My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 26

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 26

Episode 26. Burning Forest (1)

Frozen by the sudden situation, but only for a moment.

Elpinire kicked off the ground and caught the falling El Spier in her arms.

“El Spier! Get a hold of yourself!”

I hurriedly ran to Elpinire’s side as she landed on the ground.

‘…What a mess.’

A mess.

Could there be an easier word to describe El Spier’s condition?

His right arm was torn as if ripped apart by something, and his entire body was mangled with large and small stab wounds.

El Spier, whose entire body was covered in red blood, trembled his closed eyelids and opened his eyes with difficulty.

“Run, away.”

“El Spier! What happened! Explain right now!”

“Run away, you idiot.”

Huff, huff.

El Spier shouted while breathing heavily with difficulty.

“A horde of mutants… has appeared, so run away!”

“…What?”

Crack!

Making El Spier’s cry meaningless, a sound came from behind.

Turning my head with a creak, I spotted a horde of mutants approaching from far away.

“Crazy…”

I nearly died when there was just one mutant Bloody Mantis.

But now, the number of mutant Bloody Mantises visible to the naked eye alone exceeds ten.

Furthermore, other mutant monsters were gathered there too.

Could I really win against those monsters while protecting the injured El Spier alongside the exhausted Elpinire?

“…Leave me behind.”

Cough.

El Spier looked at me, not Elpinire, and spoke.

“Mir. Leave me behind and run away with Elpinire.”

El Spier’s eyes were resolute.

His eyes spoke only the truth.

Looking at him like that, I let out a chuckle.

“Leave you behind?”

“Yes! I’m begging you…”

“Why should I.”

Yesterday I couldn’t say it out loud, but now it’s different.

I refuse.

Why should I leave you behind?

Thinking that way, the moment I saw El Spier’s distorted face.

[8th Floor]

[Escape from the mutant horde without any deaths]

[3/3]

[※ Failure occurs the moment the count decreases, and reaching Elsid is considered success.]

Along with fanfare, the conditions for the 8th floor newly appeared.

After confirming the conditions displayed by the system, I immediately raised my right hand.

[Black Dragon]

Thank goodness.

It’s not telling me to fight those things.

Gritting my teeth, I roughly struck the ground with my right hand.

“Elpinire! Run!”

Crash-!

The ground rumbled along with the massive crack that formed.

Just that alone was enough to make the surrounding trees lose their strength and begin to fall.

“The, the trees!”

“Forget the trees and run!”

The falling trees successfully blocked the view.

I shouted at Elpinire and quickly retreated backward.

Elpinire also realized this wasn’t the time for this and began running while holding El Spier in her arms.

“Elpinire. Can’t you run faster?”

“I’d like to, but I need to heal El Spier while exhausted, so it’s impossible! Besides, I have no talent for healing!”

At the speed Elpinire had been running until now, we would have reached Elsid in an instant.

Since Elpinire’s exhaustion was entirely my fault, there was nothing I could do about it.

Seeing me quietly keep my mouth shut and run, Elpinire shouted.

“Human! So where are we running to right now? Do you have a plan or something!?”

I nodded at Elpinire’s question and answered briefly.

“Elsid!”

“What!? Are you saying you’ll bring the mutants to Mother right now!?”

“Then should we die here?”

There were too many mutants.

There was no telling how many more there might be.

Fighting would be foolish.

Running away was the best choice right now.

“And it’s the World Tree, right? It should be able to repel some mutants.”

Would it stay still when its child was in mortal danger?

Even if it did stay still, we could definitely handle them with support from other elves.

So we run away.

That was the only correct answer.

“Kieeeek-!”

As if they had just discovered us, a roar echoed from behind.

Frowning at the ear-piercing roar, I quickly turned my body and moved behind a nearby rock.

“Hup!”

Boom!

My right hand exploded into the center of the massive rock.

The considerably large rock couldn’t withstand the Black Dragon’s fist and shattered into pieces as it was launched.

Right after launching the rock, I clenched my right hand tightly and scattered ‘smoke.’

‘Smoke’ scattered in all directions around me.

