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

The weather time during the day, even as I scratched a slight sweat, I finally arrived in front of the dungeon after a short walk.

In a slightly lowered part of the forest, there is about ten metres of land with square stone floors, stairs, and the remnants of columns. The entrance to the dungeon near the village of Hashi was the place where it was thought there might have been a large building in the past. Where near the entrance there is a warning sign that the villagers supposedly built is evidence that they are still tourist destinations while being told about dungeons and so on.

(That's true... it's also a dungeon, but it's also a so-called tourist destination here...)

When it comes to a normal dungeon, it is said to be a place where adventurers dive to earn prizes, and basically if they are hunted inside, their value is lost. But there was a reason why Hashi Village would always be in the grace of this dungeon.

This is because the demons that emerge are weak and low-level, and because the interior of the dungeon is very elegant and attractive for ordinary people to visit. For that reason, the village of Hashi treats this dungeon very important and even carries out maintenance: extermination of the narco, etc. Either it is closer to the ruins than the dungeons, but it is also treated as a dungeon in the village from what the children who have learned to hunt use for adventure and arm-testing.

(The rest, that's true……)

And there was another rumor in the dungeon of Hashi village. Ruth just asked the couple in Wang Capital who came to stay at the inn directly, but this dungeon seems to be "doin".

(I've never seen me come here many times...)

The couple said that this dungeon, which seems to be called "The Ruins of the Beginning" in the Wang Capital, is ostensibly known as a super beginner adventurer arm test place, but rumors have spread secretly behind it that “you can meet the dead”. Apparently, when the couple who lost their daughter visited the dungeon for a distraction, the story began that their daughter, who was supposed to be dead, showed up and waved at us.

I don't know how far that rumor is true, and I don't know when it was in the first place, but people who truly took it often visit the dungeons here for what they call tourism. I saw something scary, tried it out, and really came to see the dead - for a variety of reasons, but the couple Ruth listened to was one of the last. I don't know if they could have met the dead after all, but I remember leaving the village looking a little sunny.

And most importantly, Ruth thought the rumors were never all lies because such tourists would never stop. I don't know if I can see the dead, but I'm sure they're giving some salvation to the visitors with a sad face.

"Around the entrance, so far, so much the same. Where does it end fast to head from?

Daniel shrugged so when he saw the entrance to the dungeon that opened to the ground, he looked back at the three people who were following him. Ruth thinks it's a question directed at him, and follows past memories.

"Me and Alec were always walking along the right and doing it in order."

Ruth and the others noticed the properties of this dungeon after many narco exterminations with Alec. Although there are no traps such as this in the hierarchy around the second floor, it is a dungeon close to the maze type, which is a little easy to get lost because it is quite large and makes the same. However, the structure itself is not so complex that certain laws are formed. That's the so-called "right hand method" that even walks along the right. If we walk along our right hand side even if we don't know where we are, we can reach the entrance in about two hours. That's the same even if you're diving upstairs underground, and you can walk according to the law to near the stairs on the ground floor. It only takes four hours to fit up and down. It would seem that this time of night would be over before it was too late.

"There's no leakage because we're going to go ahead with the smudge crush, and it's going to take a while."

"I'm not doing it in an efficient way."

It was the little younger boy Colt who broke into Ruth's voice. He laughs at Ruth with his nose, making the look of ridicule he has seen so many times before.

"It's more or less decided where Nako will appear. I know the place. So you can head directly there. That won't take all of us two hours."

Colt sniffs his nose again, looking good at it. Even from the way it looked, I could see that knowing the place wasn't a lie.

(That's true. Colt's house is a family business……)

Zelenka, Colt's home, is a family business to guide adventurers and tourists to the dungeon. Both the Blau family and the people of the village were basically trying to introduce the Zelenka family when it came to the dungeon guide.

They are specialists who know all about the dungeons and offer directions to adventurers as well as tourist escorts and narratives inside the ruins. Their guide has a good reputation and it certainly leads to repeat tourists. It is also Zelenka who cooperates with other houses and provides guidance and assistance in hunting to general tourists. As a result, his position in the village seems to be quite high, and he is always present at the village board meetings.

"Yeah, of course, that's fine, but sometimes I even nest where it's not my usual place"

"I know the nature of Narco to some extent. It is possible to predict a new location likely to be created from last year's point of occurrence. It would be enough to match Colt's known location with the one I predicted."

Now Fritz blocks Ruth's words as he pushes up his glasses.

Fritz's house Omer is a farming house on high ground in Hashi village. The provision of vegetables and cereals to the village is basically the only one at Omar's and the other. Sometimes they are familiar with insects and animals called pests, and their homes have a wide discernment about demons, etc. Inevitably, the status of their houses is high among the villages, as it is mostly the Omer family that the village chief confirms about animals and demons. Even so, as Ruth, who knew Wonok's knowledge, he also knew that their knowledge was quite biased.

"So, but... Something really weird…………………."

"Is there any evidence that that's for sure?

"No, I don't have any evidence... but sometimes in a hell of a place"

"You want me to walk around in that wide dungeon for that slight possibility?

"That won't end in half a day, will it? I can't tomorrow. I have a group hunting escort with my brother."

"I can't either. Work on the harvest is in tomorrow. Unlike the innkeeper who seems to be free every day, this one is busy."

I do move pretty fast when working with Alec, so I doubt these four can do that. I also know that I can't.

Ruth sighed deeply once again at the foolish things she thought were only blowing up a fight. We reconciled with Daniel, so we both thought it was natural, but it didn't seem that easy.

"Buhaha"

Danielle suddenly looked silently at Ruth as she looked in trouble, laughing at the two people with an attitude that was completely unwilling to ask her opinion and, on the contrary, just disturbed her.

"What are you laughing at? Daniel……………"

"No. I'm starting to laugh at hearing you guys argue."

"It's got to do with you, too. What are you going to do? I can't start working like this."

"We're fine without you. Ruth should go home."

"Yeah, I don't need anything else."

Even Ruth was ㇺ shrugged. I think the boiling point is higher than the same age, but still, if you say so much, you can come to mind. As Ruth exhaled deeply, he turned to the path back to the village, dispersing his anger.

But he gets his arm grabbed a few steps away. Turning around, it was Daniel who was there.

"How many times are you going home on your own? No, I told the village chief that the four of us would do it this time."

"But not like this......"

"Calm down... hey, both of you, stop poking around on Ruth, 'cause you're not a kid"

"... Daniel was stuck on Ruth at first, wasn't he?

Fritz's words were true.

Speaking of the original, it was Daniel who first stuck with Alec on Ruth. That's what I avoided this one for the time being, and I ignored it even when I spoke up, but when I did it from where Alec and I went hunting, it started to get tangled up. Besides, not much for Alec. First of all, he always said an extra word or two to Ruth, and he shrugged when he tried to ignore even too much and leave the two of us. I really didn't know what that meant then.

"I'm fine. Besides, we've already settled. Isn't that right, Ruth?

"Oh, yeah"

That said Daniel was in a good mood and turned his arm around Ruth's shoulder. Because Daniel was tall, Ruth inevitably had to lean over a little bit. I feel kind of weird because this is the first time I've ever been closer to you than I used to be.

But when they saw it, they looked more complicated than surprised.

"Heh, I've made some progress..."

"Ah? Did I say something?

"Shit, you're so stingy... things haven't changed for you anyway"