Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 347

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 347

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 347

Everything Connected (2)

A Class C villain.

He might be a threatening foe to a first-year academy student.

But to most active Players, and to me, who has become overwhelmingly stronger, he was an all-too-easy opponent. I could kill him easily if I wanted to. Like this.

—!

The silently drawn sword quietly split Simon in half.

The sharp blade was as clean as if it wouldn’t allow even a drop of blood to stain it. It was as pristine as ever.

However, Simon’s body was a gruesome sight.

A body split in half with a clean cut.
The floor was soaked with blood, and his bisected entrails and brain spilled all over the ground. Twitch, twitch, the body subtly trembled, belatedly receiving the electrical signals transmitted from the brain. Rigor mortis had not yet set in.

“…Still moving, even like this.”

The bisected body shuddered.

The jelly-like shaking of the body and entrails.

I frowned at the unpleasant sight and swung my sword again.

The pure white sword aura cleaved through space with the intent to shatter everything. The space the sword cut through was scattered into fragments, no matter what it was. Air, magical power in the atmosphere, Simon’s corpse.

All of those things scattered and became mere smoke.

In particular, the sight of Simon’s corpse turning into red smoke and slowly dissipating was quite a sight to behold. If only that smoke wasn’t trembling, it would have been perfect.

—How gruesome.

“Disgusting to look at.”

The trembling smoke soon became a heart.

After that, mist gathered around the heart. Red water, like blood, dripped from the white mist, and soon it created organs such as the spleen and kidneys.

Hanging, dangling.

The created organs were connected to each other.
Hanging in the air, they swayed left and right by the wind like a pendulum. After that, a brain was created, and the moment all the organs were connected, bones and muscles protected the organs.

“……Ha.”

I had been watching quietly, wondering what was going on.

And I ended up seeing Simon’s body regenerate perfectly.

“This is some bullshit.”

A body that had been shattered into pieces and turned into smoke instantly returned to normal. Was this even possible? Simon’s body could no longer be considered within the realm of regeneration.

“Is it a divine power?”

Just in case, I thought about the demons I had seen so far, but well, even divine power couldn’t do this. This was a phenomenon that transcended the concepts of ability and divine power.

I swung my sword once more as a test.

Thud.

Quietly, the head fell to the floor.

The severed head rolled across the burnt lawn.

The severed head rolled endlessly, gradually turning gray and decaying like a flower turned to ashes. Eventually, Simon’s head, buried in the ashes, disappeared without a trace.

However, when I looked at the headless body.

“Why are you staring at me like that?”

“……How many more times do I have to cut you to end this?”

“You’ve already seen it with your own eyes. There’s no way it’ll end no matter how many times you cut me.”

Thud.

This time, the mouth fell off.

The sword that precisely cut only the lips soon.

Crack!

The blade of the sword broke the neck bone.

Strictly speaking, I wasn’t aiming for the neck, but for Simon’s vocal cords. I didn’t want to hear him speak anymore. Of course, the vocal cords, which had been turned to mush along with the neck bone, were soon regenerated, but I crushed them immediately.

Regenerate, and I crush; regenerate, and I cut.

Even with the endless slaughter, neither of us seemed to tire.

Simon chuckled even when his body was chopped into pieces.

And I cut him with increasingly concise movements. I cut Simon with clean and concise sword strokes so that my stamina wouldn’t be depleted, and there was almost no physical loss.

Cutting off someone else’s head.

I used to do it as often as eating, and I had plenty of experience dealing with immortal monsters like this.

I cut Simon’s body.

And I cut his neck until the blade died.

If the blade dulled due to oil and blood, and the blade was damaged by the bones, then from that point on, I infused a very small amount of will into the sword. A firm will to cut the opponent at all costs.

Thanks to that, I was able to cleanly cut Simon’s neck even with almost no blade. The fallen fragments of the body would naturally reattach or disappear when the body regenerated.

Thanks to that, the floor was never covered in red raw meat.

But strangely enough, the blood didn’t seem to disappear. The blood, which was initially just a puddle, soaked the ground thickly. It was hard to tell whether it was the floor or a swamp when I cut Simon like that.

Clang!

A metallic sound rang out.

“……The sword?”

The sword broke.

The bladeless sword shattered miserably, and dozens of metal fragments floated in the air. My eyes, which had been looking at the sky, turned to the handle in my hand.

The handle of the sword was the same as before.

But the sword blade was completely shattered.

‘I was definitely controlling the power with which I swung the sword.’

I don’t know why the sword broke.

Perfect stamina management. Mechanical movements and power control. I cut Simon’s body to the extent that only the blade of the sword was damaged, and the sword itself was not damaged.

I could have kept cutting his neck like that for hours. No, I could have kept cutting his neck for a month without it being strange. Nevertheless, the sword broke.

Then the reason why the sword broke is not in me or the sword.

‘……At the last moment, the sensation at my fingertips was strange.’

Before, it felt like cutting tofu.

But when I tried to cut Simon’s neck this time, it felt like the neck itself was rejecting the sword. The moment the sword pierced the thin flesh near the neck, I felt resistance. It was as if the skin itself was not accepting the sword.

Nevertheless, my sword shook off that resistance.

It cut through flesh and blood vessels.

At the last moment. When I put strength into my hand to cut Simon’s neck like just now, the sword made a metallic sound and soared into the sky.

“The neck bone was unusually hard.”

I had cut his neck several times, but only at the last moment was his neck incredibly hard.

