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

(This disastrous technique………)

It's earthly magic, but it's not as delicate as Karen's, nor does it feel as theoretical as Fritz's. It's such a sorcery that it's rough, throwing away all the details and chanting them in the sky. But Ruth was familiar with such sorcery.

(-Ah, Alec!?

Running from the entrance, it was Ruth's childhood tame, with blue eyes on her blonde hair, flashy colored clothes, and Alec, the man who always appeared on a good occasion.

"Shit, what's the point?"

Alec looks around to see what's going on.

Ruth lowered his chest at the appearance. Apparently, he didn't have to be killed.

(Ma, you saved me again...... that's brave)

Alec, who, as usual, was on some errand and thought to have come to the village at a brilliant time, was wrapped up in rare and decent combat gear rather than light clothing. And it's even more rare to disturb my breath. It's a sight of surprise for Alec, who has a lot of health and is not tired of a lot of things.

Such Alec approaches Ruth, who is falling, as he puts his sight of Grace getting up slammed against the wall. I noticed Ruth and wondered if he would speak up - but when Alec was in sight for a moment, he just frowned slightly and ran straight towards Grace.

(Oh, that...?

The appearance makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable. Usually when Ruth is injured, he runs indiscriminately, and it's Alec who tries to heal him first, no matter what the demon is. It can be Ruth's role to stop it and encourage him to defeat it first.

(So, but now I have something about Grace)

Ruth convinced himself that Alec's priorities had changed, but he couldn't wipe away the weird feeling. Because Alec's face, who had Ruth in his sight, looked as if he had seen someone else in red.

(No, no, no, no, that's normal in this situation. Because it's not when you're talking)

Ruth shakes his head to see how Alec and Grace are doing.

Alec starts fighting with his fist with Grace getting up again. The crisp movement, as instructed, was no different from what I had seen before. But something's wrong.

(Yes, Alec. I'm not wearing that golden light......)

The golden light that always appeared when Alec fought. That wasn't around Alec right now.

On the contrary, I'm letting Grace's opponents make subtle moves. I have nothing to lose, but I felt like I didn't have the disastrous power to fight Melting Demon before. I used to do something with my fingertips, and now I'm using my fists.

"Alec, don't run on your own!

"Go after him. Be this way too!

As Ruth glared at Alec, five men and women rushed into the cave.

A knightly young man, a cleric-style young woman, a magnificent man, a bandit-style woman, a girl with purple hair engraved with literature on her face. They were all beautiful women and beautiful men, and they looked like they could never help turning around if they were walking in the city. And I could see in Ruth's eyes that each wrapped an aura that wasn't just a human being. Must be Alec's people.

"Everybody, come on! I'm having early symptoms of melting demonization! Curtis, suction! Garcia, help me!

"I understand!

"Oh!"

A mage style man answers Alec's voice and begins to cast a spell. While doing so, a knight-style man rushed over to Alec's side and began to respond in the same way. Surrounded by the two of them, Grace quickly seals the motion.

When Alec takes Grace's arm and slaps him to the ground, he glows orange around a knight-style man a little further away. The light went to Grace and let it stick to the floor. Grace is raging, but her hands and legs don't seem to move.

"Stop, Grace is my sister, don't kill me!

When Karen screams, a blue-silver-haired beauty runs over to that side with her hair stretched up to her waist.

"It's okay, it may look a little rough, but your sister will help. Your treatment is better than that..."

When the woman casts a spell, the light of pale peaches surrounds her and Karen's body dwells the same light. His face, which was in pain, was gradually turning into a calming one. Similar to the healing technique used by the priest, but definitely quicker to recover than that. Karen, who seemed seriously ill, was quickly enough to wake up.

"Vuuuuuuuuuu!"

Grace's voice sounded so when I saw how it was, there was a green light drifting from the magician-style man and he was taking in the red light that was around Grace. And in proportion to the red light that was around Grace disappearing, the runoff gradually heals. Her eyes gradually grew red and her swollen arms were smaller.

"More!"

"Yes, Master Alec!

Approaching Alec's voice grew Grace, a girl with purple hair stretched out to her shoulders, supposedly the youngest. And when I pointed at the wand I had, I uttered something I couldn't hear, and then I poked around Grace's chest.

"Gu!"

