My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 42

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 42

Episode 42. Fog Return

I pulled Han Song-hee into my left arm to protect her and quickly assessed the situation.

She was terrified, but fortunately, I couldn’t see any injuries.

I let out a sigh of relief, released my embrace, and stood up.

“…Hey, Mr. Villain. What exactly do you gain from doing something like this?”

“I can grant freedom to the children and repay the filthy humans for the pain the children have suffered!”

“Children? You mean the fish?”

I pointed my finger at the fish tank obscured by fog.

The man didn’t say anything in particular, as if I was correct, and just glared at me.

Is this for real?

Could he possibly be a World Tree or something?

This is ridiculous.

“Do you have some kind of mental illness?”

“…Shut up!”

Bang!

The villain stomped his foot hard and shouted.

“It’s all humans like you who made me this way!”

The man’s hostility was directed solely at me.

It wasn’t intentional, but this actually worked out well.

Keep looking at me like that.

Don’t look at the others.

I slightly raised the corner of my mouth and quietly waved my left hand behind my back.

“Run away.”

“…!”

Han Song-hee nodded her head.

She carefully moved away from behind me.

The citizens who witnessed Han Song-hee carefully escaping began to flee from the scene one by one.

“Humans are arrogant! I… I hate humans like that. Humans who discriminate for being different!”

The villain rushed toward the fleeing people as if I didn’t matter at all.

I kicked the villain just before he could reach the people.

“Kugh!”

The villain was pushed backward.

But he didn’t take much damage.

He immediately got up and just glared at me.

I scratched my cheek awkwardly at that sight.

“This is a big problem.”

Killing the villain would be easy.

It would be easy, but.

“I was told not to kill him.”

I wasn’t supposed to kill him.

Jeong Chan-woo had firmly reminded me on the way here.

He said that even though he knew I was strong, I shouldn’t use violence mercilessly like when dealing with Sergelgul.

I wanted to ask Jeong Chan-woo for help, but right now he was dealing with another villain we encountered on the way.

So this was quite troublesome.

One swing of my fist would end it, but I couldn’t do that.

It was also difficult to use ‘Shadowless’ to wrap around the villain or use ‘Formless Flight’ for a body slam.

If I swung my right hand widely for that, I might accidentally release the concentration of ‘Mist’ and cause the cracked glass window to collapse.

And I didn’t have enough mental strength left to succeed at that anyway.

Moreover, if even a little too much force went into it, even the glass behind the villain would collapse.

That would truly be a foolish act of losing the cow while trying to fix the barn.

‘This is the first time my right hand has been sealed.’

I was essentially in a state where I couldn’t properly use my right hand.

Could I, who was just an ordinary human without my right hand, manage this?

The villain began rushing toward me at high speed.

“I’ll specially make you into food for the children.”

Crack.

The villain opened his mouth wide.

Between the saliva stretching like threads, blade-sharp teeth approached, targeting me.

I calmly exhaled and stepped forward like Elpinire had done.

“Was it like this?”

Thud!

My instep landed precisely on the villain’s jaw.

The rushing villain’s body floated up.

However.

“Weak!”

It still wasn’t an effective hit.

The floating villain struck down at me with his right hand.

His right hand wasn’t that of an ordinary person.

It was a shark’s fin, sharp as a blade.

Unable to defend, a stab wound appeared on my abdomen.

The villain smiled wickedly and began slashing at me with both hands.

“Die, die die die die!”

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Blood splattered in all directions.

The black floor of the aquarium gradually turned red.

After swinging his right hand one last time, the villain used my blood-soaked abdomen as a foothold to leap backward.

“Haa, haa.”

He should be dead by now.

The villain thought this as he looked ahead.

That’s why the villain couldn’t believe it.

He had even hunted B-rank monsters in B-rank gates he had secretly entered.

“H-how is this possible! Why aren’t you dead!?”

Because I was standing on both feet, very much alive.

The Association hunter before his eyes, who should have definitely died, was standing there perfectly fine.

The wounds visible between his torn clothes had already healed.

The villain looked at the Association hunter with confused eyes.

“Ah, that? It hurt, but was that supposed to be enough?”

I tilted my head and looked at the villain.

If you asked whether there was no pain, that wasn’t true, but…

If you asked whether it was enough pain to die from… well.

“What the…”

I lightly ignored the villain who was gaping in confusion and looked at my left hand.

‘At this rate, this won’t end.’

I couldn’t land an effective hit.

The moment the villain realized this fact, he would turn away from me and head for the fleeing citizens.

But to swing my right hand because people dying would be worse than that.

‘Would the glass behind hold up?’

The still-intact glass on the opposite side would definitely shatter too.

I stroked my chin and looked at the villain.

Right.

I definitely succeeded in my attack.

Even if not 100%, I succeeded in roughly following Elpinire’s movements.

But that attack lacked the power to be an effective hit.

The force was incomparably weaker than what Elpinire had done.

Then, what’s the reason?

The answer is simple.

“I didn’t wrap mana around my body.”

Elpinire, Elsesto, and El Spier.

All the elves who participated in the battle to protect the last World Tree.

They all fought with mana wrapped around their bodies.

But I’m not doing that.

I was just fighting with my bare body.

Then.

“Why don’t I try wrapping it around?”

Couldn’t I just wrap it around?

I calmly took a breath and released mana outside my body.

[Synchronization Rate 3.1%]

At first, it didn’t come out well, as if something was blocked.

But when I focused all my nerves on releasing mana, it gradually began to flow out from my body.

“Wh, what is that power?”

Swirling.

Black mist flows out from my body.

Only then did I exhale the breath I’d been holding and opened my eyes with a smile.

[The Twisted Underworld Lord says you’ve finally realized it.]

