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

Ruth couldn't stand the nasal itching and opened her mouth as she watched the patch and the fire burn.

"Chon!"

The sneeze I tried to indulge in, it came out lightly and made a loud noise in the cave. Ruth was alert for a moment, wondering if he could hear it outside, but there was no change in the signs ahead of the darkness. Orha, who's asking for a watch, didn't do it either.

"Oh, my God... Hacktion! Chon!... Ugh, it's cold"

Ruth mocked the skin that was peeling off. Even though it was on fire, he was going to catch a cold when he remained naked in a cave in the season when the cold approached. But the clothes I was wearing are wet. The wind of Ruth and the wind of life magic do not allow it to dry.

"Ruth, I brought it."

"Oh, thank you very much, Mr. Cyrus..."

Cyrus, the doll figure, came back through the entrance. The back of a body floating in the universe carries a large package wrapped in cloth.

Cyrus opened the cloth as he lowered his luggage.

"Anyway, towels and clothes, then I brought a little food, so get dressed anyway"

"Excuse me... Kush..."

Ruth wiped her body and head with the towel she received before changing into the clothes she had brought. My clothes touched my skin and finally calmed down and the tremor stopped. As I approached the fire again, I noticed that Cyrus had a small pot at some point.

"There you go. It's just hot water with dried meat, but it should taste better than it is. Drink it."

"Thank you very much…… very warm…."

Rossa's specially dried meat has no more odor, so softening it with hot water spreads the flavour of meat and salt. Ruth, who was cold from the core of his body, felt better than any soup.

"Sorry, if I could control the wind magic a little more, I could dry him out."

"No, that is…… more so, Mr. Cyrus, how was the village?

To Ruth's question, Cyrus says, 'Mm-hmm.'

"There was no more noise like in the morning, but the faces of the villagers were the same. Sometimes some people raise their voices and pray to the Genesis God. You still had a few people wandering around the church. Not as good as this morning."

"Is that so……."

Ruth was chased by the villagers and fell to the falls, but thanks to Cyrus and Orha loosening the momentum of the fall, he was also unharmed. He managed to escape from their siege net by succeeding in hiding in the water while taking his breath as it was and doing over the villagers he had followed.

Then he found a hole under the cliff and took refuge there. While bringing trees to Orha and Cyrus to set fire to them and warm their bodies, Cyrus was asked to return to the village to see how things were going. He was good for reconnaissance because he was not recognized by the villagers.

"After time, we'll all go back to normal… how is that not going to happen?"

I had a little hope for that, but as far as Cyrus' report is concerned, it doesn't look like things are going to turn out any better.

"Right. And somehow, the villagers are starting their normal lives."

"A normal life?

"You mean the temporary increase in consciousness subsided, Mr. Celine, and your father were back home eating dinner normally.... I had your share at the table." I wish Ruth would ask the Genesis God for help soon. "It's weird from us, but for them right now, I guess" that ”is normal."

"………………"

The usual way my parents were eating in the living room came to my attention, and Ruth wanted to cry. With those emotionless eyes, my parents who continue the conversation wonder what they think of Ruth right now, and that makes my chest ache.

(But that's what other villages usually existed...)

According to the story of the merchants of the journey that left yesterday, although the village that had gone crazy had become “strange”, it survived as a village and the traveler was not aware of the visit. In other words, like the village of Ruth today, even though it can change its mind, it must be established as a “village”.

Without humans like Ruth, and without realizing the anomaly, the village will survive being altered in its contents. And it draws in the visitors, and it grows.

"Ruth, don't think it's easier to be“ with ”everyone, okay? That condition is strange."

"Look at that, I don't think so. And I would never want to be a believer more than the Genesis God of Genetialism denies the brave."

When Ruth was clear, Cyrus moved her brow a little surprised.

"... you're putting a lot of bravery on your shoulders. Were you an enthusiastic Sestian believer, then?

"Huh!? No... I'm not..."

Ruth said, Cyrus leaned his neck and peered into his face.

"So what do you mean? Why are you so obsessed with the brave? Because this kind of religious entanglement is a delicate story, let me know exactly why you're here. Maybe you need to think about what to do in the future."

"Ah... the..."

My chest, which was painful thinking about my parents until earlier, gave Alec a twitch in a strange direction as soon as his face came out.

(I have to explain, no)

There were a lot of people around Ruth who knew about his relationship with Alec, so I didn't get a chance to explain it with my mouth, so I scratch weird sweats when I had to.

"Do you know that the brave man is from this village?

"Oh, the“ brave man "they were talking about. You really have that now."

I was surprised at Cyrus, who said the first time he heard the name Brave Man, but Ruth flushed that he was just forgetting because his memory was vague.

"Yes, I'm really here. So, the brave man's name is Alec, but I'm familiar with him..."

"Ah, you mean that. I mean, you got angry at me for saying bad things about your friends."

"Oh... ma, yeah..."

"What is it? You have a bad tooth cut."

Cyrus frowned a little when Ruth couldn't get back to him.

(I don't know if Mr. Cyrus and Alec will ever face each other, maybe I should just keep it as a "friend"...)

I'm sure Alec doesn't describe Ruth as a friend wherever he goes. Because he doesn't like to lie about Ruth's existence. Even when I was in the village, I always appealed to Ruth, who was beside me, to be very competent. He doesn't like Ruth being scorned. They all seemed to be listening at the time.

There was something wrong with Alec that only Ruth would mislead his existence because of the smell.

"Well, Alec is... my loved one... what?"

