My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 39

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 39

Episode 39. Chance Encounter

The plan Seong Yu-mi presented was simple.

Hold a press conference.

And at that press conference, reveal that I am the Black Dragon everyone’s talking about.

Then take questions, and finally reveal that Seong Yu-mi scouted Black Dragon as an Association-affiliated Hunter, recognizing his achievements.

That’s it.

That’s why I stepped forward and said I’d take questions.

“….”

But somehow, no one is raising their hand.

What’s this about.

Are they ostracizing me or something?

Just as I was having that thought, someone tapped my shoulder.

“Master.”

“Yeah?”

“From what I can see, those people look like ordinary civilians who can’t even handle mana, right?”

“Probably.”

Sigh.

Elpinire, who had approached without me noticing, made a troubled expression and whispered quietly in my ear.

“Then that’s normal.”

“What do you mean?”

“Master doesn’t seem to know, but an aura similar to the black mist you use is slowly leaking out from you.”

My eyes widened at this news I was hearing for the first time.

‘Smoke’ feels violent even to me.

And it’s been continuously leaking out?

“I didn’t know before either, but after realizing Mother’s blessing, I became aware of it.”

“…If even you didn’t know, isn’t it fine?”

“If it were fine, would they be acting like that right now?”

That’s true.

Immediately refuted, I closed my eyes and concentrated all my nerves.

Mana flowing out faintly.

I had to completely block it.

‘…Is this thanks to eating the World Tree’s Fruit.’

With my eyes closed and concentrated, I could really feel mana leaking out bit by bit.

The amount flowing out was very small, but this was causing that reaction.

Taking a deep breath, I began blocking all the leaking mana.

Normally this would have consumed enough mental energy to give me a splitting headache, but this too was several times easier than before, probably thanks to eating the World Tree’s Fruit.

Having successfully blocked all the mana I’d been unknowingly leaking, I slowly opened my closed eyes.

Only then did the frozen reporters begin breathing roughly and looking up at me with fearful eyes.

“Tsk.”

It wasn’t intentional, but I feel sorry about it.

Looking at the atmosphere, it would be difficult to get proper Q&A….

“M, MTV reporter Shin Ju-o here!”

Hmm.

Guess not.

I must have underestimated the reporters’ tenacity.

I nodded toward the brown-haired reporter who was trembling and raising his hand with eyes full of fear.

“Go ahead.”

“Is, is it true that you defeated the Sudden Gate with just two people?”

“Hunter Jeong Chan-woo did come in near the end, but before that, rescuing all civilians and handling 90% of the monsters inside the Gate is true.”

“Was all of that done by Black Dragon alone? Who was the Hunter that went in with you!”

“That was me.”

Bzzzz-

A voice echoing through the microphone.

Elpinire looked at the reporter with the same cold and calm eyes as when she first met me.

“I am merely a healing Hunter who owes a great debt to Han Mi-reo here. If you actually listen to testimonies, you’ll find that all I did was provide treatment.”

So she knows how to call me by name.

This master is a bit moved.

Shedding a small tear inwardly, I turned my gaze to the next reporter who raised their hand.

“There, the black-haired reporter.”

“Yes! I’m Han Seon-jae from YBS! Black Dragon, you suddenly appeared, defeated the Orc Lord, and essentially achieved the feat of solo-clearing a Sudden Gate! Is that correct?”

“That’s correct.”

“Then what is your Hunter rank? I’m also curious about your Tutorial Tower clear record.”

“My Hunter rank was F-grade until last month.”

“-!”

The reporters stirred.

I briefly moved away from the microphone until they calmed down.

“Th, then that means now…?”

“Now I’m a C-grade Hunter. The Association looked favorably upon me and promoted me straight to C-grade. I’d like to express my gratitude through this opportunity.”

Seong Yu-mi gave me a small thumbs up from behind at my answer.

“And my Tutorial Tower clear time is… just take a look.”

It’s somehow embarrassing to say it out loud.

Lightly snapping my fingers, I revealed my ‘Tutorial Tower clear time’ to the reporters.

The reporters simultaneously checked my Tutorial Tower clear time and let out gasps of shock.

“4444.4 hours!?”

“Crazy, what is that!?”

“Intentional? It must be intentional!”

“Even if it’s intentional, that can’t be possible-.”

Murmur murmur.

Everyone present couldn’t help but be shocked.

The only ones staying calm were Elpinire, who doesn’t know what the Tutorial Tower is, and Seong Yu-mi and Jeong Chan-woo, who had prior information.

“Black Dragon. That’s enough.”

“Doesn’t feel like I did much.”

“…Just revealing Black Dragon’s Tutorial Tower record is something special.”

