Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 230

Summer Vacation (5)

A criminal, huh.

I had a vague idea.

Her steps and movements were too unusual for an ordinary person.

It was more like an assassin than a trained soldier or Player [a user of supernatural abilities]. There was a faint smell of blood on her, too.

Even my sensitive senses barely caught it, but when she approached Erzebet, whose ancestor was a vampire, Erzebet frowned, and I realized.

Erzebet doesn’t like the act of sucking blood.

Of course, she likes blood, but she hates the process of sucking it. Thanks to that, I had a hard time feeding her blood whenever she trained.

She made the same expression as then, so I quickly noticed.

“Then I’ll be going.”

“Wait a minute! You have to listen to everything I have to say before you go. Isn’t that why you’re talking to me?”

“I don’t think there’s any need to talk.”

Cheok.

I raised my finger and pointed to the right pocket over her heart.

A very small light was leaking from the pocket. The unusual form of magic I felt inside gave me certainty.

That my meeting with her wouldn’t end today.

Such an extraordinary object is bound to get involved with me somehow.

So.

“Let’s see each other soon.”

Meeting after all the children are asleep.

It would be after midnight.

Naturally, it was morning now, so I took the children to see various places in Germany. The trip wasn’t for sightseeing, but I pushed the stroller, watching the children’s excited faces.

The woman stared blankly at the sight, as if I were just an ordinary dad on a trip with his kids.

* * *

That man. What is he doing?

I thought he was a powerful person hiding his strength because of his extraordinary magic, but now he just looks like an ordinary dad on the street.

* * *

On the hotel bed.

Two people wriggled on the large bed, dropping the blanket to the floor.

I watched the scene with a smile.

“…….”

“…….”

They say children look like angels when they sleep.

I think I know what that means. I don’t have a partner or biological children, but the faint paternal love that arose while raising the children made me smile.

“I thought they were holding up well since morning. They didn’t sleep well on the plane either, but they’re sleeping very soundly.”

─Cute. It’s hard to believe they’re your children. They sleep like angels. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such cute children in my life, you’re a very blessed father.

“It’s inappropriate to call me ‘dad.’ I haven’t even dated, let alone married.”

There is no blood relation.

I have a family left in my original world, but well.

At least they don’t exist here. Of course, from a physical point of view, there are two, but if you ask if I have a family-like relationship with them.

I could say it’s a G-like relationship with a few curses thrown in.

In that sense, I have no family.

The faint paternal love I’m feeling now is just an emotion I’ll have to shake off someday. It was a contradictory thought.

‘To raise them normally, I have to give them love and care, but like all relationships, we’re destined to part ways eventually.’

In the end, it’s a relationship that will end within a few years.

There are no exceptions. Whether I return to my original world or meet a grand end in this world, we have no choice but to part ways.

In that sense, it was fortunate that the two became sisters.

‘If I’m not around, they’ll do well together.’

I was planning to take control of the Cheonho Baekga [Thousand Lake Baek Clan, a powerful family] before I die and distribute that power appropriately to the two after my death. That way, the two of them will be able to hold power and wealth appropriately.

However, unlike material abundance, spiritual abundance is difficult to obtain. That’s not an area I can do anything about.

Erzebet and Ah-gi had to take care of that part.

“……I think I’ve been having dark thoughts for too long. I think I heard somewhere that you shouldn’t do this in front of children.”

Where did I hear that?

I think I heard it a long time ago.

Ah, I think it was what I heard while standing guard together at night during the war. There was an old man who gathered a lot of people, saying that even babies who couldn’t speak could feel their parents’ anxiety, and gave a long speech.

He died in the end, but I dug the ground with my own hands and buried his body, so I could vaguely recall it.

‘The baby was whimpering, vaguely feeling the anxiety of his wife and mother, who were wailing in front of the tomb with his name engraved on it in the sanctuary.’

It was an unforgettable sight.

Thanks to that, I remember his name vividly.

Reynolds. I don’t know his last name, but his name was definitely Reynolds. Of course, I memorized the names of everyone who was on the battlefield at the time, so it wasn’t like I only memorized him specifically.

Whenever there was something related to paternal love or children, he was always the person who came to mind.

Squeak!

I opened the door and left the room.

I went outside and naturally sat on the roof, surveying the surroundings with magic.

So that no one could notice. Even if they did notice, I spread a very thin and wide barrier of magic in all directions so they couldn’t find my location.

How much did I spread?

Around the time I had consumed about 10% of my magic, I felt the woman. I found her with the magic of the unidentified object she was carrying.

But what’s strange is.

“She’s being kidnapped.”

Well, she was chased during the day, so there’s no way she wouldn’t be chased at night.

For a moment, I thought about saving her, but I found out that she was a criminal, not a good citizen. I witnessed that the organization trying to kidnap her wasn’t trying to take her away by using harsh methods like knives.

