My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 25

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 25

Episode 25. True Feelings

A sudden attack.

But having roughly expected this, I blocked Elpinire’s attack with my right hand that I had transformed in advance.

With her fist blocked, Elpinire breathed roughly and shouted at me.

“Die! Die, human!”

“What did I even do?”

“You, you. You’re asking because you don’t know?!”

Yeah.

I really don’t know though?

As I blinked my bright eyes several times and tilted my head, Elpinire’s snow-white skin turned red in real time.

I confirmed her appearance and grinned.

“I’ll be going now. See you again later.”

“Get lost! I won’t see you again, so get lost!”

I don’t really understand what she’s saying.

It’s a foreign language, so how could I understand it.

I smiled cheerfully and left Elpinire’s house, leaving El Spier behind.

Elpinire still just kept shouting angrily at me.

* * *

Today, as planned, I won’t encounter Elpinire anymore.

Actually, I was trying not to encounter her even now, but I visited once because I was curious if things were going well.

‘Tomorrow I’ll chase her all day again, then give her some free time again.’

If I drive Elpinire to an extreme situation like that.

Her shaken mind would likely end up saying things she shouldn’t say.

‘I didn’t want to do this.’

But I have no choice.

There’s no other way, right?

If she runs away just from encountering me, I’ll make it so she doesn’t even have the energy to run.

‘Looking at her condition just now, it’ll end faster than I thought.’

The day after tomorrow.

No, maybe tomorrow?

I thought it would take a week at most, but she was driven to extremes much more than I expected.

“So today I should rest too.”

I really feel guilty about driving someone like that, but what can I do.

Shrugging my shoulders, I took the sleeping Cheo-ri out of my pocket.

“I haven’t been able to give you attention lately, have I?”

“Squeak squeak.”

The little guy made sounds as if saying it was okay.

That little guy was sucking on a fist-sized yellow stone.

“…You’re fine as long as you have food?”

“Squeak.”

What an obvious thing to say.

The little guy looked at me briefly with that kind of gaze, then went back to the yellow stone.

In other words, it was deliciously sucking on the magic stone.

Sitting on a nearby bench, I watched Cheo-ri sucking on the magic stone and muttered seriously.

“…Are magic stones tasty?”

“Squeak?”

“Why do you eat that?”

“Squeak squeak squeak.”

The little guy twisted its body and said something.

I can understand everything else, but I can’t understand just that.

Roughly what I’m guessing is…

“You just eat it because it gives you strength?”

“…Squeak.”

I guess that was roughly similar.

Looking at the little guy nodding with a puzzled expression, I chuckled.

“Fine. Eat a lot.”

“Squeak squeak.”

At my words, it turned its head and started eating the magic stone again.

Before I knew it, my pocket had become both a nest for Cheo-ri and a magic stone storage.

‘Good thing my coat pocket is deep.’

If it were shallow, magic stones would be rolling around on the ground and more.

After closing my pocket like that, I blankly looked up at the sky.

The sky was really sickeningly peaceful and clear.

* * *

The elves of Elsid were kind to me as expected.

Everywhere I went, they warmly greeted me and shared various items including food.

‘I have no idea where they learned my name though.’

It was a really strange feeling when elves I’d never seen before approached me calling my name.

Anyway, the elves were all uniformly kind.

After spending a peaceful day in Elsid like that.

“…What are you trying to do now?”

“I’m going to kill you.”

At the time when sunset was falling.

I was suddenly kidnapped and standing in the forest.

I stared intently at Elpinire, who was breathing roughly with bloodshot eyes.

It’s true that I drove her to extremes.

That’s true, but.

‘This far exceeded my expectations.’

I hadn’t thought of this.

Elpinire looked out of her mind like a rabid dog.

She kept repeating the same words as if no answer was needed.

“I’ll kill… I’ll definitely kill.”

“…”

“Even if I can’t kill, I’ll kill. I’ll kill and drive you out.”

Hmm.

Was I too harsh?

I urgently looked around.

Where did El Spier go.

Where did this guy go.

As I looked around like that, I spotted an elf with light green hair frantically waving his hands in the distance and sent him a pleading look for help, but.

