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

Ruth, who came back to the room worried about the two of them, turned on the lamp and closed the window wooden door to the desk in the back. And I sigh that my desk is no different than it was this morning.

I sat back in the chair wiping my hair.

"Alec…… you must be really busy………"

It has already been three months since the letter from Alec arrived directly after five days of disconnection. I hope I don't care, etc., but I make sure there are no letters on my desk every day here. The letter arrived in the mail after Alec had magically forwarded it to me, but it was all before I went to the Kingdom of Ziltania. In other words, not a single letter from Alec has been received from Alec for three months.

"Failure to receive the letter is a healthy proof............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ I can't help but appreciate the fact that postal services usually take months to arrive in another country."

Distract the anxiety of whining small and trying to spread with the regret. Instead, don't get me wrong because it's strange in the first place that Alec, who is on a difficult journey, has written to Ruth so often.

According to what I heard the last time we met again, the presence of the melting demon caused problems and they are going around, so they are likely to be in a place where they can't write a letter. In this world, where means of communication do not exist properly, it is not so strange not to be able to communicate.

Ruth, trying to distract herself, put down the towel she was wiping her hair on and took out a few letters from the second of the chest, which was next to her desk.

"Besides, I have to write back to Kia and Mr. Maxim"

Kia is an oculus sub boy who got along in an incident that took place during the five days of the disconnection. It can be the second prince of the kingdom of Ziltania, three large mountains beyond the village of Hashi. Moreover, even though it would take a considerable amount of time for the mail to arrive at a distance, it had already been missed so much that five copies were coming. The letter was also sent in characteristic letters that were difficult to decipher at first, but there was so much change that it gradually began to get neat and now even the product began to drift. The letter, which was initially as pale as a bullet point, also now conveys what Kia thought properly. As a prince, he seems to be studying a lot. It's a delightful thing to say that he grew taller when he tried to move his body seriously. Just reading makes me feel smiling.

And more than six months ago, he became a friend in demon mowing, a letter had also been received at moderate intervals from Maxim, who was the Knight Commander of the King's Capital. The text is short due to the businessmanship of the job and the temperament of the person, and all the content that cares about Ruth, but the gift is always enclosed. Because the cloth that looked expensive was sent back to me when I first wanted it to be used for curtains, these days, it stopped expensive items and kept them to the extent of flower seeds and flowers. He was always happy to send me dried homemade okal meat as a thank you.

"Is Mr. Gio - still looking into it?

When I opened a book like a thick guide to magic, the last place the letters were written was the same as I had seen before.

Geo is a high-ranking magician who took care of you when you mowed the demon (?). He was also Alec's master of metastatic witchcraft, an operator who could use powerful healing techniques, and a friend of Wonok, who lived next door as expected. They look about the same as their grandchildren and the old man, but they seem to know each other quite a while from the mouthfeel. After five days of disconnection, Geo contacted me to confirm whether it was cheap or not. Apparently, Wonok told me the story, and he was pretty worried about Ruth that he was attacked by a melting demon. She wanted me to give her details about the melting demon, and sent a letter via Wonok, and after a while she contacted me to look into it, she didn't have any notes. But I don't care because it's a good thing too.

I finished writing the letter and as I stretched out my body I rose out of my chair. After that, give the letter you wrote to Clark and he will send it to each destination the next time he goes to Wang Capital.

"Alec, come on."

Ruth looks up at the landscape letter decorated on the wall and remembers Alec, who would be ahead. The first port town landscape letter sent wore out in the last incident, but the letter depicting desert cities and villages like the South, which was enclosed in a subsequent letter, adorns the walls.

The confession thing is a lot more complicated and I don't know what to think. I tend to get away with it, but apart from that, there are no days when I can't think of Alec's face because I'm sure as a friend I hope he's safe.

When Ruth turned off the light on the lamp, she lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.

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The next day, just before lunch, a man came from the village chief's house. Apparently, thanks to yesterday's search, he figured out where the thieves and those caught went in the mountains. They're gathering to discuss the future.

Ruth also decided to follow the people of the village of Mikana who were heading to the village chief's house with a nervous face.

Yuan and Karen, who looked strange yesterday, still felt strange when they looked at each other in the morning, but now the expression was also serious.

"The thieves and hostages were found hiding in a cave under a cliff not far from the ruins of the beginning."

