My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 11

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 11

Episode 11. Tower of Recording (5)

A long, extended tongue.

The moment I witnessed this, I hastily released the force I was applying with my hand.

Then the snake fell helplessly from my hand and dropped to the ground.

“Uh oh.”

Thud.

I caught the falling snake with both hands and broke out in a cold sweat.

It’s not moving.

Don’t tell me it’s dead.

No, more than that.

“Why are you coming along?”

This creature is a monster that appeared on the 3rd Floor.

It shouldn’t be able to come up to the 4th Floor.

Countless people had tried this in the Tutorial Tower, and they all unanimously stated this as a rule.

So it should be impossible, but…

“Could it be possible because this is the Tower of Recording…?”

No.

That can’t be it.

When I killed the Bloody Mantis on the 2nd Floor.

I was holding fragments of its exoskeleton in my left hand.

But those fragments had disappeared the moment I moved to the 3rd Floor.

In other words, things from other floors cannot cross over.

But this creature crossed over.

‘Why on earth?’

I don’t understand.

Could it be due to this creature’s special nature?

I stared intently at the creature with its tongue hanging out limply.

When coiled up, this tiny creature was small enough to fit in one hand.

That same creature was now sprawled out with its body stretched long and tongue hanging out.

“Hey.”

“…”

“I know you’re not dead.”

Where does it think it’s fooling anyone by playing dead?

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the black snake.

The hand I was holding the creature with was my left hand.

Not my right hand, but my left hand.

The grip strength of an ordinary human.

There’s no way a monster couldn’t withstand that.

Especially not a creature that was so powerful when it mimicked a slime.

Under my piercing stare, the snake flinched and slowly raised its head.

“Kyuk.”

This bastard just clicked its tongue.

It blatantly clicked its tongue.

The creature wore a sulky expression, realizing its act didn’t work, and coiled up on my palm.

“Hey.”

“…”

“Even if you ignore me, I know you understand what I’m saying.”

Slither.

The creature quietly uncoiled and stared at me blankly.

Meeting eyes with the creature’s black sesame seed-like eyes, I asked.

“Who are you?”

“Kyuk?”

“You’re not an ordinary snake, are you?”

“Kyuung. Kyuk. Kyuuuuk.”

The creature was saying something.

But there was no way I could understand the creature’s voice that only repeated babbling-like sounds.

‘I was being stupid.’

Asking a question I couldn’t get an answer to anyway.

I decided to postpone learning about the creature’s identity for later and ask my next question.

“Do you know about this tower?”

“…Kyuk?”

The creature tilted its head as if saying ‘What are you talking about?’

From that reaction, I realized this creature didn’t know about the ‘Tower’.

Then I could approach it differently.

“Do you know where this place is?”

“Kyuk!”

As if saying ‘Of course!’, the creature tapped its chest with its tail.

Soon after, the creature slithered down from my palm and looked around.

Then.

“Kyuk.”

It froze as if shocked.

Following the creature, I crouched down on the ground and flicked the back of its head with my index finger.

“Don’t tell me you don’t know where this is?”

“…Kyuk.”

The creature dropped its head at my words.

It really doesn’t know where this is.

This is troublesome.

Watching me scratch the back of my head, the creature tapped the ground with its tail as if feeling wronged.

“Kyuuk! Kyuk!”

“What? It’s because I came to a strange place?”

“Kyuk!”

That’s unfair when you put it that way.

I didn’t want to fall into this unknown forest either.

Then, one last time.

I decided to ask about something I’d been curious about since the 1st Floor.

“Hey. Do you know where the World Tree is?”

“Kyuk.”

The creature nodded as if it knew.

This confirmed it.

All floors of the Tower of Recording are connected.

‘I had my suspicions since only forests kept appearing.’

1st Floor, 2nd Floor, 3rd Floor, 4th Floor.

Every floor of the Tower of Recording consisted entirely of forest.

So I had wondered.

Maybe all the floors were unfolding within the stage of a single forest.

I asked to test this theory, and as expected, I got the answer I anticipated.

That’s why the Earth Bear from the 1st Floor also appeared on the 2nd Floor.

