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

Near evening, the inn's work was finished once, and Ruth returned to her private room, which was far away. The western sun is shooting through the window of the room, and it is assumed that the sun will soon set. After an hour, Ruth sank into bed to prepare dinner.

"... I want it"

"..."

But as soon as I closed my eyes, I heard a small voice of a man and a woman coming from outside the room. Ruth, who sounded familiar to the man, turned his back and glanced out towards the window.

(I knew………)

Looking out the window, there was Alec, a childhood friendly and best friend, and Pariah, the daughter of a three-year-old herbalist. By the way, Ruth remembers all the names of the women in the village.

The two of them were in contrast. Alec turns to the margin like a little irritated, but Pariah stared at Alec with an upbeat odor.

"Anyway, I don't feel that way. I'm sorry, but I want you to give up."

"Why?"

"It's none of your business."

"It matters! I won't give up until I ask why!

Alec sighed a little to the strong speaking Pariah.

"Don't tell anyone... I'm going to propose next time to someone I like"

"... eh"

Pariah gives a sad look to Alec's bomb statement. I'm sure you're surprised it was your first ear. But Ruth, who was hiding and listening, also breathed in surprise.

(Alec proposes………)

It was the first time I heard it. Of course, I know there's something we can't tell each other because we're quite old, but as Ruth, who called himself his best friend, I was lightly shocked that what I first heard was too important.

"Oh really... ok"

That's how Pariah's voice whimpered so small was a tear blend, but it also contained giving up that it was useless to say anything more. After a while I heard footsteps walking away.

Some time after she left, I finally heard Alec's deep sigh.

"It's the first time you've heard of someone you'd like to propose to, Alec."

"... eh"

When Ruth opened the window and spoke to Alec outside, he looked terribly surprised.

"Dude, since when..."

"I don't think so."

"Eh... you're asking me the key thing."

"Haha, I can't put you in the corner either. So, when are you going to confess?

".................. I am"

Alec came closer to Ruth, dyeing his face red rarely when he called himself "Me."

(Thought you were closest to Alec... too bad you couldn't tell me)

But it is a man who became a wizard in his previous life. Without remembering my anger at what you didn't tell me, I thought there must be circumstances that I couldn't tell myself. That's why I decided to take it lightly like a best friend. That would be less awkward for Alec either.

"……… I'm going to give this to you."

So what Alec, leaning next to the window, showed me was a thin silver bracelet with a beautiful delicate design. The center is embedded with blue gemstones, with a strange shade.

"Beautiful bracelet."

"… you think it's good?

"Yeah, of course. Especially the central gem."

"I'm using my technique to curse. I think that's the impact."

"I see you made it yourself. That's why you're prettier than what you keep in the grocery store."

Not only does Alec make his own surgery, but he also has a high enough skill to make his own crafted accessories (demon gear). But Ruth is the only one who knows this, and it's a secret to people in the village. The demon gear seems to be a pretty expensive object, and if you have it poorly, let alone can make your own, it seems to be the source of contention. I heard that when I learned history from Father Ruth, so Ruth suggested I hide it.

When Ruth praised him honestly, Alec sounded happy.

"……… You're usually praised for something like this."

"Nothing like that……………"

"The others want to make a scene when I do something a little different."

"... yeah, well..."

It is true that when Alec does something big, the whole village often gets noisy for a while. It just had something to do with Alec's birth.

Alec was an orphan who was left in front of the church when he was four years old, but this village was not so big that immediate parents should have been found. But even though the adults searched for a while, they didn't see Alec's parent-like figure. When I asked Alec at the time, he said he was only about his name and age if his memory was vague, and he didn't get any information. Eventually, an adventurer who came to a nearby dungeon ended up leaving only his children behind and running away, leaving them in a church that also houses an orphanage.

There were also people in the village who creeped Alec out because of that beginnings. Parents' anxiety and vigilance were contagious to their children, and Alec was sometimes abusive because his body was small at an early age. Ruth was always in between then. Ruth liked Alec, a blonde who was not in the village at first sight, and approached her because she normally wanted to be friends. So I was so glad Alec could count on me.

But when he was ten years old and about the time he learned to hunt on the village code, Alec's ratings from around him changed dramatically. The body, which was small, grew bigger and gained muscle strength and strength proportionally. And in addition to bows and knives, as he learned swordsmanship and martial arts from the people of the village who realized Alec's talent, he went beyond the adults as he was. Thanks to this, the supply of prey gained from hunting has increased, and the fields have dried up in the sun and become unproductive. Alec's annual crusade for demons has also stopped getting injured since he joined.

Its activity and skill is as if Ruth were the protagonist of the reincarnated cheats of the other world in a novel he was reading in his previous life. Ruth, who was curious, once said, "Did you reincarnate the other world? 'I've heard of it,' but they didn't say that because I was worried about my health the other way around with my neck tilted.

