Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 374

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 374

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 374

Let’s Go Back (4)

“Do you remember how I entered the Magic Tower?”

“You saved someone. A guy wearing a white gown. Someone who clearly looked like a Magic Tower researcher.”

“You remember correctly.”

“Why are you suddenly asking about him?”

Luna asked Seungwoo.

“Did something happen to him?”

“I wonder.”

Seungwoo recalled the scene he had just witnessed.

If he hadn’t seen it wrong, it definitely was.

“It seems like he was kidnapped.”

“Ki, kidnapped? Who on earth would do that in these precarious times?!”

“My students.”

“…Ah.”

“I watched from a distance, and their kidnapping skills were amazing. I didn’t teach them that; I don’t know where they learned it.”

Where did they learn it?

Like teacher, like students.

“But they are still not good at detecting the gazes of onlookers.”

Secret actions like kidnapping and assassination are all about doing it without anyone knowing.

Sometimes, people deliberately leave traces to lure others, but such tactics are only used after becoming proficient in secret kidnapping and assassination. It’s not something inexperienced kids should do.

“I wish I could teach them properly from the side.”

The connection between Seungwoo and his students ended with the summer vacation.

The students are no longer his disciples studying under him. They didn’t form a separate master-disciple relationship either. There was no reason or justification for Seungwoo to teach them anything anymore.

Besides, this time, it didn’t seem like he could be so kind.

Swish.

Seungwoo got up from his seat without a word.

─Where are you going?

“I’m just going for a walk.”

“Okay.”

“Aren’t you going to come with me?”

“You’re going out with some ulterior motive anyway. I don’t want to get involved in that.”

“Alright, do as you please.”

It wasn’t that important anyway.

The lack of one person wouldn’t cause it to fail.

Seungwoo went out of the Magic Tower alone.

“Hmm, let’s see.”

Where did the kidnapped Magic Tower researcher and students go?

“They erased their footprints and traces of magic properly.”

Seungwoo scanned the path the students had taken.

There were no traces left on the road.

It seems they learned some kind of light footwork.

Does this mean they tried to act secretly in their own way?

‘But it’s still not enough.’

I’m not someone who can’t see through this level of light footwork.

Seungwoo strolled leisurely down the road.

Walking, he felt countless gazes.

─The gazes… are mostly unpleasant.

‘How does it look to you?’

─Unpleasant and filthy gazes. I feel all kinds of desires. If it were me, I would have plucked out the eyes of those vagrants.

‘That’s cruel.’

─There’s no reason not to be cruel. Both I and the other party have blood on our hands, so why hesitate?

There were more people living on the streets than he thought.

And most of those people had sharp objects in their hands.

It wasn’t a knife. They probably couldn’t afford a knife, so they broke a glass bottle that someone had thrown away and used it as a weapon.

The glass bottle was covered in blood.

Seungwoo, who observed all of this, replied.

‘Of course, there isn’t.’

Seungwoo is not a Taoist or a monk.

He’s not a good person, and he has no room to show mercy to those who have blood on their hands. But he has no intention of being cruel to the unfortunate.

‘The city is full of power struggles, and the outside of the city is full of monsters. These people were born into this crazy world. I can tolerate those gazes. Besides, those people.’

They can’t dare to mess with me.

Even when walking through streets with poor security, people only looked at Seungwoo. No one touched or grabbed him.

No one followed him or blocked his path.

─I see? You came to this slum in neat and tidy clothes, but why isn’t anyone attacking you?

‘Could it be because of the gown?’

─The gown? Haha, if they don’t attack just because of that, would the people living in this alley just stand by and watch the kidnapped researcher? They would immediately report it to the Magic Tower and try to get a reward.

That’s obvious.

Even if they can hide their footprints, they can’t hide the scene of kidnapping a person. There is a high probability that everyone here saw the students kidnapping the researcher.

The kidnapped researcher.

The researcher chasing after him.

To people, it would look like a move to save a kidnapped colleague.

‘Even if those people have blood on their hands, they wouldn’t dare to oppose the Magic Tower. Besides, if a white-gowned person appears shortly after a researcher is kidnapped, they would most likely see that person as someone trying to save the kidnapped researcher.’

To save a kidnapped person, it is not enough to simply have the power to kill all the kidnappers. To execute the kidnappers and rescue the hostage, you need the power to lightly toy with them.

Perhaps people think Seungwoo has that kind of power.

Seungwoo left those gazes alone and tracked the traces.

He arrived at a certain building.

The exterior was close to a derelict building, but the interior was cleaner than expected. It seems someone recently cleaned the inside of the building.

Thanks to that, he was certain.

Everyone is here.

Thump, thump.

Seungwoo headed to the basement of the building.

In the basement, as expected, were the students and an unknown researcher.

