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

Tiana's fall down the stairs was soon to be known by all the humans in the mansion who had rushed after Ruth.

"Tiana, Tiana! Ahhh!"

Next to the disturbing Dickhout, Benno was in a hurry to try to resuscitate Tiana, but it seems it was already too late for her to move again.

In Benno's view, Tiana seems to have stepped on the hem of the dress she was wearing and rolled down the stairs.

It was a staircase without a lot of steps from an adult, but I guess it was tall enough for the little Tiana. He also punched his head into the corner of the stairs when he fell. He said that the broken neck was fatal and that he died instantly. Whoever it is, it's a complete accident.

But Dickhout's mourning was considerable, and he panicked and was nowhere near giving instructions calmly. You lost your beloved only daughter, so it's natural.

That's why Benno partitioned the scene for me. Dickhout was supported by Chester and Iban and taken to his bedroom. He also instructed the grumpy Dorthe to take Ruth and the others to the guest room, where he himself had been subjected to Tiana's treatment.

"Sorry......"

Ruth and the others, who were sent back to the room, were told not to go out any further this evening because they would be a little busy. If I get breakfast in my room the next morning, I might ask him to leave. Surely in that look at Dickhout, it won't be possible to say hello to Ruth and the others tomorrow.

Dragging his legs, Dorte left the room, putting down the original clothes of the washed Ruth and the others with a blue-white face that seemed sorry.

Ruth could just as well snort at Dorte, who is shocked by the loss of the lady she cherished. Instead, we felt sorry that we even cared about our own breakfast until this time.

(I'd like to say something to you... but don't let it get you down, or I'm sorry, or you're not even in a position to say that...)

The precious only daughter of the mansion, who lived until earlier, had suddenly died, and everyone had lost their words in shock. Benno, who seemed to be moving with tequila, also looked blue and white, so I guess he's moving with his heart killed, too.

I knew all the residents of the mansion cared about Tiana, so Ruth didn't know what to say until the end.

Sitting on the couch, he sighed deeply.

"... I wonder if I would have made it if I'd gone straight after you... Tiana"

I don't think I can help talking about it if I do, but if Ruth was chasing Tiana straight then, I wonder if I could have prevented her from falling.

I was just so shocked to hear the little one die in front of me earlier. I couldn't help but wonder if I could do something.

"……………… Ruth. It's not Ruth's fault, if I could have done better."

As Ruth raised her face to that voice, Ed, with a sunken look, sat next to her.

His appearance looked like he was over ten again. But Ruth can't afford to worry about it right now.

"What's the meaning of this?

"Tiana………… gets involved in some kind of accident in a different pattern every time"

"Every time?"

Ed said it seemed like three times before that I had fallen down the stairs like this one. And they say it's all dead.

Others said he had jumped out of the mansion and gone missing, died unexplained in the first place, or died suspiciously in the garden outside.

(Why do you keep doing that to Tiana?... but yeah, Tiana goes back to being healthy “if you repeat it”)

I know I shouldn't be happy with the recurring situation, but I felt that the pain of my little one's death was slightly alleviated when I thought that if time went back to normal I would see her healthy.

If Ruth and the others do something about it, they should be able to create a future in which she will not die in an accident or the people of the Mansion will mourn.

"But I couldn't stop her from acting even this time I knew.... I can't believe you jumped out of the dining room at that time... it was slower before. So by then we were going to talk a lot and keep her from jumping out of the cafeteria."

Tiana's death/incident occurs every time, but Ed doesn't even know the signs that the technique of stopping it will start.

There seems to have been a reason to keep chasing her from happening before she knew it.

"Once, her death lasted, so I took forceful action to go to my room and monitor her to keep her from dying.... It's just that sometimes she's my only daughter, and when she doesn't really ignore what Mr. Benno or Mr. Dorte have to say, or when Tiana shouts at me in the first place and she hates me, I get suspicious... and once I'm in my room, I get the key, and sometimes I can't get out to dinner"

Ed seems to think that something might have happened outside because there was still some noisy time outside the room. Ruth and I just couldn't get out of the room until the end, so they didn't know what happened.

Because of that experience, Ed realized that his behavior seemed suspicious to others, and said he refrained from moving to a range that would not fit in the 'whimsical behavior of the child'.

(Well, time is repeating itself, what a story, even if I talk to the people in this mansion, they don't seem to take it honestly......)

There is a way for Ed to not only tell Ruth, but also tell the people at the mansion everything to prevent accidents. But that should only happen if you have faith in Ed.

In Ed alone, a position of "children who have visited the mansion by chance”, it must be difficult to persuade everyone, including adults. No, I'm not sure even Ruth can convince me.

Especially when you say "time is repeating itself", it's quite likely that you think you're out of your mind. If that happens, they'll kick you out at the worst.

Ruth believes in Ed's story because he trusts him, but because he knew there was a story of these conditions thanks to his knowledge in his previous life. If I didn't know anything, I might not even have understood what you were talking about.

"You did say you never went into the mansion, didn't you? Did something happen to Tiana then, too?

"I don't know that. However, both times I tried to reveal the night by moving around the mansion and the woods, I felt the mansion was noisy…"

"Hmm. You mean there could have been..."

As Ed and Ruth had said before, it seemed that the case concerning Tiana accounted for a large proportion of this mansion.

