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

As Ruth looked difficult, his big hand came on his head again. The hand does not hesitate to disturb Ruth's hair. Of course it's Cyrus sitting next door doing it.

"... Mr. Cyrus, your hair will be devastated"

"Well, that's nice."

"And a little more powerful,"

"Better than a petite beating when you're a doll (that one), right?

Cyrus has always been like this since earlier. I'm sure I'm glad I got people's bodies, and I know I'm going to follow them, but fixing my hair every time is a pain in the ass. That makes Ruth look disgusting, too.

"Mr. Cyrus, I know how you feel, but if you do too much, kids that old get angry, right?

"Oh, well? It's hard."

When Cyrus heard the priest's words, he put his hands away lightly from Ruth's head, even though he looked sorry. The priest watching the condition has a smiling look on his face for some reason.

(Hey, I don't know, it feels like this...)

I was surprised that the two people I had just met had a common consciousness that Ruth could not understand. Ruth should never be old enough to be called "a child that old” or “a child," but I don't know how they feel. Like this, it bothers me that they say, 'I guess you don't know yet'.

(Experience………)

Cyrus said he had children. The priest is younger than he is, but he's raised Alec since he was four, and he's been doing his parental replacement. Ruth felt a little lonely that it might be difficult to understand in Ruth, who had not even had a lover but a child in his previous life.

"I've only been thinking about things I don't understand. Let's put it away. From now on..."

Ruth and Cyrus conveyed to the priest their views on the situation in the village today. The priests, who were often on the side of the village chiefs, also said that they were largely in agreement.

Then we moved on to what was to come.

"If it's true, I'd better stop the operation and get the villagers back to their sanity."

"The most suspicious Bowman would be the village chief's house, the heart of the enemy..."

Given the sight Ruth saw in the square a few days ago, the operator will most likely be an old man/bowman who is always on Baron Bruton's side. There must be some sort of book he's always had involved.

"But with everyone in the village like that, it's going to be hard to find him"

Ruth and the others don't want the villagers to get hurt any more than they need to. It is likely that the Genetian people have deliberately placed many villagers in front of the village chief's house against it. Thinking about when you went to church, you should be doing pretty well around. I mean, if we don't do something about them, the Ruths will always remain at a disadvantage.

The first thing to do then is to temporarily unbrainwash the villagers who can't let them get hurt. Then we can attack them all at once.

"It's just unfortunate that I don't have the power to confront the forces that have grown so far... as Ruth says, I wonder if Dear Tiana, the guardian spirit of Marianne, could handle it. Marianne hasn't been able to handle the surgery yet, but with Tiana and my support, I'm sure she can solve the surgery of the village people."

Although the priest cannot use his powers directly, he says it is possible to provide support for Marianne's sorcery. He said he wouldn't know how much he could do without trying, but then even Marianne with less magic shouldn't be impossible to wake up a lot of villagers.

"The problem is where Marianne is. Ruth, she wasn't in the room, was she?

"Yeah. A few days ago...... to be exact, I haven't seen Baron Bruton since the day he came. The village chief's house isn't that big either, so I think it's hard to hide Marianne in another room after staying with Genetian people..."

I do not believe that Genetialism will do more harm to Marianne than is necessary. Though her abilities are troublesome, she's an ordinary girl who knows little about the battle, she wouldn't consider it so threatening. I haven't thought about the worst.

(And with Marianne, it can be used to threaten the village chief in times of need... I'm sure he's safe)

Marianne is likely imprisoned in a place where she is not so handicapped. But when that happens, I can't get eyes on it.

"There won't be any caves or mountains... some house... but I can't even look at every one of them."

Usually it is possible to visit the villages' houses, but I cannot imitate such a long time in this situation. On the contrary, if you do that, there is a risk that this one will be caught on the contrary. I want to find her and rescue her in one go, if possible.

"... Ruth, Marianne disappeared the day Baron Bruton came to the village, right?

"Yes, probably, though. Mr. Furney stopped letting me see him the next day... so speaking of which, the colt was the same day, he disappeared."

"Is it also the Zelenka family colt? So you're both missing, right?

"I don't know if we're together. Colt disappeared the day he said he was sending Marianne home."

When Ruth said so, the priest looked difficult.

"Father, is there somewhere I can think of?

"It's hard to say for sure."

The priest had gone to the village chief's house the day Baron Bruton arrived. After the initial discussion ended peacefully, he decided to return to church alone, but said he saw Bowman ordering the faithful to 'keep an eye on those two' at that time.

"At that time, I didn't know who the two of them were offering, but the person who had been ordered to do so said," Then if there is a problem, go to the warehouse. "Now that I think about it, it is strange in itself that they are trying to use what is called a 'warehouse' on their own…"

He said he had to rush back to church at that time, so he came out without pursuing it, but it is strange to think about it.

"Those two are the boys Marianne and Colt, and there's a good chance they're in that warehouse?

"But there was a warehouse at the village chief's house..."

Ruth used to look around the village chief's house with Daniels, but there was no such thing as a warehouse in that house. No hunting, no field work in the first place. Because the village chief's house doesn't need that, and the executive will do the work he needs a lot of tools. The village chief basically doesn't do his own job of moving his body. I also leave the snowfall to the men of other houses.

"Indeed, there is no warehouse in the Lillesse family. But near that house, there was a joint warehouse in the village, right?

"Oh, that way!

In case of demon hunting and emergencies, the village's joint warehouse, where food and clothing are stocked, is not so far from the village chief's house. Since the village chief's house is away from the others in the first place, it's not surprising to mistake that for a warehouse for the village chief's house.

