Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 362

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 362

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 362

Why are you guys here? (2)

—Do you even have a plan?

Tamamo asked as I was leaving the scene.

“What plan are you talking about?”

—You’re planning to go back to your original world, right? Then how are you going to get out of this world, and what are you going to do with that girl?

“I brought her here, so I have to take responsibility.”

I looked at the girl walking ahead.

Luna, who had collapsed because she wasn’t feeling well, had recovered enough to walk on her own. Of course, she still didn’t seem to be in great condition, but at least she was healthier than me.

—Responsibility? How are you going to take responsibility?

“Well, that’s obvious–”

I stopped and flinched for a moment.

I thought for a moment. She might be able to hear me, so I shouldn’t say it out loud. This is a bit of a misunderstanding, so I muttered the rest to myself.

‘—I’m going to leave her in this world.’

—Hey.

What do you mean by misunderstanding?

That itself is strange.

—You brought her here, and you’re going to abandon her here?

‘Abandon? Who am I abandoning?’

—You just said that.

‘Not at all. I said I was going to leave her. I didn’t say I was going to abandon her.’

—Leaving her in a place like this means abandoning her, doesn’t it?

I blinked at Tamamo’s words.

It seems that the intention of my words was misunderstood.

Just as I was about to open my mouth to correct her misunderstanding.

“Th-That’s right, isn’t it? It’s reasonable to leave someone like me behind, who can’t even come to my senses and hasn’t been helpful at all.”

“…Ah.”

—Come to think of it. That child could hear me.

“I didn’t think it was an important ability, so I forgot about it.”

I spoke in my mind so that Luna wouldn’t hear, but her ability to communicate with everything allowed her to eavesdrop on Tamamo’s conversation.

Oh, this is annoying. Thanks to that, the number of people who misunderstood me has doubled.

I hurriedly opened my mouth to prevent the misunderstanding from deepening any further.

“Then I’ll just disappear. It seems right for you to part ways with someone like me, who couldn’t protect my country or properly lead the alliance.”

“I think there’s some kind of misunderstanding.”

“Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding are you talking about?”

Luna clapped her hands as if she understood my words.

Yes, she finally understands what I mean.

“Ah-ha! I get it now.”

“Then thankfully…”

“Sir, you weren’t abandoning me, but leaving me behind. I chose the wrong words. I’m sorry.”

“Ugh.”

Thump, thump.

I increased my walking speed and kicked Luna as she was.

“Ah! That hurts!”

“I kicked you to make it hurt.”

And that’s it.

I’m the one who’s hurting more, you know?

‘Kicking a small girl just now slightly twisted my leg joint.’

Luna only fell over from the force of my push.

There was no impact from kicking her at all.

Rather, I was the one who got hurt.

It seems that my physical condition is more extreme than I thought.

“Stop talking nonsense and listen. The reason I’m leaving you in this world is to send you back to that timeline.”

“…Excuse me?”

“The people of the alliance. You don’t think you’ll ever see them again?”

“…!”

Luna and I. Without speaking or seeing with our own eyes, we intuitively sensed that the alliance had been devastated. I put it euphemistically, but it was devastated. In reality, it would be annihilation.

“The people of the alliance must have all died.”

“…Well, that’s probably true.”

The Calamity was a group that couldn’t even properly defend against the attacks of the knights and lancers before. It was truly a ragtag group. How else could they have barely managed to stop the White Knight and his lancers with the help of an outsider like me?

“My people had no way to resist those monsters you call Calamities. They’re probably all dead.”

“Well, probably.”

Some will survive, though.

Seungwoo, who once hunted those Calamities himself, still couldn’t forget the days when he first encountered them. He couldn’t easily forget the sight of those guys using humans as livestock or toys.

For example, the Fourth Calamity.

The guy who scatters huge lightning bolts everywhere and responds to my sword with a huge spear uses handsome women and young men like his followers.

His intentions were very impure.

He makes them wear clean clothes to his liking and makes them pray and attend mass every day, and depending on his taste, he mingles with his followers.

Then, when he gets tired of them, he abandons them or kills them. The Fourth Calamity has a very violent disposition.

Some of my colleagues laughed at this, saying that monsters were imitating God.

The Calamities were mostly like that.

‘I don’t need to say this.’

It was information that was of no use even if she knew it.

In fact, the moment I first witnessed that scene with my own eyes, there were many terrible scenes that made me feel deep anger and want to erase what I had just seen from my mind. It’s not living even if you’re alive.

It was better for Luna to think that everyone was dead.

“Your people are all dead.”

“I already know that without you telling me.”

“But there’s one chance.”

“…Please explain.”

Luna’s elf ears fluttered at my words.

Twitch.

The wide-open ears seemed to indicate that she was listening intently to my words.

When she said that people were dead, Luna had a frank expression as if she were confessing a deep-seated resentment.

