Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 29

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 29 (29/408)

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 29

Efnell’s Flower Garden (4)

A flower garden is a garden where flowers are planted.

‘Efnell’s Flower Garden,’ true to its name, was filled with various flowers everywhere.

However, like the saying that beautiful flowers have thorns, some of the flowers in the garden contain poison. Or, to be precise, all the creatures living here have poison.

From small, cute animal-type monsters to pretty flowers and grotesque insects.

A dungeon where all creatures have poison.

Therefore, some interpret this dungeon not as a flower garden (花園) but as a source of fire (火源).

And I was teaching that fact to a foolish student.

“The plants that grow here naturally will definitely cause problems if eaten raw. You have to combine them or remove the toxins to make them medicine.”

“B, but this must be an expensive medicinal ingredient…….”

“You idiot, of course, you have to process it. If you just eat it, you’re likely to die without a trace.”

“Yes, yes! Instructor, so when will you give me back my flower……?”

Leeji looked at the flower in my hand.

This flower is a Moontear Flower. I don’t know where Leeji got it, but it’s a very dangerous flower.

The clear and serene blue flower, like moonlight shedding tears, makes people feel an instinctive attraction. Therefore, if you grab the Moontear Flower with your bare hands and try to ingest it, it has the characteristic of parasitizing in your body.

Instead, if processed well, it becomes a potent elixir full of yin energy [passive, receptive energy] containing moonlight.

It’s not an elixir of the millennium, but it will be enough to raise Leeji’s magic power by one level.

“You were trying to increase your magic power with this, right?”

“……Yes, that’s why I looked for the Moontear Flower.”

“You don’t seem to know. To eat this properly, you have to dilute the medicinal effect by 10 times. If you eat it right, it becomes medicine, but if you eat it wrong, it becomes poison. That’s the trial of this dungeon.”

“That can’t be…….”

Thud.

Leeji collapsed to the floor.

He seems to have come to find this flower because he lacked magic power, but he seems frustrated by the fact that it needs to be processed.

Well, it’s understandable.

Processing and manufacturing elixirs is not an easy task.

It’s something only skilled alchemists can do, and the number of skilled alchemists worldwide is small, so the price is quite high.

If my memory is correct, it was not an amount that a student could afford, at least.

I suddenly felt sympathy.

I have enough magic power, so I don’t need an elixir, but that boy doesn’t.

Should I give him a little help?

“I’ll take this.”

“……Yes? Ah, no! That’s my flower.”

“I’m not saying I’m going to take the flower away, I’m saying give me just one. You don’t have the money to process it anyway.”

When I mentioned money and hit the nail on the head, Leeji reluctantly gave me one flower. From the moment I received it, I felt a cool, refreshing sensation in my hand.

The yin energy that makes up the Moontear Flower is stimulating my hand.

It’s tempting me to eat it quickly, to take it by eating it.

It’s quite a seductive flower.

How dare a plant seduce me and try to parasitize me. It’s very unpleasant.

[Pyrokinesis.]

Whirrrrr!

A strong flame took root in the Moontear Flower. The blue flower, containing the cold tears of moonlight, could not withstand the heat and turned red, then black.

Even though it turned black, the Moontear Flower was not completely burned.

While maintaining the shape of the flower, it is slowly scorching from the outside.

“What are you doing!”

“Hmm?”

Unable to watch the burning Moontear Flower, Leeji snatched the flower from my hand. He didn’t even mind getting burned and shook the burning Moontear Flower with his hands.

As he shook it with his hands, the surface of the flower peeled off.

Something sparkled through the blackened surface.

After peeling off the entire surface, Leeji looked embarrassed.

Inside the Moontear Flower, the bead-like sparkling thing contained the Moontear Flower’s yin energy entirely.

“A flower bud……?”

“Eat it as it is.”

“Yes? How can I eat something without knowing what it is?! It came out of a half-burnt flower!”

“Did you want an elixir or not? I’m giving it to you, but you won’t eat it.”

“Yes……? T, this is an elixir?!”

Leeji stares intently at the elixir in his hand.

He can’t believe that the elixir was made in this way. Well, I’m also feeling strange about the fact that I succeeded at once.

‘I didn’t expect to succeed at once.’

This was unexpected even for me.

An elixir in the form of a blue flower bud that has not yet fully bloomed.

It is an elixir that fully preserves the yin energy of the Moontear Flower, and I tried a manufacturing method that was mentioned in the novel in passing, and it was a great success.

The Moontear Flower is a mass of yin energy.

Then, in the process of processing, yang energy [active, assertive energy], which is the opposite energy, must be used to remove the danger.

This is not an easy task.

Generally, experts and dedicated machines are required.

It’s that delicate of a job.

I just did it with my bare hands.

‘I’ve felt it before, but the Double Helix works better than I thought.’

In the process of processing the Moontear Flower, I used 「Double Helix」.

I judged that it would be difficult to process with ordinary flames, so it was to increase efficiency. I thought I might fail in this process.

The result was the opposite.

