My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 40

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 40

Episode 40. Strange Dream

Damn, even the heavens are being a pain in the ass.

How do I run into this guy here of all places?

Kim Tae-seong, who had greeted me, walked over with heavy steps and turned on the water at the sink next to mine.

“I saw your press conference on TV today. So you were Black Dragon, senior.”

Swoooosh-

Kim Tae-seong leisurely washes his hands in the flowing water.

I quietly turned my head to look at Kim Tae-seong washing his hands.

“Finally, senior has come to the same place as me. Congratulations.”

Click.

After turning off the faucet, he pulled out tissues with his dripping wet hands.

“Senior. How are hyung and the foreman doing?”

“…You block me for a year telling me not to contact you, and now you’re asking that?”

“Well, that place was my starting point after all.”

“Then why didn’t you visit even once?”

“I was too busy to go there.”

Kim Tae-seong smiled with his eyes crinkling and reached his hand toward me.

I didn’t react at all and just stared at the outstretched hand.

Kim Tae-seong reached out like that and threw the damp tissue into the trash can next to me.

“I’d like to talk more, but an important person is waiting for me. I’ll be going now, so enjoy your meal. Let’s meet again later, senior.”

Kim Tae-seong bowed his head slightly toward me in greeting.

Only after his presence disappeared did I raise my hand to throw away the tissue I was holding.

“Ah.”

The tissue in my hand was stained red.

Since when had I been clenching my hand so tightly?

I threw the blood-stained tissue into the trash can and turned on the faucet again.

Thanks to the ‘Blessing of Super Regeneration’, my blood-stained hand was completely clean without any wounds.

“Tsk.”

He’s definitely not the guy I used to know.

What is it about power that changes people like this?

‘I’ll never become like that.’

Even if I become a successful Hunter who buys a Han Gang View Apartment, I won’t become like that bastard.

I shook the water off my hands while muttering through gritted teeth.

“See you later? What bullshit.”

Why should I have to see him?

If I see him next time, I feel like I won’t be able to hold back and will throw a punch first.

Even now, honestly, I barely held myself back.

Of all times to run into that bastard, and for him to mention hyung and the construction crew from his mouth.

I rubbed my face with both hands, let out a long sigh, and walked out of the bathroom.

“…Ah, I want some soju.”

It was the first time I craved alcohol that wouldn’t even get me drunk.

* * *

Whether Kim Tae-seong left the restaurant right away, I didn’t run into him again until the meal was over.

It was a private room anyway, so there wasn’t even an environment to run into each other.

After finishing the meal like that, the moon was already hanging high outside.

Coming out of the restaurant, I blankly looked up at the moon.

“It was incredibly delicious.”

Unlike me, who had no appetite and couldn’t eat much, Elpinire was smiling with a very satisfied expression.

For her, who still felt reluctant about consuming or harming plants even if she didn’t hate it, it must have been a very satisfying meal.

“Come to think of it, we couldn’t keep the plan we made when we came out today.”

“What?”

“Your sightseeing. We decided to just wander around, but we moved around so busily.”

“For me, this was no different from sightseeing. It wasn’t particularly difficult either. On the other hand, Master looks very tired.”

“…”

It’s hard to say I’m not tired, even as empty words.

I smiled bitterly and shook my head.

“After you briefly left to go to the bathroom and came back, violent mana suddenly started flowing out of Master’s body again. What happened during that time?”

“You’re like a ghost. How did you know?”

“I’m an existence that will serve Master from now on. I should be able to notice that much.”

I chuckled and crouched down on the ground, shaking my head vigorously.

“Just. You know too. Today was a bit complicated.”

“Mm. I understood after getting the explanation later. They said all records of the person Master called hyung were completely erased.”

“Right. And on top of that… they said all the colleagues who worked with hyung are either dead or missing.”

Even though I tried to pretend otherwise, I couldn’t help but keep thinking about it.

In the midst of that, running into Kim Tae-seong too, it was natural that those thoughts would be amplified.

“Kim Tae-seong… Have I heard about who that person is before? If I have, I’m sorry. I don’t remember hearing about him.”

“I deliberately didn’t mention him, so you don’t need to be sorry. He was a junior with a bad ending.”

“I see.”

“I’ll tell you later. Later.”

Right now I just want to enjoy the refreshing night air.

Looking up at the sky and breathing out a long puff of air, I spotted a car with a familiar license plate approaching from far away.

Seong Yu-mi, poking her head out through the open sunroof, was smiling brightly and waving her hand.

I wonder if a civil servant should be doing that, but since she’s someone who wouldn’t die from a traffic accident, it’s probably fine.

I straightened my crouched knees and nodded toward Elpinire.

“Let’s go home for today.”

Elpinire nodded her head.

Like that, I got into Jeong Chan-woo’s car.

The car immediately headed toward my beloved home.

“Since there’s no traffic, it only takes 20 minutes?”

“There’s an arterial road, so it’s quick.”

“…But why did it always take you three hours just to check on Black Dragon?”

“…”

Jeong Chan-woo quietly avoided Seong Yu-mi’s gaze.

Seong Yu-mi chuckled at Jeong Chan-woo and turned her head.

“Anyway, good work today, Black Dragon.”

“You too, Hunter Seong Yu-mi.”

“Black Dragon isn’t even a full-time employee, and you’re under my command. So just come to work whenever you want to.”

“I’m really like a salary thief.”

“It does feel like that.”

I don’t do work but I get paid?

Making money really is easy.

I wonder why I worked construction so hard that my bones ached.

Of course, I know I’m a special case.

“Instead, when we contact you urgently, you must answer. You know why, right?”

