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

When the sun was completely up, Ruth finally came down to the ground floor.

"It's always a really quiet day."

It was usually time to wake up, but every year after the Spirit Festival, the whole village doesn't function until after noon or so.

If you take a peek into the inn's kitchen, you won't usually see your parents working out. Neither the guests in the room nor the tent group in the back were getting up alone. Originally, the Blau family also told their customers that they could only serve meals from noon, so there is no problem.

(Alec said he was coming home again... but you're fine)

Alec, who returned to his companions some time ago, said he would only come to the village again. They care about the people in the church.

I wonder if it's ok to come and go so often, but it seems to be possible to use continuously at times like this because I usually accumulate considerable magic power in the magic stone.

"Whoa, that's just great - Ruth"

"Ah, Mr. Remias"

Remias appeared on the counter as Ruth was cleaning out the water drain he had left in the dining room for his drunken awakening. You should have been watching Ed at church yesterday, but was there something I needed to do?

"No, I'm leaving. So I was hoping to get you liquidated."

"Eh, already?

"Because I couldn't drink, Uncle. I can't help but spend some time in Goutala, and I just want to go home. Oh, yeah, Ed, you weren't conscious, but you had control, so you're okay now. Just in case, I've been moved to a different room, and I've been working on it so that no magic suction can occur."

"I'm sorry about that. Thank you for everything."

'You can do that, too, this man,' he tilted his neck as Ruth thanked Remius, who said he had been easy to apply.

"Yesterday, I thought," Why are you thanking Ruth? You don't have anything to do with that girl directly, do you? I'm not a brother or a family member. "

"Oh well, yes..."

Once again, I may not be in a position to thank you. Ruth is not Ed's guardian, and it's odd as a friend. It's only been two or three days since I met him in the first place.

"But... Ed looks solid, he's really so lonely, and I know about this one that he said he was strong... and when I saw him like that, I kind of couldn't leave him alone, and I felt like my brother on my own... and he'd come out of my mouth."

When Ruth grinned, Remius loosened his mouth slightly.

"Hmm. Yes. She's lonely... I didn't know that."

"Please don't tell me. If Ed finds out I think that way, he might get mad."

"I won't tell you. I mean, I'm going home without meeting him."

"... Are you sure you're leaving already? Thank you so much for taking care of Mr. Remias this time, and I'm sure not only Ed, but everyone would like to thank you."

"I don't want to be thanked, so I'm going home before everyone's awake. That's a pain in the ass."

Remius said it would be evening at best for everyone to wake up. He just came out because there seems to be no problem leaving the rest to the priest.

(Well, that's what some people do)

Ruth offered to discount the lodging fee for the help, but Remius didn't accept the change. Instead, he showed my father Rossa's special okal smoked meat and he was delighted. I guess I like alcohol as much as it looks.

As I pack the smoked meat in a cloth bag, Remias accidentally speaks up.

"Oh, yeah, Ruth, you dropped it when you searched for Ed, didn't you?

Coming out of Remias' nostalgia was a chunk of white cloth sewn halfway through with red strings.

"Doll! Well, I didn't put the doll on the altar in the first place!

This doesn't make the Spirit come to Ruth. Maybe it was also because he didn't come to Alec for the first time this year.

"Damn it, Ed-kun, I'm focused on searching. It's a waste."

Saying so, Remias gripped the piece of cloth he had powerfully. Put it forward so Ruth can see it, hide it backwards. When I raised my voice deliberately 'Huh', I started making weird moves like a magic show. As Ruth tilted her neck to see what would happen, a pong rang in her fist.

"What, what?

Ruth, give me both hands.

"Yes?"

Coming out of Remias' fist were two white spheres, with a red string and a geometric design. Much like the handkerchief of previous life. The size is very small about the first joint of the finger. Those two spheres were connected by knitted and thickened red strings.

"It's so beautiful... This is?

"My uncle made it out of cloth and strings earlier, hard work and awards and unfortunate awards"

"What is that............?

"Go ahead - there. Well... this is just gawa."

"Gawa?"

"Yes. Outside. It doesn't work like a guardian, but it's beautiful, right? I'll give it to you. You can wear it wherever you want, like a belt or something. It looks stylish."

"Outside?... Well, thank you anyway."

Ruth bracketed a red string around his belt, as he was told. It could look stylish just because it does have these decorations.

I guess Remius is surprisingly clever to turn an object that can't even be that doll into such a beautiful little thing. Don't you dare ask me how you did it. This man is anything.

"Well, I'm leaving now."

