Academy’s Gumiho is a Magic Genius - Chapter 279



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Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 279

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The media and public outcry showed no sign of abating.

Are you overly excited about the great discovery of the century?

Or maybe he’s just excited because he has an excuse to curse a huge group.

Whatever it was, the public image of the Ninetails Guild began to gradually decline. Most of the blame for the decline in image was the guild leader’s karma.

“Damn it! It’s already been a week.”

“The stock price keeps falling. It’s already -43%. Aren’t we really going to go broke if we keep doing this?”

“Don’t say scary things. What do you mean, it’s going to fail? Do you think an S-class guild would fail that easily?!”

Reputation, fame, stock price.

Everything falls steeply.

It certainly started with people’s complaints and condemnation of the drug.

The biggest problem was that this issue brought the internal affairs of the Ninetails Guild to the surface.

This guild has been rotten for longer than you might think.

“I never thought our guild would manipulate stock prices. I’ve been working here for two years and this is the first time I’ve found out.”

“Hey, hey. Be careful what you say. If you say something useless and the higher-ups hear about it, it will only ruin our lives.”

“But… compared to the taxes the guild has not paid or the money it has embezzled so far, stock price manipulation is cute.”

“Watch your mouth! If you do, you’ll be in real trouble!”

If you don’t treat the swollen area, it will eventually rot.

However, if the festering wound is in a vital spot, it is not easy to treat it.

Clearly, the beginning of the wound was an external factor.

A wound that doesn’t need treatment and can be ignored.

It was a small wound that, if you ignore it and live on, will eventually heal and you will forget that you were ever hurt, but unfortunately, there was festering skin underneath that small wound.

The swollen area didn’t hurt.

It was enough to ignore and live on.

That’s what everyone thought, until a small wound split open the festering wound and exposed it to the world.

“So how many people know that things have come to this point?”

“Chairman, Chairman……!”

“Let’s go to the rooftop. Was it the 9th floor? The 10th floor?”

“The guild leader hasn’t coughed since working overtime last night.”

“Then I should go and tell her that it is morning.”

“Me! I will personally deliver the message! Chairman, please wait in the separate room on the 4th floor, no, the 6th floor, and I will send the chief down with refreshments.”

The wound that had begun to rot showed no sign of stopping.

Rather, it gradually began to accelerate.

The expression ‘wound’ is ultimately a metaphor. Since the Ninetails Guild has done so much so far, the media and the public have been resilient and have only criticized them in a more sharp and pointed manner.

It’s good that the existing powers are being criticized.

However, this does not mean that the size of the group can be reduced.

The Nine Tails Guild is a group that should be Seungwoo’s right-hand man, just like Cheonho Baekga. I couldn’t just stand by and watch any longer, so I came here in person.

“It’s okay. I’ll go myself.”

“I, I am afraid that the guild master will feel embarrassed. Even though he is the chairman, the guild master is the master of this place. Please respect his dignity.”

As soon as I arrived at Ninetails’ building, I tried to board the elevator.

A spacious building. The guild master’s office is on the top floor.

As I walked towards there, I felt a crowd of people looking at me and murmuring. Most of them had unpleasant looks in their eyes.

Well, that’s true.

‘It’s even stranger to look at him favorably, since he’s someone who has indirectly harmed their company.’

The bread and butter was under attack.

Even if I wasn’t the direct cause, the drug I made was the starting point for them suffering the damage they are experiencing now.

So their argument was this:

If Baek Seung-woo had not developed the drug, the current situation would not have occurred.

Funny nonsense.

Even if the medicine had not been developed, the wound would have already festered.

It’s ridiculous to put that responsibility on me.

And what I actually say is this.

‘It’s true that I hurt myself and stimulated the sore spot.’

You have opened a wound that will later rot.

Considering the weight class of the Nine Tails Guild, it would have been able to last for over ten years even if the wounds had rotted away.

That’s what an S-class guild is like.

It is not a position that can be replaced by anyone, and it is not easy to bring a group that carries enormous wealth and fame to its knees with one corrupt wound.

But I burst the wound first and poured a heap of poison into the affected area.

‘The topics that are still making headlines today, such as stock manipulation, omission of confidential information, unofficial tax cuts, plunder, and intimidation, are all poisons that I have released into the media.’

Thus, the Nine Tails Guild, which could have lasted for ten years even if it had collapsed, was broken in a week. Since everything they had spread in the media was true, they had to kneel under the pressure of external forces even though they wanted to stand up.

By the way,

Strictly speaking, it’s not ‘my fault’.

“……It’s the fault of those who got caught.”

“yes?”

“Get out of the way. I’m going to see the elders.”

Are their circumstances any of my business?

I passed by the fat middle-aged man who had been blocking my path for a while.

“You can’t go! Even if the chairman is the guild master’s family, the guild master is still the leader here!”

“You… know one thing, but don’t know two.”

The guild leader’s family.

Is he really my family?

We are not very close by blood.

8th cousin? 16th cousin? Maybe even more distant.

In fact, you should consider him as someone else.

