Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 297

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 297

Baal (2)

I woke up in the morning and made breakfast.

I was alone in the kitchen today.

It was 9:30 AM.

It was long past my usual wake-up time.

Baek Hyeon-ah and the kids were all fast asleep.

Maybe it’s because it’s the weekend.

They’re sleeping longer than usual.

“Anyone would think they actually have to go to school or study on weekdays.”

Neither Baek Hyeon-ah nor Erzebet are particularly productive around the house.

But they don’t exactly take over the housework either.

That’s because I share most of the chores with them.

Still, Erzebet takes on homework from me and practices her abilities in the underground training ground every day.

It’s only for an hour, though. I’d like to make her do it for two or three hours more, but she’s an emotionally sensitive child and can’t stay underground for long.

“Well, it’s the weekend, so I should let them sleep in.”

Anyway, it’s hard to rely on those three on the front lines.

“It’s better to let them enjoy playing house.”

We’re tied together as a family now, but those sleeping in the bedroom were originally walking disasters.

Mother, Baek Hyeon-ah, as a “Doppelganger” [a being that can perfectly imitate others], was a disaster that imitated others, devastated human relationships, and collapsed society.

The eldest daughter, Erzebet, was a monster who was angry at the world that tormented her and wanted to dye the whole world with blood.

The youngest, Baek-ah, was the end in and of herself.

The essence of that child, who is taking the form of a newborn, is a dragon.

A wicked dragon at that.

She’s still young, so her sense of right and wrong hasn’t been established, and she’s not emotionally mature, so there’s room for education, but fundamentally, she’s the most dangerous.

“It’s a dangerous combination.”

If there wasn’t a center of gravity like me, something big would have happened for sure.

Something bigger than what Baek Seok-ho, who became a demon, did.

More disgusting and horrific things would have happened.

As it is, I can’t even do my research properly these days just by cleaning up what Baek Seok-ho did.

Today is the weekend, too.

I have to go out to work right after breakfast.

I have to feed my family quickly and get out of here.

“Breakfast is ready. Wake up.”

“Ba!”

“The youngest, who went to bed latest, woke up first.”

I opened the door to the main room and woke them up.

Dada dada!

Baek-ah crawled out from the floor.

Judging by the fact that she’s heading to the kitchen, the smell of food must have captivated her nose. But, well.

“How did she get out of bed?”

I clearly put her to bed in the crib yesterday, but it’s strange.

The crib has measures in place to prevent the baby from falling out, just in case.

That’s the sturdy and high bars.

Like the frame of a window, it’s built so densely that it’s impossible for a baby to get out on her own.

‘But that’s a different story if the opponent is a dragon.’

Baek-ah is just a human baby on the outside, but the contents are a young dragon.

Because she’s a hatchling.

It wouldn’t be difficult to get out of bed on her own.

I roughly accepted it.

I gave up thinking about it in detail.

“Wake up. Baek-ah crawled to the table first.”

“……Huh? Did you already make breakfast?”

“What do you mean already? It’s almost 10 AM. I have to eat this and go to the main house.”

“Oh, right. You said you were going to do a big purge today. But who is Baek-ah you just mentioned? Don’t tell me you brought another child from outside?”

Uh? She doesn’t know who Baek-ah is.

I was momentarily embarrassed, but when I thought about it, the name Baek-ah was the name I gave her last night. Baek Hyeon-ah wasn’t there yesterday, so I should call her a baby to make her understand.

“It’s the baby’s name. I gave it to her last night.”

“……I don’t think I was there?”

“Because I gave her the name when everyone was asleep.”

“Ah! You should have woken me up for such a monumental event!”

“Shut up and get up and eat.”

I roughly woke Baek Hyeon-ah up and made her sit at the table.

I was going to wake Erzebet up too, but she was already washing her face in the bathroom. The one who took on the role of mother is the laziest.

After handing Baek Hyeon-ah a spoon, I immediately set the table for breakfast.

Stew with plenty of meat, rice, and bread. I laid out foods that are good to eat with them one by one.

“I’ve seasoned the stew appropriately, so you can eat it with rice or bread.”

It’s also good to drink as a soup.

It’s good to dip in bread.

The side dishes I brought were cooked with care so that they could be eaten deliciously on rice or bread.

“Okay, our Baek-ah. Let’s eat.”

“Ah~.”

Baek-ah’s hand muscles were developed.

They were developed enough to eat baby food on her own.

I wanted to feed her myself, so I fed her soup with a small baby spoon.

“I don’t know if it’ll be delicious.”

I made it thinner than the existing soup so that the baby could eat it.

The seasoning was weak, and the vegetables and meat were cut into small pieces and cooked thoroughly so that they could be easily broken down with just the gums.

‘In the first place, she’s a dragon, so she has sharp baby teeth, but it’s still good to cook it thoroughly.’

Baek-ah’s teeth were sharp.

Even though she’s not at the age where teeth grow or develop, as if to prove that she’s a dragon herself. Sharp, sharp teeth were growing.

“Ah! Euu!”

“What does that mean?”

“I think it means it’s delicious? I can feel that her babbling is more excited than when I made rice yesterday.”

“Dad! You made this really well. It’s more delicious than what you usually make. What else did you put in it?”

