My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 21

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 21

Episode 21. The Elven Village, Elsid

The romance about elves is well-known even on Earth.

After all, elves were famous creatures even before monsters like orcs appeared in reality.

Since orcs exist exactly as expected, somewhere in the world, elves would also exist exactly as expected.

Quite a lot of people thought that way.

I was also part of those ‘quite a lot of people.’

‘There’s a reason why they say ignorance is bliss.’

After a short but long time passed.

Having barely escaped from the shock, I glanced at Elpinire’s body, which was packed with muscles.

At first, I thought Elpinire was just a particularly unusual elf, but that wasn’t the case.

“Look at that. It’s a human.”

“Oh my, it really is a human?”

Chatter chatter.

Other elves were watching me from around us before I knew it.

Regardless of gender, all of them had bodies packed with muscles.

Now I finally understood why the elves were full of muscles.

‘Even if they didn’t want muscles, they’d have no choice but to get them.’

How could they not get muscles when they only eat meat all the time?

They eat only meat for three meals a day.

They don’t eat grass at all.

They don’t consume carbohydrates at all.

With that kind of diet, how could they gain fat?

‘But is it even possible to live like that?’

I’m not sure, but seeing as they’ve been alive so far, it must be fine.

Clicking my tongue softly, I glanced at Elpinire standing beside me with a sulky face and crossed arms.

“…But why are you following me?”

Earlier, when we left the house, Elpinire

glared at me as soon as she opened the door and came out.

Since she was someone who had even treated me, I tried to leave the house quickly without complaint, but she immediately followed behind me as soon as I left.

Thanks to that, I had been enduring this uncomfortable companionship for over 10 minutes.

Hearing my words, Elpinire snorted loudly and shouted in a loud voice.

“You think I’d just leave an outsider, especially a human, alone to do whatever in the village? Even if you defeated the mutant, I still can’t trust you, so leaving me behind is impossible, human.”

That’s such a typical reason for her.

Anyway, if she says she can’t leave me alone, what can I do?

Just as I was about to continue this uncomfortable companionship with a small sigh.

“Elpinire, that’s enough.”

“Gah?!”

Someone’s right hand that suddenly appeared struck Elpinire’s head hard.

Elpinire collapsed with a short death cry.

I held my breath while looking at Elpinire, who was slumped on the ground and twitching.

“I’m sorry, human. This child is particularly wary of outsiders, especially humans.”

I turned my gaze with a creaking sound.

There stood an elderly elf woman with a wrinkled face, covering her mouth and letting out a leisurely laugh.

I looked at her body and my pupils shook roughly.

Her face definitely looked like a grandmother’s.

But why was her body so much better than Elpinire’s?

“My name is Elumia. I’m embarrassingly just one of the Elders of Elsid.”

The elderly elf who introduced herself as an elder, Elumia, bowed her head slightly toward me in greeting.

“I heard you caught a mutant contaminated with magic.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you sincerely. If that mutant had infected other monsters with magic, it could have been a disaster.”

She expressed her gratitude toward me with a sincere voice.

Then she immediately gazed coldly at Elpinire, who was staggering to get up from the ground.

“Elpinire. Do you know what kind of behavior you’re showing toward our benefactor right now?”

“But this person is human! Don’t you know what humans have done!”

“I know. But is this person the same as those people?”

“…”

Clench.

At Elumia’s words, Elpinire clenched her fist tightly.

Elpinire’s fist turned pale and trembled.

Soon after, grinding her teeth, she instantly emanated a verdant aura and disappeared with a cloud of dust.

“Oh dear, she’s gone.”

I couldn’t figure out where Elpinire had headed.

But Elumia seemed to know.

She was staring intently somewhere and shaking her head.

“Since it’s come to this, I’ll have to guide you around Elsid. Could you tell me your name?”

“Ah. It’s Han Mi-reo.”

“Please take care of me during your stay in Elsid, Mi-reo.”

Smiling brightly, Elumia extended her right hand toward me.

I stared intently at Elumia’s extended right hand.

“I heard humans greet like this, wasn’t I right?”

“No. We do greet like this too.”

I lightly grasped Elumia’s extended right hand.

The rough feeling from her palm, like touching a rock.

Having finished the greeting, Elumia clasped her hands behind her back and turned around.

“Is there anywhere you’d like to see?”

“No, not particularly.”

“Then I’ll guide you around as I see fit.”

With that, Elumia began moving forward.

Glancing around at the surroundings that had suddenly become quiet, I quickly followed behind Elumia.

Smiling at my appearance, Elumia opened her mouth as if she was enjoying herself.

“It’s been 10 years since an outsider came to Elsid. That’s probably why I’m excited.”

“10 years?”

“Yes. 10 years ago, humans who got lost in the Verdant Forest discovered our mother and walked toward Elsid.”

Elumia stopped walking and turned her head to look somewhere.

I turned my head following her gaze.

There stood a giant tree that revealed its presence in the center of the village called Elsid.

“At that time, the Guardians went out and brought the humans back. Since there was a critically ill patient, they decided to stay in Elsid until they recovered.”

Elves are children of the World Tree.

Therefore, they are a race that cannot be far from the World Tree.

Because of this, elves greatly preferred places where the World Tree’s resonance remained, and they didn’t leave the vicinity of the World Tree.

