Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 83

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 83

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 83

The Primordial Shamanism (3)

“So, what you’re saying is that this training ultimately means raising the spirit’s tier, or in other words, the spiritual rank?”

─That only explains part of the training. Up to a certain point, it does raise the spiritual rank, but after that, the essence of the training is filling the raised spiritual rank with spiritual wisdom.

“Doesn’t sound easy.”

─If it were easy, everyone in the world would have a high-ranking spirit. But a spirit is an amorphous, extremely subjective concept. Raising and filling it ultimately depends on the individual’s skill and aptitude, wouldn’t you say?

“In other words, whether you study magic or shamanism, or endure 100 years, as long as you meet the conditions of spiritual rank and spiritual wisdom, you can become a Samihoyeon [a high-ranking shaman].”

─Yes, it must have been a difficult story. You seem to understand it well. I guess it’s all thanks to my good teaching.

No, you taught it wrong.

Why is the explanation so difficult?

Even though spirits and ranks don’t have definite forms, shouldn’t the explanation be easy?

This is almost a festival of question-and-answer.

Still… it’s not like I didn’t understand it.

I was going to just move on, but that thought didn’t last long.

I heard all sorts of stories from her afterward.

Including the myth of Seowangmo [Queen Mother of the West], the highest goddess of Taoism.

The harmony of heaven, earth, and man that Gu Byeon points to, Seoksamgeuk [a concept related to the origin of the universe], and so on.

All sorts of difficult stories prevailed.

But in the end, it all boils down to one thing.

The same as the number of tails I have now.

The Trinity.

At least that was important to me right now.

‘The training Tamamo is talking about isn’t just about honing skills. It’s about honing my spirit, and the path the spirit will take.’

“I saw a lot of it by my teacher’s side when I was young, so this much is easy.”

Gu Byeon Gu Bok (九變九復) [Nine Transformations and Nine Recoveries – a Taoist concept]

Seok Sam Geuk (析三極) [Dissecting the Three Extremes – a philosophical concept]

Seowangmo.

I think I know what she meant by the Trinity.

Originally, the essence of the Trinity is ‘the Father,’ ‘the Son,’ and ‘the Holy Spirit.’

Do not doubt the incomprehensible forms (μορφή) of the three gods, but simply achieve harmony through faith.

In fact, it was a word like a Christian monopoly, but the mysteries of the Trinity appeared in Buddhism, Rome, Egypt, etc., and its meaning was simplified.

It doesn’t have to be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Three things that harmonize.

Achieving perfect balance through this is the Trinity.

‘In other words, the meaning of the Trinity is to achieve harmony and balance. It doesn’t matter if I arbitrarily designate what the three positions mean.’

It doesn’t matter what the three positions are or what they symbolize.

Maybe Tamamo didn’t know about Christianity and explained it to me.

The important thing is that the three gaps are harmoniously balanced.

However, if I had to symbolize it, the dignity of the Father, which is the original essence, would be the most suitable.

My teacher happened to be the Holy Mother.

I don’t particularly believe in God, but I know a little bit about this doctrine.

I raised my three tails up.

I was going to draw a semi-permanent tattoo by adding blue magic to the black fur tails. The tattoo will be hidden by the fur and will not be visible to anyone.

Engraving the three dignities of the Father.

The doctrine of Christianity, and the logos (λόγος) [the Word], which is the same in essence while being distinct.

The word of heaven, itself.

Woooong!

In the empty inner world, a brilliant radiance raged.

Tamamo widened her eyes at the strange sight.

The very first tail.

The tail that came with me when I first came to this world became the beginning of the other two tails.

This is the Holy Father, the beginning of all things.

It was more appropriate than anything else to give the concept of ‘the Father’.

[The concept of ‘the Holy Father’ is given to the first tail.]

[The 1st rank, the concept of origin, has been engraved.]

[From now on, your first tail will follow the reason of the origin and become a guide to explore the right path to salvation!]