"Ah, yes. Take care. Come back next year! But don't forget to book!

"Yes, yes!

Remias left the village lightly with his hands in his back. Noisy people are gone and I just feel a little lonely.

My parents come down before noon and distribute lunch to customers who look dead after drinking too much. Some immediately set up villages, others relaxed for the day, and the inn was on purpose.

When the noise at noon finally subsided and the sky gradually turned red, signs of knowing appeared in Ruth's room where he was resting.

"Alec, hey............... you look like that again?

"Kww......"

Looking back, there was Alec, who became a Leion tribe again. According to the letter I had, I had to do the art of change again, and it seemed that I was dissatisfied but again to this appearance. They can't get it back to normal for a few days.

Head to church with Alec, who became a Leion tribe. Thanks to his different appearance, there was no one to make a scene when he saw Alec. It can be said that it is very useful in that sense.

Inside the church, there were four people who had already regained consciousness, as well as a priest, and a village chief.

"Oh, you came. Alec, Ruth."

"Alec?"

The village chief frowns when he sees Alec in the Leion tribe called for by the priest, but he doesn't seem to suspect that he was already listening.

"Don't give everyone too much extra excitement."

"Stimulus?"

When Ruth raised his voice of doubt, the priest taught me.

"Apparently, the four of them don't remember what happened during the disappearance. So in order not to cause unnecessary confusion, I thought we should just say that we were falling in the mountains."

"Oh, I see. Well, then, yes."

In fact, I haven't even told the priest anything familiar. It's just that Ruth was caught in a weird place with them, but he managed to escape and with Alec's help, he was able to defeat his opponent.

But if you don't remember at all, he decided that it would be better to say, "We found Ruth and Alec." Sure, the extra information just confuses you, so you shouldn't tell me.

"Ruth, Alec, you found Chester falling in the mountains! Thank you so much!"

"Thank you, both of you. I haven't remembered anything since I walked into the mountains, but I'm glad you guys found me safe!

That kind of Chester and Beverly were snuggling in amicably. I don't even seem to remember getting cocked. Beverly's complexion is also very good. They followed the church when they spoke to the village chief and the priest. It seems easy to slow down at home for a while.

"I didn't think my goddaughter would help me."

Looking back, Iban was just getting up. He remembered properly that Ruth was the goddaughter of the hunt. There is no Iban, no physical discomfort, on the contrary, a grand attitude that I do not believe was missing. Daniel's mother looks troubled on the side.

"Father-in-law, I need to thank you both"

"............ thank goodness"

"No. I'm glad you look well, Grandpa Iban."

"Gaw."

"Hun."

Iban looks uncomfortable and squeals his nose. I'm sure I can't help but be ashamed that I fell in the mountains and was discovered by my goddaughter. But I think you should refrain from being impotent on this occasion.

"I don't remember falling, I'm sure this is a god hide! Yes!"

When I heard a noisy voice and looked back, it was the young liner with blue hair that was stuffing the village chief and the priest. I didn't realize it when I was in butler clothes, but Ruth looked familiar in the hat that was in his hand.

(Ah, that guy, the one who gave Mr. Remias a reservation for the inn)

Despite his reservations, Reiner was a weirdo man who made some kind of bargain with Remias and gave him the right to stay at the inn.

He was excited to hear that he suspected he might have encountered divine concealment.

When I notice Ruth and the others, I take the pen and notepad out of my nostalgia and come closer.

"You're the young men who helped me! Where have I been? Could it be in the mountains!? But, you know, that's crazy. I was about to ask about the village from the high ground. I have no memory of entering the mountain. Instead, it was here when I realized it was wrapped in fog. So I'm really curious that he was fainting in the mountains."

While I thought the tension was different from when we met over there, Ruth said, 'What do you want to do?' and send a gaze to the village chief. The village chief looked stern and shook his head. I'm sure it involves the honor of the village, so I don't think you want me to say anything about hiding God.

When Ruth was thinking of 'how to delude', he heard an unexpected voice.

"- Is it true that God Hidden?

It was Benno and Dorte, who had lost their place, who raised their voices. They look anxious and hold hands.

I didn't know because I was in uniform when I was over there, but when I tried this, I'm not uncomfortable at all when they say I'm a normal villager and a couple.

Benno turned to the village chief.

"Actually, from earlier on, we have some concerns too... you said you were the village chief of Hashi Village, right?

"Yes..."

"… I am also the village chief of Hashi village"

"Huh!?

Surprising voices are raised by the village chief and the priest.

