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

I saw a butcher run by the Gorus family as I slammed diagonally through Central Square from the church. The Golas family, or Daniel's home, is a butcher with only one in the village. Some houses in the village hunt for themselves, like the Blau family, while others don't do anything about hunting, like the house where Clark has a son-in-law. The Gorus family is essential for those houses to get protein. Due to such village circumstances, the butchers of the Golas family are often crowded depending on time.

Even when Ruth visited today, the store was crowded. They were gathering people from the village to buy lunch meat.

Ruth does not enter the store, but goes around behind the stables. The Golas family runs horse rentals and early horses with the butcher, so there were several horses behind them. The Golas family has a lot of relatives, so they can't be understaffed due to the relationship that about three households run together.

"Maura ~"

When Ruth went to the stables, he headed to the female horse Mora, whom Daniel likes best. Ruth is also a very fast, clever horse who was put on board with me during the "Demon Hunt" incident six months ago.

By the way, this “horse" is not different from the pronunciation of the same animal horse as in the previous life, but it looks a little different. There are many variations when the skin is green, the tail is like a sarcophagus, the scales are growing, and the eyes are three. It's not Ruth's known horse in a way.

When Ruth went to Mora (a pink horse with only a red skin ankle), the person who was eating the grass snorted in a grumpy manner. Even if Ruth waves, she gets acquainted and puts her face back in the grassy bucket again.

"Maura is still disconnected……………"

"Because you're persistent."

Turning to the voice hung from behind, Daniel stood there with black eyes in his grey hair nibbling. Because he is not as handsome as Alec, he has the same look on his face.

Mora lifted her neck gladly when she found Daniel like that and raised her tail as high as she was excited. Quite the opposite of Ruth's salt support.

"Ruth, isn't that faster than planned? You had dinner?

"No, I haven't. Just stopped by before that."

"Well, I'm on my way, so eat up."

"Isn't that bad?

"We've got a good piece of meat."

"I'll take it."

To Ruth, who nodded without thinking, Daniel invited her indoors with a smile.

Daniel's response to Ruth was considerably softer than it was six months ago. I'm still sarcastic and sometimes show off my tundra, but I've often invited you to dine like this. Now he really seems like a normal friend. It will also be significant that we have come to know each other's strengths and weaknesses because we are out hunting together at about Monday intervals.

"The store looks busier, but you're okay with it?

"That's the usual thing. If I were here, I'd be in the way."

Daniel occasionally has a store number, but that seems to be only in his spare time. They seem to kick me out of the way if I'm busy.

Ruth, who had a delicious meat at the Golas family, once he got home, equipped and returned again. But when I went to the stables with the horses, there were unintended people there.

"You're back. Okay, let's go."

"I thought I'd go... both of them?

At the end of the line of sight, the pair, who were not strange to be on Daniel's side but never came close when Ruth was around, stood in the middle of nowhere.

"What is it, is it bad if you're here?

That's how I've been staring at Ruth from the bottom is Colt Zelenka, who often hangs out with Daniel. Until six months ago, a younger boy with sinister-colored blonde hair and poor brown eyes, about half the head lower than Ruth, said all the bad things like hitting Ruth, but lately he never thought he would be on the spot because his eyes were just ignored even when they met. I had two daggers on my hips today, a bow, and a big tool bag.

"This way, why..."

Yes bumpy whining is Fritz Oma, who was also often saggy with Daniel - the older young man, taller than Daniel and blind with dark hair and glasses, always had a sarcastically ridiculous attitude of laughing at Ruth, but just like Colt, he was an adult these days. I had a few good spears and drawing-like books on my back today, and a big cloth bag on my back.

"Come on, let's go."

As the three of them were releasing a subtle atmosphere, Daniel, who had nibbled, had just walked away without even putting it together. Ruth had no choice but to chase after realizing that these four were seriously going to their destination.

Daniel, Colt, Fritz, these three are strong voice members among the young people. Ruth thinks it's important that parents play an important role in the village, but that their strengths are considerable. Had it not been for Alec in the village, it would have been these three who would have been most relied upon by the adults.

But because Alec's abilities, his knowledge, and his charisma didn't fly away, the adults held Alec alone and treated him like a village hero. And, on the other hand, I was blind to their excellence and recognized them as mediocre, making them a complete shader.

(That's why I thought you twisted it...)

I felt the signs of the two behind me looking at Daniel's back, and Ruth walking down a well-maintained mountain path was thinking about that.

To your own young self, Ruth, not at all interested in the youth's power struggle, had only a little sympathy for the three of them who were in a position to contend with Alec over the hegemony of the village. Because the adults of the village were aligned and distinguished between Alec and the other young people. From Ruth, who was on the side and knew Alec was cheetah capable, I thought it would be too abusive to lump anything else together. Of course I've wanted to tell the adults that, but if I did that, I'd have to keep my mouth shut because it was visible that the three of them who found out I'd been followed by an understated (I think) Ruth would twist it extra. I didn't even think the adults would listen to Ruth (the young man hiding behind Alec) in the first place.

I mean, I think their bad character was caused by the environment as well. 'I don't need anything else because I have Alec' Everyone comes to mind if you say it like that, and if you're young, you naturally twist it. Because of this, Ruth himself was frightened of these three, but he could not dislike them from the heart.

Since the factual settlement, I thought it would be no surprise that Daniel would become an important member of the village in the future. Because if you don't even wake up Tundele, you're basically a well-behaved, well-looked after man.

"Those two look complaining, but don't worry about it"

"Eh?"

"When I said Ruth was here, they were the ones who said they were coming with me to exterminate Narco."

Daniel spoke of 'extermination of the Narco' as the only tourist destination in the village, a cleaning in the dungeon about an hour's walk away. Of course cleaning doesn't mean sweeping or wiping, the aim is to eliminate the demon named Narco completely. That's why Ruth met Daniel this time and went into the mountains with him.

Narco is simply a demon of a transparent version of a catfish from a previous life. It's a G-rank demon in itself, and it's not aggressive at all, and it's harmless to be around. But in the spring, there is the habit of multiple bodies working together to nest. This nest is a rather troublesome substitute, and if it hardens, it becomes a hardness comparable to a C-rank defense.

And this was a problem because it would be made in large quantities within a dungeon near Hashi village. Because the passage will be blocked and we won't be able to move on. For this reason, every year the village chief gives the order and the villagers go to extermination. Daniel was nominated for it this year, and Ruth decided to be invited to go with him.

Until last year, by the way, Alec had been nominated as village chief. Ruth, naturally, was also involved in extermination with him, so he knew on his own, but it may be the other day that he found out that the person receiving this order actually had the role of informing the village that he was a 'young man receiving expectations from the village chief'.

(Well, that's why I think I know you two want to come to show strength...)

Given this giddy air, I have to wonder if it would have been better without Ruth.

"Hey, should I go home? I think the three of us will be enough…………………"

"Silly. That's the job Alec and you were doing until last year. I'm not used to it. It's your job to show us around."

"I see."

Sure, the three of us have better air, but they've never done narco extermination, so I don't know if I can do it well, even if I know how. Then it would be easier to work with people you're used to, and you should bring them in because it's easy to notice what's easy to overlook.

I was a little impressed that Daniel was bringing Ruth by surprise.