After spreading black fog in all directions so thick you couldn’t see an inch ahead, I grabbed Elpinire’s arm as she stopped in confusion at the sudden fog and escaped through the mist.

“Elpinire! This is the right way, isn’t it!?”

“Y-yes!”

At Elpinire’s response, I began running without saying anything more.

More precisely, I couldn’t speak.

My overworked lungs were crying out in pain.

It was closer to having no energy left to speak.

‘This is really driving me crazy.’

I gritted my teeth and glanced back.

Despite trying every trick to buy time, the monsters had already approached within striking distance.

No matter how hard we ran with all our might, couldn’t we overcome the mobility that came from their stride length?

I hurriedly looked around to launch another rock.

At that moment.

“Kyuu.”

Cheo-ri, who was in my pocket, poked his head out and looked at me.

I pressed down on the little guy’s head with my hand and said.

“Stay inside.”

“Kyuu kyuu.”

The little guy looked at me with eyes that seemed to say “Why me?”

I really don’t know who he takes after.

Since I had to use even the strength to speak for running, I kept my mouth tightly shut.

Cheo-ri, who had come out of the pocket and crawled up my body, stared intently behind us.

“Kyuu kyuu kyuu.”

They’re chasing us.

Though it was an ordinary cry, I somehow understood the meaning from his voice.

The little guy who had been looking behind us then.

“Blaagh.”

Suddenly began spitting something out of his mouth.

Why is he suddenly acting like this?

I panicked and rolled my eyes to look at Cheo-ri on my shoulder.

After spitting out something black for quite a while, the little guy turned his head and rubbed his face against my clothes.

Something black smearing onto my clothes.

Just as I was thinking he might be vomiting and wiping it clean.

“Ptui.”

Cheo-ri spat a small flame toward the black substance he had spat on the ground.

The moment that flame made precise contact with the black substance.

“Crazy…”

A massive wall of fire engulfed everything behind us.

I stopped running and stared blankly at the flames rising behind me.

It’s hot.

It’s real fire.

Why on earth—

“Kyaaaah! The forest is on fire!”

“…”

Hmm.

Rolling my eyes around, I quietly picked up Cheo-ri and put him in my pocket.

Cheo-ri also didn’t resist and quietly went into the pocket.

We didn’t do anything.

That’s how it is anyway.

If there are any witnesses, come forward.

After carefully putting the little guy in my pocket, I looked beyond the rising flames.

‘…Did they stop?’

Even if they’re creatures consumed by magic, it seems it’s not easy to escape from a burning forest.

Now’s the chance.

I lightly tapped the frozen Elpinire’s shoulder with my hand.

“Elpinire. Elpinire.”

“The, the trees…”

“Snap out of it and let’s run.”

Hmm.

It seems like it’ll take a while for her to come to her senses.

In that case.

“Sigh.”

I have no choice but to do this.

I sent out my ‘Mist’ toward the frozen Elpinire.

“What the hell kind of mess is this.”

After wrapping both Elpinire and El Spier tightly in ‘Mist’, I dragged the ‘Mist’ away from the fire scene.

The fire… well.

“It’ll go out on its own.”

Since it’s something I don’t know about anyway.

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After getting some distance from the fire scene, Elpinire finally came to her senses.

As soon as she regained consciousness, I released the ‘Mist’ and entered a nearby cave.

“Is El Spier okay?”

“…Probably.”

Drops of sweat falling to the ground.

Elpinire, with her eyes wide open, was concentrating all her nerves on treating El Spier.

El Spier, who had been telling us to abandon him just moments ago, could no longer endure and had fainted.

“Normally he would never be contaminated like this, but he’s been too heavily contaminated by magic. He was probably ambushed.”

Elpinire bit her lips finely and took a small breath while wiping the sweat flowing down her forehead.

“I purified as much magic as I could, but I still don’t know. I need to take him to the Elder.”

“By Elder, you mean Lady Elumia, right?”

“That’s right. The Elder’s blessing is a healing-type blessing.”

I nodded and looked outside.

We had already spent a lot of time chasing after Elpinire.

Perhaps because of that.