"It's big over there, and I'm a little away, so I can't get a voice. You're not gonna find out if you're doing something crazy."

"You don't know if someone's incarcerated, so it's settled. Then let's go!

We still have time to be in the morning. Ruth and the others decided to move that night would be better if they acted.

The priest asked him to wait a little further away just in case, and Ruth and Cyrus were headed to the joint warehouse.

There were many trees around the village's common warehouse, which made it a woodlike place, perfect for hiding. Ruth and the others approached as close as they could see the door of the warehouse without anyone finding them.

"You have a lookout."

"Yeah. Then it's definitely over there."

"Right."

Near the joint warehouse stood two Genetian followers with bonfires. It's a pretty late hour, but it doesn't look tired. The hindsight of the doll while seriously standing facing the front resembled that seen at the construction site in the previous life.

(Patrol is... that's still a long way...)

From the footsteps, the patrol won't come for a while. But you better hurry up and move. They want to avoid bowling because as soon as they find Ruth and the others, they will call their people.

"We're moving, I'm going to scout."

"Uh, reconnaissance? Hey Mr. Cyrus!?

Cyrus, who was supposed to be a reconnaissance, rushed forward to Genetianism, was found by the two guiding men and had been flown away.

"What are you doing now......... oh"

As Ruth rushed to his support, Cyrus avoided one attack after the other, lightly beating him down.

While surprised by Cyrus' high ability to fight, Ruth approaches Cyrus looking at the two fallen Genetian believers.

"I'll check for once... Could that be the kind of operation you were planning?

"............... No, I just forgot my body was changing. Wow, I'm in a hurry. I'm glad you didn't have these weapons."

"I knew..."

Cyrus was meant to be the body of a flor doll, and she jumped out of it thinking she couldn't find it.

It was unfortunate fortunate that the Genetian faithful, who had been entrusted with security, had only about a stick of wood.

"Well, unlike when I was a doll, it's good to know I'm going to be recognized by these guys."

"That's right."

As Ruth turned her white eyes, Cyrus coughed to delude her.

"Besides, I tried beating these guys up, and I've figured out one thing. Look at that, huh?

Saying so, Cyrus pressed the soles of his feet against the throats of the fallen believers on his back.

"Hey, Cyrus... ah"

It was Ruth who was suddenly surprised by Cyrus for his violent behavior, but when he could help, the sound of a broken pacifier sounded, and the body of the Genetian faithful in front of him instantly disappeared. All that remained on the spot were cards that resembled small wooden plates in the shape of people.

(That's not a tree?

I thought it was a wooden board, but when Cyrus lifted it up, I could see the light running slightly. They're not regular boards.

"……… What do you mean? Who's that now?

"The guy right now is a combat soldier, said to be Doyle, that only artificial soldiers can have. Simply put, it feels like a magic pawn that only special soldiers can use."

"Doll or artificial soldier? Magic?... you mean not human?

"That's the thing. Stop thinking rationally... see, Ruth, stab him in the throat, in Orha."

Seeing Ruth confused by being given a lot of information at once, Cyrus fingers the other one who collapsed that way.

Ruth approached the person in fear.

(I don't care what you look like……)

Their appearance resembles humans so badly that I think it's odd to say Doyle. But Cyrus said it was a doll.

As Ruth hesitated, Cyrus' hand rested on his head.

"Let him go, he's already been so discarded that he should have finished his role. There's no will in these guys, but you're pathetic that you're always a tool to listen to other people's orders and torment people, aren't you?

Cyrus' painful expression was something that really pitied them.

"……… I understand."

Ruth sticks an orha up his throat and pushes it hard as it is.

The moment the blade tip of the knife comes in, I feel hard metal bump through the soft elasticity that I don't think of as a person. When there was a cracked sound from the tip of the knife, it disappeared so that what people were doing could be played. All that was left was a people-shaped card stabbed ahead of Orha.

(I'm not really a person)

I didn't suspect people when I first saw it, but I did think it was a little weird when I saw it with Daniel. Though I didn't think it was a magical crop.

(But was it like a demon made of magic at Natasha's place?)

Natasha trapped Ruth in a pseudo world. There were creatures made of magic in her world, too. I guess it's not weird that Ruth just doesn't know and has these technologies.

"Now you know you can do whatever you want against these guys. Don't take your hands off me."

"Yes."

What Ruth and the others cared about was hurting people. But if the other person is just treated as a puppet made of magic - let alone a pawn - he has no hesitation in defeating it.

"Don't take it. I'll feed you later."

Saying so, Cyrus pulled out the people-shaped card that was ahead of Orha and stood up as he behaved in his nostalgia.

("Provision" ………)

I should have spoken that I wasn't a person, but Cyrus' words were meaningful. I saw a mix of complex things in that look like never before.

"……… Mr. Cyrus, your memory is returning, isn't it?

If you look at Cyrus, who used words you didn't know as one word after another, then Ruth's question was natural. Cyrus remembers Ruth's unknown memory - the "past”.

"I guess it's because of the physical involvement, just a little bit. I just don't know where I'm from or anything like that. I need to know where my hometown is soon."

Cyrus laughed brightly making a small gap between his thumb and index finger - but Ruth couldn't read what Cyrus was thinking from that look.

(That's funny, when I was a flor doll, even my voice and scarce expression showed joy and sorrow)

As soon as I shaped people, I felt that Cyrus' emotions had become difficult to read.

"And after what I'm from, I have such enormous sorcery -"

"- Hey, is there someone there!?

As Ruth and the others spoke, a voice was heard from the other side of the warehouse door.