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

Finished clearing the square for the mess and all went back to their homes. Tomorrow, when it gets bright, we'll do a full cleanup.

Ruth also returned to the Blau family with her family and Cyrus, who was in a good mood for alcohol.

Ruth then put up some water for the bath for the first time in a long time. I get excited about the warm hot tub for the first time in days. Even though it's not winter yet, it's only been a few days since it was hard to finish with just wiping your body with cold water.

Ruth and the others advised him to enter Cyrus best, but he wanted to take his time without worrying about time, so he was asked to come in for the last time.

(I can't help but leave the last to the customer………)

It was Ruth who was supposed to go in after his parents, but he had no other customers except Cyrus, so he could soak them for a little while longer.

Ruth, who immediately finished washing her body, stretched her legs and soaked herself in a wide hot tub. My first bath in a few days doesn't just refresh my body, it refreshes my mind.

"Haa... it was tough not to take a bath... hmm?

As Ruth exhaled heavily, she felt signs around the stripper. Looking straight at it, the big man came in without hiding it before.

"Whoa, Ruth, that's bad. We're going in."

"Ah, Mr. Cyrus"

It was Cyrus who came in noisy. Looks like he was going to go in after Ruth, but while he waited, he got sleepy and came in a hurry. If you overslept like that, you wouldn't have liked it because tomorrow the water would be cold. I don't mind if Ruth doesn't take a bath alone.

Cyrus was in the bath looking like a doll once, so he knew how to use it, and immediately started serving hot water.

"Yes, Ruth, I'm sorry, but could you wash my back?

"Your back? I don't mind."

Ruth turned behind Cyrus as he took the foamed towel with his sop.

(Mr. Cyrus has a big back......)

Is Cyrus' back a little different from the Ruth's skeletons, which was big overall in the first place? My father, Rosa, is bigger on the side, not so much the same height, but Cyrus looks bigger. Maybe there are different signs of drifting. Cyrus also had a number of scars on his back. Some big things I don't think I can do in my everyday life.

"Mm-hmm. It's good to have people wash you. Ruth, can you do the one on the right a little bit more?

"Yes."

As Ruth washes her wide back diligently, Cyrus speaks satisfactorily. She even sang her nose lightly because she felt comfortable. Maybe he's still drunk.

Ruth is also rewarding when she feels comfortable so far.

(When I do this, don't remember when I was in there with my father...)

Before I remembered my previous life's memories, my father Rossa and I used to take a good bath. That's when I was desperately washing that big back with my little hands. Rossa always seemed to be happy that she wasn't supposed to wash very well with her child power.

(Well, even though it was a bath then, it was a big bucket with a river and hot water. I never had a bath like now)

Just going back more, I also have memories of going with my father in his previous life with money and water. He was already a tough father, but when he washed his back, he remembered as he looked happy.

Both fathers had the same big back as Cyrus.

"Okay, okay, that's enough. Thanks, Ruth."

"Ah, Yes."

When Ruth finished washing his back, Cyrus, who seemed satisfied, poured hot water on himself and flushed the bubbles. Now put the sop on your head and start washing your hair.

"What the hell was that?

"I just wanted to give it a try. Experience."

"Did you want to try?

"Don't worry about it. And then I'll wash it myself, so you go back to the hot tub."

"Ah, Yes."

Ruth grabs the hot water again, prompted to return to the hot tub with her bubbly hands. As I loosened my cheeks to the warmth of hot water that stained my entire body, Silas came into the hot tub after a while after I had washed everything.

"Ooh - this is good water. Long time no see, this feeling."

"Did you used to be in there a lot?

"When I was young. I haven't had time to soak up since I've been busy..."

Saying so, Cyrus exhales heavily as she soaks to her chin in the hot tub. Looks really nice.

Ruth exhales equally loudly. And I looked up at the window that opened to the ceiling.

Beyond the window is a night sky with stars shining. The look of the sky resembled the view we were seeing at night with Cyrus yesterday.

"I'm glad your father and Celine are back together."

"Yes.... it just seemed a little shocked, I was depressed though"

My parents, who keep their memory thin, were shocked by the aggressive behavior they did to their son, even though he was brainwashed. So much so that Ruth struggled a little to calm them down.

