Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 386

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 386

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 386

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“What’s with that woman?”

Lee Ji said, looking at Eve floating in the sky.

A height that’s hard to see even with magic-enhanced vision.

The magical waves emanating from the woman there are quite unusual.

Even.

Thump!

The form of the flame that had approached Eve closely crashed straight into the ground.

It seemed like someone had created it and was controlling it. If it fell straight into the magic tower from that height, well, I should say a prayer.

There was almost no chance of survival.

“Anyway, it’s quite strange.”

Lee Ji swung her axe around, loosening her body.

Ready to swing the axe at any moment.

Eve seemed somewhat alien in Lee Ji’s fully prepared eyes.

“That woman has no hostility or murderous intent.”

Lee Ji muttered without much thought.

“……What?”

“Lee Ji, that remark. Can you explain it accurately?”

“Huh? Was that something worth reacting to?”

“Lee Ji.”

“Okay, if it’s the captain’s order, I have to follow it.”

Though I have no idea what the intention is.

Lee Ji, who had no need or reason to disobey Isabel, the leader of the squad, recalled what she had felt and opened her mouth.

“So, what I felt exactly was, you know, that feeling of something sharp but soft inside? Like with food.”

Lee Ji tried to explain the feeling she had in detail.

“Lee Ji.”

“……No need for unnecessary details.”

“We just want you to explain the parts we need.”

“Ugh, seriously.”

Let me say what I want to say!

Lee Ji, who couldn’t bring herself to raise her voice at her stronger friends, inwardly cried out and pointed at Eve with her finger.

“That woman. She just dropped a flying mage.”

“……Yeah.”

“If the mage was skilled, they might have survived, but most mages wouldn’t survive that kind of attack. But in the first place, can you even call that an attack? You guys can see it too, right? What that woman did wasn’t interception, but reverse calculation [analyzing the mage’s trajectory and subtly altering it to cause a crash].”

“Whether it’s interception or reverse calculation, in the end, the flying mage was shot down.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Shot down and crashed into a building. But she didn’t directly show any intention to kill.”

“Isn’t that possible? We do that sometimes too.”

When there are weaker monsters than us, we don’t waste energy on strong attacks and easily catch them using the surrounding environment or weak techniques.

Isabel and her group often used that strategy.

Tsk tsk, Lee Ji clicked her tongue at those words.

You can’t approach it that way.

“You guys know that I had a bit of a hard time growing up, right?”

“We can’t forget that.”

How many people died that day alone.

Seo Yerin said calmly, and Lee Ji said, slightly flustered.

“Y-yeah, anyway, I grew up in that kind of environment, so I’m a bit sensitive to hostility. But that woman didn’t even give off that kind of vibe.”

“So, you’re saying that dropping a person just now wasn’t done with bad intentions?”

“It could be, or it could not be.”

“……What do you mean?”

“It could be that the person has faint or no emotions in the first place.”

At the words that emotions could be faint or nonexistent, Isabel stepped forward.

“If that’s the case, then rather than a human, wouldn’t they be closer to…”

A programmed artificial life form?

“……!”

Isabel’s mind raced.

If that woman is an artificial life form, there’s a high possibility that she’s the final boss of this otherworld.

Naturally, the judgment to subdue that woman was made.

“……Everyone, prepare for battle.”

“Isabel!”

“Prepare for battle! Make the best preparations you can!”

“Are you really going to fight that woman? I told you, she’s someone who doesn’t have any hostility even when dropping people to kill them. Is there really a need to fight?”

“Of course.”

Isabel held up two fingers.

“Firstly, there’s significance in preparing in advance.”

“Preparation…….”

“If that woman shows hostility later on, what if we get hit by her first move without any preparation because we didn’t prepare?”

“Just imagining it… is dizzying.”

The moment Eve floated into the sky, the atmosphere in the sky changed.

The space distorted due to the immense magic power.

It was a change that occurred just from that woman’s appearance.

If, as Isabel said, that woman suddenly harbors hostility and attacks us, or launches an attack towards the city, there would be great damage.

In that case, we should prepare in advance.

Lee Ji nodded and lightly adjusted her shield.

“I understood enough with the first answer. What’s the second?”

“The wave of magic power.”

“Wave?”

“That woman is using all the magic power that exists in this otherworld right now? Yerin, you know what I’m talking about, right?”

“You’re talking about the Emptiness Spirit Body [a rare constitution allowing the user to freely manipulate ambient magical energy]?”

Among the many constitutions.

One of the best constitutions that martial artists consider, the Emptiness Spirit Body.

That constitution is famous for its fraudulent effect of freely using the natural energy existing in nature, the magic power in the atmosphere, as long as the mental power allows, without the need to accumulate or filter it in the body.

“You’re saying that woman is the legendary Emptiness Spirit Body? Is that what you want to say?”

“I’ve never seen an Emptiness Spirit Body either, but if it exists, I think it would be similar to that woman.”

Of course. That woman is much more amazing though.

The Emptiness Spirit Body has a limit that human mental power allows, but the wave of magic power and distortion visible before my eyes is not at that level.

All the magic power that makes up this world is responding to her.

“Even if she doesn’t have hostility, if we leave her in that state even for a little bit, this world is over. We should hurry and run away.”

