My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 38

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 38

Episode 38. I’ll Take Your Questions

Why on earth?

Why was the information about Hyung erased?

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand.

It was natural.

Hyung was also an orphan just like me.

Hyung wasn’t much different from me.

He didn’t hold grudges against anyone, and all he had was one house and bank debt.

There was no reason for his information to suddenly be erased.

Seong Yu-mi, who was rummaging around below, pulled out her laptop and showed me the screen.

“Here, this is the investigation results.”

I looked at the screen Seong Yu-mi held out.

There’s nothing anywhere.

Not among the workers at Daeyang Construction where I worked.

Not in the resident list of the apartment where Hyung lived.

Nowhere could the name ‘Shin Seon-woo’ be found.

All the information had really disappeared.

Seong Yu-mi closed the laptop and pressed her temples with her hands as she spoke.

“I stayed up for days and nights investigating the person Black Dragon asked about, but… nothing came up.”

“…”

“And… this was the decisive factor.”

Click.

Seong Yu-mi scrolled down and clicked on ‘Daeyang Construction Worker List’.

The results that appeared were.

“…”

“…Sorry.”

That day.

All the workers who were at the site.

Even those who weren’t at the site.

Were all listed as ‘deceased’ or ‘missing’.

With a feeling of my throat being blocked, I could only open and close my mouth without being able to say anything.

Seong Yu-mi just avoided my gaze and apologized.

I bit my lips hard enough to split them to wake myself up and forced my voice out.

“This isn’t something Hunter Seong Yu-mi should apologize for.”

“…Still. As an S-rank Hunter, I should have noticed such an abnormal phenomenon.”

Seong Yu-mi showed a bitter smile of self-mockery and took a deep breath, forcing her voice up.

“Anyway, there’s nothing to be gained from continuing to dig in dry ground. That’s why I contacted Black Dragon.”

Of course.

How could any information come out when there’s no information at all.

I clenched my fist tightly.

I thought only Hyung had gone missing.

But everyone except Hyung had died or gone missing.

‘Among them, only Hyung’s information was completely erased.’

What on earth happened while I was in the Tutorial Tower?

Seong Yu-mi glanced at my pale fist and cleared her throat.

“So, Black Dragon?”

“…Yes?”

“Let me make the proposal again. How about becoming an Association Hunter?”

Didn’t I definitely refuse that offer?

Seeing me frown, Seong Yu-mi raised her hand as if to say don’t misunderstand.

“What I mean is, this person named Shin Seon-woo went missing and his information was erased, right?”

“That’s right.”

“But the information was erased, not the memories.”

“…What are you trying to say.”

“Black Dragon. Let’s become an Association Hunter. And become famous.”

Ah.

I think I know what Seong Yu-mi is trying to say.

So.

“You want me to become famous so people who know about Hyung will come forward?”

“Correct!”

It’s not bad, better than I thought.

No, it’s really good.

If Hyung’s information was erased and I can’t find his whereabouts.

I just need to make people who know Hyung’s whereabouts come to me.

I exhaled calmly and cleared my mind.

It’s a good proposal, but I can’t accept it right away.

The newly appeared Tower.

If this Tower opens and Black Dragon tells me to enter the Tower again, then I’ll have to leave again.

“As I said, I might have to leave for places where I can’t be contacted, like the past 2 weeks. Would that still be okay?”

“Well, it should be fine?”

“…?”

“I didn’t know this, but there’s something called apprentice Hunters in the Association.”

I had question marks floating above my head at Seong Yu-mi’s words.

Apprentice?

What’s that about.

“Senior members within the Association can recruit Association Hunters through special hiring. I knew about this, but Hunters recruited this way are processed as apprentices.”

“Uh… so…”

“Since you’re an apprentice, you get the same salary and can act as an Association Hunter. But.”

“You can stay away from duties… is that it?”

“Right.”

What is this.

Can’t I just live as an apprentice forever?

Is it just my imagination that the benefits of being an apprentice seem better than becoming a full employee?

“What about the salary?”

“Um… the amount I can offer to Black Dragon is…”

Seong Yu-mi muttered quietly and scribbled numbers on paper.