“Of course.”

Right now, I need to be exposed to the media a lot.

Seong Yu-mi threw something toward me as I nodded.

“Here. This is a hot-off-the-press name tag I just made. Since Black Dragon is a celebrity, you can probably enter even A-rank Gates?”

Even though I’m a C-rank Hunter, I can enter up to A-rank Gates.

That’s somewhat appealing.

If I have nothing to do, maybe I’ll go in and earn some money with magic stones.

After putting the name tag in my pocket, I gave a small bow toward Seong Yu-mi and Jeong Chan-woo.

“Please go in.”

“Yeah. Black Dragon, you get some good rest too.”

Seong Yu-mi waved her hand gently.

Soon after, Jeong Chan-woo’s car smoothly left the alley.

When I could no longer see the license plate, I turned around and trudged down toward the house.

Beep, beep, beep, beep.

I entered the password to open the door, took off my shoes, and went inside the house.

As soon as I did, Elpinire went into the bathroom and changed into her familiar outfit.

“Maybe it’s because I wore clothes from this place all day, but it feels quite awkward.”

Having changed back into her original clothes, she fixed her gaze on me.

“I’ll head back to the forest now.”

“Alright.”

“Today was a very enjoyable experience. So you don’t need to call me tomorrow. It seems I should lend even one more hand to the forest restoration.”

“I suppose so. Sorry I can’t help.”

“Still, if anything happens, please call me. I’ll definitely respond then too.”

I nodded and canceled the skill.

Then, Elpinire scattered and disappeared along with black mist.

“…It’s so quiet.”

Maybe it’s because we were together all day today.

Just one person disappeared, but somehow it feels incredibly quiet…

“Squeak squeak!”

“…Right. You were here.”

I rubbed Cheo-ri’s cheek with my finger as it squeaked.

The little guy wagged its tail happily and rubbed its head against my hand.

“Shall we sleep?”

“Squeak!”

I shouldn’t sleep for three days like before though.

I yawned lazily and went into the bathroom to wash up.

* * *

‘I’ slowly opened my eyes.

My body was completely crushed by loneliness.

In the unbearably strong boredom, ‘I’ heavily opened my eyes and looked outside the dark cave.

A place filled with warm sunlight.

For a moment, the thought ‘Would the boredom disappear if I went out there?’ crossed my mind, but it soon faded.

Nothing would change even if I went out.

Wasn’t ‘I’ myself the one who knew this fact best?

That’s why ‘I’ closed my eyes again in the dark cave today.

Today, tomorrow, and from now on.

‘I’ would fall asleep in this cave.

Just as I was about to fall asleep again.

“…”

I felt some presence in front of me.

What stood before me as I slightly lifted my closed ‘eyelids’ was.

“Good morning?”

Looking at me with a bright smile.

A woman with disheveled black hair.

* * *

“Gasp!”

Haa, haa.

I sat up, breathing roughly.

My body was damp with cold sweat, drooping like waterlogged cotton.

My heart was pounding as if it would burst.

I raised my hand, which was trembling more violently than ever, and swept it across my eyes.

“…Tears?”

Tears were streaming down from my eyes with no sign of stopping.

I don’t really know why they’re flowing.

Just, simply.

They were just continuously flowing.

“…I think I had some kind of dream.”

It’s hazy like it’s covered in fog, so I can’t remember the details clearly.

What I can remember is just fragmentary information that I was inside a cave.

And that some woman approached from outside the cave.

What kind of face that woman had.

What state I was in at that time.

Whether I was even really me in the first place.

I can’t remember anything.

“Phew…”

Looking around, it’s the dark semi-basement house with not a single ray of light coming in.

That must have just been a nonsense dream after all.

I staggered up from the bed and dragged my heavy body toward the bathroom.

After washing my face with cold water, I finally felt like I was coming to my senses.

“But why are tears still flowing?”

My dazed mind had returned, but tears were still flowing.

I sniffled for no reason and opened the refrigerator door while tears were still dripping.

After gulping down cold water like that, the flowing tears finally stopped.

Having barely returned to normal, I went into the small room and picked up my phone from the bed.

“I didn’t sleep for that long.”

Fortunately, I didn’t sleep for three days this time.

10 hours.

I slept for an extremely normal amount of time.

After checking the date and time, I turned off my phone and threw it back on the bed.

‘Why did I have such a dream?’

Maybe it’s because I experienced too many things at once yesterday.

I let out a long sigh and gently touched my swollen, stiff eyes.

I don’t even know when I started crying.

How much must I have cried for my eyes to be this stiff?

The fortunate thing was that after crying like this, my chest that had felt stuffy yesterday now felt completely cleared.

“…That aside, where did Cheo-ri go again?”

It was definitely by the bedside until last night.

I need to find Cheo-ri before it picks up and eats something strange again.

I looked around to find Cheo-ri.

But no matter where I looked in the small room, Cheo-ri was nowhere to be seen.

“Cheo-ri.”

I came out of the small room and looked around the living room.

But Cheo-ri wasn’t visible anywhere in the living room or kitchen either.

If it’s not here either, there’s only one answer.

I opened the closed large door.

“Kyuung…?”

Slither.

Cheo-ri raised her body from where she had been coiled up.

Cheo-ri was basking in the bright light streaming through the window with her entire body.

“Since you’re a snake, you were sunbathing?”

“Kyuk.”

Cheo-ri gave a short reply and yawned with her mouth wide open.

I chuckled and approached Cheo-ri.

“You must be hungry. Should we eat first?”

“Kyuk!”

And so dawned my first day as a Hunter affiliated with the Association.

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