Seong Yu-mi, who said that, gave me a signal.

Nodding, I reached toward a corner as planned.

“Lastly, there, the blonde woman?”

“I’m Jeong Yun-a from Hunter Daily!”

“Would you ask your question?”

“I’m curious about Black Dragon Hunter’s future plans. Do you have any intention of joining any guild or organization?”

“I’ll answer that instead.”

Swish.

Seong Yu-mi, who took the microphone from me, smiled brightly and spoke.

“Black Dragon, Han Mi-reo Hunter’s achievements are very significant. I’m a greedy Hunter, so I didn’t want to hand Black Dragon over to others.”

Grin.

Seong Yu-mi smiled as if she was enjoying herself.

“So, I decided to scout Black Dragon, Han Mi-reo Hunter as an Association-affiliated Hunter.”

“…!”

Click click click click!

As if they’d found a scoop, the reporters all fell silent and flashed their cameras in unison.

Seong Yu-mi endured the flash barrage as if she was used to it.

“From now on, Black Dragon, Hunter Han Mi-reo will live together in my department as an Association-affiliated hunter.”

After saying that, Seong Yu-mi turned around and walked away with steady steps, then gracefully bowed like an actor greeting at the end of a show.

“With that, we conclude the press conference regarding the Jang-won-dong Sudden Gate and the much-talked-about Black Dragon. Please take care on your way home.”

Snap!

After saying that, Seong Yu-mi lightly flicked her hand.

Then all the light in the area temporarily disappeared at once.

“Whoa.”

They were still pressing their cameras over there, but no light was coming out.

Magic.

The magic of Seong Yu-mi, who had the nickname Demon King, had descended upon this place.

I took advantage of the moment when all light went dark and escaped from the scene together with Elpinire.

When the lights that had gone out came back on.

“Where did they go?”

“I could have asked one more question!”

No one was left in the conference room.

* * *

The press conference was held on Association Basement Level 1.

So we could escape from the scene just by taking the elevator up to the upper floors.

I threw off my stuffy tie and sank deep into the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.

“Ah, I’m hungry.”

Come to think of it, all I had today was drinks and cookies.

This is slave labor.

As I was grumbling like that, the door opened and Seong Yu-mi appeared with jajangmyeon and sweet and sour pork in both hands.

“You haven’t eaten anything since lunch, right? Black Dragon and Elpinire. Here, eat this.”

“Oh.”

My eyes sparkling, I took the jajangmyeon that Seong Yu-mi set down and shook it vigorously.

Elpinire looked at me doing that, then started shaking her jajangmyeon the same way.

Feeling like it was all mixed up, I tore open the plastic and said.

“Should I give you a fork?”

“I’m good with chopsticks too, you know?”

Elpinire began slurping the jajangmyeon with expert-level chopstick skills.

This girl who only used forks in Elsid, why is she so good with chopsticks?

Seeing her eyes sparkling and ears perking up, it seems to suit her taste too.

I took a chopstick-full of jajangmyeon and put it in my mouth.

“Oh. Black Dragon. You’re currently number 1 on real-time search rankings.”

“Hmm?”

I looked at Seong Yu-mi while chewing.

She was laughing as if pleased, checking articles one by one.

“You were already a hot potato, but now you’ve gotten even hotter, haven’t you?”

Munch munch.

I turned on my phone while chewing jajangmyeon.

Then my eyes went wide.

“Mmph, gah.”

What the hell.

Why are there so many texts coming in?

My phone that had been on silent.

The moment it turned on, what greeted me were texts marked ‘999+’ and.

“Wow, shit…”

Calls that kept coming without stopping.

I hurriedly switched my phone to airplane mode and slowly looked through the texts and calls that had come in.

“Tsk.”

None.

Every single one was from people unrelated to Hyung.

There’s no need to contact these people anyway.

I immediately turned off my phone and flipped it over.

“Black Dragon. Aren’t you going to contact them back?”

“They’re all people I already cut contact with long ago. I don’t see the need to bother.”

Like the kids who used to give me grief at the orphanage.

Or the delinquents who used to talk behind my back at school, calling me an orphan bastard.

Since it’s contact from those kinds of bastards, I don’t see the need to respond.

“Media really is scary.”

“Right. Even for me, if I make one wrong move, I get cursed at enough to live 10 more years, you know?”

Seong Yu-mi checked reactions until the end, then nodded with a satisfied face and stretched long.

“The reaction is a hundred times better than expected, you know? Black Dragon, you did really well.”

“What did I even do?”

“What do you mean what? You perfectly dominated the reporters from the start. Most hunters get nervous and fidgety in situations like that, you know?”

