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

"Disappear in this land with the prince, O man whose life is targeted by God!

That melting demon said away to Ruth when he was still able to preserve himself and have a conversation. Apparently that's what Alec cared about.

"Oh yeah. I didn't know what that meant... but it's some kind of metaphor."

"A metaphor…………"

I don't think Ruth would be targeted for his life by the presence of 'God' as the word implies, so that would mean that he was ordered to aim for Ruth by some analogy or by 'God to Him'.

(But that molten demon was supposed to use Kia to start a war...)

Considering that, it doesn't fit. I tried to think of the meaning of the melting demon's words in many ways, but still didn't get an answer.

I can't imagine being involved in a war between God and Ruth, the only people living in a small village. There's no reason to get that noticed.

(... unless you're Alec)

If Alec is a brave man on a journey to save the world, it doesn't seem strange that those who don't want him to save the world are after his life. Of course it's something I don't want in real life, but I'm sure it's gotten so famous by now. If the word war is also Alec, I can't say enough about zero chances of getting involved. Brave men who stopped fighting between countries - games would talk about that.

(But it's not me... ha... I really don't know what that means... no, you don't know anything about this case in the first place)

I didn't actually know anything about this incident.

One reason why that melting demon was about to wage war and why Ruth was about to be killed by Seju is uncertain. I didn't even know if the action they had taken was from a personal point of view, or if someone had ordered me to.

(Well, Seju can listen, but the melting demon...)

Even if he fell off a cliff and lived, I don't think he could hear a proper story from the melting demon who had suffered that much self-destruct. In the end, I guess the purpose of that melting demon will remain unclear.

When Ruth looked up tired to give up thinking, he noticed a deep vertical wrinkle formed between Alec's eyebrows, which were on the diagonal. Ruth accidentally reaches out and pushes into a deep gorge that doesn't look good on Prince Faith.

"Hmm? Ru, Ruth?

"Oh, I'm sorry. I had wrinkles between my eyebrows."

"Fine..."

He looked surprised, but Alec looked at Ruth intentionally as she tried to pull her hand in.

When Ruth pushes his forehead against the hand he brings to his head and says, "Ruth's hand feels warm and nice, okay," the itchy sensation creeps up.

(That's true, it's not a good idea to bother Alec with something like this)

Even though Alec should be struggling on his journey as a brave man. It is painful to make him look in trouble by adding more effort to Ruth's own business. At least when I got back to the village, I wanted to make you look at peace.

"Oh, Alec, I don't think you have to worry too much about that. I don't even know if that guy said the real reason in the first place. Maybe this is how you messed me up and distracted me from the conversation, right?

"But…………"

"More than that, Alec, was the village okay?

"Ruth."

"I'm worried about the village. Weren't they all hurt?

Alec seemed dissatisfied with being forced to change the story, but even though he had a choice, he responded to the story.

When Alec showed up, he said that although there was a fuss outside, there were no dead people, and the injured were also handled by Wonok and the priest. Thanks to this, it seems that no villagers saw the moment of Alec's transfer that suddenly emerged from the broken inn.

"Oh well, Kia and the villagers are safe......"

I wondered what would happen when the battle broke out in front of me, but if there were no injuries, I could feel safe. I'm a little concerned about Seju, but if Wonok is here, he'll be able to handle it properly. I don't think that man would make such a mistake.

When Ruth was horrified, he also heard a sigh from Alec in the front. And I can put my face straight to my neck muscle.

"Alec......?

I want to turn my missing hand lightly to Alec's neck.

"When I saw the inn half-destructed, I was seriously freaked out. You're gone with the melting demon, that guy says."

"Speaking of which, how did Alec end up in the village?

"You wrote that in your letter, didn't you? Thanks to the magic I got from Jiji, I can go home every other month or so. So by the end of the five days of disconnection, he said he was going home on a transfer to help with the snowfall."

"Uh... no, you didn't get that letter, did you?

I did say that to threaten the two innkeepers, but I didn't remember receiving such a letter because it was Ruth's delusion or just a lie.

"No, I wrote, there was a problem in the Kingdom of Ziltania, and the king couldn't see me, so it was free time, and I wrote to him three days ago... Ah"

He gives the look that Alec, with his face up, noticed something. At the same time, Ruth figured out why she was eating up the wrong story.

I sent it out three days ago in Ziltania, which means that if you're bad, the letter is still on the way to sea. Normally, it takes nearly a month from Giltania to Hashi village, so the letter must arrive in almost two months. In other words, Alec is faster than the letter and will have come to Hashi village.

Alec smashed her tongue small to see if she could figure that out.

"Damn... it's too late for a letter, I need to figure out a way to get it to you a little faster..."

Alec is bumping into dissatisfaction, but that would be impossible without an email feature like Gio's book, where he said it in his previous life.

But Ruth was a little happy that the story of mere imagination had become a reality.

"I'm glad you're feeling better. Alec, welcome home."

"............... I'm home, Ruth"

When Ruth rejoiced in his return, Alec closed his mouth cuddly and let his gaze wander again.

"Please, the melting demon is attacking me... don't make me worry"

I noticed a mix of colors that seemed painful in my whining voice, and I found myself worried too much. I stroke his head with the hand I had placed on his neck to comfort him, and he's holding me all the more.

Alec's behavior is sweetening and his chest stirs at the same time as the smell of light. I should have fallen in love with strength in earlier battles, but this time I felt my chest just as noisy about the man's sweet and snuggly behavior.

