Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 225

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 225

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 225

Magic and Mystery (5)

The day of summer vacation arrived.

“Okay, with this, I’ll conclude the speech!”

The vacation speech is over.

With this, we no longer need to be at the Academy.

Ordinary professors and teaching assistants would stay at the Academy for research, but unfortunately, I was the youngest teaching assistant. I was too young in age and experience to stay and conduct research.

Oh, what a shame.

“I need to escape quickly.”

I have to escape before Nam Hwa-yeon catches me.

I watched the chairman’s speech quietly, and as soon as it ended, I went outside the Grand Auditorium. The warm air of summer greeted me.

An ordinary person would have felt the heat, but having mastered [Flame Magic], I was accustomed to the heat and possessed a high level of fire resistance, so it wasn’t a particularly hot breeze for me. It wasn’t as cool as the breeze of spring or autumn, but it was a breeze with a definite warmth.

It was giving me the certainty that it was July.

‘About four months have passed. I’m holding up better than I thought.’

Four months have passed since I entered this world.

One-third of a year. One semester of the Academy or other schools.

Comparing it like this made it easy to grasp how much time had passed.

“I didn’t realize so much time had passed.”

Four months isn’t a short time, but perhaps because of the density of the time I’ve spent, it felt relatively short. I gained a lot and lost a lot.

I became a wizard and created my own magic, and I read and memorized thousands of grimoires. I became a disciple of the Demon King, received her teachings, and took over her lectures.

I helped the main characters grow and formed friendships with them as a mentor.

My body broke down, I became terminally ill, and I decided to accept death myself.

There were many other things as well.

Looking back on it, I don’t think there were any good memories.

Even if there were good memories, there were so many bad memories that they scattered and faded. I just feel like my life is miserable and unfortunate.

But whatever.

This was my kind of life.

When did I ever live happily?

“…First, let’s go home.”

I have nothing to do and nowhere to go.

I left work as is.

When I came home, I was greeted by the same girl’s voice as always.

However, her voice was unusually loud today.

“Ah, Dad, that, that…!!”

My adopted daughter, Erzebet.

Although I’ve never felt paternal love for her, I’m raising her with affection. She grabbed my hand and led me with an urgent tone.

Has Erzebet ever acted this urgently before?

Never.

For about a month, Erzebet hadn’t played a single prank on me. The fact that she was desperately calling me meant.

‘Something happened…!’

Tada-dak──!

I ran from the entrance to the living room with my shoes on.

Because my body was broken, intense running put a strain on my body, but now I was so anxious that I didn’t think about anything. When I arrived at the living room where Erzebet’s voice was heard, what I saw was.

“!!!!”

“Ah, Dad. So, what exactly happened was…”

“Abba?”

The living room I usually saw was not the same.

The egg that occupied the largest space in the living room and the machines that controlled the temperature.

The girl who always slept next to the egg.

Nothing was the same as usual.

Jijijik!

The machine that kept the temperature and humidity constant was broken, and electricity was spewing from the wires. The egg was shattered, and fragments were scattered everywhere.

The fragments of the egg were embedded in the walls and the TV.

Repairing the walls and buying new furniture like the TV was fine, but not Erzebet. It would be a disaster if she got hurt.

Fortunately, the fragments of the egg were not embedded around Erzebet.

Surprisingly, it was as if they were aiming for it, and the fragments of the egg did not scatter only around her.

Everywhere else, the fragments of the egg were embedded like thorns.

But even this was not the most important thing. The most important thing right now was that there was not only one girl in this living room.

“…….”

“…Dad, she hatched.”

The egg breaking meant that something had hatched from the egg.

I naturally thought that a dragon would hatch, but surprisingly, what was born inside exceeded my imagination.

It’s not a dragon. It was a baby.

“Haha…”

I suddenly became a father of two daughters.

I don’t even have a wife or a girlfriend. A young man who has never even been in a relationship already has a second child.

“…What should I do.”

My mind is blank, and my head isn’t working.

* * *

My mind didn’t stay blank for long.

Desperately racking my brain, I first moved the children to the second floor.

“Erzebet and baby. Stay here for a while.”

I put them on my bed.

For now, I decided to call the child ‘baby’.

I never thought that a person would be born from an egg instead of a dragon, and I thought that it would be at least a year before it was born, so I didn’t have any names in mind.

‘Since I’m going to raise her, I can’t just give her any name.’

An unexpected thing happened, but first, I make the best choice I can. Looking at the baby smiling brightly, I grasped the priorities.

Deciding on the baby’s name is important, but.

There was something more important than the name right now.

That was the existence of someone to raise the baby.

The baby born from the egg had no biological parents. Then, what naturally comes to mind is.

“Usually, this house needs a nanny to take care of the children.”

The existence of a nanny, not parents.

I could use Baek Eun-ho, but he had a duty to find out information about the elders and their movements within the family and inform me.