This time, I couldn’t respond to the Black Dragon’s words.

Now that I understand, I can see just how stupid I’ve been.

“That’s right.”

‘Smoke Mist’ is not an application technique of ‘Black Dragon’.

‘Smoke Mist’ is one of the dormant powers of ‘Black Dragon’.

In other words, it’s a skill I can just use like ‘Roster’, so why have I been transforming my right hand to use ‘Smoke Mist’ all this time?

‘Because that’s how I did it at first.’

Because I first created it over my right hand.

Because there was such an easy and simple path.

I had been using it that way without realizing it.

‘Smoke Mist’ is the power of the Black Dragon.

Therefore, my mana is ‘Smoke Mist’ itself.

That’s why when Elpinire looked, violent mana was flowing not from my right hand, but from my body.

Taking a deep breath, I layered the flowing smoke mist over my body.

“Oh.”

Flutter.

Even without any particular intention, black mist covers my body.

As if it was supposed to be that way from the beginning.

Naturally, the black mist covered my entire body.

[You have successfully covered your entire body with black mist]

[‘Smoke Mist’s derivative technique ‘Mist Return’ has been created]

[Mist Return]

[Wraps black mist around the body to enhance physical abilities]

A derivative technique?

I’ve seen application techniques, but this is my first derivative technique.

I’m curious, but that’s for later.

Right now.

[Mist Return]

It’s time to deal with the villain in front of me.

I lightly kicked off the ground.

It’s slow.

Compared to ‘Mistless Flight’, it’s slow.

But compared to my ordinary leap.

“Gah!”

It was incomparably fast.

Having instantly penetrated into the villain’s embrace, I struck upward at his jaw with my left palm.

His body floated up.

Keeping my left foot firmly planted as an axis, I drew a rotating kick with my right leg.

The villain seemed to think he had to block the swinging leg, so he raised his arms to block it.

Rather, it was my leg that got injured by the blade-like sharp fins.

But now the villain knows too.

That this level of injury is nowhere near enough.

So after blocking the attack, he crouched down and opened his mouth wide.

“…What the hell is this?”

Whoosh!

Something white flies rapidly toward me.

Narrowing my eyes to check, it was the villain’s sharp teeth.

“Kel kel kel! Sharks can regenerate their teeth!”

I don’t think the ability to regenerate is meant to be used for this purpose.

The villain rapidly fired teeth at me.

The teeth were quite sharp.

Sharper than arrowheads, they could penetrate if I wasn’t careful.

But those teeth.

“So what?”

Were blocked by a wall of mist that rose with a light step.

No matter how sharp as arrows, they’re useless if they can’t reach.

The villain made a despairing face as his attack was blocked so easily.

Confirming the attack had stopped, I tore through the mist with my left hand and burst out.

Then I kicked the villain’s head with all my strength.

“Guhk!”

Thud, thud, thud, thud!

The villain bounced across the ground like a skipping stone.

Kicking off the ground, I tightly clenched my right hand.

“Squeak!”

“Don’t worry.”

Cheo-ri, who was hiding in my pocket, cried out urgently, but it’s okay.

“I already released Black Dragon.”

My right hand had already returned to normal.

Pulling up the corners of my mouth, I lightly struck the ground.

[Smoke Mist – Mistless Flight]

Perhaps because I’m handling ‘Smoke Mist’ without using ‘Black Dragon’, the output is weaker than I imagined.

That’s why it’s actually better.

Shot forward at a moderate speed that was neither too fast nor too slow, I instantly caught up to the villain bouncing across the ground.

The moment I caught up to the villain who was gradually slowing down and moved in front of him, I slammed both legs down on the ground to brake my body, then twisted my waist and threw a punch.

[Mist Return – Wave Fist]

Like a single ripple created by a water droplet falling onto calm water.

It creates a wave named fist upon the water called mist.

The calm mist ripples and spreads out the moment the fist makes contact.

“Kugh…!”

That wave becomes pure shock.

It devours the target’s body.

The villain flies away, spitting blood from his mouth.

I confirmed that his trajectory was toward the glass window I was blocking with ‘Mist’, then spread my right hand.

“You said you wanted to make them feel like fish.”

Good.

“Then you can feel it first.”

Swoosh.

The mist disperses.

As soon as the mist scattered, more cracks began forming in the already cracked glass.

Soon the flying villain collided hard with the glass wall.

Glass shattering with a crash.

The villain entered the water inside the aquarium like that.

I sealed the aquarium’s glass with mist again as water flowed out, then turned my head.

“Wow…”

Click.

The shutter sound echoed.

I let out a long sigh at the sight of Han Song-hee holding her phone in a daze.

Behind her, the citizens who had been fleeing were staring at me blankly.

“I’m sure I told you to run away.”

“I, I did run away!”

“This is running away?”

“At school they taught us that when a villain group attacks, don’t get too far from the hunters!”

Hmm…

Come to think of it, Jeong Chan-woo did say that.

Something about how it’s standard procedure for hunters to always stay with civilians during rescue operations.

Thinking about it this way, it actually seems like the right thing to do.

I chuckled briefly, then immediately frowned as my forehead throbbed.

‘Feels like it’s going to split.’

Maintaining the wall was already quite taxing, and I used ‘Mist’ on top of that.

Actually, everything in front of me was swaying back and forth right now.

I can’t move even one step anymore.

I let out a deep sigh and sat down on the ground with my back against the wall filled with black mist, placing my hand to my ear.

“This is Han Mi-reo. Villain suppression complete. Request support for civilian rescue.”

I can’t leave my position anyway since I have to maintain the wall.

I’ve done everything I needed to do, so now I should rest.

Like that, I forced my eyes closed to give my throbbing head even a little rest.

“Phew…”

This feels much better.

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