My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 49

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 49

 

Episode 49. To the Tower of Illusion

 

Fortunately, the building I destroyed was apparently scheduled for redevelopment.

 

It was originally going to be demolished anyway, and it had no owner.

 

What incredible luck.

 

If I had to pay for it, the Han Gang View Apartment would have become a much more distant dream.

 

“So this person is that…”

 

“Choi Su-a. She’s Hyung’s wife.”

 

I looked at Choi Su-a lying on the bed in the Awakened Association’s infirmary.

 

When I called on my phone after everything was over, they said they were already looking for her because she was late.

 

The two people who teleported over as soon as I explained the situation quickly cleaned up the scene.

 

“You said she loses her memory every day?”

 

“Y-yes…”

 

“Then it would be inappropriate to call it amnesia.”

 

Jeong Chan-woo stroked his chin with sunken eyes at Im Seung-hun’s words.

 

Im Seung-hun, who was forced to come along during the scene cleanup, stood with his hands neatly clasped together, his eyes darting around busily.

 

“…”

 

Seong Yu-mi hadn’t said a word since coming to the infirmary and was looking at Choi Su-a with a serious expression.

 

After staring like that for a while, she slowly opened her mouth.

 

“…This is magic.”

 

“What?”

 

“A magic-type skill has been cast on her. I’m not sure either, but a weak magic is continuously erasing this person’s memories.”

 

“…!”

 

I widened my eyes and looked at Seong Yu-mi.

 

Her red pupils were split vertically, and her eyes were full of bloodshot veins.

 

At a glance, even the whites of her eyes seemed to have turned red from how wide she was opening them, but she finally closed her eyes and pressed her eyelids with her hand.

 

I urgently shouted toward her.

 

“Can you dispel it?”

 

“I think I can do it… but she won’t be able to recover her memories.”

 

“Ah…”

 

“Even though there are healing-type Hunters who can reattach severed arms, there’s no healing-type Hunter who can restore memories that have already evaporated.”

 

At Seong Yu-mi’s words, I pressed my lips tightly together.

 

Seong Yu-mi’s words weren’t wrong.

 

What healing-type Hunters can do is only physical healing.

 

Mental healing was an area that was just as impossible to handle as modern medicine.

 

“Then…”

 

“I can somehow stop it from getting worse than it is now, but it would be difficult to return to how it was before.”

 

“…”

 

So that’s how it is.

 

My mouth tastes bitter.

 

To lose all memories and have to start over from zero.

 

What kind of situation is that?

 

‘…But it’s okay.’

 

Let’s not think negatively and think positively instead.

 

Even if she loses her memories, her existence itself doesn’t change.

 

Hyung-su-nim is still there, so we can just build new memories together.

 

“I’ll take responsibility and try to dispel the magic that’s been cast, so don’t worry.”

 

“Please, I’m counting on you.”

 

I bowed my head to her and let out a long sigh.

 

‘Magic…’

 

I had suspected it from when Im Seung-hun mentioned that someone brought Choi Su-a who had lost her memory.

 

But hearing it directly from her mouth definitely feels different.

 

‘But why?’

 

Why did they erase Hyung-su-nim’s memory?

 

Could this also be an extension of erasing Hyung’s records?

 

If so, what kind of incident was Hyung involved in to be erased so thoroughly?

 

And who is that man who brought Hyung-su-nim?

 

One thought leads to another.

 

No matter how much I rack my brain, no answer comes.

 

I scratched the back of my head vigorously and let out a deep sigh as I raised my head.

 

“Tsk.”

 

Let’s just think about it lightly.

 

Although it’s a bit different in nature, I’ve achieved my primary goal of becoming famous so people who know me would come find me, right?

 

That’s enough.

 

Why am I thinking so complicatedly?

 

Since I found Hyung-su-nim who was missing, finding Hyung won’t be completely impossible either.

 

That’s sufficient.

 

With a much lighter heart, I turned my head and made eye contact with Im Seung-hun who was fidgeting nearby.

 

“So Hunter Seong Yu-mi. What are you going to do with that person?”

 

“Hmm… well.”

 

Im Seung-hun flinched when he received the gazes of me, Seong Yu-mi, and Jeong Chan-woo.

 

He looked like he wanted to run toward the door immediately, but that was impossible since Elpinire was firmly guarding the entrance.

 

I looked at Seong Yu-mi who was stroking her chin and snapped my fingers.

 

“Right. Let’s take that person and put him to work?”

 

“Huh?”

 

Seong Yu-mi looked at me as if asking what I was talking about.

 

I pointed at Im Seung-hun and said to her.

 

“That person is an A-rank Hunter. Isn’t he valuable manpower?”

 

“That’s true, but…”

 

“From what I can see, you don’t have people on your team and you’re busy. Just work him like a slave.”

 

“W-wait a minute, Black Dragon hyung. I have a store too?”

 

“You got paid, didn’t you? Should I confiscate that?”

 

“…”

 

“And where do you get off talking back? Do you want to go to prison?”