Was something finally changing? Just as I was thinking that there was a reason why I kept cutting Simon’s body, Simon took off his glove.

I wondered why he was suddenly taking it off. When I thought about it carefully, I had never seen Simon’s bare skin before.

Simon was wearing his clothes very tightly, so tightly that he didn’t expose any part of his body outside his clothes except for his eyeballs.

The only exception was the internal organs that came out when I cut his stomach.

But that was too far inside.

Except for his eyeballs and internal organs, I couldn’t find anything even if I washed my eyes and looked for it. Even if I cut his body, only his internal organs, bones, and blood came into view. I had never seen his skin. Because Simon regenerates his clothes along with his body.

I was focused on killing him rather than his clothes, so I didn’t think about this part. It was strange that the guy who had been hiding his body all along suddenly took off his gloves at this timing, so I swung my sword down to cut off Simon’s wrist entirely.

But Simon’s movements were faster than my speed.

What was revealed from his hand was.

“A ring?”

The golden ring on Simon’s finger sparkled.

It was so dazzling that from the moment Simon took off his glove, it was hard to look at him properly because my eyes were so dazzled. I reflexively squeezed my eyes shut.

Right then, a question arose.

No, not just anyone else, but I squeezed my eyes shut because of the light reflected by a mere ring? Does that make sense?

A strange sensation wriggled in my hand.

A sense of crisis. At the thought that my fingertips were tingling, I reflexively took out a new sword and swung it wildly. The maximum range of sword energy that I could unleash.

Swinging the sword, I felt the sensation on my fingertips.

I definitely thought I had cut something.

Clang──!

I did cut something.

But the sensation felt through the sword was a little strange. It wasn’t like I had slightly under-cut something, or like I had cut a bloody organ, but.

‘A water tank. Or the feeling of cutting a water balloon?’

It wasn’t just cutting an organ full of blood.

It was the sensation of cutting a huge amount of water itself.

I couldn’t see because of this damn light that the ring was reflecting, but feeling that something was wrong, I immediately approached him and unleashed a series of sword techniques.

I gripped the sword tightly and.

Swung it down from above, moving my feet.

Hwan (幻) [Illusion], I hid my venom in a dance that confused the eyes.

Dun (鈍) [Blunt], at the end of the flashy swordsmanship, a heavy and simple sword mystery cut the opponent.

Not stopping there, this time I cut the light as well. Cutting something with a sword is my specialty. I can even cut space, so I could cut the light reflected by the ring with a single sword.

Swish──!

While I was cutting through the opponent’s skin.

—Clang!

A heavy and solid object blocked the sword, as if a ship’s hull had run aground.

In the end, I couldn’t cut all of his flesh. I didn’t know what the hell it was that dared to block the path of my swordsmanship. I was dying to cut that down with a single blow as well.

But I, who had been endlessly disadvantaged in the information war, had no choice but to step back.

Since I had cut the light reflected by the ring, I would take this opportunity to examine what was hindering me and come up with a plan. I could see what my sword had been aiming for.

“A coat?”

What I was aiming for was Simon’s coat.

The incredibly sturdy coat had blocked my sword.

But the coat had also reached the end of its lifespan by withstanding my sword once. It slowly tore along the grain where it had collided with the sword. As the coat tore, his upper body was revealed. That meant his face was revealed as well.

The face of Simon, who had revealed his appearance, was.

“Huh?”

It was a face I knew well.

The face reflected in Simon’s eyes was so horribly distorted that I couldn’t believe it was the expression I was making.

Surprise and embarrassment. And anger that clearly surfaced on my face, suppressing all other emotions.

The expression stained with anger was.

It was the first time I had ever seen my own expression.

—Hey! Get a grip!

‘……!’

—What are you doing with the enemy right in front of you! Are you trying to commit suicide? Are you crazy and want to die?!?

That’s right. All my nerves were focused on my expression.

Instinctively, I didn’t want to face his face, so my eyes and head were focused only on my expression. And I tried to ignore that fact. It was Tamamo who pulled my mind, which had been careless right in front of Simon, to the surface.

It wasn’t that we were actually having a conversation, but we were communicating through sim-eo (心語) [mind-speech], a conversation between hearts and minds. But in the end, language was language.

The organ that heard her words was not the head, but the ears.

In order to awaken my mind, Tamamo shouted in a voice that far exceeded the safe level, and in the end, my ears reached their limit.

Her voice, which surpassed even the durability of a superhuman.

Trickle, trickle.

Blood flowed from my ears as if there was bleeding in my blood vessels, not knowing when to stop. Not only did my eardrums burst from the loud voice, but the other organs inside also burst.

‘Fortunately, my brain is safe.’

My head must have shaken slightly.

I had a headache and dizziness, but there was no damage to the brain itself.

—Are you okay?

‘……It might be a little dangerous.’

—What? Why are you suddenly saying such weak things……!

Those were my last words as I stepped back.

I was going to reorganize.

My current condition is not good.

How does my body get damaged every time I fight? This time, both eardrums burst, so my hearing lost its meaning. But hearing wasn’t going to hold me back right now.

‘I’m entrusting my ears to you.’

—Do you think that’s easy? In the first place, my specialty is curses and massacres. Replacing someone else’s hearing is not my specialty.

‘Please. I’m begging you.’

Since coming to this world, I have sincerely asked someone for help for the first time. Other people. Even if they don’t help me, there are other ways to replace them.

But right now, there is no way to replace her anywhere.

So. Please, I’m begging you.