My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 119

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 119

Episode 119. The Narukami Family (1)

After hearing all the explanations from Rai, I let out an awkward laugh.

“So… I have to become your servant?”

Rai’s explanation was simple.

The banquet being held this time is a banquet commemorating the S-rank promotion exam taking place in Hokkaido.

As such, security against outsiders is strict, and only the person who received the invitation and one servant are permitted to enter the banquet hall.

“You said I can’t just go in normally, right?”

“Right, that despicable uncle’s magic will be blocking the way.”

Rai said this while rummaging through a pile of clothes stacked on one side.

Soon after, he pulled out a piece of letter paper from there and placed it down on the table with a thud.

“This is the invitation. When I open this, that despicable uncle’s mark will be engraved on me.”

The skill of S-rank Hunter Flame Emperor ‘Gaien’.

A person marked with his seal can enter the banquet hall accompanied by only one person.

“So that’s why you said I need to nominally become your servant.”

The banquet that will be held soon can be seen as a banquet attended only by the upper echelon among the upper echelon.

A grand banquet involving the three families involved in the S-rank promotion exam, large and small families from across the nation, and several S-rank hunters from Japan.

It’s essentially a pre-festival commemorating the grand festival that is the S-rank promotion exam.

Therefore, they perfectly control the participating personnel.

To the extent that it’s impossible to enter without hiding.

“There’s no other way besides this.”

No matter how much I think about it, nothing else comes to mind besides the method Rai mentioned.

“So what do I need to do?”

“Nothing much. Just stay still.”

“What?”

“…I don’t know how old I was, but I attended a banquet like this once.”

With eyes somewhere lost in memories, Rai gazed out the hazy window and muttered with faint longing on his face.

“It was a banquet hosted by Mother and Father.”

“…”

“I have memories of watching over their shoulders how the participants behaved at that gathering. I can handle the rest myself, so you don’t need to worry about it.”

Having emerged from his memories, he turned his gaze back to me.

“The clothes you’re wearing now barely meet the dress code, so you don’t need to worry about clothing issues.”

“…But is the fact that you left the family something only known within the family?”

“No. Probably everyone attending that banquet hall knows about it.”

“That means…”

“Just by my attendance, what he wanted will be roughly achieved.”

The reason he received an invitation despite leaving the family?

It’s partly because he’s still officially the head of the family on paper.

But it was also Gaien’s mockery, knowing he wouldn’t return.

“I… can’t forget that look in my despicable uncle’s eyes when he said I was useless despite my earnest efforts.”

“You…”

“I can never forgive that uncle who abandoned me in a Gate and then went around saying I ran away because I wanted to.”

Crack.

Rai gritted his teeth and glared with wide eyes as he slammed the desk.

“Anyway! Come to my house by 8 AM on Saturday. I’ll also get clothes suitable for the banquet by then.”

“Even if you tell me to go, you haven’t made any concrete plans at all.”

“There’s no such thing. The purpose is simply to cause a disturbance and tarnish the family’s name.”

Now that’s a plan I like.

I raised the corners of my mouth and nodded while looking out the window.

The window, stained from lack of cleaning, had become completely dark outside…

“…Huh?”

Come to think of it, isn’t someone waiting outside right now…?

I jumped up from my seat and turned around.

There was Elpinire, who had woken up from the sound of Rai slamming the desk, and Jini sleeping soundly using her arm as a pillow.

“Kargon.”

He said he couldn’t come into the house so he’d wait outside.

I had completely forgotten while talking.

After hastily waking the two of them, I turned around at the entrance and greeted Rai.

“See you on Saturday then.”

I need to hurry back.

With that, I opened the entrance door that made loud noises from being well-oiled and came outside.

“…Master, is it finally over?”

“Sorry.”

“It doesn’t matter as long as you didn’t forget about me.”

I’m really sorry.

Actually, I had forgotten.

* * *

The banquet is being held on Saturday.

Since today is Thursday, when you think about it, time isn’t really that abundant.

-Pretty and Good Demon King-nim-nim-nim: We’ll go first, so take the bus or subway to come!

-Pretty and Good Demon King-nim-nim-nim: [Map app link with inn location marked]

But that aside, isn’t leaving me behind too much?

I let out a deep sigh and trudged along the dark street.

“Since everyone went back to the Tower, it feels a bit lonely.”

“Kkyuu?”

“I’m really glad you’re here at least.”

Since I don’t want to walk these dark night streets alone.

After patting Cheo-ri’s forehead, I stopped at the crosswalk and muttered.

“So, how long are you going to keep following me?”

Stop.

The atmosphere instantly froze.

I quietly turned my head and looked at the dark alley where the streetlight’s glow didn’t reach.

More precisely, beyond it.

At the black-haired girl watching me with yellow eyes.

“…I didn’t expect to be caught.”

She seemed slightly surprised at being discovered, answering in a slightly agitated voice as she emerged from the dark alley.

“Let me introduce myself-“

“Narukami Hikari, I already know that much.”

“…I see.”

As if relieved of the need to explain, she stopped along with a passing train and looked at me.

“Please stop my brother from coming to the banquet hall.”

“I don’t want to?”

“Then this… what?”

Hikari asked back with her voice rising a note.

I scratched my neck blankly and said again.

“I said I don’t want to. Why should I do that?”

“Be-because nothing good will come of my brother coming to the banquet hall!”

“Who decided that? You? Me? Or Rai?”

“That’s…”

Looking very flustered, Hikari pressed her lips tightly shut.

In the park, he was expressionless no matter what happened, but he could make that kind of expression too.

