

That’s the most reasonable thought, but with her usual strength, my body would have been dragged along the floor, and there were no traces of that anywhere.

If she absorbs the opponent’s blood during battle, her strength will gradually increase with the power of 「Blood Absorption」, but where would there be enough blood like that in a normal household… Ah, I spilled a lot.

A large amount of blood soaked the floor of the underground training room.

If she absorbed all that blood, she would have enough power to move me. I was about to get out of bed to prepare breakfast for Erzebet and thank her.

Thud!

I fell to the floor as soon as I got out of bed.

What, why is my body so weak?

Moving was possible, but walking was difficult.

As I fell to the floor with a thud, I started to hear footsteps. But there were two sets of footsteps, not one.

Lying on the floor, I looked towards the door.

Click!

The door opened roughly. Beyond it stood Erzebet and Nam Hwayeon, panting heavily as if they had been running inside the house.

No, Erzebet could obviously be here, but why is that person here?

“…Dad! Are you okay?”

“My dear. He didn’t fall to the floor because he was sick, but because he’s too weak, so there’s no need to worry so much.”

“No, Erzebet being here is natural, but what brings you here so early in the morning, Professor?”

When I asked out of curiosity, an answer came back with a snort.

“It’s not early in the morning.”

“…The older sister here came last night.”

“At night? Then…”

“I’ve been waiting for you to wake up all day. By the way, I moved you.”

“I guessed that much from the situation.”

“Do you know how hard it is for me to nurse and raise a disappointing disciple who collapsed while spilling blood on the floor?”

No, what are you talking about?

“Putting aside the nursing, please say something that makes sense about raising a child. Even if Erzebet is young, she’s not *that* young. Rather, Professor, you must have been tired from reading a lot of books in my study.”

“Is it that obvious?”

“Very.”

Nam Hwayeon is not the type of person to take care of someone kindly.

She lives for her interests. She’s far from childcare or raising children. For such a person to say she’s tired from raising a child.

I can’t believe it.

Anyway, since she was here, I asked her to help me get up.

Nam Hwayeon said she would only help with that and then return to the Academy. Well, it was obvious since it was almost time for work, but I couldn’t prepare for work in this weak state.

I could float my body in the air and move with 「Telekinesis」, but that was too pathetic. So, when I asked Nam Hwayeon for help.

“Come on your own.”

To tell someone who can’t even move to come on their own.

Well, going to work is something you do on your own, so I didn’t think much of it even after hearing those words. The problem was what she said next.

“By the way, if you’re late, you’ll have to take on one of my lecture times again next semester.”

“…Are you serious?”

“Yes, that way you’ll be reborn as my official disciple and successor. Plus, you’ll become a professor replacing my role, wouldn’t that be a promotion?”

Sounds like a promotion.

I want to say that’s not a promotion but falling into hellish work. However, Nam Hwayeon left with a smiling face.

Her will to not give me any chance to speak was evident.

* * *

Is she hoping that I’ll keep my position as a professor that much?

I fed Erzebet, waved goodbye to her as she said she would read a fairy tale next to the egg and fall asleep together, and then pondered.

Nam Hwayeon is thorough.

It’s not for nothing that she was able to achieve so much as a magician.

Her personality, combined with her talent, created tremendous synergy.

‘It seems like she has some ulterior motive, but I don’t know.’

There’s too little information.

So, even if I try to get information from Nam Hwayeon’s gestures or eyes, I can’t get any information from her dark and obscure eyes without a single ray of light.

She basically doesn’t express her emotions.

“I’ll think about that later, I need to recover first.”

It’s enough to think about it later.

Right now, I need to get my body back to normal for work.

The method for this is deeply related to the content I’m lecturing on: using the body to its limits and maximizing the body’s regenerative abilities.

The content of that lecture is applied to my body.

To think that I would be the first subject of the experiment.

I felt new.

The driving method of the 「Human Body Magic」 I created is very simple.

In the first lecture I gave before, I gave a rough explanation and explained the human body, but as time goes on, the lecture will become incredibly complex, incorporating content about living things into magic.

“I’ve replenished all the blood while I was unconscious. Then what is the identity of this feeling of emptiness?”

My body has no energy, and my mind is hazy and dazed.

Recalling the feeling that I might lose consciousness at any moment, I raised both hands over my stomach. I drew various pictures on my scarred stomach with my fingers, slowly letting magic flow.

The magic slowly penetrated the skin.

The magic that penetrated the skin and permeated the bones, organs, and muscles was still under my control. This was the technique I wanted to teach the students through the 「Human Body Magic」 lecture.

