Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 98

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 98

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 98

Exhibition Match (3)

An overwhelming battle.

Students cheered, professors took interest, and assistant instructors were jealous and envious.

All sorts of reactions were on display in this narrow space.

I felt the blood slowly draining from my body and looked towards the stands.

Thousands of people.

All students from Chilseong Academy.

Out of approximately 6,000 students, about 3,000 to 4,000 seemed to have come. It seemed like every student who could make it was here to watch.

“Wow! He’s winning.”

“That’s amazing. Is that the average skill level for assistant instructors?”

“Hey, do the chief instructor and the head of the Baek family look average to you? We still have a long way to go to reach that level.”

“Baek Seung-woo is definitely strong. That’s why the news is hyping him up so much.”

“I really want to touch his tail just once.”

It’s not like they were directly affected by my actions.

Even if I had really buried someone alive and embezzled a large sum of company money, they would only badmouth and curse me behind my back.

But if I attract attention with a flashy and overwhelming battle like today and use long-abandoned arts, they cheer for me.

Everyone’s attitude is two-faced.

Exactly the type I hate.

In contrast, the only people who remain the same as always are the assistant instructors.

They consistently ostracize and dislike me.

Even when they see my arts, they dismiss them as nothing special.

‘Should I call that pride or stubbornness?’

Still, well…

I prefer that to people whose attitudes change as easily as flipping a spoon. I like people with their own pride more than those who are swayed by public opinion or the atmosphere.

Of course, when I cut off his arm to stop Mugung’s resistance, the atmosphere around us turned icy cold.

This time, everyone seemed to be of one mind.

“What’s going on?”

I tilted my head.

They were cheering, so why did the atmosphere suddenly turn cold? I sincerely couldn’t understand, so I gathered my magic power again and sent Mugung a silent warning: if he moved again, I would cut off his other limbs as well.

The more I did that, the colder the atmosphere became.

From my perspective, I was trying to prevent him from harming people. I don’t know what’s going on.

I even cut the severed surface cleanly so that the nurse wouldn’t have difficulty stitching it up after the match.

‘Well, my life is always like this.’

I figured that was the case.

I decided not to pay much attention to it.

* * *

After the match with Mugung, the impression I had within the academy changed quite a bit. The rumors about my bad personality and character persisted.

Especially the scene where I crushed Mugung at the end.

There was also a student among the spectators who had actually been harmed by Baek Seung-woo in the past, so this was not something that could be easily dismissed.

However, the rumors and perception of my skills completely shifted in a neutral direction. ‘The Academy Assault Incident,’ ‘The Capture of the Three Great Unconquered Dungeons, Efnell’s Flower Garden,’ ‘The Killing of the Auction House Mine,’ and so on.

As I became the main character in various incidents, both large and small, the perception of me shifted to ‘that guy has a bad personality, but his skills are definitely solid.’ This view was firmly established.

Thanks to the testimonies of the students who actually witnessed my battle this time, there was no room for disagreement about my skills.

With the midterms coming up, these rumors would be a great help to me as the leader of Ninetails, who would be starting to work in earnest.

But not all the rumors were flowing in a good direction.

The destination of those rumors was clearly revealed on a certain site where Chilseong students were members.

An anonymous community where you had to verify your student ID to write posts.

[Writer: I Must Not Become a Graduate Student]

[Title: Did Anyone See the Sparring That Happened at Chilseong Yesterday?]

I’m a sophomore.

After finishing my afternoon class, I suddenly saw the student affairs and disciplinary committee running around in a hurry. I wondered what was going on, and I heard that two assistant instructors had a fight because of the freshmen’s performance evaluations, and someone’s arm got cut off.

Can someone explain?

[Did you miss that big match yesterday? You wasted a day of your life lol]

ㄴ[Was it that good?]

ㄴ[Yeah, there were so many great scenes yesterday.]

ㄴ[lol fr]

ㄴ[Is there a video of it? There’s no video on YouTube?]

ㄴ[Hey, Chilseong has strict security. Do you think they’d let it slide if you uploaded an internal video? Of course, they’d delete it lol]

[Writer: Exactly What You Want]

[Title: Yesterday’s Sparring in Three Lines]

1. Mugung picked a fight with Baek Seung-woo. I don’t know what he said. It doesn’t matter anyway.

2. Mugung was overwhelming the whole time, but he didn’t land a single fatal blow. Rather, Baek Seung-woo dodged well, copied Mugung’s techniques, and overwhelmed him with arts.

3. The professor said he won, but suddenly he got upset and cut off his arm, and the atmosphere turned icy cold.

If you acknowledge this three-line summary, please recommend it.

[So who won?]

ㄴ[Of course, Assistant Instructor Mugung won. How dare a wicked fox try to be on par with the assistant instructor?]

ㄴ[bullshit Mugung was overwhelmingly crushed. But isn’t that guy’s arm messed up?]

ㄴ[Don’t speculate. Assistant Instructor Mugung came to class today. He had a cast on his arm and kept fidgeting with it lol]

ㄴ[He fidgeted so much that Professor Namgoong Seongjin kicked him out.]

[How is this a three-line summary??]

ㄴ[It’s a perfect three-line summary. Is there a problem somewhere?]

ㄴ[Three-line summary (there were only six periods)]

ㄴ[If you include the begging for recommendations at the end, there are seven. Please correct it.]

