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

- But the body that started falling suddenly stopped.

"What!"

"Eh... Damn, he said he was dying again, but that's a dumb scream..."

Turning in that direction to the voice that came down from above his head, there was a Wonok with a slightly hurried look while stirring his silver hair. Apparently Wonok grabbed Ruth's collar aggressively and stopped her from falling. My throat hurts.

"Coon, coon, coon!

"Calm down, your owner is safe."

"Ugh, Mr. Wonok, this is..."

"Explain later. I'm gonna pull you up, man."

"Yes."

Ruth was pulled up without being slightly moved as she was told. Wonok lifts to the window more easily than he thought, throwing Ruth straight inside. The oculus jumped to Ruth, who fell, trying to roll over the spare sheet.

The oculus wiggles his tail so heavily that his hips are shaking that he is happy for Ruth's safety. However, in contrast, Wonok noticed a slightly irritating look.

"Ha, not at all. I can't believe I'm trying to get out of the window... and I almost fell and died. Don't show unexpected behavior!

"Shh, excuse me........................... or, uh, outside? What the hell?"

Looking up with Ruth's troubled expression, who has no understanding of the situation, Wonock strokes his disturbed hair with a blizzard with a deep sigh and calls with his fingers to come to the window. And when Ruth stood next to him, he took the red flashy jacket, which had the window lifted wide and placed nearby. That's the jacket Celine wore when she was young. Ruth brought it up once, thinking about putting it on the oculus at the beginning, and it was so flashy that it stopped it.

Wonok let go of his hand as he pulled it out the window.

"Ah..."

The flashy jacket is swept away by the wind and straight away from the Ruth's. The figure didn't quite disappear even in the white snow because it was flashy, and eventually hid itself when it became a small dot. It's like flying a towel in the wind from a high ground, a deep cloth movement. - So for the first time, Ruth feels uncomfortable.

"That... the line of Mr. Wonok's street was right in front of you, wasn't it?

"That was about the width of the road for two adults. Don't stick that jacket up there if you're normal."

"... it's like a forest behind it, there was one, right?

"Yeah, if it's normal for 10,000 to cross the family, it should stop there. And this motherhouse shouldn't be in such a high position that your feet don't get there. Unlike the inn, it's a bungalow."

"Yeah..................... what, huh?

Ruth looks back at Wonok. I know, but I don't know. My head refuses to understand that.

Wonok, who closed the window, saw the confused Ruth and calmly gave me the answer.

"I'm confused. Let's be frank for you. This inn is now floating off the ground."

"Ha...... ha!?

"Wawwww!?

Raise a weird voice to the oculus to tune in to Ruth's surprise. But Wonok was very calm. On that face, I felt like it said I was silent because I didn't like being surprised this way.

"Ugh, what do you mean you're in a floating position............?

"It means the way it is. Based on the location of the mountain, it's about the height of the tenth floor of the building."

"You can't see a mountain with a snowstorm!

"I have good eyes. More than that, joy. There are few inns this tall in the capital."

"There's no way I'd be happy!

There were a lot of scratches, but I thought the most important thing was the non-flying story that it was floating anyway. But the fact that the inn is floating is that Ruth also saw it with this eye. I can't explain a house along a street that suddenly disappeared without legs on the ground for any other reason.

But the house floats - there's no way that can happen in common sense.

(in common sense...... ah......)

Noticing a possibility, Ruth stared at Wonok. Wonok laughs again.

"Right. Maybe this is his special ability."

Wonok said that the opponent is not the owner of the ability to restrain and move the subject into space. He said the situation in the Herald's room also had a glimpse of one end of its ability.

(Speaking of which, my room where Mr. Herald was falling, the window was weird, right?

Ruth knows that the window frame was broken in a circle. Indeed, that was a little weird. Maybe the "circle” is the form of the opponent's ability. It's an image of a target trapped in a circular object. If you add water or something, you might be able to form a ball of spherical water.

(Is that a circle?... like you've seen somewhere else?

But I can't remember thinking about it. Something too different has happened in the last few days and I felt confused in my head.

