Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 298

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 298

Baal (3)

I drove the car near the mansion.

I parked the car in a nearby village and got out.

“What a tranquil village.”

A quiet and still village.

It was around lunchtime, so I wondered if people were quiet because they were eating lunch at home or in restaurants.

Even considering that, it was too quiet.

It was like looking at a village that had been made quiet from the beginning.

“So that’s why they said it was territory under the family.”

There was a reason why I bothered to park the car in this village.

The buildings and overall atmosphere of this village have a similar style and structure to the main family’s mansion.

That’s because this village was created along with the construction of the mansion.

‘A place where branch families and stewards who have families live.’

The village was not small.

It looked like a fairly wealthy village.

Even that village was just an extension of the mansion.

I could once again feel the wealth and influence of the Cheonho Baekga family.

“Now all of this will soon be in my grasp.”

The complete power of the head of the family.

The power to wield and control as I please will come under my command.

Obtaining both wealth and power at the same time.

Grasping the wealth and power that rolled in like a vine wasn’t a bad feeling, but it didn’t really matter.

It wasn’t a bad feeling.

It didn’t give me much excitement.

‘Because I have no intention of using it for personal gain anyway.’

To me, the family’s power was nothing more than a means to control and block the scenarios that would unfold in the future from the root.

I was thinking about future plans when I heard someone calling me.

“H-Head of the family? Aren’t you the head of the family?”

“…….”

“What brings you to such a remote and secluded village?”

“…….”

A middle-aged man with a protruding belly.

He was a common sight in any city, but his unique relaxed atmosphere was not something that could be found in just anyone.

A unique sense of stability that comes from being economically and psychologically stable. It felt like I was facing a wealthy merchant.

‘This face. I remember it.’

Baek Seung-woo’s diary, left alone in my mind.

Thanks to the many pages in the diary filled with the faces and detailed information of people around him, I could recognize the middle-aged man I was seeing for the first time.

However, it was just to take out and scan my memory.

It only took a little time.

……Ah.

I remembered.

“Choi Young-seok. He was the family’s coachman for generations, and now he’s in charge of distribution, right?”

“Do you know about me?”

“……Of course. As the head of the family, how could I forget the heads of the branch families? This much is basic knowledge.”

I nonchalantly spat out a lie without blinking an eye.

Then, the middle-aged man widened his eyes and showed a tearful look as if he was moved.

─Do you know him?

‘No, I’ve only read about him in the diary.’

─For someone you’ve only read about, he seems very touched. Didn’t you say that the branch families had already fallen into the hands of the elders?

The Cheonho Baekga family is a very large family.

When it comes to size and power in the world, it is one of the top nine.

Families are usually connected by blood, and it would be strange if there was only one branch family in a blood-related relationship.

The Cheonho Baekga family is a great family that competes for the top spot in the world.

‘The Cheonho Baekga family has a total of ninety-nine branch families.’

─Ninety-nine? 99 families? Not the number of people, but the number of branch families?

‘It’s a number inspired by the nine tails of the Gumiho [a mythical nine-tailed fox in Korean folklore].’

Ninety-nine branch families.

In other words, the Cheonho Baekga family can be regarded as a complex group consisting of 99 small families.

Of course, not all ninety-nine branch families are large groups.

The number ninety-nine was only a symbolic number.

Because the Gumiho has 9 tails.

It only came from the idea of matching 99.

‘Some branch families have hundreds or thousands of members, while others have less than 10 members.’

─Ah, so that’s probably the case with that person too.

It’s a village that looks like a wealthy neighborhood, but it felt a little out of place for someone representing a large branch family to live there.

If that were the case, there should be a prominent mansion, if not as much as the main family.

‘No, Choi Young-seok. The branch family he formed has 877 members as of two years ago. In terms of the number of members or the size of the power, it boasts the 13th largest scale among the branch families.’

─What?

On the surface, Choi Young-seok is not that great.

