My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 54

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 54

 

Episode 54. The True Uninvited Guest (1)

 

After the treatment was finished.

 

I entered the cabin and stared intently at the system.

 

[4th Floor]

 

[Exterminate the ???]

 

The condition for the 4th Floor that appeared after clearing the 3rd Floor.

 

Seeing that it says to exterminate something, I guess a monster will appear.

 

I clicked my tongue softly and carefully knocked on the tightly closed door.

 

“Um, Jini?”

 

The system said her wariness had crumbled.

 

I wonder if that’s really true.

 

I waited quietly in front of the door with a pounding heart.

 

“…”

 

No response came back.

 

Could it be that the system was wrong?

 

Just as I was about to think that.

 

“Why, why…?”

 

Creak.

 

The closed door opened with a noisy hinge sound.

 

So her wariness really had crumbled.

 

I suppressed my rising emotion and asked Jini.

 

“It’s nothing. I was just wondering if there’s anything you’d like to eat.”

 

“Ah…”

 

Perhaps not expecting my question, Jini began rolling her eyes in confusion.

 

“Well, I’m not forcing you. I just thought I’d do it if it’s something I can manage.”

 

“Is, is that so…?”

 

“It’s true that we’re staying at your house right now. Just tell me anything.”

 

A roughly made-up excuse.

 

Jini, who had been rolling her eyes around, spoke in a voice as small as a mouse crawling.

 

“Fish…”

 

“Fish?”

 

“Yes. I want to eat fish.”

 

Fish, huh.

 

This is quite troublesome.

 

I have dried meat in my bag, but no dried fish.

 

If I had known this would happen, I should have brought some dried pollack from home.

 

While I was at it, if I had brought seaweed too, I could have whipped up some seaweed soup.

 

“Fish would be a bit difficult since I don’t have any.”

 

“Is that so…”

 

“Ah. Is there a stream around here by any chance? Then it might be possible.”

 

Jini nodded silently.

 

“Then could you tell me where it is?”

 

I have an excellent guide named Elpinire.

 

Even if it’s a place I’m going to for the first time, she’ll take me there if I just explain it well.

 

“No.”

 

Jini shook her head firmly.

 

Gripping her clothes tightly with both hands, she squeezed her eyes shut and said.

 

“I, I’ll guide you there, so it’s okay.”

 

Jini’s hands gripping her clothes kept trembling.

 

Her head was facing downward with her eyes tightly shut.

 

Ah, I see.

 

For whatever reason, she’s really opened her heart.

 

I chuckled and nodded, saying.

 

“Then I’ll ask you to do that, Jini.”

 

“…Yes!”

 

Jini shouted loudly.

 

Well, even if I say loudly, it was just a normal volume from our perspective.

 

But Jini was startled by the fact that she had made such a loud noise and covered her mouth.

 

She shouts by herself and gets surprised by herself.

 

What a girl with many surprises.

 

Leaving Jini alone in her panic, I turned my head and looked at Elpinire.

 

She was crossing her arms and staring intently outside the door.

 

“What are you doing?”

 

“Master. Sunlight doesn’t come in here, right?”

 

“I suppose not.”

 

At my words, Elpinire stroked her chin.

 

“Something I want to experiment with came to mind.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“I’ll try it first and then let you know. In the meantime, Master, go catch some fish with Jini.”

 

I don’t know what it is, but if she wants to do it, there’s nothing I can do.

 

I don’t want to restrict her with trivial things.

 

I nodded and spoke to Jini, who finally seemed to have calmed down.

 

“Shall we go right away then?”

 

“Yes, yes! Just a moment!”

 

Jini nodded vigorously.

 

She immediately began packing things to go outside.

 

* * *

 

“Is that paper thing a tool for controlling spirits?”

 

“Sp, spirits aren’t controlled. They’re friends. Like Mr. Mir and Lady Elpinire.”

 

“Ah, is that so? Sorry. I was mistaken.”

 

“No, no! You don’t need to apologize!”

 

Step, step.

 

I walked through the dark forest with Jini.

 

I wondered if it was right for Jini, who was two heads shorter than me, to lead the way, but when she took the lead, I could see much farther.

 

I stared intently at Jini walking while holding up a bell in front of her.

 

“Jini must be strong too.”

 

“No. I’m weak. Very, very weak.”

 

“That can’t be. The spirits help you, don’t they?”

 

I said that while looking to Jini’s side.

 

This was the first time I had stayed close to her for such a long time, so I didn’t know before.

 

But now I think I understand.

 

By Jini’s side.

 

There was a blurry shadow that I had been seeing for the past few days protecting Jini.

