Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 399

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 399

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 399

It Was You (4)

While having tea and a conversation with Eve.

“So, what are those guys’ identities?”

“You already know.”

“I want to be sure. The journal I read might have contained lies, don’t you think?”

“Hoo.”

Clink.

Eve placed her cup on the saucer.

Then, she tapped her head with her slender fingers.

“When you say ‘those guys,’ you’re specifically curious about Adam and ‘Eve,’ right?”

“Yeah, that’s right. By the way, it’s strange to ask you, who is also Eve, about Eve.”

I felt like I was watching someone explain their doppelganger.

It felt very strange.

“Forget about that. Actually, you know.”

I don’t know much about them either.

Eve confessed frankly.

“What?”

Seungwoo couldn’t hide his bewilderment.

“No, if you don’t know, who would know about those two?”

“How are you so sure that I know the details about them?”

Did you even see me hanging out with those two?

Seungwoo scratched his head at Eve’s words.

Honestly, there’s nothing to say when she puts it like that.

“Actually, Seungwoo, don’t you know more than I do?”

“…Maybe.”

If Eve really doesn’t know much about Adam and ‘Eve,’ then I probably know more about them than she does.

Seungwoo sighed in frustration.

“Haa…”

This is so frustrating, I can’t stand it.

“Let’s talk about what we know first.”

Let’s compare the information we have.

Seungwoo spoke first.

“First of all, what I’ve found out about Adam is that this place is his hometown.”

The Nameless City is where Adam was born.

Traces of Adam’s activities remain in the place where I was born and in Eve’s novel, but neither world had anything related to his origin.

Like someone who fell from another world.

Thanks to that, I was able to be certain.

That everything about him started here.

“You managed to figure that out. That’s right, this world is very special. It’s where the seventh disaster among the many disasters that devoured countless worlds was born.”

The seventh disaster.

Meaning Adam.

Not the researcher in the white gown, or the Simon who was a cultist of the Demonic Sect, but that terrible nightmare with black wings, looking down at us from the apple tree.

“You know the most about that Adam, right?”

“That’s right.”

Seungwoo knows the winged Adam better than anyone.

I can be sure of this part.

Because I was the one who cut off his breath.

“I only know about that Adam from the reports.”

“Adam hasn’t left his area for decades.”

“I know about the winged Adam.”

“Of course. I caught Adam all by myself.”

From the first to the sixth disaster among the seven disasters.

Mankind invested countless capital and manpower.

On the other hand, when catching the seventh disaster, more capital was used than the money spent on the six disasters that had been subjugated so far.

Instead, the manpower was overwhelmingly small.

Only one person.

Because Seungwoo faced Adam alone.

“So, I’m not even curious about that guy.”

The Adams Seungwoo is curious about are the other two besides the so-called ‘Disaster Adam.’

Namely, ‘Demonic Sect Cultist Adam’ and ‘Researcher Adam.’

“From what I’ve seen so far, Adam can be largely divided into three types.”

Adam is different from Eve.

The reason Eve could exist in countless numbers was because she was a homunculus [an artificially created human]. Unlike Eve, all three Adams are the same person, so more than two could not exist on the same timeline.

“I know the Disaster Adam so well that I can memorize his combat patterns, so I’m not curious at all, but the other two are full of questions.”

Especially the Demonic Sect Cultist Adam.

I don’t know this guy at all.

“Adam, who was active as a Demonic Sect cultist, hid himself under another name, Simon.”

Even though he wasn’t weak.

Simon possessed power several times stronger than the demon nobles worshiped in the Demonic Sect, which was not befitting of the alias of a Demonic Sect cultist.

Researcher Adam is based on information I learned directly and through journals.

And I watched him briefly from the sidelines as he crossed the timeline in a ghostly state.

On the other hand, I knew almost nothing about the Demonic Sect cultist Simon.

“I don’t know what his intentions were when he acted like that.”

“…I think I can explain that part.”

“Didn’t you just say you didn’t know?”

“Hey, do you think I wouldn’t know anything at all? When I said I didn’t know, I meant I didn’t know everything, but I know some of it.”

Eve smiled and touched her lips.

“The Demonic Sect cultist is a kind of terminal.”

“Terminal?”

“Yeah. A terminal of the system.”

“…That’s a bit strange, isn’t it?”

Seungwoo asked back in a tone as if to confirm that he understood correctly.

“You clearly said that you are the administrator of the system.”

“Me? When?”

“Well, you nodded while gesturing instead of speaking…”

Ah, no way. Isn’t it?

Seungwoo shook his head at the hypothesis that suddenly came to mind.

Haha, no way that’s right.

“Actually, it turns out that you and Adam are co-administrators of the system. It’s not something like that, is it? Right?”

“Have you only been practicing mind reading for the past year?”

“…Ah.”

It was a statement that confirmed Seungwoo’s hypothesis.

The prediction was correct.

Eve was indeed the administrator of the system, as she expressed through gestures, but what was truly unexpected was that there were two administrators.

“I never thought it would be true.”

I should have known.

My mind was as chaotic as a collapsed bookshelf, but thanks to being able to verify the facts that had been left as speculation until now, it became an opportunity to organize them step by step.

“Now I understand the system, you, and Adam’s reactions.”

One system.

Two administrators.

Seungwoo pondered, retracing their relationship.

If I do this right, I might be able to make things bigger?

* * *

Seungwoo recalled the conversation he had with Eve earlier.

I got a good idea through that conversation, but that’s not what I should be thinking about now. First, the tail comes first.

Seungwoo focused on his tail again.

The process of rising from the ambiguous state of an eight-tailed fox and a nine-tailed fox to the state of a perfect nine-tailed fox was not complicated.

There is only one way: accepting your appearance as it is.

That was enough.