"Hmm? Not a friend,“ important person "?................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"... eh"

As Ruth shut up, withstanding the heat of his face burning, he heard Cyrus laugh. I'm still not used to being spoken of by others about my relationship with Alec.

"Bubububu, what the hell, don't look so cute. You're gonna feel weird."

"Heh, it's normal! I'm just a little unfamiliar with that word..."

It was only at first that Ruth became dull when Alec created a sweet atmosphere (though Alec enjoyed that too), but now he is able to deal with it normally. I'm used to it a lot.

(Mr. Cyrus, didn't you pull it or something?

When Ruth glanced at Cyrus slightly, his voice seemed to laugh, but his face, slowly lowering his brow, was full of mercy. He's not making fun of me.

"Right, right, you know what? So that gray hair......... oh, that sort of thing"

"Hey, what are you convinced of by yourself?

"Nothing. I just wanted to see how they relate to you."

"And anyway, I'll get back to you!? Is that good?

When Ruth looked serious, Cyrus suppressed his laughter.

"Yes, sir. I mean, as for Ruth, you don't even care how he thinks about religion, if it's not about the brave ones?

"Ugh...... yes. It may seem impure, but that's the thing. I wish I could take it personally to worship the Genesis God... but I disagree with Genetianism where everyone in the village becomes like that"

"I see, I see what you're thinking. There's one correction. Geneticism is not religion."

"Eh?"

"Look, Ruth, religion takes on such a beautiful form, but that's just“ brainwashing ”. There will be no other purpose."

"Brainwashing?"

When Ruth asked questions to a word she was unfamiliar with, Cyrus sat on the ground in limbo.

"Sometimes there's a war. With people's anxiety, it's like creating a God of salvation and increasing the number of believers. That kind of thing is a lot of money or dominance. Well, sometimes it's true, but sometimes it really is."

I don't know what Baron Bruton is thinking, but I don't even think he really worships the Genesis God. There has to be another reason, Cyrus says.

"... but either way, if you don't do it that well, you won't get more believers in large part. It can take a lot of time, and it can take some skill to get people together. But there's a way to ignore it and explode - that's brainwashing by magic."

Cyrus lowers his voice.

"There are a lot of things about brainwashing, but from the look of this one, what hung in this village were 'growing anxiety' and 'false assumptions'. We are together to stir up anxiety and create a God of salvation, but it is conceived in art that if we believe in God, we will be saved."

"If you believe in the Genesis God, you will be saved"

The villagers who were certainly chasing Ruth said so orally.

"The troublesome thing about this technique is that both the anxiety and the God of salvation are unusually hopeful about the idea of being 'saved' because they themselves feel it. So I try to increase the number of believers, even forcefully. You were chased around by those guys, naturally for those guys who want to save you, no offense at all. I guess we can live a normal life also because we are not completely ruled by the surgeons, but because we still have some will of our own"

"Why didn't you make it total dominance?

"If you leave it in full control, you may lose your personal will and not be able to live without the operator's control. According to the traveling merchant I heard from you, he's doing something familiar to other villages. The more numbers you have, the harder it becomes to manage, and trying to do a strong technique on many human opponents takes a lot of magic."

After a long and extensive period of time, there is a lot of magic and no strong magic can be practiced. For this reason, they are narrowing the direction of witchcraft and lightening the burden.

The magic of brainwashing, which originally dominates people's consciousness, is rather difficult to control, and there are very few examples that are working.

"But when did you do such magic...... oh, could it be!?

"That's true. That's what you said before about the Black Moya technique."

The beginning was rather relaxed, such as having nightmares. That's why he left it unattended, not thinking it was causing him to gradually spread his spiritual dominance. The more burdensome it was, the stranger things gradually surfaced, but until things like today, I never thought almost all the villagers were spiritually dominated.

The fact that the heterogeneous presence of Genetialism has entered the village will also cause the villagers to fail to notice a change in their condition, Cyrus says.

(If only that black Moya technique... had realized this sooner...!

But no matter how much I regret it, it's too late. You should think ahead now.

"So the Barons of Bruton had been targeting Hashi Village before they arrived, and they were starting to create an environment that was receptive to them."

"That's the thing. All I can say is, I'm hit. I'm a little bit more... well, why don't you start saying that? Besides, I wonder why you're not the only one on the force of the operation. Can you use any special magic tricks?

"That's..."

Ruth tells me about the technique Alec put on me, Tiana told me.

"Your brave man is overprotective."

"Please don't tell me..."

Ruth also understands that Alec is worried. When Cyrus heard that Orha had also been given to him by Alec, he kept his mouth shut because he was going to say something weirder.

"It's just, Ruth, sometimes it's good thanks to brainwashing"

"… do you mean brainwashing is good"

"Well, listen. Brainwashing doesn't mean that the villagers really believe that Genesis is the only god. In other words, if you stop the procedure and unbrainwash it..."

I figured out what Cyrus was trying to say, and there was hope in Ruth's mind.

"……… Everyone goes back to normal."

"That's the thing. And the key to that is"

"You're Marianne and the priest."

Marianne, who can solve it, will be important. And a priest.

I was concerned that the villagers who were trying to convince Ruth had acted differently than the priest alone. The fact that he surrounded the church in a way that he remembered his anger is above all evidence.

According to what Cyrus told me, there was still a villager around the church, so he must be safe.

For them to believe in Genetialism, priests must be as threatening as Marianne, whose location is unknown. That should lead to hope for the Ruths.

"When the sun falls, let's go to the village. First, we need to help the priest."

Ruth and the others decided to set up an operation.