Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 336

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 336

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 336

Five Minutes to Chaos (1)

“I told you to prepare immediately.”

“That’s impossible.”

Bang!

I slammed my fist on the wooden table.

If I had just thrown a punch, only my hand would have hurt.

Perhaps that’s why mana responded to my emotions and wrapped around my fist.

The fist easily shattered the table, and the floor beneath it was also dented.

“Oh, oh?”

The woman sitting in front of me was speechless.

She was someone from the higher-ups. With absolutely no direct combat ability.

With the typical thin and fragile body of a high-ranking official, she couldn’t withstand the wildness of a single punch that shattered the table and the floor.

“I, I’m sorry! I, to the benefactor of the Union…! I mean, it’s not that I don’t want to because I dislike you! It’s just that someone above me subtly refused while telling me to take what I could get!”

“Who.”

“……Pardon?”

“Who in the higher-ups.”

I leaned my face towards her.

Perhaps due to the cognitive impairment built into the mask, along with abilities like cognitive dissonance [a psychological phenomenon where conflicting beliefs cause discomfort], moisture welled up in the woman’s eyes as I thrust my face—specifically, the mask—forward.

The clashing of the foreign sensation emanating from the mask and the allure I exuded as a fox created an even more bizarre and unpleasant aura, pressuring her.

“Ah, uh, th, that’s…! Commander of the West Sea.”

“West Sea? Commander?”

“Haha. It’s not an entirely unpleasant feeling to hear two people talking about me.”

A voice from behind.

A voice closer to an old man than middle-aged grated on my nerves.

“……!”

“……”

His appearance was truly sudden.

I was in the middle of delivering information and explaining what I had seen to the person in charge of the command headquarters, the de facto [in reality] power holder who oversees command.

To do this, I had directly entered the secret room where she worked.

‘I didn’t sense any presence at all.’

A stealthy presence.

It was clear that it wasn’t the old man’s ability.

It was the ability of the secret room itself.

“So, what were you two talking about?”

“I, I’ll be going now.”

“Ah, Vice Commander Gari Bel Borg. Why don’t you stay a little longer? Wouldn’t it be strange to leave two men in your office?”

“I, it’s alright! Then I’ll be going now…!”

As that old man said.

This office belonged to that woman.

Gari Bel Borg… a person with a complicated name.

But as soon as that old man entered, the woman began to leave as if this place were his territory. A clear superior-subordinate relationship.

It’s common for soldiers to have a clear hierarchy, but.

‘……Hmm.’

─The atmosphere is really gloomy. Someone’s going to suffocate and die, aren’t they?

The air in the area is too stiff and stifling to be called military discipline. No joke.

‘Someone who really can’t stand feeling suffocated might actually die.’

This is a bit much.

An atmosphere deliberately created.

What this means is.

‘They’re openly trying to ostracize me.’

This senile commander is completely out of his mind.

I’ve gone to such lengths to help the Union, and this is how they treat me?

“……You’ve crossed the line.”

“Haha. This old man doesn’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Speak respectfully.”

“What did you say? I can’t hear well because I’m old.”

The old commander, West Sea, cupped his hand to his ear like a funnel, trying to listen. A gesture used when he can’t hear others well.

But the ear that made that gesture.

Twitched, long and pointed like a rabbit’s ear.

No, it was a rabbit itself. This person was a rabbit beastman.

“……Ha.”

He couldn’t hear with those big ears?

The person who heard everything that woman and I said earlier like a ghost?

“You’re really infuriating.”

“……What did you just say?”

“Hey, Rabbit. I clearly told you to speak respectfully. Do I look like your friend? Or a subordinate?”

I crossed my legs and spoke arrogantly.

“Well, if you’re an outsider to the Union…!”

Outsider?

I saved you guys, and I’m an outsider?

How absurd.

“……Ha.”

These guys are provoking me.

“I went to the trouble of saving a dying group, but the leaders are acting like this. I can’t believe it.”

I think I know why all the countries in this world have perished.

It’s clear that the problem wasn’t the people’s skills, but the leaders.

“What outrageous remarks are you making?”

West Sea spoke in an unpleasant tone.

He seized on one thing and assumed a dignity he didn’t have, walking with his hands behind his back. I wanted to kill him right then and there.

At first, I wondered why someone like him was sitting in the position of commander of the Union. But after exchanging a few foolish words with him, I understood.

‘There’s really no hope. The enemies outside aren’t easy, but the bugs eating away at the inside are so big.’

If that’s the case, then… yeah, let’s just go wild.

There’s no more courtesy to maintain.

If we leave it like this, everyone here will die anyway.

If killing one person can save others.

Especially if that one person is a dirty piece of trash.

‘Even better.’

I grabbed West Sea by the collar.

This process is just sorting out the trash. West Sea was nothing more than trash.

“If it’s discovered that you made such outrageous remarks, your position will be. Huh? Wh, what on earth are you doing…? Keuk!”

Grabbing him by the collar.

“S, suffocating…! What is th, this…!”

I lifted him up as he was.

Commander West Sea, his neck constricted, struggled.

He used mana to strengthen his body and attacked me with magical abilities, but all his attacks disappeared before they could even reach me.

