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

"I can't help but be sad forever. Let's move on."

"One!"

Ruth, who, thanks to his depression for a while, managed to raise his mood, thinks about the future as he stares at Kia in the front.

(At any rate, we need to get them all down to the ground safely)

But the question is, where the hell is the inn? Wonok said yesterday that the accommodation is about ten floors tall in the building, but I don't know what's going on nowadays. If you look outside, Ruth won't be able to determine the medium height of the blizzard because he doesn't have that many eyes. Now we don't even know if the other person is letting down the inn alarmingly.

"I hope there's some way to know the height"

"One."

Ruth was holding her mouth and thinking, Kia dived under the bed once and then came back to claim something. I can push what I call it in my hand just to look at it.

"Woodboard shards?

It was a smaller shard than the palm of the hand, the same material as the wooden plate used on the floor. It is thicker and clearer than the boards on which the inn window was punched, so it is easy to understand, but it is not like it is normally rolled.

"Kia, where is this coming from?

"One"

Kia waved her tail just to tell her to follow me and put her hand on the door. Apparently it will lead us to where we were falling.

Ruth is in the hallway looking around and making sure no one is there. I praised my footsteps so that I could not be torn apart by any other human being.

(Speaking of which, Kia doesn't make footsteps when she's running)

It was the same this morning, but I can't hear footsteps from Kia walking forward. Ordinary oculus also uses footsteps as a guide for hunting, so given the size and weight of the kia, it should be audible from the structure of the body. But Kia doesn't have footsteps as if she's floating. Maybe it's an inherent ability.

Following with that in mind, Kia stopped in front of the room where Wonok's body was located and has shown in her attitude to open it to Ruth.

(Were the floorboards peeled off in this room?

Ruth, who had also cleaned the floor and had the key, opens the door believing Kia while wondering.

Reaching out and turning on the large lamp in the room, a trace of the blood in the place where Wonok was falling into his eyes, only slightly flashing his face. It's a tragic situation to look at again.

When Ruth couldn't look and missed her gaze just a little bit, Kia was looking at the foot of the bed at the edge of the room.

"Kia?"

Ruth called out, 'Here it is!' As Kia looks back, she sweeps her tail. On his knees beside Kia, looking at the floor, there were two or three similar tree shards rolling around.

"Why are there tree shards here......? Hmm?"

As Ruth moved his face closer to the floor slab, the snowstorm suddenly sounded stronger. If you look closely, Kia's hairline is in the wind. The wind seems to be coming from under the bed.

Ruth laid her hands on the floor and peered under the bed. Then...

"Hole?"

Under a dark bed where the light of the lamp could not reach, I could see it glowing like only one place had been exposed to a strong light. It seems the wind is flowing from there.

(Maybe this is what Mr. Wonok said about the 'stripped the floorboards in the room' place?

Wonock said he peeled off the floorboards and confirmed it when it came to a hell of a story about the inn floating in the universe. From what he said about the bed getting wet and difficult, there's no mistake in Wonock's stripped floorboard.

"Is that... is there anything down there?

"Wong."

"Let's move the bed. Kia, stay back."

Ruth creates a gap by moving the bed that is attached to the wall to the extent that each person can get in. And when I peeked up at my face to where there was a hole in the floorboard, there was a string tied to the frame of the bed leading to the end of the hole in that floorboard.

"This string, I lent it to you yesterday."

A hunting tool that Wonok asked me to bring yesterday. I borrowed as many as five strings, so I was supposed to tend to it. I've been in this room many times since yesterday, but I haven't even noticed its presence. Sometimes it wasn't the other way around, but when you think about it, it's weird.

When Ruth opens the gap in the bed a little more, she puts her body there and carefully pulls the strings that are bracketed in the frame of the bed. Then the floorboard with the hole came off easily and I could see the bottom.

(It's a blizzard down there. But the string leads to the ground? Are you hanging something?

Ruth tried to pull the string carefully. In the beginning it was a string held up with a sultry, but eventually it stopped moving after a while over the knot that was tying the strings to each other. No matter how much you pull, no matter how much you shake it to the side, it won't lift any more. The strings are just pinned and headed to the ground.

(What's the meaning of this? What's the point of this, Mr. Wonock?

I thought he was hanging something, but he didn't. But I don't think it makes sense to imitate it like this. As Ruth thought about the reason, she noticed Kia smelling the string. It's a string to tie the prey and go home, so it smells like blood from what I'm washing, so I guess I'm curious.

"Kia, is there something going on?

Kia shakes her head even though she looks sorry. I don't think it has a strange smell on it.

Ruth took the string he pulled up and checked to see if there was anything. The strings used for the hunt are quite long and, as Wonok said, three times his height per bottle. I lent you five bottles, so if you tie them together like this, they should be quite long. That goes from the bed of the inn to the ground.

"What... wait, could it be...!?

Ruth tried to calculate the length of the string and remembered the dialogue Wonok was saying yesterday.

"The height of the inn now would be about the tenth floor of the building"

Ruth hurries up and peeks under the floorboard to see how the strings look. It wasn't until I crossed the first knot that I could pull it up. And where it still doesn't reach this side, I see a second knot. It's a little longer than Ruth's arm, from the floorboard to the knot.

"… well, this is height!

"Waw?"

"Kia, it's high! Mr. Wonock imitated the height so that I could understand it."

"Three times my height, I wish I had five."

That line had something to do with the "Tenth Floor of the Building" that was squealed before it.

The string Lent by Ruth is three times the height of Wonok, and when it fits five, units of the previous life, it is more or less long enough not to reach thirty meters. Even if you skip the knot of the string and other fine parts, the building on the tenth floor will be equal to the string about thirty meters tall - it shouldn't be weird as a calculation.

This means that Wonok put a weight or something on it and dropped a string on the ground, bracketing the end of the bed to make something that would be an indication of the distance between the inn and the ground.

"And the first piece of string I set up is on my hands… proof that the inn is starting to descend more than one."

If you're going to make a trick like this, there's no way you're going to leave the strings in an extra state. Then, when Wonok made it, the strings that were pinned up now created enough room to pull it up. I knew immediately why I could afford a string without having to think about it.

(Thank you very much, Wonok……)

Ruth holds the eye area that is about to become moist.

Since the string was requested yesterday until this time, the only thing that has happened is Wonok. Therefore, it is clear that Wonok's death has to do with the offender's alarm and hence the descent of the inn. And because of Ruth, Wonok had even done this work so that he could understand the distance. I couldn't thank you enough.

Ruth grips the pendant he owes, feeling speechless. I got my temper back once now.

"Kia, let's definitely get down to the ground without missing anyone more"

"One!"

From here on, Ruth begins the fight.