As expected, there seems to be a special dynamic relationship between the increased tail and the success of 「Double Helix」.

I can’t stand being curious anymore.

I need to clear the dungeon quickly and get the documents related to the tail from my family.

Now that I’ve found Leeji.

I was going to tell him to follow me as a reward for processing the Moontear Flower, but.

Why is he like this?

“What are you doing…….”

“I’m sorry for doubting you even for a moment, Instructor!”

“No, why are you banging your head on the ground.”

Leeji banged his head on the floor, even interrupting me.

The ground was full of grass and flowers, so there was a lot of moisture on the floor.

Leeji’s head was wet with dirt and water.

When I told him to get up, Leeji carefully raised his body.

No, why is he so polite?

I can’t adapt.

“You know, I have something to say…….”

“Instructor! Can I follow you from behind?!”

“…….”

Leeji said what I wanted to say first.

But I didn’t feel good.

How many times are you going to interrupt me?

“……Follow me.”

“Awesome!”

Leeji jumped up and rejoiced at my acceptance.

I shook my head at the unpredictable tension.

Yeah, do whatever you want.

* * *

Walking through the fields and forests, I realized one thing.

“There are so many medicinal herbs here that are worth money.”

Most of them are plants that are difficult to obtain due to their toxicity or strong medicinal effects.

Not only are they difficult to obtain, but the process of collecting them is complicated. Surprisingly, Leeji easily collected such plants.

“Uwaaaak! This flower bit me!”

“Cut it off quickly before the poison spreads to your hand.”

“P, poison?! Ughaaa! Die! Just die!”

Of course, he showed a lacking side in unexpected areas.

He knows how to collect them, but he doesn’t know which plants are poisonous.

It’s quite unbalanced knowledge.

He knows plants that even I, who have memorized several papers, don’t know, but he is ignorant of common sense. In other words, he only knows the parts that make money.

‘Well, there’s no need to dig any deeper.’

The safety and life of the student are my concern, but not his family affairs.

Judging that there was no need to know any more, I scanned Leeji’s posture with my eyes.

He cuts the stems or roots of plants with a hand ax that fits perfectly in his hand.

The movement at that time is very delicate, but when dealing with passing monsters, the movement is rough. His hand movements are terrible.

It’s not a technical movement, and it doesn’t seem like he has any experience.

Only a beginner who has just picked up an ax would take that posture.

How did he get into the academy with such skills?

Does he have other great talents or abilities?

Even if I look into it with a hopeful heart, he doesn’t seem to have any great abilities.

Even Yura, who looks weak, has the ability to read the emotions and senses of others, but Leeji looks even weaker.

It’s almost pitiful.

“……Should I teach you a little about ax handling?”

It’s not a question I asked Leeji.

A question I asked myself.

It was just a murmur, but Leeji, who didn’t miss the sound, raised his hand.

“Um, by any chance, is Instructor also deeply knowledgeable about axes?!”

“……If I had to say, I once received a few simple techniques from an old master in the past.”

I have been taught about axes in the past, but I studied them relatively shallowly compared to other martial arts.

Compared to spear or swordsmanship, I am closer to a beginner with an ax.

Of course, even considering that, I know more about axes than Leeji.

“Shall I show you once?”

I took the hand ax from Leeji’s hand.

A small size that fits perfectly in my hand.

But the weight is considerable. It can’t be a weapon made of ordinary metal.

I took a stance after a long time.

I straightened my back, put strength in my lower body, and put strength in my hand.

[Muscle Strengthening]

A sense of ease came with the weight that fit perfectly in my hand.

It felt a little lighter.

However, one physical enhancement was not enough to throw the hand ax with ease. But what I’m about to unfold is not about strength.

The important thing is the wrist snap.

The wrist strength only needs to be at a minimum level.

Just as calmly as water flows.

Just as there is movement in that stillness, so flexibly──

─Throw it.

Whirlick, when I threw the hand ax far away, it cut through the thorny vines and flew upwards. As I watched the ax fly up in a clean curve, I reached out my hand.

Chak, it wrapped around my hand.

This is the most basic principle of ax technique.

Of course, I didn’t use magic power.

“…….”

“How about it, can you do it.”

“T, that’s a simple technique?!”

“Of course. This is the basics of the basics.”

Ax technique is simpler than other martial arts.

It is different from swordsmanship, which is good at defense, or spear technique, which can be used in various ways. An ax is simply a weapon for chopping something down.

“Is there anything else besides this?”

“I can teach you how to hook and pull a shield, armor, or flesh with the tip of the ax blade, or how to deflect attacks with the wide blade.”

“…….”

Leeji was silent with a serious expression.

It may be a difficult technique for a beginner to learn, but once you learn it, it is not that difficult. In the first place, the ax itself is not a complicated weapon, so how difficult can it be?

Above all, Leeji is a student of Chilseong Academy [elite magic academy].

His magic power is terrible, but he will have a talent that is contrary to that.

“……Instructor.”

“Why, why are you talking with such a serious expression.”

