Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 91

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 91

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 91

First Practical Assessment (1)

1:1 tutoring? It’s not like we’re all taking classes together after school.

Even after all the daily tasks are done, I still have to listen to Seungwoo’s lessons.

This isn’t something that can be explained by a normal teacher-student relationship.

If it were a normal person, they would have thought of words like ‘one-on-one instruction’ or ‘direct disciple,’ but the minds of adolescent girls don’t work that simply.

“Oh my, oh my, what’s going on between those two?”

“Yeonhwa, where did you learn that phrase?”

“A few days ago, from a Korean drama. Why, Leeji? Was it a phrase I shouldn’t have repeated?”

“No… I was just wondering where that phrase came from.”

The girls, around the age of their first love, had their minds filled with pink [romantic] thoughts, and no one could bring themselves to speak.

The one who lit the fuse first was Seong Yeonhwa.

In her unique, slightly awkward Korean, she boldly asked if there was something between Seungwoo and Seo Yerin. Her confident tone, as if there was definitely something, was a bonus.

“I, I just asked him to teach me a little…”

“So, is that the problem?”

“…Huh?”

Seo Yerin and the others didn’t understand at all.

Leeji desperately tried to change the atmosphere.

“Isn’t it just that the teacher asked her to help him out? Yerin absorbs the class content like a sponge, after all.”

Leeji’s words were extremely close to the correct answer.

However, none of the female students listened to him.

To them, who were spreading their wings of imagination, his words were just empty cries.

* * *

While the students were doing that.

Their teacher, Seungwoo, finished writing Nam Hwayeon’s script, completed his other tasks, and briefly stepped out of the faculty room.

He was enjoying a sunbath, basking in the breeze and sunlight.

“The sun is slowly getting warmer.”

The end of April is already approaching.

The fact that winter had come left no trace, and the flowers symbolizing spring were falling, and the long season of heat was approaching.

─Well, it’s natural since summer is coming.

Tamamo pointed out the obvious.

As she said, summer was approaching.

Of course, we had to take the midterm exams before that. Something felt new.

“…No, it just feels like it’s been a long time since summer came.”

─If I only heard you, I’d think you lived in a country without summer. This land is a country where summer comes every year.

“That’s true, but…”

It felt like it had been years since I realized that summer was coming.

─Hmm? What were you muttering?

“…Nothing in particular.”

─How boring. If you have any worries, tell me. I’ll answer you very interestingly… no, kindly.

As she swallowed her last words, Tamamo puffed up her cheeks.

I wanted to ask what she was doing acting like a child, but it suited her surprisingly well, so it was subtle to say anything.

Her personality is terrible, but her face is really pretty.

The thought came to me unconsciously.

To prevent her from noticing this, Seungwoo brought up another topic.

It was a topic that could attract her attention.

“Hey, Tamamo.”

─Why are you calling me? Do you have something to ask me?

“What do you think about your teacher?”

Teacher or professor.

There was only one person I called that.

─If you mean teacher, are you talking about that witch?

Witch, huh.

That’s a really harsh name for a teacher.

But it wasn’t wrong.

Whether it’s a Demon King or a witch. In the end, it was just a difference of one letter.

“Yeah, I’m talking about Professor Nam Hwayeon. By the way, witch? Even though she’s become my magic teacher?”

She’s in the same position as you, teaching me sorcery.

Isn’t that too harsh of a treatment?

He said, filled with that nuance.

Then, Tamamo, with an unpleasant expression, opened her mouth.

─I’m on a different level than such a monster. In terms of power and beauty. Of course, she’s stronger than I am now. She looks equal to the 5th Elder you mentioned. But that’s only based on when she’s trapped in the ring, so the more your tail, which is spiritually connected to the ring, grows, the closer my power will be to its prime. So, contractor, hurry up and get stronger. Hehe, that way I can teach you more.

Tamamo’s words ended with self-praise.

Normally, I would have brushed it off lightly, but there was something I couldn’t miss in the middle.

There was a meaningful word mixed in.

Wait a minute, Seungwoo reached out his hand to interrupt Tamamo’s words, with a look that he had heard something he couldn’t understand.

He needed a moment to understand.

“…Is she really that strong?”

If you’re talking about an old fox, it’s either the 1st Elder or the 5th Elder.

Judging from the addition of the modifier that her insides are black, it seems like she’s talking about the 5th Elder.

Nam Hwayeon is on par with that 5th Elder?

“Are you mistaken? The teacher definitely has achievements, but there are many rumors about her skills. No one has seen her fight.”

─Hmm~ I’ve been wondering about this for a while.

“What is it?”

─Can you explain the fundamental difference between a Ranker and a High Ranker?

High Ranker and Ranker.

It’s just a difference of one word, ‘High’.

There is a huge gap between the two classes.

It can’t even be compared to the classes from F to S, which are divided by letters.

Comparing them is an insult.

Unlike S-class and below, which are classified according to the manual of a public institution called the Association, Rankers and High Rankers are classified and judged differently for each individual based on the internal regulations of the system.

To give you a simple example─

“─Who do you think is stronger, a soldier who goes to the battlefield and fights, or a doctor who treats the wounded in the rear?”