Becoming a nine-tailed fox is something like that.

“The problem is from now on.”

Seungwoo checked the situation.

He became a perfect nine-tailed fox from an ambiguous state.

────!

The tails that were as transparent as if they were melting into the air began to appear one by one.

I could feel the magic power in my body reacting as the tails appeared one by one. The nine-tailed fox’s body was reacting to the tails.

“Hoo…”

The magic power gradually intensified.

By the time the eighth tail reappeared in the world, the magic power had already left Seungwoo’s control.

Pazzzzzzzzz─!!!

Seungwoo’s unique dark red magic power surged.

“…Haha.”

I had this inside me?

At this moment, Seungwoo felt like he knew why Eve bothered to make him a fox demi-human [a being that is part human and part fox]. The magic power is increasing more and more.

The amount of magic power that has increased is about 64 times the normal amount.

This was the figure that came out when only the eighth tail was revealed.

‘If this momentum continues.’

The amount of magic power that rises the moment the ninth tail is completed.

It will be beyond imagination.

Seungwoo’s magic power is by no means small. Even if you search the whole world, even if you combine countless dimensions, the amount of magic power Seungwoo possesses is one of the most.

That magic power increases exponentially.

Kugugugugung.

The vast magic power began to affect the mind just by its existence.

The white rose garden was dyed dark red around me.

The dark red roses seemed to possess a fatal beauty at first glance, but soon withered. No matter how much it was a flower born from Eve’s mind, there was no way to withstand such vast magic power.

As the scale gradually increased, worries slowly surfaced.

‘Should I complete and unfold the ninth tail as it is?‘

I can’t even control the amount of magic power that the eighth tail amplifies, and forcibly trapping it is the best I can do, but I don’t know if that’s possible.

Seungwoo was constantly sweating.

Just then, Eve whispered in my ear.

“You’re doing well.”

Those words sounded like they were affirming what I was doing now.

Thud.

Seungwoo unknowingly released the control of the magic power he had been suppressing.

At that moment, magic power began to radiate from the center of each tail.

─────!

Silently. Eight streams of magic power scattering in all directions of the mind.

Seungwoo closed his eyes and, without any reaction, spread the eight streams of magic power that had risen up into nine streams even wider. I made a way.

The way for the ninth tail to come out.

Suddenly.

It popped out without a sound.

The ninth tail, which naturally joined the ranks, vibrated the space made of mind as soon as it appeared.

Divine power.

The unique power of the nine-tailed fox.

That power gradually encroached on the mind with its own color.

The blue sky and flower garden gradually turned black. What bloomed above it was Seungwoo’s distant and serene mind.

「Sanctuary」

The unique authority and world that great wizards unfold.

Seungwoo’s 「Sanctuary」 covered Eve’s mind.

In that way, her world was swept away and disappeared into Seungwoo’s world.

“…”

Eve watched the scene with satisfaction.

“Eve.”

“Why are you calling me? Do you have any more questions?”

“I just got one more.”

Seungwoo stared at her as he opened his closed eyes.

Seungwoo’s eyes, who had newly awakened his divine power, were full of spirit.

His eyes were now piercing through what Eve had hidden.

“…Why did it have to be a nine-tailed fox?”

“Huh?”

“This much increase in magic power. How many races are possible even if it’s not a nine-tailed fox, so why did it have to be a nine-tailed fox?”

At the same time as creating the ninth tail, Seungwoo realized that his race didn’t necessarily have to be a nine-tailed fox.

It was information that divine power conveyed to him.

Eve readily answered the question.

“Because it’s my taste~”

“…You!”

Seungwoo glared at Eve fiercely.

I wanted to cast a magic spell at her.

Uuuuuuung.

Because I covered and destroyed Eve’s mind with my own, Seungwoo’s body began to escape to the outside.

I moved my mouth in the increasingly blurry space and distorted vision.

“Wait for me.”

Let’s see you outside. Really.

Seungwoo renewed his will to survive.

I will definitely punch that girl.

That’s how a new driving force was created that made Seungwoo live.

─────.

Silence enveloped Seungwoo.

Light, sound, and magic power. A sensation as if everything was slowly being sucked in swept over my body. Seungwoo closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them.

“…Ah.”

The serene scenery of the city.

I escaped from Eve’s mind.

“First, I have to do what I have to do.”

Immediately after regaining consciousness, Seungwoo looked for ‘Eve.’

Finding her was not difficult.

The magic power she emits alone is so unique that it stands out.

As soon as I turned left at the alley, I saw ‘Eve’s’ white hair.

“Found you.”

Seungwoo slowly approached her white hair.

Bang!

I punched ‘Eve’ in the eye with all my might.

“Ah, that hurts!”

“How is it? My fist.”

Eve cried out in pain for the first time.

Her expression, which had not been fazed even when wielding a sword, collapsed for the first time.

A fist wrapped in the unique divine power of the nine-tailed fox.

Even the enormous magic power connected to ‘Eve’ could not perfectly defend against Seungwoo’s fist. Moreover, if her mind was elsewhere.

“Does it hurt?”

Seungwoo smiled and said to Eve, whose eyes were filled with tears at the pain she felt for the first time.

“If you feel wronged, blame your successor.”

Eve said before.

‘That ‘Eve’ was born earlier than me. We inherit memories and emotions from our predecessors. I also have memories of that individual.’

The Eve in front of me is an individual created earlier than my friend.

If I had to say, it’s my friend’s older sister? That’s how it felt.

‘Me? I’m the ‘last Eve,’ so to speak. The last result of the Homunculus Project? Well, that’s about it.’

Eve, who was talking about her identity, was not sure.

The latter part was a question followed by another question.

‘Anyway.’

This is the taste of guilt by association. How does it taste?