[Wow, that’s a perfect three-line summary. So, where’s the next summary?]

ㄴ[lol fr]

ㄴ[? What, are you a bot?]

ㄴ[Ah, just type lol fr]

ㄴ[lol fr]

[Writer: Anonymous]

[Title: I’ve Gathered and Organized All the Information Circulating in the Community About Yesterday’s Sparring.]

Before I start, let me introduce myself. I’m a junior, and I can’t say my name, but my grades are good enough that I’m going to join a decent guild. So, I can confidently say that my judgment is pretty good.

The sparring started when Chief Instructor Mugung picked a fight, using the scores of the students he taught as an excuse. So, Professor Namgoong Seongjin allowed them to resolve it through sparring lol.

When I was a freshman, he told us to resolve all incidents and accidents through sparring like that. People never change.

[?? So where’s the analysis?]

ㄴ[I already did the analysis?]

ㄴ[……?]

[This is a junior’s judgment lol A freshman could summarize it better than this]

[But during the sparring, Mugung suddenly turned black. Isn’t he a Mine [a reference to a character archetype known for being unstable or prone to outbursts]?]

ㄴ[Don’t speculate. Assistant Instructor Mugung came to class today. He had a cast on his arm and kept fidgeting with it lol]

ㄴ[You’re blatantly copying the comment above and pasting it as a reply lol]

[It’s not certain whether Mugung is a Mine, but Baek Seung-woo definitely severed his arm. So, isn’t the latter definitely a psycho?]

ㄴ[Oh, I saw it in a movie. They called him a cutter. The one who wears a mask and carries a chainsaw]

ㄴ[Isn’t that different?]

ㄴ[Really? Still, wouldn’t it look strong if you called him the Cutter of Chilseong?]

[The Cutter of Chilseong. Sounds badass lol. He’ll cut off your limbs if you cross him]

The comment received overwhelming recommendations from the community.

In the end, the Cutter of Chilseong.

That was my new nickname.

‘……Cutter.’

─The Cutter, meaning a demon who severs limbs. Hehe, I don’t know who came up with it, but they did a good job.

“Good job my ass.”

How many other good names are there?

The Cutter (切斷魔) [literally “Severing Demon” in Chinese characters], what is that?

The Cutter.

I’m going to cut off the person who came up with this nickname.

‘……But was my behavior that shocking?’

Honestly, I still can’t understand why I got such a nickname. It’s not like I permanently castrated Mugung’s limbs.

He was trying to go berserk and rampage, so I just cut them off cleanly so that they could be easily and safely reattached later.

Thanks to that, there was only one injured person, wasn’t there?

Everyone was cheering until then.

I don’t know why they suddenly changed their minds.

Well, people’s minds are like reeds, so I roughly moved on.

I had something more important to do.

‘Tamamo, do you have a catalog or something? It would be easier to choose if there was a list.’

─Do you think ghosts have something like that? And I’ve learned so many arts, more than tens of thousands. Still, wouldn’t it be better to set a date and make one, rather than you keep asking me what arts to learn?

‘Writing it down is my job, right?’

─Of course. In my current state, I can only touch things with the fox’s mouth.

That’s true.

I can’t grab a pen with that huge mouth.

Then let’s make a catalog soon.

Today, all the schedules are over, and I taught Seo Yerin.

I should borrow ten magic books from the library and read them.

Today, I was determined to borrow [Minor Applications of Fire Magic] and [101 Reasons Why You Can’t Unleash Your Imagination].

I tried to borrow them last time, but they were all checked out, so I gave up, but today is the return date for both books.

I was hurrying to the library when…

Thump!

Something grabbed my shoulder.

And then I was thrown somewhere.

My recognition and reaction were slow.

By the time I came to my senses, I was already in a room.

A place I remember.

It’s not familiar, but this is Professor Nam Hwayeon’s.

So, my teacher’s room.

Not a laboratory or faculty room, but her dormitory, which I had been to once before.

Even though it was a building inside Chilseong’s grounds, the professor, who was wearing a suit today, stood out in a house more luxurious than most wealthy people’s.

“Ah, Professor. Why did you call me?”

As I bowed my head and greeted her, Nam Hwayeon smiled.

Her lips smile, but her eyes don’t, so I’m always surprised when I see her.

“Not Professor, but Teacher. Didn’t we agree to call each other that when we’re alone?”

“Ah, yes.”

We did, didn’t we?

I forgot because I’ve been so busy lately.

I added a word of apology and then asked the question again.

“So, Teacher… Ma’am, why did you call me today? Do you have something to teach me?”

Teacher and Teacher Ma’am.

I’d like to call her the former, but I can’t cause such harm to the professor. I have a strong aversion to this title because of the ‘Teacher’ who has already passed away.

Nevertheless, I pretended to be nonchalant.

It was at that moment.

“How did you do that?”

Thud!

My body was pushed back.

It wasn’t Nam Hwayeon who pushed me.

However, she put her hand on the wall behind my back, making it impossible for me to go back any further.

‘……?’

─Oh my, what an embarrassing thing. It’s like I’ve become a maiden receiving a confession, Contractor?

It took time for my head to understand the situation.

By the time I understood the situation…

Nam Hwayeon was looking up at me, standing close.