Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 361

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 361

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 361

Why are you guys here? (1)

─What is this place anyway?

‘I wish I knew.’

If I knew, I wouldn’t be hanging from the ceiling with one hand.

‘What’s certain is that mechanical engineering is more advanced here than in our world.’

─Our world?

‘Ah, right. Your world and the world where I was born and raised.’

The two worlds had clear differences and commonalities.

The world where Tamamo was born and raised, the place I once called the world inside the novel, was able to develop magic thanks to the mysteries like magic that existed since ancient times.

On the other hand, the world where I was born and raised suddenly experienced invasions by monsters and disasters, and was granted the mystery of abilities. There was not nearly enough time to explore the mysteries over generations like magic, so practical martial arts and weapon manufacturing developed extremely.

But at least.

‘The world where you and I were born basically takes the same form.’

Same continent, same country, same world.

If there is a United States in my world, there is also a United States in her world.

Of course, the United States in my world is ruined.

─The United States? In this world, it’s a very powerful country.

‘Of course. Its national power is strong, and it is a powerful country with well-equipped educational facilities like academies.’

─But why there?

Ah, why did it collapse?

Disasters happened to nest there, and the entire continent became a sea of fire.

The country was ruined because of the disaster, but it didn’t seem like that was the answer she wanted right now.

‘It’s not just the United States that collapsed. Didn’t I tell you? Tens of percent of humanity lost their lives in an instant.’

─Why suddenly that?

‘Logically, if tens of percent of humanity disappeared, would only the United States have collapsed? Korea also collapsed.’

─……Ah.

Tamamo sighed.

Korea is his homeland.

It seemed like I had touched on something I shouldn’t have.

─M, my bad……!

‘It’s okay. Japan, where your mythology first originated, was destroyed first.’

─……What?

‘China also collapsed, Russia also collapsed, just everything collapsed.’

Logically, how could any country withstand the onslaught of monsters with tough hides that blocked firearms from all sides?

‘High-powered weapons like bombs and missiles worked well, though.’

Even that didn’t work well from the 5th tier, the starting point of the high ranks.

There were many guys stronger than the 5th tier to annihilate them with nuclear bombs, and even the disasters that reigned beyond the 1st tier didn’t respond to nuclear bombs or anything, so the concept of a country couldn’t withstand it.

At that time, humanity was destined to become monster food unless everyone joined hands.

‘Anyway, let’s stop digressing here.’

─Isn’t the digression too long?

Hey. Don’t do that.

How hard do you think it is to hold onto the corner of the ceiling with one hand until that scrap metal robot and the gentleman in the suit disappear?

‘What I want to say is, this place seems different from our world.’

─Exactly what part?

‘The place names.’

The arrangement of letters on the robot’s shoulder. The armor part.

It was clear that it contained the name of the robot or the place name of this city. And Seungwoo, hanging from the ceiling, was staring intently at the letters even while having a mental conversation with Tamamo.

And beyond the scenery visible because he was hanging from the ceiling.

He frantically read the letters on the faintly visible signs, building up a sample in his head. Just when he had memorized the letters enough to grasp the arrangement and regularity of the letters.

‘The place name engraved on that robot is a city that doesn’t exist in our world.’

I finally succeeded in interpreting those letters.

─You’re saying those worm-like lines are letters?

‘Hey. That’s a bit too much. No matter how bad they look, they have their own pride in these letters.’

─It’s because the letters really look like worms.

That’s true.

In fact, I thought it was graffiti when I first saw it.

How would you think that a line that looks like a two-year-old child scribbling on a sketchbook is a letter? If I hadn’t been hanging from the ceiling and looking at the worm-like letters on the distant billboard, I wouldn’t have known either.

─No, before that, how did you know that those worms meant a place name? Do you perhaps have the ability to read the languages of other worlds?

‘No way. From the beginning, this place is within the system’s domain, but it’s a place where its influence barely reaches.’

I struggled to move my right arm holding Luna.

I raised my finger up.

Right above my vision. I pointed out that there was something there.

[You have returned to the system’s domain!]

[‘Baek Seungwoo’ has been identified.]

[Please wait a moment. Your ranking will be reinstated soon.]

The blue window that appeared on my retina.

Tamamo responded to the existence she saw after a long time.

─It’s been a while since I’ve seen this. Anyway, reinstatement. It seems like your name was removed from the ranking while you were gone.

‘Reinstatement? That’s not what I wanted you to look at.’

─Huh? You didn’t want me to look at this?

No matter how Tamamo looked at it, that seemed like the most important content.

‘Look at the bottom.’

─The bottom?

Tamamo, who borrowed my vision, closed her eyes.

Through the spirit connected through the ring, she read the message output to the system by borrowing my eyes instead of her own.

So, let’s see. The part I was told to read is here at the bottom?

[The frequency between the area and the system is very weak.]

[The connection is not working properly.]

[Connection failed.]

[Attempting to reconnect.]

……

……

[Connection is delayed.]

[Please try again in a closer area.]