However, the theoretical area supporting this technology was still too lacking. Well, it’s only been a month since I started researching it, so it couldn’t be helped that the theory was lacking.

It is absolutely impossible for me, the originator and founder of the academic field and school of thought, to reveal shortcomings in the theoretical area.

If you don’t know, somehow figure it out.

That’s what I have to do now.

“My 「Super Regeneration」 restored my body to normal overnight.”

That means that my ‘normal’ state is like this based on my standards.

Then what can I do in this situation? In a situation where my body has been crippled from the start, abilities related to regeneration do not have a significant effect.

But another method from my class.

The method of maximizing physical abilities was not used.

Usually, I would increase strength or agility for combat, but in my case, it was like raising a dead body.

I evenly distributed magic power throughout my body.

──!!

Then the muscles are forcibly activated.

Even though I didn’t use any special drugs, I controlled my hormones myself, and even controlled the operation of my muscles and the movement of my organs. A situation where a major disaster could occur if even one thing failed.

However, conversely, if you have the confidence to perfectly control yourself and the feeling that you can grasp everything at once, it was the best technique to make yourself several times stronger.

Of course, it was not at a level that could be commercialized. This is a miracle possible because I have an abnormal sense of S+ [referring to a supernatural sensory ability].

‘I should use this alone. I don’t have the confidence to teach the kids even this.’

Simply the usage of muscles and bones.

It’s already difficult to teach them how far they can use their bodies if they use magic, but I didn’t have the talent to teach them the combination of hormones and the control of organs.

In fact, the content I’m going to teach in the future is more profound than any anatomy.

I didn’t even have the confidence to teach current doctors how to voluntarily control hormones that need to be used in harmony and manipulate the body’s condition using them.

From here, it’s more of an area of talent and senses than knowledge.

In fact, it could be seen as my own unique magic.

Thump─! Thump──!! Thump───!!!

The heart is pounding, and the organs are screaming.

Homeostasis was disrupted due to the suddenly increased or decreased hormone levels and the external factor of magic.

But this was also controlled using magic.

Cultivate yourself, regulate your family, govern your state, and bring peace to all under heaven.

It is one of the old sayings of the university, but I think that cultivating oneself and regulating one’s family is a good saying even now. Cultivate your body and mind and govern your family.

Governing can be the family in some cases, or it can be the country. In my case, conversely, I cultivate my body and mind for the sake of my family, including my family, and what I need to protect.

However, it is not cultivating in a spiritual sense.

It’s just breaking down the homeostasis system that our body has maintained since birth, and then creating and cultivating it again.

“Hoo… It’s done.”

That’s how my body fundamentally changed.

It was on a different level than my race being closer to a Gumiho [a nine-tailed fox spirit from Korean folklore] than a human, or attaching a cold prosthetic arm instead of my left arm. All the physiological functions that define a standard person were being controlled solely by my will.

I was now in complete control of my body.

Of course, there was no great sense of accomplishment in controlling a broken body 100%, but at least I was able to freely eliminate the fatigue accumulated from overtime work and research by adjusting hormone levels.

I achieved a considerable accomplishment.

There was one problem.

Tick tock!

The movement of the clock felt unusually loud today.

The minute hand was pointing to 56 minutes. As long as Nam Hwayeon has perfectionism that requires her to go to work exactly on time, even being a little late is unacceptable. If that happens, I will be entrusted with the unwanted position of temporary professor for another half year.

‘What should I do? There’s not much time left now, and even if I drive around the site, there won’t be enough time.’

There are 4 minutes left.

The time it takes to leave the house, go through the checkpoint at the main gate of the Academy, and walk to the faculty room is at least 40 minutes. I’m completely screwed.

A quiet and silent time passed to the point where I was considering resigning.

Right then.

“…Shall we try that once?”

I muttered to myself, recalling the fleeting thought that flashed through my mind.

If this method succeeds, it won’t take 40 minutes. If things go really well, I could arrive in 4 minutes.

But I couldn’t guarantee success. There is a high probability of failure. Nevertheless, the thought did not disappear from my mind.

In fact, it’s the only method I can use right now.

I started washing and changing my clothes to try that method. I don’t know if I’ll succeed even if I try that method right away.

I decided to try it after perfectly wearing the clothes I usually wear to work. Now there is 1 minute left.

Anyway, it’s over if I fail even once.

‘Space movement.’

This was her own unique magic that I first learned from Nam Hwayeon.