My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 48
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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 48
Episode 48. Too Big to Refuse
Three months ago.
Im Seung-hun, the owner of a salon in Seoul, his hometown, was sitting in his fly-infested shop, blankly staring at the TV.
“Well, everyone’s quite active.”
On the TV he was watching, villains were running wild and Association-affiliated hunters capturing them were being broadcast live.
Im Seung-hun, who had been completely absorbed in watching TV while holding the remote, turned his head at the presence he felt from the door.
There stood a man wearing a black coat pulled down over his face, carrying an unconscious woman on his back as he opened the door.
Im Seung-hun immediately turned off the TV, stood up from his seat, and greeted the customer entering through the door.
“Welcome!”
It had been four hours since opening.
This was today’s first customer.
Im Seung-hun welcomed the customer with a bright smile, but his face hardened at the single sentence that flowed from the man’s mouth.
“Taesaja Im Seung-hun. I’ve been looking for you.”
Taesaja.
His now-erased alias.
His face hardened as he immediately threw a punch toward the owner of the voice.
He absolutely couldn’t let this slide.
Because.
“So you’re an A-rank hunter who earned an alias even after running away.”
He was a promising talent who had suddenly disappeared.
In reality, many promising talents appear and many fade away.
That’s what being a hunter is.
A fly’s life that could die at any moment.
He had clearly hidden and run away as if he had successfully died in a gate, but this bastard had tracked him down.
This guy in front of him was definitely not normal.
The punch he threw was a decisive blow.
The opponent had both arms sealed since he was carrying a woman on his back.
But his punch was very lightly blocked by the man’s kick.
“…Guh!”
Following that, along with a flashing vision, he had to collapse to the floor.
Im Seung-hun, with his head planted on the floor, gritted his teeth and shouted.
“What are you trying to do, coming here suddenly! I told you I quit!”
“Just because you quit doesn’t mean the past disappears.”
Press.
The man’s foot pressed down hard on Im Seung-hun’s back.
Im Seung-hun opened his mouth wide at the pain he was feeling for the first time, as if every cell was burning.
“Why did you suddenly disappear and run away?”
“…”
“No, actually I already know the reason.”
Flinch.
Im Seung-hun trembled slightly at the words that flowed from the man’s mouth.
He knew the reason for suddenly disappearing?
Having said that much, the man removed his foot that had been trampling Im Seung-hun.
Finally regaining freedom of his body, he creakily lifted his head.
Everything including his face was still hidden by the robe, but he could definitely tell that the man was looking at him.
“…Why did you come looking for me? It’s not like I committed a crime.”
“I was looking for someone trustworthy who was a former hunter that had disappeared, and had the skills.”
“What are you saying now.”
This hurts like hell.
I don’t know how long it’s been since I felt this kind of pain.
With tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, he struggled to reach his hand behind his back to rub his aching back.
“Take her.”
“Huh?”
The man held out the woman he had been carrying on his back.
He reflexively caught the woman the man offered with both arms.
“What, what is this. I don’t do things like murder.”
“I’m not requesting murder.”
“…Then?”
“This person has currently lost all her memories. Even when she wakes up, she’ll lose her memories and fall asleep again, and will continue repeating that.”
“…”
“I’d like to protect her myself if I could, but I can’t. So I want you to protect this person no matter what happens. That’s why I came here.”
At the man’s words, Im Seung-hun stared intently at the woman.
A woman sleeping as if unconscious.
Seeing that she was wearing clean clothes, it didn’t seem like he was lying.
“…Sorry, but I’ll have to refuse. As I said, I’m retired.”
“The reason you retired. I can solve that.”
“What!?”
Whip!
Im Seung-hun lifted his head and looked at the man with roughly trembling eyes.
He looked at Im Seung-hun with a serious voice and spoke again.
“I can solve the reason you retired.”
“…”
Clench.
Im Seung-hun tightly clenched his fist.
Could it be a lie?
It must be a lie.
There’s no way that’s possible.
It definitely can’t be, but.
“…Really?”
He had no choice but to believe.
Because he was that desperate.
At Im Seung-hun’s words, the man nodded.
“This person’s name is Choi Su-a. If you protect her well until the next time I meet you, I’ll stake everything I have to cure your condition.”
“…”
Having said this much, there was only one answer.