“How can you speak so definitively about something that hasn’t even happened? Are you perhaps a prophet?”

“….”

“No, it’s because you’re trapped in narrow-minded thinking.”

“….”

“There’s no such thing as 100% in this world. Even if the possibility is astronomically high, the limit is 99%.”

And a 1% miracle can definitely happen.

So I refuse.

I’m not saint enough to grant a request that isn’t even worth listening to.

I turned toward the ascending crosswalk and added.

“Well, if the possibility were as slim as 99.9%, I might consider it.”

“…If the possibility is that slim?”

“Hmm?”

“You can say that because you don’t know. You don’t know how terrifying Uncle is!”

Hikari shouted with an intense voice.

I widened my eyes and looked into hers.

Her pupils, which had seemed emotionless and empty despite any changes in emotion until now, were completely painted over with fear and terror.

“Brother doesn’t know anything! Why? Because you left the family when you were young!”

“Wait a minute. Calm down and-.”

“I searched for you desperately every day, every day, every day, every day!”

Thud!

Mana spread around her as she shouted.

Mana extending around Hikari as she staggered on the cracked asphalt.

Seeing her black hair gradually turning bright yellow, I quickly looked around and bit the inside of my mouth.

‘Someone is coming.’

The moment she scattered her mana.

I could feel unknown presences approaching from all directions.

Something didn’t feel right.

I shouted urgently.

“First, suppress your mana! Someone’s coming!”

“But why… why on earth is Brother…!”

Damn.

She doesn’t seem to hear me.

Clicking my tongue, I moved my hand almost instinctively.

“But why is Brother now-!”

Thwack!

My right hand struck the back of her head.

Catching Hikari as she fell like a puppet with cut strings, I scattered mana strongly enough to cover her remaining power.

“….”

The sinister power mixed with black mist.

The owners of the presences that detected this immediately began to distance themselves.

Only then did I let out a long sigh and muttered while looking at Hikari, who had lost consciousness and gone limp.

“…What should I do.”

I acted first.

I didn’t think about the consequences at all.

“Should I take her to the lodging for now.”

Taking her to Rai’s house would probably backfire.

Muttering quietly, I carried Hikari on my back and crossed the crosswalk.

* * *

“Mmm… where is this….”

Her eyelids slowly rising.

Seeing an unfamiliar ceiling in her previously dark vision, Hikari bolted upright.

“Wh-where?”

Hikari looked around in confusion, but all she could see was an unfamiliar room.

Just as she was about to throw off the blanket to get up.

“Oh, you’re awake.”

A familiar voice came from beyond the door.

Quickly turning her head, Hikari looked at the man beyond the door and furrowed her brow.

“You are….”

“Sorry, someone suddenly approached so I had no choice.”

I raised both hands to show I meant no harm and entered the room.

Hikari was wary, but she didn’t back away, seeming to know that if I intended harm, I would have done it already.

“It seems you know that I’m planning to attend the banquet with Rai, right?”

“…Yes.”

“And you came to find me without informing the family because you wanted to stop that.”

“….”

Hikari remained silent without saying anything.

But everyone knows that sometimes silence becomes affirmation.

“Then since we’ve gotten this far, let me ask. What kind of family situation is it that makes you act like this?”

I don’t usually want to interfere in other people’s family affairs.

Of course not.

I don’t even have family affairs of my own, so how could I interfere in others’?

To interfere, you need to know something, but I know close to nothing.

So I tried not to interfere as much as possible, but at this point, I had no choice but to interfere.

“….”

Hearing my question, Hikari gripped the blanket covering her tightly.

Gripping the blanket so hard her hands turned white, Hikari forced her choked throat to open her mouth.

“That’s… I can’t tell you.”

“Nothing at all?”

“….”

“Then there’s nothing I can do.”

I have no intention of forcing someone to say what they don’t want to say.

I lifted my bottom, which I had briefly sat down, and said.

“Rest a bit and go back when you’ve calmed down. I don’t like uninvited guests coming to the lodging where I need to rest.”

“W-wait a moment!”

Hikari reached out and grabbed the hem of my clothes.

She muttered with somewhat anxious eyes, keeping her head deeply bowed.

“If it’s talking to myself… if it’s talking to myself, it should be okay.”

Having said that, Hikari let go of the hem she was holding and spoke.

“It was about a year after Brother left home.”

* * *

On a day when rain was drizzling down.

She, who was only in second grade of elementary school, couldn’t forget her brother who was five years older and had disappeared overnight, so she sat on the wooden floor with her head deeply bowed.

“Brother… why on earth did you leave me behind.”

No matter how many days she cried, her brother wouldn’t return.

Even when she ran to her brother’s room every sunrise, the room was empty.

Why on earth?

Why did you leave me behind?

No matter how many times she asked, there was no one to answer that question.

Even when she grabbed someone’s clothes and asked, the only answer that came back was ‘Narukami Rai ran away because he didn’t want to become the family head.’

She was no longer in a state where she could meet Narukami Rai, who would sincerely resolve her curiosity.

However, her idle thoughts didn’t last very long.

As summer was coming to an end, she set foot in the Tutorial Tower.

How many people had entered the Tutorial Tower at such a young age?

She forgot even her longing for her older brother and gave her all to escape from the Tutorial Tower.

And when she emerged from the Tutorial Tower, a year had passed in the world.

In the meantime, all the faces she had known in the family had disappeared.

Her uncle, who had been her only family.

Showed her the clean corpses of her parents who had died when she was one year old.

And said with a smile that this was all your older brother’s doing.

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