Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 313

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 313

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 313

Warmer Than Expected (3)

I emerged from my inner world.

“……What time is it?”

The series of processes so far had merely been observing my mind, so the time spent wasn’t long.

“It’s not even past lunchtime.”

It was shorter than I thought.

It was the perfect time for lunch.

I had been wondering if I should eat out, just in case.

Since the timing is like this.

“Let’s eat at home today.”

Swish.

I stimulated space, connecting it to another space.

The place connected was my home’s garden.

Stepping onto the meticulously cultivated flower bed, the surrounding scenery changed from a mountain to a house with a garden.

Thump, thump.

I walked through the garden, enjoying the autumn scenery.

This place had a different charm than the mountains.

It was relatively quaint, making it fun to observe.

After walking around the garden, I entered through the front door.

Click.

The smell of food filled the entire house as I opened the door.

A smell that was always pleasant to inhale.

Several food smells were even overlapping.

It seemed like they used a lot of ingredients from the refrigerator.

‘I hope they didn’t ruin the food with those expensive ingredients.’

With that thought, I walked to the dining table.

The children, already seated, caught my eye.

“You’re already here?”

“Papa!”

The children were surprised that I was already here.

I stroked the children’s heads and took my seat.

One interesting thing was that tableware was already prepared at the head of the table where I sat.

Hmm, I didn’t say I was eating lunch at home.

‘They must have read my mind again.’

As a 「Doppelganger」 connected to me, it wasn’t difficult for us to read each other’s thoughts. It wasn’t particularly a big deal.

But thinking that there’s someone who knows my mind so well.

It feels strangely sentimental.

Maybe it’s even more so because I saw such sights in my inner world.

I scratched my head, picked up my spoon, and the children, recognizing this as a signal, put the side dishes in their mouths. Fortunately, lunch wasn’t bad.

Although the taste was somewhat disappointing compared to the amount of ingredients used.

It was much better compared to the dishes Baek Hyeon-ah used to make.

After enjoying lunch, I spent the day with the children instead of engaging in research or training.

The children were very happy.

Later, as I was about to put the children to bed, I hugged them, saying that I had to go on a business trip to a faraway place tomorrow.

Fortunately, the children didn’t whine.

It’s because I often leave my seat due to work.

However, the duration will be somewhat longer this time, but anyway, it was fortunate.

* * *

The next morning dawned.

After leaving a message to the lab and my teacher that I would be taking a break for the time being, I left the house.

After seeing off my family, I headed to a deserted mountain.

A bright and sunny day.

Blue sky and lush trees.

I’m going to use the key here today.

─Huh? You can use that key here?

‘Of course. There are no restrictions on the key. You can use it anytime you want.’

─I firmly believed that there would be a door corresponding to the key.

‘That’s not the case.’

Everywhere my sight reaches.

All of it is a ‘door’ that leads to the final gateway.

I took out the key from my pocket and infused it with magic.

A very simple act. This alone activated the key.

[The key is searching for a door.]

As she said.

Logically, to use a key, you need a lock or door made to pair with it.

That way, you can close or open it.

But the 「Orchard Key」 is just a key in name and form.

It’s a kind of conceptual object that opens something.

Therefore, you don’t need a lock or door to use the key.

[The key does not need a door.]

If you move the key as if inserting it into the air and turning it like this.

[The key turns.]

Clang!

A rusty sound of something opening in the air was heard.

Did it open well?

As I stood still and watched, the ‘door’ began to show effects.

“So, it was this method?”

The view in front of me distorts.

All the scenery in my view shatters like a broken window.

Something began to seep through the cracks in the broken scenery.

It felt like looking at a giant aquarium.

To describe my feelings right now, it was like standing in the middle of a giant aquarium, watching the glass of the aquarium gradually breaking right in front of me.

First, the glass cracked.

Small streams of water flowed through the cracks in the glass.

Once the situation has come this far, escape is impossible.

Next is now.

Rumble.

The glass itself bursts, and all the contents are about to spill out.

As I compared the series of processes to the breaking aquarium glass.

The scenery in front of me also shattered like glass, and the contents beyond began to gush out. If the aquarium was water, what enveloped my body was like a black universe.

However, if this has one difference from the aquarium.

While the fish in the glass aquarium jump out, the ‘door’ only pulls me inside.

Something like the universe enveloped only me.

Floating.

My body floated into the sky.

It didn’t rise much, just up to my knee height.

‘It’s forcibly sucking me in.’

It wasn’t the power of the wind.

What made me float upwards was closer to gravity than wind.

An invisible force was pulling me.

‘It’s impossible to resist this force.’

Not that I intend to resist.

The intangible force pulling me now was not something I could dare to resist.

I roughly looked at it, but it refused my intervention as if it were natural.

It felt as if the world’s most natural law was forcing me, just like water flows from top to bottom.

As I entrusted myself to that feeling, my body was already.

“……!”

Huh?

Something is too different from what I thought.