It was Rossa who particularly cared.

Rossa had been apologizing to Celine, not just Ruth, because things had been wrong since the night before that. Celine didn't care what Rossa did, but apparently she didn't.

The way she was so depressed, the invisible Celine made Rossa's face rise, and as her parents began to snooze, Ruth walked out of the spot with her body guiding Cyrus into the room.

I was a little stunned by how things were the same, but on the other hand, I was really relieved to see my unchanged parents back.

"Thank you for everything you've done for the village. Mr. Cyrus."

If Ruth thanked him again, for some reason Cyrus had a complex look on his face. Rub your hands out of the hot tub to wash your face.

"I'd rather be thankful. It was tough until I got it back, but thanks to you, it was fun."

"Isn't that what you enjoyed today? I was not free when the doll appeared, and until this morning, the situation was a situation.

"Yes, it is."

Cyrus inadvertently stopped speaking, but felt he was choosing something, so Ruth waited to speak in silence.

"... the doll was also invalid, and the last few days have been really hard. … I was still happy because I wanted to be alive."

"" Want to live "?"

"You know, eating, sleeping, talking, thinking, taking a bath... you enjoy feeling alive."

(Feels alive…………)

Ruth was familiar with the feeling.

(Similar to when I brought back memories of my previous life...)

When I remembered my memories of my previous life and then calmed down, I began to feel that it was wonderful to be alive because I experienced death once. I remember strongly that for some time people felt small happiness in their natural deeds to live. I thought that was exactly what Cyrus was saying.

"... Who is Mr. Cyrus?

Ruth listened without thinking.

"Someone…… well, not a person first. No one's ever had a body like this."

When Cyrus' hand out of the hot tub was as thin as an old man's, he returned to normal.

As I found out after the battle, Cyrus means he can make some changes to his body. The base is what it is now, but if there is a strong will to change it, he says, it can change. But he seems to like what he looks like now, and he ended up staying put.

(But that doesn't mean he's stable now...)

Some of the people Ruth had met so far had a physical figure who could change his body to a completely different figure, but the man could not cure his own healing technique. The same was true of Bowman's thousand severed fingers, which were not cured by the priest's sorcery. Even that Alec says the defect is very difficult to get back on track.

But Cyrus does it on his own.

"Not a person... but you are“ Cyrus Drovandi ”right?

"Primarily change the user. Ruth Blau to Cyrus Drovandi '

When he made the provisional contract with Orha, Cyrus was referring to his name as' Cyrus Drovandi '. Sure, Ruth gave him the name' Cyrus', but I don't even remember giving him the last name 'Drovandi'. Yet Cyrus made a pact with Orha under that name. Then I guess his name is really Cyrus Drovandi. And his name is...

"I didn't know the book of hero Cyrus Drovandi or anything like that was all around the world, and it was a fairy tale. I've come a long way."

Heroic legend that Ruth was unquestionably reading as a fiction novel. I don't know when Cyrus found out about that book, but there was plenty of time, so it's not strange to be looking through it.

"... What you're writing in that book, is it true?

Cyrus sighed as he gave up.

"Not as long as I can remember. The details are broken but not wrong. It's a mystery what makes the history I know a fairy tale. It's possible that I'm being reminded of a false history."

"I don't think so…………"

Originally Ruth also felt that the history of this world was a little strange. For the existence of long-lived species, because more than a thousand years old history does not exist at all. Even research on history has not progressed at all.

Besides, there were a number of over-specified substances everywhere Alec traveled. Olha, but the ship they're on, Gilmore, even Phantom Core. If those were popular in this day and age, it would be a more technologically developed world worldwide.

(It's like hiding past history from the people who live in the present...)

I'm sure Cyrus remembers correctly. And that's more than a thousand years ago when it's disappearing.

I don't know why it was written in Cyrus Drovandi's book, the facts in history have disappeared, but Ruth believes that 80% and 90% of what it says in that book is true. Above all, because I don't think Cyrus here is just a person born out of a fantasy.

"But to be precise, I am Cyrus Drovandi, not Cyrus Drovandi"

"What do you mean?

Naturally, Cyrus Drovandi, a man, died a long time ago.

