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

"Hmm...... hmm?

I noticed so much light pouring down in front of me. The man wakes up feeling as if he were in the sun. I didn't know why I was lying down, but apparently I was asleep for a while.

"What, uh... here?

It was a creepy white space that came into my eyes when a man woke up. I don't have any other information coming in, enough to know that it's a very wide place because I can't see the front wall. I felt zowari and disgusted by the sight that could not be too real.

"What is it, where am I... Wow!

I stepped off my leg to get up and fell down a little bit. Apparently, he was put to sleep on something like a platform. When I stood up rubbing my beaten hips, I could see that the table was like a bright white stone around me. Seeing my own hands on the table in that flow, I'm surprised that it wasn't what I had imagined.

"Ah..., me..."

Though masculine, thin, supple and even nail-shaped hands. Though there were some flesh spurs and cuts due to going out hunting every day, there were no thicknesses like wiener sausages, no marks of injuries in the archery, or anything left.

The man - Ruth gently touched his face.

"Oh... me, Ruth... I'm Ruth, right?

Longer, touchy hair at your fingertips and a crisp, conspicuous nose. The thinness of the jaw line and the thinness of the neck is said to be similar to that of my mother. It is a luxurious creation that looks like Ruth. But I can't be relieved.

(Or... mirrors, mirrors...?

I was not sure that I was Ruth because I had strange previous life dreams. When I was dreaming, I had no doubt that I was Takashi Tanzaki, a man of my previous life. I have had many dreams in my previous life, but it was only since I was five years old that I had fully assumed that I was in such a long and clear shape, let alone filial. It was completely synchronized with the thought of filial piety in my dreams.

But in the corner of Ruth's upset vision, the silver light shone.

"Ah… this is Alec's …………."

Grab your own wrist for each shiny silver bracelet in a hurry. It was given to Ruth by Alec, who traveled as a child friendly and brave man. Ruth received it without knowing what it meant, but since she wore it every day, she remembered the details of the bracelet firmly. This is handmade by Alec and has no two products in the world. No one can imitate it. I've never even seen the world in my previous life. When I remembered that, my powers fell out of my legs and I sat down on the spot.

"Alec......"

Grabbing Alec's bracelet calmed him down naturally. I can be sure that I am Ruth. I could believe it was a dream.

"That's right. I'm Ruth... I remember. There's a lot going on in the dungeon, hanging from a trap, falling into a hole..."

If I knew who I was, it was easy to remember how I got here. It was all a dumb thing that happened to me, but I could say I was fortunate to be alive even though it suited my eyes like that.

Once Ruth sighed deeply, she confirmed herself again.

"Why am I wearing these? What about the knife? What about the bow?

What Ruth wore was a perfect hunting outfit when he dived into the dungeon - not like a white robe. Those clothes, which can't even find stitches like those made of a piece of cloth, have a touch and colour that you'll never see in Hashi village. Because white colored cloths are never within reach of civilians with the technology of this world today.

"What the hell is going on?

Ruth rose to the occasion again. When I looked around well, the upper one was white as I first saw it, but the lower one had a bright blue liquid spread. For a moment I thought it was the sea, but the blue color was so clear that I felt sick that I wondered if it was another liquid. Ruth was apparently sleeping on a stone platform on the island in the shape of a circle in its liquid. The size of the island was as large as the living room of the house. There are no similar islands nearby, and if you dare, it may be close to sights such as drifting over the sea.

"It was in the dungeon that I was there…… I don't know… how to react to this……"

A bright white space like nothing I've ever seen, an unusually blue liquid, a positively circular island floating in the middle of it - nothing comes to mind about Ruth in a situation that has overflown his imagination. It was clearly beyond the level of surprise or fear, and I could only be dismayed. People seem to freeze if they're too surprised.

"And anyway, I need to find my gear. I don't feel comfortable with just a piece of cloth and a bracelet like this."

I can't even fight when I've had to wear shiny clothes like a piece. Besides, I'm just terrified that you're in a place where you don't know where you are, but you don't have a weapon. Because if demons attack you, there won't be a single one.

But when Ruth left the stone table trying to find his stuff, it suddenly moved.

"Uh..."

The table where Ruth slept automatically sank toward the ground, and at the end of the day it stopped melting. Something like a demon square floated on the ground at the last one, but now I don't even see any marks of a stone table.

"…… let's not think deeply anymore. My head's going to explode."

Don't even think deeply to keep your mind at peace. That's what Ruth decided to do to her heart. I can't do it unless I think this is what it is.

But now the circular island itself swayed as Ruth moved out again. And it began to rise slightly.

"Oh, hey, it works, this!?

Kojima gets a little higher without worrying about Ruth or anything. The island that I thought was like a floating island, with a circular plate floating above the liquid, was actually something that was rising from the ground and facing over the liquid, and when I looked down, a cylinder the same size as the island was rising.

(... Ko, are you okay with staying on this?

I was afraid to jump into the glowing liquid with strange blue, but I was also anxious to stay on the stream.

