My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 24

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 24

Episode 24. Leech

I had that dream for just a brief moment.

One minute.

Or was it even 10 seconds?

It was that short, but the dream was so horrific that I couldn’t forget it.

The scenery that appeared in the dream.

The screams that echoed in my ears.

It was so vivid that I couldn’t believe it was a dream, to the point where I never wanted to see it again.

Was that really a dream?

Could such a vivid dream really be just a dream?

Having stayed up all night with my eyes wide open, I clenched my fist tightly at the answer that wouldn’t come no matter how much I racked my brain.

‘…It must have been a nightmare.’

It had to be a nightmare.

I repeated this to myself countless times and let out a sigh.

Seeing me like this, El Spier tilted his head and asked.

“Was the bed perhaps uncomfortable?”

“Oh, no. The bed was comfortable.”

The bed really was comfortable.

It’s just that I had a terrible dream.

If I keep thinking about the dream any longer, I feel like I won’t be able to do anything.

Forcibly erasing the dream’s contents from my mind, I filleted the fish El Spier had given me and fed it to Cheo-ri while asking.

“By the way, where is Elpinire usually?”

“Usually at home or patrolling the forest. Or else…”

“El Spier! Open the door!”

“She comes looking like this.”

They say even tigers come when you mention them.

How did she know we were talking about her and come like a ghost?

I stared intently at the door being pounded roughly.

“She usually comes looking like this in the morning. She always comes to mooch food.”

“Ah…”

I looked at the door that was now shaking as if it would be torn apart.

That door must be made of iron, but it’s bending as if it might break.

After all that pounding, the handle shattered and the closed door was forced open.

“I told you to open it, El… Spier…”

Eyes meeting eyes.

I chewed the fish in my mouth and waved lightly at Elpinire who had frozen.

“Good morning?”

“Hey, El Spier. Why is there a human in your house?”

“Because I told him to stay?”

“I’m sure I last saw you fighting with a human yesterday?”

“That was sparring, sparring. He was quite strong.”

Elpinire ground her teeth at El Spier’s words and turned around.

I raised the corners of my mouth toward her who seemed about to leave and said.

“Aren’t you going to eat?”

“…I don’t need to eat or anything.”

And so Elpinire disappeared into the distance.

I swallowed the fish in my mouth and looked at El Spier who had a troubled expression.

“El Spier.”

“Y, yes?”

“You roughly know Elpinire’s movements, right?”

“That’s… right? It’s been about 10 years since I’ve been taking care of that kid in place of the Clan Leader.”

I stared intently at his face at El Spier’s words.

At face value, he looks about 25 years old at most.

But if he’s been taking care of Elpinire for 10 years, just how old is he?

‘I guess this is where he’s truly elf-like.’

Anyway.

“Then I’ll need your cooperation.”

“Cooperation? With what?”

“Do you know what a leech is?”

I raised the corners of my mouth looking at El Spier who was puzzled by the sudden mention of leeches.

You’re going to run away instead of talking when you face me?

Go ahead and try.

‘I’ll stick to you until the end and make it so you have no choice but to talk.’

* * *

Elpinire gritted her teeth as she leaped across rooftops.

It was too late.

The Clan Leader, the elders.

Even El Spier at this point.

They had all been influenced by humans again.

Elpinire stopped and stared intently below the roof.

“Yesterday the human ate the meat I gave him so deliciously!”

“He treasured the silk I handed him too, damn it!”

“Hahahaha!”

Merchants raising their cups from broad daylight.

Elves mainly preferred meat.

But they weren’t creatures that ate only meat.

Other elves would pick up fallen fruit to eat, and use them to brew fruit wine like this.

They would cut dead trees to make furniture.

But she was different.

The very act of eating plants felt like a strong rejection.

In the first place, she could feel the will of plants when she concentrated.

So she even hesitated to step on plants, preferring to move by climbing trees.

‘…Stupid.’

Perhaps that’s why.

The elves only seemed stupid in her eyes.

When a High Elf gives birth to a child, that child becomes an elf.

And High Elves are beings born from Mother.

Therefore, elves could theoretically be considered plants.

Yet they were preying on their own kind while flirting with humans, their main enemy, which seemed too stupid to her.

Chewing her lips finely, she kicked off the roof and leaped again.

The house she arrived at.

Elpinire opened the door and before patrolling the forest, she would roughly have a meal at home…

“You’re here?”

“…?!”

A delicious smell filling the house.

Elpinire’s pupils trembled finely as she looked at the black-haired man wearing an apron and setting food on the table.

He was humming while holding pots in both hands.

“Wh, what are you trying to do right now?”

“What do you mean what? I cooked.”

The human opened the pot lid with a detestable expression.

At that moment, a terrifyingly delicious smell spread in all directions.

Just from the smell alone, her stomach began crying out to eat that food immediately.

Elpinire bit her innocent lips hard against her aching stomach, turned around, and hurriedly moved away from the house.

‘Damn it.’

Even her own home wasn’t a safe place anymore.

She really wanted to beat up her past self for bringing that human to the village.

What on earth was I thinking when I brought a human to the village?

If I had just left him alone, he would have died. Why did I do that?

‘But it’s fine.’

I just need to expose the human’s evil intentions and drive him out.

To do that, I should eat something first.