─What is this?

‘What else could it be? It means this is a very good place to hide schemes.’

Like other parallel worlds.

This world is also under the management of the system, but in this place, neither traits nor skills can be used. The answer to Tamamo’s question about whether I had the ability to read the languages of other worlds was here.

‘That kind of ability doesn’t work in this world.’

The reason I deciphered the language of this world is just because I’m good.

Nothing more, nothing less.

─Honestly, it’s questionable that you deciphered a language you don’t even know the pronunciation of in this short amount of time, but I’ll skip it for now.

‘Questionable? Learning the spells you teach me is several times more difficult than deciphering that. Especially the highest-level spells. Are those even meant to be learned?’

─Focus, focus. That’s not what’s important right now.

And it’s easy. It’s just difficult to achieve greatness.

Tamamo, who muttered the end of her words softly, pointed to the robot’s shoulder.

It was the shoulder where that sentence was written earlier.

─Then how did you know that meant a place name?

‘Huh? It’s written right there.’

I tilted my shoulder with a look that asked why she was asking such a thing.

The sentence written on the robot. It was the answer that naturally came out when it was interpreted.

‘Guardian of the City Without Light.’

City Without Light.

It’s a very strange place name, but I found out through the signs engraved in the distance that it was the place name of this city.

‘It’s quite a unique place name, but let’s just assume that this is a world where they name things like that. If I’m wrong, I can correct it later.’

It was then.

Flash!

Something flashed behind me.

Clear red light was intensely shooting at me from behind without flashing on and off. It was as if a laser was targeting my back.

“Goodness, to think you’d be up on the ceiling.”

An old man’s voice was heard from behind.

It was faster to spread my senses wide than to turn my head, so I was able to recognize the beings occupying my back in an instant. A robot and a person. It was the duo who had been investigating something on the floor just now.

“Ah, I got caught for real.”

If I had known I would be caught this quickly, I wouldn’t have squeezed out every last bit of strength to hang from the ceiling. It would have been much better to conserve that strength and shut their mouths.

“You are violating the dimensional treaty.”

“Intruder! Eliminate or detain.”

After hearing the words of the old man and the tin can, I was convinced.

Yeah. If I had known it would be like this, I should have just gone up and cut them down.

I released the robot’s left arm that was holding the ceiling and grabbed the sword anyway.

Swoosh!

I cut down the old man and the robot, who were not showing good feelings, in one stroke.

The old man and the robot became a handful of flesh and scrap metal.

I didn’t know who they were, but there was no reason to spare the guys who were emitting obvious killing intent. Having caused casualties of one or two people, I immediately started running.

─Are you okay to run?!

“Why? Are all my limbs broken?”

─No! I’m just worried you might fall.

The powdered leg bones were joined together with magic.

The leg bones were forcibly joined together as if glued.

However, there was no way to know which parts were connected to the nerves, and exactly where and how they protruded and went inside. The bones were so cleanly broken that they were a mess. No matter how knowledgeable I am in anatomy, I wasn’t confident in matching the white carbon particles that were divided into powder units.

In the end.

‘I don’t know! If my legs are so broken that I can’t use them, I’ll just wear prosthetic legs.’

─The injectable prosthetic limbs? You used one, right?

‘Actually, there are more that I haven’t used.’

─Oh. Really? Then you can use that!

Restoring the damaged body to its original state.

Seungwoo’s masterpiece that makes severed limbs grow back as new.

If there was that mystery that was hard to believe was the power of just one medicine, there was nothing to fear.

─Why aren’t you using it quickly?

‘Oh. So. That’s what I mean.’

While running, I took out three empty medicine bottles with my leisurely left hand.

Three bottles. Exactly the amount that could heal three damaged parts of Seungwoo’s body, but.

─What. You had exactly the right amount! Huh? But why are they empty? Ah! Don’t tell me they’re already used medicine bottles?

‘No, it’s not like that.’

Take a closer look.

I moved my left hand holding the medicine back so that she behind me could see it well.

Only then did Tamamo realize what was wrong with these medicine bottles. She pointed to the three bottles at the same time and asked.

─Why is there not even half of it inside?

The bottles contained medicine.

It’s not that I mistook it for another medicine. It was definitely the injectable prosthetic limb I developed.

But.

─Don’t tell me you divided one medicine into three bottles?

‘Ah, yeah, that’s right. You figured it out.’

─No, if you were going to have it, you should have had a complete one! Why do you have it in such an inefficient way?!

The injectable prosthetic limb has good effects even in small amounts, but to see the full effect, you need exactly one bottle filled to the brim. At that time, I couldn’t understand why I was storing it in such small portions.

‘Because it wasn’t what I was preparing to use.’

─Then? What were you going to do with it?

‘It’s obvious.’

The best medicine in the world that only I can make.

Why bother dividing it?

‘I didn’t know the day would come when I would use this. If I had known, I wouldn’t have divided it into three bottles.’

I wanted to earn money to buy more weapons.

Anyway, that’s what happened.