"But he said he would lift the inn from one mother house to another…………………"

"That's a lot of magic. When that happens, it won't just be a human being, so I guess it's a highly capable person with original witchcraft to use, or an intelligent sub, or around the Demon clan. But a trick aimed at you is bad enough for someone with enough power to lift the inn. I'm sure there are quite a few limitations to this ability. Halfway around not blocking the air or using it as a direct killing tool in the first place, it doesn't seem that user-friendly."

"No, it's not, for what?

"To keep you from escaping. To make it easy to start and end. To threaten other residents for the hostages. Whatever the reason, dude? Think what you want."

Exactly. Wonok doesn't seem to know exactly why. They say it a little too much.

"In other words, Mr. Wonok... you knew exactly what was happening to Inn from the mouthpiece, didn't you?

"... the five of us, including you, after playing the card game, or suddenly I can't hear something hitting the bucket I was hearing from outside the room. At first, I thought it was because of the snow, but I noticed that the sound of the water flowing in the bathroom was obviously different, and I was curious, so I peeled off the floorboard in the room."

"Oh hey, did you peel off the floorboard!?

"Don't worry, I blocked it clean. I'd rather praise you if I could find you."

"No, I'm not... No more, no more. So how did it go when I peeled it off?

"The ground was gone, so the snow came in from below... that night, the sheets were wet and it was hard to sleep"

Ruth wrote it down in the corner of his head to go change the sheets after this and shook his head saying no. The problem is that snow came in from under the floor. Wonok's room is on the ground floor, so normally there should be ground, but the problem is that it doesn't.

"Why didn't you tell me when you realized?

"If you put it badly, I thought you might try to get out there to make sure. Did you believe what I said in the first place?

……

There's an inn floating around - even if they say that, Ruth certainly won't believe it easily. And Wonok must be right to go outside and try to make sure. And it could have fallen like earlier.

"And then I was trying to get the timing right. I don't know if I can take it as calmly as you do now."

"Nothing. I'm not cool either, am I?

I'm just so surprised that on the contrary, my attitude is the only thing that's calming me down. My facial expressions were just true because I was no longer able to keep up with this unlikely situation, and I was filled with headaches about what to do inside.

"Well, if I get here, I can't help but hide it, so let's just say it turned out okay."

"I don't think I want anything..."

Ruth can only follow the unexpected developments that have taken place in the last few days, which would never have been possible in his normal life. I can't afford to think so deeply about the killer's motives or why Wonok is so familiar with things. I don't even know how to protect my family and those involved from the inns that are floating in the universe more than that and stop the killer from acting.

"Ruth, don't think hard. You just think about your own safety and that of your family."

"But if we don't do something about the killer, it's not just me, it's the others."

"I have an idea about that. Leave it to me."

Ruth looked up at Wonock and smiled confidently. Just a little on that look, I felt lighter that it was heavy.

"... help me, will you?

"I'm more dangerous than being in this inn, too. Plus, if you can't eat borough stew, you're in trouble."

"Bo...... Borough Astew"

Wonok looked extremely natural. Seems motivated by the fact that you can't seriously lose that flavor, not because you're talking about borough stew in a shade or tundra.

(but maybe I can trust you more than they say I suck)

From what I've said and done so far, I know very well that Wonok is an excellent observer eye and a smart and calm type. Given the current situation, in which the killer's motives are not known and he does not make a loud noise, there should be no more dependable existence.

When Ruth thought of it that way, he was pulled off the hem of his jacket. Looking back, there was a wolf waving his tail up at this one.

"One, one!

"... you're going to help me too? Oh, thank you."

Ruth crouches in and hugs him to the oculus. In the current situation on the verge of punk, I was very happy to be on my side, albeit oculus. I feel my heart warm to the oculus that sweeps my tail with joy.

"This is what he's saying, and you pretend to be the brainless village youth as you can see."

"Yes...... wait a minute. I'm not smart enough, what is it!? Aren't you being too rude?

