Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 270

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 270

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 270

The Opening and the Prelude (5)

First day of work.

Seungwoo didn’t bother asking Emilia if she had time.

After all, she was a professor.

She could pass off everything except her lectures to her assistants.

The most important thing right now was miscellaneous tasks.

“Let’s start with the miscellaneous tasks.”

“…Miscellaneous tasks? With me.”

“First, we need to organize all the equipment in the lab by type, and then submit a research proposal to get funding.”

“W-wait a minute. Lab organization and proposal submission all in one day?! I heard you just moved into the lab today…!

“Since I came to the lab today, I’ll skip the research and just organize the lab and write the report. It can’t take that long.”

“…!”.

‘It can’t take that long?’

The amount of research funding provided by the Seven Stars Academy is astronomical.

This was possible because the academy’s upper management actively supported the professors’ research. All of the academy’s professors were talented enough to be active in the field.

The best and truest way to keep such talent was to tie them down with huge sums of money.

But contrary to the great benefits.

Obtaining research approval from the upper management was not an easy task.

‘The chairman and the board of directors aren’t stupid, after all.’

They weren’t a group of people who were so blind and foolish that they would waste money on hopeless research.

So most professors review and rewrite their research proposals dozens of times before submitting them.

In some cases, professors revise their proposals more than 100 times.

Because it’s so difficult to get a proposal approved, they usually aim to spend six months creating one.

It wasn’t for nothing that Emilia hesitated but readily signed the slave contract. No, the assistant contract.

Even if the contract was for her to work as an assistant under Seungwoo for a year.

If the research proposal couldn’t be approved for six months.

This was tantamount to saying that she only had to suffer under him for six months.

A light punishment for offending a Great Mage.

After all sorts of calculations, she entered into the contract.

Now, those calculations were starting to crumble from the foundation.

“H-how about we think, deliberate, and write it a little more? A proposal made in one day will lack professionalism, so there’s no chance it will be approved by the upper management if we submit it…!”.

“The first draft is already done, though?”

“…Huh?”

What did he just say?

Emilia’s gaze turned to Seungwoo.

More precisely, she stared at the location his hand was pointing to.

The laptop on the lab desk.

It was one of the things Seungwoo had brought to the lab with his other belongings.

The laptop was wide open, emitting a bright light.

Without her even knowing when he had turned it on.

Seungwoo had been talking to Emilia, then turned on the laptop and started writing the proposal.

“Pfft! Just because you’re working so hard now doesn’t mean the review will be faster. You’d better just repeat the revisions and corrections like the other professors.”

“What are you talking about since a while ago? I told you the first draft is done. Ah, I don’t even want to waste time revising it, so I should just send the first draft.”

“W-wait a minute…! Are you really going to…!”.

Thump.

Seungwoo tapped the keyboard with his finger.

At the same time, an email was sent.

The draft of the proposal was sent with the academy’s unique reply.

Even a sloppy draft that was clearly written in the middle of a conversation!

“I-I don’t know anything about this!”

“Of course you don’t know what’s in it, since I sent it without consulting you.”

“I’m going to pretend I don’t know anything even if the upper management yells at me!”

A sloppy proposal will only provoke the wrath of the upper management.

At that moment, Emilia thought.

‘Surely my name isn’t on the proposal as an assistant, is it?’

It was unlikely, but you never know.

Especially since the other party was a man who became a Great Mage at a young age.

A person who could never be judged by common sense.

Emilia seriously considered going into hiding for a week to avoid being caught up in the mess.

And that evening.

Ding!

A reply came back approving the research funding.

It was even a generous reply that they would support her with an even larger amount than she had written in the space for the desired research funding amount.

Emilia felt like she was going to faint when she heard the news.

She abandoned her plan to go into hiding and went to work at the lab the next day.

“B-but, why! What kind of proposal did you send that you could get approval in just one day? Don’t tell me you used your family’s power?!”

“I got more funding than my family supports, so there’s no way I used my family’s power. They must have just seen the potential in my plan.”

For reference, the amount of research funding that Seungwoo requested.

Was the same as Nam Hwayeon’s, who currently uses the most research funding in the academy. But he received additional support on top of that amount.

“What kind of topic did you send…”

“It wasn’t a special or unique topic. Just common life science.”

He just used a little bit of his left arm’s experience.

“I sent in a proposal to use artificial bodies like prosthetic arms, and it seems like there were a lot of people who understood. Well, most of the upper management are old, so maybe that was an inevitable result.”

He provided the vision of being able to replace parts of their old bodies with something as strong as a 20-year-old’s to the elderly in their 60s and 70s.

Instead of raising their level as a magician or martial artist and rejuvenating their bodies through rebirth, he described in detail a method of custom-making the desired body parts with magic like prosthetic arms, along with specific formulas.

There was no way the upper management wouldn’t go crazy for it.

“…You. Can you really get results that everyone can agree on with this research?”

Flutter.

Emilia read the documents in the corner of the lab.

The document in her hand was the proposal stamped with the board of directors’ seal.

“At first, I thought you had bribed them, but now I realize it. You’re definitely a Great Mage. Just by reading the formulas you use and a few lines of the proposal, I can tell that you’re far above my vision.”

Emilia is not the type to easily acknowledge others.

She had her own firm subjectivity and worldview.

It wasn’t a good personality, but in some ways, it was the most mage-like personality.

“But I have to say what I have to say.”

“…Anyone listening would think you’ve been choosing your words carefully until now.”

“Anyway! Can you get results that everyone can agree on with this proposal?!”

Seungwoo stared at Emilia.

That hot-tempered woman is so loud, it’s killing me.

Should I just cancel the assistant position and pay her off?

‘The professor made the contract, so I can’t just cancel it.’

