Earser on traced image

Hi,
I got an Illustrator Trial to see how well it works for inking scanned drawings. I watched a few online lessons and already stumbled into a problem that I can't seem to solve, so any help would be appreciated.
I'm using a non-english version so I hope my translations of the actions are not to confusing.
I imported the scanned image to illustrator and then used object->image tracer and converted it to a vector graphic with area fill and no stroke. So far so good.
I now want to erase little mistakes in the drawing, that look like this
if I use the eraser, this happens:
so the path is weirdly bend around the stroke of the eraser, which obviously isn't what I wanted to achieve. In all the videos I watched about the eraser, it worked fine and if I just create an area with the blob brush and erase a part of that, that works fine as well. What's so different with the traced image?
Thanks in advance

Hi,
yes that kinda works but I think that would be too much work for that many details. Also it somehow leaves behind another path:
So.. maybe somethings wrong with the way i convert the traced image?

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