 

Jini turned her head toward where my gaze was directed and trembled with surprise.

 

“Co, could it be that you can see Omen!?”

 

“Ah. This is a spirit? I’ve been sensing it a little since a few days ago.”

 

“Wow…! I can’t believe you can see Omen!”

 

She stopped walking and bounced up and down while looking up at me.

 

“Omen is my friend. From the moment I first met him in the Darkness, he’s always protected me, and Omen even built the cabin where I live!”

 

“…Spirits build houses too?”

 

Maybe it’s not a spirit but a guardian angel or something?

 

I narrowed my eyes and looked at the shadow swaying back and forth like a festival balloon.

 

“Are you moving around frantically right now?”

 

“Yes! You really can see me.”

 

“Well, if you’re moving that frantically, I can’t help but see you….”

 

At my words, the spirit called Omen finally stopped moving.

 

Even though I can’t see it, it understands what I’m saying.

 

“So Omen is a spirit of darkness?”

 

“Yes. I’m a high-level spirit of darkness. I’m strong even among the spirits of darkness that inhabit Darkness.”

 

If it’s high-level, I have a feeling it’s not just ordinarily strong.

 

‘Come to think of it, when I was subduing Jini, she shouted for Omen at the end.’

 

I had subdued Jini just in time.

 

If I hadn’t been able to subdue Jini then, I probably would have had to fight a high-level spirit of darkness.

 

And that would have been against the guy who was Jini’s first friend.

 

Thank goodness I subdued her quickly.

 

While I was thinking such thoughts, Jini, who had come to her senses, covered her mouth with both hands.

 

Jini, breaking out in cold sweat, mumbled in a quiet voice like before.

 

“S-sorry. You’re the first person other than me to see spirits….”

 

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. I actually liked it.”

 

This is true.

 

It felt like a stray cat that wouldn’t eat even when given food and just hissed had finally warmed up and approached me.

 

If I had to choose between good and bad, it was very good, so it didn’t matter.

 

“Anyway, tell me more about spirits. I don’t know much about spirits.”

 

The more I learn, the more spirits seem like fascinating things.

 

They’re invisible but definitely exist.

 

And they even possess powerful strength.

 

That’s why I asked out of curiosity, but Jini scratched her cheek with a troubled expression.

 

“Well… actually I don’t know much either.”

 

“Then it can’t be helped.”

 

“B-but I do know that there are seven types of spirits in this world.”

 

She folded her fingers one by one as she spoke.

 

“First, the most commonly seen spirits are fire, water, wind, and earth spirits.”

 

“Don’t tell me that Noum I first encountered was an earth spirit?”

 

“That’s right. Noum was a mid-level earth spirit.”

 

That was mid-level.

 

I really only won because it was incompatible with Elpinire’s power, otherwise it would have been a tough opponent.

 

Then just how strong are the high-level ones.

 

“What are the other three?”

 

“Lightning, light, and darkness spirits. I’ve never seen lightning or light spirits, but I’m sure they exist.”

 

Jini said this while reaching her hand toward the faint shadow.

 

The faint shadow rubbed its body against Jini’s hand.

 

Watching that is really….

 

“Kyuu?”

 

“How do you know what I’m thinking and come out like this.”

 

I chuckled and petted Cheo-ri’s head as it popped out of my pocket.

 

It was sleeping in my pocket when we left, but I don’t know when it woke up.

 

“Come to think of it, you’ve been eating only the food we eat lately. Is that okay?”

 

“Kyuu kyuu kyuu.”

 

Cheo-ri eats magic stones.

 

I had only brought a few magic stones thinking I’d have to supply them on site, but no monsters appeared in this place.

 

Because of that, the magic stones ran out quickly, so Cheo-ri had been eating the food we eat since two days ago.

 

“But magic stones are better, right?”

 

“Kyuu kyuu.”

 

“Wait. I’ll give you some as soon as I find them.”

 

“Kyuu!”

 

Cheo-ri, apparently done drinking, climbed up my arm.

 

So I walked deep into the forest following Jini, with the little one settled on my shoulder.

 

After that, how much time passed.

 

From somewhere, I began to hear the faint sound of flowing water.

 

“We’re here.”

 

That sound wasn’t my imagination, as I soon discovered a dark stream and stopped walking.

 

“…It’s black.”

 

“It’s Darkness after all.”

 

The stream I had been imagining was blue.

 

But here, even the stream water is black.

 

“The water isn’t dirty, is it?”

 

“It should be clean….”

 

It would be.

 

Since it’s a forest with no one around.

 

I roughly rolled up my sleeves and put them in the water, then nodded.

