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

But either way, Ruth can't do anything alone. The only person holding the key is Ed, who seems to be able to keep his memory in this situation. You won't be able to get out without his help.

"Aren't you afraid of Ruth? This, the situation…"

"Is Ed afraid?

"… not afraid, …"

Ed, who has been silent for a while, is nagging his face bright blue. I didn't even think the word 'fearless' meant it. It just seemed to be the best possible strength.

But Ruth figured it out and pretended not to know. It is strictly forbidden to say 'don't lie' or 'you must be really afraid' to Ed of high pride. Even if that word is tenderness, Ed would never nod, and if he did poorly, he would be solidified and shut his mouth.

"Well, Ed's strong. If I'm in Ed's shoes, I'm gonna panic and shake."

"Are you strong?"

"I'm strong."

Ruth looked at Ed's eyes and snorted firmly.

I didn't even flatter you, that was for real. Ed is strong. Because thanks to his extra knowledge, Ruth can stay calm because he can freshly hope and some prediction, but Ed doesn't have that knowledge at all.

Everyone but myself has forgotten what he did, and he has not questioned anything. But I'm the only one who remembers everything.

If you were put in such a situation, you would be suspicious and anxious if you went crazy, or if everyone else went crazy, or both.

Doubting your memory in particular can amount to doubting everything you see and feel, making you less confident that even the "you” thing is real. If it's the potent weather type, it's all the more so because Ed seems like the type to think about it. If you're going to get caught up in that idea and suffer mentally, you might think it's easier to go crazy.

And yet Ed is still looking forward. It's supposed to be a situation where even a big adult wants to escape, but he hasn't given up while calmly finding reality, feeling confident in his memory, and being afraid to help Ruth.

"I think you're incredibly strong. Ed's supposed to be in an unexplained situation by himself, but he's trying to pull me off, and he's trying to figure it out, right? I also feel like I'm trying too hard."

"Working too hard......"

"Yes. I'm trying too hard. So... I'm sure I've said the same thing to Ed many times... but I always think the same thing, rely more on it, don't you?

When Ruth said so, Ed nodded slowly with a slightly grumpy face. There is no previous colour of fright in that expression, and it also looks as if it has appeased one way or another.

"So can you tell me how I'm doing from Ed? Guess we've been doing the same time over and over since we got to this mansion..."

"... you're right. I don't remember Ruth, but this is the tenth time we've been to this mansion for the first time."

"Jiu, for the tenth time!?

"Yes."

Ruth was surprised that he was repeating it more often than he thought.

He thought it was more than possible four times, but the truth is it was more than double. I will be spending quite some time in this mansion.

I'm also concerned about Alec when that happens, but now I encouraged Ed to get ahead of me.

"For the first time, when I returned to the scene," I'm new to this mansion again. "I didn't know what was going on and I was half panicked. I've visited the mansion once, and on the contrary, I should have been inside the mansion, but I'm out, and Ruth didn't even question it, and I couldn't understand it... and I yelled a little."

Talking about what he remembered didn't make up a conversation with Ruth, and Ed said he was pretty confused.

"But Ruth was so worried about me because I was confused that I couldn't follow through... and the people in the mansion started talking to us... so I decided to think that I was the only one who daydreamed or something. That's all I could think about back then."

While he felt something was wrong, Ed was forced to decide to convince him that way. Ruth really worries me when I make a loud noise, so he seemed to remain moya moya but shut up.

And he said he left himself to the stream and spent quietly in the mansion. That was a dream, and he felt half as if he wished. But...

"Once again, that“ accident ”happened, and I had a bad feeling... but when I thought about it, it was all too late... By the time I realized it, I was on my way back to this mansion with Ruth."

I mean, he said the third time was starting.

"And just like before, I remember everything, and Ruth didn't remember anything."

Even though I told him everything, to Ruth, who looked like I'd never heard him before, Ed said that he had finally lost something from scratch.

But thanks to Ruth's words at that time, 'I don't think that Ed's story is very likely to have been a dream or a fantasy,' he said, he was able to think calmly.

"So I finally started to suspect that Ruth, rather than having a strange memory of me, had something wrong with this mansion."

Ed, suspicious of the mansion itself, thought with Ruth, apparently trying to escape without going to the mansion.

But no matter what method he tried, he said he couldn't get out of the perimeter of the mansion.

"I don't know why. But even if we try to get out of the woods around the mansion, if we notice it, we'll come back to the stone site. It was the same even running on the opposite side. I tried everything to see if there was any skill involved, but I couldn't. I can't get out of the woods."

Ruth and Ed apparently did not enter the mansion until the end, but soon after hearing the clock bell ring from the mansion, they lost consciousness and when they realized it, they said they had returned to the situation of the ”two visitors to the mansion”.

And Ruth forgot everything Ed taught him. Only Ed said he remembered everything that had ever happened.

By the way, Ed kept his mouth shut this time, but basically there was so much difference in timing that he taught Ruth this situation every time.

"Oh, you've talked to me so many times... sorry, I don't remember anything."

"Nothing...... it's not that Ruth is bad. I tried a lot to make sure Ruth remembered me, but I couldn't do anything about it... and maybe I'm more heterogeneous than I remember in this mansion, where I spend the same amount of time."

Ed also tried a lot of sorcery so Ruth and the other humans could remember what happened, but in the end, nothing worked. He said he gave up looking for a way to do that.

"Besides, the magic hasn't worked very well since I came to this mansion. Even simple magic can't be activated well..."

"Doesn't that mean it won't activate?

"Yes. If you remember strongly, you can manage, that's the level. It just consumes magic for nothing, and it doesn't work high. I feel like I'm hung..."

