Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 356

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 356

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 356

The Limbless Swordsman (1)

The rift between countless worlds where the Divine Tree had taken root.

While resting there for a moment, I fell into a deep sleep. My physical strength had reached its limit, and my mind was pushed to the extreme.

“……Are you awake now?”

It was the young Elf Princess who woke me.

No. I woke up on my own.

But what on earth…….

“Don’t think too deeply. You’ve hurt your head.”

I don’t know what you’re thinking about, though.

Luna muttered softly and applied medicine to my injured area.

“Oh, right. I took some of this out to use, is that okay?”

Luna applied medicine to my wound.

She dripped a medicine made by decocting herbs I had never seen before onto the wound torn by sharp tentacles, eerie lightning, and mighty power.

Several medicines stored in my subspace were used.

“The ring is under my jurisdiction, so how……?”

I stared at her with surprised eyes.

Opening the space inside the ring is entirely under my control.

It was not a concept that someone could open arbitrarily if they wanted to.

Then Luna waved her hand and denied it.

“Don’t look at me like that. I don’t have the ability to interfere with such a small ring. Instead, I tend to go in easily if someone opens the door for me.”

Because I’m a princess.

Isn’t it natural for others to open the door?

A person came to my mind after hearing those words.

“……Tamamo.”

─Why are you calling me?

“You could communicate with this child even without the ring?”

─That’s not true.

I am the only one who can open the space inside the ring.

However, if it’s a woman who has been with me all along, she might know the password to the treasure vault. But the question was not resolved.

That is, how Tamamo told Luna about the space inside the ring. The jade ring I wear is a sacred object spiritually connected to her.

Without this ring, it is impossible to see her or talk to her.

“Then what on earth?”

“It’s my ability.”

Luna came here to stop the Divine Tree.

Stopping the Divine Tree would stop the movements of the Four Horsemen, as well as the riders under them. Luna’s means to stop the Divine Tree was.

“I can communicate with everything.”

It was a conversation.

She could talk to microorganisms and inanimate objects.

It was possible to communicate with conceptual beings without concrete forms or invisible fox spirits. Luna pointed to her neck.

“It’s a very special vocal cord, right?”

“……That’s an amazing ability.”

“Right? I think so too.”

I thought as I listened to Luna boasting.

Right then.

Flash!

The thought that this was not the time to be doing this flashed through my mind, but I know very well that I can’t do anything with my body right now. Now is the time to recover.

It would be okay to get lost in thought.

“By the way, I have one question.”

“Speak.”

“Oh? Your tone has changed. Before, you had a much more high-handed and arrogant tone. Now you seem quite docile.”

“Is that the question?”

I know that the question she wants to ask is not such a trivial one, but Luna made a face that even such a question would be interesting.

“Now that the mask is broken, there’s no reason to keep using a bothersome tone.”

“Ah, so is this your original tone?”

“There’s no such thing as an original tone. I tend to decide on the necessary tone depending on the situation.”

“……You decide on your tone depending on the situation?”

Luna said in an astonished voice.

What a fuss.

“Why such a reaction? When you think about it, don’t royals do that too?”

“Are you saying that royals decide on their tone depending on the situation?”

“The tone used when giving orders, the tone used when maintaining dignity. They use various tones depending on the situation. It’s not much different from that.”

“……Ah.”

Luna let out a short exclamation.

She seemed to have gained a shallow understanding from my words.

“So you’re the kind of person who hides yourself in that way.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“I want to say that the tone of royals is different from what you think.”

“…….”

I looked up at Luna without saying a word.

I have no idea what she wants to talk to me about.

She kept talking to me while applying medicine to my wound. It’s quite a strange conversation for someone applying medicine to the affected area of an injured person.

A slightly distorted feeling.

‘I see.’

I tried to understand Luna.

She is quite a strange person.

At first, I thought it was because of the difference in the status of the race.

The difference between a human, no, a fox, and an elf.

And the difference between a humble swordsman and a princess.

That’s what I was thinking.

‘She resembles that child.’

But when I looked closely at her eyes.

Suddenly, a person came to my mind.

“So, what I want to say is…….”

“Now that I see it, you have a special ability.”

Now I understand.

Why Luna tried to follow me to the Divine Tree.

“I know people like you well. You think you can understand that person through conversation with others.”

“……Yes?”

My gaze scanned Luna’s expression.

She wasn’t surprised by my words, nor was she embarrassed.

Even less so was she expressionless.

‘An expression that seems to be asking why I’m saying something so obvious.’

Luna was the type of person who sincerely believed that she could understand others through conversation and persuade them.

To put it nicely, she is pure, and to put it badly, she is immature.

A typical immature child.

People like Luna are said to have ‘a flower garden in their head.’ [A naive and idealistic perspective on the world.]

“Isn’t it obvious that people understand each other through conversation?”

“That’s true.”

That’s right.

