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

The next day, Ruth looked at Alec and the others in the morning and was asked about his plans for today.

The members, except Alec, apparently have business in the Wang capital, and they won't all be back until the evening. In the meantime, Ruth asked me to help her undo Alec's memory.

At first, Alec seemed dissatisfied with the situation that all his other companions had gone to the Wang capital and only he would be left behind, but when Ruth asked him to hunt, he said, 'With you?' He followed me with an intriguing look. He's curious to see how Ruth hunts.

By the way, Karen apparently headed to her report with Grace to the village chief in the morning, and Ruth was already gone when she tried to say hello.

"Alec! He's gone that way!

"I got it! Ha!

"Wait, wait, wait, wait."

"B, Bumoao!

Alec jumped out in front of a large female boreal that Ruth had driven to the place she had opened. It was Alec, who pulled out his sword with a killer in mind, but quickly reversed his body when a large boreal sounded like a scream and suddenly stopped at the signs of its overflowing strong man.

"Oh, hey! Don't go back that way!

"... so he said that the signs were modest."

Boreal tried to escape from Alec, who was coming after him, and headed straight for Ruth, who had been pushing him away until earlier. Even if the bow or knife is in an attack position with the knife in front of him, there is no way to turn back.

(Well, I don't have a choice)

Huge beast Alec in front of me, small animal Ruth that seems weak in the rear - there is an overwhelming chance of survival over Alec heading for Ruth. It is only natural that a sandwiched beast instinctively turns its back.

Alec knew that before, so he consciously kept himself from looking strong when he was hunting with Ruth. But now that Alec has no experience hunting with Ruth, he hasn't been able to pin his advice. I guess that's why I accidentally came close and showed strength.

Ruth looked at the borough coming his way and pulled the bow he had. Alec is screaming something out of the back of the borough, but I decided to ignore it for a moment because Ruth won't be able to stand around well once he's back in the woods.

(I'm fine with this.)

The way Alec is panicking, it's probably because he's forgotten Ruth. I had no choice but to concentrate on hunting for a moment now.

"Ha!"

When he wrapped his magic around him and released his arrows, he proceeded to cut the wind and eventually hit the side of Boreal's eye.

He is taken part of his face by a thin arrow that was supposed to play, and Boreal gives a roar of surprise and pain. But the bloody boreal seemed unwilling to stop his leg. You seem to realize that Ruth in the front isn't the poor young man you seem to be, but you still understand that you can't face the horrible signs behind it. It's a natural reaction.

"All right, come on!

"Hey, no! You can't do that!

"Buo-oh!"

For the lack of fangs, he wields his nose hard enough to crush a rock bigger than a male, and sets up a run for Ruth with Boreal willing to die. When Ruth took out the knife, he stood in front of him and applied the magic around the knife.

(- Not yet!)

As soon as Boreal shook his head, Ruth instantly backwards. When his nose swung down to where Ruth was, the surrounding ground was decided. Its destructive power is unique to large animals. Boreal then rushes towards Ruth's lower side with his nose pressed to the ground without getting into his hair.

Where this continuous attack is feared by females, males can make gaps to shake their fangs up again, but females use their hard noses to try to hit the opponents who have escaped all over the ground. Every year, there are injuries.

(All right, as expected)

But Ruth knew from experience that the moment he laid his legs behind him, he would try to avoid them on the side and go around to the side of Borough. As soon as Boreal, who had advanced as he did, penetrated deeply into the ground and finally stopped moving, he stuck his knife to the steeple faster than he could turn around.

"BOOOOOOOO!"

A dull feeling comes through the knife to my hand.

(Ew, stiff!

The poorly cut iron knife, although it entered the soft steeple of Boreal thanks to the enchantment, does not lead to profound protrusion.

Ruth, who immediately took his hand off the knife, threefold the arrow as he lowered backwards, wrapped it together and let it go. An arrow that could not be helped, but because it was close range, it all hits the steeple and puts a big hole in the place.

"Bub-o-o-o-o!"

But Boreal didn't stop at that much. He bent his face obliquely and bloody, but turned to Ruth, trying to move his legs. But...

"That's it!

With Alec's voice, when something ran over Boreal's body without a sound, his head, which should have turned toward Ruth, broke in two straight left and right.

(oh...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

As the soul was taken by that blow, Boreal stops moving and collapses on the spot. I guess there was nothing you could do to make your whole body straight. I felt that Boreal's body, which was also hot air, was proving Alec's speed of attack.

When Ruth was surprised by the rare sight of two Boloans being wholesaled, Alec descended from the top.