Actually, I didn’t eat dinner yesterday because I was busy cleaning the room where the human had stayed.

A guardian runs on food, so I need to fill my stomach first.

So Elpinire stopped by the restaurant she frequented.

And then.

“Wow. More meat is going in?”

She came face to face with the human disgustingly gnawing on ribs.

How on earth?

I just confirmed he was at home moments ago?

It doesn’t matter.

If he’s going to follow me around inside the village, I’ll just go to the forest.

No matter how much he tries, the forest is a guardian’s domain, so he won’t be able to follow me there.

Elpinire thought this and fled to the forest.

“Want to eat this? Oh, you probably won’t since it’s fruit.”

Here too.

“The air is fresh here. I should come back later.”

There too.

“Wow. Is it because the water is so clean? I can see all the fish.”

At the sight of the human appearing as if he had been waiting.

“You, what are you…! Why do you keep following me!”

Having barely succeeded in escaping, she lost strength in her legs and collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

It definitely wasn’t a short time.

A full 7 hours.

She had been running away continuously for 7 hours, yet he followed her like a ghost and casually struck up conversations.

She was already exhausted from using up all her strength, but that human didn’t look tired at all.

This wasn’t just wariness anymore.

She was scared.

What kind of crazy bastard was he to be doing this?

The sun had already set long ago.

She hadn’t eaten or drunk anything.

If she returned to the village like this, wouldn’t that human be waiting there again?

Elpinire wrapped her head with both hands and trembled alone in the dark forest.

* * *

I sat perched on a tree with El Spier, watching that scene.

“It’s going well.”

“That’s… going well?”

El Spier was breathing heavily right next to me.

He had carried me on his back all day today, chasing after Elpinire through the forest.

Even while breathing roughly, he had an expression that seemed to question if this was right.

I glanced at El Spier and said.

“Have you ever had a proper conversation with Elpinire?”

“What’s that supposed to mean all of a sudden?”

“Just answer me.”

“I’m the one who took care of Elpinire when she was left alone after all the guardians died. Of course I have.”

El Spier looked at me as if asking why I was stating the obvious.

Feeling his gaze, I quietly rested my chin on my hand and looked down below.

There, Elpinire was crouched alone, trembling.

Without asking anyone for help, all by herself.

“Hmm.”

I let out a small sound and grinned while patting El Spier’s shoulder.

“I’m tired. Let’s go back to Elsid.”

“…Just leaving Elpinire behind?”

“Is she the kind of elf who would get hurt being left alone in the night forest?”

“No.”

“Then what does it matter?”

Watching me shrug my shoulders, El Spier clicked his tongue softly and got up from the tree branch.

I followed El Spier and deliberately made noise as I got up.

But Elpinire didn’t notice, just kept her head buried low.

* * *

The next day.

I woke up at El Spier’s house and stretched long.

I didn’t dream today.

Instead, I slept quite well.

But the process was somewhat interesting.

“What’s this.”

Even when I lay down, I couldn’t fall asleep at all.

But when I thought ‘let’s just sleep for about 5 hours,’ I fell asleep like magic.

And I woke up exactly 5 hours later.

Did something happen to my brain?

Or is it because my synchronization rate is approaching 2%?

“Tsk.”

I don’t really know.

I scratched the back of my head for no reason and opened the door to go out to the living room.

There, El Spier, who had woken up first, was sitting and sipping hot broth.

“Did you sleep well, Mir?”

“So-so.”

Maybe because I slept well, my body felt quite light.

I picked up the cup containing broth from the table and brought it to my lips.

“Mm. This bland meat broth.”

Really, if you just add some salt and chopped green onions to this, it would be beef soup.

It’s quite fascinating that they drink this instead of tea in the morning.

“Are you going to chase after Elpinire today too?”

“No. I won’t do that today.”

“Oh… really?”

“Yeah. Today I need to let her feel freedom.”

I won’t do it today.

‘Today,’ that is.

“Though I can’t help it if we happen to run into each other by chance.”

Today is a day off for both me and Elpinire.

Though I’m not sure if one of us will be able to rest properly.

I tilted the teacup and took a sip of the broth.

The broth tasted incredibly savory.

* * *

Elpinire, who had stayed awake all night with her eyes wide open, entered the kitchen with bloodshot eyes.

Tired.

She felt like she would collapse and fall asleep…

“Hup!”

Smack!

She raised her hand and struck her own cheek hard.

A deep red mark remained on her snow-white skin.

Forcing herself to wake up, she bit her lips hard.

‘I can’t fall asleep.’

She cannot fall asleep.

If she fell asleep here, that human would surely appear suddenly.

And that’s not all.

While she dozed off, the human would surely harm another one of her family members again.

That’s why it’s not that she couldn’t fall asleep.

It’s that she must not fall asleep.

‘I can’t fall asleep until I drive that human away.’

Elpinire, who had repeated this to herself dozens, hundreds of times like self-hypnosis, came out to the living room while staying alert to her surroundings.

Nothing.

She still couldn’t sense any sign of the human.

So then—

“Elpinire! I’m here!”

Knock knock knock.

A voice coming from beyond the door.

Elpinire, recalling the face that had been with the human yesterday, gritted her teeth and opened the door.

And.

“Die, human!”

She reflexively threw a punch toward the human who was disgustingly waving his hand in front of the door.

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