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

When the sun fell and many of the people who were around the village returned to their respective houses, Orha returned to Ruth and Cyrus around the village again.

"It's quiet. Everyone is home normally... maybe already..."

As the morning noise seemed to lie, the village seemed to restore its usual tranquillity. The lights come on in each house and the fun air also comes through.

"I thought so at first, too, to calm down. Stop having bad hopes. There you go……………………"

Around the church where Cyrus pointed, there were about five men still armed with hunting. Just looking at the array, Ruth can tell enough about the village's anomaly. It was not the usual village such as why I looked around the church.

"I just wanted to have a little hope...... let's go"

Having given up the normalization of the serene village, Ruth went round the mountain through the trees and around to the back of the church.

According to Cyrus, who scouted me, although a person entered through the broken windowsill, there was no such thing as a priest being taken. It's also proof that the villagers haven't found a priest.

(But the church was safer than I thought)

I heard that all those excited people went inside the church, so Ruth was thinking of a rougher look, but that didn't happen. Even though he's been partially brainwashed, he's not out of common sense. Though the windows broke when I got excited this morning, it didn't seem like I could get to the outrage of just breaking the inside of the church. I guess there's something at the bottom of my consciousness that appeals to me, 'Do not break the sacred Church any more'.

"I hear the priest is still in the church."

Although priests can use healing techniques and the like and specialize in witchcraft, their physical abilities are much lower than those of middle-aged men in the village where they are hunting. According to Alec, motor nerves are not so good. I mean, if you were chased like Ruth, you'd be caught in no time.

If it's safe until this hour, it must be hiding somewhere. Ruth and the others thought there were still priests inside the church, even from the time of this morning's commotion. And Ruth had a star of where he was hiding.

Ruth and his men stand in front of an odd big rock in the woods a little away from the church, hiding themselves from the villagers watching the village's perimeter.

"Is this really it?

Ruth puts his hands on that rock as he watches Cyrus tilt his neck. A pre-taught spell blurred the surface, which should have been just a rock, and a black entrance appeared.

"Seriously......"

"It's amazing, isn't it? Let's go."

Ruth takes Cyrus into it and walks about a few steps down a dark road that is neither dirt nor floorboard. Eventually I rolled the cloth around and my vision opened.

"Good, looks like you made it out."

The place where Ruth and the others came out was a small room where the three adults would feel small if lined up. There were beds, desks, bookshelves with walls at the wall, many books, but few other things, which had been in place so that people hadn't lived in a while.

"You know, connecting spaces... brave people are awesome. I can't do this."

The two of them came out in Alec's room inside the church. In other words, a rock outside the church leads to Alec's room.

"Alec told me to use it for emergency evacuation. I can't believe it helps this way."

Alec's room is sturdy because of his former warehouse, and he has special procedures. When Alec returned to the village a little while ago with a transfer technique, he made a path for Ruth to come and go.

However, this time, if I were caged in Alec's room, I would be surrounded, so I just used it as a way to rescue the priest.

"It has to be a situation where the whole village goes crazy."

The proposal that Cyrus, who was unrecognized, would go alone to help the priest, was rejected, as was the reason that this technique could not be used without Ruth. Besides, even though how many priests are the sober type, they won't easily believe that talking flor dolls can help themselves. If it was Ruth, I suspect it was some kind of trap.

Ruth gently opened the door and asked what was going on in the hallway.

"Mr. Cyrus, the children are in the church, aren't they?

"The child you raised was never outside the village."

Birds, the children living in the church should be inside with the priest. I don't know what the rest of the kids are going to do, but as long as we look at what's going on this morning, we should think they're brainwashed and not be alarmed.

"I'll look in the hallway first"

"Please."

Cyrus exits through the gap in the door. After a while he came back with a subtle face.

"What is it?

"If you go quietly, I don't think you'll find out about the break-in. Just don't make footsteps."

"Eh? Yeah."

Ruth walked down the hallway, as he was told, erasing the signs and sneaking his footsteps.

(Oh, that's the thing)

After a while, I found out what Cyrus was saying. Because the dining room door that was halfway through the hallway was open, and there were children there who fell asleep on the chair.

(Mr. Esther didn't cook me a meal, but I guess it's because no one usually tells me I'm going to bed...)

I don't know their daily lives in detail, but I'm sure that usually after Church Help Esther cooks me a meal, we all eat, clean up and go to bed. He didn't have a priest to replace him, and his life didn't turn that well.

"Ruth, poor thing, but leave it there."

"…… Yes. I know."

I really want to get them to bed, but when I wake up, it makes a scene again. Ruth had to pass by silently.

"Is that it?

"Yes, probably in here."

Ruth gently opened the priest's office door.

Inside the office decorated with the paintings of the Four Gods, the documents were scattered, the furniture moved and rough as if someone had searched around. It will be the work of the villagers who have broken in.

Ruth asked Cyrus to keep an eye on him, while he hung his hands on a large bookshelf in the office. Press the outpost in the corner of the bookshelf to make a sound with Catan. Feeling signs of people from behind, Ruth slid the bookshelf with certainty.

"Ru, Ruth............?

"Father, you were still here."

It was the priest who emerged from behind the bookshelf. Ruth had previously been taught about this place by Alec, so he was staring at it if he was hiding.

He comes out with a blue face, staring vigilantly at Ruth. The one thing that won't suddenly escape here will be Father Boulder.