The kind researcher who guided me to the Magic Tower. He was tightly bound by the students I taught.

“It doesn’t look like he’s been tortured.”

His hands and feet were attached, and his fingers and toes were intact.

They only pulled out a few fingernails. Even that felt sloppy.

If you want to torture, do it properly.

That’s not even torture.

“…Who are you?”

“Well, you don’t need to know who I am.”

At Seungwoo’s words, the students looked at him.

Even though he had recently guided the students to the Magic Tower, they didn’t recognize Seungwoo. Well, he didn’t care much.

What’s important now anyway.

‘Is to take that tied-up guy.’

Thump!

Seungwoo stomped his foot, and wind blew from the floor.

Moving as quickly as a strong wind, Seungwoo cut everything binding the researcher before Isabel’s head could even turn.

And once again.

Thump!

He stomped his foot hard.

Whooooooosh!

A strong wind blew.

Small objects floated in the air due to the wind pressure, and the students covered their faces with their hands and squeezed their eyes shut. Isabel, who raised her magic power to subdue the wind pressure, was the first to open her eyes among the group.

“…Did he already escape?”

The two had already left this place.

The traces of the wind led through the door to a distant place.

“I, Isabel! Let’s hurry and chase after them.”

“He’s really fast. We’re going to miss him at this rate!”

“They are not visible to the naked eye, but it’s not too late yet. Should we hurry and chase after them?”

“…No.”

The students grabbed their weapons, waiting for the head, Isabel’s command.

Everyone was waiting for her voice when Isabel shook her head firmly and uttered negative words.

“The speed of escape is too fast. It’s not a speed we can catch up to even if we chase after them.”

“…I can catch up.”

“Yes, if it’s Seo Yerin’s speed, you can catch up enough. But what about the other colleagues? You’re not saying you’re going alone, are you? We are a team.”

“But he was a guy we captured with great effort. We didn’t get any proper information, so we can’t let him go like this.”

The group complained to her.

They felt unpleasant about the fact that they missed him, but more than anything, they seemed concerned about the fact that they didn’t extract proper information.

But this is not true.

“It’s not really like that.”

Isabel pointed out the group’s wrong thinking.

“We got the most important information.”

At her words, Easy held up a shield.

“What information? The word Ubi that guy said?”

“Not Ubi, but Eve. In the context of the words, it seems to refer to a person’s name, but we don’t know what it means.”

“Then is there any other information we got besides that?”

“What, are you trying to get biological information from his blood? Forget it. We can’t do that at our level. Unless we have someone who is well-versed in the human body, we can’t do it.”

“That’s not what I want to say.”

Isabel said gently.

“Think about it. What did we come here to do?”

“It’s obvious. We came to clear the Otherworld.”

“That’s right. Why did we come to clear the Otherworld?”

“We came because we received a suspicious quest that we could get information about the teacher here. I don’t know when the system became a compass that finds the whereabouts of missing people, but anyway, we came thinking it wouldn’t hurt to try.”

“That’s exactly it.”

The students’ goal was not kidnapping, torture, or clearing.

All of this was just a process to obtain a single piece of information.

“We found the most important thing.”

If they could reach their goal, the process didn’t matter.

Isabel’s eyes were directed towards the direction they disappeared.

Meanwhile.

Seungwoo moved far away with the researcher in his hand.

He moved near the tower through a movement that was closer to a kind of magical act than running or light footwork. In this place, there was no longer any chance of getting involved with students or meeting annoying hunters.

The security around here is very reliable.

How reliable is it? A hunter who gets caught fighting around here becomes the target of execution the next day and becomes prey for the monsters outside the city on a catapult.

“Th, thank you for saving me. I lived thanks to you.”

“You’re welcome.”

The researcher greeted him.

It seems he has a grateful heart for Seungwoo, who saved him.

Without knowing what he’s going to do from now on.

Grab.

Seungwoo grabbed the researcher’s arm.

Then the researcher was embarrassed.

“Ch, Chief Researcher. Can you, uh, let go of my hand?”

“Chief Researcher?”

“Yes, is there something wrong with the title?”

“It’s recent that I took office as the Tower Lord, but there are no more people in the tower who call me Chief Researcher.”

This is something that all the researchers living on the upper floors of the tower know.

Then what is this guy?

“What! Th, the Tower Lord is clearly alive! A new Tower Lord!”

“Alive? It’s been a while since that person showed his face, wasn’t he dead? I thought he was dead because there was no response even when I posted an official document about the death of the former Tower Lord, so I succeeded to that position.”

Looking at that reaction.

“Then you. It’s like you know where the former Tower Lord is.”

“…Heok!”

“If you know, wouldn’t you hurry up and tell me?”

I need to finish the handover.