I hope you'll return me to where I was, but it's unlikely to be. I'm pretty sure someone had Ruth undressed in the first place and took it out of reach with his weapon. It shouldn't be strange to think that its opponents are jiggling to this place that would have brought them in the same way that they remain gripped by others about their right to life and death.

It was the moment Ruth tried to decide she was ready to jump into the blue liquid, right on the right she heard the stones bump into each other.

"What is that? A small version of Kojima......? But the color of the light is different."

On the slightly right side of where Ruth was, something like a small circular plate hit Ruth more than he spread his arms. Above it is painted something like the Demon Square, flashing in light red. Unlike this island, it really seems to be floating on top of the liquid, and the cylinder was swayed by the waves as it rose, and it was repeatedly moving away closer and closer.

(On that one, should I ride......?

That circular plate had raised the speed of the flashing of the demon cube in proportion to the higher of the land on which Ruth rode. It's like 'Hurry up and get in here' and hurry up. But from Ruth's point of view, they're both at the same level of suspicion.

(... No, fine. Let's get on over there!

It wasn't like I deserved credit. But somehow the light was lighter red. Besides, either way, I don't know for sure, so it's decided that I should at least get on the reassuring one. Evidence is that even hunting often works better if you take care of your intuition.

Already the height of the rising land was about the height of Ruth, but when I got on it, I didn't hesitate to jump over a circular plate glowing in thin red.

"Hey, I got on. That, wah, wah!

As Ruth jumped on board, the circular plate emitting its thin red light moved out to make a rapid launch. Being on an accelerated circular plate at once, I could hear the sound of cutting the air in my ear, and if I hadn't bent over and been caught by the plate, I would have been flown away by the wind momentum. It's like running away from something. Because of that, the land on which Ruth was first on was quickly distant and eventually invisible to mix with the surrounding white.

"Why are you so fast!? Hey, why don't you slow down a little bit?

I didn't know who to speak to, but Ruth will try to suggest against the circular board for now. But of course it didn't return a response or anything, nor did it slow down.

But after a while, Ruth became more accustomed to the speed. I couldn't get to my destination forever, so I could even afford to think about it.

(Still, where are we really...? Is it in the dungeon?

Of course there is no such vast place in the usual dungeons. It's huge, but even with the right hand method, it's about two hours away at most. There's no place that goes anywhere without seeing walls like this. But it's also a weird story that after falling into a hole, he was moved elsewhere.

(Mostly, why me? Does that make sense?

Ruth is not particularly good at anything, he is a normal village youth. I don't even think I have a reason to bring you to such a strange place. It would be less valuable to be a man than the women of the village of Mikana for kidnapping him.

"Well, you don't know I thought about it...... I stopped. It's gear first."

I gave up completely because I couldn't find an answer after all thinking about it. Because I don't have the knowledge to guide the answer, this kind of thinking isn't really for Ruth. It would be much more constructive to consult around Wonok after the escape. It's a waste of time.

(You're more concerned about your dream earlier than that……)

A dream that depicts the memory of Takashi Tanzaki in his previous life. I've seen a lot of it lately, but this was the first time my thoughts had been so synchronized. Mostly it felt more blurry, because even Ruth didn't know exactly what Takashi was thinking. So even when I woke up this time, I was dragged by the thought, and I didn't know who I was, and I almost panicked.

(And that scene. It's been blank for a long time, about a year before he died)

Ruth's memory of his previous life was in a bug-eating state, and he remembered it well when he was young and just before his death, but when he grew up - especially in the years before his death - his memories were flat open. That's why I didn't know the presence of the woman who was on my side at the time of her death, but in this dream, she came to the karate class where Takashi was attending and found out that she was the first person I had met there.

A beauty rarely found in the world she lived in in in her previous life, someone with a cute smile, younger, who was also normally treated to the filial piety of what was surprising at first. I'd like to let go and rejoice that such a presence would have been on my side, but Ruth looked a little reluctant as soon as he knew who the discomfort he was feeling was.

(That guy, he was a beautiful woman on the outside... but his body is probably a man...)

The identity of the discomfort that Takashi noticed on the verge of awakening from her dreams - that was because the skeleton of the body of light did not seem to belong to the woman.

Since Takashi had been doing martial arts for many years, he had a habit of seeing how strong a person's skeleton and muscles were and seeing how strong they were. Because of this, I saw the line from neck to shoulder that became apparent when I removed the stall, and I knew that the body of light was not a woman. Of course, each skeleton is different, so some skeletal women are masculine, but they were also distinctly different from those types of women in the classroom.

"... I ended up marrying a man in my last life..."

The last person who was protecting me and weeping for me was a beautiful man - the fact only made Ruth feel a little heavier.

I know it's wrong to focus on men and women, and I don't have to wonder if it would be okay for a man if he were all that beautiful, but he said, 'The filial piety that I liked about women may have paid off in the end!' It was a little complicated because I was happy. If you leave me alone, I can't help but wonder why I remembered now when I could have stayed dreaming.

(But that Mr. Light is a person.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

When I remembered the glowing green eyes of the light, for some reason now a presence came to mind that would deflect Ruth's chest.