Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 60

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 60

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 60

Guyaza (5)

“Are you going to the auction house alone, Teacher?”

“Of course. Why, do you want to come along?”

“Yes! I wanna go!”

“Then you can come with me.”

While I was saving the map from the flyer onto my phone after leaving the smithy, Sung Yeon-hwa asked me.

It seemed like she wanted to come along, so I suggested she join me, and she readily agreed.

It seemed she was curious about what an auction house was like.

Well, I’m curious too.

‘An underground auction house that doesn’t officially exist.’

It smells dangerous.

Well, it’s not a normal place, considering it’s auctioning off the Sessho-seki [a legendary cursed stone from Japanese folklore], a treasure of the Japanese government.

Whatever the case, I’ll find out when I get there.

Since I have company, the trip won’t be boring.

That’s what I was thinking when…

“Wait a minute! You two are going to the auction house together?!”

“Why, do you want to come too?”

“No, how can you go to such a dangerous place?! What if you offend the rich people!”

Leeji raised her voice.

She looked quite anxious.

I wonder if she has bad memories about the rich.

It seems the girls think of the underground auction house, which only the rich use, as some kind of den of evil.

However, in the first place.

“I’m rich too, you know? Don’t you know what kind of family is behind me?”

“Ah.”

I’m the one who used 11.1 billion won [approximately $8.5 million USD] like water flowing.

Of course, Leeji and the others weren’t there, so they didn’t see my epic spending spree.

As the head of the Cheonho Baekga family [likely a powerful and wealthy family], I have the image of being very rich, so Leeji quickly understood.

“I… I want to go too.”

“Assistant, me too. It’s Saturday today, so it’s okay.”

“I heard the auction starts at night, so you might stay up late and have trouble with tomorrow morning’s class?”

“Nah, I can stay up all night.”

“Well, you’re young, so it’s okay. Isis, how about you?”

“Yeah, I want to go too.”

Okay, everyone said they would follow me into the auction house.

Going into an illegal facility like an underground auction house with the academy students, I felt like I’d be in big trouble if I got caught.

Well, I just have to not get caught.

‘I just need to wear a mask.’

I can take it off once I get inside due to internal security, but until then, I’ll wear a mask just in case.

As I reached into my pocket to grab a mask, Leeji spoke to me.

“…Teacher, I don’t think I can make it.”

“Why? Do you have homework?”

Leeji shook her head at my words, denying it.

She scratched the back of her neck awkwardly and said.

“I have a night part-time job, so I have to go do that.”

“Oh, I see. You’re working hard too.”

“I have to earn my textbook money with my own money.”

Hmm, so that’s her family situation.

I remember hearing about it.

Sometimes, parents make their children pay for expenses other than tuition to give them early social experience and form a sense of economics at a young age.

It’s just hearsay, but it’s credible enough.

Students of Chilseong [likely a prestigious academy] are valuable assets, and they can get paid a lot for part-time jobs.

It’s the perfect time and condition to gain social experience and a sense of economics at a young age.

I shouldn’t interfere rashly.

“But Assistant! I heard the auction starts at 9 PM today, what are we going to do until then?”

“That’s right, there’s a lot of time left. Is it training again today?”

“Actually, I wasn’t planning on going together.”

It’s 11 AM right now.

It’s barely lunchtime.

Since there was a lot of time left, the kids asked me about the next schedule.

I had no choice but to reveal the schedule I had originally planned for this afternoon.

I didn’t really plan on doing it in front of the students.

“I have to get my license today. Let’s go to the association.”

A text message came a few days ago.

It was a notification from [the Player Association], telling me to obtain a player license of B grade or higher within this week.

* * *

Player Association.

This is a global official organization that assigns grades to players according to established standards and issues licenses necessary for activities.

Each country has a branch, and the Korean branch I arrived at is famous for its particularly difficult grade test in the world.

They say that even though the land is small, there are too many talented people.

“Can I get promoted to C grade today?”

“C grade? You? Yeah, right!”

“Mom! I passed the B grade promotion! Our family can support me from now on!”

“…Did I come on Saturday for nothing?”

Is it because it’s the weekend, especially Saturday afternoon?

The building that oversees the player grade tests of the association was crowded with people. I should have made time on a weekday.

“Teacher, that’s meaningless. I came to get my license a few months ago, and I waited for 4 hours in the morning on a weekday.”

“…License?”

“Yes, I’ll show you.”

Leeji reached into her pocket and took out a license. It was a license with her face, age, and player grade written on it.

Let’s see.

“D grade? I thought most first-year students get a C grade license.”

“Don’t look at me with that pathetic look! Only promising students with single-digit practical scores get a C grade, most students don’t even think about taking the test!”

Ah, I see.

Then that’s different.

If a promising first-year student is C grade, then D grade is not bad.

Leeji doesn’t have high grades among the students, and she doesn’t have anything particularly outstanding.

In fact, she was the weakest in my group.

Seo Yerin, Sung Yeonhwa, and Isabel, the heroines of the original work, who have top-notch talents in each field.

Noh Yoora, who is in charge of the group’s scout, has sensitive senses and vision, and is addicted to SNS [Social Networking Services].

Isis, who handles the chill that even I, who ran around the battlefield with a knife in the winter, was startled by.