The title of leader of hundreds of thousands of survivors must have been quite heavy.

But on the other hand, she seemed to have a lot of regrets left.

“Good. It seems like you’re willing to listen now.”

“So, what is that method?”

It seems like she can’t even hear me.

Well, that’s good. The more enthusiastic she is, the better for me.

That’s because the method I’m about to tell you is a task that absolutely requires her help.

“I’m going to use you as a medium.”

“Yes? A medium?”

“Yes, I remember the coordinates for the space-time travel itself, but the problem is the specific location and time. It’s not for nothing that time and space are combined into space-time. For a more certain operation, we need to…!”

“W-Wait a minute! I don’t understand anything!”

Luna waved her hand and interrupted while I was explaining diligently.

This is the most important part, why isn’t she listening?.

The words Luna spat out struck my mind.

No, wait a minute.

“You don’t understand this?”

“No!”

“I was deliberately explaining it in an easy way to make you understand?”

“Is that easy?!”

“Of course, it’s easy.”

I excluded all the complicated formulas and logic.

I chose my words carefully so that only Luna could understand.

Is this really that difficult?

‘Is her comprehension lacking?’

—It seems that her comprehension is not lacking. The level difference is too great. Your explanation was too difficult for that child’s background knowledge to understand.

‘Don’t tell me you didn’t understand it either?’

—Aren’t you talking about using that child as an axis?

‘Okay. You understood it well.’

Tamamo, who was listening from the side even though I didn’t say it to her, understood it much faster than Luna. I wondered how she became the leader of a group called the Alliance with such comprehension.

—It’s not that that child’s comprehension is particularly lacking.

‘Then?’

—The level of the people you exchanged opinions with when discussing theories was abnormally high. Your standards are too high.

‘The level of the people I was talking to was high?’

Let’s see.

The person I shared magical discourses with was… Nam Hwayeon, she alone.

As for sorcery, it was Tamamo. As for swordsmanship, it was me, who was vast, and the person I talked to about forging was Gu Yaja.

Eh?

‘That’s really true.’

The people I’ve had discussions with so far have all been at the pinnacle of their fields. Nam Hwayeon is magic, Tamamo is sorcery, and Gu Yaja is weapons. Since I’ve been discussing professional fields with such people, discussing formulas and theories, it’s natural that my standards have become higher.

‘I can’t help it. I have to minimize theoretical explanations and explain as easily as possible.’

—Yes, if you explain it too difficultly, you may be able to explain all the key points, but the person listening won’t be able to accept it.

“…Hey. I can hear everything.”

Luna made a sulky expression in front of my eyes after overhearing Tamamo’s words. She seemed to have noticed that I was treating her like an idiot based on the circumstances. I didn’t say anything about it.

Well, what can I do if it’s true?

“Okay, then I’ll explain it again.”

“…Don’t ignore me.”

“First of all, I have no intention of just leaving you in this city.”

“…Then what? Are you going to seat me as some kind of king?”

“Oh? You understood well.”

“…?”

No, what are you talking about?

Luna frowned at his appearance of affirming the words he had said as a joke.

Regardless, I continued to explain.

“As you know, this place is a gap between the reverse side world and the reverse side world.”

“Reverse side world? What’s that again?”

Ah, do I have to explain from there?

I didn’t have the confidence to explain, so I boldly skipped that part.

“Anyway, if I clear this world, or more precisely, achieve a specific goal, I can return to where I came from.”

“Then what about me?”

“Unfortunately, only I can go.”

The reverse side world is a fragment of a destroyed world.

If you clear it, you can return to reality with a reward.

I’m going to use that device set up in the system to go back and reorganize. But Luna couldn’t accompany me there.

‘In the first place, that place itself was the reverse side world. It was possible to bring Luna to another reverse side world, but it was impossible to bring her to reality.’

The reverse side world is a world that has already been destroyed.

Luna is a resident of the destroyed world. This is just a guess, but it is highly likely that the original Luna had already died in the midst of the war with the lancers. The girl in front of me is just a fragment of such a bleak story.

So I couldn’t go with her.

Instead.

“I can take you back to your original world.”

“Original world? What’s the point of going back there anyway? It’s a world full of disasters, and all my people are dead. What’s the point of going back?”

“What if you go back to the time before the Calamity appeared?”

“…Excuse me?”

“What if you give everyone time to escape and kill all the Calamities?”

I could give her a chance.

“So, you don’t understand? You’re going back to the past? Is that possible?”

“Of course, it’s possible.”

It’s a matter of course, but I don’t know how to turn back time.

I am not a god. I’m just a common magician and sorcerer.

But that’s it.

The reverse side world is just a reproduction of a world that has already been destroyed.

To put it in perspective, our world is like a live broadcast, and Luna’s world is like a video that has already been posted. It is possible to skip back and forth at will. And in order to do that.

“It’s definitely possible if you stay here.”