And why this creature from the 3rd Floor knows about the ‘World Tree’, which is the 4th Floor’s objective.

I quietly turned my gaze away from the creature and looked into the void.

System.

The words written there: ‘Find the World Tree’.

This time, killing monsters isn’t the condition.

Reaching a certain destination was the condition.

Then to go to the next floor, I need to find that ‘World Tree’…

‘Should I find it and leave?’

For now, I’ve put out the urgent fire by achieving my target synchronization rate of 1.5%.

It wouldn’t matter if I went home now.

But there wasn’t really a reason to go back either.

The fact that I need to find it, whether now or later, remains unchanged.

Then wouldn’t it be easier to find it now rather than putting it off?

Stroking my chin, I glanced down below.

There, the snake was busily pacing back and forth.

“Hey.”

“Squeak?”

“You definitely know where the World Tree is, right?”

“Squeak!”

The creature nodded its head vigorously.

From its reaction, it seems to know.

In that case.

“Guide me to the World Tree.”

“Squeak?”

“You’re lost too anyway, aren’t you?”

“…Squeak.”

This creature, like me, doesn’t know where we are.

If we reach a place it knows, we should be able to get to the World Tree faster.

If we’re going to wander around lost anyway, wouldn’t two be better than one?

It looked at me with eyes that said ‘why should I?’

Well, that was the reaction I expected.

I decided to make an offer it couldn’t refuse.

“If you guide me to the World Tree, I’ll protect you.”

This creature is strong.

No, to be precise, it ‘can’ become strong.

If it eats enough prey and accumulates power, that is.

One of the directions it became strong in was its appearance as a slime on the 3rd Floor.

And now.

Because of me, it had lost all the power it had accumulated.

‘That’s probably why it didn’t properly counterattack when I let my guard down.’

If it had been truly strong, when I let my guard down enough to even cancel Black Dragon, it wouldn’t have just bitten my hand as a counterattack.

It would have taken my hand with a proper attack.

But it didn’t do that.

It just lightly bit my hand and pretended to be dead in my grasp to escape the situation.

What this meant was clear.

That’s why I was certain.

“…Squeak.”

That this creature wouldn’t be able to refuse my proposal.

Seeing it nod as expected, I lifted the corners of my mouth.

“Good. Then climb on.”

I reached out my hand toward the creature on the ground.

Understanding my words, it climbed up onto my hand.

I stared at the creature that had climbed onto my hand and muttered.

“We’ll be traveling together for a while, so calling you ‘hey’ would be too impersonal.”

Hmm…

Should I give it a proper name?

“How about Squeaky…”

“Squeeeak!”

Chomp!

The creature bit my hand as if absolutely refusing.

It didn’t really hurt, but its refusal was clearly communicated.

Then what should I… Ah!

“Steel.”

“Squeak?”

“How about Steel?”

When I first encountered this creature, it was eating steel.

So, Steel.

I thought it was quite good.

“Squeeeeeak!”

It seemed to hate that too.

The creature bit my hand with all its might.

It didn’t hurt before, but now it stings.

Does it hate it that much?

With the constant stinging pain from my left hand, I frowned and shouted.

“Then how about Cheo-ri!”

“Squeak?”

“Cheo-ri. How’s that for your name?”

“Squeak!”

Is this one okay?

The creature that had been biting my hand finally relaxed its jaw.

I deliberately ignored the red marks left on my hand and spoke to the creature.

“Then I’m counting on you, Cheo-ri.”

“Squeak!”

I petted the tail-wagging creature with my right hand and took a step forward.

“Alright, let’s go, Cheo-ri.”

“Squeak squeak!”

Cheo-ri made bright crying sounds as it climbed up my arm.

It soon settled on my right shoulder.

Oh, by the way, there’s something I didn’t mention.

Your surname is Kang.

Kang Cheo-ri.

* * *

After walking for what felt like about 30 minutes.

I stopped and gaped as I looked down below.

“That was close.”

A steep cliff that looked like it had been carved out.

Grass had been growing thickly right up to the edge, so I almost fell if I hadn’t been careful.

Letting out continuous exclamations at the dizzying height, I tilted my head back to look up at the sky.

“Setting that aside, the sun sets here too.”

