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

Happily, there were four seasons in the villages of this world. Aristotle Theresia (Spring), Zenobia (Summer), Fans (Autumn), Citstiadis (Winter), the name is different, a year of change reminiscent of the previous life was a nostalgic and happy thing for Ruth.

And now fruitful autumn. It was also the time of year to take the nuts, fish, hunt and store the beasts for the coming winter.

Ruth also went out hunting with Alec frequently this time of year. Their mission is to harvest the orphans of the church and their storage in Ruth's quarters. And when they got more than they planned, they divided it into village butchers and sold it cheaply, so that they could go to the people of the village.

But since Alec isn't here this year, it's been a long time since I've been out hunting.

"Ruth! He went that way. Aah!

A low, wild voice echoes into the red-stained forest. The birds, surprised by their volume, fly out of the trees simultaneously. And at the same time, Boreal (a beast and adult nearly four times the size of a boar in previous life) jumped out of a forest slice on the ground with two children.

The three run straight through the meadow, a slice of the forest, in the direction where Ruth is hiding with a loud earthquake.

(Three!?

Ruth, who was holding a bow, pulls two additional arrows from behind and returns to surgery. Normal arrows cannot pierce the thick skin of the boreal, so it is a specialized auxiliary magic technique that strengthens the tip of the arrow buttocks. Ruth doesn't like attack magic, but he was good at these fine tasks.

"Huh!

Three arrows hung by auxiliary magic are simultaneously released from Ruth's bow. The three arrows released to cut off the air with Kiiyin eventually drew another orbit and headed towards their respective prey.

(No, you're weak)

Because of the short amount of time being operated on and the fact that it was dispersed among the three bottles, I could also see that the power of the arrows released was weaker than I thought.

Ruth had no choice but to jump out of a hidden bush and run after the arrow. Looks like Boreal noticed the move, but he seemed like a winnable person, he keeps running without stopping his legs.

However, the situation changed as soon as the arrow released by Ruth reached such a borough.

"Biggie!"

"Giggy!"

"Bumoao!"

The first arrow hit the torso of the child on the left, the second on the leg of the child on the right, and the third on the eyes of an adult (probably the father because he has fangs), but the three sounded a surprising groan in the woods as to whether it was more powerful than he thought. Ordinary arrows would make them blow up with their own bodies alone, so I guess they were watching sweetly.

The child who received the first bottle appears to be still alive, although his movements were dull. The child who received the second bottle flew from the spot to the power of the arrow and rolled backwards, so he probably can't move anymore. And one of the remaining adults was bleeding out of his eyes, but only slightly slowed down, staring at Ruth in the front.

(Did you not reach your brain after all)

The plan was to get the arrow that struck his head to his brain, and he was aiming for a fall on the spot, but as expected, it wasn't powerful enough. They'll get away with it as it is.

Ruth reaches behind her back and puts her hand on a sweeping knife that she was offering to her hips. The overall length is less than fifty centimetres and the blade is less than forty centimetres, which is quite short compared to the sword, but the cut is not bad because it is polished every day. Ruth's biggest weapon, not good at handling axes and long swords.

Turning forward to provoke while holding the knife backwards, he felt the will to fight from Ruth, and Boreal also turned his neck and began to intimidate him. Raise the roar loudly and also increase the speed of running. And when Ruth was near, he shook up his fangs to the side, and lowered them diagonally.

A shock enough to determine the ground releases Boreal to the place where his fangs have been shaken down. A crater was formed on the ground and the surrounding stones scattered.

Such an attack, if it stays intact, will crush your body from bone to bone. But Ruth was not on the spot.

(This attack was waiting for you)

Ruth, who had predicted the shake down, slowed down at a critical pace, knocked Boreal's attack off and jumped off the spot. Then he scaffolds the head of a giant beast that has fallen down with a wave down, and when he flips his body, he takes an arrow from his back while holding a knife.

Yabuchi already had the technique he had accumulated by the time he came running.

The knife is, of course, a positive move. Even Ruth doesn't think he can fight a monster class beast four times the size of a boar from the front.

(Alec would be able to)

The matter of childhood tampering at different levels, which truncates the borough in two, first flushed into a corner of my head.

Ruth, dancing in the air, bowed behind Boreal, who had lost his appearance and was bewildered, pulled with a surgical arrow.

"Ha!

When you release a squeezed arrow, there's wind all around you, which means a rotation hangs on the arrow. The tip of the cured arrow butt under the influence of the surgery caused the meteorite to fall but a very heavy blow to the head of the boreal.

