I Became A Flashing Genius At The Magic Academy-Chapter 395

At prestigious schools, it’s not unusual for noble students to receive lenient punishments for their wrongdoings.

Even when an institution tries to maintain neutrality, schools are inevitably tied to nations, and magicians, too, carry national allegiances.

But Stella Academy is different.

While most of the professors hold national affiliations, the principal, vice-principal, and the board of directors have renounced their nationalities in exchange for their positions of power and authority.

This signifies that Stella is free from external influences.

It also means that nobles cannot exploit their status to manipulate the professors, ensuring that evaluations and punishments are fair for all students.

While there are rare exceptions for a few privileged individuals, Stella is renowned for treating students equally.

If a noble errs, they are properly disciplined. If a commoner achieves something remarkable, they are rewarded just as fairly.

For this reason, the 30-day suspension handed to Full Frame for assaulting a prince was highly unusual.

To outside observers, it seemed as though the academy was blatantly favoring a mere commoner.

Favoritism...

Full Frame had no idea she had garnered this much attention from Elteman Eltewin.

Though the entire student body began gossiping and criticizing her after the incident, she no longer cared. Such things didn’t bother her anymore.

But something else... left her feeling queasy.

‘Why?’

Through this incident, she had grown closer to Eisel, fundamentally altering her destiny.

It was a success.

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Maybe it wasn’t as elegant as Baek Yuseol, but... she had managed to do it in her own way, bold and confident, imitating his style while adding her touch.

‘Then why does my chest feel so heavy?’

She should’ve been happy, yet...

Squeak.

Full Frame pressed her fingers against the dormitory window, running her hand over the glass.

This window wasn’t an illusion. It wasn’t fake. It was real—existing in a different world altogether, in another version of her dormitory.

Except, here...

This version of her had been living alone in the elite Class S dormitory.

That small detail constantly nagged at her.

‘The Full Frame in this world is slightly different from me.’

She had chosen to live in the Class F dorms to be with her friends.

But the Full Frame of this world had kept her distance from others, living alone in the Class S dorms.

A small difference.

Another version of her, yet not her.

‘Ah.’

A realization hit her.

She remembered the enormous flames burning on the Leviang Coast.

Hong Biyeon’s death.

‘Ugh...’

She clenched her teeth, placing a hand over her chest. The strange pain she had been feeling earlier—she finally recognized it.

It was grief.

The sorrow of losing a friend.

In this world, Hong Biyeon hadn’t been her friend. She had been an enemy, hostile and antagonistic. But in her original world, they had grown into inseparable allies.

And now, she had let her die.

Because she couldn’t protect her.

That thought tore at her chest.

Because this world’s Hong Biyeon had been real, too.

‘Pull yourself together, Full Frame.’

If something like this could shake her, how could she hope to face what lay ahead?

‘Don’t waver. Forget about it.’

Closing her eyes tightly, she tried to block it out.

But even with her eyes shut, she could still see the flames flickering.

The anguished screams of Hong Biyeon, which she had never even heard, seemed to echo endlessly in her ears.

Grabbing her head, she dove into her bed, burying her face into the pillow.

Ding... Ding... Ding...

The chimes of Stella’s clocktower marked midnight. Slowly, Full Frame drifted into sleep.

Woooom...

While she slept, time whisked her away once again, to yet another place.

***

When Full Frame opened her eyes, she found herself in a completely different place. While time slips typically only changed the time within Stella Academy, occasionally they transported her to entirely new locations. She was used to it by now.

“Where... am I?”

She looked around the old wooden dormitory. It seemed to be a shared room with a bunk bed next to hers, a sight unfamiliar to her.

“This smell...”

The first impression was that it was an old dormitory, but she quickly corrected herself. It wasn’t old—it was built entirely from living plants, meticulously maintained to create a structure that breathed life.

“...Could it be?”

Full Frame hurried to the window and looked outside.

There it was—a massive tree dominating the skyline, its sheer size and majesty cutting through the heavens. Only a few trees like this existed in the world, and she had only visited one with Eisel.

The First World Tree, Skyflower Cradle.

“Have I already reached the exchange program?”

It made sense. After her one-month suspension, there wasn’t much left to interfere with, so the story must have jumped straight to the exchange program.

This must be the dormitory at Starflower Academy, the partner school for the exchange.

“But why does it look like this?”

In her original timeline, Starflower had prepared brand-new luxury dormitories for Stella’s students, financed generously by Jelliel’s family wealth.

But...

“Oh... that’s right.”

In this world, Jelliel was missing.

Even if she wasn’t, it was unlikely they would have built lavish facilities here. After all, Baek Yuseol wasn’t in this world.

“I see... In the original story, Eisel used these dorms, didn’t she?”

In the original romance novel, Eisel had endured hardships in Starflower’s exchange program, clashing with Jelliel and facing countless tribulations.

Jelliel, the second "worst villainess" after Hong Biyeon, was universally despised by readers. Unlike Hong Biyeon, who had a tragic backstory and reluctant charm, Jelliel was a cold, sadistic psychopath, tormenting others without a shred of empathy.

