Academy’s Gumiho is a Magic Genius - Chapter 305



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Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 305

Magic Stone (5)

It’s been a long time since I came to the library.

If it were normal, I would have gone to work at the lab.

It was clear that if I did research for no reason, I would waste time. In some cases, I would forget about time and get so absorbed in my research that I would end up being late for class.

I came to the library to prevent that from happening.

“Look over there.”

“Wow, this is the first time I’ve seen that person read a book.”

“During the first semester, I was able to teach classes and see him in the library every day, but from the second semester onwards, I couldn’t see him.”

All sorts of noises could be heard in the library, which was supposed to be quiet.

Yeah, well. It may not be library etiquette to have students talk about the contents of the books rather than just reading them quietly.

I can understand that it helps students grow.

But this is not it.

“Is this what you’re looking at right now?”

“The teaching assistant’s gaze is really attractive.”

“Don’t those eyes seem to be glaring at us?”

“Hey, there’s no way that’s true. There’s no way the teaching assistant would pay attention to guys like us.”

“……No matter how I look at it, it seems like they’re trying to tell us to shut up.”

He gave me a cold look and told me to shut up.

Most people would have taken a step back at that gaze.

Why were the students so enthusiastic about the cold gaze?

This was especially true for female students.

There were some male students, but strangely enough, they were all wearing nail polish. Some of them even seemed to be wearing lipstick.

… … Did I see something wrong?

I rubbed my eyes because they felt dry.

Still, nothing changed.

Finally, I gave up on looking at the students and closed the book. I was planning to leave the library.

Anyway, I closed the book because the lecture was about to start.

‘I’m never trying to run away.’

─Who are you talking to?

‘To myself.’

─Aha.

As soon as I arrived at the library, I instinctively checked for any signs behind me.

I tried to widen my senses to see if any of the students in the library were chasing me, but I couldn’t detect anything.

“……I guess it was an overinterpretation.”

I had a sudden ominous feeling and left the library.

Now that I think about it, I think I overinterpreted it.

─Then you’re going back to the library?

‘No. I have no intention of going back in after returning the book I was reading.’

─Are you going to the classroom now? There’s still quite a bit of time left.

There are still 30 minutes left until lecture starts.

It’s good to prepare in advance, but classes aren’t over yet in all classrooms. The classroom I’m teaching in today is no exception.

Even if I go now, what can I do other than disrupt class?

Considering the 10-minute break, there are still 20 minutes left until class ends. I need to kill some time.

Thud thud.

I walked around the academy and looked around the surrounding scenery.

All kinds of environments, including small mountains and valleys, cliffs and deserts, greeted me.

Every time I see this place, I really can’t get used to it.

“What a strange idea.”

─To allow students to adapt to various environments, we create all kinds of environments in a site of this size. It’s a great idea for an educational institution for children.

“Except that the annual maintenance costs are ridiculous.”

─We can easily afford it with the donations that come in regularly.

“It’s a question of efficiency.”

Chilseong Academy was built far from the city.

Of course, it was a distance that could easily be traveled back and forth at a superhuman running speed.

‘However, the distance between the center of the academy and the city is so far that even students have difficulty going there.’

Chilseong Academy is that huge.

Although there were a lot of classrooms, huge dormitories, and infrastructure built compared to the number of students, it was difficult to fill the site with just those.

It was numerous environments that filled this huge gap.

Honestly, from my perspective, it was a waste of money.

The extent of environmental manipulation and climate change could be easily controlled by the power of an individual wizard. Of course, this would require the wizard to be one of less than 10 great wizards in the entire world.

─That’s the same as saying that it’s impossible in common sense.

‘But there are two great wizards in Chilseong.’

─… … Ah!

If the Archmage didn’t exist, there wouldn’t have been much complaint about creating various environments on a huge site.

But now, at Chilseong Academy, there was me and my teacher.

“If we were each given 1/10th of the maintenance cost, we wouldn’t have to waste space like this.”

Of course, neither of us are poor.

I’m not sure if I would do it even if you offered me half the maintenance costs, since I’m not the type of person who gets involved unless it’s absolutely necessary or interesting.

Anyway, as a wizard who pursues reason and truth, I didn’t like this kind of inefficient use of space.

─I’m sorry to interrupt you. You weren’t here when this academy was first built.

“To be exact, I wasn’t even born at that time.”

─… … Ah, okay.

The words don’t make sense.

The academy was built over 20 years ago.

At that time, the original owner of my body had not yet been born, and Nam Hwa-yeon may have been born, but she had only recently been initiated into magic.

In fact, everything we’ve said so far has been meaningless.

It’s just a conversation.

Rather than exchanging opinions based on any information or truth, we just had a conversation without thinking much about it.

Tamamo felt that his appearance was quite unfamiliar.

─You seem a little tired right now.

“Did you sleep well?”

─That’s not what I meant when I said that. And a guy who only sleeps three hours a day can’t possibly sleep well.

Tamamo scratched her head with her translucent hand.

Then he followed my gaze.

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Even while I was talking to her, I was often distracted by the small flower garden. A small rose garden with obvious traces of diligent care.