A holy light descended on the first tail.

The light formed the tattoo of the Father and settled on the skin of the tail covered with fur.

Sssseuk!

A flash of radiance and the pain of burning skin were felt from the tail.

It was like branding an iron on the skin.

This was a brand for me, who was trying to achieve the Trinity with a human body. But I don’t stop.

Next is the second tail.

I have to live. It’s not because I have a strong desire to survive.

I must live to save the world in place of my dead comrades, and prove that their sacrifices were not in vain by living.

Therefore, until the day of the academy attack, I only valued my safety. However, I could not stand idly by the fate of those who were destined to die simply because they were characters in the novel.

If I’m going to live anyway, not just me.

So that everyone can live together.

The second tail, which manifested based on such internal growth, was similarly well suited to the concept of ‘the Son,’ who sacrifices and leads, which is the second concept.

[The concept of ‘the Son’ is given to the second tail.]

[The 2nd rank, the concept of truth, has been engraved.]

[Your second tail will accomplish the task necessary for salvation based on truth!]

Along with the pain of the iron branding the skin, a holy radiance descended on the tail.

The light, too much for a human to dare to possess, became the tattoo of the Son and became the second stepping stone to achieve the Trinity.

In an instant, an intense pain struck that broke my concentration.

The source of the pain is the two tails.

This time, the pain was like being burned in a real fire, and there was no separate burning pain.

I thought I had been subjected to all sorts of terrible tortures in my life. It’s been a while since I felt this much pain.

The concentration that had been unified by sitting cross-legged was instantly disrupted.

It fucking hurts.

…But it’s too far to stop working here because of the pain.

[The concept of ‘the Holy Spirit’ is given to the third tail.]

[The 3rd rank, the concept of love, has been engraved.]

[Your third tail will practice love with the heart to love people, so that as many people as possible will receive the grace of salvation!]

The third tail.

I hate it so much that I hate it, and while confronting the demons (魔), I was able to more clearly define the object to be saved in this novel.

The lives that will be sacrificed for the completeness of the scenario.

I knew that I had to save them, and I reaffirmed that there was no place for the demons in that fence.

Classify people to give love and salvation.

This was proved by dividing the human (人) of heaven, earth, and man according to subjectivity.

The protection of the Holy Spirit was engraved on the skin of the tail in the form of a tattoo, covered with fur and invisible.

Right at that moment.

“Keuheok…!!”

Blood splattered from my mouth with a cough.

It’s not just hemoptysis [coughing up blood].

It seems that some of my internal organs have been damaged.

Blood gushed up through my esophagus, disrupting my breathing and concentration.

It really hurts like hell.

I’ve had my limbs cut off and a hole in my stomach, but I didn’t know I’d feel that much pain again.

[The original ‘Trinity’ has manifested in the human body! It is a transcendent concept that the human body and soul cannot dare to possess!]

[Warning! The holy radiance burns the wrong human body. According to divinity, those who dare to covet the realm of heaven will become pillars of salt and fire!]

[Warning! Damage to the soul… !]

……

The status window is covered with all sorts of warnings.

Only then did I know.

It’s not my internal organs that are hurt.

I tried to forcibly implement the Trinity as a Samihoyeon who had not even achieved the Gumiho, and my soul could not withstand the pressure and was damaged.

‘No. If I continue like this, my spiritual wisdom will run out and my spiritual rank will be damaged. I have to stabilize the balance even by force.’

The soul is an unknown area for humans.

But if the cause of the damage to the soul is a field I know, I can do something about it. It was my teacher who told me about the Trinity and the knowledge and doctrines related to it.

Recalling my childhood, I recalled the teachings I had heard in the past.

─Teacher, what are you doing there?

─Ah, Seungwoo is here. Yes, have you eaten?

But more vivid than the teachings are all the daily routines with her.

Small memories.

Because of that, one side of my chest felt empty for no reason.

