Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 406

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 406

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 406

Conclusion (1)

Adam opened his eyes.

A world of deep green.

Not a trace of human presence could be found, no matter how hard one looked.

This was Adam’s world, Adam’s domain.

Adam rose and plucked an apple from a tree, crunching into it.

Sweet. So sweet. Is it so sweet it’ll rot my teeth?

He felt his mind working exceptionally fast.

“I’ve lost after all.”

The fact that he opened his eyes here meant he had been utterly defeated.

Adam acknowledged his defeat.

His victory conditions weren’t singular.

Killing Seungwoo was also a condition for achieving his goal.

Conversely, if Seungwoo killed Adam’s body—more precisely, Adam’s human body from his past—that too would constitute a victory condition.

“I prepared two methods…”

He never imagined both would fail.

Frustrated, Adam chewed on the apple. Chewed and chewed.

Crunch, crunch, he ate the apple until the juice filled his mouth and dripped down his chin.

To make his mind work even faster.

He stuffed more sweet apples into his mouth.

It was the only way he could think of to quickly find a way to overcome this situation. The authority befitting the title of Calamity [a being of immense destructive power] and the knowledge accumulated over a long time were useless here.

He desperately hoped for a good idea to come to him quickly.

“…”

However, his wish did not come true.

He had already been defeated once. This was his second defeat.

“I failed, completely failed.”

Adam sensed that there would be no more chances.

“I had something I wanted to achieve even by becoming a Calamity…”

A Calamity was a concept born from the backlash of the system.

The system created to protect worlds that had been destroyed or were being destroyed did not only have positive effects on all worlds.

Even the world where the system was created just a moment ago was not saved.

A world that created a system to save itself from destruction, but was abandoned by its own creation, the system.

Later, they created the core AI ‘Eve’ to control the system according to their will, but even the last AI created abandoned them.

Adam was a Calamity born from that abandoned world.

Because he hated his homeland, which had already been destroyed and where not a single blade of grass grew, he gained the power to grow trees and manipulate the earth.

Even that power was malicious.

“…I wanted to take revenge.”

On everything that made him this way.

He wanted to overturn the world that killed that child.

‘That child…’

Adam couldn’t bring himself to say her name.

It wasn’t that he had forgotten her name.

He had watched her birth and death from the sidelines for a very long time.

He couldn’t forget.

Rather, he wanted to forget.

“Eve.”

He taught her, the very first prototype, about the world.

He taught her what warmth was and what it meant to be happy.

However, she lacked the aptitude to become the system’s AI.

Later, the second Eve, who inherited everything from her, came into the world.

Adam, who had already educated ‘Eve’ once, taught her again.

Adam taught her differently from the first time, so as not to lose her again.

He taught her coldness, sadness, and iciness.

The result was failure. Adam repeated that failure thousands of times.

No, tens of thousands of times. Maybe hundreds of millions.

Considering that countless Eves were piled up like mountains in the basement of the Magic Tower, he must have failed at least that many times.

‘I don’t even remember anymore.’

What feelings he had for the first Eve.

What feelings he had for the Eves created after that.

He forgot everything he thought as he watched their traces being discarded and scattered into the void. Adam had lived for too long.

The intense emotions were weathered away by time.

“Eve.”

He called the name he wanted to say, but didn’t want to say.

Adam never let go of her until the end.

Yet, the heartless she abandoned him and his world as soon as she was completed.

It’s ironic when you think about it.

Can he really call the last Eve born the Eve he knows?

Adam had taught countless Eves so far, but he didn’t really know her. It was a question that only came to him now.

“What did you like?”

When I think about it, I didn’t even know that.

Other people were the same.

They were only interested in whether you had the aptitude to be connected to the core of the system.

They never thought about getting to know you as a person.

Now I don’t even know if I couldn’t do it or didn’t do it.

“…If that guy who’s still alive is there, I can ask him.”

Now that the possession is completely lifted.

Eve was in that place that could no longer be invaded.

The reverse side of the world. To recreate the illusion of the past.

You made something quite vicious too.

“…”

Adam reached out his hand silently.

He wondered if he could reach it again if he reached out.

But it was impossible. Even if he reached it, he couldn’t go back.

Because his death was approaching soon.

* * *

I caught my breath and checked Adam’s condition.

─I can’t feel any spiritual connection at all.

There was no trace of connection to the Calamity.

We succeeded in driving out the Calamity, Adam.

By the way, I’m getting confused because I’m using Adam and Calamity Adam mixed up.

─Let’s just call the guy whose connection is cut off a Calamity. Anyway, we won’t see him for a while.

Tamamo neatly organized.

Anyway, it takes a considerable amount of time to reunite with that guy again.

It was necessary to kill or drive out Odin and Eve, stabilize this world, and then open that world with Luna as a medium.

It takes as many as three steps, but is that easy?

