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

"... now how many eyes..."

Ruth sighed when he saw a melting demon with a giant nosed head on his two legs, walking slowly across the other side, hiding in the shadow of a table that was rolling down the hallway.

I've been moving around in front of the elevator for a little while, but it fits that hand molten demon - more than I've counted. Moreover, the shapes were varied and the same individual was never seen.

Though I was disgusted by the way it looked at first, when I was encountering this much, annoyance preceded that. Humans can be calm when they get used to it. I'd rather stop walking every time I see him, so now I just can't help but get in the way.

(But I can't take him down. I can't help it... here I come...)

As I sighed at my lack of power, I approached Ruth, where the molten demon was hiding, so when I took a palm-sized brown bag out of my nose, I stuck my hand in it and took out a cylindrical lidded box that was incredibly large from the look of that bag. It is a box into which Ruth went to hide from the molten demon some time ago.

Ruth opened the lid when he placed it in the shadow of the table and penetrated his legs into it. Almost simultaneously, the melting demon peeks into this side of the table.

"Keys, Kis, Keys...... Keys"

The melting demon slowly moves his body through the side of the box containing Ruth. But the melting demon, who stopped on his feet along the way, looked around and then began to rough up his surroundings with his hands on his back. The box containing Ruth is knocked down and rolled far away. And after a while of vandalism to make sure there was nothing, Ruth disappeared with a snort to the path of those who came.

"Ugh..."

A little after the footsteps disappear, Ruth crawls out of the rolling box.

I wondered what would happen when the melting demon's arm hit the box, but strangely it remained stable inside, and I felt a little shaky but never jumped out. The box should have rolled sideways, but Ruth stays hanging vertically, so I'm sure the dimensions are different inside and out.

When I picked up the rolling box as it was, it was stored in a brown bag and placed in my nose. And he starts moving on again while making sure there's no sign of him around.

(Nevertheless, it is good to bring this box......)

If I ever encountered someone who couldn't defeat me like this, I would have packed it if I hadn't brought it.

I was seriously worried about what to do when the second melting demon was blocking the destination ahead after the first encounter. I also thought about hiding elsewhere and doing it over, but apparently they are judging Ruth's whereabouts by smell over sound and movement, and I almost found him no matter how many times he hid. That's why I remembered when I hid in that box.

He has a good nose. Ruth doesn't think he stinks, but he'll have some body odor. They're sniffing that off. But even though he came close for some reason when he was in that box, he left without noticing Ruth. Thinking about why, and realizing.

(This box was really trash, wasn't it? That's why they had deodorization and they didn't know what I smelled like. So he didn't notice me and turned to the smelling elevator.)

Different dimensional space trash can with deodorant - a stunning auto part, so high-performance that it's not an eye for past life trash cans or deodorants. Thanks to that, Ruth was able to hide herself. I guess it also had to do with their weak eyesight and hearing. Anyway, for that reason, the light in the light in the light in the bright red led Ruth to the trash.

So when Ruth realized it, he hurried back to his original place and brought the box in a strange brown bag.

If you have nowhere to hide, you can carry something you can hide. Because of the strange amount of brown bags in storage, carrying the box blocks both hands, so I would say no, but it was possible to do it. Thanks to this, I have been able to survive the melting demon no matter how many times I encountered it. I never appreciated the trash so much.

(But carrying something to hide... I wonder what it was. Something tells me I've seen this way somewhere... you forgot)

I felt like the knowledge I had gained from the memory of my past life that was thin, but it was very blurry and unclear.

(Well, okay. Let's move on than that)

I feel a little sorry for you for not being able to fight and move on, but I also have no reason to challenge someone I know I can't win. This way of going seemed best for Ruth.

"Even so, I've been traveling a lot up the stairs, but I knew I wouldn't see people......"

The hallway where Ruth proceeded remained as bleak and deserted as ever.

Because of the inorganic feeling similar to the hospital and research corridors, it changed somewhat to a design like people's residential area, and the rolling objects also changed from office desks and chairs to beds and chests, but it didn't make a difference that it was rough, and I couldn't find anything that would determine where this place was again. I also found some things like books, but none of them were readable by Ruth, and it was also caused by not knowing what was written.

(Do you feel like something used to happen and everyone ran away in a hurry?

To see the rough rooms and hallways, it was an atmosphere where someone used to live a long time ago but put all the stuff down and ran away. But even if you look at one desk that's rolling, Ruth understands that civilization flourished at a level incomparable with the villages of the Ruth and their kings, on the contrary, because they have memories of previous lives. I was a little curious as to why such a place had left people like this and had become a place where the melting demons roamed.

"Hmm? I don't know. There. That's a lot bigger."

As I walked down the long hallway, I followed a door twice as wide to the side as the previous one. There's something like a sign up there, but of course I can't read the letters, so I don't know what it is.

But the door doesn't open, so Ruth tries to find another route, and a thin red light that's long gone until earlier appears and flashes in the middle of the door. Then a large door made a noise and opened to the left and right.

"Uh... what, this..."

Ruth was surprised by the sight that had spread in front of him and approached him without alarm. The thing that was spreading in front of me was...

"Shopping, malls............?

Ruth was heading toward him in a space lined with passageways with large blowouts centrally located and more than ten floors to the left and right. The lighting from the ceiling still seemed to be moving here, thanks to which the entire space could be seen. Behind the upper left and right corridors, you can see a line of things like shops, and the center part has stairs that look like they're headed to the upper floor. There were benches and tables in the aisle where Ruth was located, and there were fountain-like objects in the back and stone slabs on top of them. Except that I can't read the letters on it, it was very similar to a large commercial establishment I had visited in my previous life. Ruth slowly proceeded inside, even though he was stunned by the way it looked. Luckily, there seems to be no sign of the melting demon.

