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

After a while after Ruth kept quietly stroking him, Ed raised his face to see if his emotional heights were finally contained. But the expression is still dark.

"I'm sorry for the disturbance……"

"That's perfectly fine... but why don't I tell you why?

"…… I'm sorry. I don't feel that way right now."

"Is that so………………"

Ruth is a little dimpled because she didn't tell me why, although she didn't tell me her anxiety. But Ed won't want to say anything either, and it doesn't necessarily mean it won't be the two previous dances when I ask him, so I thought I should keep the pursuit modest and decided to shut up.

"That's a little hot and humid. Shall I change the air?"

Groaning brightly, Ruth laid her hand on the window of the room as she stood on the couch. Though impressed with the glass, which was many times prettier and thinner than the inn window, he reached out to the end to open the window.

"The window won't open."

"Yeah... really."

I tried to open the window before Ed told me, but the glass door certainly didn't move. It looks like a normal window, but is there some kind of trick?

"Excuse me. You look pathetic. I have to work hard..."

As Ruth leaned her neck against the window, she heard such a voice from Ed sitting on the couch.

As he hurried back to his side at the sound of his untensioned voice, he stroked Ed's head drifting sunken air.

"Ed, I don't know what you're going to do, but you can't hunt yourself down, can you?

Ed, with his tense expression, felt that by using the word 'hard work' on his own, he could not forgive even getting lost. Then it narrows down to the horizon, and just suffering doesn't tie it to very good results. Ruth has failed several times that way in his previous life, so he can't help but worry.

"I know enough in the last few days that Ed is serious and hard-working. So don't try to force me to work any harder, I'd rather be distracted. If you don't, you might be in a hurry to find a better solution?

Ruth said so, while slowly stroking Ed's head to calm him down. He didn't have a reluctant look, he was caressed silently for a while, but eventually he grabbed me to stop that hand.

As Ruth scratched a sweat in his hand, his powerful eyes raised his face.

"……… Ruth, I will protect you."

"What, protect? No, I need you to protect me...?

"No, I'm protecting it. Even if you don't know anything, I'll protect you."

I felt Ed's face, holding Ruth's hand back with both hands, was changing again from a young child to a boy. The plump cheeks and the unusual eye area have somehow disappeared, giving him a slightly sharp boy-like look.

(... Ed's face, what's going on? Could a spiritual clan change its face?

As Ruth was surprised at the change in Ed's face, he nodded loudly.

"Right. Sticking to the same method may not change anything.... Ruth, let's find Tiana together. That's where you start."

"Oh, yeah?

Suddenly Ruth stood up, pulled by Ed, who strained her search for Tiana.

I have no idea how "Protect" and "Find Tiana" connect, but Ed's face doesn't look like he sank earlier.

(Okay…………)

I have no idea what Ed is thinking, but steaming the story back may sink again, so now I've decided to just do what's better.

(He also said 'I'm not in that mood right now' for the reason that he wasn't well, but later he might tell me what he was worried about, and...)

You may soon find it natural. So Ruth decided to take it easy on herself that she wouldn't have to rush now.

Once again, Ed, whose height is growing, is pulled out and taken out.

"Let's find it from the ground floor," he said, going down the stairs about Ed, who was straining himself.

(Even so, I didn't think Ed would do a positive job looking for Tiana)

It was exactly like Ruth's, and I was wondering if he was confused by the sudden wishes of the people at the mansion or if he hadn't heard them in the first place. Even if you were asking, Ed said, 'Why should I do that? I also feel like saying' etc.

(Maybe something happened with Tiana when you chased her?... No, Ed's condition was serious. When I spoke up, he hated me and I was depressed, and it wasn't that kind of atmosphere)

Sometimes every relationship will be serious, but for that, Ed's condition is too strange.

If I did it against Ruth, he'd tell me to 'protect' him, and I wouldn't try to let go of my hand to pull. I'm also concerned about other movements that seem to know the structure of the mansion. Because I don't think he just got a mild explanation, just like Ruth.

Of course, it is likely that I found out just now when I acted alone, but if so, when did I know that the window in the room would not open?