"Ruth, you are…………"

"Father, I'm fine. Because it doesn't involve the brainwashing of Genetianism."

"............... Really?"

The priest sat down on the spot, relieved by Ruth's words.

"Are you hurt?

"There's nothing there. I felt strange and fled right here."

The priest laughed softly, but Ruth knew that was a lie. He doesn't look injured, but the clothes he was wearing were torn and worn out. With lower body clothes more disturbed than upper body, brainwashed children are likely to have jumped.

(But the Birds didn't get hurt either... Father, I'm sure he didn't raise his hand no matter what he did)

Since priests can heal themselves in the first place, it is possible to say 'no injuries' even if they are actually injured. I know his words have lies.

But Ruth is not going to point that out either. If he said 'there was nothing', you'd better assume he is.

"Then it's good. Anyway, let's get out of here."

"But the children……………"

"Those kids are asleep. If you ignore the Genetian thing, you'll be fine because you live normally. It's too thin around the church right now, and even if you're here, one day the villagers will find you, you should leave once with us."

"What…………… Flor, doll?

"Oh, no, you've never talked about it before. I'm Cyrus."

To Cyrus, who suddenly spoke to me, the priest looked surprised as never before, but saw Ruth laughing bitterly and swallowed his voice. Even then, he listens seriously to Cyrus's proper explanation and convinces me of his raison d 'être.

(That's the parent Alec raised...)

Ruth knows best that if she's on Alec's side and she's surprised by the little things, she won't have a heart. Maybe the priest is used to it too.

"… Is that what happened? Being with Ruth meant you protected him, didn't you? Thank you very much."

"Huh?... duh, you're welcome? Well, Ruth is about my son's age, and I can help him. Uh, ha."

Cyrus was surprised by the priest's words of gratitude, but he was scratching his head so that it wasn't too much. Is it a lightning up, or I'm gonna come on Ruth's head and slap him in the forehead with a pessi pessi.

"Ruth is a strong kid, but she's a little dull."

"That's right, if you're still blurry this morning, you're surrounded. Don't you dare!

The priest broke the look that had seeped his guard against Cyrus and began the conversation with a smiling face. From a creepy flor doll that speaks a man's voice, humanity? caught a glimpse, and he's completely out of alert. When Ruth had her first conversation, too, I know perfectly well because Cyrus' way of speaking had made her anger disappear.

"……… Mr. Cyrus, it's heavy."

Ruth coughed to get rid of Cyrus, who came on his head, to pay for the air that had become like a tripartite interview.

It's nice that you two get along, but not if we're talking all the time here. And simply because I was getting kind of embarrassed.

"Anyway, we'll talk more about it later, and let's get the hell out of here."

"Right."

"Yes, I understand."

Later, with a sad expression, he took the priests to escort the children of the dining room, and when Ruth and the others returned to Alec's room, they walked out the magic aisle.

"- Ruth, back off!

But Cyrus, who was out ahead of time, looks back along the way and shouts to Ruth.

At the end of Ruth's gaze with his face up, he made sure to follow Cyrus' back and saw the flying arrow. It is an arrow that is fortified with magic.

Parin - and Cyrus, who made a light noise that cracked the pottery, hit Ruth's shoulder, collapsed under an arrow. Was it accidental, or Cyrus couldn't even hang his defensive technique?

"Mr. Cyrus! -!"

Ruth followed Cyrus sideways, who fell to the ground, while a man who had fired an arrow held a temper, and it was in his sight that he was about to whistle his fingers.

"Orha, deform it"

Ruth, realizing he was willing to call the other villagers, asks Orha, the knife he was lowering to his waist, to deform his killing ability into a form that lowered him to the extreme. When I hold it in my hand, I run straight to the man, and when I jump up, he beats me with a knife.

"-! Whoa, whoa!

The man who began to whistle his fingers avoided Orha's attack aggressively, but couldn't avoid Ruth's kick, which he unleashed at the same time as landing. The kicked man, when he falls back strong, hits his head against the tree and stops moving as it is.

"There's... there's no blood, is there?

"- Mr. Cyrus, Mr. Cyrus?

As Ruth was relieved of the man's survival, a priest heard him in a hurry. Feeling uneasy about the voice, Ruth hurries back to where he kneels.

"... uh... Cyrus,?

There was Cyrus, who had eaten an arrow into the back of his head and was no longer moving in the priest's hands.

Cyrus had previously healed himself even if he was injured when he fought Orha. I thought it would happen again.

(It's the head, I can't cure it -)

Realizing the reason, Sassy Ruth's blood caught my attention. I don't know what's going on with the structure of Cyrus' body, which is a flor doll, but he was more likely to be fatally injured if he injured his head like a human.

"Mr. Cyrus? Mr. Cyrus, please wake up!

Cyrus doesn't even move pickly on Ruth's call. From behind the stabbed head of the arrow, more and more purple-colored liquid was coming out. The jelly liquid that comes out of the drool is about to fall out of the hands of a priest with Cyrus' body. Ruth hastily stopped the liquid by hand.

When Ruth is upset by Cyrus, who has stopped moving, he begins to see multiple lights in the distance. I hear someone noticed something strange.

"Ruth, Mr. Cyrus, hold this and let's get out of here for one second."

"Huh?... Ah, but"

"I'd like directions to a safe place to treat Mr. Cyrus."

"Yes, sir. I understand……………………"

Ruth and the others hurried to the dark mountains with Cyrus in their hands, who had stopped moving.