"Is that so………"

Ruth questioned that magic could still be used halfway through. However, even if in doubt, it is not possible at this stage to lead from there to a solution. Anyway, too little information.

"Anyway, I found this situation impossible to escape the mansion. So that's why I gave up. So when I talked to Ruth about it, we talked about whether there was a way we could get out of this situation in this mansion, and we decided to look for it. … but"

He still has no idea why this has happened, or how to get out of it.

In the first place, Ruth's memory returns to the state where he began to come to the Mansion without much progress, so I guess it doesn't go well.

(Though I can't help it, I'm miserable...)

When I imagined Ed explaining the situation to Ruth every time, I also understood that he didn't talk to me this time.

They forget everything, and over and over again it makes me feel so nasty to re-explain it from the beginning. Because I feel like my efforts are being wasted and I don't have the strength. Ruth also stopped in several explanations when his grandfather was old in his previous life and forgotten he existed. As much, it's hard to repeat the same explanation.

(If I were Alec, I could have helped Ed more...)

Ruth does not possess as much knowledge as Wonok of the power to destroy everything as Alec does. I can't be very sure that 'if you leave it all to yourself, I can fix it'.

Because we also know that the deed can cause the worst. For being poorly knowledgeable, I have to be cautious.

But it wasn't if I was depressed by my mediocrity. I can do that at any time.

What we need right now is information.

"Ed, I also understood that I still don't know how to get out of this. We'll explore it together this time. But before you do, can you tell me how it always ends once?

"Is it over?

"Oh. On the verge of going back to the beginning, what are you doing? Every time, just like when you tried to escape from the mansion, you suddenly felt unconscious?

"No, I only lost consciousness if I didn't enter the mansion. Otherwise…………."

"Other than that?

"…………… a demon appears in the mansion"

"Ma, demon?

"… Yes. It's a shadowy demon I've never seen. That's when they suddenly show up at the mansion and start chasing us..."

"Chasing..."

I just felt “unconscious” when I didn't enter the mansion in the first place, and Ed said I might have actually been caught by that demon by accident.

"What kind of monster is that shadowy? Have you ever seen Ed outside of this mansion?

"No, I've never seen such a demon before. I don't even know if that's a demon."

"What's the meaning of this?

"Demons are basically creatures. You have some thought, you're moving with some will, I think. But that shadow demon is kind of weird..."

"Change?

"Sometimes existence itself is unknown… I don't have the will in the first place… I only have the will…"

"You only have the will?

It's usually too rare and vague for Ed to give a clear answer, and I had no idea what that “shadow demon” was. But as far as Ed's face goes, he doesn't seem to know what to say either.

"So what happens to us when that shadow demon catches us?

"That is……"

Ed accidentally shut his mouth to Ruth's question. And out of sight as if you don't want to answer.

But because of that attitude, Ruth knew. I can predict what I don't want to say, given the circumstances. And then Ed called the mysterious creature of the shadow "the demon.”

(Some low-ranked guys are harmless, but demons are creatures that kill basic people...)

I guess that means that at the end of the day, Ruth and the others are bound to be killed by that demon. Maybe he's the guy called Back to Death.

(Will it kill you, I don't like it. Does it hurt..................... ah but you got the situation)

Ruth and the others seem to continue the cycle of having their memories reset once and for all by being killed by that shadowy demon, starting the same time again from the beginning.

But at the same time, questions arise.

(………… from coming to the Mansion until the Shadow Demon kills you. Why are we repeating this time?

Time is repeating itself - it's an incredible story if you try from Ruth, who honestly doesn't remember.

But I can't say enough that there will never be a magical world in this world. Alec's powerful witchcraft, the special abilities of his subhuman beings, his existence beyond the intelligence of a melting demon, and the God who gives his mission to the brave - it would be strange not to believe only that time is repeating itself, even though this is all that is unthinkable in previous life. I just have to accept it honestly.

But for accepting it, I couldn't help but think that this situation was just a strange phenomenon or because I got caught up in a coincidence product.

(Plus, the shadow demon kills me and resets me, which is what catches me...)

There was something sealed on the mansion itself, and I can tell if Ruth and the others got caught up in it by accident. It is possible that that fog that was out in Hashi village was also a precursor to that.

But the fact that "the Shadow Demon kills me and it takes a reset” doesn't come as a coincidence. I can't help but feel intent.

(But what is it?..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I need to aggressively gather and think... Alec, give me strength...)

Though nothing effective, Ruth was relieved to touch the silver bracelet Alec gave him. I still don't think I should let this go when I take a bath.

Ruth took a small breath and stroked his head by moving to the front of Ed, who had one blue face in a hot tub that was supposed to be warm.

"Ed, I'm so sorry I made you suffer because I don't remember. But I'm always on Ed's side, and I can help... don't think I'm alone... because I think hard."

"Huh..."

Saying so and hugging my little body, I could see Ed taking his breath. My hand, which has been stopped for a while, goes around Ruth's back, and my fingers are forced to clasp.

I guess the truth is Ed can't wait to be scared, either. But you must be putting up with it.

"Ruth, I..."

"- Mr. Ruth, Mr. Ed, it's time for your meal. I'm sorry, thank you."

"Oh... Ha, ha!

Dorthe's voice echoes through the door and as Ed rocks his body like a bounce, he pushes Ruth all at once. And as I replied to Dorte's voice, I took a bath up like I was in a hurry and headed to the stripper.

Ruth, who was left alone, drops off the stripper door slammed shut.

"... Ed, you were growing taller again"

Ruth also went up from the hot tub to chase Ed while I thought so.