People express their inner thoughts to the outside world through conversation. In the process, people can understand each other. Most of the events that happen in life are three-dimensional, so it is easy to misunderstand and distort them when viewed from an individual’s fragmentary perspective.

In these cases, people may misunderstand each other depending on their point of view.

Conversation makes it easier for each other to understand each other in these situations.

However,

‘If it’s a conversation that is generally defined.’

Conversation is not just about expressing oneself in words.

Facial expressions and gestures. The tone and manner of speaking contained in the words. All of these elements are collectively called conversation.

Even if there was no bad intention, if you are not in a good mood that day, your tone or expression may not be good. That’s how misunderstandings accumulate.

Moreover, people sometimes only assert their own opinions while pretending to have a conversation. I have seen such cases too many times, and after experiencing them so much, I do not attach great importance to conversations with others.

But Luna is different.

“I think I know what you mean. I’ve always heard that when I say things like this.”

“That’s why you’re special.”

Luna stared at me with a blank look.

I can clearly feel through her expression that she doesn’t know what this person is trying to say.

‘It’s been 10 years since the war broke out, you said.’

The center of the war was the elves’ parent, the Divine Tree.

The elves’ friends, the spirits. This means that she was greatly betrayed by her parents and friends. The bigger the scars on the body, the more likely they are to leave unhealed scars, and even if you hide the scars on your mind with pleasant memories, they will continue to sting.

Even though she clearly had painful scars, she accompanied me with the thought that she could persuade the Divine Tree through conversation, so I couldn’t help but think that she had a truly special ability.

I didn’t have much to say, so I purely praised Luna.

“The only survivor of the High Elves.”

“……!”

“Even after being backstabbed by the Divine Tree, which the elves considered their parent, you still think you can resolve the conflict through conversation with the Divine Tree.”

I felt that she was amazing for not losing her purity even after being greatly hurt.

If I were in her position, what conversation.

I would have planned to make the Divine Tree into firewood.

“I have children at home.”

“……Yes?”

Luna was startled by the sudden outburst.

She was going to listen quietly to what this person was saying, but she was surprised by the completely unexpected order of the conversation. Moreover, the face. Saying that he has children with such a young face.

The sense of incongruity I feel is no joke.

“They are not children connected by blood, but at least they are children that I can confidently say I gave birth to with my heart.”

“……Ah.”

Luna nodded with a flustered expression.

Ah, they weren’t his biological children. Well, when I think about it, it was obvious.

When he was wearing the mask, I didn’t know because of the ominous magic power and the mask’s ability to confuse the senses, but he looked too young to have children in front of him.

In some ways, much more than herself.

“But I don’t sincerely trust my children.”

Before leaving the house.

The reason why I gave the location of the mansion to the nanny, Baek Hyeon-ah, and installed all kinds of magic in the mansion is because I do not trust their strength.

I always doubt and prepare.

Thanks to that thoroughness, I have been able to survive until now, but conversely, because I cannot trust anyone, I have not been able to build genuine relationships.

How can there be a genuine relationship if you can’t trust anyone?

Of course, it doesn’t make sense.

“That’s why I’m saying you’re amazing.”

“……Ah.”

“Because a fragile girl like you is doing something that I can’t do.”

Luna listened to my words quietly and mulled them over in her head.

In an instant, Luna recalled the battle just now and the moment when Baek Ki-sa and his subordinate riders invaded the headquarters of the alliance. A monster that crushes enemies with overwhelming power.

To Luna, the person named Seungwoo was invincible.

For such a person to say these words.

While feeling a sense of irony, Luna suddenly wanted to know more about him. Fortunately, Seungwoo needs time to recover, and this place is a fault between dimensions [a place between dimensions].

There is plenty of time to talk.

“Perhaps…… would you like to talk to me?”

“What kind of conversation?”

“Any conversation is fine!”

“You have to talk to the Divine Tree…… Ah.”

Ah, that’s right.

I belatedly remembered while talking.

I sealed the roots of that tree after it was eaten whole, right?

I couldn’t talk to the Divine Tree anymore.

Mother tree.

To the elves, the Divine Tree is equivalent to the parents who gave birth to them.

If parents brought their children into this world, the Divine Tree brought the elves and the world into this world. To the elves, she was an eternal parent.

Her brilliant branches were uprooted along with her trunk and became the meal of a white-winged snake. The remaining stump was cut by a sword and turned into a thorny seat that no one could sit on.

The roots, which connected countless worlds and spread widely to supply nutrients to grow the Divine Tree, were also sealed by my hand.

Luna can no longer talk to her mother.

“It’s okay. This pathetic ability that requires a third party to use also exists because there is someone like you.”

The girl, who could no longer hear her mother’s words, spoke to the man who was wounded and soaked in blood.

“I’ll ask you one more time.”

Luna looked at me.

“Can you tell me your story?”

She seemed to want to talk to me.