"You, don't do it well against a Boreal opponent of this size"

When Alec paid for the blood on his sword, he found Ruth as he was genuinely impressed as he delivered it to his sheath. Ruth laughs bitterly and punishes the bow and knife in the same way.

"Hmm. Even praised by those who make Boreal two......"

And Alec before he went out of the village, he was able to make Boreal two. But it was an attack aimed at steeples and relatively soft spots of meat, and it was not an amputation (and one hand) that ignored such skulls and spines. I think I saw Alec grow once again.

"No, I... I'm not proud of you or anything, but I won't even deal with this class because I keep traveling like this, and I can't imagine losing. But you're a resident of Hashi Village, where this demon is dear, isn't it?

"... Alec has forgotten, but I had a good time with you in this class of boroughs. I'm good at hunting in this shape."

"Heh... heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh you are a chunk of unexpectedness"

Alec's face, whining like that, seemed like a lot of fun, and even though it had been forgotten, Ruth didn't feel bad either.

He then drained Boreal's blood once and froze it with life magic before heading for a little smaller animal hunt this time. Alec still doesn't seem like a good small-animal opponent and gets away with it right away. Ruth's eyes sparkled when he caught it light.

After capturing several of them, the two of us begin to drain the blood of our prey and treat our guts, just like Boreal.

"Hey, how do I get here?

"There, if you try to follow this bone and slide the knife..."

"Bad…… Something blew a hole in my skin………."

"Yeah, that's okay because I can grab it for other uses. In your bag."

I should have been somewhat used to the work before, but Alec's hands weren't too much. Speaking of which, I feel like I remember it loudly, but I can't remember the work very clearly. Maybe basically because Alec used to hunt with Ruth.

As we worked together that way, I noticed that gradually Alec was breaking up the kind of atmosphere he was in against Ruth. My eyes on Ruth are now dealing with normal friends, and I've been talking to them frequently, even though I've often asked them how things were going in silence.

(Even so, he doesn't seem to remember me)

I think I'm getting along with Alec now. But not Alec before. I still can't seem to remember me.

"Okay, over..."

"Tired -"

"Hey, you can still go get about one, right?

"Fine, but you have some prey you want?

"Beat it... today's prey is all you get, and I hardly ever do it. Just like this."

"Yeah, that's the thing."

Apparently I can't take one alone today and Alec regrets it a little. Alec used to hunt beasts on his own on errands, so he never seems to have completely forgotten how to hunt, but I guess he can't stand around well because his powers and signs are different than before.

When Ruth took the weapon again, a little farther away, he heard the oculus rushing the mountain.

"Looks like there's an oculus over there"

Alec listens to Ruth. And after a little frowning, he turned to look convinced and grinned at Ruth.

"You have a good ear. I'm not a bad person, but I can't even identify the type at this distance."

"It's my specialty."

"If that's the case, you're reliable. Let's go, Ruth! Don't touch me this time."

"... uh, yeah, let's go!

Called by nature and name by Alec, who seemed to have fun, Ruth chased after her running back, feeling happy.

I enjoyed the hunt that way and it was not until near evening that I returned to the village. It was supposed to come back after noon, but it would have been such a time if I'd dated Alec's loser who could get away with small animals.

(But it's been a long time since Alec and I went hunting and it's been fun.)

Alec was the one who forgot how to hunt with Ruth, but there's a genius skin he remembers fast. After a few hours, you figured out Ruth's movements, and you didn't have to say it with your mouth to move on your own. It didn't go as usual, but the feeling I was still familiar with was great.

"At this hour there will be Mr. Esther in the church, shall we leave the meat we have caught"

Mr. Esther is a woman who helps church priests. It was like helping me take care of the orphanage kids, not Sister, but also cooking and so on, and Alec and Ruth would always be happy to give me the meat.

"Are you sure? It's for the store, right?

"There's too much today. And Alec got it, so the church's been in the math since the beginning."

"…… well."

Alec laughed slightly with some pleasure. That's the look I haven't had since I got here.

"Hmm......?

"What's wrong?

Ruth asks Alec, who whines as soon as possible. Looking up at the sky with nothing, Alec was changing his expression to surprise.

"Brave correction abilities are rising again."

"Eh, again!?

"Yeah, we're on a level."

Before Ruth and I went out hunting, it seemed like it was two, but I checked without worrying about anything now and said it was three.

"Alec, do you remember anything about me?

"No, especially………………"

Alec, shaking her head a little sorry, didn't seem to recall Ruth in particular. Surely Ruth doesn't remember Alec doing anything special either, and it didn't seem like he remembered.

