Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 359

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 359

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 359

The Swordsman Without Limbs (4)

“You said we should run. Is there a way to escape?”

Seungwoo pointed upwards.

Where the sky should have been, colors like the universe rippled. The landscape showed that this place was a dimensional fault line connected by the Divine Tree.

A beautiful sight, as if the universe were right before them.

However, Seungwoo wasn’t pointing at the beautiful scenery.

“If we escape this fault line, their attacks will immediately rain down on us.”

Calamities aren’t called calamities for nothing.

They can turn the surrounding space to ashes. If four of them attack simultaneously…

“I don’t think we can avoid it.”

─Not being able to avoid it doesn’t matter. You *must* avoid it.

It seems very important to me.

Seungwoo swallowed the rest of his words, quietly closing his eyes to think.

The remaining four Calamities. He simulated how their main attack patterns would link if unleashed simultaneously.

While Seungwoo was lost in thought,

“Excuse me, Gumiho-nim.”

─Why are you calling me all of a sudden?

“I want to ask something while Su-nim is deep in thought.”

Luna approached Tamamo.

She used an odd name, expressing her curiosity.

Tamamo was taken aback by the unfamiliar name.

Su? Su-nim?

Who on earth are you talking about?

As Tamamo looked around, confused, she saw Seungwoo’s anguished face.

─Ah, that’s right. That’s his name now.

I’d forgotten for a moment.

‘Su’ was Seungwoo’s alias in this land.

He is a legendary human hero hidden in the canyon.

He’s a legendary figure passed down for hundreds of years. Considering people still remember the legend and there are records of sightings even decades ago, he must be a hero of a long-lived species like elves, who live for centuries.

─What do you want to ask my contractor?

Tamamo, who had momentarily forgotten the unimportant temporary alias, tried to answer the question herself. It was better not to disturb Seungwoo right now.

Because Tamamo couldn’t calculate how to escape the Calamities’ attacks.

Tactics and strategies were best left to Seungwoo, who knew the Calamities well.

That’s why she intercepted the question, but…

“Ah, well, you see.”

She soon regretted her choice.

“─Where exactly are you talking about escaping to?”

Tamamo grabbed her head at Luna’s question.

Ah, that’s right. She can hear our conversation.

To be exact, she would only have heard Tamamo’s voice. However, since it was a conversation between the two of them, she could guess based on the fragments.

─You. How much did you hear?

“Yes? Well, I only heard Tamamo-ssi’s words from beginning to end. It seems like you two can communicate telepathically.”

─……Yes, we are connected by a powerful medium called the Jade Ring, so we can communicate with our inner thoughts sufficiently.

However, Tamamo has to speak out loud.

“Ah-ha. So, even when that person is silent, you two can still have a conversation.”

Luna nodded, as if she finally understood.

Luna then looked at where Tamamo’s translucent spirit was.

She could hear Tamamo’s words with her ability, but she couldn’t see her body. However, she could guess where Tamamo was by the direction of the voice.

─……Annoying.

Tamamo was annoyed by Luna, who was staring right at her.

She could have remained silent, but Tamamo recalled Luna’s abilities and position.

The ability to communicate with all things and the princess of the elves. She was full of useful things, if only she wasn’t from the ‘Otherworld’.

─It’s okay to just tell her.

The Otherworld has already been destroyed and is just an old remnant floating in the cracks of dimensions. Everything here is just a reproduction of the past. Well, the damn Calamities didn’t seem to be like that.

At least Luna was definitely from this Otherworld.

She felt it would be good to draw a firm line here.

─We’re thinking of running far away from this land.

“Yes…?”

─Unfortunately, our combined strength isn’t enough anymore. You know that too. We caught three somehow, but the remaining four are particularly different.

“Wa, wait a minute. I still don’t understand…!

Don’t understand?

Then I’ll explain it again properly.

Ahem, Tamamo cleared her throat and said loudly.

─We have a way to move to another world, and we plan to move to another world to avoid those monsters.

“……Ah.”

Luna’s gaze fell to the floor at the brutally honest explanation.

Because those words meant they would no longer help defeat those damn powerful monsters. It meant the people of her nation’s alliance would all die.

Luna’s head drooped.

“Well… that’s natural. In the first place, the alliance would have already been mostly annihilated by the aftermath of those monsters’ attacks.”

Unlike Seungwoo, the people of the alliance aren’t strong.

They might have died just by touching the edge of the Calamity’s transcendental power.

When I think about it, trying to fight more in this situation was stupid. Luna already knew that. But was it because Seungwoo, badly injured, was making weapons with Tamamo to fight back, that she had vain hope?

Luna’s heart was heavy and bitter.

