Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 390

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 390

Spear (5)

“Are you sure you’re okay to move?”

‘My condition isn’t bad.’

It’s not just ‘not bad.’

It’s the best I’ve felt in about a year since coming to this world.

My magic circuit has recovered, and my body is somewhat back on track.

I even found answers to all the questions I had in the diary I just read. There’s no chance I’ll be shocked by Eve’s identity or Simon and fall into mental chaos.

‘How long has it been since my spirit, energy, and essence have been so stable?’

For a moment, I felt omnipotent, as if I could solve anything myself.

Yes, if it were the old me, I could solve everything.

By cutting through all problems with my sword.

‘Those were immature days.’

There was a boy who tried to solve all the problems he faced with his sword.

He swept away hordes of monsters with sword energy and delivered stabs to those demons who abandoned human morality. Occasionally, there were people who helped them—not monsters or demons, but humans.

He cut them down without mercy, regardless of their stories.

That’s how I protected my world.

Seungwoo still doesn’t think what he did back then was wrong.

Even though he stained his sword with blood, he saved more people than he killed.

There is no regret or hesitation.

‘But now, I might be able to think of a better solution.’

Of course, I’ll still cut down monsters and demons whenever I see them.

But I might be able to show some leniency to people. It’s just a possibility, so the chances are slim, but at least I’ve grown mentally through various experiences.

‘More than anything, I’ve grown in terms of power.’

Swordsmanship that has reached its peak does not rust easily.

Even though I put down the sword for a year, my skills were at the same level as before.

In this situation, Seungwoo’s magic, who had reached the level of a great mage, was added to this skill. Now, Seungwoo was capable of much more.

For example—

“—You guys go down now.”

“T-Teacher!”

I didn’t even have to turn around to see the expressions on my students’ faces.

They must all be making awkward faces.

They came to get clues to find me, but they probably never imagined they’d meet the person himself.

“You all must have a lot of questions.”

Why I’m in a place like this.

You must want to ask each other how I’ve been doing.

“Let’s talk about that outside.”

It’s enough to catch up after a long time outside.

Besides, it hasn’t been that long since we last met.

A month? No, is it two months?

It feels like it’s been longer.

—Have you met these kids since summer vacation?

‘I don’t know.’

I can’t remember.

For Seungwoo, who memorizes dozens of books in a day, not remembering means he either never met them or didn’t spend much time with them even if he did.

‘Then we should definitely talk outside.’

Seungwoo turned around.

The students’ current appearances were very different from what he remembered.

I could feel how much they had grown.

There must have been a lot going on.

“…I!”

Isabelle shouted in a loud voice.

The one who has the most feelings for Seungwoo among the students.

“That story. Can you keep it short?”

“N-No, how many things haven’t I been able to say until now!”

“Then we should definitely do it outside.”

In this situation, all we can do is exchange a word or two, right?

As soon as I said that, a huge wave washed over us.

The intangible wave scraped the ceiling of the ice tower and covered Seungwoo’s body.

Kugugugugugung!

Unable to resist the wave, my body was pushed back.

I raised my magic power to maximize my resistance to magic, but the wave from just now was not something I could resist.

Simply the power to push the opponent back.

Seungwoo couldn’t even put up a decent resistance to that extremely simple force.

“…That’s a troublesome power.”

Sreung!

Seungwoo reached out into the air, and a sword appeared in his hand.

Seungwoo, who reflexively drew his sword from its sheath, swung it as it was.

A perfect movement without an inch of error.

The students stared blankly at his back, at the natural movement like a series of flows. In particular, the reaction was even more intense for martial arts enthusiasts like Lee Ji and Seo Yerin.

“Hey, did you see that just now?”

“…Yeah.”

A movement that I wouldn’t have been able to see in the first semester.

At the same time as drawing his sword, Seungwoo rotated and condensed sword energy inside the sheath, creating a sharp gust of wind.

The fierce sound of the sword wind tearing through the wind and butchering the opponent is very loud.

It’s similar to the noise of a jet plane. The noise of the sword wind tearing through the wind is bound to be explosive. But the sword wind that reached Eve was very calm.

The lukewarm breeze.

Seogeok!

It silently cut away the magic power that made up Eve.

Lee Ji, who observed the whole process with her eyes, laughed in disbelief.

“I was wondering who came up with this crazy level of swordsmanship and shieldmanship, but it was you, Teacher.”

Every time I asked about the origin of the martial arts, you vaguely answered that you learned it from your teachers, which was frustrating every time.

“Because you can use it yourself. That’s why the martial arts are so crazy in difficulty.”

Now that I see it, it seems like the martial arts came from Teacher’s head.

On the other hand, Seo Yerin’s face was calm. She had a lot of things she wanted to say to Seungwoo, but the moment she saw his sword, one thought filled her head.

I want to copy it.

That technique. That artistry. That martial art.

I wanted to make it my own.

“…As expected, it’s Teacher.”

It’s the same as before.

Her skills had improved several levels since the first semester, and Nam Hwayeon was the only professor who could guarantee victory when facing Seo Yerin head-on.

