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

As the sunlight began to peek through the gap in the curtain, Ruth noticed a hand gently touching her forehead. The big hand scratches his hair sticking to his forehead and he strokes his cheek as it is. Ruth opened her thin eyes to try to concentrate on such a gentle touch that she could not feel unconscious.

What looks like a dim world is a golden glow. Alec's hair color can also be seen in his blurred vision of sleeping.

"I'll be back... don't get involved in anything dangerous, okay?

"Are you going? Hmm... Shit, look, I'll send it..."

When Ruth tries to move out of bed with Mozomozo, she is gently pressed back into the sheet by the forehead.

"Fine. Go to sleep. It's hard to get there when you're dropped off… Bye."

When I hear a residual Alec grunt, I can put something soft on my lips. At the same time, the signs on the side suddenly disappeared. The bed floats lightly and does not feel warm.

Ruth noticed it hurriedly getting up and looking for gold, but there was no one left in the room.

"Has he gone..."

When I look at the quiet room where Alec is gone, I realize I'm feeling lonely. I went back to bed laughing bitterly. Touch the warm sheets.

(You made me weaker too...)

At the beginning of Alec's journey, it was normal not to be around for a longer period of time, and even if he felt somewhat lonely, he could immediately think of something else and switch his head.

Yet, I've come to feel stronger and lonelier lately, seeing each other more often than before. My chest hurts when Alec goes and I feel myself in the room alone. I look for a golden glow with my eyes. I miss you soon enough.

(More like this, you have to wait for me to come home so dignified...)

I can't help but feel a little pitied for myself like that, although I know this is caused by the fact that I recognized Alec as a genuine favorite.

"Haa... I need to make sure you don't say anything weird."

Alec is sure that if Ruth goes to 'Don't Want Me To Go,' he could seriously stop going. This is by no means an exaggeration, but I used to get lost in blood, grabbing the hem of my clothes and saying, 'Are you going now?' Cause I just said it lightly, and Alec stopped trying to get to his people at all, and he'd eventually desperately kicked them out. You spoke for yourself, and later I reflected violently.

(This is an important time...)

I could tell from yesterday's remarks that now would be the time to follow a serious incident or something. There should be no interruption. Even as Ruth, I want Alec to prioritize his mission as a brave man.

But I feel that his consciousness is more strongly directed towards me. So I can never say anything rare. Ruth doesn't feel lonely, she doesn't feel pain, and when Alec returns, she just has to be welcome.

(It's a really funny story about a brave man leaving the front because of me...)

As Ruth, I want to take care of Alec's feelings, but I can't afford to be bothered on a global scale.

Ruth distracted her nausea.

"I can't help thinking of you as Gudagda, and let's get up now"

When I got out of bed, I opened the window. A pleasant breeze enters the room. It's still a little early to wake up, but it'll be just the right time to run some errands before the inn gets to work.

Check on the desk in the brightened room. When I saw no reply from Geo, I took the letter set I was buying from the village grocery store off the shelf.

"If you don't write back soon, there will be times when the next time will come."

The one I took out of the drawer was a letter I recently received. Four in all. They are all quite thick.

The correspondents of the letter are Maxim in the King's Capital, Kia in the Kingdom of Ziltania, Karen and Yuan in the village of Micana, and most recently Ed in the Land of the Spirit.

Recently there has been a very increased exchange of letters. With Alec returning directly, there have been fewer letters from him (not without letters), but a total of more.

Moreover, the timing of external letters to Hashi village is once every few weeks. Since they are often sent together by Wang Du, the relay point, they become busy because they will write back at the same time.

(Well, it's good because it's fun)

The exchange of letters continued pleasantly even in Ruth, who is never a mame, because everyone writes about how they are and about cities and villages they don't know. Basically, I refuse to give gifts, but during this time Kia has given me tea leaves grown in Ziltania, which I have come to accept if they are not somewhat expensive. While I wanted to return the favor one day, I thought that Alec would be consulted because the village doesn't have any sunny specialties.

Maxim seems very busy with more participants in his own workouts. However, thanks to my men, it seems that it has become easier to get around within the Knights, making them a little accommodating.

Kia seemed to have a headache because she was forced to sit in a political setting because she was serious about her studies. Thanks to the continued exchange of letters, the letters, which at first had a unique atmosphere, were now much prettier.

Karen seems to be in an error of thought as to whether she can increase the number of hot water demon squares that Alec received. He then told me that Yuan had started being a little hottie in the village because of his silent and worrying face. He seems to be losing interest in the opposite. Recently, the letter from Yuan was also often enclosed together. Decrypting Yuan's letter, which is very short and comes with difficult rhetoric like haiku, has also become more enjoyable lately.