"Then why......?

In the end, I didn't know why, and the two headed to church with their necks tilted.

"Brother Alec!

To Alec, who entered the church, the first person to fly was Bird, who was being looked after in the orphanage. Bird is fine now, but when Alec disappeared from the village, he was so nostalgic that he tried to chase him to the King's Capital that he was depressed. I guess I couldn't wait to see him come back for that. A grin spills unexpectedly on Bird, who looks childish.

"Brother Alec."

Other children ran to Alec to follow Bird. Four of them, including Bird, are now in the orphanage, all younger than Bird, so I guess I missed Alec the oldest. They are all very binding because they lose their parents under many circumstances or because they are just children who have been let go. Bird, who looks childish in front of Ruth, also knows he's showing the rest of the kids how to count on him.

Ruth walked into the cooking area behind the church, looking at the five of them like that, and gave Esther the meat she had divided for the orphanage as she was about to begin her dinner schedule. He was very happy to donate most of it to the orphanage and share some of it with Esther's family. The orphanage dinner is going to be fancy today.

"Ruth, were you here?"

"Father."

I ran into a priest on the way back from the cooking area to the cathedral. He came back from the village chief's house earlier and was on his way to the cooking place to help Esther.

When the priest looked at Ruth, he frowned a little.

"Alec forgot about you..."

"Oh, you knew the priest, too"

The priest seemed to know about Alec. I wondered if someone had told me, but they immediately realized it was weird in conversation when they met two days ago. After that, Curtis seemed to hear the story.

"There has never been anything about you that never came out of Alec's mouth before. He's always, in the second word, just your name. I thought I was going to take you on a brave journey."

"Oh, well..."

When they said that, some strange embarrassment crept up. At the same time, however, I feel that the feeling of being in a mood is faint.

(But you never said that to Alec...)

It was Alec who said he didn't want to leave, but he certainly never said he'd go with Ruth. Apparently, on the matter, the priest said beforehand, 'The journey of the brave is extremely harsh. You could lose your life in a normal villager,' he said, stabbing the quail.

Ruth, too, was glad he wasn't invited because even if he told me to go with him, he would never be able to keep up with Alec in his abilities and he felt like he was going to fall off (die) in the first. If you look lonely and they say, 'Come with me,' even if you know you can't, 'if only for a little while,' because you can't deny the possibility that you left with them.

(No, no, no... the brave journey is not a beggar to follow. That's crazy, me)

When I went back to the diocese with him to meet Alec, while making such a story a priest. It seemed like Alec was getting something done to the orphanage kids.

"Brother Alec, do that!

"" That "?"

"The one who paints in the sky!

"…… in the sky, painting?

Alec looks at the kids and tilts his neck like he doesn't know what they're talking about.

But Ruth knew what the kids were doing.

(It's the magic of the fusion of light and water that Alec showed in front of the church before he traveled…)

A special technique that is neither attack magic nor life magic. That was homemade magic Alec made to entertain Ruth, so maybe I can't help but forget.

(…… but after all, a little)

Ruth's heart felt unspeakable, even as she smiled bitterly and remained calm on the surface. Moya Moya Moya, whenever I know something Alec has forgotten, I feel like I can't stay until it builds up like pus in the depths of my heart and I keep my mouth shut tight.

"It's a fusion magic between light and water, Alec. You created it yourself."

"Father? Me, sir?

"That's true, Brother Alec! My ex-brother painted a little picture in the sky! And at the end of the day, he made it glitter and disappear."

"The magic of the fusion of light and water, drawing in the sky, glowing and disappearing……"

Alec looked difficult and then slipped his fingers into a universe of nothing.

Light emanates from my fingertips, and I can do something like a picture I wrote in the sand in a place where there is nothing. And when I connected the beginning and the end, it disappeared after one glow. It was beautiful, but it seemed a little different from what I had seen before.

"Chi. And I'm not a snowman."

"Beautiful, but no. It's not dough."

"When I saw you, I was probably flying around. Just a little bit, huh?

"I flew it into the sky. The painting you wrote?... This is pretty hard, why did I make something like that?"

Denied by the children who were of the same opinion as Ruth, Alec tries again and again as he says bumps, but he couldn't make wings like he had seen before. By the way, Alec is through, but the butterfly illustrations painted in the air only look like dough, as the kids say.

"... really, you forgot to engage with you, Alec"

…………

Hearing the priest's lonely whine, Ruth saw Alec trying to hear the children's demands. And I noticed that he hadn't seen this one before.