Come to think of it, it seems difficult to cancel the assistant position.

Then, I have no choice but to solidify the superior-subordinate relationship.

“Professor Emilia. No, Assistant Emilia.”

He had been staring at Emilia for a while.

The power in his eyes that contained her gradually increased.

「Yoma Eye」

The pupils turned purple.

He created an oppressive feeling that crushed the area just with the magic power that formed in his vision.

───!!!

The magic power crushed everything in the area.

Air, research equipment, people.

Everything was pressed down equally.

But there was nothing particularly wrong.

He hadn’t given weight to the magic power, so there were no structural problems with the research equipment. But Emilia, who was highly sensitive to magic power because she was a magician, was an exception.

“T-this is… why?”

Thud!

She knelt on the floor without realizing it.

She didn’t intend to at all, but her legs gave way due to the tremendous load on her knees.

‘My legs were so heavy just now, but now they’re so light that I can’t move. What is this? Did he solidify the air around my legs and give them weight? I don’t see any injuries or abnormalities on my legs, so it doesn’t seem like he used weight?’

Emilia looked at her legs with shaking eyes.

Like a magician, she accurately diagnosed her weakened legs.

Then, she explored and analyzed the cause.

Various hypotheses came and went in her head, but her shaking eyes proved that she still hadn’t figured out the answer.

‘If not weight, did he just push through with the quality of magic power?’

Emilia was a reasonably wise woman.

Because she had a firm sense of self, her stubborn and unyielding personality seemed far from wise.

But there was a reason why she was invited to be a professor at the academy.

“…No way.”

That’s why this was impossible.

She was wise, her level was reasonably high, and the amount of magic power she had was by no means small.

After decades of exploration and research, Emilia’s magical knowledge, skill, and the quality of her magic power had become world-renowned.

“I lost a magic power battle without even reacting?”

Emilia’s head came to an unacceptable conclusion.

That was, the reason why her legs had just given way was because Seungwoo’s magic power was so overwhelmingly dominant that all the strength in her body instinctively gave way.

“What exactly did you do just now?”

“What?”

“Don’t change the subject! Didn’t you use magic to make my legs give way just now? Did you really do it with just magic power? Really?!”

“…I don’t know why you’re asking when you’ve already noticed.”

When she asked the person in question for confirmation, he didn’t just affirm it.

He didn’t deny it either.

This was proof that Emilia’s guess was correct.

“But why on earth would you do that…?”

“Ah, it’s nothing. I just thought you had a feisty personality, so I wanted to establish a clear superior-subordinate relationship from the beginning.”

“…Huh.”

She asked why he had bothered to make her kneel.

Seungwoo answered readily.

Emilia couldn’t even laugh after hearing all the answers.

To think it was just for that reason.

‘I heard that most Great Mages are out of their minds. That’s true.’

There are currently only seven officially recognized Great Mages.

One of them was Nam Hwayeon.

Her personality was also unique, but Baek Seungwoo, who created an oppressive atmosphere to clarify the superior-subordinate relationship, was not normal either.

Of course, Emilia was also far from normal.

In some ways, she had the qualities suitable for a Great Mage.

Emilia soon realized what kind of personality her boss had.

‘…I need to be careful with my words in the future.’

She had become fearless after becoming a professor and lived recklessly.

Now, she was gripped by the anxiety that she might end up living in the same state as the assistants he employed if she made a mistake.

A life where she couldn’t sleep properly and couldn’t rest properly.

A difficult year was looming before her eyes.

“…What should we do first? Clean the lab? Organize the equipment? Or should we lightly interpret the formulas written in the proposal and then change the formulas to fit the human body?”

“Please clean the lab since I’ve already made the formulas.”

“…Huh?”

What are you talking about?

I don’t know how many times I’ve doubted my ears today.

“Th-that… excuse me, but no matter how I look at the formulas written in the proposal, most of them are formulas that apply to both monsters and beasts, so it seems like it will take a long time to interpret them in order to apply them to a human prosthetic?”

Emilia asked politely.

According to her calculations, it would take her exactly two weeks just to convert this formula to fit humans.

Of course, there wouldn’t be any major problems even if she applied the formula to humans as is, but small problems would definitely occur frequently.

So, she carefully selected polite words so as not to upset Seungwoo, who had grabbed her leash.

“I think it will take about two weeks even if I take it generously… Ah! This isn’t meant to be dismissive, but it’s necessary to thoroughly verify the safety of applying it to the human body…”

“So, I’m saying I’ve already done all that. Can’t you see this?”

Seungwoo held up a piece of paper.

It was the last page of the proposal. It was a paper with a very long formula written on it, but there was one formula she hadn’t seen before at the end.

Just as she was about to take a closer look at what it was.

She realized that this was what Seungwoo was talking about.

‘…There’s officially nothing wrong with it. You can verify the stability by just adding one more line at the end without converting everything.’

Emilia’s method was to convert all the formulas that had been planned in advance in a way that was not harmful to the human body.

Because that was the most certain and clean method.

It was also a faster way to finish than trying to be clever.

However, the stability of the formula was secured just by adding a few more formulas to the existing formula. Now, if she made or regenerated a prosthetic according to this formula, there would be no chemical abnormalities in the human body.

“What is this, seriously. Crazy.”

Various words came out of her mouth, but they were too absurd to form a sentence. She checked the formula with her eyes several times, but there were no flaws.

Is this what it means to be a Great Mage?

Emilia realized for sure this time.

Whether it’s a teacher or a disciple.

The guys who have reached the level of Great Mage are mentally deranged somewhere, and that derangement leads to unrealistic ideas.

‘I should just be satisfied with being a high-level magician.’

That day, Emilia understood the subject.