Seeing the numbers written there, I widened my eyes and gulped.

“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand…”

“You’ll receive about this much just in salary?”

“…”

“Plus with incentives and various allowances… it’ll be quite a lot.”

Regardless of whether it’s a lot or little, just the pure salary alone is several times what I made doing construction work before.

But I really can’t believe I could earn even more than that.

My jaw dropped as I stared blankly at the numbers written on the paper.

With this kind of salary, a Han Gang View Apartment might not be such a distant dream.

‘If only it weren’t for the Tower…’

I really could have bought it quickly.

With regret, I clenched my fist tightly.

“So, even apprentice Hunters receive this level of treatment?”

“Yeah. That’s probably why the Association looks down on apprentice hunters and calls them this. Contract workers.”

I can somehow understand why they call them that.

If you worked hard and barely made it through the competition to become an Association hunter, how annoying would it be if someone just parachuted in because they caught a higher-up’s eye?

Even I wouldn’t just sit still and watch.

I’d have to at least headbutt them once.

Thinking about it that way, maybe the Association hunters who just call them contract hunters are actually being nice.

So this is like being a civil servant.

“So, will you do it?”

“I have to.”

I have no intention of arguing that this is the fastest way to find traces of Hyung.

Since there’s still time before the ‘Tower of Illusion’ opens, this might actually be good.

Seong Yu-mi nodded her head satisfactorily and snapped her fingers with sparkling eyes.

“Didn’t you say Black Dragon just dealt with a Sudden Gate today?”

“That’s right?”

“Then that works out perfectly.”

I tilted my head at Seong Yu-mi’s words.

What exactly worked out perfectly?

Unlike me, Seong Yu-mi just smiled wickedly.

“Now then. And the lady next to you?”

“Mm. You mean me, human?”

Munch munch.

Elpinire was chewing on a cookie that came from who knows where.

She turned her gaze at the sudden address and looked at Seong Yu-mi.

“You. You’re not human, are you?”

“Oho. You noticed?”

“My eyes are a bit special, you see. I caught on to the different aura you have from humans.”

“Master. What should I do in cases like this?”

“Well.”

We didn’t even try to hide it when we came out, but what should we do when someone notices?

So I was scratching the back of my head when Seong Yu-mi dropped her jaw and pointed her finger at me.

“Ma, Master!? Don’t tell me that lady was summoned by Black Dragon’s skill?”

“That’s right, but why?”

“B, but wasn’t Black Dragon’s unique skill a transformation type where your right hand changes? But how on earth…”…”

“My unique skill is a growth-type skill, so I don’t really know either.”

“Wha, what…!?”

I wish I knew what the hell this ‘Black Dragon’ skill actually does too.

Where in the world is there a skill that threatens its own master?

Grumbling quietly, I picked up a cookie from the basket Elpinire was holding and put it in my mouth.

“Oh.”

It’s delicious with that rich butter flavor?

I chewed and also handed a cookie to Cheo-ri who was hanging around my neck.

Cheo-ri’s eyes also sparkled as if it suited his taste, and he rushed toward the basket.

The cookies disappeared as quickly as a crab hiding its eyes.

Seong Yu-mi just quietly marveled while watching us.

* * *

About five hours later.

I understood why Seong Yu-mi’s eyes had sparkled so much at the fact that ‘I had cleared a Sudden Gate.’

“…Really?”

“Really.”

“No, this is a bit…”

I trailed off and peeked my head out from behind the pillar.

There were what looked like over a hundred people standing there with cameras and microphones.

“I’m really going out there? Me?”

“This is the perfect opportunity for Black Dragon to naturally become a contract hunter, isn’t it?”

Seong Yu-mi said that and lightly patted my shoulder.

I let out a long sigh and glanced to the side.

There was Elpinire wearing a jet-black suit, looking around at her body this way and that.

“It feels somehow… uncomfortable yet not uncomfortable.”

Maybe because the original is the original, she really looks like a model.

On the other hand, I just looked like an ordinary young man in his twenties wearing a black suit.

Since this is my first time wearing a suit, it feels really awkward.