 

I understood that he cooperated because of the important condition of hair loss treatment.

 

‘So what.’

 

Frankly speaking, Im Seung-hun is nothing more than a kidnapper.

 

If he really wanted to be righteous, he should have reported to the police first.

 

From the moment he didn’t do that, he was a criminal.

 

Im Seung-hun couldn’t refute a single word and pressed his lips tightly together.

 

I looked at Im Seung-hun and clicked my tongue lightly as I added.

 

“You have to protect Hyung-su-nim to get your hair loss treated, and I have no intention of giving Hyung-su-nim back to you.”

 

“…I’ve already given up on the treatment. I know what I did was wrong.”

 

“No. There’s no need to give up.”

 

“What?”

 

“Protect her. Here.”

 

I pointed at the floor with my index finger.

 

“Did that man tell you to protect her while she had lost her memory?”

 

“…”

 

“No, right? He just told you to guard her. Then it doesn’t matter, does it?”

 

Im Seung-hun’s eyes widened as if he hadn’t thought of that.

 

Looking at him, I swallowed the words I couldn’t say.

 

‘I’m also curious about the face of that man who brought Hyung-su-nim.’

 

That person had specifically sought out the reclusive Im Seung-hun and entrusted Choi Su-a to him.

 

If he didn’t care whether she lived or died, he wouldn’t have bothered.

 

But he was a former Hunter, a good person who threw himself into danger for a child, and despite having great power, he specifically sought out Im Seung-hun who had disappeared without anyone knowing, to ask him to take care of Choi Su-a.

 

What this meant was clear.

 

Whether it takes long or short, that man will come looking for Choi Su-a someday.

 

To prepare for that moment, Im Seung-hun shouldn’t be sent to prison.

 

Rather, he should be kept close and monitored to see who comes looking.

 

“….”

 

Im Seung-hun lowered his head and stared down at his own hands.

 

Hands too clumsy to hold scissors.

 

Memories of cutting the hair of neighborhood grandmothers and grandfathers with scissors as a child and receiving praise.

 

Memories of bringing wax to middle school for the first time to style his friends’ hair, only to be severely scolded by the teacher.

 

Such memories intertwined and led him to dream of becoming a hairdresser, but he knew it too.

 

That his talent was more suited to being a Hunter than a hairdresser.

 

That he only felt truly alive when throwing himself into danger for people.

 

“…Really? Is it really okay?”

 

He had run away.

 

Because he wanted to try challenging his childhood dream of becoming a hairdresser.

 

Using this as an excuse because he didn’t want his baldness to be discovered.

 

He had run away without saying anything.

 

He ran away because his gradually rising fame felt heavy.

 

Yet despite all that, he didn’t want the reputation of ‘Taesaja’ that he had built up to be tarnished, so he told no one.

 

Actions that even he thought were pathetically shabby.

 

Could someone like me, who had done such things, really return to this place?

 

Im Seung-hun asked with eyes desperately wanting an answer, but the person giving that answer replied with a very indifferent attitude.

 

“We’ll see how you do.”

 

“…Then I’ll gladly do it. Please let me.”

 

At Im Seung-hun’s words, I smiled and looked back at Seong Yu-mi.

 

“That’s what he says.”

 

“Black Dragon…”

 

Ha.

 

Seong Yu-mi let out a hollow laugh and shook her head while looking at Im Seung-hun.

 

“Listen here, Taesaja. Our department won’t be easy, you know?”

 

“I’m confident I can work like a slave without complaint.”

 

At Im Seung-hun’s confident smile, Seong Yu-mi nodded.

 

“Since Black Dragon is leaving, we got one more worker we can work to the bone, Chan-woo.”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Now that we have more workers, should we go on an overseas trip? How about Hawaii?”

 

“Too far, I don’t like it.”

 

Seong Yu-mi made a displeased expression at Jeong Chan-woo’s firm response.

 

She soon chuckled and looked at me.

 

“Black Dragon. You finally achieved your goal on the last day?”

 

“Yes.”

 

I nodded.

 

Seong Yu-mi lightly punched my shoulder with her fist, meaning it was good.

 

“You can’t forget us, okay? You know that, right?”

 

“I won’t forget. I’ll come back as soon as I have time.”

 

“…Oh, that’s right. The Association Chairman Grandfather issued an official document saying he’d let Black Dragon remain an Association-affiliated Hunter no matter how long you’re away.”

 

Seong Yu-mi scratched her cheek, saying this was the first case in Association history.

 

“The Association Chairman Grandfather must think very highly of Black Dragon.”

 

“Just like Hunter Seong Yu-mi, he probably thinks I’ll become S-rank quickly.”

 

“That could be it.”

 

Kuk kuk.

 

Seong Yu-mi laughed with a throaty sound and looked down at the sleeping Choi Su-a.

 

“It’ll probably take some time to dispel the magic cast on her. It’s magic I’ve never seen before, and it’s only faintly visible to my eyes. Probably… it’ll take a few weeks.”

 

“I see.”