In fact, his job as a ‘coachman’ was the biggest factor in making him underestimated. In reality, it’s completely different.

‘That family has been in charge of the main family’s coachman for eight generations. Even Choi Young-seok himself served the former head of the family couple at official events.’

Whether it’s a carriage, a palanquin, or a car.

Entrusting the helmsman of the vehicle the head of the family is riding in is the same as entrusting one’s life. If the driver has bad intentions, it’s not difficult to send the head of the family away in a traffic accident.

─He’s a very trusted person?

‘Yes, even if I have no contact with him, there’s no doubt that he’s a good person.’

The coachman spoke with a pleasant face.

Most of them were words of greeting.

Unlike superficial greetings, his greetings were sincere.

He was a coachman who served the former head of the family, so he may be glimpsing the two deceased through me.

Then that’s good.

“─So I swerved the steering wheel at that time and dropped those guys off the carriage! When I think about those days, I was fearless. But even now, when I have drinks with my acquaintances, it’s a regular topic that always comes up, hahaha.”

“I see. But actually, I have a request.”

“Ah, it’s not about money.”

“I have more money than you do.”

“It’s not about my precious daughter either.”

“A guy who broke off his engagement has no business with women. And as far as I know, your daughters are all in their mid-30s.”

“Ah, then anything is fine. Just tell me!”

“…….”

This guy was a little strange.

What is it, did he have a heavy day drink?

I don’t smell alcohol.

─He’s a trustworthy person… right? Suddenly I’m getting anxious.

‘Maybe it’ll be okay. Maybe.’

The reason why I bothered to park my car in this remote village.

That was none other than because I needed a coachman.

“I need your horse right now.”

“That means……!!”

“Yes, it seems you’ve noticed.”

It seems he noticed what I wanted to say.

After all, for him, who has been a coachman for generations, saying that he needs his horse is the same as saying that he wants to ride the carriage he leads.

The carriage stored in the coachman’s warehouse in this village is old, but the maintenance and repair have been thoroughly maintained to this day to maintain the family tradition.

─But what’s the point of the carriage?

‘It’s nothing special. I’m going to use the tradition that if the family flag planted on the carriage is seen from afar, all the people in the mansion will immediately stop what they are doing and come to pay their respects to the head of the family.’

─Why?

‘Because I have to purge the elders according to tradition.’

Wouldn’t I need groundwork?

It would also be a good example.

* * *

The same weekend as usual.

One elder was reduced, so I was going to elect a new elder.

At that time, all the elders of the family visited the main house.

Clatter, clatter.

With the sound of wheels, the head of the family came.

He also rode a carriage.

Planting the family flag.

He came to the main house.

In an unusual atmosphere, the servants had already prostrated themselves.

The elders also looked around and eventually knelt on one knee in front of the red carpet laid out in front of the carriage door.

“Paying respects to the head of the family─!”

“Greetings are enough. I will hold a general assembly right now.”

“!!!!”

A sense of unease swept through the elders’ heads at the head of the family’s command.

However, their bodies first obeyed the head of the family’s command.

The elders, who had been waiting next to the chairs until the head of the family sat in the seat of honor in the conference room, recalled various minor rules due to the long-awaited general assembly.

‘Really, how long has it been since the last general assembly?’

‘I can’t believe a general assembly would be held so suddenly.’

‘I haven’t prepared anything yet……!!’

General Assembly.

Unlike other meetings that decide the major and minor affairs of the family, this general assembly is a place to decide the most essential things.

For example.

“Now, I will directly present the agenda.”

“What kind of agenda……?”

“The Fifth Elder’s heinous crimes and the traitors who helped him are here right now. I will dismiss them and execute the punishment.”

Dismissal and punishment of elders.

The General Assembly exists to punish those who cannot be punished by simple meetings or family laws.

Of course, this General Assembly is also held when dealing with matters that are as important as that.