“Don’t worry, Master. You look handsome when you dress up too.”

“That’s right, that’s right. Black Dragon isn’t on the ugly side, you know?”

“Mm. I agree with that statement.”

Elpinire spoke seriously with her arms crossed.

Right after, she lightly patted my shoulder and gave me a thumbs up.

“You’re no less than El Spier, so don’t worry.”

I suppose so.

El Spier looks like that without even trying to dress up.

In the end, I could only let out a sigh deep enough to make the ground cave in.

“It’s time.”

Before I knew it, the time for the promised press conference had arrived.

Seong Yu-mi checked the watch on her wrist and waved at us as she walked forward.

Her skirt hem swayed gently.

She walked out with graceful steps, stood in front of the microphone on the platform, and cleared her throat.

I watched Seong Yu-mi begin her speech from behind the pillar and said.

“Elpinire. Are you really going to do this?”

“I have to.”

“You’re really going to come out with me?”

“Should I do it fake then?”

According to Seong Yu-mi, clearing a Sudden Gate with just the two of us was nothing short of a miracle.

Additionally, she said that having not a single casualty in the process was a case so rare it could be counted on one hand worldwide.

Therefore, naturally, eyes from all over the world would inevitably focus on the two of us.

“That human said I have no choice either.”

Just announcing it would be enough to attract attention.

The fact that there were no casualties in the Sudden Gate was an undeniable outstanding achievement in itself.

However, to secure more overwhelming publicity, it was necessary to emphasize and announce the fact that I had essentially cleared the gate single-handedly.

That’s why it was important for Elpinire to say herself that she had only provided healing.

When Elpinire asked if this was for my sake, she immediately answered without hesitation that she would do it.

And that’s how we came to this current situation.

“This is a way to help Master. So I’m just doing it.”

“…”

“And Master, don’t worry. The Verdant Forest is running well even without me.”

Actually, Elpinire had gone back to the Tower of Recording once in the middle and returned.

I can’t return to the Tower of Recording, but it seems Elpinire can go back.

She said that Elsid, which she arrived at, was more peaceful than Elpinire had expected.

Apparently, there were even elves who didn’t know that Elpinire had disappeared.

So Elpinire just told Elsesto that she would be away for a bit and came back.

“Is the Clan Leader okay?”

“He’s still lying in bed. He was groaning about dying, but he looked fine. By the way, I handed over all the work to El Spier, so don’t worry.”

What a truly irresponsible clan leader.

I looked at Elpinire with cold, salty eyes as she spoke so confidently.

She paid no mind to my gaze and simply puffed out her chest.

Right.

Since I’ve come this far, I might as well enjoy it now.

I stretched long and looked to the side with a small smile.

There, Jeong Chan-woo, who had just arrived, was catching his breath quietly.

“Hunter Han Mi-reo. It’s about time for you to go out.”

“I know.”

I have ears too, so I’ve been listening.

I heard ‘Black Dragon,’ ‘Orc Lord,’ and ‘Sudden Gate’ come out of Seong Yu-mi’s mouth in sequence.

Based on what we coordinated beforehand, after that comes.

“We discovered that the person who cleared the Sudden Gate that occurred in Jang-won-dong is the famous Black Dragon, and we’ve invited him here. Please come out.”

She’ll call my name.

The time has finally come.

I walked forward step by step, matching Jeong Chan-woo’s signal.

The moment I stepped forward, flashes erupted from all directions.

Blindingly bright light came rushing at me.

But there wasn’t a hint of wavering in my steps.

‘I thought I’d naturally be nervous.’

But now that I’m actually out here, I don’t feel that way at all.

Maybe it’s because I’ve faced death so many times.

Walking out like that and standing next to Seong Yu-mi, I cleared my throat as I received the microphone from her.

“Nice to meet you all. I’m the hunter currently famous on the internet by the name Black Dragon, Han Mi-reo.”

Thud.

Standing in front of the platform, I looked at the audience with calm, settled eyes.

The moment they made eye contact with me, they stiffened like boards.

I exhaled calmly and opened my mouth with the corners of my lips curled up.

“I’ll take questions.”

From now on, this is my time.

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