Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 237

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 237

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 237

The Funeral (2)

Blood floods and wounds fester.

It was a power I was acutely aware of as I faced my opponent.

I already knew the ability of the power.

But I didn’t know the extent and level of it. For example, if a wound festers, can it fester all kinds of wounds?

What is the degree of putrefaction?

How much time does it take to rot it?

I realized a lot of other things.

‘What a bizarre power.’

Wiping the sweat and blood from my forehead, I thought.

Bizarre power.

I couldn’t find a more appropriate expression for his ability than that.

Not particularly great.

Its effect and principle are not original or creative.

However, the precision with which he wielded the power to rot wounds was strange. He was handling the power he had just acquired as naturally as if he were handling his own limbs.

“Where are you running off to, spilling such delicious blood on the floor?”

“Kuhk…….”

The wound caused by the explosion just now.

The gap in that wound was widening.

It was partly due to the violent movements, but external factors were much more significant.

‘……The wound is slowly widening.’

I made violent movements with my broken body.

Drawing in external magic power to create magic, I ran away from him.

It was the kind of movement that would have widened the wound greatly, but the wound I suffered was widening at a constant rate, as if influenced by an external factor that shouldn’t be widening it excessively right now.

It was clear that 「Bephar」 was manipulating it.

But to think he could use it to this extent as soon as he gained the ability.

“This growth rate is a bit too much.”

A demon becomes stronger when the name and title of a noble are taken away.

It’s not just about getting stronger.

Physical enhancements such as strength, stamina, and senses are natural, and body movements are also gradually improved. He surpassed the part that he would have had to accumulate through experience over years with just one murder and cannibalism.

The techniques he uses to drive me into a corner are also becoming more sophisticated and diverse.

Body, experience, and skill.

He, 「Bephar」, was growing in every field right now.

“It’s cute how you’re running away!”

「Bephar」, who was driving me into a corner with his enhanced physical abilities and magical power. His tone was disgusting, but his skills were clearly superior to mine.

Moreover, my body was not moving as I wanted because I had exhausted all the aftermath of the explosion and the magic power in my body. Of course, I could just bear the pain.

If I can’t move because of the pain, I run even if I feel more pain.

I would have done that normally, but it seems like the injury is bigger than I thought. My arms and legs don’t move at the desired angle at the desired timing.

Estimating roughly, the movement was only 80% of what I thought and moved. That was my best.

That was the limit that my joints could move.

[Skill, 「Weak Resistance Delay」 is reassembling broken bones and muscles.]

[Time remaining: 24 hours]

「Super Regeneration」 I got before.

Unless it’s a scar from the past, it heals most wounds in an instant, and even forcibly recovers from a near-death state.

It’s not a fraudulent power like immortality, but a power that is infinitely close to immortality declared that it would take 24 hours to fully recover.

Through this, I was able to objectively grasp the severity of the injury.

‘The injury must be pretty bad.’

No wonder. Sometimes, in the middle of avoiding his attacks and casting magic because of the pain, my head turns white as if it’s been electrocuted.

I’m desperately holding back, though.

The nerves are sending abnormal signals due to the pain from the injury, and the brain is slowly starting to hurt from overload due to the continued overuse of magic.

A sensation of tightening my head from all sides.

It really hurts like hell.

It was no longer at a stage where I could do anything by holding back.

‘What should I do?’

I thought desperately.

I’m going to die if I keep going like this. It’s welcome to meet the rest, but it’s far from the ideal end I’ve been hoping for.

At least if I die.

I wanted to die grandly.

Even if I die, I didn’t know what would happen to the children.

‘Should I just give up another arm and draw my sword?’

The cool sensation of the sword. In order to revive the glory of the Sword Saint era once again.

One arm that was not replaced with a prosthetic.

I would have to pay more than that arm.

Avoiding 「Bephar」’s swift attacks, who now wields his blood as precisely as a long whip, by a hair’s breadth, I wondered what to give up.

“Huh?”

A sensation like the skin attached to the body falling off.

But the skin didn’t actually fall off. The defensive magic I installed in the lodgings. All of it broke at once, severing the connection with me.

Then there was no more thought or hesitation.

Swish!

I reflexively reached into the space in the ring.

At the same time, I grabbed the handle of the demon sword.

At the same time as drawing the sword, a brilliant light swallowed 「Bephar」.

* * *

At that time when a huge explosion shook the city.

People were startled and began to evacuate, and the city was plunged into chaos. Meanwhile, people in the city gradually left their homes and fled far away. A lodging located not far from the airport as well.

All but one room, all the guests had fled.

“What did you do to the lodgings?!

The people in that room had no reason to run away.

The level of defensive magic surrounding the lodgings was so high that it was much safer to stay in the lodgings than to go out.

It was also the main reason that the lodgings were safer than outside, but the biggest reason they didn’t go outside was.

“Are you listening inside? Open the door!”

“Hey! Do you think they’ll open the door if you say that?”

“But there’s no other way. We’ve already lost contact with two advance teams. There are more than 40 corpses lying on the street!!!”

“I’m really going crazy. I don’t know who’s here, but I don’t know why we have to break through at the cost of such sacrifice.”

“I’m more curious about who installed this crazy magic than that.”