(I wonder if I'm vulnerable to gaps...)

Alec, who is supposed to be stronger than anyone else than his ex, is vulnerable to behavior that only sweetens him. But that should have been like a brother spoiling his brother. Whatever they did for that reason, I felt like I had no choice.

But something's wrong since I saw the fight earlier. I feel like I've never remembered Alec feeling like I can't breathe like this. But I don't hate it.

"Ruth......"

Alec's face, who raised his face again, approaches.

Blonde hair like a brilliant wheat field at sunset, a seemingly tidy brow with the same shade of will, green eyes that show a gemstone-like glow, long eyelashes that edge around it, a soothing, long and well-balanced nose beam, and lips that take on a beautiful shape. Alec's face, with the perfect balance between left and right, as if he had measured, is such that even Ruth, who is of the same sex, sometimes falls in love.

(Mr. Wonok was awfully neat, but something is different……)

Although it has a strange personality, I think Wonok's face was also very neat. Both when I was silver and when I was brunette had different charms.

Ruth, however, may prefer Alec, in his personal preference. When I can look at it somehow, it makes me feel like I want to forgive the rough stuff. Maybe that's my power as a brave man, but I don't care because I can also flip that and make you feel like 'okay'.

- And, normally, I'm in love with Alec in that mood, but just the third time, I realized the reality of what would happen if I stayed like this.

Ruth put his hand around Alec's head in front of his face and suppressed the mouth that was closing in.

"... why are you blocking it?"

"I'd rather hear it. Why are you trying to kiss me?

"That's the kind of scene you're in right now."

It's certainly probably that kind of scene in general. But that's when they were both men and women and lovers. Ruth and Alec don't agree with Alec because they are man to man and friend.

"... I know Alec and I are special friends, but that's different. That's good. Come on. No."

"No, why not?"

Alec's brow pulls over and gives him a sad look. I stared at that face from the front and Ruth's chest hurt more than usual, but I distracted myself and ignored it. There's this weird emotion in the depths of my mind, that just sprouted young, that says, "Isn't that good?" What did I say, but I beat him up and buried him. There's no way it's good.

(No, no, no. I've been flushed twice, and I've done a lot of things, but I need to make it a good addition. I have to stop it.)

I understand that young Alec is overwhelmed with desire on a long journey. I also know that you want to dissipate that in a person with a near-field understanding. It's better than making a scene on a bad trip. Ruth's feelings complain, however, that it is not a good idea to continue the relationship in the wrong direction a little bit if it drifts like this. If I didn't put a toothpick on it here, I didn't like the fact that the relationship between the two of them was going to go wrong.

"…… You don't like me, do you feel worse now? Or some other guy."

"Well, I didn't say that, and you know best that I'm not hot for girls.... but I don't want to do that with Alec anymore anyway"

"You've been scattered before."

"That's why I want to stop now"

Alec is important. Like family, no. I have a sense that I care more about its existence than family. I don't know how many years it will take to travel home, and I think Ruth is worth it enough to promise to wait and do it alone. That's why I didn't want to be doomed with thin desire behavior.

"Alec, I want to wait for Alec in the village properly. But if I keep doing this, I'm not going to be able to wait as honestly as I did the first time. So let's not. Let's not do that."

Ruth feels Alec's presence is gradually changing within herself. The trigger was undoubtedly caused by the night before the trip. Ruth is neither angry nor sad about that time. I don't regret that choice because it was myself who eventually allowed it.

But since that day, when I think about Alec, my emotions have never been higher, and I have had difficulty calming the mood. And this time I saw its strength, and I somehow realized that its emotions were getting higher and higher, and that, worst of all, my heart had changed my perception of Alec.

(Something really doesn't feel right...)

Ruth couldn't wait to say something girly to Alec, "I want you to come home soon." In which world is there a man who speaks out for his journey to save the world of his best friends? I didn't want to be Ruth to such a man.

"What the hell, it..."

But when Alec's voice dropped a tone, Ruth returned the gaze he was distracting.

(That... something...)

Ruth frowns as Alec lays down his face looks more serious than she thought.

Of course, I didn't think Alec would convince me. But he basically listens to what Ruth says, so he thought it would be a matter of solving if we talked. But from this atmosphere, it's not going to end so easily.

"When I come in the meantime, I'm getting along with that solid knight... and this time again, I'm on the side of that shitty Aura demon tribe, the subhuman kid, and even then I don't care if that butcher fool or the angry guy is in the village..."

"Alec?"

"Damn, why is this... I didn't want to be an irresistible breeze when I got back, and even if it sucked, I wouldn't know what would happen to me, so I kept my mouth shut... how much more I have left... when is the end of my journey! When will I... Oh, shit!

I noticed a haunting aura creeping out of Alec's surroundings. I can see Alec being annoyed, holding a strong grid.

"Ruth."

"Hey, what?

Alec, who suddenly raised his face, stares at him with such a strong gaze that he is ready, and he stifles himself most of the time. I don't think Alec would be harmful to me, but I still don't think Ruth would be a hera if he were to be taken seriously.

"Look, listen carefully. If you don't know what that means, ask the right questions. Don't flush it."

"Ugh, yeah."

It's like being told it's a premise to get it wrong, but I snorted.

Alec takes a deep sigh of relief and pulls in an earlier disastrous aura. On the contrary, he looked a little nervous. Ruth also stretched her spine somehow to the look on her face that she would have been sitting right if it had not been in this snow.

"I... I like you!