The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

The next day, Ruth started training to move his body freely.

Begin by learning from Cyrus and remembering the movement of power and getting up. Though meticulously crafted, unlike humans, the soft body did not move flexibly, and Ruth was forced into considerable difficulty. Because if you break the balance a little, you fall right down, and you can't accept it.

When I moved my body a lot again, I felt a strong sense of fatigue. It was also necessary to do the training while resting.

The doll's body naturally uses magic in a magical machine called the core to amplify and move it. However, Ruth is using magical phantom crystals, and not only magic but also mana used for life magic are used together, so it seems that there is extra fatigue.

"Hey, you're not shredding Ruth's vitality, are you? Does my life shrink...?

Karen was worried and checked with Tomash, saying that Mana was vital but recovered every day, and she couldn't use enough power to cut her life in the first place. Don't worry, Ruth was encouraged by the training.

Though it wasn't quite as light as that, after about two days, Ruth was desperately moving, and he was able to walk on his own.

(But I still can't be like Cyrus....)

Cyrus, who had the same doll body, stood up the moment he woke up and fled the lab, so he realized how capable he was.

"Ruth walked!

Rather than Karen, Yuan, Ed, and Cyrus, Kia shouted at Rosa, Celine, and Daniel and the village members, and all the people gathered beat her hand rhythmically, and Ruth was about to walk in front of them in balance. The members who saw it applauded and rejoiced, but the mood of Ruth was complicated.

(Ah... it's like a baby, embarrassing. I want to be able to run fast!

Thanks to the explosion of embarrassment, it took less than half a day from walking to walking firmly.

Looks peaceful around Ruth like that, but things outside were getting worse.

"The biggest creature of all worlds has ever emerged... and the country of Birgia has fallen..."

Until now, only human-sized creatures had appeared, but this time it was a bungalow-sized alien creature. With four turrets, it attacked a small island country, Bilgia, along with other alien creatures.

Many of the country's citizens were evacuated by the rescue of ex-girlfriends and Garcians who fled. We have been able to defeat new alien creatures, but the city will burn down and it will be difficult to restore them.

"Until now, I've only dealt with people, but you've finally burned down the city... the attacks are getting intense."

At first, I asked him how he was doing, but the opening of the sky gate was sometimes getting bigger, so he thought he was about to attack in earnest.

Bilgia was originally skeptical of Geo and didn't participate in the gathering, but that's why I don't think it's good to fall. This incident seemed shocking to Geo and the others.

(... I wonder what will happen next...)

Ruth had something to say about Alec, and he was invited to the meeting, but he couldn't say anything about the situation, and he could only watch it get worse.

(... I can't do anything...)

Even if you can get up and walk on your own, you can't sit in a chair or attend a meeting without a cyrus. At least I offered to help the ship, but everyone shook their heads. Everyone was soft, but later I realized that helping Ruth size would get in the way.

(I was hoping to help Alec, but I can't be decent about myself either....)

Ruth originally liked working.

I've been actively helping with inn work since I was a kid, and I wouldn't basically say no if I was asked to do it in the village. Sometimes I read books and blacked them out, but that's about a few days a month. I basically liked to move my body and do something.

This is the situation where they now play card games because they say, "Moving your body is learning." Karen and the others are taking turns to be opponents or talking to each other, but it just seems like they're interrupting their busy time.

Your feelings will gradually be destroyed by you who can't help you.

"... is that Ed?

"... what is it?

"Are you sleepy?

Ed's head, holding the card in front of him, has been shaking loosely since before. This is a "sleepy" sign I've seen before.

The appearance seems to be growing slightly, but the contents are still young, and they fall asleep as soon as their physical strength reaches its limit.

"That's it, I'm... cumming, cumming"

"You don't have to hang out with me anymore, pull me up today."

"It's okay. Ruth's fingertip training is incomplete. I'm still... you know, changing..."

While you're saying that, Ed's eyes begin to close. At last, it was hard to keep consciousness, but my body was shaking.

"Eh, Ed...."

"Why, su... Daijo, bu... I... am, like, a fake..."

Murmuring so much, Ed makes a noise with the boss and flips over.

"Ed! I'm glad I'm on the bed...."

Looking at Ed as he meditated and breathed, Ruth lifted his chest.

It was good to play a card game on the bed when Ruth's gaze didn't agree with the chair. Otherwise, it fell to the floor.

"Before dinner, you must be tired... but I'm in trouble..."

