Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 330

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 330

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 330

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The White Knight subjugation.

After that series of events, Seungwoo became a hero to the allied citizens.

Over the past 10 years, how many countries had fallen, and how many people had disappeared, becoming rust on the knights’ swords?

The last country to hold out until the very end, “Alvheim,” a nation protected by trees grown into buildings and diverse flora and fauna, had become a pile of ashes. Since then, the alliance had long lost hope.

Not only did they doubt their ability to win.

Many people thought that even landing a single blow was impossible.

For the citizens, the best outcome wasn’t to win the war, but to prolong it as much as possible and live as long as they could before dying.

A kind of euthanasia. The citizens of the alliance gave up on life and prayed for a relatively peaceful death.

“Praise our hero!”

“Seu! Seu! Seu! Seu!”

“The eccentric who lived in seclusion in the canyon!”

“That short name. May it be eternally brilliant!”

In the midst of all this despair, an upheaval occurred.

It started with a masked man whose identity was unknown.

Wearing a fox mask, he was suspicious to the core.

In that man’s pocket was an advanced energy stone, a symbol of having killed a high-ranking knight.

Afterward, he easily defeated all the warriors who attacked him.

In the process of fighting, he didn’t even get a scratch.

He didn’t allow a single punch from the warriors to land.

He dodged all the attacks coming at him and landed all his own, sending giant beast warriors flying.

In many ways, it was an extraordinary beginning.

Such extraordinariness was a perfect subject for praise.

“The masked man is the hero of the canyon! And our hero!”

“Let’s praise his name and drink heavily today!”

“Seu! Seu! Seu! Seu!”

It’s a complete festival atmosphere.

Even though it was broad daylight, soldiers were drinking alcohol and shouting the pseudonym Seungwoo used.

I understand being in a good mood, but drinking in broad daylight is not right.

For a moment, I was worried that military discipline might be lax, but I heard that it was the first victory against attacks from knights and high-ranking knights.

‘This much… well.’

I thought it could be excused.

Eventually, Seungwoo turned his eyes away from them.

It was practically a sign of indulgence.

Since no one was stopping them, people eventually started to burn even more intensely.

The heat, which was only a small bonfire, had become a wildfire covering the mountain.

Even so, as if there was still more to burn.

The revelry did not subside and was still getting hotter.

There were soldiers who poured alcohol on their bodies and even went into the liquor barrels.

Normally, a sober fellow soldier would take him out of the barrel, but even the sober soldiers were caught up in the atmosphere, dancing with a happy look whether he went into the barrel or not.

“Let’s dance until our feet burn!”

“Let’s just! Just enjoy today!”

“I’m in a good mood, so I’ll show you a trick!”

“Oh! I can’t lose either! I can tie knots without using my hands with my monkey tail!”

“Seu! Seu! Seu! Seu!”

Eventually, talent shows even came out.

This is a complete neighborhood market and a feast.

Seungwoo shook his head.

The joy of people transformed from excitement to madness.

‘I can’t think of a way to stop this.’

Eventually, Seungwoo increased his walking speed.

‘Let’s quickly do what I have to do. Let’s go into my barracks and rest.’

Let’s seal the entrance of the barracks tightly with magic.

A drunken madman might invade.

The shouts of drunken soldiers were last heard behind Seungwoo, who had almost reached his destination.

“Wow! He really tied his tail without using his hands…!”

“Doesn’t that hurt?”

“Huh? Of course, it hurts like hell. I’m enduring it with the power of alcohol.”

“Seu! Seu! Seu! Seu!!”

“Hey. You were one beat too fast.”

“Oh, really? Sorry, then I’ll do it again. Seu! Seu! Seu! Seu!”

“Good! That’s it.”

Madness.

An indescribable madness was right behind Seungwoo.

Seungwoo never looked back and headed inside the building.

On the outside, it looked the same as the buildings where ordinary citizens lived, but according to the advance notice, this place was the same as other areas, only with a different appearance.

‘Finally, I meet the highest person in the leadership.’

This is the leadership, above that.

The place where the highest person is.

“The highest person would have the most essential information.”

Information, like money, is an unfair commodity.

Just as a person in a high position can sweep away money, the most important information is also handled by a high person.

Seungwoo has now won the opportunity to get that information.

* * *

The head of the leadership.

I heard that the head is none other than the princess of the elves.

─Princess? Not a king or prince?

“There. Is there a guide?”

“Yes, I’m here. Hero.”

“I came by invitation, but I lack a little knowledge about the alliance. Why is a princess in the position of leader, not a king or prince?”

“That’s because all the kings and relatives of all countries and races except for the princess have died. The monsters and knights’ forces focused on eliminating the noble bloodline first. Except for one person, their guillotine succeeded in executing all the royals around the world.”

‘Did you hear that? Everyone died except for one princess, so that’s why.’

─…I wasn’t expecting this kind of answer.

Who cares if the princess is the king or not.

My interest is not in status or gender, but in the information that person has.

Everything else didn’t matter.