 

“I’ll contact you as soon as the dispelling is complete, so don’t come to the Association until then. Black Dragon, you know the reason, right?”

 

“Of course.”

 

In the current situation where Choi Su-a is at the Association, it’s best for me to disappear.

 

If I disappear, they’ll focus their attention on the missing ‘me’ rather than the Association during that time.

 

To hide the fact that Choi Su-a is at the Association, this would be the right answer.

 

‘Promising Hunters suddenly disappearing is surprisingly common after all.’

 

Thinking that, I looked at Im Seung-hun standing there blankly.

 

He had pretended to be dead and disappeared, but even without death or injury, there are many Hunters who take breaks.

 

Kim Tae-seong had also taken about a month’s break.

 

After that, his skills improved dramatically, so there were rumors that it wasn’t a break but secret training with guild help.

 

Anyway, so I’ll also temporarily disappear until the magic is dispelled.

 

I’ll make them focus on ‘me’ as the existence that suddenly disappeared.

 

Then Seong Yu-mi will be able to dispel the magic in a more comfortable environment.

 

“It’s still early to leave work, but… how about just leaving work anyway?”

 

“I’ll do that.”

 

I nodded without complaint.

 

Those words weren’t directed only at ‘me’.

 

It was also directed at Jeong Chan-woo and Im Seung-hun standing there blankly.

 

It meant that if we were here, it would be hard to concentrate on dispelling the magic cast on Hyung-su-nim.

 

“I’ve been greatly indebted for a month. I’ll come back as soon as I have time.”

 

“Yeah. Black Dragon will be on our team forever from now on.”

 

“You bit off more than you can chew.”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“What!? Wait, Chan-woo, say that again! Same goes for you, Black Dragon!”

 

* * *

 

Jeong Chan-woo said he had additional things to do with Im Seung-hun, so I left them and headed home.

 

Not feeling like going straight in, I sat on a bench in the park where the Sudden Gate had appeared a month ago, puffing out white breath while looking up at the sky.

 

“Why does the sun set so fast?”

 

It was only 5 o’clock but the sky was already glowing with sunset.

 

It’s almost March, is this right?

 

Just like that time, holding a canned drink in my hand, I sipped the beverage while staring at the playground being newly rebuilt.

 

“Thank you for coming right away when I called you after almost a month without even a subject and made a request. Thanks to you, I was able to find Hyung-su-nim, Elpinire.”

 

“I originally pledged to serve my master. Whether it’s a month or a year, I’ll come running without complaint whenever you call.”

 

“Is that so.”

 

“Besides, during the month you didn’t call me, I succeeded in completely restoring the Verdant Forest. I was actually grateful that you didn’t call me for a month.”

 

Elpinire, who said that, sipped her carbonated drink.

 

She frowned with all her might, as if she couldn’t get used to the fizzy taste of the carbonation.

 

“Is it finally tomorrow, Master?”

 

“Yeah. It’s tomorrow.”

 

Tomorrow, the ‘Tower of Illusion’ will finally open, breaking through a month of waiting.

 

“Will you go right away?”

 

“I should go.”

 

There’s nothing particular to do anyway until the magic cast on Choi Su-a is lifted.

 

I don’t want to waste time, so I might as well enter a tower.

 

“What kind of place is the Tower of Illusion?”

 

“The place I was at was called the Tower of Recording, wasn’t it?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“Then wouldn’t it be a place where you see illusions?”

 

“…Doesn’t that make it even harder to understand?”

 

“I suppose so.”

 

Illusions, huh.

 

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t get a grasp on it.

 

Clicking my tongue softly, I threw the empty can into the trash bin in one go, unlike before, and stood up from the bench.

 

“Should I buy some chicken on the way in?”

 

“Chicken?”

 

“Ah, you don’t know about it?”

 

“Kyuuuk! Kyeok kyeok!”

 

Cheo-ri popped out of my pocket and twisted his body this way and that, as if pitying her for not knowing about it.

 

Elpinire, who couldn’t understand Cheo-ri’s gestures at all, just kept tilting her head repeatedly.

 

And so I trudged toward the market.

 

* * *

 

The next morning.

 

Opening my eyes, I looked ahead with my bag placed beside me.

 

[Tower of Illusion]

 

[The Tower of Illusion permitted only to you who have been acknowledged by the Tower of Recording. You can enter the Tower of Illusion when using skills.]

 

[Time remaining until Tower of Illusion opens: 0 hours]

 

[The Tower of Illusion opens as of this moment.]

 

Whew.

 

Taking a short deep breath, I slung the bag packed full of survival supplies over my shoulder.

 

“Kyeok!”

 

“Right. Let’s go.”

 

Smiling as I answered Cheo-ri who poked his head out of my pocket, I wished with a smile.

 

Send me to the ‘Tower of Illusion’ right now.

 

[Tower of Illusion]

 

Whoooosh-!

 

Light brightening from beneath my feet.

 

Soon that light completely covered my vision.

 

“…”

 

No one remained in the room.

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