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

When he put the flor doll in the box, Ruth, hurriedly dressed, headed to the priest of the church.

"- Father, can you be devilish!?

Guided by Esther, who was helping the church, Ruth arrived at the priest's office and asked the greeting there as well.

The priest looked surprised at Ruth, who looked unusual, but still giggles at me.

"Is it Akmabalai? What would that look like? Is that a nasty cure?

"Ah, wouldn't you say devilish...... is it possible to break the curse on the doll?

"Oh, you mean the curse. Absolutely."

Ruth appeased to the priest's gentle smile.

He said that, basically, sermons, prayers, etc. are his main roles as a priest, but he also says that he must learn to curse them. He says the priest is powerful enough to use healing techniques, so he can also decurse them.

"What would be a doll?

"It was this..."

Ruth gently takes the example flor doll out of the box as she pulls her face apart.

The priest tilted his neck slightly when he saw the Flor doll.

"Isn't this doll the drop the Birds picked up a few days ago?

"That's right..."

Ruth told me what happened at the inn, thinking she couldn't hide anything more than having it decursed. I will also tell you that it is not always true because there is no definitive evidence, only my guess.

"Dolls don't break because you've cursed them, do they?

"Depending on the circumstances, I can't say it's absolute... I just saw that this doll doesn't have a curse on it."

"Huh? Is this, are you not cursed!?

"Yep..."

The priest stared closely at the puppet that had gotten wet, but shook his head again. Ruth has no idea, but he says this doll doesn't have the kind of magic.

(Like maybe the Flor Puppet Clan line is hitting?

You should ask that, too.

"Father, let me ask you one weird question...... does there exist in this world a flor doll race...... or a race with a doll-like appearance?

"A species with a doll-like appearance?... like this flor doll?

"Yes."

If it wasn't a curse, this possibility was all I could think about anymore. I questioned Ruth talking and asking questions like this but still not moving, but I can't think of any other reason.

But what a shame to hear from the priest.

"I meant to study quite a bit when I was younger...... you've never heard of a race that looked like a doll. There seems to be a rare occurrence of spirits pranking dolls... but that's a miraculous odds story, like at the Spirit Festival, and I've never heard of eating human meals on their own or fishing for a food bin"

"Yep..."

Ruth uttered a powerless voice.

If it's not a curse doll and it's not a race, what the hell is this doll?

"Ruth,... I don't really want to do this, but is there any chance you might be overthinking it"

"Ah..."

As for Ruth, I'd like to argue that 'that's not true', but when they say 'then what is it', nothing comes to mind.

Even if the priest is convinced of the unnaturalness of listening to Ruth, he will have no choice but to say so.

If we insist here, we can't find a solution either way. Evidence of proof also remains only in Ruth's head in the first place.

"You seem tired too, why don't you go home and rest for once? There's a neighborhood under your eyes. If you look like that, Alec will be worried."

"What, did you have a neighborhood?

I did have a bad dream these days because of the doll and I didn't feel like I was sleeping properly. I feel intensely tired mentally because of it. People knew well in previous life experience that when fatigue accumulated, they couldn't think things right.

"… So, Ruth. What about this kind of thing?

"What do you mean, sir?

"Let's keep this doll with me until the Blau family thief case is solved"

"Eh, is that good?

"Yeah, I don't mind. Then you'll get some sleep, too. Just look for the owner."

"Of course."

When Ruth replied, the priest smiled gently. There seems to be a backlight on that figure.

(After all, the priest is a good man!

The priest shouldn't know if Ruth's story is a conjecture or a fact, but he says he cares about what's bothering him and helps. I really would have to say that the priest is a connoisseur of the priesthood.

"Father, there's a patient again"

"That's a lot since yesterday. So, Ruth, excuse me, just..."

"Ah, Yes. Thank you!

The priest was summoned by Esther to leave the office. He said 'patient', so I guess someone came to ask the priest to heal him.

(Will I go home again……)

Ruth puts the Flor doll on the spot and holds only the box to the room.

When I went out into the hallway, there was a line of people next to the room I was using as a clinic. Everyone seems to sleep, while keeping their heads and arms in check. Some were holding their feet back with a bloody cloth.

"Good morning, everyone. What's the matter with all of them?

"Um, is that Ruth?

When Ruth called out by the vicinity, the people in line turned around looking tired.

During the Spirit Festival, Ruth's story of helping the missing villagers spread, or they were a little cold-eyed before, too, and now they react normally. The more you speak like this, the more you get back to me.

"I had a bad dream, I was boggling in the morning and I hit my head, by the way."

"Uh, I'm the same. Drop your foot on the dob and kneel."

"Me too. Give me your elbow."

They all fluttered their feet from lack of sleep and got hurt somewhere.

(Speaking of which, my father and mother seemed a little sleepy too......)

I almost forgot because of the food bank incident, but Rosa and Celine, not just Ruth, seemed sleeper than usual.

He says the hard season has passed, but he's falling asleep all over the village.

(No way, Flor doll curse...... no, the priest said there was no curse. Yeah, let's not because you can't even think about it)

Ruth first decided to return to the inn after finding out the cause and greeting them.

But when I try to keep going down the hallway, a tall man just comes out of the office.

"That, Daniel?

