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

"…… Alec, why are you here?

Asking the question as a surprise, Alec opened his mouth to try to explain. But when it closes immediately, he frowns slightly and crouches down to the spot holding Ruth. And I took the vial out of my pocket.

"Explain later, drink this anyway"

"This?

"It's a healing drug. Just hurry up."

"Oh, yeah......"

Ruth opens her mouth with the liquid in a beautiful glass bottle that sparkles like a jewel.

The slightly sweet liquid that came in the sulfur can be bounced off and disappeared as it enters the mouth to spread all over Ruth's body. The body, which was heavy at the limit of his strength, and his head, which was fluttering with out of magic, went back to normal at once with that playable feeling.

"Wow... wow, this"

Village toolshops also have restorative drugs for adventurers, but only marginally recover health. So I've never had a more strange feeling, like healing everything at once. Besides, the recovery pills are a little expensive, so I haven't had much opportunity to use them as long as I'm in the village.

"You're back in strength and magic. Your complexion is good, and your status is healing."

So Alec slowly stroked Ruth's cheek back to his reassuring expression. Apparently, he looked terrible, which made him quite worried.

But it's true, if you just take the medicine and realize it, it's not just your strength and magic, it's healing the scratches on your shoulders that were complaining about the jiggles and pain, it's healing your legs that should have dislocated.

(That…… Could this be quite expensive……)

Ruth stares at the jewel-like bottle that is punished in front of her.

Physical strength, magic, and medications that even recover from status abnormalities - I realize now that Alec gave me maybe a pretty expensive recovery pill.

"Alec, now... hey, um..."

Ruth tried to ask terribly, but sooner than that, Alec's fingertips were starting to move suspiciously and distract him.

The index finger that was looking through the cheek slowly crept through the jaw, and at the same time the middle finger tip swung to the neck. My fingertips slightly freaked out by the feeling of touching my throat and my voice leaked. And Alec's fingers didn't stop, he kept touching Ruth's lips.

At first, I wondered if he was feeling well, but Alec, with a good smile on his face, noticed that this was not playing and caught his finger.

"Alec, don't play with people's faces."

"What is it, a little bit, okay?

"You don't have a good division……………."

I complain to Alec, but he just smiles innocently. But as usual, I gave up being angry any more. Rather, it's because I realized there was more to it than that.

"Alec, I appreciate your help. But... I was wondering if you could drop me off, because I can already stand on my own feet."

The moment I opened my eyes I didn't know what was happening to me, but the moment Alec crouched, Ruth also had a low vision at the same time and realized what was going on.

(I don't want to complain about being helped, but just a little...)

Ruth can be in Alec's lap right now. From the beginning, they were held sideways. Finally the admiration of a girl in a previous life (?) It's a princess hug.

I'm just too ashamed to have a nearly twenty year old man Ruth. Besides, his opponent is Alec the Prince Faith. That's why I feel even more like it.

"Nothing heavy, though?

"He said it's not a matter of heavy or not heavy. Just get him down."

So that Ruth could rush it a little. That said, Alec finally let me down in such a way as reluctantly.

(Why are you so reluctant there...... you don't know what Alec is like)

Ruth looked around once again as he put his foot on the ground.

The land around Ruth, which was buried in snow, was melted with snow and the ground was decided by the impact of the moment Alec arrived. The direction where the molten demon was found is so foggy and invisible that the snow melted and appeared in the hot air.

(It's already a mess... more like a knife!

Alec stepped forward softly as Ruth picked up the knife he dropped while he was on guard.

"Alec......?

"Ruth, stay back. He's still alive..."

As soon as Alec turned his gaze on the melting demon, a black translucent object popped out of the area where the hot air was. I knew immediately that it was Ruth's tentacle.

The tentacles set a target for whether this one is visible or not, and they come straight for those with Ruth. Ruth remembered that he suffered a burning injury to his shoulder after being touched by an array.

(Shit, I need to prevent it with something, again!

But Alec, standing in front of him, is lightly dressed, wearing clothes no different from when he was in the village. Instead of armor, he didn't seem to have a single weapon, and he was anxious to think that it would be Ruth's two dances as it was.

"Run away, that ha-ha-ha."

"Ruth, stay away from me. - Huh!

When Ruth tries to tell him to take evasive action, Alec hits a temper quicker than that. At that moment, the blue and white light surrounded Alec's body.

(Hey, what's that, that?

I have seen Alec use witchcraft shine slightly golden several times, but I have never seen him wear a blue and white light. It's like a flame with no temperature is protecting Alec.

But even as I was surprised, my tentacles were close to Ruth's eyes.

"Ah, Alec -"

"- You let Ruth get hurt, get ready, you bastard!

Alec, who shouted out loud, stuck his fist out holding nothing to the tentacles coming towards him.

The moment Alec's fist and tentacles came into contact, a low sound sounded like heavy objects bumping into each other. The sound vibrates the air and also gives Ruth a tingly shock a little further away from Alec.

