My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 52

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 52

 

Episode 52. How to Tame a Cat (1)

 

The next day.

 

I woke up early in the morning, stretched, and came out of my room.

 

“Who would’ve thought there’d be a bed in an unused room too.”

 

The homeowner told us to get lost, but whoever built this house clearly made it with the assumption that multiple people would live together.

 

Otherwise, there’s no way such a fluffy bed would exist just for decoration.

 

I lightly loosened my neck and looked around.

 

“Am I the first one up?”

 

Jini’s door was naturally closed.

 

Elpinire’s door was also closed, as she had decided not to return to the forest since there was nothing left to do there anyway.

 

Cheo-ri was still sleeping next to me, so it seemed I was the only one awake right now.

 

“Hmm.”

 

What should I do.

 

There’s less to do than I thought.

 

No, it’s not less than I thought – there’s just nothing to do.

 

“I can’t go out of the forest alone either…”

 

Going into that dim forest alone without Elpinire would be like declaring I want to get lost.

 

Then there’s only one thing I can do right now.

 

“Let’s rest.”

 

I worked hard for the past month, didn’t I?

 

I should be able to rest a bit now.

 

I’ll think of this as a vacation and just stretch out my legs and relax.

 

“Kyuung…”

 

“What? You’re awake?”

 

Turning my head at the voice from behind me, I caught Cheo-ri crawling out through the open door with my hand.

 

The little guy rubbed his head against my hand, then climbed up my arm and settled on my shoulder.

 

“Cheo-ri. What should we do?”

 

“Kyuk…”

 

“Just rest?”

 

“Kyuk.”

 

“Sure, why not.”

 

Since Cheo-ri also says let’s just rest, what can I do.

 

I prepared breakfast while playing with Cheo-ri like that.

 

* * *

 

“Master.”

 

“Yeah?”

 

Munch, munch.

 

Elpinire, who had devoured her breakfast as soon as she woke up and left the cabin.

 

Since Jini didn’t come out no matter how long I waited, I followed Elpinire out of the cabin.

 

Elpinire was now planting vegetation, saying she couldn’t leave the empty front yard and backyard as they were.

 

When I asked if she couldn’t just stomp once and make them grow, she said that wasn’t a method the plants particularly preferred.

 

They preferred being carefully tended to, so if she wasn’t in a hurry, she wanted to choose this method.

 

Honestly, from a spectator’s perspective, I don’t know what the difference is.

 

Crouching in the backyard, I was watching Elpinire diligently planting vegetation from the morning.

 

You could say it’s a waste of time, and that would be correct.

 

I’m just wasting time.

 

Honestly, there’s nothing to do right now, and I don’t know what I need to do to get to the next floor.

 

What kind of condition is “lower your guard” supposed to be.

 

‘…Come to think of it, it was similar in the Tower of Recording.’

 

Looking at how they set that absurd condition of gaining El Spier and Elpinire’s recognition, it might not be that different.

 

Still, with those two, I had a sense of how to gain their recognition so it was easier than expected, but this one I can’t get a feel for at all.

 

Just what do I need to do to make her lower her guard.

 

‘Well, if I think about it slowly, I’ll find an answer.’

 

Jini didn’t kick us out immediately.

 

Though it seems closer to her being unable to kick us out.

 

Anyway, while staying in this cabin, I just need to find a way, so there’s probably no need to rush.

 

Elpinire straightened her bent back and let out a small breath while manifesting mana in her hands.

 

As green mana bloomed in her hands, the dirt and dust on Elpinire’s hands instantly fell to the ground.

 

Without wiping her hands, she made them clean and turned to look at me with her hands on her waist.

 

“There was something I couldn’t say yesterday.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“When you were fighting that man Im Seung-hun on Earth. I could see myself overlapping with your posture – that wasn’t my imagination, right?”

 

I nodded.

 

In most battles where I didn’t use ‘Black Dragon’, I referenced Elpinire’s combat techniques quite a lot.

 

Among all the martial arts I’d seen directly, Elpinire’s was the most outstanding.

 

I wonder if it’s because I copied it without saying anything.

 

Before I could even think that, Elpinire grinned and approached me.

 

“You should have told me, Master.”

 

She smiled brightly as if delighted and reached out her hand to me.

 

“Master. I’ll teach you directly.”

 

“…But isn’t that something you shouldn’t copy carelessly?”

 

“That’s right. If it were someone else, I probably would have rearranged all their joints backwards, but since it’s you, Master, it’s fine.”

 

I see.

 

You let it slide because I’m your master.

 

I nodded at Elpinire’s words.

 

‘I shouldn’t complain about being called master from now on.’

 

Even if I don’t die, I don’t have the peculiar taste of enjoying pain.

