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

"... Alec, what are you talking about? Some kind of joke? I don't really laugh at that...... are you mad at me or something?

"What? I'm not mad at you. I'm just asking you who you are because I've never seen your face. Have you come to the village lately?

…………

Ruth doesn't know what it means anymore. I didn't understand that Alec didn't “know" Ruth.

We grew up in the village together for over fifteen years after we met, it was the longest childhood tame in the village, six months ago it hit me, and a few months ago Alec, who had even seriously proposed, was perhaps too shocked not to know Ruth from that mouth, and his brain refused to understand. So even in this situation where calmly thinking about what was going on was likely to find answers, my brain was not working and was flabbergasted.

But Alec - this guy with Alec's face, he really looks like he doesn't know Ruth. I don't even think that's strange. I don't even think there's a lie.

"Hey, Alec. I've got a lot to ask... what's more wrong with that? Fighting?"

Between the two of them, who look seriously incapable of understanding each other, there came a fritz who apparently had them recovered with healing techniques. Fritz was listening to the conversation between the two from afar, and he is glowing. That would be true, naturally because that Alec said 'I don't know' about Ruth. It would be natural to assume that we got into a fight and talked about that.

But Alec turned into a slightly soothing look when Fritz arrived.

"Fritz, thank God. Is this the new resident of the village? When did you get here? They know me..."

"You... are you serious? It's Ruth, right? You haven't changed your face."

"Ruth?... such a thing. Have you been in the village before? Didn't you come in after I left the village?

Even Fritz was stunned by Alec's reply. It seems that Alec finally realizes that the situation is strange and does a little thinking. But Ruth will never be seen in his eyes.

"Ruth! Fritz, Karen! Are you all right!?

While we were doing this, Daniel and Yuan led the way and the rest of Colt and Alec came back into the cave.

"- Ugh, yeah! Oh, Alec!?

It was Daniel who raised his voice as if he had encountered a massive amount of Gezizi. Apparently, Alec came into the cave without meeting Daniel outside first. I'm guessing that's why I realized it was there for the first time.

Although Alec and Daniel do not exaggerate fights, they are no better friends than Fritz, so it was a natural reaction when it came to naturally. However, since Alec doesn't really care (he doesn't deal with them) just because Daniel hates fur, the reaction between the two is extreme. Alec doesn't move one eyebrow when he sees Daniel in the evidence.

"You guys were there, Daniel, and Colt. Are you all right?

"Ugh, you're safe! I don't want you to worry about me!

"That was bad. It was a big mess out there, you know. So, do we need treatment?

"This... you're annoying after all!

I don't know if it's because a little time went by or because I saw a fight between the two with different temperatures, but Ruth was finally able to move the thought that was only a little hardened.

(Alec, on the contrary, knows both Fritz, Daniel and Colt...)

From Alec's conversation with Daniel, Alec remembers the adults and the village chief. It doesn't look like you can't tell the difference between your face or anything.

(Then why don't you just know me...?

So even more so, I remember everything about the other villages, but I didn't know if you were telling me that you only knew about Ruth. Fritz, who heard the same line, seems to agree, and he's gazing at Ruth with the look on his face that he doesn't know what it means. I'm sure you want to tell me to be sure.

But I just didn't know what to do if they just said 'I don't know' again, and when Ruth was confused about what to do next, he put his hand on his shoulder.

"What's up, Ruth? Haven't you been able to heal your injuries?

It was Yuan standing behind me. He must have called me because Ruth's condition was different than usual. And it wasn't just Ruth who reacted to it, it was Daniel who was having a unilateral fight with Alec.

"You don't put your hand on Ruth's shoulder in a mess!

"I was just worried about Ruth and I spoke up. I don't know about the guy who's making a scene on his own. That blonde you're biting seems calm, though?

"Ugh!

That said Daniel forced Yuan's hand off and grabbed Ruth's shoulder. I leaned straight over to myself, erased the frustration I had just had, and I even had a little spare smile.

"Well, how about that, Alec? While you were in King's Landing, Ruth and I got along so well that we could shoulder to shoulder. The two of us go hunting, and sometimes we eat together. Hey, Ruth?

"Ah, yeah."

I didn't know a bit about the meaning of Daniel's expressions of superiority, but I'm sure she'd be happy to get along with herself, and Ruth was asking Alec's reaction with her.

When Daniel was involved with Ruth before, it was Alec, who was just in between. If it was the usual, it would have come close with a rugged face.

"So I'm telling you I don't know that Ruth. Who the hell is that? Is that the guy Daniel knows, too?

But Alec's reaction was no different. Instead of coming in between Ruth and Daniel, he looked somewhat weird, but naturally he also seems annoyed with Daniel talking to him because he thinks he knows. Of course I didn't try to shake Daniel's hand off or give him an obvious aura of anger like before.

(I knew it was just me...?

He told me 'I don't know' three times and I felt as heavy as I had poured lead into my stomach. It was always natural for me to have a picture of myself in my green eyes, and it was natural for me to turn a soft smile. But now Alec hasn't seen Ruth properly since we met. On the contrary, he just looks harsh with a frown on his face.

Ruth can't even look Alec in the eye like that anymore.

For Ruth, who was a childhood friend and best friend, this was the first time he had a conversation with Alec with a harsh look on his face. So I had no idea what to do. Words don't come to mind at all.

"Huh!?

When Ruth was losing his word, it was Daniel and the colt behind him who reacted immediately.

"Alec, you, are you kidding me!? It's Ruth, Ruth!? You, the more time you had, the friendlier you were on your side!?

"I told you so many times, I'm not kidding. I don't even remember..."

"Are you kidding me... or are you being obstinate? You're jealous that I'm getting along with Ruth. Ha, Zamamiro! But you didn't want to lure me upset. I've already graduated like a kid."

"So... there's no way you're dealing with a guy who doesn't know he's jealous"

Neither the same reaction as Colt's Fritz, nor Daniel's line that he assumed was due to jealousy, all denied, Alec seemed to seriously fail to understand Ruth's existence. From that word, instead of the presence of Ruth, I didn't even seem to remember the actions involved in Ruth. It's like they pulled everything out of Ruth.

Though Daniel had once calmed down about how he received the look, he put his frustration on his face as if he had lit the fire again.

"I'm not kidding, Alec! Didn't I tell you that I was pretending to forget about Ruth because I met a good woman in Wang Du?!? Then seriously, I'll kill you!

"You didn't say a word. Don't make me a bad guy with your own imagination."

"Then retract the word you don't know! Because of you, I couldn't even talk to him properly!

"So why can't you talk to him because of me?!? You don't know what that means!

"I don't know, you know, it's your fault that I..."

"-Stop!!

The sound of loud hands slapping and the voices of Alec and Daniel, who were heating up by their voices, were blocked. When they stopped moving their mouths, it was Alec's people in the knight's armor who broke in.

And the mayor of the praise-surface peered into his face from beside him.

"Even though he was cured by healing techniques for the first time, there are also injured people out there. Don't think about going back from this place to the village after rubbing, you idiots...!

Everyone who was excited calmed down by the chilling scolding voice of the village chief releasing a tingling air. Ruth also reminds me that this is not the time to talk.

Daniel exhaled deeply in frustration, returning to the entrance and exit, and instead the people of the village of Micana came in to help the girls who remained in the cave. One line, including Alec, was called by the village chief to get out of the cave, and Ruth was also urged by Yuan to go outside.

That was how the girls in the cave were rescued, carrying the injured and escorting the thieves as well, all returning to the village at a time when the sun had completely fallen.