 

“This seems good enough to go in.”

 

I immediately rolled up my pants and put my feet in the stream.

 

A feeling like it was cold to the bone.

 

I shivered and narrowed my eyes as I looked down at the black stream water.

 

“The water is transparent.”

 

Now that I’m in it, I can tell.

 

The water is incredibly transparent.

 

The problem is that the surroundings are darkness that doesn’t allow even a point of light, so I can’t see anything except my feet submerged in the water.

 

Can I really successfully catch fish here.

 

I let out a small sigh and thought “whatever” as I lightly put my hand in the water.

 

And.

 

“Huh?”

 

I caught a fish.

 

A huge fish that was plump and well-fed, at that.

 

I stared with a dumbfounded face at the fish flapping around in my grasp.

 

What is this.

 

Was I a bear in my past life or something.

 

I blinked and roughly threw the fish onto the stream bank, then put my hand back in.

 

“….”

 

As soon as I put my hand in the water, another fish gets caught in my hand.

 

At this point, I’m just confused.

 

What the hell?

 

I can’t see a single fish where I’m looking right now.

 

Why do I catch fish just by putting my hand in?

 

“…Jini. You’re next to me, right?”

 

“I’m here.”

 

“Then don’t be surprised.”

 

“Huh? Okay.”

 

Whoosh.

 

I threw the fish I had just caught back into the stream and clenched my right hand into a fist.

 

[Black Dragon]

 

I wanted to see with my own eyes just what kind of stream this really was.

 

Taking a calm breath, I threw my fist forward with all my might.

 

Then I jumped out of the water in shock.

 

“What the hell…!”

 

Thanks to my punch, the stream was briefly revealed.

 

There, fish packed densely throughout the streambed were staring in my direction.

 

Hundreds of unfocused fish eyes were gazing at me.

 

It was scarier than most horror movies.

 

Seriously.

 

“Jini. Is this place normally like this?”

 

“…”

 

“Jini?”

 

When no answer came, I quietly turned to look beside me.

 

There was Jini with a pale, ashen face, staring in one direction.

 

“What’s wrong? Why are you like that?”

 

“…”

 

No response.

 

Why is she acting like this?

 

As I tilted my head while looking into the darkness Jini was staring at, a faint shadow that had been beside her approached me.

 

“Ugh, what is this?”

 

Momentarily flustered by the sudden situation.

 

The shadow climbed up my body and completely covered my face.

 

The moment I raised my hands to shake it off, I froze at the sight that had completely changed in an instant.

 

“…”

 

The forest had changed from complete darkness to dim darkness.

 

At the edge of my vision, where I could now see faint outlines.

 

“…People?”

 

Something in human form.

 

Was gathered in abundance around the stream.

 

“Pur, Pursuers…”

 

Trembling.

 

Jini muttered in a voice that shook as if she might collapse at any moment.

 

Only then did I realize who those beings were.

 

“…True unwelcome guests.”

 

Jini had mistaken us for pursuers and been wary.

 

Since she was a wanted fugitive.

 

I didn’t know how long she’d been a wanted fugitive, but it would have been natural for her to find it hard to trust those approaching.

 

We weren’t pursuers.

 

Realizing this fact, Jini had lowered her guard.

 

But now.

 

Real pursuers who had been tracking Jini had appeared in the forest.

 

That’s why Jini was on full alert with her hackles raised, just like the first day we met.

 

“We, we need to run and prepare quickly…”

 

“Jini. Step back.”

 

“Yes…?”

 

“Step back and help me along with Omen.”

 

Crack.

 

Lowering my body, I tightly clenched my fist covered in scales.

 

Running away.

 

It might be a good choice.

 

But you know what.

 

[4th Floor]

 

[Repel the Pursuers]

 

It seemed I couldn’t run away after all.

 

I hadn’t wanted to run away from the beginning anyway.

 

Lifting the corners of my mouth, I asked Jini one last question.

 

“Jini. You being a wanted fugitive is all false accusations, right?”

 

“Y-yes. I… I never killed anyone. Please believe me.”

 

“I believe you.”

 

I believe what I’ve seen.

 

No matter what anyone says, I only believe what I’ve directly observed and judged.

 

Nodding without a moment’s hesitation, I exhaled as quietly as possible.

 

“Since this is a forest, there would naturally be wild animals here too, right?”

 

“…Yes?”

 

“From now on, they’re not being attacked by a witch and Black Dragon.”p>

Simply.

 

“They’re being attacked by wild animals adapted to the darkness.”

 

I raised the sharp claws of the Black Dragon that gleamed even in the darkness and lifted the corners of my mouth.

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