It was an ideal judgment as a squad leader.

She was someone with an endless ability to control magic power.

No, she might not even be a person. Rather than confronting such a person, it was the right choice to escape out of this world.

Although the residents living in this world were pitiful, those who can live should live.

After all, it’s a fragment of a world that has already been destroyed. It’s already a dead life, so what meaning would there be in saving them.

“Run away? After finally finding a clue about the teacher?”

“……Do you think I’m going to throw away two weeks in this shithole city without any results? ……I’d rather fight that woman. I can’t throw away my time.”

Everyone sharpened their swords.

The reason they were sharpening their swords was clear.

The lives of the residents? That’s also important, of course.

But this world is just a recreation of a world that has already been destroyed.

No matter how hard we try to save them, the result that the residents die does not change.

……The teacher might have made a different judgment, but they are not here.

“I came to find the teacher’s whereabouts. If I received grace from my mentor, it is the disciple’s duty to repay it.”

“Speaking grandly. Isis, with your current skills, what kind of surpassing the master? You wouldn’t even be able to hit one attack. Ah, maybe ice dust?”

“I’m clearly aware of the level difference with the Archmage too!”

But there are opponents that you definitely want to win against!

Lee Ji paused for a moment at Isis’s ardent fighting spirit and nodded.

Certainly, everyone has such a target. For someone, it’s the teacher, for someone, it’s the target of revenge, and for someone else─

─It’s an object of lingering affection.

Lee Ji glanced sideways at Isabel.

‘She doesn’t express it, but she’s the most full of fighting spirit.’

Enthusiasm was felt in Isabel’s eyes.

It was an unlike gaze for Isabel, who usually led the squad with a cold head, but it was the most fitting gaze for the human Isabel we knew.

Lee Ji knew well who that gaze was directed at.

That person who isn’t here. It was directed at the teacher.

‘That person is really popular.’

Even the former fiancée is still clinging to them.

That says it all.

Besides, I’m doing this for that person too, geez. They’re a very blessed person.

Sreung!

Lee Ji raised her axe.

A chilling aura formed on the axe blade.

Everyone finished preparing to fight.

“……Adam.”

At that moment, a woman’s beautiful voice echoed in the sky.

“……Adam.”

She kept calling that name.

As if trying to deeply engrave the name Adam in her mind.

She repeated it several times.

“Adam.”

Only after calling the name hundreds of times did she close her mouth.

Eve, reacting as if she had now definitely remembered the name.

She lifted the man in her arms with both hands.

“…….”

“Adam.”

The man, Adam, was unconscious.

In addition to being kidnapped and imprisoned during the day, he was mentally exhausted after being kidnapped by Seungwoo afterwards. Thanks to that, he was only breathing heavily, unaware that he was floating high in the sky.

“Adam.”

Eve stared intently at his face.

As if trying to store Adam’s features in her mind.

……She stared for a very long time.

“It’s strange.”

The first word other than ‘Adam’ that came out of her mouth.

Eve combined the words that came to her mind.

The words became sentences and came out of Eve’s mouth.

“It’s really…… strange. I’m definitely seeing it, seeing them for the first time. But why is it like this.”

Isn’t it familiar?

Why is it so familiar?

This city. This air.

And Adam in front of me.

Clearly, everything Eve was seeing was for the first time in her life.

“……It’s strange.”

A sense of déjà vu washed over Eve like a wave.

It wasn’t just a feeling that this had happened before, but faint memories and visions flashed through Eve’s mind.

The first vision that flashed by was a mess.

Everything reflected in her vision was distorted due to the refraction of water and specially made thick glass. When people approached, they looked like distorted toads in Eve’s vision.

The vision that appeared afterwards was a space with all sides blocked.

Tower. The people around her seemed to call that space that.

In that space, Eve saw a man every day.

He didn’t look like a toad due to the refraction of water and glass.

Eve saw him from different eye levels in her memory each time.

At first, from the same height.

Next, from a slightly lower position.

There were times when she saw him from a higher position, but mostly she looked up at Adam from a lower perspective. As those memories and moments piled up in Eve’s mind.

─!

Something huge struck Eve’s brain.

Startled!

Eve, surprised, quickly looked behind her.

But there was nothing behind her.

Judging from the absence of magical traces, no one had cast a spell either.

Relieved, she looked at Adam again and tried to immerse herself in the memories flashing through her mind, but this time her arm─!

“……!”

Eve let out a silent scream.

Pain was constantly felt in her body.

It hurts.

It hurts so much that tears come out.

“W-what is this……?”

Eve, surprised, desperately tried to find the cause.

But she was floating alone in the high sky.

It was a situation where no one could touch her.

Only then did she realize. The cause of this pain was within her.

“Ah!”

Now, memories and scenes were pouring into her head like a flood.

This was the cause of the pain.

Eve hurriedly tried to stop this flow, but her strength was not enough. In the face of the rushing memories, she had no choice but to helplessly accept everything.

Eve’s consciousness became blurred due to the influx of too many memories.

Her vision is dim.

But there was something particularly bright in her vision.

That was.

“……What, window?”

Filled with letters she was seeing for the first time in her life.

A blue window.