─You know it well. So we’re going to leave.

“Then I… as the leader of the alliance, will resist to the end and then leave.”

─Yes, it’s unfortunate for you, but it can’t be helped. Calamities and natural disasters are like that.

The moment Tamamo turned her head away from Luna.

“No.”

Seungwoo answered firmly.

“I’m taking that woman with me too.”

─You’re taking that woman with you?

“……Me?”

Tamamo, who didn’t understand, asked.

─No, what are you going to do with someone from this Otherworld?

“We can’t escape out of the fault line right now. You know that, right?”

The moment we go out, we’ll be targeted by the Calamities and subjected to all sorts of attacks. They must have already set up traps around the Divine Tree, assuming we’d come out someday.

Even if we avoid the traps with nimble movements,

The Calamities will fire attacks at our retreat.

“We don’t go out of the fault line. Going to another Otherworld through here is the only way.”

That’s right.

Tamamo agreed with Seungwoo.

It’s certainly better to bypass them than face those monsters. Then, the important thing now is where to go.

─Have you decided where to go?

“Not yet.”

─Do you have any criteria for a world suitable for escape?

“The most important thing is that we must enter an Otherworld far from our world, but one that can barely receive the system’s protection.”

─What about the difficulty?

“Difficulty doesn’t matter.”

Seungwoo pointed to the ceiling.

For some reason, the Calamities’ presence seemed to be getting clearer beyond the ceiling. The knowledgeable Tamamo immediately noticed the cause.

─Those guys are stubbornly sticking their fingers into the gap.”

“It’s like trying to force a finger into a keyhole that won’t open.”

─At this rate, the keyhole will break first.

“Whatever we face, it’s better than facing those four at the same time.”

“I agree.”

“Okay. Then let’s go in.”

The sensation is getting clearer.

The guys are getting closer.

“But how are you planning to enter another world?”

Luna asked urgently.

The sensation of the Calamities approaching was suffocating.

Naturally, fear began to fill her mind.

“You’re not thinking of using the method you used to enter this fault line again, are you? That’s impossible. My artifact is disposable!”

Luna took out an object from her pocket.

She held a fragment of an accessory, so badly damaged it was hard to recognize. Luna paid for opening this fault line with her father’s keepsake. But there was nothing more to pay.

As Luna was in a state of confusion due to fear,

“Shut up a bit.”

Seungwoo said, raising his left index finger to his lips.

“I’m calculating the coordinates right now.”

“Co, coordinates?”

“……”

There was no answer.

But Luna could tell he was busy.

Tamamo couldn’t help with those coordinates, so she just watched.

“Excuse me. Fox-nim.”

─Do I look like your chat buddy? Don’t talk to me carelessly unless you need me.

Tamamo said in an arrogant tone.

She was in a very unpleasant state.

In Seungwoo’s hand, muttering softly while looking at the air, a subtle magic power condensed. This magic power resulted from absorbing magic power from this fault line, made of remnants of different dimensions.

Seungwoo used this magic power to calculate the approximate location of each world.

Since dimensions and worlds aren’t fixed in a certain position like icons on a chart, it was almost impossible to calculate them from a general point of view.

So he just calculated blindly.

He racked his brain until an answer came.

─……Ha.

And that wasn’t something Tamamo could dare to follow.

That isn’t an area of effort. Even Tamamo, who had invested a thousand years in the study of magic and truth, couldn’t use her head that way.

Maybe she could follow him.

But it would only be scratching the surface.

─I raised a monster. I raised a monster.

“Mo, monster…?”

Unlike Tamamo, who understood what Seungwoo was doing,

Luna didn’t understand.

In her eyes, Seungwoo was just fiddling with his empty hands. She couldn’t even see the magic power.

At best, Luna’s knowledge couldn’t recognize what Seungwoo was doing.

Tamamo felt proud and jealous that she had taught magic to such a monster, and Luna felt left out.

Woo-woo-woong

The space distorted with a bizarre noise.

Luna’s expression turned to shock at the sight of something forcibly breaking through space. Could it be that the monster had reached this place?

As Luna, feeling fear, took a step back,

Thud.

Seungwoo pushed Luna from behind.

“Huh?”

Luna floundered.

But her soles didn’t touch the ground.

Luna was falling into the distorted dimension.

“Aaaaaaah!!!”

“I opened the door with great effort; what are you doing blocking it?”

Seungwoo’s calm voice.

Tamamo, listening quietly, asked,

─Um, was that a door?

“Yeah, it’s a roughly made passage, more like a crack than a door, but it’s enough if it connects to another world.”

─That’s true.

Looking at Tamamo, who nodded.

Whoosh!

Seungwoo threw himself into the crack.