"Gyo-oon!"

Boreal, half blown off his head by the effect of the surgery, raises the severant. I'm close to no more thinking as a creature. But you must not lick the gall power of the beasts of this world. Even if they get half their brains blown off, their bodies still move.

Ruth, with his feet on the ground a little further away, as he quickened his bow, now it is time to run over to Borough with his knife in both hands. Then, as he quickly applied the technique to the tip of the knife, he jumped up and slipped the blade tip from behind to the steep point between his head and body, swinging it down as it was.

――

In a blow aimed at a steep point, a thick gap in the skin, a bloodshed flies around the area, leaving the head of the boreal to be detached from some of the skin and spine. And as he raised a cry that was silent, he let his legs wander, and finally the giant fell to the ground as he made a loud noise.

(... Did you do it?)

Ruth is alert and confirms life and death on his side. Boreal's adult eyes lost their vitality and were already out of breath.

"Hmm... you did it. But I'm used to it without Alec."

"- Piggy!"

The moment Ruth sighed of relief, a child still alive made a screaming noise and ran towards the woods. But with that look of Ruth's arrow, it was clear it wouldn't last long. I feel like letting him get away with it because he's a kid, but I'll let him eat it deliciously.

But I noticed signs approaching that the child knew from the woods in the direction of escape.

"Father, come on! One got away that way!

"Wow! Let it go!"

A man as tough as a bear appears from the woods with his reply. As the man held up a hammer as big as his height, he shook up towards Boreal, who was coming towards him.

"Get out of the way. Yeah, yeah!

With the hanging voice Boreal's body hits the hammer and is blown away as if it were a ball of baseball. And when I crashed into the rock in the back left of Ruth, it stopped moving. He wouldn't be alive if he was slapped so hard, but for once Ruth goes to check.

"Dad, if you crush it, it's gonna be tough."

"Oh, excuse me!

A man like a bear - as well, Ruth's father Rossa comes running to the side scratching his head with regret. In its hands were grabbed two ostriches (a beast similar in size to a wolf, about the size of a large dog dog) that had become corpses.

"Maybe you're catching it and it's late to come out?

"That's right, I'm sorry. When I was chasing down Boreal, I came out... when I was hunting one, it was two, and it was late."

Apparently, he just realized that the inventory of homemade smoked meat for adventurers sold in the inn was gone, and he got his hands on it. That seems to have slowed me out of the woods.

"Sorry... I didn't leave, so Boreal's adult escaped, but I'm glad you're okay. Then find the next..."

"No, they're there, aren't they?

"Huh!?

To Rossa, who mistakenly thinks she let the adult escape, Ruth points to the falling Borough. Rossa glanced at the lying giant, then looked at you again with a bewildered face and glanced back at Ruth, who was lying next to her in a shabby motion.

"… also, possibly, that giant boreal. You knocked him down? Ruth."

"That's how it's decided. Who else is going to take him down? Let's bleed faster than that, Dad."

"Oh, yeah..."

Ruth, with his prey with Rossa, drained his blood and removed his gut as he took it to the nearby flickering river. In addition to the oculus that Rossa had, she became five in all, and I decided to pull it up here today because I can't take it home after hunting any more.

Next to Ruth, who washes her face and hands wet with blood, Rossa, who was on guard around her, squeaks in a weaker voice than usual.

"Sorry, Ruth. I think I was wrong about you."

"What?

"Well... you always go out with Alec when it comes to hunting, don't you?

It was only in the beginning that my father and my brother went out hunting, but after a while Alec invited me to go hunting with them as they were. I've certainly never been out hunting with another human being in years.

(Maybe I should have had a few more people... but I hate Alec...)

Alec is reluctant to add other members when hunting with Ruth. He said, "It's useless," but that's probably because relationships stink when you get more people.

Sure, he was an Alec who was a village hero, but Ruth also knows that some same-sex people make him seem admirable and neglectful. That's why Ruth didn't want to actively increase it either. And most importantly, it was also because Alec and I didn't have any inconvenience.

"Well, sure. But the two of us shouldn't have had a small amount..."

"Oh, I was grateful to you guys for the harvest. The butcher was happy, and the village hasn't had a starving death in the winter for years.... but, you know, I didn't, because you were out hunting with Alec all the time, and when you went hunting with me at fourteen, I was watching you find Boreal and lose your hips... that..."

Ruth somehow perceived what she wanted to say to Rossa's sorry expression. And then I want you to forget about the story of when you were fourteen. Because of my memories of my previous life, Boreal, who looked like a boar, was too gigantic and disgusting.