And after that air wave-like thing pushed over, the tentacles bounced to the other side.

"To that extent, don't think you can beat me!

Alec, who came forward to jump from the spot, reaches out to chase that bounced tentacle. And as he grabbed the tip with one hand, he stopped the momentum with his feet as he scraped the ground, throwing it to slap forward with his back to his tentacles. It's a situation like the one I'm talking about in Judo.

(bare hands...... su, wow...... y)

A thrown molten demon smashes the trees to the ground. The sound of dry trees cracking and the fierce impact of rocking the ground comes through. I knew it, but it's a luxury not comparable to Ruth's quiet battle.

And because Alec moved flashly like that, he finally sees a much clouded perimeter.

The snow plains where Ruth was fighting sometime or so the snow melted, the ground was decided, and the trees were broken. It's terrible. And the thrown molten demon lays down on the snowy ground with the broken tree. But it's still moving, so he hasn't been completely silent.

Ruth called out to Alec, who bore the blue and white light.

"Alec, hands, are you okay? He grabbed it, didn't he rot?

"Hands? Yeah, I got protection. Rest assured, the melting demon's erosion will not work"

Apparently, the injury Ruth sustained on his shoulder was in the situation of 'erosion', which amplifies the magic in his body and causes mental abnormality when left without recovery for a long time. But it seems that abandonment also refers to a fairly long period of time, and they usually don't get hit with the spirit after about a month. However, there have also been fast-moving contacts lately, which seems to be a problem.

But Ruth was surprised that Alec used the word 'melting demon' more normally than that.

"Alec, too, can you tell that that guy is a 'melting demon'?

"Hmm? Why, rather, does Ruth know?

"No, I asked Wonok to tell me……………"

"Wonok?"

Alec responds to Wonok's name, frowning and looking at Ruth. But at the same time, the melting demon, which had moved small until earlier, rose again. Noticing the appearance, Alec turned his gaze toward the melting demon, whilst smashing his tongue small, to be vigilant.

"I'll ask you who that man is later... Ruth, 'The Molten Demon' is a phenomenon that's going on all over the world right now."

"A phenomenon in question all over the world?

"Oh, I was ordered by that woman, and there are frequent problems associated with it. A suddenly appearing melting demon is rampant and causing damage to villages and towns. Besides, he even has a nasty omelet of erosion. It's more damaging because you can't handle it with adventurers like you. When I was in this village, I never knew his name, but he was famous outside the country for several years."

The village of Hashi is located in the mountainous area behind the mountain, and little information can come in that can be called information outside the country because it is also far from the Wang capital. The only person who can purchase information is the story of adventurers and pedestrians, but that is also limited in the kind of people who come to Hashi village. Even my brother Clark, who travels to and from Wang Du, doesn't know everything because he only stays a few days.

Ruth was terrified that there was a phenomenon that was in great trouble where he did not know. Moreover, I felt a sense of crisis that I could not stay with other personnel in the situation that it was now in front of me.

"Alec, what the hell is a melting demon......?

Alec answers Ruth's questions, even though he keeps his gaze off the molten demon.

"Fusion demons refer to people and subhumans who have merged with demons due to some influence. I mean, they're people."

"People fuse with demons...... is that happening? So, that guy too?

"Oh, I don't know if someone did this to me, but he's also used to people whose demons have mixed and melted in their bodies and their symptoms have progressed"

Ruth felt a chill creeping up on her back when she heard that the condition was like the end of a person's habit.

That molten demon also had a people-like part. I originally imitated Julia. He had a part that looked like someone who spoke the language, thought and acted on his own.

But at the same time as the melting demonization progressed, it gradually lost itself, and now instead of intelligence, it became something with no head or body like a black translucent liquid. The only part that leaves its original shape also becomes like just a subject, looking like a completely different substance from a person.

I can still be calm as talking about another dimension if "the contents were arr from the beginning," but I feel unsettled when I am originally a fleshy person and it is said that it has become that way in fusion with demons. Because it can happen to me, too.

"And when the progression goes that far, it can't go back to normal. I can only think of taking it in to kill and feed those in front of me. Kill all your children, your relatives, your friends, your lovers, whatever."

I could see a little grief mixing in Alec's voice. From the conversation, Alec said that he had been opposed to the melting demon many times during his journey. Then again and again, I may have seen the scene caused by the melting demon. That probably wasn't in a good mood.

"Melting demonizes, one turn becomes stronger. Especially when it raises the status of magic. But because of that great power, this time my self will collapse. The vessels are more intolerable. And as it turns out, it mostly runs wild...... if it does, unless I kill him, there's no salvation for him!

The melting demon seemed to have been asking how Alec was doing the whole time. Unlike when Ruth, five tentacles head for Alec at a time.

"So I'll do it!

To the tentacles coming towards me, Alec also runs out to fly. Alec swung his fist up against the first one that came as close as possible, rushing the ground at such a speed that it was difficult to follow with his eyes.