Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 337

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 337

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 337

Total Chaos Five Minutes Before (2)

I went around smashing heads indiscriminately.

Thanks to that, the alliance’s military, especially the upper echelons, were covered in blood.

Soldiers and warriors didn’t understand my actions of suddenly attacking high-ranking officials and, in some cases, breaking their fingers.

“Sir! You can’t do this. Please, restrain yourself.”

“Hey! What’s with your tone? Do you think that person is your king? That person just devastated the headquarters!”

“He even killed the commander.”

“But wasn’t it good that he died? He was a moron with no skill or experience. Isn’t it better that he’s dead?”

“Even if he only killed that person, he also pulled out the fingers of the people below!”

“My, my fingers! Give me back my fingers!”

Eventually, even the lowest-ranking soldiers stepped forward.

Of course, they.

“Re, requesting support! We can’t handle this on our own!”

“……Cough.”

“My finger. Is my finger still attached!”

“Yes, your finger is still there. It’s a bit of a shame. It would be nice if that disappeared.”

Couldn’t stop me.

Of course, I didn’t kill them.

“Everyone is weak.”

Soldiers in the upper ranks with low seniority and questionable records are just tools.

Besides, my goal right now is to break the necks of the higher-ups.

My goal is not mass slaughter.

─Isn’t it just because they’re weak that you’re suppressing them? It’s hard to suppress them if they’re strong, but it’s easy to suppress them if they’re weak. You just have to hit their heads hard.

‘Uh-huh. Don’t get too close to the fragments of truth.’

In fact, it was okay to treat them a little harshly.

It was clear that the Knights would invade in two days, but the people I knocked down now were people who wouldn’t be helpful in any way.

The only reason I bothered to save such people was one.

To show that I don’t just kill anyone or pull out fingers.

In fact, the citizens cheered even when I killed the higher-ups.

This doesn’t mean they trust the hero, but it means that the evaluation of the people in the upper echelons has plummeted to the extreme.

‘This is a bit much.’

There are too many stagnant and rotten parts.

There were more people to kill than I thought.

I thought I only needed to kill 30 people, but I’ve already taken over 200 heads. After dealing with so many, I finally reached the princess.

“Hello, hero?”

“Yes, nice to see you.”

It seems the fact that I eliminated a lot of people in the upper echelons has reached her ears. That’s why her expression isn’t very good.

“Let’s get straight to the point.”

“Please, go ahead.”

“The military organization needs to be reorganized.”

“Even if you suddenly say that…….”

“Or the military organization will be a mess.”

Pfft!

A soldier laughed at my pun behind her.

I appreciate that he laughed at my pun, but he needs to read the atmosphere.

The soldier was embarrassed by Luna’s gaze as she looked back at the sound of laughter and quickly corrected his expression. Then Luna sighed and stared at me.

“Please refrain from doing what you’re doing now. I’ve checked the list of everyone you’ve killed, and they all had reasons to die.”

“Yes, I didn’t just kill anyone, I carefully selected them.”

I couldn’t believe that the number I had carefully selected was 369, but still.

As expected of a world about to be destroyed, it was rotten to the core.

“Luna, you choose.”

“……Pardon?”

“I’ll get my hands dirty, but as long as you’re the head of the alliance, the choice is yours.”

I said to Luna.

“Whether to reorganize the military organization and seize even a glimmer of a chance to survive, or to jump into the fire together with the military organization in this chaotic state.”

“Are you threatening me now?”

“Threatening? Does this sound like a threat?”

I was so dumbfounded that I laughed.

The laughter had no great meaning, but it was the perfect laughter to be heard as ridicule by the people beyond the mask.

“Well, in some ways, it might be a threat.”

“……Are you making fun of me right now?”

“Make fun of you? Me? There’s no way.”

I raised the corners of my lips inside the mask.

Contempt and ridicule filled with scorn. Such emotions were clearly revealed even in the eyes, the only part visible from the mask.

“Anyone can tell you’re making fun of me just by looking at your eyes right now.”

“I’m not making fun of you, I’m laughing because it’s funny. The fact that only these kinds of guys have survived as leaders is why it’s in this state.”

It’s not for nothing that I personally eliminated the higher-ups.

There was absolutely not enough time to change this world little by little. If you made a choice, you had to decide quickly.

A quick choice might save thousands of lives.

“Time is money.”

“What do you mean?”

It seems this world doesn’t have that saying.

“It means time is as precious as gold. Time is invisible, but it’s more precious than anything else in the world, isn’t it?”

“Time is gold…… that’s a good analogy.”

“Yes, it’s a good analogy.”

Time is an important resource.

But it’s especially important now.

“But in my opinion, time for the alliance right now is not at a level that can be compared to gold.”

“Then what is it?”

“People’s lives.”

To me, the alliance’s time now looks like people’s lives.

I pointed to a corner with my finger, telling her to look there.

What was there was a dead body. To be exact, it was an incompetent commander who had no ability but the worst personality, so he pushed soldiers to their deaths in meaningless operations.

And I turned my finger.

