My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 137

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 137

Episode 137. Failed Product (1)

The sun had set.

Before I knew it, the moon had risen high in the sky.

I had been sitting quietly in front of the main gate with my eyes closed, but now I slowly opened them and looked ahead.

“…What? Were there survivors in this village?”

A androgynous voice reached my ears, neither clearly male nor female.

I raised my head and looked at the robed figure with sunken eyes.

“I thought I had killed them all.”

“Are you Zero?”

“You know me? That’s quite unexpected.”

“How could I not.”

I chuckled softly as I stood up and dusted off my bottom.

“You’re quite late.”

“I think so too. I never thought that failed product would come back here instead of running somewhere else.”

Zero let out a small sigh, shook their head, and spoke in a wheedling tone.

“Thanks to that, I spent 4 months destroying innocent villages while searching around. It’s all the failed product’s fault.”

“Don’t blame Uno for such shitty reasons.”

“Uno? Who’s that… Oh, you mean the failed product?”

Puhup.

Zero covered their mouth as if amused and waved their hand lightly.

“Sorry, but Uno isn’t a name. We don’t have names to begin with.”

“…We?”

“You don’t know, do you? Just like the people who originally lived here.”

Zero’s lower face visible beneath the robe curved into a faint smile.

“We’re test subjects. Test subjects for using ancient magic. The Zero I use as a title and the Uno that failed product mentioned are experiment numbers.”

“…”

“Well, if you think about it, it’s more like an order listing successful test subjects rather than experiment numbers.”

Zero tilted their head while crossing their arms.

They twirled their finger with a voice mixed with laughter.

“Originally, the failed product was the one closest to Zero. How nostalgic.”

“What do you mean closest to Zero?”

“Wow. You really don’t know anything, do you? Zero means a successful product that can perfectly use ancient magic.”

They name them in order of closeness to success.

Among them, the first test subject closest to success had the experiment number Uno.

The researchers spent time trying to make the test subject into a successful product, but.

“Oh dear. Someone else succeeded before the failed product?”

“…”

“So the failed product that became useless was disposed of. Or rather, should have been disposed of.”

How could they have known.

That a corpse with a stopped heart would have its heart beating again.

“The research director suddenly asked us to bring back the failed product’s bones, so I was dispatched, but the failed product was alive?”

“So you destroyed Mae Village to retrieve Uno?”

“I had no intention of destroying it. If they had just handed over the failed product nicely, this wouldn’t have happened.”

“What bullshit.”

Crack, crack.

I loosened my neck lightly, took a long breath, and looked at Zero.

“Are you done talking?”

“I am done, but… are you planning to fight me?”

“If that wasn’t the case, I would have already run away.”

“You’re quite brave. I’m pretty strong, you know?”

“I already knew that much.”

From the moment we first met.

I felt the same mana from Zero as Uno’s mana.

The difference would be that unlike Uno, Zero was perfectly controlling pure mana.

‘I expected it wouldn’t be easy from the start.’

There had never been a single easy time among the towers so far.

The Tower always pushed me with difficulty far beyond my expectations.

Therefore, this much was already within the realm of what I had anticipated.

“Let me tell you one thing first. It’ll be impossible to secretly take the failed product away. This village is already surrounded by monsters.”

“Monsters?”

Heh.

I let out a small laugh and flicked my finger.

“You mean these?”

Kugugugugung-!

As soon as I flicked my finger, explosions erupted around the village.

Zero jerked their head up and gaped at the monster corpses flying high into the sky.

“You weren’t alone?”

“As you can see.”

I had sent Elpinire, Jini, and Kargon to handle the parts I couldn’t pay attention to.

I had also ordered Runar to deal with monsters that flowed into the village.

Sneaking into the village was impossible.

So.

“Come at me.”

“Hmm… I don’t want to do that. Fighting is bothersome.”

Zero shook their head as if disgusted and flicked their finger.

At that moment, the ground began to vibrate roughly.

“If you want to fight me, defeat these guys here first.”

Crack.

Cracks appeared in the ground.

I quickly kicked off the ground backward and moved away from the cracked earth.

As soon as I jumped up from the ground, a giant worm burst through the surface.

‘Death Worm?’

A giant worm with teeth that lives in desert terrain.

