My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 13

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 13

Episode 13. E-Rank Promotion Exam

Cheo-ri, caught in my hand, blinked as if confused.

“You were definitely far away from me.”

“Kyuk.”

“But why did you follow me out?”

“Kyukyung?”

Why are you asking me that?

With that meaning, Cheo-ri let out a small cry.

This is driving me crazy.

Why did you really follow me out?

I scratched the back of my head vigorously and let out a small sigh.

“Can’t be helped.”

Even if I wanted to leave it back in the Tower, if I went in now, I wouldn’t be able to come out for a while.

I had no choice but to live together at home for the time being.

I spoke to the creature that was busily looking around, trying to understand the situation.

“This is home. My home.”

“…Kyuk?”

“Stay here for a while. Just until I enter the Tower again.”

Adding that, I put Cheo-ri down on the floor.

It looked around here and there, then suddenly headed somewhere.

The place it headed to was…

“Hey.”

“Kyuk?”

“Don’t eat it, you bastard.”

It was where my phone was placed.

Do you know how much this costs, trying to eat it.

The creature was eagerly trying to stuff my phone into its mouth, even though it didn’t fit its size.

I snatched away the phone that was covered in its saliva.

“Kyuung…”

It looked at the phone regretfully, but I can’t give this to you.

I wiped off the saliva with my clothes and turned on the phone.

“No particular messages came.”

I wondered if any contact might have come.

Not only calls, but no texts came either…

“…”

Rub rub.

I rubbed my eyes with my right hand and opened my mouth.

“Huh?”

Why isn’t it changing?

This is a lie.

If not that.

“Why has so much time passed?”

I trembled slightly and checked the date written on my phone.

It’s January 21st now.

The day I entered the Tower was definitely January 16th.

I was only in the Tower for a day at most, so why has so much time passed?

But that doesn’t really matter.

The biggest problem is.

“January 21st…”

Wednesday.

After checking the time on my phone, I immediately rushed into the bathroom.

I didn’t have time to be doing this.

January 21st.

Today, Wednesday.

At the Awakened Association in Gangnam.

“I can’t be late for on-site registration…!”

It was the day the E-rank promotion exam was being held.

* * *

Huff, huff.

I jumped off the bus, breathing heavily.

‘Thank goodness I came out of the Tower at dawn…’

If I had come out after noon, I would have already been too late.

I walked groaning through Gangnam’s main street, bustling with Hunters because of the promotion exam.

“Kyuuk…”

A small cry coming from my pocket.

I looked down and found Cheo-ri with just its head poking out of my pocket.

“I told you to stay inside?”

“Kyuuk!”

“…Do whatever you want.”

I originally tried to just leave it at home.

But when I tried to leave it behind, this creature kept following me.

I couldn’t delay any more time, so I had no choice but to bring it along, but I’m more worried than I thought.

‘I remember it being a serious crime to bring living monsters out of Gates…’

It looks just like a black snake from the outside, so I won’t get caught, right?

The Tower of Recording isn’t an ordinary Gate anyway.

I let out a small groan and opened the door to the Awakened Association.

“Hey you bastard! Why are you touching my sword and acting up!?”

“Everyone get lost! Unless you want to die by my hand during today’s exam!”

“I hope I pass this time…”

Noisy, noisy.

A space filled with all kinds of people.

Hmm.

This is what a place where people live should be like.

I nodded at the familiar atmosphere filled with hatred and pushed forward through the noisy people.

“Excuse me, I heard there’s an E-rank promotion exam today.”

“Ah, yes. The promotion exam is scheduled to be held in about 1 hour and 30 minutes.”

“I’d like to take it too, same-day registration is possible, right?”

“Of course. You just need to register 1 hour before. Could you show me your Awakened registration card?”

I took out my Awakened registration card from my pocket and handed it over.

The receptionist who received it immediately started typing something, then after a moment handed back the registration card along with a square piece of paper.

“Please check this.”

“This is…”

“It’s a confirmation form stating that you will take responsibility if you die or get injured during the exam.”

Promotion exams are dangerous.

In a way, it was natural.

They’re assessing a person’s level inside a Gate, so if it’s conducted safely, it’s neither here nor there.

That’s why, though very few, there were cases of deaths during promotion exams.

This must also be written as an extension of that.

“However, for incidents and accidents caused by anomalies inside Gates, the Hunter Association provides full compensation, so you don’t need to worry about that part.”

“Well, I’m not worried about it.”

You can’t even take the promotion exam if you don’t agree in the first place.

I lightly checked that I agreed and returned the paper to the receptionist.

“Your application has been processed, and here’s your exam number and signal device. Please attach the signal device to your wrist right now, and keep the exam number with you. An announcement will be made in 30 minutes. Just follow those instructions to move.”

“Thank you.”

Taking the exam number and signal device along with my Awakened registration card, I trudged over to a corner.

“So this is the signal device.”

An item set up to alert supervisors if you’re in danger during the promotion exam.

I examined the signal device that looked like an ordinary wristwatch from various angles, attached it to my left wrist, then checked my exam number.

“Number 738…”

Does this mean over 700 people are taking the exam in Gangnam today?

That’s more than I expected.

The Awakened Association is spread throughout the country.

Since each branch conducts exams separately, this number 700 meant it was purely the number of people taking the exam in Gangnam.

“If there are many people, that means many will fail too…”

As far as I know, the rate of F-rank Hunters becoming E-rank Hunters is about 30%.