“Family? Do you think I came here for such a lame excuse?”

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“then……?”

“Head of the family. The guild’s greatest supporter. The leader of the special unit. As the archmage who showed the possibility of extending life and the horizon beyond.”

I am here.

I had met the qualifications to meet the guild leader.

Still, the middle-aged man tried to stop me.

He is not a long-time loyalist of this group, so he only knows one thing.

Just as the beliefs of a person who has read only one book are more frightening than those of a person who has never read a book, there was no stopping the actions of a middle-aged man who only knew one thing.

He is ignorant and will continue to try to keep me in this position.

That’s why I decided to teach the middle-aged man two things instead of one.

“Ninetails is originally a military group under the family.”

“When on earth did you ever talk about the enemy…!”

“It was like that 1,000 years ago and it is like that now. You seem to not understand, but the names you give your officers and the martial arts your subordinates learn. Where do they all come from?”

“If you trace its roots back to the Cheonho Baekga, it obviously started from there, but after the current guild leader took full power, it became an independent group from the family……!”

“No, as long as your guild leader remains in that position, Ninetails will always be a military force under the command of Cheonho Baekga.”

When you enter Ninetails, there is a martial art you learn.

There are so many different types of martial arts, including boxing, swordsmanship, and footwork.

These are all basic martial arts, and as you gain experience and achieve more, you will be given the opportunity to learn higher level martial arts.

And by learning such martial arts and compiling their own martial arts, those who were able to obtain the title of ‘nth tail’ and the position of top executive according to their rank.

All of these methods are also practiced in Cheonho Baekga’s main house.

“You are still following the ways of our family. No, my family. Is that right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“The names First Tail, Ninth Tail, etc. are ultimately nothing more than imitations of the nine elders of the main family.”

“Well, there’s nothing we can do about that. We’re independent now, but we weren’t like that before.”

“Independence? Since when did we start referring to children who depend on their parents for money as independent?”

The martial arts taught and their titles.

There is nothing that does not originate from Cheonho Baekga.

If you really wanted to be independent, you should have given up all the martial arts books and martial arts studies within the guild and started anew. You want to be independent after changing your mind?

“Who taught you that logic? Is it the gentleman from the 5th Elder?”

No, it was the 4th elder?

I forgot the order of the elders because it wasn’t that important.

Well, it doesn’t matter. Whether it’s 4 or 5 elders, it doesn’t matter.

The logic of the conversation is not important either.

Independent or not.

Things like family and guild history aren’t of interest to me.

The only thing that matters is the atmosphere.

‘What’s important is that I’m leading the atmosphere of the guild right now.’

My goal was to give this group a quick nudge before they become my puppets.

When I actually raised my voice and tried to talk to the middle-aged man, the expressions on the faces of the employees who were eavesdropping on our conversation became very strange.

The number of people who look at me with such negative eyes as before has clearly decreased. It seems like they have their own thoughts.

“Tsk. Enough with this pointless conversation. I’m going up now.”

“You don’t have to do that.”

I pushed past the middle-aged man and arrived in front of the elevator.

The moment I pressed the button and waited for the door to open.

The voice I heard from behind me changed. It wasn’t the voice of the middle-aged man who had just been talking to me. It was his voice.

“……elder.”

“Please call me Guild Master. This is the guild headquarters, not the family headquarters.”

A man with a kind expression.

Even though he was in his late fifties, his face was somewhere between young and middle-aged. That young and kind appearance, combined with his white hair, gave off a mysterious feeling to those who saw him.

The tail sticking out of his back also added to the mysterious feeling.

Tail sticking out from behind, 8 in number.

Eight-tailed fox.

He is only one step away from becoming the nine-tailed fox, which is synonymous with foxes. He is the best player in Ninetails and the strongest player in Korea.

‘It’s strong.’

I ate the black nine-tailed fox that had taken up residence in my mind and digested its karma. Now, I have six tails on the surface, but if I release my power properly, I can show off seven tails.

Even so, he has established himself in a position that cannot be reached with just the fox’s skills.

‘It’ll probably be a struggle if I have to beat him with force.’

Crack!

He unclenched his fingers and looked at his opponent.

I must take this opportunity to drive him out.

Fighting is inevitable in the process.

Who in the world wouldn’t rebel when someone is trying to cut off their own neck?

‘It’s certain that we’ll fight, and I’m confident that I’ll win.’

Victory is a given.

But the point is the damage I would suffer after that fight.

It could be physical harm, it could be political harm.

If you fight him, you’ll probably take some kind of damage.

I can’t imagine not being harmed.

It is impossible to discuss a complete victory when facing such a strong opponent.

then.

“Should we move our seats?”

If we’re going to fight each other with the will to kill, this isn’t the place for us.

I looked up at the guild leader, keeping those feelings hidden.

He responded to this.

“Okay. I also have something to say to the Chairman.”

“It looks like it’s going to be a very close conversation.”

“Yes. How close do you think the conversation will be?”

Well, wouldn’t it be so close that at least one person can’t leave the room for the rest of their life?

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