It had been completely dark outside for a while now.

“We should move right away.”

“Right. If we want to reattach his arm, we need to reach Elsid by today.”

I nodded and looked at the World Tree, which was closer than I had expected.

At this distance, we could reach it in less than an hour of walking.

“Let’s go.”

Even this time is too precious to waste.

Elpinire nodded and stood up, gathering El Spier and the severed arm.

At that moment.

“Huh.”

“Ah.”

From the World Tree.

A massive explosion erupted.

Rising smoke.

Flames bursting forth.

It’s familiar.

A scene that shouldn’t be familiar is all too familiar.

I looked at the forest beginning to burn, my hands trembling finely.

“…A dream.”

That terrifyingly vivid dream.

It’s similar to the scene from that dream.

The color drains from my face.

No.

It can’t be.

Swallowing dry saliva, I forced my unmoving legs to move and shouted.

“Elpinire!”

As soon as I shouted, Elpinire rushed to my side.

As if she didn’t even care about the fact that the forest was burning, her face was frozen pale.

That’s how much she couldn’t help but be shocked by the situation of the World Tree being attacked.

As we ran and ran like that, we discovered a human silhouette standing with its back to the flames and stopped in our tracks.

Because of the bright fire, we couldn’t see the clothing properly.

But the ears of the swaying shadow were round, not pointed.

‘An outsider?’

Could it be a human like me?

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the silhouette’s face.

Then I widened my eyes.

“…Magi.”

A faint purple aura flickering around the human standing before my eyes.

That was unmistakably magi.

No way.

I trembled my pupils finely and turned my head to the side.

There, Elpinire had frozen like stone and was looking at the man standing with his back to the fire with a pale face.

“You are…”

The man harboring magi.

That person, one of the five humans who came to Elsid 10 years ago.

The moment he heard Elpinire’s voice, he twisted his head back and wore a grotesque smile.

His eyes, dyed with reverse pupils, curved as he laughed as if delighted.

Elpinire, who faced that smile head-on, retched and stepped back.

It’s the same.

The same as that smile she encountered 10 years ago.

The same as that smile that continuously tormented her.

A smile that matched exactly.

Strength wouldn’t enter her body.

Even though she faced the face she had hated so much again, she couldn’t even feel the strength to resist.

The man consumed by magi slowly approached Elpinire.

Slowly.

Slowly.

He approached Elpinire while harboring magi.

The man who had come so close reached out his hand toward the frozen Elpinire.

Elpinire couldn’t even resist the approaching hand and tightly shut her eyes.

“Hey mister. That’s enough.”

A right hand with black scales sprouting blocked the extending hand.

Elpinire, who carefully opened her tightly shut eyes, looked at the black-haired human standing with his back to her.

The human stared straight ahead with unwavering eyes.

“If you’re dead, go peacefully. What are you doing remaining in this world.”

I know a dragon in the Underworld, so don’t worry.

He’ll take good care of you.

‘Probably?’

Raising the corners of my mouth, I quickly swung my fist toward the man who was gradually building up magi.

“…”

Perhaps because I attacked before the magi could fully swell up, the man’s left arm was blown away by my fist.

The man stared intently at his left arm that had flown away.

He looked back and forth between his blown-away left arm and me, then bent his knee.

“What is he trying to do.”

If he wanted to fight, even unleashing magi wouldn’t be enough.

The man was gradually erasing the magi from his body.

The man, having completely erased the magi like that, slowly straightened his bent knee and looked at Elpinire.

“El, pinire.”

“…!”

Elpinire’s eyes widened at her own name flowing from the man’s mouth.

The man who called Elpinire’s name looked at Elpinire and wore that grotesque smile again.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. We can meet againnnnnnnn-.”

The man repeated the same words as if there was an error.

Soon after, the man who deeply bowed his head began running somewhere.

I watched the back of the man moving away.

I didn’t bother chasing him.

What was urgent right now wasn’t that direction.

“…Let’s quickly go to Elsid.”

Elpinire nodded silently without saying anything.

Like that, I ran toward the direction where the flames were surging along with Elpinire, who had deeply bowed her head.

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