"Maybe... did Dad think I was in Alec's luggage or something?

"I don't think that's it. I know you're stronger than Clark against your looks. It's just... Alec is the one who's hunting, and I thought you had luggage or something..."

Rossa shrugged in a small voice that did not fit her physique, but was well heard by Ruth's ears. I mean, he thought Ruth didn't do hunting, though he could do the hard work. I was a little disappointed that my father thought of me that way, and I turned to Jito's eyes.

"... Dad, it's terrible. I've been hunting too."

"Wow, sorry, sorry, sorry! That's a solid understanding from looking at today's Borough! You hunt better than Clark! Father, he's a proud son! It's true!

I desperately apologized and shook my head as I said "I hope you understand," to Rosa, who managed to get Ruth in the mood, but my heart sighed.

(Did they think so after all……)

That's what all the villagers always looked like when they came home with their prey. It didn't seem like a mistake that I felt my eyes cold looking at Ruth. I mean, it seemed to me that Ruth was sidetracking one of Alec's achievements with our faces.

(Well, it's me who's a village hero and all-purpose Alec and even my kids tell me I like women... that's what you think. We always go out together, so I don't know how we hunt.)

In fact, they are changing roles properly in the hunt. According to the hunting opponent, Ruth may do a positive move and Alec may stab Todome, and he may normally act the opposite way, so he should be moving on a par with the others.

Besides, Alec is overwhelming in strength and magnitude of witchcraft, but Ruth has better ears. Ruth was better at hunting for small animals because of the sensitive nature of the signs and the fact that they were less likely to be noticed by the enemy.

"Ah yes! Ru, Ruth, did you hear about this year's demon hunt?

"Of the year?

Rosa freaked out because Ruth shut up, and she changed the subject deliberately. Ruth laughs bitterly, but depresses the gavel with his usual tone of voice.

This Rossa, a big man like a bear, is also vulnerable to her wife, Celine, but also to Ruth, who looks just like her. So Ruth thought it was bad to make him care too much.

"Oh, this year, Alec went to the king's capital to study, and I got out, so I was jerking off and talking to the priest... and it seemed like I could do it to him."

With regard to Alec's journey, it is conveyed in the village that 'the great nobles in the capital of the king highly valued his abilities and called him to study in the capital of the king'. I don't know how the talk of Alec being a brave man got laid down, but maybe it's a consideration for a village chief who didn't think he should know much about a world where he needed a brave man. Even so, Tanuki's father tried to send Alec to King's Capital until he was incarcerated - although I don't know if the village chief really took the villagers into account.

Anyway, the villagers were convinced that the time had already passed for a month. By the way, this date is about the same as it was in previous life, and the month is about thirty days old. When you just live in the mountains, you often feel the flow of time when the mountain changes its appearance more than how many days it is today.

However, in the month Alec disappeared from the village, the problem had also come to an end. The 'demon hunt' that Rossa was just saying is one of the problems.

(Alec…… it worked very well……)

Every year in the season just before winter, demons come to the village in numbers from across the mountain. I don't know what the demons are for, but the season just before winter is a powerful time to talk about whether they are coming with food (including humans). That number is more or less from twenty, and at times close to forty. It is the role of the men of the village to get rid of it every year and in various ways. I used to say there were dead people out there, but in recent years, thanks to Alec's activism, there weren't even any major injuries.

But that Alec is not here this year. I had a prediction for everyone that it would be rough.

"To what?

"I cared about Alec. He advised the nobleman. He said to send people to the village because they could be damaged by demons."

"Well, Alec did that…………"

Apparently, he arranged a lot for me to think about the village he left behind. Alec-like consideration. Apparently, when Rossa and the others were young, the previous village chief sent a petition for the loan of soldiers to the Wang capital, but they were never sent to the small village.

For this reason, it seems that the difference between demons and animals is whether witchcraft can be used, and the difference with subhumans is determined by whether it is possible to communicate the will.

"So there's gonna be a group tomorrow or so."

"Tomorrow? That's why you came hunting today."

"That's right. No, the inn is busy this year, because the dispatched people from Wangdu are staying until the end of the year. Ruth, think there's no rest."

"Ouch."

Ruth responds to Rosa, who has a good face with a thumb up, by doing the same. Rossa is unexpectedly in the mood to run the inn because she doesn't seem interested in doing business because of her bear-like face. He especially loves filling his lodging books with guests.

(Speaking of which, it looks like Alec's letter said something about a demon... you should read it back once)

Ruth thought I'd reread the letter from Alec that I put in the drawer later.