Ed still seems to be struggling with magic control, but he's starting to muscle tread because he's getting taller. He smiles wondering if he has woken up to a physical modification.

They all come back to Hashi village one day and tell me they want to see Ruth. When Alec returns from his valiant journey and settles down, Ruth also wants to make the promised trip around the place. I want to see with this eye the city and the people who live in the land that I haven't seen yet.

"I hope that happens soon…………"

Ruth began writing replies for everyone as she moved her mind to imagine the future.

Marianne came to visit us that evening just before dinner time.

"Ah, Marianne. Could you have brought me a doll?

I thought it was time to go check on things, so it's just the right time. Instead, I don't even think I'm sorry I let Marianne come over without going this way.

Ruth approached Marianne as she spoke to her stopping at the inn entrance.

"Yeah, well, I talked to the customers, too, but I didn't talk about dropping the doll. I wonder who really dropped such a fine doll."

Ruth wasn't just waiting for the doll to fix either. I was hearing rumors around about dolls from people coming to the inn. Although unfortunately there was no such story, I heard a lot of strange suspicious stories for some reason.

(There were all these weird rumors about the cloth dolls coming in my arms, the earthlings spitting curse words, the plate armor running away, and the stuffed animals fishing the food pantry and eating meat...)

According to regular customers who told Ruth such stories, suspicions have recently become popular in Wang capital and nearby villages and towns. So when Ruth asks questions about the doll, he seems to have been taught all those rumors. Trying to cool off in a scary story when it's hot is no different in every world. Ruth also enjoyed listening because there were a few slightly unusual stories. I'm just going to keep my mouth shut because I might scare Marianne into telling this story.

"Ruth......"

"What's the matter?

Marianne grabbed the clothes on both arms as Ruth came to her side. He looks anxious and looks up slowly.

"Please, come to your room, Ruth"

"Eh?"

Ruth, who had no experience at all since her previous life, was sure for a moment that an anxious girl would tell her to 'come to the room'.

"Peek?"

"Really, I feel like someone's been looking at the room since yesterday, and I'm scared..."

Marianne puts her arms up to the cold as she says so.

She didn't come to the inn to deliver the doll. After a while when I got home yesterday, I felt a strange gaze all the time and became scared, and I wanted you to look for a reason for it.

I also talked to my father's village chief, but he just glanced at the room and said, "It's nothing," and he seemed to laugh with his nose and leave. I think I'll listen to a little more about my daughter, but that village chief can snort the action. Probably not.

Ruth was on his way to the village chief's house with Marianne, telling his parents that he would be back soon. I can't believe she's counting on me. There's been no expansion yet, just a little tension.

"Tiana...... what is Tiana the Spirit saying?

"That's right. It seems that Tiana is also feeling her gaze, but she is not yet good at exploring the causes. On the other hand, I'm afraid I won't be on the surface anymore."

"Uh..."

Tiana is a newborn spirit. When you become a superior spirit, you seem to have proper emotions compared to the spirits, and there could be behaviors such as' fear '. It still seems difficult for little Tiana to get rid of the reasons Marianne wants.

"Shall we check around first?

"Yeah, please."

Arriving in front of Marianne's house, Ruth and the others decided to check the perimeter of the house first.

The village chief's house is not as large as the Blau family, but it is larger than the average family in the village. Because there are a number of other unused rooms, such as the detached rooms that villagers use as meeting rooms.

It was overwhelmingly quieter than the Blau family, where there were always travellers, because only the village chief and his daughter Marianne lived there. Her mother died a long time ago, and Marianne has a sister, but she is not currently at home because she also married a young man who lives in another village a few years ago.

"There was nothing strange around the house."

I looked closely at how things were going, but there was no one around the house to worry about. It was beautifully mowed around Marianne's room, and there's no place for people to hide to peek in. It didn't seem particularly problematic.

"Ruth, it's getting dark, and will you check the house?

"Right."

Ruth and Marianne continued into the village chief's house.

I thought I'd tell the village chief why I came to say hello once, but according to Furney, who helped me, the village chief had an errand earlier and went to another house and said he might not be coming back today.

"Oh, so I'm alone at home today?

Marianne blued her face more and more. Furnie the helper goes by, so when it gets late, she goes back to her own house, and even if it's just a big house that isn't popular, she'd be scared to leave a message on her own, even though she's worried she might be being peeked at. Girls deserve it.

"Anyway, shall we take a look at the room?

"Please, Ruth"

Marianne leads me through to my room.