I wondered if I should have done it.

* * *

─I can’t help but admire it more and more… Is this really a human?

Tamamo looked down at Seungwoo, who was sitting cross-legged on the floor.

A face that is so handsome that it is beautiful, and an intense and pure magic that makes even the dead Tamamo feel chills.

Above all, even the talent comparable to the title of saint.

Seungwoo had almost everything he could have.

It was as if he had borrowed unreasonableness and made it into a beautiful sculpture.

─Is he really loved by God? If so, how much does God favor him to create such a monster?

After all, the world is full of irrationality.

And she wanted to break down that irrationality.

─I want to check it out.

So Tamamo reached out to Seungwoo, who was sitting cross-legged and in pain. In , breaking the concentration of someone who is concentrating is considered one of the worst acts.

Tamamo carefully scanned Seungwoo’s body, who was focusing all his nerves on the inside, with her delicate hands.

From the collarbone to the pubic bone.

Her shady touch engraved spells all over his body.

An act close to sexual harassment.

But she had no sense of guilt.

Tamamo was a person who was far from goodness from the beginning.

It is no exaggeration to say that she is one of the greatest youkai [supernatural entities] in the history of the archipelago and a representative villain of the continent.

However, it was impossible to judge her as an evil person unconditionally.

She is now pushing him beyond the boundary.

Pushing him to the boundary could be seen as beneficial in the end.

It was not bad for Seungwoo, who was impatient with his own growth.

However, it was dangerous to push him without even having time to figure out what was in the boundary of the mind.

High risk high return

If there is something coming, there must be something going.

As people often express that they are caught up in emotions or personal desires, or that they are caught in a simma [a state of mental imbalance], the mind is a truly profound concept.

The mind, an invisible, incomprehensible organ.

Humans, even Gumihos, could not rashly assert it.

The shamanism that Tamamo is trying to perform now was a means to explore such incomprehensibility (不可解) [in Japanese, fukakai – incomprehensibility]. However, exploring the mind, which has hardly been revealed yet, was a dangerous shamanism with no safety secured.

Depending on the case, there was a strong possibility that he would become a disabled person, even if he did not die.

An ordinary person would not have dared to try it because of morality.

Tamamo knew all this.

She knew it, so she spread it out.

If I didn’t know, how could I have known such shamanism?

─This is an experiment.

In the first place, it was Seungwoo who first made a contract with this youkai fox (妖狐) [another term for supernatural fox spirit].

He himself seemed bewildered by simply putting on the ring, but what that meant was that the two wavelengths matched so well that the separate procedure was omitted.

Also, didn’t he carelessly expose his back defenselessly?

That was truly a bad act.

Since you openly reveal your weakness, isn’t it the physiology of people, like us foxes, who want to dig into that weakness at least once?

─It’s just a very interesting experiment.

Tamamo had no intention of letting Seungwoo die.

Before that, she had an unfounded conviction that he would wake up on his own.

This bottomless abyss will never let him die.

A shaman who has reached the realm.

Tamamo’s eyes were those of a scholar soaked in the madness of exploring the unknown. As she was the first to establish and define the system of shamanism.

Her desire for the unknown.

No less than Tamamo’s appetite for udon cup noodles, she can do anything.

As an example, her inquisitiveness and enthusiasm for learning were proved by the episode in which she nonchalantly dissected the heart hole of Bigan, who was called a saint, with a sharp dagger.

At this moment, no one can stop her, who is blinded by the desire to explore.

A greed worthy of a Gumiho.

─Huhu……. I’m really looking forward to it.

What form will his mind take in this bottomless abyss? What is the essence of the inner side that Seungwoo is hiding, that the bottomless abyss is embracing?

Soon you will get the answer.

─Ah, but what if I wake up later?

A pleasant time just imagining it

I couldn’t imagine the aftermath.

I wonder if I’ll get caught up in this.

─Should I stop now?

Of course, it’s already too late.