When Ruth put the card down, he got to his knees near Ed's lying face.

"Ed, are you sleeping here? You're not going home, are you?

"Nh...."

I shook my body and called Ed, but he didn't respond as clearly as I expected. Looks like he's gone completely into a dream.

"I don't mind sleeping separately... if I don't let someone know..."

Ed was young and Karen and the others always cared.

But Ruth can't tell him Ed's asleep. Because I can't reach the entrance door. Naturally, you can't float in space with magic like Cyrus.

I was given an emergency switch, but I didn't want to use it very much because I would call all five people when I rang it.

(This body is really inconvenient... we have to wait until someone arrives...)

Ruth sat down and waited for someone to come and see what happened.

"Looks like you're sleepy...."

When he realized Ed had fallen asleep in a strange position, Ruth moved his body to make it easier. It didn't move as easily as when I was a human, but if I tried harder, Ed's little hands and legs could handle it.

"Ruth...."

"Ah, sorry to wake you up..."

"--I 'll do my best... quickly, quickly... as a decoy..."

Ed thought it had happened because of Ruth's move, but it seemed to be just a bedtime talk, and he went back to a word he couldn't hear again.

"... Ed, don't try too hard."

Ruth sat beside him and slowly stroked Ed's head.

Ed knew he was doing something hard after reunion. Unfortunately, I don't know the details of what I'm doing because they won't answer me, but it seems that I always go to Geo and learn something when I'm not there.

Ed often says in his letters, "I want to grow up quickly." I wonder if I can't help being a child.

(But you know Ed, so you're worried about trying to keep me from rotting...)

Although Ruth and Ed do not share the same environment, they are both less disadvantaged than ordinary adults. Even if you want to do the same thing as an adult, they often say it's no good. But still, seeing Ed trying hard to do something without glamouring, Ruth gets nervous. Not when he mourns his body, but when he works with a small body, he can be positive.

Thank you, Ed.

Ruth thanked herself like that, and suddenly she heard a light knock from the door.

"Ah, yes! Please!"

Someone must have come to see Ed - and Ruth replied.

"Hello, it's been a long time ~"

"Eh, Mr. Remias!?

There was a mysterious traveler, Jeremias, commonly known as Remias, who was taken care of during the Zenobian season.

He was still loosely dressed like a Japanese-style suit with an invisible bozo head and a razor-free beard. It looks exactly the same as when I met you before.

"By, Mr. Remias? Were you on this ship?

Ruth is not very free to move, but Karen and the others sometimes take him out. In the meantime, I never remembered seeing someone like Remius. In the first place, it's not strange that Karen should talk about "having an interesting uncle ~", but it never looked like that.

But for some reason Remias leaned his neck strangely in response to Ruth's question.

"Hmm? What are you talking about? I saw you the other day."

With that in mind, Remias sat on the bed where Ruth and the others were.

"When?... I'm sorry, but I can't remember."

Remias stares at Ed as he breathes, softening his mouth. The atmosphere is not like the usual Remias, it's like I saw it somewhere.

"When was the meeting the day after Ruth woke up?! When Ruth was talking to Grandpa Geo in front of Cyrus. Enough, uncle, is your presence so thin?

Remias' hand gently touched Ed's forehead as he spoke.

Remias helped us find Ed when he went missing, and eventually they rescued him, so it's not like they don't know each other, but they didn't even think that way - it's like touching his father, so Ruth's brain starts to confuse.

"No, I don't think Remias has a weak presence....."

I don't know if I've turned off the signs, but if Remias was in that conference room, I'd realize that Ruth would do anything. If there was such a loose presence in such a tense space, you would know it right away. But Ruth doesn't remember seeing anything.

When Ruth speaks honestly, Remias turns into a serious surprise.

"Eh, really!? Are you serious!? Are you kidding me? You were sitting next to me! We had a conversation!

"Neighbor? Conversation? Is that it!? I mean, next door..."

Next to Ruth was Geo sitting in the middle of the table with a gentle smile on his face.

"Oh... maybe Ruth. You still haven't noticed?

As he noticed, Remias, with a slightly dazed and mixed murmur, attached the hand that touched Ed to his jaw, which had grown an inert beard. As the hand slowly shifts to the side, dazzling light begins to appear from the chin area.

"Eh... eh?... yeah! - Yeah!?

It was the dazzling beauty of the Spirit King that came out of the hands of Remias, who traced his face.