“That technique just now. Can I learn it?”

Well, I can’t give a definite answer rashly.

Even if it’s a simple technique, it will take quite a long time if you don’t have the talent.

But that’s not the answer Leeji wants.

A definite answer from the instructor.

He was asking for recognition.

I don’t know why an academy student, an elite, is making that kind of face, but I can’t say things I don’t mean.

Instead, I can give him learning.

“Try it once. I’ll guide you from the side.”

“……!!”

“Instead, if you spread the word that I taught you at the academy, you’re dead.”

I refuse to be bothered by the controversy over preferential treatment.

Leeji and I stopped walking for a moment.

Pointing to the hand ax in Leeji’s hand, I told him some basic knowledge.

“Do you know what the essence of throwing (投擲) is?”

“Um…… Isn’t it just throwing it?”

“It’s not wrong, but it’s not what I want.”

Throwing is a principle (妙理) [subtle and profound truth].

Two principles divided into throwing (投) and flinging (擲).

It’s not just throwing with all your might.

The principle is created by mixing all kinds of reason, and there is some movement in the quietness of throwing an ax, so how can it not be mysterious?

“I can’t help it. I’ll make you realize what it is with your body.”

“With my body?”

“If you can’t understand it with your head, you can just learn it with your body.”

In addition to the two principles of throwing, there are also the principles of waving (揮) and stillness in motion (靜中動), but.

You can just learn these concepts with your body rather than words.

“Close your eyes and concentrate.”

“Yes!”

“Don’t answer.”

“…….”

Following my words, Leeji closed his eyes and closed his mouth.

But his eyelids and corners of his mouth are twitching.

You can’t be like that.

“Empty your head and arrange your breathing evenly.”

Take a deep breath and inhale.

He seems to be trying to maintain the most peaceful state.

I can see that he is not concentrating.

Slap! I hit the back of Leeji’s neck.

“Ah! What are you doing?!”

“I told you to close your eyes and not talk.”

“……Tsk.”

Leeji jumped, but it’s none of my business.

It is impossible to realize the principle in a short time.

What I’m trying to teach him is a kind of trick.

In order to properly learn that trick, it is important to calm your mind.

You shouldn’t react to external stimuli like this.

Slap, slap, I kept hitting his neck.

I continued to give various stimuli by changing the power, angle, and area.

Leeji couldn’t adapt at first and blushed.

As time passed, he ignored the stimulus and even reached the point of letting it flow.

‘Oh, is that what it means to be a student at Chilseong Academy after all.’

The speed of realization was faster than I expected.

As expected, even extras are different from elites who have entered Chilseong Academy.

It’s not at the level I want, but I can take the next step with this level of growth speed.

“Now, get up slowly.”

“……Is it already over?”

“No. Now you have to ax.”

Leeji grabbed the hand ax.

It would have been better if it was a combat ax.

Well, this kind of hand ax is okay for practice.

I stood next to Leeji and pointed to the log in front of me.

Narrow annual rings were drawn on the log that had died and fallen.

“Aim for the exact center of that annual ring.”

“Yes?”

“You also know that you have to hit it once with the ax blade and then it has to come back to your hand, right?”

“Yes?!”

Leeji spat out a complaint at the suddenly increased difficulty.

He was sitting down until just now, and suddenly he was told to throw an ax, so he seems dumbfounded.

“Um, is this right?”

“Why, is something wrong?”

“Of course it is! Logically, you’re telling me to follow that feat after just meditating. Is it right to teach me?!”

“Of course.”

I stood behind Leeji.

A small and thin body that is hard to believe is a high school student came into view.

I grabbed his thin wrists and corrected his posture.

“I’ll keep throwing and correcting your posture. Don’t worry and throw it.”

“Is this teaching? Isn’t this too ignorant of a method?!”

“I know martial arts much better than you. Shut up and throw it.”

I made Leeji shut his mouth and kept throwing the ax.

At first, it was an awkward posture. Every time he threw it, I fixed his posture, so I could see that he was getting better little by little.

As expected, there is no trick better than learning directly with your body.

The principle that originally required considerable training and study to realize.

I skipped it by directly correcting the posture.

A skill that was originally impossible (技) [waza, technique].

The shape, density, and joints of muscles are different for each person.

The work of directly correcting the body could have taught the wrong posture and caused harm unless there was a precise machine.

But I was able to do it.

I was used to teaching skills to others.

It’s not much different from teaching drills.

After teaching for two hours like that.

Whirlick, the hand ax drew a line and was stuck in the monster’s forehead.

The monster hit by the hand ax fell down as it was. It was an instant death.

“I did it again this time!”

“Yeah, you’re doing well now.”

“Then I’ll try it one more time.”

“Once, twice. Try it more.”

He seems to have found it fun to throw and retrieve the hand ax.

Leeji dealt with all the monsters on the road.

Thanks to that, I didn’t have to do anything.

“This is comfortable.”

Every time Leeji moves, monsters all around die.

I felt like I had a good excavator in my hand.