But Seungwoo still inspires Seo Yerin.

It’s like a milestone.

His existence was like a light to Seo Yerin, telling her where to go.

“Now you’ve seen everything.”

Seungwoo muttered, pointing his sword at Eve.

The moment that muttering reached the students’ ears.

───!!!

The ice tower began to shake.

“…No.”

Seo Yerin peeked her head out of the tower.

As the view got closer and closer to the ground, she was sure.

“The tower is slowly being reversed from the top.”

It looks like it’s melting quickly because it’s an ice tower, but the ice tower is going back exactly in the reverse order that Isis made it.

The sight looked like it was turning back time.

Everyone couldn’t erase that thought from their minds.

Because Isis, who squeezed her magic power to the limit to create the huge ice tower, gradually recovered her magic power.

The more the tower disappeared, the more Isis’s magic power returned.

It would not have happened if they had simply melted the tower, so the students’ questions were valid, but Eve, who was watching the scene quietly, guessed the answer.

“…Space designation.”

Designating the space to which the ice tower belongs as her own territory, and reversing the magical acts that occurred within that space.

In other words, the students would disappear with the wounds they sustained on top of the ice tower.

“Someone other than me can do this?”

Can an ordinary human do that?

“Amazing.”

Eve, who couldn’t judge Seungwoo with her head, admired him willingly.

While she was evaluating Seungwoo, Seungwoo was also judging Eve.

Seungwoo, who was staring at Eve with cold eyes, opened his mouth.

“What about you.”

The head that was looking at Eve turned to the side.

“You’re a corpse.”

Seungwoo pointed to Simon’s body.

He’s not breathing anymore.

It must have been that his breath was cut off when he was caught by Eve and flew into the sky.

“It’s already a dead body.”

“No. He’s alive.”

“Yes, the soul must be alive.”

Do you think I can’t even see that?

I could see Simon’s soul hovering around Eve.

The other students didn’t seem to see it, but I can see it clearly.

Skill, 「Demon Eye」. The skill that shows the owner spiritual concepts left a huge mark on my cognitive abilities. Even if the skill disappears, I can observe spiritual concepts.

My senses have evolved once.

“First of all.”

It would be good to attack Simon.

Eve wouldn’t have grabbed Simon’s body for no reason.

There must be a reason.

Then I have to aim at that part tenaciously.

Heung!

Seungwoo raised his sword upwards.

This is a world connected to the system, but it was an area where I couldn’t see the grace of the system because it was only slightly connected.

Therefore, skill use was blocked, but.

「Star Cluster Wave」

The ability I was born with is okay, right? Right?

I quickly swung the sword down.

Kung─!!!

Light rippled like a wave.

The aftermath was instantaneous.

Starlight. The wave moving at the speed of light had already reached Eve at the moment it sparkled.

“…!”

Eve desperately blocked the attack, but a red line was drawn on both of her hands. It was a scar caused by forcibly blocking 「Star Cluster Wave」.

Although it didn’t completely tear the flesh, the part that was hit was dyed red, so the impact was definitely there.

Seungwoo looked down at Eve and said.

“How is it? Pretty fast, right?”

“…You.”

“Sorry to interrupt you while you’re talking, but I didn’t just fire one shot.”

“…Ugh!”

─!

─!

─!

As soon as the words were finished, numerous lights flashed.

The number was so large that even Eve, who had a mechanical capture ability, couldn’t recognize it for sure. It was a pupil that had been adapted to the dark night, but it was difficult to fully recognize because so much light was spreading.

“I can’t avoid them all.”

Eve judged coldly.

I realized the moment I first used my hands to block the attack.

It’s so fast that I have to move sincerely to avoid one attack, but if countless attacks complement each other, she has to take all those attacks with her body.

“But it’s not an injury that will kill me or prevent me from recovering.”

I won’t be able to protect Simon.

Eve turned her head and looked at Simon’s body in her hand.

A body like a corpse with its breath cut off.

If I put the soul that is circling around her like a satellite back into the body, he will come back to life, but then…

“You’re thinking too long.”

“…!”

This time, the light flashed.

In the end, Eve invested all of her vast magic power and computational power into defense.

The barrier she built sparkled with blue light. It looks like the perfection is slightly lacking, but there was no time to fix it.

Kung! Kugugugung! Kugugugugugung!!!

The light bombardment that formed on the sword pounded the barrier.

Each shot had the power to tear the barrier, but strangely, Seungwoo’s attack did not reach Eve.

“Let’s fight without that.”

“… .”

“Why can’t you bear to fight without it? Is it because you are one with him?”

“… .”

In Seungwoo’s eyes, Eve and Simon were connected by a black thread.

It would have been nice if it was something romantic like the red thread of fate, but in Seungwoo’s eyes, the thread looked like a tool to move a puppet.

“If not, is it because something in your head is telling you not to?”

“…!”

Eve was a tool made to move like a puppet.

And the one holding the puppet strings above that.

A very small mechanical device.

It was what people called the system.