The exchange program's storyline revolved around protecting Eisel from Jelliel's schemes.

“Wait... am I stupid?”

She smacked her forehead.

Jelliel was missing.

In her original timeline, Eisel was never truly harassed by Jelliel, as Baek Yuseol's presence had acted as a powerful deterrent.

So, why had she been brought here?

“...There’s only one possibility.”

With a sudden realization, Full Frame threw open the dormitory door and bolted outside, heading toward the tallest point in Starflower Academy.

If Jelliel wasn’t here, there was only one event left in this timeline that involved Eisel—or herself.

“Damgaltoy Wol.”

The ancient calamity would awaken and march toward the World Tree.

Whoooosh!

A cold wind bit at her skin, jolting her senses. Just yesterday, it had been the height of summer, but now it felt like winter.

How much time had passed in this skip?

“This isn’t fair!”

She had just begun closing the emotional gap with Eisel, only to have months stolen away. Now she was thrust into the pivotal event—the awakening of Damgaltoy Wol.

“Hah... Hah...!”

Her body wasn’t the same. In her original world, by this point in winter, she had reached the cusp of becoming a 6th-Class Mage, her body and magic in peak condition. But this version of Full Frame was weaker, untrained.

“They’ve left me no time. No options.”

It was deliberate. Time itself had cornered her into an impossible situation, leaving her with no room to maneuver.

“Will you give up? Or will you fight, even knowing it’s futile?”

The scenario mirrored so many others. But this time, she felt it was worse.

She pushed past the startled elves and guards, finally reaching the highest point of the World Tree.

The ground quaked with a massive tremor, threatening to knock her off balance. Clinging to a pillar, Full Frame looked up.

Her breath caught in her throat.

There it was.

A towering, brown giant that pierced the clouds, an embodiment of calamity and destruction marching toward the World Tree.

Even though she had seen it before, the sheer presence of Damgaltoy Wol was overwhelming.

This was a being that transcended human comprehension.

A "Shinigami," one of the Twelve Divine Moons.

A mythical force beyond mortal understanding.

“Damn it...!”

She sprinted across the bridges and platforms of the World Tree, heading toward the highest peak.

The elves were in disarray, fleeing in every direction. Unlike her original world, where ghostly entities spawned alongside Damgaltoy Wol, there were none here.

“This is bad, but at least there’s no interference!”

It gave her a clear path, but her mind raced.

“What can I even do when I get there?”

Baek Yuseol had resolved this event in her timeline, but no one knew how he had done it.

All she remembered was one critical detail.

“Baek Yuseol... gave Damgaltoy Wol life.”

Damgaltoy Wol craved life and sought to consume the World Tree’s unmatched vitality. Baek Yuseol had found another way to satiate him.

“But how?”

No amount of thinking would reveal the answer. That knowledge had come from Baek Yuseol’s countless loops, a secret he had unearthed through unfathomable repetition.

“Hah... Hah...!”

Breathless, she arrived at the World Tree’s summit—a gleaming white palace.

Standing at the edge of a sheer cliff, her white dress billowing in the wind, was a woman.

“Flower Serene...”

The Elven Queen, Flower Serene, stood frozen, her gaze locked on the approaching calamity. Without a word, she leapt from the cliff.

“Wait, no!” Full Frame cried, chasing after her.

But Flower Serene unfurled her emerald-green fairy wings, rising higher into the sky.

Flower Serene’s wings expanded, doubling, tripling, then growing a hundredfold, casting a vast shadow over the World Tree.

The sky was consumed by her light.

Damgaltoy Wol halted, momentarily deterred. The sheer scale of her sacrifice was enough to stun the calamity.

But Full Frame knew the truth.

“This isn’t a solution...!”

Flower Serene was burning through her life force, compressing it into an overwhelming explosion. But Damgaltoy Wol didn’t seek destruction—he sought life.

“She’s feeding him exactly what he wants...”

The calamity resumed its advance, using Flower Serene’s condensed vitality as a conduit. The Elven Queen’s body withered, desiccated into a lifeless husk.

But even then, she could not die.

“Why are you just standing there?”

A voice snapped Full Frame out of her stupor. She turned to see Eisel, drenched in sweat, panting heavily.

“Eisel...”

Full Frame’s heart sank.

“I’m a fool...”

She had vowed to emulate Baek Yuseol, yet here she was, frozen in despair.

“You’re right, Eisel. Watching this without acting is pathetic.”

“What? No, I meant why aren’t you running away?”

“I can stop this. There has to be a way. Baek Yuseol wasn’t the only one who could solve impossible problems!”

Without thinking, Full Frame sprinted toward the cliff and leapt into the void.

Eisel rushed to the edge, her heart pounding. Below, Full Frame had miraculously landed on one of the World Tree’s massive branches, scrambling toward Flower Serene.

“What... is she doing?”

Eisel shook her head, gripping her chest as a name flickered in her memory.

“...Baek Yuseol?”

For the first time in what felt like forever, a faint light returned to her eyes.