It’s an unwritten rule of promotion exams that the more people there are, the more people fail.

“Still, I’m not worried.”

It’s just an E-rank promotion exam anyway.

At most, it’ll be an exam where you hunt monsters in an E-rank Gate.

If it’s just that level of exam, I can succeed easily with peace of mind.

So I sat down in an empty seat in the corner and stretched out both legs.

“Squeak.”

“You’re hungry? Just wait a little. I’ll buy you food after the exam.”

“Squeak squeak.”

It really eats a lot.

Didn’t it eat just a few hours before coming out of the Tower?

As I sat there waiting, drowsiness suddenly began to wash over me.

“Yaaawn…”

I yawned languidly and glanced at the clock.

Only 10 minutes had passed.

‘I’m tired right after coming out of the Tower…’

In the Tower, no matter how much I lay down, I never got sleepy or hungry.

But as soon as I came out of the Tower, I became tired like a ghost, and I was starting to get a bit hungry too.

‘Is it fine when you’re in the Tower?’

I don’t really know, but it’s quite inconvenient.

It would have been nice if I could sleep a bit at night in the Tower too.

I yawned long and quietly closed my eyes.

I should get some rest before it starts.

* * *

Yaaawn…

I yawned languidly and blinked my stiff eyes while looking around.

Here and there.

People standing with uniformly tense faces.

After checking their faces, I took out a piece of paper from my pocket and confirmed it.

‘738…’

This room is the exam hall for people in the 700s, so I came to the right place.

‘I almost came late.’

When I woke up from sleeping, there were only 5 minutes left before the exam began.

So I got up urgently and sprinted at full speed toward the exam hall.

Looking at it, the exam supervisor hasn’t come yet, so it seems I’m not late.

I let out a small sigh of relief and looked around.

‘It’s noisy.’

The Hunters gathered at the promotion exam site were already being wary of each other.

Since they’re all competitors, it’s probably natural.

I don’t want to participate in that kind of power struggle.

So I decided to step back and observe the situation.

“…”

I definitely intended to do that.

But why on earth.

‘Do I keep feeling gazes on me?’

I quietly rolled my eyes and looked to the side.

A place where people were gathered in particularly large numbers.

There, a woman was using people as shields to hide her body while staring intently at me.

When is the examiner going to come?

This is burdensome.

If I approach first, I don’t know what kind of troublesome situation I might get involved in.

Since I absolutely wanted to avoid that, I decided to just pretend not to know and close my eyes.

‘If she has business with me, she’ll approach.’

* * *

Gangnam Awakened Association.

Not far from the E-rank Promotion Exam 700-series Test Site.

There, a woman and man wearing special Hunter IDs around their necks certifying them as Association-affiliated Hunters were talking to each other.

“You understand, right?”

“…Do you know how many times you’re saying this?”

“Uh… well?”

“It’s been over twenty times. I have ears too, so I understood everything.”

“But still, they’re calling me in on my day off because the higher-ups consider it that important?”

Sigh…

The man with navy blue hair let out a long sigh at the voice of the white-haired woman chattering beside him.

He wiped his glasses with a handkerchief and muttered.

“More than anything, isn’t there a very high possibility that this Black Dragon person isn’t F-rank?”

“That’s true. But as far as I know, it’s impossible to kill an Orc Lord that cleanly unless you’re upper-tier A-rank. You saw it too.”

“…Yes. That would have been impossible for me too.”

Even upper-tier A-rank would find it difficult.

Among B-rank monsters, Orc Lords are particularly outstanding in terms of defense.

If Orc Lords had stronger attack power, they would have been classified as A-rank monsters.

An existence that killed such a creature in one blow.

“But even I, an S-rank Hunter affiliated with the Association, don’t know who that is. Upper-tier A-ranks all have epithets, so they’re easy to recognize.”

“Could that person possibly be a villain?”

“That’s possible. But you know what? If it were a villain hidden so well that even I, an S-rank Hunter, don’t know who they are, wouldn’t they have eliminated the witness?”

The witness is alive.

That alone made the possibility of being a villain hiding their identity infinitely low.

Then it meant there was a very high possibility that person was truly a Hunter, not a villain.

“Right now, countless guilds are deploying people to find this person called Black Dragon. If Black Dragon ends up going to those guilds… you know?”

“…I understand very well.”

“So please make an effort. Our ‘Comet’ Hunter Jeong Chan-woo.”

At the voice of the woman smiling slyly, the man called Jeong Chan-woo kept sighing.

I don’t know how long he’s been held captive listening to nagging.

He glanced at his watch and barely suppressed another rising sigh before speaking.

“So then, ‘Demon King’ Seong Yu-mi sunbae. What do you think about the promotion exam starting time being 10 minutes overdue?”

“…Has it been that long?”

“Please release the magic now. We need to hurry.”

The woman who had been pouting, Seong Yu-mi, snapped her fingers to release the magic.

Finally regaining freedom of movement, he shot forward quickly.

And so he arrived at Exam Hall 700s.

Opening the door and entering, he cleared his throat and said.

“Sorry for being la…”

“Hueeeong!”

“No, why are you doing that?”

“S-sorry, kkeueong!”

“Stop crying and let go of me! Wait, don’t take pictures! I didn’t do anything!”

“Hueeeeeong!”

“Put the camera down!”

“…”

This was exactly why he had wanted to arrive on time.

Jeong Chan-woo squeezed his eyes shut at the chaotic situation in the exam hall.

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