I feel pain in my chest, and I feel something leaving my heart. To be exact.

‘It’s being severed?’

Something connected to me was being severed one by one.

The problem is that there’s no way to know what it is.

‘It’s not like my muscles are being cut, and it’s not like magic power is leaking out, so what the hell is being cut?’

A rectangular light flickered in front of my bewildered eyes.

[Confirmed move to system exclusion zone.]

[Upon moving, all functions provided by the system will be suspended.]

System exclusion zone.

That was the cause of this strange sensation.

‘It was the sensation of all the functions the system was providing being cut off.’

That’s a relief.

I can tell because it’s happening in my body.

The severed traces themselves were very clean.

To the extent that I can easily reattach them if I want.

In other words, this severance is not permanent.

If I come back here, I can reconnect them as much as I want.

“I won’t be able to use some skills, but I can just use them again when I come back……?”

Function suspended?

Can’t use some skills?

Thinking this far, something feels strange.

If all connections are cut off, what happens to the skills I’m using in real time right now?

For example, what about 「Doppelganger」?

‘Well, of course…… it will be canceled.’

Even if I implant an artificial heart that produces magic power on its own, the Doppelganger ‘Baek Hyeon-ah’. She is a life form derived from skills.

If I can’t use 「Doppelganger」, she will naturally disappear.

“Damn it.”

Until my body moves beyond the ‘door’.

There’s not much time left.

“I didn’t bring her from that distant foreign land for this reason.”

That the 「Doppelganger」, who was brought in for the protection and childcare of the children, cannot fulfill that role.

What kind of nonsense is that?

There’s no such thing as a joke like that.

‘Quickly transfer the leadership of the skill.’

With a desperate heart, I manipulated magic.

At the same time, I observed my heart.

The heart, the source of magic.

A small blue line leading to the heart that sends magic to every blood vessel.

This was the line connected to Baek Hyeon-ah.

Based on this line, 「Doppelganger」 is always activated, and she and I can understand each other’s thoughts. I injected and pushed everything of 「Doppelganger」 into this small line.

It’s an absurd thing.

From the beginning, skills are not something that can be freely exchanged.

You have to meet several difficult conditions to barely transfer it, and even after meeting the conditions, it takes a considerable amount of time.

But I’m skipping all of that and trying to 「Doppelganger」 now.

Of course, I wasn’t doing it without a basis.

‘There’s no need to look at aptitude anyway. The skill, 「Doppelganger」, is like her whole body.’

Baek Hyeon-ah is a personality born through 「Doppelganger」.

The conditions have already been met.

Then the key is time.

I overwhelmingly lacked that time.

If it’s a low-level skill, it’s enough to invest just one hour to transfer the skill, but as the level increases, the time required for the transfer increases exponentially.

In some cases, a week.

In many cases, you have to invest months of time.

In that respect.

‘It’s the first time I’ve ever had trouble because I have an S-class skill.’

It is clear that the S-class skill, 「Doppelganger」, requires a long time to transfer.

I wasn’t even handing it over right in front of me.

A small line from the heart.

To put it in perspective, it’s like transferring a huge capacity file of an S-class skill with a magic line smaller than a thread.

‘Ha, this is driving me crazy.’

There is no time.

I have less than 10 minutes left, but it seems that it will take at least a week to transfer 「Doppelganger」 no matter how little I estimate it.

I have no choice.

The moment to choose has come.

‘Something has to be given up.’

Something is gained, but something is given up.

A choice of either/or hung before my eyes.

It’s obvious, but.

‘The option to give up the transfer of 「Doppelganger」 does not exist.’

If you give up, it has to be something else.

So I gave up my body.

“……!”

I overworked my body to increase the speed of transmission.

Instead of damaging my body, I invested that much resources in the transfer of 「Doppelganger」. As a result, my body began to complain of pain.

It hurts so much that I can’t even speak properly.

“……Cough!”

The biggest problem is the organic structure of the heart and magic power, the blood vessels.

All the blood vessels in my body were twisted because of this.

A feeling like a balloon with water in it twisting.

The pain is pain, but the blood pressure was soaring like crazy.

As the pressure in the blood vessels rose to a terrifying level.

Pick!

This time, it dropped at a terrifying speed.

‘……Ha.’

This is a big problem.

I ran my hand over my face.

The rapidly decreasing blood pressure returns to normal─

─Whoosh!

It was falling more than it was coming.

It’s like an elevator with a broken safety device falling vertically from the roof of a building. Maybe it’ll be over when it crashes to the ground.

The moment I thought that.

The floor was right in front of me.

It was really fast.

Just before colliding head-on with the floor before I could do anything.

Ding!

That sound that had been ominous all along.

[Starting the move.]

This time, it sounded beautiful.

[The use of all types of 「Traits」 and 「Skills」 becomes impossible.]

[There is a reaction due to the abuse of a specific 「Skill」.]

[Confirmed that the reaction is due to the system. Forcibly take the reaction for smooth movement.]

[Switching the status window to hibernation.]