I had to figure out where they were going.

I’m not alone now. So I had a duty to know what was going on around me.

As I started tracking them, I was about to move from the roof.

Tamamo opened her mouth to me.

─I have a question, can you answer it?

“……Suddenly?”

─The children are asleep. If you’re just chasing, it’s okay to talk with your thoughts.

“Yeah, that’s fine. So what’s the question you want to ask?”

For a moment, I thought it was out of the blue, but it was a late night when all the children were asleep.

I didn’t need to focus all my attention on just chasing, so I started answering her questions in my mind.

─What’s that name? Oh yeah, Sirius. So, didn’t you say before that the mansion of the family that blonde little girl, Isabel, belongs to is in the country of England?

‘Yeah, that’s right. The main base of the Sirius family is in England.’

─But earlier you said the base was in France. Aren’t they clearly different countries?

‘They are different countries. They’ve even fought several wars.’

─You… do you know you’re saying something very strange?

‘I know. I know what I’m saying is very strange. But what can I do if this is the truth.’

The Sirius are a family of wolves.

Those noble beings who inherited the blood of the Cheonlang [Sky Wolf] followed the habits of werewolves as they were. Chasing the moon and sharpening their sharp fangs and claws so they can be used at any time.

That was their representative habit, but the most useful habit was group life. In human society, it was a part that was commonly called group life.

‘The Sirius family has numerous branches in Europe. Their groups and descendants of collateral lines are active in each country.’

─So the main base and the base are different.

England, the main base, is where the Sirius family’s main house is located.

It is where the direct descendants live and the land commanded by the queen of wolves. On the other hand, France, the base, has some heads of collateral lines gathered to achieve harmony and unity, which is a long-standing virtue of Sirius.

‘In simple terms, England is the command center. France can be seen as one of the many countries that follow Sirius’s orders. In addition, it also plays a role as Sirius’s vanguard.’

─If that’s the case, there will be strong public opposition… Are you in your right mind?

‘Of course, the French government denies the Sirius family’s secret deadlock with England. They are also periodically erasing evidence of this.’

─Still, won’t the tail get caught if it’s too long? Hehe, like you.

‘The analogy isn’t very appealing, but yeah. Like you said, if the tail is too long, it will get caught. That’s why that woman was kidnapped.’

Suspicious circumstances I learned through her conversation.

Based on this, I searched the internet and bypassed sites that I couldn’t normally access. I found out that a fierce war of nerves was going on between France and Germany with that woman as a bargaining chip, and there were guys who were trying to make money in between.

But that thought changed due to the masked men who snatched something shining from her arms. The unidentified light that made me focus my attention.

It was a very bizarre-shaped object.

That place is also the most important organ in our body.

“Heart?”

It was a heart-shaped object.

I remember hearing it somewhere.

I must have heard it from Eve.

But nothing came to mind clearly.

That’s an object that didn’t even exist in the document written by Baek Eun-ho. [The author of the novel within the story]

It’s clear that it only existed in the various settings that Eve told me before writing the novel, which only I heard. I don’t know what it is.

“It looks like it shouldn’t be taken away.”

It seems that the road to expanding the labor force is long and difficult.

Still, I plan to finish everything before the children wake up, so it will only be a somewhat rough night.

─By the way, I’ve always wanted to ask you something.

“Tell me.”

─What exactly is the identity of the labor force you’re talking about? I still haven’t heard about it, but that kid Baek Eun-ho seemed to know about it.

“Oh, didn’t I tell you? That can’t be. I definitely said it several times.”

I can’t trust others to take care of the children.

I have to work twice as hard.

─Are you thinking of using some kind of shadow clone technique?

“That’s right.”

─……Really?

“Of course. Would I lie to you?”

What I’m looking for is a clone.

To be exact, it is a skill stone that exists in a certain underground in Germany.

The small stone that can be held in the hand contains the power of 「Doppelganger」, which creates another me. Its grade is a whopping S grade.

It was the highest skill that could be reached, and it was an ability that could create endless variables in addition to combat.

In the novel, a certain S-class villain carries it around and is killed in vain by the protagonist who comes to Germany to play. However, as the villain later appears to be cooperating with a larger group, a big commotion arises as it is revealed that the guy the protagonist killed was just a doppelganger.

Originally, it was an episode that would come out in the second semester of the second year.

I was planning to secretly obtain the S-class villain before he even had the 「Doppelganger」, so that the episode wouldn’t be established from the beginning.

‘If I do well, can’t I achieve my planned goal by tonight?’

The size of the group that kidnapped the woman seemed unusual.

Usually, groups that are bad and kidnap people are far from the light. They hide underground and are used to living in the dark.

So maybe they vaguely know about the existence of the skill stone in the vast underground of Germany, or are they not related?

Holding such a small hope.

Thud!

I jumped over the roof of the house and chased after them.