And—

‘Leeji, who has no special skills other than wielding a hand axe well. Well, you can say that she is good at making efforts.’

In fact, everyone at Chilseong Academy works hard, so it didn’t mean much. It’s just that her special skills were too lacking.

If such Leeji received the grade right below the promising student in the test, it had its own value.

And after waiting for about 5 hours, such Leeji approached me with a bored look.

“This is taking too long even considering it’s the weekend. It seems to be taking longer than when I came last time. Is the waiting time usually this long on weekends, Teacher?”

“I’m here for the first time today, so don’t ask me.”

“Huh? Then you became an assistant without a license until now?”

“Yeah, so what? Is there a problem?”

When I answered honestly to Leeji’s question, an unexpected reaction came back.

Can’t you be an assistant without a license?

As I wondered, the students’ cold gazes were directed at me.

I don’t even need to ask.

‘Ah, I was a parachute [someone who got a position through connections].’

I realized it again.

A player license was required for Chilseong’s assistant activities.

So, that’s why I was getting glares from the other assistants in the faculty room.

“Teacher! You really don’t have a license?”

“Is it a problem if I don’t have one?”

“Of course! All the other professors and assistants have licenses!”

In other words, it is synonymous with the fact that a license is essential to get a job as an educator at the academy.

Ha, what kind of corruption did the original owner of this body commit while getting a job?

No, the real problem is the elders.

‘Even the development that I knew in my head is twisted, so I can’t say for sure, but in the circumstances, it’s likely that the 5th Elder kicked me out of the main family to this place.’

I realized something while having a meeting at the main house last time and having a one-on-one meeting at the guild.

He had blatant hostility and murderous intent towards me.

Perhaps Baek Seung-woo, the head of the family, is not in the main house, but in the remote Chilseong as the youngest assistant with a high probability.

“I have no choice but to be exiled.”

“Exile? What does that mean?”

“I was kicked out of the house. My family is a mess.”

There is no other mess like this mess.

Even though the head of the family is young, his younger sisters are expanding their power to take over the position of the owner. The elders are right, they are backing the remaining sisters who are not the head of the family, and some extreme elders are plotting to chase the head of the family and divide the power.

And above all, the head of the family, who should be reigning at the top, is an incompetent fool.

I didn’t have the confidence to say this long explanation, so I shortened it to ‘mess’.

Fortunately, Sung Yeon-hwa seemed to understand just that.

“Ah!”

“So I came to take the test. I don’t know what the difficulty will be, but A grade shouldn’t be difficult.”

“Wait a minute, Teacher. You’re going to take the A grade test? Have you been checked in advance?”

“Huh? Can’t I just take the test with A or S grade?”

“Teacher, you came without knowing that?!”

Leeji was startled.

Then she looked at me with a surprised look, but I wanted to be surprised instead.

No, why can’t I take the A grade and S grade tests right away?

There was no such content on the internet.

“People taking the test for the first time can challenge up to B grade.”

“Then if a person with S grade skills takes the test for the first time? Can you only challenge up to B grade even then?”

“Of course. That’s the rule that was created in the first place.”

A grade and S grade are those who exist in the top ranks among players.

They had the power to wield absolute power in their area. Therefore, the association made them take several tests so that the powerful could not oppress and suppress the powerless.

Up to B grade is possible with only force, but grades above this have additional tests, including personality tests.

Only those who pass all these tests can obtain an A grade or S grade player license.

“Players are not treated only with force. Otherwise, it’s no different from the demons. So the A and S grade tests must be taken over a long period of time.”

“Even if you are a teacher, you have to keep what you have to keep.”

“That’s right, no matter who you are, what happens inside the association is like extraterritorial rights. So even if you’re angry, if you commit arson…”

Oh, I gained new knowledge.

I thought positively about the association’s system.

But the students seemed to think I wouldn’t.

Well, according to my rumors, it’s worth getting worked up.

But I’m not Baek Seung-woo.

It didn’t matter much what the kids were saying.

I actively ignored it.

It doesn’t seem like a story worth listening to.

“It’s a good system. Then I have no choice but to follow it.”

“Yes…?”

“T-Teacher, are you serious?”

Everyone looks at me with eyes that don’t believe me.

I realized again that my rumors had reached the ears of many people. Can’t I do anything about these rumors?

People say that if you can’t avoid it, enjoy it, but you should avoid it until you can avoid it.

I don’t know why they recommend self-hypnosis to enjoy it by giving up avoiding it.

However, I don’t have a way to avoid it now, so I just scratched my head.

“Why, can’t I say that?”

“Ah, no! I’m just surprised that you said that.”

“That’s right. It doesn’t feel like it matches the assistant’s image…”

“It’s true that the image is very different from what Teacher says.”

The students speak to me casually as if they are saying something obvious.

Just in time, the speaker hanging all over the waiting room called my name.

[Number 427 Baek Seung-woo, Number 427 Baek Seung-woo. Please come to test room number 21 now.]

“Ah, the broadcast is calling. Let’s go quickly. By the way, you shouldn’t cause terrorism if you can’t take the test as you please?”

“Everyone just shut up and go take the test.”

Unable to bear the continued one-sided assault, I got up from my seat.

I’m going to get hurt like this.

Ah, did I already get it?