Seong Yu-mi told us to eat the sweet and sour pork too and put some on top of Elpinire’s jajangmyeon bowl.

“For now, just eat this to fill up. In a little while, when all the remaining reporters leave, let’s go eat beef. I’ll pay.”

Beef.

I should definitely like it.

‘…Why do I hate it so much?’

Beef sold in Gangnam would definitely be expensive.

She’s saying she’ll buy it for me, but this is the first time I’ve hated something this much.

Rather, the jajangmyeon I’m eating now seems like it would taste much better than beef.

Why on earth…

“Why are you looking at me with those eyes?”

Ah.

It’s because I came back from eating only meat in the Tower of Recording.

I swallowed tears inwardly and bit into the sweet and sour pork.

Really, it was a thrilling taste I could never experience in the Tower.

* * *

The reporters disappeared from Gangnam faster than expected.

They seemed to judge that going back to write articles would be better than camping out here.

Thanks to that, in less than an hour, I headed to the barbecue restaurant that Seong Yu-mi said she frequented.

“Either way, we have a new member on our team, so eat to your heart’s content!”

Meat piled high.

Jeong Chan-woo was pouring water into glasses as if he was used to it.

“Here are your spoons, chopsticks, and water.”

Everything was set up without me having to lift a finger.

Looking at it, he seems familiar enough that it’s ingrained in his body, which makes me feel a bit sorry for him.

‘That aside, can we really eat all of that?’

It feels like the jajangmyeon is still sitting in my stomach.

I looked at the beef grilling on the grill and smiled awkwardly.

Of course, it was also Jeong Chan-woo doing the grilling.

“Chan-woo. You know, right?”

“I’ll grill it just right to make it delicious.”

“Chan-woo’s grilling tastes better than when the staff here grills it, you know? I’m counting on you.”

Wow.

Now I just blatantly feel sorry for him.

What else could that be but a slave.

I looked at Jeong Chan-woo, who was grilling meat as if it were routine, with pitying eyes.

How much of a daily occurrence must this be for him to handle everything without a word?

I shook my head with a sympathetic gaze and stood up from my seat.

“Where are you going, Mir?”

“Bathroom.”

“I’ll come with you.”

“Just stay here.”

Why would you follow me to the bathroom?

I gave Elpinire a brief reply.

By the way, I hadn’t revealed to Jeong Chan-woo that Elpinire was a summoned creature.

Seong Yu-mi had said, “Revealing that much would be too much, wouldn’t it…?”

I didn’t really understand what was too much about it, but for that reason, Elpinire finally agreed to call me by name when we’re outside.

‘I wish she’d just call me by name even when we’re alone.’

I guess I don’t really like becoming someone’s master or anything like that…

I opened the room door and walked steadily toward the bathroom.

‘Speaking of which, you really never know what life has in store. Who would’ve thought I’d come to a place like this.’

Since they said it was a barbecue place frequented by S-rank Hunters, I expected it to be expensive.

But when I actually arrived, it was much more luxurious than I’d anticipated.

‘It’s all private rooms.’

No noise could be heard from the corridor I was walking through.

Everything was private rooms, and like the Association’s underground, it was built with magic stones for complete soundproofing.

Just who comes to places like this anyway?

After going to the bathroom, I turned on the faucet and lightly washed my face.

“Phew…”

So many things happened today.

I summoned Elpinire to Earth, cleared a Sudden Gate.

When I was called to the Association, I heard the news that everyone including Hyung and the section chief had died or were missing, and I ended up becoming an Association Hunter as Black Dragon.

Unlike the Tower, Earth makes you feel fatigue, so having all these events happen in one day was quite exhausting.

‘I need to go home and sleep soon.’

I’m full anyway, so I probably won’t be able to eat much meat.

I’ll just pretend to eat a bit, then go home and crash.

With that thought, I turned off the water I’d left running.

I pulled out a tissue to wipe my wet face and turned around.

If I leave Elpinire alone too long, that’s worrying in its own way, so as I turned to hurry back.

“…”

Creak.

The door opened with an unpleasant sound.

The moment I made eye contact with the person who entered from beyond it, I froze.

“…Ah. Who would’ve thought we’d run into each other in a place like this. It’s been a while, senior.”

I looked at the man with long red hair tied up and narrowed my eyes.

The man who cleared the Tutorial Tower in just 2 weeks.

An S-rank Hunter of Korea’s Seolhwa Guild, who goes by the alias ‘Sun’.

And.

“…Indeed. Tae Seong.”

My first workplace junior, who blocked me after sending the message ‘We live in different worlds. Please don’t text me anymore.’

Kim Tae-seong was looking at me with a sly smile.

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