Glass storefronts, lots of signs, posters complaining about something, showcases that would have had products, mannequins that were supposed to be in costumes, crumbling benches, figurines with designs that mimic animals, some kind of play gear, ornamental plants - what I felt was the remnants of what people thought was alive here.

"Where are we really?

There was a culture there that was unthinkable in this world. I thought it was a civilization that progressed considerably at the point in the hallway earlier, but as far as I can see here, it's a cultural level that exceeds Ruth's expectations.

This is probably due to the fact that the sun cannot be seen on the ceiling, which is the construction of a mall in a single building that is said to be an enclosed mall. But the mall in this hand should be quite difficult, both financially and technically. Moreover, when it becomes so large, it is so large that it has never even been seen in the previous life.

Walking in such a mood, reminiscent and nostalgic, but unthinkable and fearful in this world, he eventually reached a fountain-like place. The meticulous and beautiful design of what was not water was such that I felt it was a waste to just water it out. However, I noticed that it was slightly distorted by something like a tablet that seems to be stuck on top of it.

"Hmm?... Something, that?

I felt the distortion increase when I rubbed my eyes. Ruth turns to the front of that tablet, even though he is slightly wary. The only thing that was distorted was the end and the lower right part of the center. The other parts look just stone.

As Ruth narrowed her eyes at the odd appearance, she noticed that the distorted area was a color that was not a stone slab. Video floats like a TV with disturbed images. And...

[- Big, uh-huh, Ri... and the death of the whole territory... was destroyed by... the city of...]

Realizing that his voice had been heard, Ruth understood that this was like television in a previous life, and hurried over to the side. Apparently I can't read the text but the language is the same.

She was stiff and nervous, but her voice was like a woman.

[… but also…… on……. Choose from all countries…… four powerful young people are now…… sure that they will save this…… world they have…, hope… Momochi… Do not give up the fight against disease… While we wish for the four heroes……, come and treat them with Zachris……. ……………――

Although the sound, which was interrupted, became only slightly clearer, it became difficult to hear again and eventually the sound disappeared. Instead of distortion on the screen and the video, it is just returning to the tablet.

Ruth fluttered back and sat down to the crumbling bench.

(What was that, right now……?

Based on what the woman had told me, it would feel like the old broadcast had flown, but I don't remember pressing the switch or anything in particular, so I don't know why I moved it as soon as I got here.

But what I care more about is the content.

The whole territory will die, the city will perish, we will not give up the fight against the disease - from this word, at the time the broadcast flowed, something like an infectious disease would have been endemic and the city would have perished successively. But the four heroes in the second half of the story were trying to deal with the problem, and people from all over the world must have caught their attention.

"But that didn't work out in the end either..."

Seeing this desolate, totally unpopular occasion, the subsequent development could easily have been anticipated. I'm sure that the hero will not be able to stop the infectious disease either, and the times with civilizations that have gone so far have perished. And the infectious disease must have stopped at that time.

(When that happens, don't make a lot of difference......)

Ruth initially thought this was an unknown and obsolete place made somewhere within a millennium. But to believe what this building looks like and what the broadcast was like earlier, it changes the story that an infectious disease is endemic and that there has been a global crisis. Because such a past does not exist in the millennial history taught to priests. If that's all the danger, there's no reason not to tell me. It's a little odd that Ruth and the others are normally living without even knowing about that infectious disease in the first place. And then...

"There was no life on the stars more than a thousand years ago. It was just a wilderness. And man was conceived from the four gods at the same time as any other race, and he laid his feet on the earth, and he made a village.

(The priest said there was nothing more than a thousand years ago, but there was. But it was completely destroyed. That's why no one knew... I think it's quite possible. It's just my imagination.)

To sum up, it's very likely that this place is in a building built over a thousand years ago. It remains pretty for a long time, but it is not surprising that magic and other techniques have been invented to keep it semi-permanently stable, given trash cans and other technologies. I don't know how or why, but Ruth apparently got lost in it.

"Mm-hmm. When we get to this level of talk…… I think it would be better if we didn't talk to Wonok or something when we left………"

Eventually this occasion will also be discovered and the investigation will proceed, and the civilization that existed a thousand years ago may also be clarified. At that time, there would also be a severe earthquake on Celestialism, which supposedly was not a thousand years old. But maybe that's what we need to do.

(But not now, right?)

But only a little bit of this building felt early for the humans of this day and age to enter. Ruth has memories of his previous life, so I know this is where this city went horribly technologically, but because if an unknowledgeable person came in, he might be vandalized and even lose the technology that was supposed to remain. It's not necessarily that things don't happen that would throw away a work of art portrayed from elaborate calculations because they think it's a child's graffiti. Because nothing scares me more than ignorance.

If people are going to go in, I feel better after the organizations that protect the ruins and the research institutes are in a solid time. Of course, it's only Ruth's subjective opinion, but Ruth is the only one who has seen it, so I can tell no one. If you do it poorly, it can also cause war and so on. It was common in comics and novels for artifacts and autoparts to become a spark of contention.

I thought a lot about it that way, and after a while of boing around, I could see the light flashing in the back door all the way.

"Well, a reflection. Let's move on, or we'll have to go home anyway..."

Ruth stood up and moved on. Just one last time, I looked back at a commercial establishment that would have once flourished, reminiscent of some previous life.