(No way, Ed is coming to this mansion once or something...... no if he does that, is the attitude of the people here strange?)

Given the attitude of the Dickhouts, it seemed unlikely that Ed would have known about this mansion beforehand. They were all in the first place against Ed, too. I don't even think you're trying to delude me that we met once. I don't even know why I'm more or less deluded.

(Well, I'm sure the neighborhood will also work out if Ed tells us what he's keeping a secret...... do we have to wait)

When Ruth finished his thinking, he looked up at Natasha's painting on the hallway wall. What we have here is smaller than what was on the stairs in front of the front door, but still big enough to be immediately noticed.

(... so far, it looks like you're watching the other way around)

I don't want to sound bad about the portrait of the deceased, but there were too many Natasha paintings in the mansion. When I first came here, I didn't realize it because I concentrated on the conversation, but if I looked closely, I saw many of them on the front porch, and I saw them frequently during my exploration.

Even though I know I have no intention of painting because of it, I remember the illusion of being watched over.

"You're not even here... then I guess you're in the courtyard... Ruth, let's go to the courtyard next."

"Ah, yeah. Right."

Ed shrugged, pulling Ruth's hand and walking out of the dining room down the hall.

(I'm not helping……)

Honestly, Ruth is just totally letting Ed do the search and follow him. I really think we should split up and look for it, but for some reason it's been rejected by Ed, let alone held hands all the time. Ed won't let Ruth go, even though he's not willing to run away from anything else. Says it's better not to act separately, it seems.

(Well, I can't say there's no chance of getting lost...)

Ruth is not directional tone deaf, but there are many similar hallways in the mansion, very wide. To be honest, Benno's guidance at the beginning is not enough at all. It can be so strange that Ed can't help but feel lost even though it's his first home.

(But maybe the Spirit Clan is that kind of race. Like, five times more senses than human beings... is that it?

As Ruth thought a lot with his hands drawn, he noticed a large white stone statue placed in the blowout area behind the ground floor.

"What stone statue is that……?

"Huh..."

Speaking to Ed, we approached the statue together.

(Wow, beautiful? No beauty shapes? or......)

The person with the long hair stone statue had no chest at all because he was wrapped in thin clothes, so I thought he was a man, but for that, when he looked at me, he was neat. Rather than being feminine, it entails an atmosphere that transcends gender. I honestly don't know which gender I'm looking at, but it doesn't even seem to bother me. I feel opposite Wonok, who has the face of an inorganic doll.

"Father..."

"Heh this is Ed's father...... hmmm!? Father!? Is this your father? Oh, why the stone statue?

As Ruth glanced at Ed like a Nori penetration, he answered pale without expressing any emotions.

"It's probably my father... because my father is the Spirit King. Apart from the faith of the Four Gods, I have heard that spiritual tribes and those with itching rarely place such statues."

"Uh... wait, Ed's father is the Spirit King?

"Yes……. Didn't I tell you?

Ruth laughs bitterly at Ed, who turns around with a decent face.

(Ed is the king's son...)

It's my first ear for Ruth, and it's a fact of shock. But if Ed is the son of the Spirit King, I also feel somewhat convinced that he has special powers.

(The height of parental abilities appeared in a different way, and so on... It seems likely. Is that what you mean)

Ed didn't think he was a normal kid from the start, but he seemed to be an elite one from birth. For that matter, I guess there is a struggle that is not normal.

(Well, but Ed is Ed, you know.... even if you ask me that)

It might have been different if they had said that when we first met, but as Ruth, I'm not willing to change my attitude even if I now know Ed was born. Of course I feel like Ed's brother. I'd rather not even be glad to hear it before.

"But I don't think there was a stone statue like this before... did you overlook it?

"Previous?

"... No, it's nothing. Ruth, let's return to Tiana's search."

"Uh, yeah."

Ed pulls his hand again and moves away from the front of the stone statue.

The last time I turned around and saw the statue again, I felt a strange presence like it was supposed to be made of stone but there and a sense of pre-vision like I should have seen it for the first time but knew it.