The fact that the princess was the head of the alliance soon became unimportant information.

Rather, this unusual road I’m walking on is attracting my attention more than that right now. The road is more winding and unusual than I thought.

It seems to be an element to hide the princess’s location.

“Not above, but below. Indeed… a simple but effective method.”

“I’m sorry, Hero.”

“Seu. That name is fine.”

“No. If you call you ‘Seu,’ the citizens will protest, saying that you are daring to call the hero comfortably without using honorifics in an official setting. And above all, it’s more comfortable to call you ‘Hero’ than ‘Seu.'”

“…Ah, yeah. That’s right.”

─I think he’s a guide. He seems crazy from always guiding. Why does he talk so long?

Just leave him alone, I guess it’s his job characteristic.

Honestly, I didn’t care what they called me from my point of view.

‘Because it doesn’t matter what title I’m called at this point.’

If I needed fame, I would have cared about the title.

But now my popularity is beyond imagination.

It’s not just about being treated like a hero, people are looking up to me as the hope of humanity.

‘In fact, no matter how I act, as long as I can bring hope to people, it doesn’t matter.’

Now is not the time for me to care about them.

It’s the turn of the alliance’s leadership to care about me.

In the future, the alliance will do anything to please me.

And I, as their light, will illuminate the path of the sheep.

But what is this?

‘I think this used to be like this before.’

Suddenly, I felt deja vu.

This is not my first experience.

I was treated like a savior when I was young.

I can’t believe I’m going to be treated like this damn savior again.

Still, what has changed compared to the past.

‘My mindset has definitely changed.’

When I was young, my heart felt so heavy that I felt like I was going to die.

I lived every moment with the feeling that a huge stone was on my heart.

If it was when I was young, I would have had difficulty breathing due to psychological pressure.

Now I felt relatively calm.

Whether it’s because the people in this world are not ‘my people,’ or because I’ve already had a similar experience once.

Whatever it is, this will also be my growth.

Let’s accept it with joy.

“We have arrived.”

As I was thinking and walking, I arrived before I knew it.

This place was deep underground, but paradoxically, it was a green place overall because the stems were deeply rooted.

It was quite deep underground.

Nevertheless, instead of brown roots, green stems and branches were welcoming me. It’s not that the plants are strange.

‘It’s just that this place itself is alien.’

I can feel the vitality even though it’s underground.

The air is generally fresh, and the water flows gently.

If I hadn’t walked directly to the underground with my own feet, I wouldn’t have believed that this place was underground.

“Indeed, this is the power of the high elves.”

“…….”

The tree-shaped buildings that exist in the alliance.

Clearly, they were unprocessed trees with properly rooted roots, but I wondered why they grew in such a way to become houses for people.

If the high elf’s ability is like this, I can fully understand.

By the way, that guide.

“…….”

He hasn’t said a word since arriving here.

Until just now, he would answer everything I asked right away, and he was such a chatterbox that I thought he was a talkative guy.

“I guess you can’t speak here?”

“…….”

As expected, there was no answer.

When I looked at the silent guide, the answer came from far away.

“Don’t bother him too much. He’s a person who has difficulty speaking properly because of the rules of the clan. The reason why he talked so much on the way here is because he needs to be careful about what he says as the princess’s guide.”

─That voice is… Aha? No wonder he disappeared around the time the White Knight appeared on the pretext of a mission. This was the reason.

A familiar voice was heard.

Yes, it would usually be heard in this situation.

I looked up with a blank expression.

A ceiling made of stems. Spring water flowing from somewhere I don’t know.

And despite the tightly closed ceiling, the sunny and warm weather and sunlight that I don’t know when it came in.

A small nature is separate.

This underground was building an ecosystem.

But only one thing. There were no animals, including people.

Only a frail and beautiful girl covered in grass, branches, and petals was lying on the tree.

“…You.”

“Not you, but Princess.”

The girl, who immediately corrected my words, said with a smile.

Just a day ago, that smile was a clear smile that girls usually make, but what was floating on her lips now was a smile of a power holder that was extremely weary.

Heh heh.

‘I can’t believe she was a girl who made such an expression.’

I didn’t notice even though I had been with her for about a week.

Well, she was hiding such a sign.

‘It’s weirder to notice.’

When I looked at the girl in front of me now, I felt an unknown greatness.

The great high elf.

Just by facing her for a moment.

I could see why this little girl was the representative of this alliance.

She hid this for a whole week?

“Indeed… the representative of the alliance is on a different level from other mediocre people. Isn’t that right?”

“Is that so? I think so too. Thank you for the compliment.”

That relaxed attitude and the energy surrounding her.

Even the sign felt from her.

When I looked at it as a whole.

This was a strong person with a different grain from me.

“You.”

“Huh?”

My gaze turned to her.

The girl who was defeated by me and followed me around was not a small and cute child.

“You have been protecting the alliance from the knights alone until now, right?”

She was a monster among monsters who protected the entire human race alone.

In that conviction.

“Correct!”

She drove a wedge.