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

The next day, it was finally the day of the monster hunt. The expected time to reach the villages of the demons is before evening, and we must be ready for evacuation and interception by then.

Mr. Maxim and the others were supposed to leave before noon. Their Knights and part-armed villagers bypass an army of demons and go around behind their backs to attract B-ranked demons and have them defeated away from the village.

"Then, Lord Ruth, we're going out."

"I look forward to your safe return"

"Yes!"

Hitting and changing from yesterday, Maxim walked out the inn door with a better smile than usual at Ruth, as usual without any extra majestic aura from the Knights Commander. However, I was a little concerned that the deputy secretary who followed said something ominous like, "Will the Calaferty family be finished for the captain?" but since all the members who followed him looked at Ruth and Maxim and looked as delicate as a relief, I couldn't ask anyone for details. Ruth thought I'd ask her when she left.

Ruth, who watched from afar the villagers dropping off Maxim and the others, went back indoors when he noticed Gio showing up in the lobby.

"Gio, do you look okay today?

"Yeah, yeah. I'll listen to the flow. It's okay. I'm sorry. I was so comfortable, I sat there till the day."

"No, that's fine. But if you feel it's dangerous, please run for it at first sight. Focus only on protecting your life."

When Ruth said so, Gio raised his bright white eyebrows and gently waved the wand he had.

"Ha, it doesn't seem okay. It looks like this, and you can do it quite well."

"But"

"I know, I know. Don't worry, if it's dangerous, I'll run away."

Gio, who moves his neck slowly to forgive Ruth for worrying, doesn't seem too frightened against the monster hunt. Ruth thought he might be somewhat accustomed to demons in the first place because he traveled to this village, but he would have to be careful because of his age.

When everyone gathered in the square around the village chief after noon, at the same time as the disbandment, they were each to place themselves. Rossa went to the corner with the intercepting villagers and the healing priest, and Ruth and Celine approached the people gathering in the corner of the square.

It is women, children, the elderly, the injured, those who do not have the means to fight demons.

"Everybody stay put, then we're leaving."

As the armed man who cuts ahead walks, the group leaves the village for the monastery along the mountain. It used to be a place where villagers could hide and help when there was a mountain fire, constantly repairing it so that some number of people could escape. Even during the demon hunt, villagers who did not have the skill to fight were not to be left in the village and hidden here.

Ruth, who walks at the rear of the group, today transforms the arrows into iron, not stone, and the knife wears and is armed with what Maxim received the other day. Bird stopped by as he was walking nearby.

"Hey, Ruth. Ruth also returns to the village to fight the demons after sending us to the shrine!?

"Uh... uh."

Unlike the other day, Ruth was stuck in a response when he was stared at with sparkling eyes. I know you expect Ruth to be active, but I can't get a good reply back to Bird. Because...

"My responsibility is to guard the temple. That's why you don't fight demons."

"Eh!"

"I was there last year too, don't you remember?

"At all."

"Oh, well…………………."

Ruth's responsibility for the day of the demon hunt was to protect the safety of those who came to the shrine. This has never changed since I was thirteen years old when I started participating in the demon hunt, and Ruth has always been put around in charge of security. There are a few other people besides Ruth, but there are many young people who become members, and because they change every year, they are apparently regarded as the gateway to monster hunting.

"Ruth, why are you so powerful! You can fight demons!

Bird seems terribly dissatisfied, but when I look at that look on his face, I feel smiling. Because I couldn't care less about it than I don't even remember it existed before, and now I know I believe in Ruth's work.

(Glad to hear that)

I guess Bird's perception of Ruth changed in one of his luggage haulings yesterday. I'm worried that it will be okay to believe people immediately to this extent, but it doesn't change my pleasure that Bird hated me so much.

"Thank you. But Bird, security work is also very important. If you have to, you have to show yourself and let everyone go. I have the heaviest responsibility in the village."

"Eh."

"This is what Alec said."

"Brother Alec?

"Yes."

That seemed to convince Bird. The name of Boulder Alec is strong.

Walking with Bird for a while, I reached the temple of purpose. The temple, which is designed to determine the slope of the mountain, is fitted with a door of about two meters, and inside is tidy so that it is okay for some people to wake up, and blankets and food are already available. I was able to spend a few days here no matter what.

The villagers went in one after the other when the humans who were walking the lead checked inside and told them it was safe. And when the armed men leave Ruth and the others behind, they return to the path that immediately came. They plan to join the demon hunt as it is.

"Well, shall we go to security?"

Speak to the boy who freshly remembers to hunt and to the young man under one of Ruth, each on the placement. Even so, the entrance is one of the doors, so the three of us just line up in front.

After Ruth and the others settled on the spot for a while, they eventually heard a high whistle.

(…… here we go)

Ruth's heart also gets a little faster to the sound of a whistle announcing the arrival of a demon.

I feel these last few hours very long every year. Because Ruth and the others can only wait until the end news comes from the village.

Eventually the sun tilted and the sky stained red. Hours after the whistle sounds, it's usually not a strange time for villagers to come and tell the end. Do you feel that, the two guarding with Ruth were nervous faces.

It was the moment Ruth tried to speak out that he shouldn't be too uptight -

- Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Something like intense pressure, which cannot even be called sound from afar, echoed through the air. As soon as it gets into his ear, something disgusting runs through Ruth's skin. It's like a bug crawling. I don't want to be here, that's what I thought.

"What is it, this"

"Ahhh... ahh!

"Uh-oh!

The boy standing next to him crouched on the spot and the young man on the other side shivered. Ruth opened the temple door when she pulled the two men who were unable to move, as if they were unusual.

"Uh-oh!

"No, help me!

The room about ten meters panicked. The children cried and the adults were frightened and even offered prayers to God.

"Ruth."

"Mother."

Coming out of the back was my mother Celine, whose face was blue but looking normal.

"What happened!?

"I don't know, when I think I've suddenly got some weird signs, the kids cry, and they're all shuddered and scared. You haven't heard anything from the village?

"Nothing has come but this is…………………………"

When I was taught to hunt back in the day, I was asked many times about the phenomenon. Just by hearing that voice, the weak will even faint, the voice of the devil...

A horse's voice echoed from beyond the door of the temple, which was then open. The horse, who immediately appeared, approached the temple straight with one on his back.

As Ruth hurried out in front of the temple, the horse stopped on the verge of bumping into him, and the person on his back fell to roll.

"Oh, my God."

"Daniel!"

It was Daniel the liaison who came down from the horse. Daniel reaches out to Ruth, still blue-faced.

"What's the big deal, something happened in the village!?

"…… Le."

"Eh?"

"... the hell Bal, who had no plans, broke the barricade and came into the village!

Bal - three meters long, walking with two legs, holding the third, long hands reaching to the feet, thorny tails. And you can't scratch one with just a weapon. You have super curing ability, you eat people, the most powerful demon on this land.

"Bal………"

About a week ago, I remembered that demon figure that I could only drive back, and there was a cold sweat on Ruth's forehead.