They were easily blocked by the defense magic that was constantly deployed.

“Pl, please st, stop.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Sa, save me. Sa, someone save me.”

His breath hitched.

I silently watched his face turn red and then gradually pale.

“!!!”

I felt something flying towards me.

Tossing West Sea, whom I didn’t need to hold, to the floor, I took a step back and dodged the object flying towards me.

Thud!

The floor vibrated greatly.

The vibration was so great that the building shook, and dust from all directions rose into the air.

Wow, there’s a lot of dust.

Unpleasantly so.

Clean up a bit.

After some time, the dust that had obscured my vision settled.

What I saw was several people.

All people I had seen outside.

“The staff.”

That’s right. These people were the staff of the command headquarters.

The commander’s subordinates.

“How can someone called a hero lay a hand on the most respected elder of the command headquarters?!”

“This is treason! It’s a rebellion!”

“Are you alright, Elder?”

“There’s a wound on his neck! Please don’t speak!”

“My children. I’m alright.”

West Sea, reassuring his forces, glared at me.

“However, I’m worried.”

A strong murderous intent could be felt in his eyes.

He couldn’t possibly look kindly on the person who strangled him.

That was only natural. But.

“I’m deeply worried that I might have offended the hero.”

His voice was soft and calm.

Truly the typical tone of a kind old man.

‘……So, this is how it was.’

I could see how he became the commander.

His acting was amazing.

The acting that deceived people, the eloquence to lead the situation, and the atmosphere.

West Sea had the qualities of a natural-born actor.

‘Or perhaps the qualities of a con artist.’

And circumstantially, West Sea seemed to have blossomed as a con artist.

Just how much that quality had bloomed.

‘Since he became the commander.’

I’m going crazy.

That a con artist is the commander is the end of the world.

That’s why this world is perishing.

The Union, the only organization in this world, has no power, and the inside is rotten.

A question flashed through my mind.

‘Do I really need to save these guys?’

The culprit who will destroy this world.

If I eliminate that, I can deal with the rest later.

As long as the Union doesn’t collapse, people’s lives can be set as a lower priority.

Nevertheless, the reason I stubbornly remained here was because I wanted to save as many people as possible. But that kind of guy doesn’t fall into the category of people I want to save.

Rather, people like West Sea only get in my way.

‘There’s no need to save this one.’

I can’t save everyone.

And I don’t want to save everyone.

“I’m arresting you as a flagrant offender.”

“No, does it make sense to arrest a hero who saved the Union? And do you have the confidence to arrest and imprison him with your strength?”

West Sea looked at me and smiled grimly.

Is he saying that because he thinks he can put me in his debt by acting like this?

“You guys seem to think I’m some saint or savior.”

Thump, thump.

I walked towards him and lifted West Sea’s neck.

This time, it wasn’t by the collar. It was by the neck.

I grabbed it so hard that the bones would break.

“You! Release the Elder at once!”

“St, stab him!”

“Elder? But stabbing that person recklessly will incur the public’s antipathy…!”

“How many citizens live in the Union! At most, it’s just over a million! Stab him!”

The people around West Sea swung the objects they had at me.

Most of them were trembling, but they swung with all their might towards me.

Swords, spears, brooms scattered around.

They swung everything.

Clang!

It was blocked by the barrier protecting me.

“You guys have crossed the line this time, haven’t you?”

I only grabbed him by the collar, but I was threatened with swords and spears.

This is a justifiable reason, right?

“Wh, what does that… Keuek!”

Crack!

The force in my grip increased.

Then the bone in my hand broke violently.

“C, Commander!”

“Release him at once!”

“You! This vagrant has finally revealed his true colors!”

I completely snapped West Sea’s neck.

A sound that shouldn’t come from a person’s neck was heard, and the people behind West Sea rushed at me. Of course, they didn’t use their fists.

They seemed to know well that they couldn’t match me in strength.

“You dirty murderer!”

“We lost the commander because of you! Now we’ll lose because of you! It’s all your fault!”

People pointed fingers and shouted at the top of their lungs.

I closed my eyes for a moment, lost in thought, and then suddenly opened them.

Crack!

I made the sound of bones breaking again.

But.

Crack!

This time, it was heard twice.

Because I broke the fingers of the two people who pointed at me.

“Kyaaaa!!!”

“My fi, fingers!”

“What was that movement just now…?”

The people showed various reactions.

Some screamed, some questioned, and fear spread like an epidemic. I looked at the people with blank expressions and said in a low voice.

“I don’t prefer such drastic methods, but what needs to be fixed must be fixed.”

To properly grow a tree, pruning is necessary.

Just as weeds need to be removed to properly grow plants.

To save a group, incompetent leaders need to be removed.

And so are his followers.

‘The first person to see the trash should clean it up.’

─That’s right. Who said that?

‘I don’t know. I just blurted out what came to mind.’

Who said it.

That’s not important.

What was important was what I was going to do from now on.

“Anyway, there’s not enough time to sort them out. If I just beat them all up, only the normal ones will be left, right?”

Indeed, there are a lot of crazy people because it’s a world where destruction is certain.

If I beat them up myself, the world will be a little better, right?