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

(Oh this is what you mean you can't get away with......)

The movement of the Shadow Demon was not, from what I've just seen, brilliant. Ruth is also good at getting rid of signs faster legs than the average person, thanks to his usual run through the mountains. So I thought I could get around the mansion and buy some time. And I also wondered why the Ruth and his predecessors didn't keep running from the demons.

But the answer was simple.

(These guys use the so-called “warp” rather than the transfer technique...)

This demon probably has the ability to travel short distances instantaneously, not the transfer technique that travels long distances like Alec does.

I never heard of such a technique from Alec, nor did he look like he was mastering it himself, but it's not strange to have such magic because the world is wide. Or is it a demon-specific ability?

(I never thought a power-shaped demon would use it... but maybe this demon is pretty high ranked)

The strongest demon Bal near Hashi village is the B-rank of physics specialization, but if you ask Alec, he says Bal is pretty inferior among the B-ranks.

I do send out a shocker just by waving my arms down, I can quickly locate the person I want, and at the end of the giving, I'm inferior to demons that come as short range warps. Or I have to think it's an anomaly.

The demon walked out step by step. That eye only captures Ruth.

"Ed, go far while I'm attracted -"

"Oh, I'm closer to Ruth than this!

But the moment I tried to hang my voice as I turned forward, Ed, who was behind me, popped out in front of Ruth.

Ed, who sticks his right hand out to the side, runs out toward the demon with some kind of spell. Ed had a large sphere of flame in his hand.

[Flame, bake it!

As Ed responded to his words, the sphere of flames flew towards the demons of the shadows.

The flame surrounds the demon and changes the color to white so as to increase the temperature. When it gets hot enough to change to a white color, even demons can't be safe. This alone raises questions about Ed's abilities to witchcraft and the height of his magic.

Besides, Alec was concerned about burning the trees around him, and using fire attribute magic in the mountains didn't raise the temperature that much, but still a C-rank demon could have defeated him with a single blow. So it should have done a lot of damage to the Shadow Demon as well.

"Huh, disappeared!?

"Damn, why always!

The ball of white light emitted by Ed seemed to attach around the Shadow Demon for a moment, but soon disappeared.

Of course, the demons don't look damaged, and they won't stop approaching Ruth.

(This demon, it's not that magic works poorly, isn't it?... but for that, that was a little weird right now)

The way the flames went out that didn't work was weird. Magic doesn't work, it's bounced, it's not like that.

(Somehow, that was... like when I dropped an arrow and missed magic and disappeared...)

In addition to the instruction/tracking formula used by Ed now, there are other types of magic, such as range designation formulas.

It is commonly used to fly to or track the direction, substance, or location designated by the operator through instruction and tracking.

In contrast, the range designation formula pre-specifies the substance or place where the magic trick is to be carried out and activates it there. I also use this method to magically enhance the arrow butts and knives that Ruth often uses. Because the magic power needs to be overwhelmingly low thanks to specifying the range.

However, this range designation formula has drawbacks. It will disappear if the specified item does not exist in the specified location.

Ruth knew this phenomenon because he had dropped the arrow in his hand in an attempt to do the trick and had made the magic disappear several times.

(Ed's magic nowadays is instructional. I should have instructed you to fly to the demon. That's why flames appeared around the demons. Yet without exerting his powers, he suddenly disappeared like I did when I missed the procedure on my arrow butt... What's this all about?

I try to sort out what happened in front of me, but while I was thinking about it, things were changing.

"This!"

He unleashed some sorcery and everything disappeared, so Ed, who gave up his sorcery attacks, now flies on the leg of the demon.

"Ed, get away!

I guess I'm trying to use my entire weight to stop my behavior, but in my body's little Ed, he was swung away as if it wouldn't even interfere with the demon's behavior.

"Ruth, run while you can! This, stop! Stay away from Ruth!

Ed hits him with his opposite arm as he clings to the demon.

From earlier on, if you try Ed, who has always had a lot of grown-up behavior, it's just an attack that won't think much further. But maybe that's proof that I'm in such a hurry.

And you were annoyed by Ed's behavior like that, a demon who didn't respond at all in magic put him in sight clinging to his legs.

I can see you shaking up your arms, and the feeling of zombies and disgust rushes through.

"Ed, run!

"Ugh!

And Bachin, and Ed, who made a noise, and was paid into the hand of the demon, flew towards Ruth.

The small body rolls down the hallway and does not move while falling. A demon waves up his hand at that Ed again.

Ruth flied out in front of Ed.

"-!"

He was slapped in the face with his big hand and blown away by his body. It crashes straight into the wall on the right and collapses as it wraps around the decorative vase that was kept nearby.