─Of course, the soldier is stronger.

“That’s right. Then, whose achievements do you think are higher, the soldier or the doctor?”

─Well… Aha, I see.

Tamamo was speechless.

Yes, the criteria for judging Rankers and High Rankers is where the question arises. The one who kills people and the one who saves them.

Which of the two has the higher achievement?

“It’s difficult, right?”

─The criteria are ambiguous. There are no clear comparison items, and since ambiguous factors such as human rights are added, I can’t say for sure.

“It’s difficult, but think about it easily. In the end, the issue is who is involved in the life and death of more people.”

A soldier accumulates achievements by eliminating more of the enemy’s generals or weapons, and a doctor accumulates achievements by saving allied heroes or saving countless lives. It’s a separate area from the power or ability you have.

This is the difference between ordinary players and Rankers.

And High Rankers are an honorable rank given only to those Rankers who have achieved both skill and achievement.

“Professor, so the teacher has the achievement of advancing the history of magic by about 100 years, but there are many rumors about her skills. No one has seen her fight.”

Even though she created many magics.

A magician is different from a martial artist.

Unlike a great master (大宗師) [Daezongsa, a grand master or founder of a martial art] who creates and masters a sect, along with various martial arts and martial arts related to it, magicians basically belong to scholars.

Scholars are a race that does research, not those who master and embody the results of research.

So, even if a magician creates magic, he is not an expert in that magic. He’s just a pioneer.

─Hehe, do you really think so?

“Why?”

─When you reach a high level, your perspective changes. Even if you look at the same scenery, the feelings you feel are different depending on the level… Heh, the way I see her and the way you see her are probably very different.

Tamamo.

She is the founder of sorcery.

Now it’s obsolete, but it was once a popular field of study and a living witness to mystery itself.

A sorcerer with many names who may have reached beyond the [Sanctuary] that I can’t even look at now, said to me.

─Sorcerers. Can it be said that the race called magicians in this era is weak, even if they are scholars who are immersed in research?

Nam Hwayeon advanced the history of all kinds of magic.

Among them were magics specialized in combat.

Her achievements are only theories and papers, but if she had honed her attack magic to implement and verify them?

─Was it the 5th Elder? She looks as good as that old man.

Even if she didn’t hone it.

If she researched and announced magic specialized in combat or killing, and gained even a little enlightenment. She has at least the upper level of power among the Rankers.

It wouldn’t be strange if she occupied the seat of the ‘High Ranker’, the top 100.

Rather, it’s strange that she didn’t occupy it.

“Ha, but no one has ever seen her skills, so wouldn’t it be difficult to say for sure?”

─What if, it’s not that no one has seen it?

“…What do you mean?”

─Not that there’s no one. What if all the people who saw it are dead?

“…!!”

It was a guess without any evidence or clues, but there was a possibility.

Maybe there wasn’t a moment or time to show her strength.

Having watched Nam Hwayeon for over a month, she hated troublesome things. To prevent people’s attention from being drawn more than it is now.

She may have hidden her skills.

But then.

“The criteria for Rankers and High Rankers set by the system.”

Was that a position that could be rejected voluntarily?

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t remember anything related to it. That’s because I’ve never had an in-depth conversation with Eve about that seat.

Instead, what I remember is another conversation.

─What do you think about Nam Hwayeon?

─I don’t have any thoughts in particular.

─Hey, your reaction is too stiff. Are you being firm because we’re at war? The war isn’t just for a day or two, let’s have a conversation.

Eve, who approached me who was always stiff because we were at war, was no different from usual. It would be good to be a little cold and stiff on the battlefield.

She was always like this.

If this continued, it was clear that Eve would bother me for days and grab my pants, so I decided to answer briefly and move to another front.

─Haa… Okay, good. I’ll just talk about this and go to support the west. Nam Hwayeon… Was she the magician in your novel?

─Yeah, that’s right. The king of magicians, the Demon King (魔王) [Maō, literally “Demon King” in Japanese].

─If it’s the Demon King, isn’t he a bad guy?

─Seungwoo, you… that’s prejudice. A Demon King isn’t necessarily a bad role? Anyway, we have to decide on the scene where this Demon King dies.

Eve’s words didn’t quite add up.

Whether the Demon King is the king of demons or the king of magicians.

Anyway, if he’s a king, shouldn’t he be strong?

I don’t know why I have to decide on the death of such a Demon King. Is it a scenario where he dies at the hands of the protagonist?

I wanted to open my mouth.

─If it’s the death of the Demon King, is the protagonist the culprit?

─Ugh, you… that’s prejudice. A Demon King doesn’t necessarily have to be bad, and there’s no guarantee that the protagonist will kill the Demon King.

─Yeah, so who is he going to die to?

I asked, swallowing the words that Eve would have said that I was ignoring her if she heard them.

Eve, who smiled, said.

─Anyone is fine. If they can kill her, it doesn’t matter if it’s the protagonist or the villain.

Thus.

Nam Hwayeon is not strong.

She must not be strong.

Nam Hwayeon is helplessly defeated by a demon in the middle.

That was her fate.