But the timing was such that the rose was almost dead.

“……What month is it now?”

I opened my mouth without realizing it.

It is impossible to not know the date for systematic research and planning, but this was not a conscious statement.

It just popped out on its own.

─Right now? It’s October.

“Oh, right. That’s right.”

It’s October now that the midterms are over.

This can be seen just by looking at the blowing wind, the red autumn leaves that immediately catch your eye, and the flowers that are gradually dying.

After this fall passes.

The rose will die completely.

And the next year, new roses will bloom.

─Just like our conversation earlier. Are you okay?

“No, I just think I got a little emotional.”

There are some people who are particularly emotional in the fall.

However, unlike them, I was a person without emotions or connections.

What about fall? I tend to pursue reason over emotion all year round.

It’s something she obviously knows, having been watching me from the side the whole time.

So, you could just dismiss it as a joke.

─Really? That’s the first time I’ve heard of that.

“…….”

Tamamo responded as if she had learned something new.

I wondered why she answered like that.

At first, I thought he was trying to tease me. But when I thought about it, his tone didn’t seem like teasing.

It was a tone that made me realize it was the first time I had heard of it.

Come to think of it, us.

‘It wasn’t even a year until we were in a relationship.’

I forgot about it because my soul was entangled with the ring I wore, and we never parted ways, but our relationship wasn’t that long.

It’s just that the time we spent together was dense.

We’ve only been hanging out for half a year now.

‘Then it makes sense that I wouldn’t know.’

Now that I think about it, that’s true.

Why did you assume she knew so much about me?

Half a year is enough time to become best friends, but it’s ridiculously short to delve into each other’s secrets.

But our time was different from others.

One side is a crazy person who studies and researches all the time because he doesn’t even want to waste time sleeping, and the other side is a person who died a long time ago and doesn’t need to sleep unless he is bored or needs to recover from his exhausted soul.

Our time was longer than others.

─… …? Why are you looking at me like that?

“Why am I looking at you?”

─Really? That’s strange. I’m sure I felt your gaze.

We are connected by a ring.

They can read each other’s thoughts floating on the surface of each other’s consciousness.

However, I cannot read thoughts that pass by very quickly or are buried deep in my consciousness. I kept all the thoughts that came to my mind while looking at her buried deep in my consciousness.

It’s not that I’m particularly embarrassed.

I really didn’t want to talk about this topic.

What use is time in a relationship that will end sooner or later anyway?

─Hey, you’ve been staring blankly for so long, which is unusual for you.

“……ah.”

─Time’s up. Let’s go.

Because I locked my thoughts deep in my consciousness as soon as I thought about them, Tamamo thought I was spacing out.

I didn’t refute that misconception, I just nodded.

And then I walked towards the classroom.

I trudged into the classroom, checking my neatly dressed shoes and suit. The place I entered was a large lecture room. It was break time, but every single seat was filled with students.

“There are still six minutes left in the break, and they’re all here.”

The lecture I gave today was for all first-year students.

Since it was break time, I thought most students would not be in their seats, but all the first-year students were seated six minutes early.

There’s a 4 minute break.

In the meantime, you already went to the bathroom and sat down?

“Raise your hand if you need to go to the bathroom.”

There are still 6 minutes left in the break, so hurry up and go to the bathroom.

I was going to say that, but no one raised their hand.

What the heck, did everyone really go to the bathroom and come back in that short amount of time?

“I think everyone knows this, but my lecture today is 2 hours and 30 minutes long. If you need to go to the bathroom, please go quickly.”

Only then did the students raise their hands and go to the bathroom.

But the number was very small. Less than ten.

It looks like most of them have already been to the bathroom.

Everyone is so passionate.

─That must mean there are high expectations for your lecture.

‘I know.’

The lectures of Nam Hwa-yeon, who is probably the best professor in the academy, would be so enthusiastic that students would flock to the lectures and go to the bathroom early.

Judging by the current atmosphere.

My lecture was also expected to be just as much as Nam Hwa-yeon’s lecture. No, it was expected to be even more so.

─Congratulations. Unlike the beginning of the semester, you have now completely gained the students’ approval.

‘It is a natural sight given the nature of the lecture.’

Nam Hwa-yeon’s lectures are excellent, but the overall focus of the lectures is biased toward ‘knowledge’ as they have to teach the contents written in the regular education curriculum.

On the other hand, since I am not a professor and teach students irregularly, what I have to focus on in my lectures is not knowledge, but a flash of ‘enlightenment’.

Knowledge is the foundation.

Enlightenment is the tower.

In order to build a tower, you must build a solid foundation, but when you look back after building the tower, the tower is more noticeable than the foundation.

─Of course, the foundation is important. However, no matter how strong the foundation is, if the tower built on top is flimsy, the strong foundation becomes meaningless.

First memory.

She pointed at the students with her translucent finger.

─Look at those faces burning with academic passion. Do they look like the faces of students who came to listen to a lecture by a teacher who builds a shabby tower?

At the end of the finger pointing, there were many students I had personally taught and students I did not remember. I shook my head without realizing it at the enthusiasm for learning that appeared in their eyes.

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