He nodded heavily at the man’s words.
The man looked at Im Seung-hun and reached into his coat.
“This is payment for your trouble and living expenses going forward.”
Thud.
A huge bag emerged from inside his coat.
With this as the last thing, the man turned and disappeared.
Im Seung-hun quickly followed and went outside the shop, but the mysterious man had already vanished.
“…What the hell.”
This is bewildering.
What was that all about.
Im Seung-hun scratched the back of his head and returned, looking back and forth between the woman lying asleep on the chair and the bag.
“That one seems fine.”
But what’s this…
Im Seung-hun carefully opened the bag and gasped.
Inside was a bag full of 50,000 won bills.
Im Seung-hun carefully took the bag and returned home with the woman.
As the night deepened, the sleeping woman slowly opened her eyes.
“Hey, mister. Can you speak?”
“…Yes.”
“Do you remember anything?”
“No…”
She really had lost her memory.
Whatever happened, a man shouldn’t go back on his word.
That was his creed.
So Im Seung-hun began taking care of the woman while running his barbershop.
Then one day.
“Ah…”
Im Seung-hun was anxious about leaving her alone at home since her memory reset daily, so he brought her to work with him.
Choi Su-a always sat quietly in the back, passing time.
But that day was different.
Choi Su-a, who was watching TV, showed some kind of reaction.
She was watching TV with an expression he’d never seen before, extremely focused.
Her pupils were completely constricted, and her lips were trembling slightly.
She had a clearly strange expression.
After politely thanking a customer who hadn’t visited in a long time, he turned around and casually glanced at Choi Su-a before looking at the TV.
“Ah. That’s Black Dragon hyung, isn’t it?”
“Black Dragon…?”
“He’s a famous Hunter these days. Even though he’s a C-rank Hunter, he’s called Black Dragon like a nickname? They’re making a fuss saying he’ll become S-rank soon.”
“…”
“Oh my. He’s already a B-rank Hunter? Fast, so fast. It took me three months.”
Choi Su-a pressed her lips tightly shut.
Im Seung-hun looked at Choi Su-a, thinking this would just be a one-time thing.
Anyway, when she fell asleep, she would forget what happened today.
Tomorrow her memory would reset again and she wouldn’t remember anything.
But Choi Su-a.
“Ah…”
The next day too.
“Black Dragon…”
The day after too.
“…”
Even after a week passed.
Every time Black Dragon appeared on TV, she showed the same reaction.
That reaction grew stronger as the days passed.
Im Seung-hun took drastic measures and unplugged the TV she was watching.
When he finished trimming a customer’s hair and returned.
“Huh, where did she go!?”
Choi Su-a had disappeared along with his wallet.
* * *
“Just in case, I put a GPS device in her pocket. Following that, sure enough, there was Black Dragon hyung.”
“…”
“It’s true. There’s not a single lie mixed in.”
I know that much.
The fact that there were no lies mixed in everything Im Seung-hun said.
“Elpinire. Do you think it’s a lie?”
“No. I also think it’s not a lie.”
“Squeak squeak squeak.”
It was the same for both Elpinire and Cheo-ri.
I nodded and loosened the mist binding him slightly while muttering.
“Becoming an Association-affiliated Hunter wasn’t meaningless after all.”
I thought it was a meaningless action since no one contacted me for a month.
But it wasn’t meaningless after all.
Who would have thought I’d find the missing Hyung-su-nim on the last day like this.
Of course, I expected the person responsible for what happened to hyung to approach me, but finding Hyung-su-nim is fortunate enough.
“Do you remember the characteristics of the man who came to you?”
“Me? I still remember that time like a mirage. He didn’t show his face, hair, or eyes at all. I only remember that his voice was quite handsome.”
I see.
I scratched the back of my head, feeling like I was back to square one.
“Speaking of which, Great Lion. I’m sure I’ve heard that nickname before.”
There are so many rookies in the world.
Because many people come out of the Tutorial Tower with outstanding skills.
Right now, I’m also called a rookie by the public.
‘Ah, no.’
I’m being called a ‘Super Rookie’ just like that guy Kim Tae-seong.
Anyway, since there are many rookies, there are quite a few Hunters with nicknames too.
After all, even for me, the name Black Dragon that I was called on the internet seems to have completely settled as my nickname.