These people who only lived in the Verdant Forest.

When they encountered humans who were outsiders.

“Elsid was very lively at that time.”

The five humans eventually became friends with the elves.

They stayed in the Guardians’ houses until they were completely cured.

‘…Wait.’

The Guardians’ houses?

I turned my head from the World Tree to look at Elumia, sensing something suspicious.

She who had been looking at the World Tree was now hanging her head with a somewhat bitter expression.

“On the day those five humans left, the guardians departed to escort the humans, leaving behind one young elf who dreamed of becoming a guardian. And the guardians never returned.”

“…”

She was now looking at me.

I met Elumia’s green eyes directly.

“To the young elf, the guardians were family. But the guardians didn’t arrive even after several days had passed, and the young elf left the village alone to find her family.”

“Don’t tell me…”

“Yes. That young elf ended up discovering her family’s brutally murdered bodies. But around them, the corpses of the five humans were nowhere to be seen.”

The family that had left to escort the humans.

But that family was dead, and the bodies of the humans who had left with them were nowhere to be found.

Many elves said it was the work of monsters, not humans, based on the time they had spent with the humans and the traces left on the corpses.

But the child who had lost her family believed it was the humans’ doing.

She had no choice but to believe it.

The elf was too young to endure without hating someone.

“That’s why that child, Elpinire, became unable to trust humans. She’s good-natured at heart, so please don’t hate her too much.”

“…”

“That child is also the one who brought you here as the only remaining guardian, taking responsibility for you.”

Having said that much, she smiled brightly as if she had never worn a bitter expression and pointed at the World Tree with her finger.

“Since you’ve come to Elsid by fate, would you like to visit the World Tree?”

“…What? I can go there?”

“Of course. The Clan Leader’s residence is inside the World Tree. As an elder, I stay right in front of it.”

Weren’t elves supposed to not harm plants?

But they live inside a tree, and the World Tree they call mother at that?

Isn’t that harming it?

At my words, Elumia burst out laughing as if she had heard something funny.

“Elves don’t eat only meat either.”

“Really?”

“Of course. We just prefer not to harm plants, but we’ll eat them if we have to. That child is just special.”

“Ah…”

“And the space where the Clan Leader resides is a place that Mother directly provided for the Clan Leader. It doesn’t harm Mother.”

Elumia wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded.

“Let’s go. It would be better to greet the Clan Leader.”

“Yes.”

Coming out to this place, I learned that the elves except for Elpinire didn’t seem to particularly guard against me.

Though marked as ‘???’, I was still in a position where I needed to be acknowledged.

Since I didn’t want to cause a big commotion either, it would be better to greet the Clan Leader.

I nodded and followed Elumia toward the World Tree.

* * *

“It’s huge.”

It was big even when seen from afar.

The World Tree seen up close was so massive that the word “overwhelming” naturally came to mind.

Elumia lightly tapped my shoulder as I stared blankly up at the World Tree and pointed somewhere with her finger.

“Over there.”

“…Is that a root?”

“Yes. It’s a root. A dead root that Mother raised above ground for the Clan Leader.”

A dead root.

So it doesn’t cause harm because it has already stopped functioning.

I approached the root that, despite only poking its head slightly above ground, displayed a presence like a subway train standing there.

The moment Elumia reached near the root, she gestured for me to wait a moment and shouted.

“Clan Leader. I’ve brought the human that Elpinire brought.”

“Oh, yes. Come in!”

Bang!

The surface of the root burst open with a very cheerful sound.

I swallowed my breath at the fragments flying in all directions and met eyes with an old man standing with one leg on the shattered root fragments.

He looked at me standing next to Elumia, then lifted his sunglasses smoothly and shouted.

“So. You’re the human my granddaughter brought?”

Brilliant abs showing through the gaps of the fancy outer garment draped over his shoulders.

He put down the sunglasses he had briefly lifted and grinned.

“I sincerely welcome you to Elsid, human!”

“…”

“Hmm? Why that expression? Is there something you don’t like?”

“No, no.”

It’s just…

‘I guess there were still some fantasies left…’

I barely swallowed the words that had risen to my throat and forced a smile toward the Clan Leader-

“Hmm?”

Wait a minute.

Did I hear wrong?

I picked at my ear and looked at the Clan Leader.

So.

“Granddaughter?”

“Elumia must not have told you. Elpinire is my granddaughter by lineage.”

“…?”

But just before, you said the guardians were family.

I quickly turned my head to look at Elumia.

Even though Elumia must have felt my gaze, she deliberately looked elsewhere and hummed a tune.

“How did our future Clan Leader seem to you? Please tell me seriously from an outsider’s perspective.”

Cold sweat began flowing down my back.

I looked at the Clan Leader, feeling my mouth dry up like a desert in real time.

‘One wrong move and I’m doomed.’

The person in front of me now is the supreme authority of the elves.

The moment I make even the slightest mistake, the big commotion I didn’t want to cause might happen.

‘I’m really screwed.’

Somehow this moment felt more worrying and nerve-wracking than fighting the Guardian of the Tutorial Tower.

I swallowed dry saliva and slowly opened my mouth toward the Clan Leader who was leaning out of the root with anticipation.

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