There were fragments of a building that collapsed in the process of me personally bursting the alliance’s festering parts. From the hole in that small fragment, the area where the citizens lived came into view.

“I repeat, the choice is yours in the end.”

“……I can clearly see what choice you want me to make.”

“I’m just urging you to take the right path.”

“That’s a very grumpy urging.”

Luna was young but wise.

She pondered not what was a reasonable judgment in this situation, but what method could save more people.

As a result, she took my hand.

In the end, Luna cut out all the rotten parts for the sake of the alliance.

But it seemed she couldn’t kill them with one stroke like me.

She extracted their magic circuits, cut their tendons, and imprisoned them. Still, she seemed to think it was fortunate that the people who had committed crimes didn’t die. I thought that killing them painlessly would have been a much more humane choice.

After quickly reorganizing the alliance, we prepared for war.

The White Knight’s surprise attack was an unexpected variable, but this time we succeeded in detecting the signs in advance.

The alliance, which had entered a full-scale battle posture, stayed up all night with their eyes open.

“We can win, right?”

“I don’t know. The commander and the higher-ups in other departments are all dead. The generals are hush-hushing about this. I don’t know anymore.”

“But we have that person. That person will definitely do something.”

After accurately pinpointing those guys like that

It was the second day.

* * *

The Black Knight stared at the earthen slope with calm eyes.

The pupils hidden inside the helmet had no light or color, so no trace of emotion could be felt.

“……Is it really here?”

Woo-oong─!

The metal of the armor’s throat and vocal cords vibrated.

“I can’t feel anything with my authority?”

“That’s obvious.”

The Red Knight, who had armor made of burning flames, turned and said to the Black Knight’s muttering.

“Because even your authority, which contemplates all the land and soil of the world, can’t feel anything. That’s how these bugs have been able to live until now.”

“For the past thousands of years, the elves have taken us as companions, and we have taken the elves as friends. On the other hand, we have given no benefits to humans. Only the very few humans born with affinity have been given the opportunity to befriend us!”

The Blue Knight, who joined the conversation, shouted in a very loud voice.

At the same time, the Black Knight and the Red Knight’s gazes turned to him.

Ha, the Black Knight, who sighed, opened his mouth.

“You talk too much, Blue. The war is coming soon, so if you have anything to say, keep it short. I can’t accept all your words.”

The Blue Knight was always like this.

He talks a lot and doesn’t know how to read the atmosphere.

Yet, he blends into the conversation very naturally.

It’s truly as smooth as flowing water.

Really, what else would you expect from the spirit of water?

“But if I don’t say what I want to say, I’ll get thorns in my mouth.”

“Just die with thorns in your mouth. You don’t even have a mouth before that.”

“I’m just saying, just saying.”

The Blue Knight scratched his helmet.

The Black Knight looked displeased at the carefree Blue Knight.

“……It’s not the time to be so comfortable.”

The Black Knight remembers the bombing two days ago.

A spark so small that it couldn’t even be recognized.

Seeing that even the Red Knight, who is the flame itself, didn’t recognize the heat, it was hard to even see it as a flame.

Such a small flame.

‘Killed too many.’

Caused damage close to a massacre.

Fortunately, it wasn’t a total annihilation.

Well, a large army of 300,000 was marching.

No matter how powerful the bombing, the limit is clear.

‘The fact that 70,000 people returned to nature in one attack is a bit of a blow.’

Moreover, the explosion did not distinguish between grades.

Lower, middle, upper, and the unofficial grade, top.

The knights belonging to these four stages have vastly different defenses depending on their grade. Naturally, the top-grade knight is harder and stronger than the lower-grade knight.

However, the knights caught in the explosion all turned to ashes in the order they were closest, without leaving even ashes.

The initial explosion burned their armor and the core inside, and then the secondary explosion blew the ashes far and wide with wind and smoke.

The Black Knight still remembers that horrific sight.

“Everyone, be careful when entering.”

The Black Knight, who was at the head, adjusted the arrangement of the remaining knights.

The Red Knights were spirits of fire, so they were less shocked by the explosion.

So, the Red Knights make up the largest proportion of the 230,000-strong army right now.

“Have the Black Knights lead the way in the planned formation, and have the Red Knights surround the Blue Knights.”

The Black Knights defend with earth and stone.

The Blue Knights heal and attack with water.

The Red Knights attack fiercely with fire.

The knights formed teams according to their colors.

Just as the knights’ innate abilities and aptitudes differ depending on their color, their king, the knight, also has different abilities and characteristics depending on the color.

For example.

If the Blue Knight is the strongest knight, the Red Knight is a knight specialized in mass slaughter.

“The first guy went. It’s my turn. I’m the vanguard.”

The White Knight is gone.

The Red Knight has come.

Have you ever stared at the sunlight head-on?

If you look up at the sun, you will see an intense white light that seems to damage your eyes. When that sun hangs on the horizon at a late hour, it undulates in a beautiful red color.

Like that sunlight.

The Red Knight, who seems to burn everything, drew his sword.