Compared to the Death Worm I remembered, the size was clearly smaller, but that form was definitely a Death Worm.

“Why is this monster in the forest?”

“That’s because these guys were also from the laboratory.”

Tsk.

I clicked my tongue and immediately clenched my fist tightly.

[Black Dragon]

Dark scales covering not just my right hand, but my entire right arm.

Wrapping myself in thick mist, I kicked off the air and threw my fist forward.

[Mist – Rampage]

My fist exploded into the Death Worm’s abdomen.

With a massive explosion, a hole was punched through the Death Worm’s body with disappointing ease.

Zero looked at me through the hole with an amused smile.

“You had reason to be confident.”

Zero hummed a tune.

They soon wrapped pure mana around their body and flew high into the sky.

“I should watch from here. This should be quite entertaining.”

Snap-!

Zero’s fingers flicked.

Dozens of monsters from all directions began rushing toward me.

‘Every single one is A-rank or higher.’

Not dangerous, but they’re all filled with creatures I can’t ignore either.

Clicking my tongue, I turned my gaze away from Zero and threw a punch at a monster charging from the side.

* * *

[Orcus – Fury]

Kuguuuung-

The fired arrow continued straight ahead without stopping.

An arrow that completely shattered not only the monsters in the area but also the trees blocking its path.

Kargon lowered his bow and looked around.

“I thought I had dealt with quite a few.”

Still, monsters were scattered everywhere.

“So they brought this many for a kid named Uno?”

How ridiculous.

The kid in the diary was such an ordinary child.

Kargon muttered quietly and raised his bow again, pulling the bowstring.

At that moment.

“…Well, well. It seems dying and reviving has dulled my senses quite a bit.”

Kargon looked at the small child who had appeared before him and muttered with amusement in his voice.

The child, so small they didn’t even reach his waist, held a dagger and quietly stared at Kargon.

“You. What is your name?”

“…Tres.”

Tuk.

The child gripped the flicked dagger in reverse.

Soon after, the child wrapped not pure mana but an ominously sinister power around the dagger and spoke.

“The third test subject who couldn’t become Zero.”

* * *

“…You, is that magic energy?”

Elpinire, wrapped in green light all over her body, looked at the girl who appeared before her with deeply sunken eyes.

The girl with her hair tied in twin tails held a staff.

From that staff, a truly terrifyingly ominous power was rising.

“You seem to know about magic energy.”

“…”

“We test subjects underwent all kinds of experiments to become Zero. But we realized.”

To use ancient magic, one had to use the pure mana that supposedly existed in the beginning.

But among thousands of test subjects, only a very few were chosen by pure mana.

The rest could only endure until they died.

“Then one day, someone came to the laboratory. Bringing not pure mana, but pure magic energy.”

Mana and magic energy are similar yet different.

If mana is the power of life, then magic energy is the power of destruction.

But since both share the common trait of being pure.

“Using magic energy, we could use the ancient magic we so desperately wanted.”

So the research team decided.

Let’s inject magic energy into all test subjects and make them all able to use ancient magic.

“That’s how I was born.”

“…Don’t tell me you’re saying magic energy was forcibly injected?”

“Most of the test subjects are like that. Most of them were kidnapped kids.”

At the word kidnapped, Elpinire’s body trembled once.

The girl looked at Elpinire and smiled slightly as she added.

“But don’t worry. I volunteered to become a test subject myself.”

“That sounds like you willingly accepted magic energy.”

“You understand well. In this kind of world, it’s wise to have strong power and align yourself well, isn’t it?”

The girl began drawing in the air with the magic energy blooming at the tip of her staff.

As that drawing gradually completed, an increasingly massive power began to reveal itself.

Elpinire stared intently at the girl and asked.

“You, what’s your name?”

“I abandoned my name long ago. Now I’m called the fourth test subject, Quatro.”

“Quatro…”

Elpinire raised the corners of her mouth and stepped firmly on the ground, drawing up mana.

“Since you said you willingly accepted magic energy, I don’t need to worry about beating you up, right?”

“…If you can manage it.”

Elpinire raised the corners of her mouth and lightly kicked off the ground.

At that moment.

[Lord El – Terzo]

She became a flash of green light.