The sky had turned red at some point.

Night would come soon.

Even though we hadn’t walked very far, the sun was already setting.

“I should move again when the sun rises.”

If I had continued forward and encountered a cliff like this again.

If the sun had been down like this, I would have fallen straight down.

To prepare for any unexpected situations, it would be better to move when the sun is up.

And more than anything.

“Kyuu….”

This little one is gradually withering away.

What’s wrong.

Is it sick somewhere.

Looking at the drooping creature, I belatedly realized.

“Don’t tell me. Are you hungry?”

“Kyuu!”

The creature smacked my cheek with its tail as if asking what took me so long to notice.

No, that’s unfair.

I’m not hungry.

So I had temporarily forgotten the fact that we needed to eat.

“Your main diet is ore, right?”

“Kyuu.”

Ore, huh.

Stroking my chin, I glanced down at the cliff below again.

‘There is one cave down there.’

Halfway down the cliff.

A cave was situated there.

After brief consideration, I nodded.

[Black Dragon]

Crack.

Having transformed my hand, I spoke to the creature on my shoulder.

“Hold on tight so you don’t fall.”

“Kyuu.”

Swish.

Cheo-ri wrapped its tail tightly around my neck.

I threw myself down the cliff.

Scrrratch.

Five parallel scratches left on the cliff face.

I controlled my speed by scraping the cliff with my claws as I headed toward the cave.

“Arrived.”

As I approached the cave, I put full force into my right hand to stop my body completely and entered the cave.

Having entered the cave, I looked around the dim cave where not a single ray of light penetrated.

“It’s too dark to see what’s where.”

Since it’s a cave, I thought there might be some ore here.

But now that I’ve arrived, it’s too dark to see anything.

Then, Cheo-ri, who had been hanging around my neck, jumped down and began crawling forward.

“Kyuu.”

Whoosh.

Flames spewing from the creature’s mouth.

Though very small in size, the flames were sufficient to illuminate the dark cave.

“…You can breathe fire too?”

“Kyuu.”

With a short answer, the creature crawled deeper inside.

Soon the creature opened its mouth wide toward an amethyst-like gem embedded in the cave wall….

“Hmm….”

Clack, clack.

An amethyst-like gem larger than my fist.

Naturally, it was too big for the palm-sized creature to eat.

Letting out a long sigh, I grabbed the creature with my left hand and pulled it away, then swung my fist at the gem.

“There, is that better?”

Clatter.

Gem fragments scattered across the floor.

As soon as I put it back down on the floor, the creature began swallowing the gem fragments whole down its throat.

“When you were a slime, how did you eat those big Steel chunks?”

“Kyuu, kyuguk.”

“You crushed them with slime? You’re quite impressive too.”

But more than that, why am I roughly understanding what this thing is saying.

Resting my chin on my hand and letting out a long sigh, I looked outside the cave.

The outside had already turned dark long ago.

“Should we stay here tonight.”

I’m not particularly sleepy, but I am mentally tired.

I should just close my eyes and rest.

Using an appropriately sized gem fragment as a pillow, I lay down and quietly closed my eyes.

“Nom.”

Only the sound of Cheo-ri swallowing gems could be heard in my ears.

* * *

The next day.

As soon as the sun rose, I got up and looked to the side.

There, Cheo-ri, who had eaten its fill and slept soundly, was yawning lazily while crawling up my arm.

“So, now where should we go… huh?”

Tap.

As soon as it climbed up my body, the creature tapped my cheek with its tail.

I looked at the creature with eyes asking why it was doing that.

Cheo-ri paid no attention to my gaze and was staring intently in a certain direction.

I swallowed dryly at that sight and asked.

“Do you know this place?”

“Kyuu.”

It knows.

Realizing this fact from the short cry, I widened my eyes and asked again.

“If we go that way, the World Tree is there?”

“Kyuu!”

The World Tree.

The goal of this floor.

I found it faster than expected.

As expected, bringing Cheo-ri was the right answer.

I immediately activated ‘Black Dragon’ and ran toward the cave exit.

“Hold on tight!”

“Kyuu!”

I smiled and leaped down the cliff.

It seems like I’ll be able to reach the World Tree today.

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