"Please be patient for a moment"

It was Grace who groaned small, but I could hear her enduring more than that if she didn't have the strength to resist. When the girl who saw it pulls the wand in front, something like a red and black thumb emerges from Grace's body. Nothing physically appeared to be happening because there was no bleeding from the skin, etc., but the sight was just pulling out of the center of the body.

"You're buried in a very different color."

"Can you pull it out?

"It's in the early stages, so I haven't rooted it out yet, and I can afford it. I'll erase it."

The moment the girl answered Alec as she assured him, the likeness of its red fruit dispersed. As soon as the red eyes returned to brown, the swollen hands reverted, and Gacri and Grace pulled their strength out of their bodies. When something like the orange wedge that the knight-style man was putting out disappeared, he was about to drift straight to the ground and was taken by the man.

"It's a successful curse. I thought all we had to do was recover."

"You did good, Moore. Keep checking to see if any other humans are infected, Fana will check with you and see what else is going on, Eliza will get this girl recovered, Garcia will carry her and Curtis will contact the villagers waiting outside"

Copy that.

While Ruth and the others were stunned, when Alec gave them instructions, they all moved out. It was something that I could tell from how no one would disagree or disagree with me that I was acting like this from time to time.

(Wow, I can go back to melting demonization...)

Ruth, who was talking to Fritz to seize him, but couldn't imagine what he would do afterwards, couldn't believe what had happened in front of him. Of course, I planned on getting the priest to cure me, but I couldn't imagine if that treatment would cure me.

But Alec and the others were finding a solution. Sure, a few months ago, there may have been only one way to defeat the Molten Demon, but I'm sure I searched for it in just this little time.

That would be a line of brave men. It's only natural that Ruth's peaceful head can't keep up with speed.

"Fritz, are you alive?

"Oh, Alec…… something…………………"

Alec calls out as he rocks the fritz that was falling on the floor. Alec hasn't had much conversation with the three of them, but he doesn't think anything about them just because they didn't like them is normal at times like this.

"It was sturdy and helpful. Eliza, when you're done, Fritz, heal the man with these glasses."

"I understand."

Speaking to Fritz, Alec turned straight to Ruth.

(I knew it was Alec……?

From the way he was in normal conversation with Fritz, that person doesn't seem to be wrong with Alec himself. I don't even think Ruth saw Alec wrong in the first place. - But he complained something was wrong. I can't wipe away the discomfort.

Alec even approached while Ruth was feeling strange anxiety and lowered his back to his side. The peeping face is the same blonde hair, green eyes, and Ruth's favorite prince face. But somewhere I felt my eyes on Ruth were different than usual.

"Are you just hurt, too?

"Oh, yeah......"

"I see. I'll cure you now."

That's how Alec activates the cure. The pain Ruth was feeling gradually disappeared into the warm light as usual. Eventually, when the pain was completely gone, I was able to wake up my body. As always, Alec's cure is fast.

"Thanks."

"You're all right now."

That said, Alec gets up and leaves Ruth to ask what's going on around him. Anxiety finally swelled over the lack of interest in Ruth.

"Ah, Alec!

When he stood up in a hurry and spoke, Alec looked back.

(Oh, Alec, he's growing tall...)

I used to feel better when I met him during the snow season, but this time I noticed he was growing taller, which had remained almost the same all the time, instead of his physique. Not so much when it comes to being looked down on, but still getting upward when I try to keep my gaze on it.

"... what is it?

For some reason Alec looked surprised and leaned his neck towards Ruth. Ruth rushes to find out what Alec is doing.

"Oh, well, you're back. Does that mean there are others, some errands? Can you stay a little longer this time? The letter stopped, and I haven't heard from her, so I've been worried..."

Alec frowned more and more as Ruth stood up somewhat quickly. And from Ruth's face, he stares at his whole body as if to ask how it was going.

- Yes, as if. It was a subtle reaction, as if he had been spoken to intimately by a stranger.

"…… Ah, Alec?

"Who is it?

"... Huh?

"How do you know my name?

When Ruth was stiff because he couldn't understand the meaning of the words said, Alec took a little distance and opened his mouth again. It's like an attitude toward a suspicious person.

"So... who the hell are you?

The green eyes, which always sparkled when I stared at Ruth, narrowed in suspicion.

Ruth's mood, who was happy to reunite with Alec, froze once and for all.