Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 360

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 360

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 360

The Swordmaster Without Limbs (5)

The moment I crossed the rift, my mind went blank.

The sensation of my body being destroyed and reassembled in an instant.

After enduring that terrible sensation, I arrived in a narrow alleyway.

“I, I’m alive……! I thought I was going to die!”

A secluded alleyway with few people.

Luna slumped to the ground, breathing heavily.

She seemed exhausted from the dimensional travel through the rift.

However, Seungwoo wasn’t going to let this go unnoticed.

“Get up. We don’t have time to lie around in a place like this.”

Seungwoo didn’t look good either, but he urged Luna to get up quickly.

Even though he didn’t know exactly what kind of world this was, it was fortunate that there was no one nearby. After casting a spell to conceal their presence on himself and Luna, Seungwoo carefully hid. He needed to move quickly because he couldn’t be sure what kind of world this was.

“Hurry. Quickly.”

“Ah…… w, wait a moment. I’m too dizzy.”

“We don’t have time to wait.”

“No, really, I don’t have the strength to get up.”

Luna couldn’t get up from the ground.

It was a relief she hadn’t fainted, but she seemed to be suffering from extreme dizziness, a burning stomach, and a spinning head. If they had plenty of time, he could have waited, but unfortunately, they didn’t have that luxury.

Thump.

Seungwoo grabbed the back of Luna’s collar.

And lifted her up with all his might. It looked like he was holding a cat.

However, there was one difference from a cat.

“I, I don’t mind being carried, but if you’re going to lift me up, please don’t do it so roughly. I feel like I’m swinging back and forth like a pendulum, and it’s making my stomach churn.”

“You seem fine since you’re still talking.”

“My stomach is churning. Please save me.”

Ignoring her words, Seungwoo started walking.

“We don’t have time. If you can’t get up on your own, I’ll carry you like this.”

“……Just do whatever you want.”

With that, Luna lowered her head.

Judging by her uneven breathing, she hadn’t fallen asleep.

It seemed she was just exhausted. Being exhausted was fine.

─Aren’t you the strange one?

“Tamamo?”

─It’s not just that she’s weak. Actually, even I, as a spirit, feel sick and like I’m about to die.

Tamamo’s translucent spirit turned blue.

Using the ‘key’ for stable space-time travel was one thing, but crossing worlds through an unstable rift was quite painful for Tamamo.

─It’s not that we’re weak. You’re just amazing.

Tamamo seemed to be in considerable pain.

She barely opened one eye and gave Seungwoo a thumbs up.

He could feel her gratitude that at least he could move. But you know.

“I’ll tell you in advance. I’m not normal either.”

─What?

“I don’t feel the dizziness you guys do, but instead…”

Seungwoo moved his hand.

The silver prosthetic arm couldn’t be moved carelessly because he was holding Luna.

The only thing he could move was his right hand.

But for some reason.

Limp, limp.

The movement was strange.

The arm moved half a beat slower than usual, and it moved like a mollusk.

Yes, as if it had no bones.

─You. Could it be?

“The bones shattered from the backlash of the dimensional travel.”

─A, are you sure you can move?

“Do you think she can move instead of me right now?”

Seungwoo moved his left hand.

At that moment, Luna’s body swayed. Her complexion, which was already bad, turned even paler. Rather than trusting this guy, she would rather move herself, no matter how bad she felt.

─Haa, I can’t help it. Even if it’s a little tough, you’ll have to suffer.

“It’s okay. It’s just that my limbs are a little broken.”

─How can a guy with broken limbs be okay? You have to endure on your own. We don’t have any medicine right now.

The medicine was used up before crossing the rift.

It was all used to recover from the damage sustained while fighting the calamities.

Thanks to that, he was able to heal the numerous wounds on his body, even if it wasn’t a complete cure, but the wounds were still not fully healed. He had suffered additional damage to that body. The question was how long he could last without medicine.

“I don’t need medicine.”

Seungwoo looked for wood nearby to use as splints.

In the process, he found an old wooden plank.

“Ugh!”

Thud.

Seungwoo temporarily put Luna down, drew his sword, cut the plank, and processed it into splints.

Several thin splints were made.

Swish.

He took out the artificial joints of the monsters that had been cleaned in the subspace within the ring.

He connected the thinly processed splints and artificial joints to create something with good mobility. This would ensure mobility, but it would be difficult to fully fulfill its role as a splint. Furthermore.

‘It doesn’t work well.’

Perhaps because it was connected to a crude wooden plank and artificial joints.

The splint attached to his leg didn’t work well. It could move to some extent for the sake of mobility, but a safety device was also made in a simplified manner to suppress movements that would strain the bones, but it didn’t work well.

‘Let’s be satisfied with this for now.’

He wasn’t confident in making a better splint than this.

Seungwoo put on splints for both legs and a splint for his right arm.

It was fortunate that his left arm was a prosthetic. If it had been an arm made of bones and flesh, it would have broken along with the impact.

Seungwoo, who was uncomfortable, was about to move again with Luna in his arms.

But his legs were starting to feel uncomfortable. He kept hearing strange noises from his knee joints, so he needed to rest a bit.

Thump.

Seungwoo sat down right next to Luna.

He was prepared to carry her and run away immediately if anything happened.

‘Oh, my joints. I was the most injured, but I’m still suffering afterwards.’