Stew is a food that I often make for the kids.

Actually, I was going to make stew at first.

I was worried about the salt content of foods like kimchi stew or soybean paste stew, and above all, it was difficult for Baek-ah to eat. So, instead of stew, I made stew.

Stew is warm, and if you put enough ingredients in it, the kids can have a hearty meal and still have plenty left over, so it was a great food to eat for a simple breakfast.

I didn’t pick up a spoon until I saw the kids and Erzebet eating their fill with my own eyes.

The stew was a little cold, but this didn’t affect the taste.

Even if there wasn’t the emotion unique to warm soup.

It was delicious.

“You made it well.”

“Right?! What on earth do you put in here to make it like this?”

“The only thing I added today was deeply brewed chicken broth?”

“Really? Then I should buy chicken and put it in from now on!”

“If you’re going to do that, just put in chicken stock.”

Why bother brewing it again?

The reason I added broth made by deeply brewing the flesh and bones of the chicken was because I had enough time to make it. If you put in chicken stock instead of taking the trouble to make chicken broth, you can save time and effort and get a similar taste.

That’s what I meant.

Erzebet shook her head, saying she didn’t like it.

“No! Isn’t that bad for your body?”

“I don’t know about the others, but the chicken stock I often use is harmless to the human body.”

“No matter what, it’s made in a factory. How can you feed that to a baby! I can’t do that.”

Ah, it’s because of what to feed the baby.

‘But there’s no need to do that.’

In fact, baby food was meaningless to Baek-ah.

The stomach of a fire-breathing dragon was on a different level than that of a human.

She had enough sharp teeth to break down food, and her digestion was excellent.

Her digestion was so excellent that she never had a bowel movement no matter how much food she ate.

Baek-ah’s body absorbs all the nutrients.

She doesn’t leave any form of residue.

Thanks to this, the diaper that Baek-ah wore was reduced to a kind of decoration.

I was thinking of just putting on children’s underwear because she didn’t even pee, but she didn’t like it when I tried to force her to wear underwear because she liked the feel of the diaper.

‘Baby food is the same.’

Just like she prefers diapers to underwear, Baek-ah also prefers to eat food that is diluted and made small like baby food rather than the original food.

Chicken stock? MSG [Monosodium glutamate]? Synthetic additives?

Those things were meaningless in front of that child’s stomach.

Judging from the circumstances, Erzebet doesn’t seem to know that.

‘I should keep my mouth shut in this situation.’

If I’m a dad, I should protect my daughter’s innocence about the baby in this situation.

I don’t know how long that innocence will last.

* * *

“Hmm, did I eat too much?”

Thanks to the vast amount of magic that provides the nutrients that should be supplied by food, my food intake has decreased day by day.

When the kids stared intently at my rice bowl, I had no choice but to eat a bowl every day. Even that was enough to make me feel full.

Today, Erzebet said that the stew was especially delicious and filled my plate, which she had emptied, with stew.

‘The second plate was really too much.’

─You ate quite a bit.

‘It was an amount that wouldn’t be strange to eat over three days, but eating it all in one meal made my stomach feel bloated.’

From the point when food was no longer essential for my survival.

For me, a meal was just something to eat with good alcohol from time to time.

Of course, it was not easy to make the children, who enjoyed gastronomy beyond survival, understand my news.

So, every meal, the children tried to feed me something with their little hands.

I had no choice.

I couldn’t not eat what they gave me.

Every time the kids gave me more food, I ate it all.

It’s just that there was a lot of it today.

─Can you go to the main house and sort it out with that stomach?

‘Sorting out who to get rid of and who not to? I’ve prepared everything for that.’

Swish.

I took out a piece of paper from my pocket.

The paper was written in very small letters with people’s names and evaluations.

At least 200 names were written, and they were the names of the vested interests to be sorted out. This paper is a kind of kill list.

─Are you going to kill all the guys written there?

‘Kill them.’

How scary to say such a thing.

‘This isn’t murder, it’s strictly a natural death.’

Natural death.

He died on his own in nature.

So it’s a natural death.

‘How much have those people been eating so far? They deserve to die of natural causes at this point.’

Six elders.

Hundreds of butlers.

Hundreds of servants.

They were all heinous criminals who had earned the resentment of an unspecified number of people.

No matter how much money and power they had, there were several who were so vicious that even the court couldn’t take their side.

Today will be the day these people take off their hats [lose their positions].

The incident caused by Baek Seok-ho.

Now, citizens are slowly realizing what happened and that someone has to take responsibility. According to Baek Eun-ho’s words, which I secretly planted, the elders are planning to pass the responsibility on to me.

What a joke.

‘They’re talking nonsense.’

I was the one who solved the case in the first place.

Instead of asking for responsibility, I worked so hard that it wouldn’t be strange to be compensated. Thanks to me, the number of casualties was reduced exponentially compared to the scale and scope of the incident caused by Baek Seok-ho.

They took control of the media and took out only my mentions.

“The media.”

There must be a lot of the elders’ cronies there, right?

I’ll have to stop by several places on the way home from the main house.

─There will be a lot of people dying of natural causes in the mountains today.

“I guess so.”

I hope it doesn’t exceed four digits.