"Ru, Ruth!? Gohon… What's wrong, you're here"

He was Daniel, who brightened his face for a moment, but when he looked behind Ruth, he coughed deliberately before turning into a serious face. I hear a little laughing from around me. But it didn't feel bad, it sounded like a voice with a smiling sight. Was Daniel's expression interesting?

"I have business with the priest and I've been talking to him since morning. What's wrong with Daniel?

"Oh, I need to talk to you, too, hey, hey."

"In the office?

"No. Uh... the..."

Daniel replies to a number of questions. I am trying to deceive you, but I understand, so when Ruth put in the scratch, it bothered me for some reason.

"… Ugly on Ruth…… but, let me worry… Chance…… Grr, what am I supposed to do?

I laugh bitterly at Daniel, who seems to be seriously worried about bumps.

I'm sure he was injured and came to the priest, but it would be embarrassing for a friend to know how that was going. If you're a young man of this age, you don't know what it's like to look good.

Ruth and Daniel went outside the church because talking in the narrow hallway would get in the way.

Daniel seems to be heading straight to the village chief's house because of Marianne's change of perimeter security. Ruth also decided to accompany her because she was concerned about her condition. I decide to let the box remain in the church once.

Daniel asked me a question when I noticed Ruth's hair was damp for the purpose, but for now I misled him with a bitter laugh and changed the subject.

"Yeah, well, it's like everyone in line over there is having weird dreams. I wonder what's wrong?

"Dreams?"

On the road to the village chief's house, I tell Daniel what I heard from the people who were lining up earlier.

"… I see. We're all getting distracted by the lack of sleep."

"That's right. I can't think about it because I'm sleepy, and my father and mother seemed sleepless, and speaking of which, Daniel and Fritz said that yesterday, right?

"Ah? Uh, sure. Fritz said that."

I don't admit to myself for some reason. To Daniel, Ruth felt he could see why he was coming to church. I'm sure, like the others who were lining up in the hallway, they were flustered with lack of sleep and slipped their feet off the stairs and fell, or something.

If you look closely, you've been mopping your elbows since earlier, and it wouldn't be a strong or wrong imagination. It sounds like Daniel from Tundele. You seem safe with no sequelae, and you should keep your mouth shut here as a friend. I'm sure it's embarrassing.

When I arrived at the village chief's house as I spoke to the public, there was Marianne, who looked very well, and Colt, who was desperately speaking to her, a fritz who looked in a bad mood. I hear Colt and Fritz were hitting Marianne's guard last night.

"Good morning, Marianne. How was yesterday?

"Ah, Ruth, good morning. That's right, I was perfectly fine. I didn't even feel that nasty gaze, and I fell asleep!

"Well, I'm glad to hear that."

Were you glad you didn't feel an unpleasant glance, Marianne's tension is a little high. More importantly, the anxiety has been dispelled.

Conversely, Colt and Fritz had a terrible neighborhood.

"Good day, Colt, Fritz. How'd it go?

"Nothing ever came up. There's no strange sign, and I took turns sleeping."

"That sounds sleepy……………"

"............... I had a little nasty dream"

Fritz gets an increasingly grumpy look.

A terrible colt in the neighborhood spoke to Ruth softly.

"Don't get tangled up in Amashi Fritz. He's had a pretty bad dream, and he's been pissed off ever since he woke up."

"So much? What the hell kind of dream did you have?"

"Something, the collapse of the world? I heard you had a dream."

"The collapse of the world……………"

The collapse of the world is a very spectacular unpleasant dream. It's a little different in size than Ruth being chased around by a doll. I don't like that either.

"Colt is a terrible neighborhood, too, but could it be?

"... I'm not dreaming as bad as the collapse of the world, but I've seen this village all burn up and stuff"

"No, that's a pretty nasty dream too, isn't it?

"Yeah, you are - why did you dream like that?

Although the reaction was lighter than that of Fritz, Colt's dream was also quite unpleasant. When I heard it carefully, it burned to the side of the mountain, and the sky was red, and they heard the screams of those who fled.

(That, speaking of………)

Ruth then listened to Colt together and noticed that Daniel, with a subtle look on his face, had a neighborhood.

"Daniel. Could it be that Daniel had a bad dream, too?

…………

Daniel looks sinister at Ruth's question. You must have seen this.

"Maybe the same dream as the two of us?

"…… a dream of a massive demon outbreak and a village attacked"

"Demons......"

When Ruth asked further, Daniel spoke as if he had given up his subtle expression. According to the story, Daniel had a pretty nasty dream, too.

What the three of us have in common is that many people suffer in harms.

"... for once I ask, did Marianne dream like that?

"Me? I was so neat I never dreamed of it."

Asking Marianne, who was listening with interest to Ruth and the others, she is shaking her head with a bright look on her face. Nor does she look like she's lying, so I guess she really didn't dream of anything.

(But it's weird, I can't believe the three of you have a nasty dream together. Besides, people from other villages said they had bad dreams... and that, maybe?

I didn't even ask the people who were in the church what their dreams were, but maybe they have similar dreams too.

"-... and he's on the hook."

As Ruth thought, suddenly a little girl's voice sounded.

"Huh?"

"Hmm, whose voice is it?

"Girl?"

"This voice..."

"Dear Tiana!?

Marianne's eyes glow when she calls her name. Light gradually changed shape from sphere to sphere, and eventually when it became the appearance of a small person, the appearance of a young girl appeared before the eyes of Ruth and the others.