Seungwoo patted his stiff leg muscles and recalled the past few minutes.

The moment Luna crossed through the rift. The fault line between dimensions collapsed. Seungwoo, reflexively turning his body back, witnessed the sight of the universe, densely studded with stars, falling like shards of glass.

Four monsters charged through the collapsed gap.

Causing a tremendous shockwave.

Seungwoo tried to offset this with a sword wind, but being sucked into the unstable rift came first.

‘I entered the rift at a precarious timing, but their attacks also came in with me.’

The coordinate calculation was perfect.

However, he hadn’t calculated the recoil.

The huge impact that struck the group as they crossed the rift.

To make matters worse, a second impact came from behind.

‘If it weren’t for me.’

If he had made a mistake, the entire group might have lost their way in the rift and lived a life of eternally wandering through the cracks of the rift without reaching their destination.

In the end, Seungwoo fully absorbed the second impact.

In the process, he blocked most of the impact, but the shock that rang through his bones and skull was not easy to dissipate.

‘But I didn’t expect my bones to be so damaged.’

He thought he could withstand it at least once.

It seemed that was not the case.

Seungwoo’s body, which had withstood the impact from the rear, was a mess.

What reached Luna and Tamamo was just the aftermath. However, seeing them both dazed and unable to come to their senses, he could tell how broken Seungwoo’s body was.

“……Still, it’s okay so far.”

The broken or powdered bones were strongly held together by magic to prevent the fragments from scattering in all directions. However, it was impossible to strengthen the bones themselves, which had weakened in strength. Seungwoo’s magic circuit had not yet recovered to that extent.

‘I’m used to this much pain.’

What was important now was not screaming in pain, but gathering information. Swallowing the pain and groans, Seungwoo got up again and looked around.

‘……It’s been strange since a while ago.’

While making the splints, putting them on, and sitting on the floor to rest, he hadn’t felt anyone nearby even once.

It was a good thing that no one was approaching in his injured state, but the lack of presence to this extent was starting to make him uneasy.

‘Surely it’s not a dimension where people have become extinct, is it?’

From their perspective, it might be better if people didn’t exist, but the absence of people was scary in its own way.

Just as he was unleashing all sorts of imaginations in his head.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

A huge footstep sound began to be heard.

Ah, really. Speak of the devil.

It really came.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sound was excessively loud.

Just how big are the feet of the guy making this sound?

Seungwoo naturally imagined the size of the guy.

To make this much noise, it couldn’t be an average size.

It had to be heavier than an elephant to make this sound.

‘Whatever it is, it’s not going to be an ordinary guy.’

Thump!! Thump!! Thump!!

The sound was getting closer and closer to this place.

The huge sound moved with vibrations, and the growing sound and vibration eventually caused Luna to move her head with difficulty.

“What…… what’s that sound?”

“I don’t know either.”

“……Huh?”

“So, I’m going to avoid it.”

Seungwoo, roughly grabbing Luna’s waist with his right hand, sprang up like a spring. Moving vigorously with his aching body, he immediately hung from the ceiling of what appeared to be an abandoned building.

The silver prosthetic arm grabbed the ceiling with his bare hand.

Now that he looked at this building.

‘There’s nothing sticking out of the building’s exterior that I can grab.’

There were no pipes or structures protruding to the outside at all.

In the end, he didn’t move, holding onto the edge of the ceiling that protruded like a hat with his left hand, which was relatively intact.

“W, what are you doing hanging from the ceiling with one hand?! We’re going to fall and die like this! Hurry up and go down or quickly climb up to the ceiling!”

“Do you think that’s possible?”

Thump!!! Thump!!!

The sound of footsteps was so loud that it felt like it was right in front of him.

The owner of the footsteps was about to appear here soon.

“I can’t go down anymore.”

“Then hurry up and go up……! Huh? Why is the ceiling blocked?”

“You’re just noticing that now?”

“Uwaaaaa!”

“Be quiet, it’s noisy. He’ll hear us.”

At that moment, the owner of the footsteps revealed himself.

Seungwoo was greatly embarrassed by the appearance of the owner.

A completely different guy than he had expected popped out.

He naturally thought it would be a huge creature because of the huge footsteps.

‘A robot?’

A completely unexpected guy popped out.

A robot twice the size of a person. But it was nothing compared to an elephant.

It seemed that the huge footsteps were the sound coming from the robot’s huge mass relative to its proportions. He was wondering how heavy it had to be to make such a sound.

The robot stopped moving and fixed its gaze on the floor.

That gaze was directed at the floor where Luna had first collapsed.

Right then.

Clack, clack.

The robot stopped moving and stared intently at the floor, and then he heard a clear sound. It was also the sound of footsteps, but it was clearly smaller than the robot’s.

But it was definitely possible to distinguish it.

This sound was not from the robot.

It was the sound of shoes.

In fact, as Seungwoo had expected, a gentleman walked out from behind the robot.

‘By the way, both of their outfits are a bit…….’

Seungwoo stared intently at the two.

The gentleman in a suit and the robot with a crude design reminded him of the Industrial Revolution, which he had learned about from his teacher a long time ago.

“High-energy output was detected here. Doll, search quickly.”

“Yes. Understood.”

He didn’t know who those two were.

One thing was certain.

‘They’re looking for us right now.’