There is a fairly large cliff near the dungeon above the mountain, and a relatively large cave below it. The place is often used by villagers when they go out into the mountains and are unable to return due to some circumstances, and the cave is naturally clean inside. I guess the thief noticed that too and decided to reveal it there overnight.

"I tried to negotiate this morning, but I couldn't get a good response from them. On the contrary, I have followed this luxurious demand."

It seems that Rossa and others, including the village chief who was contacted, showed up and discussed it with the other thief, but they did not respond to the hostage liberation on this side, and the other party has made demands for food and clothing and a large carriage that can run to Wang capital. If I refuse, I think I've even said I'll kill the hostages by committing them in front of me.

"What the hell is that!

"Those guys............!

The people of the village of Micana who heard about it started to get angry and fussy, and Yuan and Karen are also starting to get murdered that is going to pop up. Of course, the face of Hashi village, including Ruth, is intolerable. But the mayor of Hashi village, Bartolo, was calm.

"Fool, calm down. Their statements are scumbags, but on the contrary, I can think of this. Considering that as a condition of exchange means that such damage has not yet been done to the hostage daughters. Three scumbag thieves, six village daughters, and their daughters not being served in that situation, we should assume that the killer was lucky with the people around his head"

The reason for the original kidnapping of the daughters of the village of Micana was the purpose of slaves and others and the village chief of the village of Micana, Georg, looked at it. Neither did his daughters, who were rescued as soon as they were captured from the village at first, seem to have said that the thieves were not going to lay their hands on it in order not to lower the value of the merchandise if they were being taken seriously.

The value of hostages as slaves is directly linked to the income of thieves. In other words, being a virgin adds value, so you can't be a bad handler to sell at a high price. The thieves are scumbags, but the unity of will around them seems to be in place, which means they still protect them.

"Well... if you handled it poorly, Grace wouldn't have shut up."

I could hear Karen talking to herself like that calming her down. The people of the surrounding village of Micana nod small at the voice.

From yesterday's story, Karen's sister Grace has no mercy for men and a gentleman girl for women. Grace would have stormed out if the hostage daughters had been forced to do something strange, and the thief must have been impossible to even get away with this, he said. I guess the people in the village of Micana still stay calm because they know Grace like that is with them.

"I also consider the strength of my daughters as hostages, and the food is already ready. I plan to give it to you after noon. It's a carriage but it's not in the village, so I decided to ask my neighbor for it. Buy time on the ingredients for that. But two, three days would be the limit. So in the meantime, I want to try to rescue my daughters."

Of course, as village chief, he's not going to respond head-on to a thief's demands like that. He's just pretending to make demands, but he's going to lure his daughters away.

Discussions proceed with the people of the village of Micana gathered at the village chief's house and with the central figures gathered when there was disturbance in the village of Hashi.

Outside that ring there was even frizz on Daniel and Colt. I'm sure he came on his own, just like Ruth, because he's listening to me yesterday.

"Let's hit it from the top of the cliff."

"The watch is with two people outside and one inside. What if the guy inside takes my daughter hostage?

"Who puts a horizontal hole and circles in from behind?

"How many days would it take you to drill a hole in a class where people can go through?

"What do you expect to raid at night?

"There's no moonlight in there. Lamps alone are hard to distinguish between enemies and allies"

All that is gathering are the central figures of the two villages, but even if they are strong, they are peaceful villagers living in the small village in which they are conceived. Means become fairly limited because they don't even have such special abilities as night eyes work like adventurers, footsteps alone can tell the exact whereabouts, they're good at assassinating people, and in an instant they make three people inactive.

The idea of having Wonok help me for a moment also shook Ruth's head, but according to Avi I met this morning, she hasn't come back since yesterday, and I immediately decided that it wouldn't be possible to ask. It's also unlikely that some whimsical wonock would lend a hand to a case that didn't even come down on me in the first place.

That circumstance made the operation difficult to determine.

Another problem was the poor location of the cave. It is a cave under a cliff that usually has a good prospect of not being attacked by demons and animals, but it is clear that when it comes to carrying out raids, it is the enemy.

(If it was Alec I guess not...... thats digging right down from the dungeon side to the cave...... holes......)

If it was Alec, I'd drill a hole and go to the rescue - I was thinking about that, and Ruth remembered a certain fact I'd completely forgotten.

Dungeons, caves under cliffs nearby, and - narco extermination. A fact that floats from these three, only Ruth knows on this occasion.