‘Good luck!’

He gave me a thumbs up and disappeared.

Hey.

Don’t cheer me on, help me.

Come down and stop this.

They say there’s no one to trust in this world.

Letting out a long sigh, I slowly stood up and looked at Elpinire.

“Why do I have to fight you?”

“Humans must die. There’s no reason.”

“Because five humans who came 10 years ago killed the guardians?”

“Shut up!”

Bang!

Green mana explodes around Elpinire in an instant amplification.

Cheo-ri, startled by the swirling torrent of mana, poked his head out from the pouch.

“It’s okay.”

I lightly patted the little guy’s head while staring at Elpinire.

She was crouched down, positioning herself to charge at me.

Mana gathered in her muscular, well-defined legs.

After gathering enough mana, she straightened her bent knees.

And then.

“Hyaaah!”

She instantly dove into my embrace and threw a fierce punch.

Kwaddddeuk!

An iron fist so powerful that the wind pressure alone swept through the area.

This should have knocked him down.

I need to quickly treat him roughly and dump him outside the forest before anyone sees.

Elpinire thought this as she tried to pull back her hand.

No, she tried to pull it back.

“How dangerous.”

Her thrown punch.

If only it hadn’t been blocked by the monstrously transformed right hand.

The ‘Black Dragon’s’ powerful right hand could easily lift a person.

I grabbed Elpinire’s hand and lifted her up, swinging my arm back and forth.

Elpinire swayed helplessly in the air.

I slammed her straight down to the ground.

“Kuhek-!”

The ground cracked.

Her body bounced up from the recoil.

Her vision turned white for a moment from the tremendous impact.

Before she could grit her teeth, regain her senses, and straighten her posture.

What filled her vision was.

“Ah…”

The word ‘death’.

Written in black letters-

“That’s enough.”

Thud.

The fist stopped right in front of her.

Along with the calm voice in her ear, the black letters that had approached her eyes disappeared.

She fell powerlessly and rolled around, looking up at me with her disheveled face.

“…Aren’t you going to finish me off?”

“Why would I?”

Do I have any reason to be branded a traitor by the elves?

I shrugged my shoulders, deactivated ‘Black Dragon’, and plopped down in front of the sitting Elpinire.

“Hey. Are you ready to talk now?”

“…”

“Looks like you are.”

She had a reluctant expression, but didn’t seem to have any intention of running away.

This worked better than I expected.

Thinking about it that way made me feel quite sorry.

I let out a small sigh and stared directly into Elpinire’s eyes.

Her dark, sunken deep green pupils.

When she met my gaze, she flinched and lowered her head.

“I don’t like beating around the bush, so I’ll speak directly.”

“…”

“Why do you hate humans?”

Elpinire bit her lips hard at my question.

I could feel Cheo-ri in the pouch looking up at me as if asking why I would ask such a question.

But you see.

What Elumia and El Spier said were just speculation, not the correct answer.

I dare to judge that no one had ever had such a direct conversation with Elpinire.

Everyone probably lived making rough guesses with the thought of ‘it must be so’.

While treating the mention of the word ‘human’ to her like a taboo.

‘That’s why Elpinire never asked anyone for help.’

Not even from fellow High Elves.

Not even from El Spier.

She never asked for help.

She just isolated herself, despaired, and feared alone.

Was my prediction correct?

Elpinire, with her head deeply bowed, muttered in a voice as small as an ant crawling.

“…Because humans killed my sister and brothers.”

“Don’t tell me… you saw it directly?”

“…”

Nod.

She nodded silently and slowly opened her mouth.

“In the Dusk-Shrouded Forest. My sister and brothers were found dismembered.”

She didn’t want to believe it.

She too initially thought it was the work of monsters.

Humans were too weak to kill the guardians.

And the guardians’ corpses were damaged beyond belief for something humans could have done.

But.

“In the shadows of the forest… I saw human faces.”

A presence felt from somewhere.

Young Elpinire turned her head and discovered the faces of the five humans who had visited Elsid.

They were hiding in the shadows, looking at young Elpinire and smiling.

Elpinire vividly remembered that memory even now, after so much time had passed.

She was already drenched in cold sweat and trembling.