The pretty, girly room was surprisingly full of stuff. There are two chests in a large closet, a dresser on the bookshelf, a desk and a chair and a bed and lots of furniture in a room bigger than Ruth. They were all beautifully used and decorated with a uniform cloth.

"What do you say?

"Uh, oh, yeah"

Ruth, a little thrilled with the girl's room she entered for the first time and realizing she was staring into the room, rushes to start looking for a peeper. Ruth is a suspicious person if you keep looking at Girosilo.

While I get permission from Marianne, I open the door under the bed, in the closet, etc., to look for areas where people are likely to be hidden, etc., but there was no one there, and there's no sign of someone breaking in. There was no peephole on the wall. I also checked outside the window just in case, but there were no suspicious shadows or possible hiding places.

Then I stood still in the room for a while. Ruth is hunting, so he should be more sensitive to sounds and signs than Marianne, but he also didn't feel the kind of gaze someone was looking at him.

"Mm-hmm. There's nothing particularly weird about it, and I don't even feel like saying gaze."

"That can't be right."

Marianne walks into the room saying so.

(Oh, I'm coming in)

I was also curious to have Ruth in the room lightly, but it wouldn't be good if the girl before the dowry were to enter the room with a man her age at the time the sun was falling. But Marianne doesn't look like she cared at all.

(… well, you mean trusted)

As a man, it's complicated, but Ruth isn't at all willing to do anything to Marianne either, so I thought I'd not say anything extra. Maybe Marianne came all the way here to call Ruth, who is nothing else, because she doesn't have to worry about those things. If it was Colt, I'm sure this wouldn't be the case.

"... I don't know why, I sure don't feel it right now... but I'm not lying, until just now."

"I don't think Marianne's lying. Maybe he ran away knowing I was here."

"Well..."

Marianne looked horrified by Ruth's words. Maybe the village chief said something similar and suspected me. I can imagine that village chief would say.

"... oh, the doll's on the floor? I should have put it on my chest when I came out."

Marianne picked up the flor doll that was falling on the floor. It's a doll that Bird picked up in the woods yesterday during the day. Long threads abound at the ends. It had an atmosphere like sewing.

"That's what I was sewing for, thank you."

"It's a promise. But it's not finished yet, I'd like to finish it soon..."

Marianne looks at her surroundings as though they are good. I guess I'm really worried about that gaze and can't concentrate.

"Hmm, there is nothing unusual about this......"

I'd rather remove Marianne's anxiety than be relied upon, but I can't do anything about Ruth not knowing what caused it. But as it is, it's going to be the same response as the village chief. I want to avoid that as a dependant side.

"Ruth, what do I do? I don't have a father today... me"

Marianne looks up worried.

Ruth gets her inner nibble when she is stared up at by Marianne, a beautiful man who also contends for one or two in the village.

(Marianne, she's cute)

Ruth was honestly happy to be relied on by Marianne.

Anyway, it's Alec that Marianne has relied on so far, because Ruth has never had any of these experiences. Of course I've never had any experience of other girls relying on me like this. So I want to solve it for you if possible.

(As much as this, I hope you're happy, right?

Just because I started dating Alec doesn't mean I don't like girls anymore, and Ruth basically wants to protect women, so I'd love to be relied upon. I understand that if I let Alec see my face like this, he wouldn't know what he was going to say, but sometimes I should be able to jump my chest at the special feeling of "the girl depends on me”.

Of course, there's no weird implications for the emotion of being happy. Close to the joy of being rarely trusted by the sister of the firm. Compared to when I used to be made into an evil person, I get the feeling that my rating is a lot higher.

"Well, are you coming to us today?

"Ruth's house?

Marianne looks surprised. I didn't know what it meant to give him that look for a moment, but Ruth panicked and shook his hands left and right realizing why he was going to do it immediately.

"Oh, that doesn't mean anything weird!? Since the inn room is empty, it would be fine to rent it to Marianne for a night or so. Tell your mother, Father. There are many people in the inn, and aren't you more scared than you are here?

"Oh, you know what?... I don't know what to do, let me do that."

Marianne looked a little troubled while holding the Flor doll, but I guess she still couldn't beat the creeps in her gaze, she ended up coming to the Blau family.

Marianne, who came to the Blau family after leaving a note with the village chief, apparently decided to stay in a twin room with her mother Celine today. Celine also seemed concerned about Marianne's frightened appearance.

Marianne also seems to be planning on getting advice on how to sew a flor doll that she brought because of it, and she seems to be feeling closer to staying rather than evacuating, so she was having a little fun eating dinner.

(Good)

It looked frightening. It was Ruth who was happy that Marianne was back on track - but she couldn't laugh right away because of what happened after this.