 

Not sensing a trace of lie in Elpinire’s words, I trembled slightly and stood up.

 

“But even if you’re going to teach me, how?”

 

“Hmm… well.”

 

“Do you know how to teach?”

 

“I know roughly.”

 

She muttered quietly, then suddenly took a stance and threw a punch at me.

 

I hastily raised my arms and blocked the punch.

 

Thanks to that, there was no direct impact to my body, but the bones in both arms were completely shattered.

 

Letting both arms hang down limply, I let out a hollow laugh and looked at Elpinire.

 

Elpinire had already taken a perfect stance.

 

“What are you doing. Take your stance, Master.”

 

“This is your teaching method?”

 

“This is how I learned from Grandfather.”

 

Just how did he teach a child.

 

Letting out a long sigh, I raised my arms that had been healed by ‘Blessing of Super Regeneration’.

 

“Wrap mist around your body, Master.”

 

“Alright.”

 

Whoosh.

 

I wrapped mist around my body.

 

Elpinire looked at me and nodded with satisfaction.

 

“Don’t hold a grudge.”

 

With those brief words.

 

I threw my fist like lightning.

 

* * *

 

Jini had been hiding behind the wall, watching them for quite some time.

 

Originally, Jini had been awake even before that man named Han Mi-reo came out to the living room.

 

Because she hadn’t been sleeping.

 

Though she loved sleep the most, just the fact that someone was in the house made it impossible for her to fall asleep.

 

So she kept watching.

 

‘What exactly did they come here to do…’

 

From her perspective, they seemed to have no particular purpose.

 

Look at them now.

 

All they do after waking up in the morning is prepare food.

 

And after that, they go out and plant things.

 

Since she was about 100 meters away from them, she couldn’t hear their conversation well, but Jini was watching and being wary of every single action they took.

 

“Omen. I’m not visible right now, right…?”

 

Jini quietly looked to the side and muttered.

 

To others, it would look like she was staring into empty space, but there was a giant black bat floating there that only she could see.

 

Omen, a high-ranking spirit of darkness.

 

Spirits are special condensations of mana with self-awareness, born when mana gathers and accumulates in nature.

 

Their existence itself is so special that only chosen ones can see or sense them.

 

Except for a few great spirits.

 

Among them, Omen beside Jini had been her friend ever since Jini came to Darkness.

 

The giant bat nodded toward Jini.

 

With the power of the darkness spirit, Jini was currently concealing her appearance.

 

Since she was within the shadows, she wouldn’t be found unless someone came very close.

 

Hesitantly stepping out from behind the wall, Jini crouched down on the ground and looked ahead.

 

“…Huh?”

 

Thwack!

 

While she was conversing with Omen, the two uninvited guests suddenly started exchanging punches.

 

Startled, Jini looked at the two people with her eyes trembling roughly.

 

“What, what? Why are they fighting?”

 

The woman named Elpinire kicked Han Mi-reo in the abdomen with her foot.

 

Han Mi-reo lightly blocked that kick, then swung his foot in the same manner.

 

“Haha! Master, you’re pretty good!?”

 

She clearly called him ‘master’.

 

As far as she knew, only slaves called someone master.

 

But the Elpinire that Jini was watching didn’t seem like a slave at all.

 

Rather, their relationship looked like that of close friends.

 

“Grit your teeth, master.”

 

“That’s what I want to say.”

 

Crack!

 

Each other’s fists struck each other’s jaws.

 

Both their heads snapped back simultaneously.

 

Without anyone going first, the two people who had blood trickling from their mouths smiled and rushed toward each other.

 

“Ah…”

 

Only then did Jini realize.

 

What they were doing now wasn’t fighting.

 

What was unfolding before her eyes was teaching.

 

And the one doing the teaching was Elpinire.

 

“…”

 

A slave giving teachings to her master.

 

Was that really possible?

 

She didn’t know.

 

By the common sense she knew, it was absolutely impossible.

 

Therefore, Jini chose to quietly keep her mouth shut and watch the two people.

 

* * *

 

“Let’s call it here for today.”

 

The sparring finally ended.

 

We didn’t rest for several hours.

 

Thanks to the ‘Blessing of Super Regeneration’, my body was fine, but my mind was at its limit.

 

I don’t know how long it’s been since I was pushed to such extremes.

 

I pulled up my clothes to wipe the sweat flowing down my jaw.

 

Unlike me who was drenched in sweat, Elpinire was completely dry.

 

I sat down on the ground and sprawled out, looking up at the sky.

 

“It’s still dark…”

 

Jini said this place is always dark.

 

Really, even after several hours, the darkness doesn’t fade.

 

As I was blankly looking up at the sky, a black snake appeared in my vision.

 

“Cheo-ri.”

 

“Squeak.”