[Lord El – Quarto]

And shattered the magic energy drawing Quatro had created into pieces.

* * *

“O-Omen! Are you alright!?”

-I’m fine, Jini! It’s just quite difficult to attack because of the magic energy!

Whoosh!

Jini, who had flown into the sky riding the materialized Omen, looked down below.

There, a boy with a sword in his hand was looking up at Jini with emotionless eyes.

“I believe… your name was Shinkō?”

“Not a name. A word designating the fifth test subject.”

“I don’t know what a test subject is, but… seeing you wielding magic energy out of nowhere, talking won’t work.”

“You are an obstacle. Therefore, I will eliminate you.”

Shinkō raised his sword toward Jini.

Thick magic energy wrapped around it violently.

Jini bit her lips finely and summoned a wind spirit.

“Silf! Attack him with wind sharp as blades!”

A blue hawk appeared in the air and flapped its wings.

At that moment, wind blades shot fiercely toward Shinkō.

But Shinkō simply swung his sword lightly and completely shattered all the wind blades.

“Is this the end? Quite weak.”

“…I know that much.”

She knows she’s the weakest.

That’s exactly why.

“I can’t back down!”

Omen released Jini, whom he had been holding.

Jini, who had been flying in the sky until now, began falling straight toward the ground.

“Omen. It should be possible without strain now, right?”

-Yes. With you as you are now, even if materializing me is a strain, you can handle power up to upper-level spirit level.

“Then let’s show them.”

Our true feelings.

Jini whispered softly and smiled as she stretched her right hand forward.

Darkness bloomed from her right hand.

Following that, the darkness spread fully and began to cover the entire area.

Even in this sudden situation, Shinkō maintained his expressionless face and merely looked at Jini without showing any signs of panic.

“Reveal your true form. Omen.”

-Yes.

What had covered the entire area was not darkness.

It was a single massive spirit.

Shinkō’s expressionless face slowly began to crack as he belatedly realized this fact.

Jini looked at Shinkō and said.

“Omen. Judge that person with eternal darkness.”

-I shall obey.

She clenched her outstretched hand tightly.

The darkness compressed in an instant.

“Haa, haa.”

Perhaps he had considerable skill after all.

Shinkō, who had avoided being engulfed by the compressing darkness through what seemed like pure instinct, breathed roughly with his pupils severely constricted.

Jini quietly looked at Shinkō and spoke.

“You look younger than me, yet you have considerable skill. …It would have been better if you hadn’t used dark magic.”

“…I am not young.”

Scrape.

Shinkō slashed his left arm with his sword as if trying to calm his excitement, then spoke while settling his nerves.

“I am an experimental subject who has participated in experiments for over 20 years, just like the others.”

“…You don’t look like you’re over twenty at all.”

“As vessels meant to contain pure mana, we have always had our growth suppressed, so it’s natural that I appear this way.”

Whoo.

Shinkō exhaled calmly.

Having returned to his expressionless state, he pointed his sword tip at Jini and said.

“A red-haired girl who commands such a powerful spirit… I thought your face looked familiar, and now I understand. It all makes sense now.”

“My face looks familiar? This is the first time I’m seeing you.”

“That may be true for you, but not for me. You were also one of the experimental subject candidates.”

“…What?”

Jini asked back dumbly at words she couldn’t possibly understand.

Shinkō looked at Jini and said.

“Jini, slave of the Fairy Merchant Guild in the Elpinire Kingdom.”

“…!”

“Now you’re more famous as a wanted witch.”

She couldn’t breathe.

Jini’s body stiffened as she stared at Shinkō, unable to even exhale.

“Because you possessed the qualities of Zero, our king intended to make you an experimental subject. He was confident that you wouldn’t die from something as trivial as poison.”

“Su-surely you people are…”

Jini bit her lips hard with a pale face.

The nation that had ordered the complete massacre of the guild members who were her family with poison.

And the nation that had branded her, the sole survivor, with the stigma of ‘witch’ and put a bounty on her head.

“We came from your homeland, the Elpinire Kingdom. Isn’t that a nostalgic name?”

The Elpinire Kingdom.

The moment she heard the words she didn’t want to hear.

Jini’s pupils began to tremble violently as if struck by an earthquake.

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