That's how Alec is now at a glance in the village. And when you do something new, you make a scene.

Alec is now a hero to the little children, and his age in the village where he used to abuse him now worships Alec, and the village adults relied very much on him. So even though he's a hot sparkling handsome guy in his previous life, he's hot as he was in this world where Macho is liked. They don't care about women if they're pushing through as hard as Alec, even if they're not tough. Very jealous.

(Well, that's why I couldn't even show it to you as a demon outfit, but the proponent would be fine. Alec is in love)

However, because of the obvious change in his eyes around him that way, Alec gradually kept his distance from them and began to wear the skin of a kind good young man. Because of this, he usually calls himself 'me' and speaks polite words. I guess that reinforces the image of a better young man.

"Will you give that with the proposal? All right, the other kid will be happy. So, when are you going to give it to me?

"… on my twentieth birthday"

"Oh, don't you give it to them for their normal birthday?

"You don't have a choice. It's over six months away from his birthday."

"Because of this, why don't you wait six months?

"…… I don't like it. I can't wait. I don't want anyone else to take it."

Ruth laughed unexpectedly at Alec for pointing his mouth like a child. He likes the other kid so much, he just wants to propose.

(Looks like you're really nineteen in a place like this.)

Alec built his own wall with others, but Ruth alone remained an old attitude. That would be because Ruth didn't change his attitude towards Alec no matter what he did. Rather, Ruth was a little sympathetic that it was hard to live up to the village's expectations all by himself at the age of nineteen.

Besides, it was Alec who kept me on his side the whole time when Ruth panicked in memory of his previous life and the friends he had been friends with left. There is such a past, and even for Ruth, Alec is more special than the brackets of his best friend. If Ruth had a girlfriend, and Alec liked her, she was special enough to think of pulling herself back. Of course, there doesn't seem to be such a future.

"… you, haven't you forgotten?

"What?

"..................... my birthday, when"

"Oh, speaking of which, it was tomorrow."

Ruth remembered that tomorrow is Alec's birthday.

Alec has no appetite at all because of his qualitative life, but every year only his birthday demands a gift from Ruth. Last year they wanted me to make an amulet, and I had no choice but to sew for the first time while teaching my mother. It was a bag with a traditional protective talisman handed down to the village, but Ruth had no talent for sewing, so it was terrible. But Alec is still very happy and lowers from his neck every day. Originally, this amulet is made by his mother and lover, but since he is an orphan, he probably asked Ruth for it because he has no parents and no lover yet. But I feel sorry to see a blurry string coming out of Alec's glowing blonde gap.

"It's a long ride this year, isn't it? I know, I'll tell my dads I'm free tomorrow."

"I hope so."

"But don't you have to invite Marianne?

"............... why is Marianne coming out"

"No... why... if you go on a long ride, you're gonna crumble all day, right?

"That's okay."

Alec snorts in a grumpy manner.

(Hmm, in this situation, isn't Alec's proponent's opponent Marianne...?

Two younger children, Ruth and Alec, live in the same village as Marianne. She is a beauty with cute red curly hair and contests one or two in the village. And because of his proximity to age, he was often set up as a threesome in the village from an early age, and Alec's attitude was relatively close to his original vegetarian figure. It's not even as cheap a relationship as Ruth's, but it would be the person Alec forgives most of the other village girls. And more importantly, Marianne finds out that she likes Alec.

(So who's Alec's proponent?

As soon as I hear it, I'll know, but for some reason Alec keeps putting out an aura that he doesn't seem to want me to hear. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to ask. Maybe if Ruth finds out poorly, he's the one who's not going to make it work. Besides, the day after tomorrow, the rumors will tell us. Anyway, people all over the village are paying attention to Alec.

"Ah, Alec! Ruth!"

Rumor came that Marianne was talking about it. Apparently, my father, the village chief, asked me to call him because he wanted to talk to Alec.

"Well, I'm going back to work at home."

"……… Ruth, don't you forget?

He said, "I know."

"Ah, Ruth. I was wondering if the inn room was empty because your father might be staying in the village today..."

"I'm fine. Because there's only one pair in there today."

"Good. Well, say hello!

Marianne, who turned a nickel-cute smile on Ruth, takes Alec's hand straight to her own house. Marianne seemed a little pathetic when I thought they looked good in the back, but they didn't have such a future.

(Speaking of which, Alec said he was going to propose, but he wasn't dating that person?

Alec, who is so hot at first sight from the village, has never heard a floating story. But he said he was going to propose, so I thought it might be difficult if it had not progressed considerably.

(Sort of, but it's Alec. The other child will suddenly be neither proposing nor full. I didn't propose anything, so I had to get married immediately.)

I thought Ruth, destined to be no hottie in his previous life or in this world, would end up no better than a hottie like Alec at all times.