"You look good, but the atmosphere is typical of the small village pure youth themselves. You look like a favorite worker who knows very little about bad things and only believes in human favors, often pure, or worse yet gullible youth. I wonder how a mother's face reinforces the atmosphere. It is only because of the atmosphere that you are mistaken by a woman. So people from outside the village probably see you that way."

Wonok also got that image when he first met Ruth, apparently. But in fact, he said he was surprised because he was an actionist who frequently went hunting, had good care, had a good mouth around, thought was urban in one way or another, and was calm and noisy when it came to things.

"I went around the village for a few days, but you have a pretty wide view among the villages. Normally, if you grow up in such a small village from a young age, there are very many who assume that common sense in that village is common sense in the world. Young people in particular. So normally for the first time since I left the village, I know that I am ignorant and that I am overwhelmed by the breadth of the world... but I feel like you know from the beginning that the world is wide"

What Wonok said was a little complicated, but I felt like I figured it out a little. Maybe Wonok felt Ruth was different than just a village youth in just about a week. Of course you wouldn't think you had ”previous life experience," etc., but you still seemed uncomfortable.

That's why Ruth laughs bitterly. I'm not going to say anything about my previous life, so I just have to pretend that I don't know what that means. If I were to borrow Wonok's words, I pretended to be a young man from a village without a head.

"Well, let's talk about the hard part… Anyway, what you can do to the killer is invite the other person to stay alert with the image as it is"

"Invoke alarm, sir?

"'Coincidences have just overlapped, it would be easy to end them,' 'I'm not the person to think about the hard stuff,' making them think that way, causing them to be alert and de-alerting their enemies. You need to be insulted in order to get this inn down to the ground safely. I can't do that."

"Is that what you mean..."

The opponent failed for the first time to alert Ruth, so he began to do the outrageous thing of lifting the inn to space. So if they insult me the other way around, they say they shouldn't do this until they use their magic enormously.

"The point is, he's not trying to kill you in person for imitating a lot of things. This seems to be because you avoid being publicly known as" someone killed you ”. I don't know what the circumstances are, but I guess there's a reason I don't want to stand out. You make me want to drop him off while you understand his psychological situation."

"That sounds surprisingly hard to think about."

When Ruth laughed a little, Wonock returned a calm smile. Then out of nowhere, he took out a pendant with a green gem shaped like Shizukumi and put it on top of it when he told Ruth to get his hands on it.

"This?

"Amulet. Fance's … a guardian of the Wind attribute. It would be compatible. I thought you were the surprisingly dangerous type. But when this is over, give it back."

They lend it to Ruth for the reason that it would be troublesome if there were no more humans to catch Borough Ashtou meat. Ruth honestly decided to borrow it because it seemed too much.

Gems like fingertips that don't feel too heavy when lowered from the neck are simple and have no decorations other than gold chains. I can see, however, that it seemed to emit a calm light and was very cherished. Ruth hid it in her clothes so she wouldn't get hurt by the pendant.

"Thank you very much. I will definitely return it."

"... hey Ruth, do you remember working evil enough to get you killed?

"... I'm not going to tell you that I've done everything right, but I don't even remember doing enough to get killed"

If it was a small evil, I did a lot with Alec as a kid. Keep your parents quiet about the fact that you're still in the O.K.

But I don't remember taking my life and doing what I thought was natural. I can't say enough that I haven't bought a grudge because the way I receive it is different for them, but I still didn't mean to have done it wrong as far as I'm concerned.

"Hehe, that's right. You are unlikely to be killed for any reason... but the world is sometimes cruel, even God can suffer fate"

"God?

"Oh, your god."

That said, Wonok set aside Ruth and the oculus and headed to the single-person door. It's time to show your face, or you'll think it's weird. I did talk a lot longer, so I'd have to figure out a reason to delude myself.

But Wonok, who tried to leave the warehouse room, suddenly looked back in front of the door.

"And the stench of that wolf is terrible. Just take a bath. It's only a matter of time before they find out."

Wonok, who had turned away his earlier gentle grin and turned a little freaked out, left the room by tapping his clothes to pay for the smell, to put it all that way.

I didn't think it was that bad, but Ruth thought I needed to take a bath in a hurry.