Benno talked about when he was the village chief, but both the village chief and the priest looked surprised. The stories told from his mouth were due to the magnitude of the demonic hunting damage and the harshness of the sunshine in the fields, which made it easier to live in today's village thanks to Alec, because there were many unlikely parts.

I suspect you're out of your mind. The current village chief and Benno, who claims to be the village chief of Hashi village. It was when the two of us had subtle air and the place went bad.

"- I don't think the man's lying, village chief."

"Are you………?

"Don't you see, Benno? … Iban Golas."

"Iban Golas...... Could it be Iban, the best fierce hunter in the Golas family!?

"Stop that name."

Iban stopped by Benno's side when he rang his nose. No matter how you look at them, they are about the same age as their parents and children, but their eyes were on friends their age.

"You're old, Iban... why are you so old?"

"You're too young, Benno. You look exactly the same as you did when you disappeared, more than twenty years ago. What happened to you?

"Missing? Twenty years? Uh... well, um... you're lying, aren't you?

"True. I'm nearly seventy years old."

"Seventy..."

Benno and Dorte looked incredible, but in the story of Iban afterwards, they seemed convinced that they were being treated as missing twenty years ago. If a friend who used to be your age looks old, and they hear you're even an adult grandson, you just have to believe it. The village chief also heard about Iban and he finally remembered the story of the former village chief.

(I knew these two were a couple of village chiefs who were said to have disappeared twenty years ago...)

Benno sat in the simple bed like he was exhausted.

It had been twenty years since I finally got back. Fewer friends and acquaintances, some of whom are dead. Moreover, there is no place for another human being on the village chief's throne. There are no more top spirits to protect me. No one will ever be discouraged by this.

It was Dorte listening on the side who spoke to Benno like that.

"... but you, strangely enough, I'm fine. It doesn't hurt anywhere."

"Is that true, Dorte?

"What do you mean?

When Ruth snaps her mouth, Dorte looks a little happy.

"I was freaked out by the devil at the time. Doctors and clerics in Wang Du were also told that there was no prospect of healing. But now, the body that was so painful is so light. You can breathe, and you can't flutter when you're up."

Dorte stood up on the spot and jumped a little to show. The figure looked so solid that I didn't think the devil was crazy about it.

"Oh, Dorte......... I'm glad!

I hugged her like Benno was thrilled. He seemed happy that his wife was feeling better, though he had been disappeared for twenty years and lost his place.

(... Could it be that Mr. Natasha held him for twenty years, so his body healed the other way around?

Natasha shouldn't have imitated killing the body. Then they must have used magic to send something that would be vital to keep Ruth's body alive. The magic led to the treatment of her body, which was ill. - Given that her witchcraft was quite special, I'm pretty sure she had great talent. It's no surprise that healing techniques more suitable for treatment than clerics can be used.

"Excellent, twenty years!

It was the liner who was on the side and listening to the notebook with one hand that broke the air full of despair and slight joy. When he approached the couple, he asked for a handshake.

"You two should definitely make that experience an article!

"Ki, article?

"That's right. After twenty years of missing and coming back, it's a strange experience that illness is healing, not something anyone can do. It must interest people! And then one day I'll put it in one book and put it in a book... Oh, I'm late. I'm like this..."

Liner offered them something like a business card. Peeping into the paper in Benno's hands, it says there the president of Wang Du Newspaper.

"The headquarters is in the center of the Wang capital, and I would have left local coverage to my men, but this time it is a festival in the village of Hashi, said to be the secret border of the Kingdom of Deodart, so I definitely came to want to make it an article myself. Tent living and foggy villages were lovely. But the experience between the two of you is much more appealing than the annual festival. Make sure it's a feature of my newspaper."

"- Is that what happened?"

It wasn't the usual grumpy face that interrupted the conversation between the three of them, but the village chief with a creepy smile.

"Mr. Reiner, if that's what you mean, it's going to be a long time, so why don't you talk to me at my house, not at the church?

"Can you offer me a place, that's good! Please do. Oh, could we have a meal if we can, on an empty stomach..."

"Of course it is. Think about the future while everyone eats. Both of you, please."

"Yes, sir"

That's how the village chief took Benno, Dorte and Reiner out. It suddenly quiets down like a storm has left.

(Oh, you're the same, village chief......)

Reiner finds out that he is the president of a newspaper in the Wang capital. No, he changes his attitude and is impressed by the village chief who started moving to his territory. I'm sure you're thinking of getting a good article written for the village.

Iban was just as frightened as Ruth was, and when he snorted with Hung, he took Daniel's mother, who was picking him up, out of the church. It was the usual smile to the priest.