 

“Are you hungry?”

 

“Squeak squeak.”

 

The little guy shook his head as if to say no.

 

Soon after, he started licking me with his tongue.

 

“Are you worried about me?”

 

“Squeak.”

 

“Thanks, really.”

 

You’re all I have.

 

I gently scratched Cheo-ri’s forehead.

 

Really, you’re all I have.

 

Look at that wicked elf over there.

 

She’s clicking her tongue in regret, saying we could have done more.

 

Master and summon aside, you’re the only one I have.

 

Holding Cheo-ri preciously like that, I lay on the ground and spoke to Elpinire.

 

“Come to think of it, I heard this place is where spirits of darkness have settled. Elpinire, do you know about spirits?”

 

“If it’s spirits, I know roughly about them.”

 

“Oh. Then tell me about them.”

 

Spirits exist on Earth too.

 

People who handle spirits also exist.

 

But even they couldn’t explain exactly what spirits are.

 

Even hunters who handle spirits don’t know about spirits.

 

So I was curious, and it’s fortunate that you know.

 

Elpinire, who had been stroking her chin, slowly opened her mouth.

 

“Master. You know that mana is the power of life, right?”

 

“I think El Spier told me that.”

 

The World Tree always keeps mana, the power of life, clean, right?

 

I remember it was something El Spier said.

 

Seeing me nod, Elpinire continued with an expression that the explanation would be much easier.

 

“Since mana is the power of life, all living things have it. Even weeds on the roadside have mana.”

 

“So that’s how you listen to the will of plants?”

 

Elpinire nodded slightly and pointed at the air with her finger.

 

“Mana exists even in the places I’m pointing to right now. Mana is invisible to the eye, but it exists everywhere.”

 

Mana, the force of life, exists everywhere.

 

It’s just that it’s invisible to the eye.

 

Such mana normally drifts around and circulates evenly, but sometimes it gathers in one space.

 

Places where fierce winds blow, or places where intense heat rises.

 

The mana gathered in such special spaces gradually condenses and takes on a certain form.

 

“That’s a spirit.”

 

For mana, the force of life, to bloom into a single life, it needs a vessel.

 

But one day, mana condensed due to special circumstances without a vessel.

 

Eventually, they were born into this world without having a vessel called a physical body.

 

They became special life forms with the name spirits.

 

“This place is probably a good environment for spirits to be born and settle down.”

 

“Hmm….”

 

“This place was probably just a forest that couldn’t receive sunlight well at first. But as spirits of darkness were born one by one, it must have completely lost its light.”

 

I think so too.

 

No matter how I think about it, having night continue for 24 hours straight doesn’t make sense.

 

This isn’t some place in a perpetual polar night state.

 

“Let’s go back to the cabin for now.”

 

I’m worried about what Jini is doing.

 

She shouldn’t run away.

 

* * *

 

Returning to the cabin, I glanced at the door that was still closed.

 

Jini’s door was still tightly shut.

 

Seeing that the stew on the dining table was still there, it seemed she hadn’t come out of her room.

 

‘Or not.’

 

Maybe she just didn’t eat it.

 

Clicking my tongue softly, I picked up the bowl containing the stew and looked at the pot.

 

This morning, I was too lazy so I made a huge batch of tomato stew.

 

Opening the lid and looking at the remaining amount, it seemed there would be leftovers even after eating it for dinner tonight.

 

I poured the cooled stew back into the pot and muttered.

 

“Hmm… but this is a big problem.”

 

“What is?”

 

“The food I brought is already running dangerously low.”

 

Cheo-ri can breathe fire.

 

That’s why I didn’t bring lunch boxes that would have storage problems.

 

I mainly brought raw vegetables like potatoes and tomatoes, and preserved foods like jerky and hardtack.

 

The problem was that after cooking meals with those ingredients several times, I was already having to worry about running out of ingredients.

 

“How much potatoes and tomatoes are left?”

 

“If we boil this one more time, we’ll run out.”

 

“Hmm. Then leave it to me.”

 

She looked at the pot with an expression that showed she wasn’t very enthusiastic about it.

 

“I’ll make crops grow with my power.”

 

“Is that okay? Just a while ago you said they prefer it when you plant them by hand.”

 

“It’s just a matter of priorities. Right now, the most important things to me are Mother and Master.”

 

To think she’s treating me on the same level as the World Tree.

 

I’m truly moved.

 

“Then I’ll ask you to do that.”

 

The food problem was solved more easily than expected.

 

So what’s next.

 

“What do we do now?”

 

“….”

 

After a moment of silence, I walked back outside the cabin.

 

“Master, where are you going?”

 

“To wash up.”

 

Since there’s nothing to do, I should go wash at the well.

 

And so another day passed.

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