This General Assembly is also held when appointing elders and conducting in-depth discussions about the head of the family.

“What do you mean, Head of the Family?”

It was too sudden.

It was shocking enough that he came to the main house without notice.

He rode the head of the family’s exclusive carriage and held a general assembly as soon as he got out of the carriage.

The authority to hold a general assembly usually rests with the head of the family, so the elders could not say anything until the general assembly was held.

But not now.

Now that the meeting has been held, the elders also had the right to speak.

“Don’t make me say what I said again.”

However, Seung-woo did not seem to give the elders a chance to use their right to speak.

He roughly drove them away. The Sixth Elder roughly got up from his seat at the sight of him forcibly leading the conversation.

Squeak!

A loud noise was heard as the chair was dragged across the floor.

Everyone’s eyes turned to the Sixth Elder at the sound.

“Head of the Family! No matter how much you are the owner of this family, the family is not built alone!”

“Yes, you said it well.”

“The Head of the Family’s actions are clearly oppression. In the history of the Cheonho Baekga family, there is no precedent for a Head of the Family who has oppressed the elders……!”

The Sixth Elder’s words were cut off.

His body froze with his mouth open while he was speaking.

Seung-woo was where his gaze was directed.

Swish.

He fully revealed the tails that he had been transparently hiding until now.

One, two, three…… seven, eight.

A total of eight tails spread out widely.

The black tails, which could not be found in the family, were like the night sky.

Stars shining colorfully in every corner of the tail caught my eye.

The Sixth Elder was also a martial artist who had built up his divine power in his own way. He immediately realized what those stars meant.

“M-Mass of magic power?”

The mass of magic power that sparkled by making each tail the night sky was small to match the size of the tail.

However, each of those masses.

He possessed more magic power than the heart of a player with at least A-class magic power.

Why did he suddenly spread his tails?

Before that, when did he realize eight in the first place?

The realm of Palmiho [Eight-Tailed Fox].

There were not more than 100 people written in the book where all the history of the clan was recorded.

Only a hundred people in 1,000 years.

He had reached the realm of that unbelievably low ratio.

Seung-woo was in a state of reaching it.

The elders and branch families were surprised for different reasons.

At the same time.

The initiative of the atmosphere gradually turned to Seung-woo’s side.

‘It’s not a bad atmosphere.’

Seung-woo, who led the atmosphere, was slowly trying to launch the next offensive.

Whoo-oong─!

That would have been the case if the wind hadn’t suddenly blown in the windowless conference room.

“……You.”

“Haha, Head of the Family. I’m sorry, but with this atmosphere, the Sixth Elder will be too frightened to continue the meeting.”

An old man said with a chuckle.

He is the First Elder.

The first elder of the family and the oldest of the Cheonho Baekga family who has held that position for the longest time.

How long has he reigned as an elder?

He even has the title of Grand Elder as another title to refer to him.

Seung-woo called his title.

“Grand Elder.”

“Yes, Head of the Family.”

“How dare you interrupt the Head of the Family? Where did you learn that habit?”

“!!!!”

He mentioned habits to the Grand Elder, who was still healthy even though he was over eighty years old this year.

Everyone who participated in the meeting thought that the Head of the Family and the Grand Elder might fight a big fight.

Isn’t this a big deal?

At the same time as the thought spread widely, one question began to spread among the people.

If they fight.

Who will win?

The nominal owner of the house? Or the hidden power of the house?

The elders and the heads of the branch families looked at the two alternately.

“…….”

No conversation took place.

The only thing they heard was.

“……gulp.”

It was only the sound of the Grand Elder swallowing his saliva.

The Grand Elder sat in the seat located at the very front because he was the First Elder.

The only thing that could be seen from that seat was the seat of the Head of the Family located at the highest seat. The expression of the Grand Elder seen from there was.

“You’re very scared.”

Unbelievable as a fox.

It was like a frightened rat.