From what I've heard, what Cyrus has said is not speculation. Ruth also knew very well. But I still feel sad when people say I'm "dead".

"…… so.“ I'm a fake. "

"Fake?"

"'Cause you do, don't you? A person named Cyrus Drovandi is supposed to be" present ”with two things at the same time: flesh and memory. But even if I remember Cyrus now, I know his death, and his body is a crop in the first place. I name Cyrus Drovandi, but I just have the memory of a hero, and the vessels are different. It's a fake thing, not the hero himself."

"……, but"

"If, by the time we met in the figure of a flor doll, we were back in memory and we named ourselves" I'm that hero Cyrus Drovandy, "did you believe that?

Flor doll looking like a girl. Ruth didn't believe me when he told me he was a hero in that look. Pretending to understand it on the surface, we might have joined the conversation, but I'm sure I suspected it in my mind. Ruth doesn't have enough breadth of mind to receive words that straight.

".................. that's true"

In Ruth's words, Cyrus deliberately smiled like a bad man. But I could see the eyes were shaking slightly.

"Right? So I'm just a weapon."

"- But it is Mr. Cyrus Drovandi here who helped me and saved the village. That's for sure. If that Cyrus has a memory of being a hero, I think you're Cyrus Drovandy to me."

Ruth has also had mixed memories of her previous life and many times she doesn't know what's real. When I heard from around me that my personality had changed, I sometimes worried that I would have erased the “real Ruth” who had lived without knowing anything because of my memory of my previous life.

But Alec and his family accepted Ruth like that, and now Alec says Ruth with two memories is Ruth. Thanks to you, there's nothing to worry about anymore. Now that Ruth is “Ruth” who is feeling a lot of things, I can think that there is no other real thing.

"It doesn't matter if you're Cyrus Drovandi, the hero in the book. Your son's pain, the bitterness of the war, his compassion for Zero and the faithful are also what Mr. Cyrus feels in front of you. That's what you have yourself. I think that's the right thing to do."

It seems very unlikely to Ruth that Cyrus, who was eating, laughing, angry, unfaithful, fond of women, worried about his son, heartbroken by the appearance of the Zeros, and showing a lot of emotion, is just a weapon (thing).

So, out of his mouth, I didn't want him to say anything sad about 'being a weapon (thing)'.

(………………………………………… Ah, that?

But I'm kind of suddenly embarrassed to notice Cyrus looking at Ruth in silence with a surprised face. What a crummy dialogue you have said with dignity, it starts to rattle inside.

"... Oh, that, I'm sorry.... hey, what are you talking about yourself? Yes, without the present."

"Bu."

"……… Why are you laughing?"

"I'd rather hear it. I said something touching around the corner, but don't say" none "or anything. You're ruining it."

"Ugh... sorry"

"Ha-ha-ha."

When Ruth apologized, more Cyrus laughed. And when I stroke Ruth's head to the point of shaking, I sigh loudly.

"It's true that this body is a weapon. I don't care what I think of it. Don't worry too much about you. You'd be more concerned about that, wouldn't you?

It's true that I don't care, but maybe it's uncomfortable if someone else cares more.

"... Why would Mr. Cyrus be in such a body in the first place?

"I don't know. Don't ask the guy who made it. I don't know exactly why. I thought you wanted Leitol back. So was his plan. Well, I guess his ambition didn't come true that there is no country called Leitol even after all these times have changed. Or did you give up on being jizzy... No, it would be weird if he was alive in the first place"

Cyrus gave a dry laugh.

"……… I'm leaving here tomorrow."

"Eh? Already?

Ruth was upset that he had said something bad.

"Don't get me wrong. If you're here too much, you're going to feel comfortable and live there. We have to get out of here."

"... I don't care how many days you're here, I think you're all welcome"

"Silly, I told you. He said I have somewhere to go... I have to go home, there."

The side of Cyrus with his hands off Ruth's head was serious. He really seems to think we need to hurry back there.

(I wonder if "there” is my hometown...)

Then I can't hold Ruth back any longer than I need.

"Oh, but. I definitely want to do something before I go home."

"What do you want to do?

"Borough hunting, revenge!