"Uhhhhhh...!

Severe shaking in the head due to the impact and pain spreading like a mutilation on the left side of the face. He also complained of severe pain that made his body groan because of a hard blow to his back.

(Even though it didn't look like it was much of a force, it's very powerful...)

He had difficulty breathing and had severe pain in his nose and teeth. Something hard rolled in my mouth that I didn't remember, spitting it out. The pain so far could be both broken.

"To Ruth, what, do!

As he raised his face in pain, Ed waved his fist up again at the demon who was turning his body toward Ruth.

Ed seemed unconscious for a moment due to the slapped shock, but did not appear to have suffered any major injuries. Maybe I could have avoided it successfully.

Such a demon turns around Ed again.

Ruth raised one hand to the demon in pain, having a bad feeling about the way it was going again.

"- Shit! All right, all right, so, no more hands on that kid! Your purpose is mine!

Ruth took one bet.

(If my imagination fits, this way, it shouldn't harm Ed)

I still scream desperately trying to get the demon's attention while the words don't go on well due to the pain in my face and teeth. If you look at your body, the arms you should have lifted will not lift higher than your shoulders. Must have come off or broken.

"Ru, Ruth!? Tell me what!?

"Look at me, it's me, I'm talking. Listen to me, follow me honestly, so don't. You don't want any extra work, do you?

Ruth manages to wake up her body as she ignores Ed and speaks to the demon.

(Whether or not you are expecting me......!

Feeling like praying, move your body that doesn't help you say it in pain like your whole body has fallen apart. And I managed to catch my breath as it was and slowly rose up.

Raise your hands to tell them you are unwilling to attack while avoiding the vase that was rolling.

"Look, your purpose is to get me to the front door, right? Let's go."

Ruth starts walking to the front door jostling with back pain - then the demon who was watching Ruth's behavior without moving started walking slowly as if to follow it.

Seeing that, Ruth relieved herself. Apparently, he won the bet.

"The demon understood the words………?

"Ed, are you okay? Can you stand?"

"Ha, yes!

When I asked Ed, who shrugged, not turning around, I heard footsteps rushing from behind to Ruth's side.

Ed, who kept stopping by, is relieved that he entered the edge of Ruth's vision. Running at all seems less damaging than possible.

But Ed's face, which was confusing, peered into Ruth's face and gave him a sad look.

"Ah... Oh, I'm sorry, Ruth. Because I jumped on him..."

Ed glances at the demons walking behind Ruth and the others.

"You don't have to apologize, Ed tried to protect me, did you? Rather thank you."

"But... if I hadn't acted like that... it would have hurt like that..."

Seeing what Ruth looked like, he had a cold head, and he grinned bitterly at Ed, who was completely depressed. So now Ruth's face is going to be terrible.

Sure, Ed might not have been hurt if he hadn't jumped, but it was the result of his desperate efforts to keep him away from Ruth. Instead, if Ed hadn't jumped, Ruth might have attacked himself and fitted in with a worse counterattack. Either way, I'm not willing to hunt down Ed with a sad look on his face.

Not all bad for that. Thanks to Ed for launching the attack, there were a lot of things I figured out. It shouldn't be in vain that you were injured.

"My face, that bad? Could it be nosebleeds drooling, bleeding out of your mouth, besides facial deformity?

"No, there's no blood at all. But... my face looks very sore and swollen."

"Oh, really?

From the pain in his nose and mouth, I thought that he was bleeding just because he had no sensation, but Ed said the swelling was terrible, but he didn't bleed.

Looking down at Ed as he was feeling weird about it, he looked like he was hurting his arm, but there seemed to be no other trauma.

"Is Ed just an arm? Anything else hurt? You think you can fix it with your own technique?

"The magic is on the bottom, the cure is... but my injury is fine. My legs are also slightly sore, but I'm just a little scratched and I'm not bleeding."

"... yes, what is it?

Ruth sends his gaze to Ed's leg, but he can't really change the angle of his face, even though the moonlight is on him. It just didn't really look like there was any blood.

(Something... isn't that weird?

As I walked forward with doubts, I could see Ed looking back small.

"Ruth, why is he following us so hard?" Actually, does the word make sense, or did you use some special technique, or something like that?

"Oh, no. The words won't make sense, and I'm not using any technique.... I just realized what they were up to."

"... What do you mean?

Ruth had just seen from upstairs that Dorte had been brought to the demon alive, and that she had been killed as soon as any action had been taken, and realized one possibility.

"This demon wasn't meant to kill us, it was meant to take the target into the dark."