‘At least a year. That’s how much time it takes.’

I couldn’t hide my disappointment.

If we did well, we could have completely annihilated him this time, whether it was resurrection or another timeline.

─Was there such a way? Preventing resurrection is as easy as melting the disappearing soul with corpse poison, but what are you going to do with a different timeline?

What, are you going to learn magic that manipulates time like you learned space magic from Nam Hwayeon and go back to the past and kill him?

Tamamo herself said it, but even if she thought about it herself, it didn’t make sense.

Even if you kill him like that, the universe and the world line are expanding without knowing the end, so there was a high possibility that another Adam would be alive somewhere in the universe.

Just then, a voice added an opinion.

“Then you can just cut them all down.”

Time, space, and existence. All of them.

At the familiar voice, Tamamo and I turned our heads.

The only person who could listen to Tamamo’s words and add an opinion, except for me.

“You were going to use the Mind Sword, right?”

Luna.

─Mind Sword? The Mind Sword is just a sword without a form… Ah! There was that way!

“You even explained the principle when Benefactor was the chief at the Magic Tower. The formless sword is just an intangible sword. The Mind Sword is not only formless, but also free from all restrictions including time and space.”

Tamamo clapped her hands at Luna’s words.

─There’s no need to worry about resurrecting or branching out from another timeline like this time, just cut down all Adams as they exist!

Then there’s no need to worry about meeting again.

Tamamo’s body suddenly stiffened as she praised the good idea.

Tamamo turned to me and said.

─It seems like a really good idea, but why didn’t you cut him down when he was here?

You couldn’t have not known that.

Tamamo’s bright eyes glared intensely.

It meant that it couldn’t be done.

“Do you think the Mind Sword is easy?”

I often use the Mind Sword like an ordinary technique, but just like all techniques have strengths and weaknesses, the Mind Sword can also adjust its strength.

The Mind Sword that is used frequently in battle is mostly the weakest attack.

The most powerful Mind Sword I can unleash.

Mind Sword. In order to show off the power worthy of the technique called the pinnacle of all martial artists, even I have to invest all the magic and mental power I can use.

“Completely” cutting down an existence like Adam is not usually difficult.”

First, you need to weaken him.

It’s about adjusting it so that you can cut it properly.

Then all the magic and mental power. Depending on the situation, you have to draw and wield the Mind Sword that consumes your lifespan, but I didn’t have that luxury while fighting Adam.

“I can’t understand the meaning of ‘like this time’ just now, but I can say at least one thing for sure.”

Luna looked at both of us and smiled slightly.

A knife hidden in a smile. There was a knife hidden in Luna’s smile.

I was startled when I realized that fact.

“You… don’t tell me?”

I frowned and said.

“No……?”

Luna nodded at the meaningful words with the subject omitted.

She confidently held out her hand towards me.

Her hand was reaching for my hand.

To be exact, my right hand. She held out her hand in the direction I held the sword.

Tamamo, who was late to understand what Luna was saying because there was no subject in the conversation, finally realized the intention of Luna’s words.

Tamamo muttered in disbelief.

─What do you think you can do if you inherit one Mind Sword?

What Luna was saying now was as follows.

Instead of going through three complicated processes, let’s handle it all at once.

“Sir Soo. No, Benefactor said.”

Someday, when the time comes, I will prepare to face all the Calamities and go back to my world together.

“That moment is now.”

Luna looked around.

Adam, whose possession was lifted, was lying on the floor and showed no signs of getting up.

Odin suffered a fatal blow from the attacks of the students and Eve and slowly died. The rest were killed by the Calamities.

There is only one Calamity left.

Adam.

If we catch that guy, everything will be over.

“…That’s not wrong.”

Adam’s main body is Luna’s hometown.

It will be in the place where the stump of the Divine Tree remains.

In order for me to move to that place, I need to prepare thoroughly and prepare sacrifices, or move in a weakened state like Odin.

But if it’s Luna, who was born in the land where the Divine Tree is located.

“You have your origin in that world. You can return to your world without any restrictions.”

I hesitated.

The hesitation was short.

“Can you do it?”

It’s not about asking about your mindset.

Can you do it? Or not?

That’s what I’m asking.

“I can do it.”

Luna answered firmly.

I nodded and clenched my right hand tightly.

As if holding a sword in a hand holding nothing.

I projected my image onto my right hand.

“Here, take it.”

Thud.

I threw something semi-transparent at Luna.

It was a small dagger.

“This is……?”

“You asked for it. The Mind Sword.”

Originally, the Mind Sword should have no form, but since Luna was not a swordsman, I thought it would be better to have a clear form, so I made it that way.

Luna, who blinked her eyes as if she didn’t expect me to give it so easily, bowed her head.

“Thank you.”

“Okay.”

That’s enough thanks.

I wanted to finish it soon now.