“Was it a Hunter who became famous long ago for protecting children for two days in a B-rank Sudden Gate?”
“…!”
Flinch!
Im Seung-hun’s body shook violently as he hung his head low.
I wasn’t sure if I remembered correctly, but it seems I was right.
I remember that after that incident, he also received the nickname ‘Great Lion ‘ meaning a great lion-like person who protects children.
Since he disappeared from TV and everywhere else at some point, I thought he had died quietly in a Gate as usual.
I stroked my chin while looking at Im Seung-hun.
“But your face is a bit different from what I saw on TV.”
“…”
“Wasn’t your face smaller and your build smaller?”
“…”
“Come to think of it, you said you accepted the man’s proposal because of an illness. Are you sick somewhere?”
“…”
“What kind of illness was it that made you fall for it when that man said he’d cure you?”
“…Hair.”
“What?”
“Hair loss! Hair loss, hair loss!”
Im Seung-hun shouted loudly.
I blinked blankly while looking at Im Seung-hun.
“My dream since childhood was to be a hairstylist! But I awakened and had talent, so I became a Hunter!”
He shouted as if it was the most unfair thing in the world.
“When I was active, I styled my own hair and was popular because of it! But because of damn hair loss, my hair disappeared day by day!”
“…”
“I ran away because I didn’t want to see myself bald!”
I carefully asked Im Seung-hun’s resentful voice.
“Don’t regeneration-type Hunters regenerate hair follicles too…?”
Awakening, mana, and skills are still unexplored territories.
But there were also facts that had been revealed, including the fact that regeneration-type skills regenerate even lost hair follicles.
Whether my question hit a nerve, Im Seung-hun made a walnut on his chin and screamed shrilly.
“My hair follicles are gone by default so they can’t regenerate! Are you satisfied!”
“Ah….”
How pitiful.
He’s so pitiful that it makes all my previous thoughts about how to make him suffer seem meaningless.
I quietly averted my gaze and completely erased the mist that had been restraining him.
Having regained his freedom, he slumped down like a pitiful girl and hung his head.
“Grandma… I’m sorry. I don’t have the confidence to live anymore….”
“Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.”
“It’s shameful that I said this with my own mouth!”
He shouted at me with an expression like his life was over.
I was smiling awkwardly when I felt something strange and tilted my head.
“But wait a minute.”
“What now!”
“You said your hometown is Seoul? But you use dialect.”
Could it be that I was fooled, and all his explanations were lies?
At my suspicious gaze, Im Seung-hun let out a hollow laugh and said.
“Is there a law saying you can’t use dialect just because you were born in Seoul?”
“There isn’t, but it’s suspicious.”
“My mom and dad died when I was one, so the grandmas and grandpas in the neighborhood mostly raised me. They were all people who came up from the provinces, so that’s why I use dialects from various regions.”
“Ah. I see?”
This is fate.
“I don’t have parents either.”
“….”
“By the way, Soo-a Nuna who you were protecting also doesn’t have parents.”
This really is fate.
There are four people here, and all four are orphans.
“I have Mother though?”
“…Right, Elpinire. Trees can’t be mothers.”
“Take back what you just said!”
I lightly blocked Elpinire’s incoming punch with my right hand.
Even after eating plants, insulting the World Tree is still not allowed, I guess.
Since I know the World Tree actually has consciousness, I should correct myself.
“Everyone here doesn’t have a father.”
“….”
This should be fine, right?
I looked at Elpinire with that meaning.
She thought for a moment, then nodded as if this was acceptable.
Im Seung-hun, who had been watching this whole process, had a dazed expression the entire time.
“…Hey, listen.”
“Yeah?”
“Black Dragon hyung, do you know that woman named Choi Su-a?”
“…Ah, that’s right.”
I nodded and looked at Choi Su-a who was sleeping soundly.
“She’s the wife of my family-like hyung.”
“…Who is this hyung you mention?”
“I don’t know either. He went missing.”
I smiled bitterly and got up from the chair….
“Ah.”
Wait a minute.
My eyes shook roughly as I looked ahead and swallowed dry saliva.
The building had completely collapsed, with the sun floating above our heads shining down strongly.
“…This isn’t your shop, is it?”
“I don’t know this shop either.”
“…We’re screwed.”
I squeezed my eyes shut.
It seems I caused quite an accident on my last day.
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