“They… watched me collapse in terror and faint, then disappeared. I survived thanks to the Clan Leader coming afterward.”

“Didn’t you try telling the Clan Leader?”

“I did! Did you think I wouldn’t have!?”

She grabbed my collar with an agitated voice.

But her hand gripping my collar was so fragile it seemed ready to crumble, and even the current me could probably shake it off.

“But the Clan Leader’s blessing! It judged that what I said was a lie!”

“…”

“I saw it clearly with my own two eyes! But the Clan Leader and El Spier just kept repeating that the humans weren’t the type to do such things!”

Was what I saw a hallucination?

No, that was real.

But if the power that mother shared says it’s false, then am I the one who’s wrong?

Young Elpinire, still a child, made a decision amidst all the confusion.

She made a decision to keep herself from falling apart.

That what I saw wasn’t wrong.

“That’s why I hate humans. You people… will cover Mother’s eyes with your cunning lies again and massacre us all!”

“…”

“Come on, human. You say it too. I’m not that kind of person. You’re mistaken!”

Elpinire looked at me with a face twisted in anguish.

I could fully understand why she hated humans.

Even after experiencing such a situation, she must have despaired at the fact that her fellow elves wouldn’t believe her words.

But because they were her kin, she couldn’t blame them.

Because it was Mother’s power, she couldn’t call it a lie.

She could only keep it bottled up inside, gritting her teeth and bristling like a hedgehog.

That’s why I decided to answer her.

“Yes. I’ll tell you exactly. I’m not that kind of person.”

“Ha! As expected…”

“But you weren’t mistaken either.”

“…What?”

Actually, when I was rescued by Elpinire and opened my eyes in Elsid.

There was something I’d been curious about ever since hearing the explanation about variants.

“Demonic energy. What exactly is it?”

“…I don’t really know either. I only know that corrupted mana becomes demonic energy.”

“That’s really bad stuff, right?”

“Of course. It kills monsters that get consumed by it, and even if they somehow endure, they get eroded by the demonic energy and mutate.”

“Monsters… so magical beasts are the same kind of living beings as humans?”

“Essentially, yes…”

“…”

“…”

Elpinire looked at me with a dazed expression.

I nodded slightly toward her.

“Then, then that means what killed my sister and brother wasn’t something humans did…”

“It was because they were consumed by demonic energy.”

Being consumed by demonic energy.

Just hearing it sounds like it would simply end there, but having been directly exposed to demonic energy, it wasn’t as simple as it sounded.

Demonic energy melts skin the moment it touches.

Being consumed by such energy is essentially the same as endlessly suffering the pain of your skin melting away.

So here’s the question.

Can a living being consumed by demonic energy maintain their sanity?

Well.

I don’t think so.

They’d either go insane.

‘Or have their will stolen by the demonic energy.’

From experiencing it with my body, demonic energy was more than capable of doing that.

So.

“What you saw wasn’t false. What the Clan Leader said was the same.”

“I, I wasn’t wrong…?”

“It’s just that demonic energy was covering everyone’s eyes and ears.”

“Ahhh…”

Drip, drop.

Water drops falling from Elpinire’s eyes.

The resentment built up over ten years.

The chain of hatred that had to be directed at someone.

Shattered in an instant.

I pulled out a handkerchief from my pocket and handed it to her as she cried.

Then I looked at the appearing system with a satisfied smile.

[Gain recognition from Forest Guardian Elpinire]

[Achieved]

[Success]

[Moving to the next floor]

I completed the condition I thought would be difficult more easily than expected.

Chuckling, I turned my head and shouted loudly.

“El Spier! Come out! It’s pretty much all over!”

“…El Spier?”

“He was watching from far away, wasn’t he? Oh, by the way, it was also El Spier who kept moving me around yesterday.”

“That damn bastard!”

“How could I move that fast myself?”

Even while crying, Elpinire shouted in anger at the fact that El Spier had helped.

What a close family.

Chuckling, I waited for El Spier’s response when he returned.

I waited and waited.

But no answer came back.

Instead, what came back was.

“…Hey human. What is that?”

“…!”

Falling with a severed right arm.

A blood-covered elf.

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