Again, if we don't do something about her, maybe this repetition won't end.

(Still, don't bother that things change every time... uh, three times I fell down the stairs, including this one, one time I flew out of the mansion, one time I stopped coming out of my own room, one time I died suspiciously outside, one time I couldn't get out of the room, two times I didn't get into the mansion... that one, what's the other time?

"Ed, what happened to Tiana the other time?

As Ruth asked, Ed stretched his face and body hard.

Even when Tiana died earlier, she didn't react that far, so it seems so unpleasant. But when Ruth waited silently, he eventually opened his mouth.

"............... Actually, I told Ruth everything before I went into the mansion last time. What I'm repeating, what I'm saying about Tiana... then..."

"What if I do?"

"………………… Ruth fell down the stairs sheltering Tiana"

"Huh..."

I saw a bouquet of water boiling up in Ed's eyes.

"Yes, there was nothing else in my life, so, but was it a bad beating, because of Ruth's........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"Is it moving, what... Huh?

Ruth said, "I can't stand up, I can't walk... I don't feel pain in my legs, I don't feel it... I can only lie in bed."

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Ruth got cold on her spine when she heard the story and accidentally stared at her own legs again.

Ed tried to cure Ruth's legs by magic, but said he couldn't. It also seems to be the reason that healing techniques are not good at what they can be used in the first place, but if magic works badly after this repetition, they don't seem to handle it well.

"Oh, that's when Ruth said, 'It's not Ed's fault,' but whatever you think, because I said something extra, Ruth said, uh... I'm sorry, Ruth. I didn't tell Ruth I was going to hurt her. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."

"Ed, don't apologize for what I did on my own,...... Oh, and, you know, my legs are nothing right now. You were walking fine, weren't you? Ed doesn't have to feel responsible right now."

When Ruth shook her legs and showed her to move freely, even Ed's voice moistened for some reason and breathed faster. Ed, who was looking a little bigger earlier, becomes a little kid again. Apparently, he failed to encourage it.

"This time I will protect Ruth..."

"Ed......"

Seeing tears flooded out of his sparkling silver eyes, the troubled Ruth accidentally held its head.

It's too painful to see Ed eating up his teeth and spilling tears as he shows his body's much unsuitable calmness and head spinning. Just because of it, the shock of the story that my lower body stopped moving faded.

(Uh, this is totally Ed's trauma...)

I'm sure Ruth was just trying to help Tiana without much thought, but it would be natural for Ed to be shocked to see her suffer a major injury. Even Ruth would be shocked if Ed got hurt badly in that situation.

(So did Ed frequently say 'protect'...)

He frequently told Ruth that he would protect him, and he often clouded his words about what was ahead because “the worst that could have happened after I told him everything”.

I'm sure you think it's because you said something extra. If you don't want to do the same thing again, it's natural that your mouth gets heavy.

"Ed. Thank you for trying to protect me. But it's okay now, right?

Slowly stroking Ed's head, which was rough on his breath, he lost his strength from his shoulder. Ed leaned on me as I was, so I decided to stroke my back so I could calm down.

(Hmm - finally figured out what happened last time...)

But it also made it harder to ask Ed any more. Because I realized that if I asked the wrong question, Ed might feel blamed.

Plus after ten repetitions alone, Ed seems more mentally exhausted than he looks.

(Ha...... but glad it happened in the repetition......)

At present, Ruth's legs are nothing. I can run normally, and I'm not even in pain.

Based on that, apparently, this phenomenon that is happening right now will erase memories as well as undo all the damage done to the body, etc.

(From what I've heard about Ed, it looks like Tiana has a good chance of dying... naturally speaking... I guess when I go back to my old world, I have to make sure no one's hurt........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

If you are injured, you will not have to know, and there will be no magic to revive you until death. Even if it did, I don't think it could be used ten times.

Then, when it is said to be repeated now, it would be reasonable to assume that "time is unwinding” - but that much thought led Ruth to realize one weird thing.

(Ed was supposed to be holding hands when he visited the mansion, but when he noticed, he was in the front, right?

Assuming time rolls back and Ed is the only one holding previous memories, the original standing position (starting point) should remain unchanged.

But at that time Ed came running from the front of Ruth, even though he was walking hand in hand until a moment ago.

(... what is this all about? Doesn't that mean you're rewinding?

Ruth no longer really understood the situation in which he was placed. What the hell are we doing on our original timeline?

But no matter how troubling, it's hard to get to that answer at the moment for Ruth, who doesn't have nine memories, Ed said.

(In the first place, why is this happening... I knew it would be the fog that covered that village)

A fog that lasted rarely during the warm season. Two missing persons left, and then Ruth and the others walked down the mountain road in mist, and they reached this mansion, which they did not recognize. I don't think that fog has anything to do with what's going on right now.

(Wonok also said 'perilous' or something... I totally forgot about Ed, but I should have been more alert to the fog)

But even if I say that now, nothing will happen. You should put the reflection behind you and ask Ed what he will do in the future.

"Ed, so after this, what... is that? Ed?"

I speak to my dear Ed from earlier, but he doesn't reply.

Touching his leaning body and moving slowly, there was Ed, who meditated on his eyes and slept while leaving tear marks.