I can’t use such a guy as a nanny.

But if I leave it to someone else, anxiety creeps in.

The problem is not only that there is no one I can trust, but also the children.

I don’t know about Erzebet, but ‘baby’ doesn’t know how to perfectly control her power yet. Look at this right now.

“E, Etchu!!”

Because I didn’t have any baby clothes prepared at home, I wrapped the baby in a blanket, but it wasn’t enough, and she sneezed.

The problem is.

Whirr──!

It was a flame that popped out of her mouth with a sneeze.

The blue flame was so vivid that it illuminated the room in an instant. Seeing the flame, I grabbed my head.

‘Such a density of flame. As expected, the child who was originally going to be a dragon is different.’

The flame was bright but small.

In terms of simple firepower, it was in the middle of beginner and lower-level magic.

The problem was the density of magic power inside. The magic power was so dense and rotating so quickly that the moment my finger touched it, it wouldn’t just end with a burn, but it felt like it would disappear without a trace.

“Ugh!”

“Well, you’re happy to destroy a household item.”

“…Dad, are you angry?”

“I’m not rich enough to get angry at a child for breaking furniture without knowing anything. However, I don’t know how to educate her.”

“…Can’t we just raise her ourselves?”

“Are you saying that after seeing that?”

The furniture on the second floor is on fire.

It was a house armed with all sorts of magic, but most of the magic was half-destroyed by the baby’s sneeze. It was the result of a simple sneeze that wasn’t even intended.

Of course, the magic can be reinforced.

“…It seems difficult.”

“Yes, and I have to juggle work and study, so I don’t have enough time to take care of the baby. I can’t leave everything to you either.”

What should I do?

What choice is the best choice?

Such worries never leave my head.

I squeezed my brain and pondered over and over again.

‘Someone I’m close to and who keeps their mouth shut. The first thing that comes to mind is Nam Hwa-yeon… No. That person is absolutely no.’

Nam Hwa-yeon is even more of a no-go.

No matter how much she is my magic teacher, I can’t predict her personality, which I don’t know where she’ll bounce. She might even regard the baby, who should have been born as a dragon, as an object of experimentation.

No matter how much this baby is destined to be a disaster in the distant future.

“Abba!”

She was a baby who had just been born.

She was a baby who was just babbling and smiling at me when our eyes met. Even if she is destined to commit a crime, what can I blame a child who has not yet committed a crime?

The saying that you should hate the sin, but not the person, is not famous for no reason.

Although the object has changed from a person to a baby with the traits of a dragon, there is no element to hate in the baby.

Then, I exclude Nam Hwa-yeon from my mind.

…I worried for a long time after that.

The conclusion I came to at the end was that there was no one as talented as me in raising the baby.

Then there’s no choice.

I have no choice but to sacrifice twice as much.

“Erzebet. There’s a big bag on the right side of the second-floor warehouse, so fill it with a week’s worth of luggage.”

“…Are we going on a trip somewhere?”

“It’s a trip if it’s a trip.”

Erzebet watched my firm expression.

She sensed that the trip I was talking about would not be ordinary.

‘It won’t be ordinary.’

Still, I will have as many elements of travel as possible.

Delicious food, places or things I’ve never seen before, etc.

Because where we’re going is very far from here.

“…Where are we going?”

“Germany.”

Germany. The Lion family.

The yard of the Leonhardt family, and a place where their influence is greatly exerted.

‘A family that is at odds with the Cheonho Baekga [Thousand Fox Baek Family].’

Lions and foxes are enemies of each other.

That’s not because one side did something wrong.

It’s quite different from Leonhardt and Sirius, who keep each other in check and regard each other as rivals. Cheonho Baekga and Leonhardt fought a war a long time ago, and that war remained a history that would not be forgotten even by their descendants.

‘In the first place, the reason why Leonhardt and Sirius were keeping each other in check was because of Baek Seung-woo and Isabel’s engagement ceremony.’

It was written in Baek Eun-ho’s review.

Baek Seung-woo, the eldest son of Cheonho Baekga.

Isabel, the eldest daughter of Sirius.

The engagement of the two was a combination of the two families and a promise of a solid alliance.

Until the engagement ceremony, the relationship between the Leonhardt family and the Sirius family was relatively mild, but Sirius’ alliance with Cheonho Baekga, a family of sworn enemies, was the starting point of discord.

‘There are so many tangled and knotted threads.’

Hundreds of years.

The war between the two families that supported the East and the West became a history that no one remembers anymore, but that history is still engraved in the hearts of their descendants.

And now.

Erzebet and I had to go into the enemy’s mouth to find a nanny for the baby.

I wish there were other options.

‘No matter how much I think about it, there is no better option than this.’

It seems that this vacation will not be easy either.

One week from now.

Until then, I will forge the baby’s identity and prepare to divert attention from the family’s eyes, even for a moment.

It was quite a grand preparation for a trip.