“Forget about those questions! We have to open the door quickly!”

It was because of the demons trying to break in from the outside.

Their invasion was not easy.

The defensive magic surrounding the lodgings was so solid that it was almost impossible to destroy it. Still, it was possible to infiltrate the interior by using abilities specialized in passage.

But the problem is.

It didn’t end with just passing through.

Various traps were installed inside the lodgings to exclude intruders. Even violent traps to kill and exclude them.

It was installed much more densely than the defensive magic installed outside.

In the end, they were demons who lost their lives and became mere lumps of meat, but it ended with the appearance of a man.

“Ah, I, I’m here to pay my respects to Lord 「Crocell」!”

“Get out of here.”

“─I. I must have misheard?”

“Get out of here quickly. To think you dared to open your mouth and say that you would serve us without even disarming these traps. I’m so ashamed.”

“I, I’m sorry!”

The young demon who was in charge of the site.

He was a demon famous as an S-class villain in the world, but he bowed his head to the man who arrived at the scene late and ran away.

The man was wearing silver horns and silver clothes.

He was also a demon.

It was an insult to even compare him to the corpses lying on the floor.

“I don’t know why you sent me to a place like this, but if there’s no good reason, I’ll kill you, Simon.”

A sword sprouted from the man’s hand.

The sword made of ice melted and vaporized as soon as it appeared.

The sword was too cold compared to the surrounding temperature. Water drips on the floor.

But the shape of the sword remained the same.

The ice melts, but the shape does not change.

It was clearly following the laws of physics, but the surrounding demons swallowed their saliva at the sight of it not obeying the law of conservation of mass.

They are familiar with the sword. A handbook written by the previous generation to serve the nobles as commoners.

It contained the tendencies and characteristics of each noble.

And among those characteristics was the sword made of ice.

「Crocell」, who has the position of 49th rank and the title of Baron [a low-ranking noble], has a sword that freezes everything. Of course, it was still awkwardly obeying the laws of physics.

Gradually, as the power grows, if the sword made of ice reaches a level that completely violates the laws of physics.

There was a rumor that he could become the strongest swordsman of the time.

Swoosh!

「Crocell」 lightly swung the ice sword.

Then, all kinds of magic protecting the lodgings froze and stopped functioning. The same was true for the traps inside the lodgings.

Some traps stopped 「Crocell」’s feet and made him frown, but there was a limit to withstanding the attack of a Baron-class demon.

「Crocell」 arrived at the bedroom inside the lodgings.

There were two young children there.

The baby was sleeping peacefully despite the commotion, and the one who looked like her older sister was standing guard over where the baby was sleeping.

Did they send him here to kidnap these children?

As 「Crocell」 frowned with a resentful thought, he instinctively realized it. Simon. A foolish human who forcibly woke up numerous noble-class demons and acted as their advisor.

He was always waiting for the moment to proudly kill and devour him because he made the wrong decisions.

At least he had to admit that the decision to send himself here was correct.

“I didn’t expect that the bloodline of vampires would barely maintain its existence even in this era. I didn’t expect it at all, but it’s not a bad harvest.”

This is a really good find.

Both children are seeds of evil with considerable potential. If they are planted and raised well, they will grow up with as much evil as they have.

Maybe even more than them.

They may become beings comparable to Marquises or Dukes [high-ranking nobles].

“Especially the baby is a sight to behold.”

The baby is sleeping peacefully even when he approaches.

A normal adult would have peed just by his approach, but he thought the baby was just a simple baby because he was sleeping. But the movement felt from that baby was unusual.

He had the potential to match the Duke [a very high-ranking noble] even in his 「Nobles of the Fallen Paradise」. Of course, the girl protecting the baby is also considerable.

She has the potential of a Count [a mid-ranking noble] to a Marquis [a high-ranking noble].

Considerable level of talent. 「Crocell」 grabbed the girl’s arm to kidnap her.

Then the girl whose arm was grabbed.

Erzebet shouted.

“Let go!”

「Crocell」 laughed at Erzebet’s struggling.

He was about to tell her not to resist because there was no one to help her.

“Don’t worry, little one. I’ll let you go.”

Tear!

A sound like a cat tearing a curtain.

But the sound was actually someone tearing 「Crocell」’s back of his hand with their claws. The back of the hand of a demon with tough skin, even a Baron-class demon, was torn like a rag.

He was about to get angry at the fact that he had dared to make his hand like this rather than the pain.

“I don’t know what you guys were doing in the lion’s territory, but since you’ve been caught, you must be prepared not to return alive, right?”

The words he was about to say disappeared when he saw the person who made his hand like this.

Brilliant blonde hair. Sharp eyes like a beast.

A coat that looks like a lion’s mane.

「Crocell」 closed his mouth at the sight.

The Lion’s family. The German military, and the family of Lion Ainus [powerful individuals with enhanced abilities] who far transcend the human body and have bodies comparable to demons.

Leonhardt.

The daughter of that cursed family was standing in front of him.

“You guys are the culprits of this commotion, right? I’m glad it’s vacation. If I were at school, my dad would have killed you all, so I wouldn’t have any toys to play with.”

Thank you for causing this commotion while I was on summer vacation.

The girl really thought so.