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

(But I don't want to go like this first....)

No matter how familiar Ruth and the others are with the matter, getting into Yakuza's house is reckless.With such a large mansion, we don't know how many of its members are inside, and it's quite likely that it has weapons hidden.

Ruth and the others have no weapons.Worst case scenario, he could be caught and killed the moment he tried to get in.

Before he tried to speak to the young man in a hurry, he looked back.

"Stay hidden here for a while.Don't let them find you at the gate. "

So I put Ruth and the others on the spot and walked straight.Turning out his aim was the mansion, Ruth grabbed the young man's arm in a hurry.

(Ah, I got it)

I was surprised to be able to touch the youth, but I said what I wanted to say in a hurry.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute! Please."

"... what is it?"

"Tell me all about it. If you don't know anything, you can't keep up any longer."

There is no clue out of this world, so I have come to talk about a young man who obviously knows something, but it is not like taking a train to this mansion.

Although this is not the real world, Ruth and the others are perceived differently from young people.If you enter that mansion, you will obviously trespass.Trouble cannot be avoided if found.

"Hey, let go."

The young man tried to force Ruth to shake his arm, but he was able to suppress it from being too powerful.I wonder if Ruth is much better in shape and strength.

"No, I won't let you go until you tell me."

"... damn it"

"What do you know?Where are you taking us?Who are you in the first place? "

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

"It's not good. We need to get out of here.That's why I'm here about you knowing something. [M]But you won't tell me anything, and it was that suspicious mansion that brought us here. [M]I can't get there without you telling me why. "

I would have followed him silently to the end, but I don't know what he's leading us to.Kia says she has no malice, but it is possible that Ruth and the others will be fooled just because she is unconscious.We don't have weapons, we don't know what we're like in real life, but we can't pretend to be dangerous.

"Hey, talk to me. If you don't tell me anything, I won't know.I don't even know if your actions are worthy of trust. "

……

Ruth pleaded, and the young man took a deep breath."Trouble me," she murmured.But I couldn't help but understand Ruth's hand.I suppose you were willing to talk to me.

As the youth said, Ruth and the others reached a small park nearby.Ruth and the others sat down on the blanket fence in the park at night and leaned against the tree a little further away.There are multiple adults in the park at night.It is not strange to be called, but there is no influence from the house or anyone around.

"Okay... I'll answer what you want to hear.So, what do I know at first?The answer is "exit.” It's your way out of this world. "

The young man spoke lightly of an “exit”.In other words, I know that Ruth and the others are trapped and in trouble, even though they exist in this world.

"... how do you know the way out?"

"Besides, how do you know we're looking for an exit?"

Young people scratch their heads from above their hats, questioning Yuan and Karen.It's an attitude that doesn't bother me at all.

"I don't know how to explain it... well, I know this world.I think the world here was created “on my own initiative” in my memory. "

"Your memory?"

Use it on your own?

"Yes, strange people are building this world using my memories on their own.And I'm like, "I know you used my memory." I'm here. I'm not here. "

……

The reason why the young man told me was too abstract.Ruth and the others tilt their heads.Kia's consciousness is flying far away.

Did you notice that? The young man coughed up suddenly.

"Let's stop the annoying explanation.... anyway, I know that this world is built from my own memory.I know... I can see... anyway, because of that, I realized that only the surroundings were weird. "

He is in a position to see the world from an overhead view due to circumstances.That's why I realized that some of it was strange, even though it was supposed to be a world where my memories were used.

That's Ruth and the others.Only around Ruth and the others are there people or relationships where his common sense doesn't work.Specifically, the Japanese name is a common neighborhood, and those who call each other by a completely different pronunciation have solidified their relationship.

"Yet the people around you lived a normal life without feeling uncomfortable with it.Nobody cares as if they're closing their eyes.That's why I realized that whoever used my memory on his own had something to do with you.On the contrary, I realized that this world was created because of something else. "

If you want to hide a tree, say it's in the woods, but if only the tree you want to hide is colored red, from the top, you'll find out what the person who made the forest wanted to hide.

"But I was just watching the world at first.I don't care if you use my memory or anything.It's troublesome to get involved.... but I stumbled across a gap in this world.I thought you might need an exit.So I decided to show you around. Do you know what that means? "

He was a young man who threw a detailed explanation, but thanks to his position, he knew the exit and was leading Ruth and the others.

(Is it Zagres who created this world...?)

The young man seemed to have no idea who was using his own memories, but there was only one person who could create such a world in a place called the Ark.It takes a lot of magic to do this in the first place.

"Wait, I don't know one thing.Why did you want to show us the way out?At first it seemed like it was going to be a hassle.... "

That's the part I wondered most about when I was listening.

Ruth doesn't know him.So I don't know why a strange young man is trying to help us.

I don't feel uncomfortable purely trying to help strangers if they're small children, but I honestly can't believe that a young man of this age is kindly trying to help Ruth and the others.Especially if you're a young man who talks about "trouble" without saying anything.

Pointing out that, the young man looked awkward.

"I'm sure that's not just kindness."

Then why?

Because I know you.

The young man pointed at Ruth.

"Me?"

"Ah, it's you, uh... Ruth Braw.I know your face and name.... and deep down in my heart, someone screams that I have to help you. "

The young man named Ruth even though he had not introduced himself.I don't think I found out in the conversation because I haven't stopped by Ruth and the others.My friends don't say their last names in the first place.

(Speaking of which, he used to say "Yusha" when he met me before)

If this is what he remembers, it is strange that the word "brave" usually appears.

"Well, who's the“ someone ”crying out for help for Ruth?"

"I don't know."

"... the story is too vague.I don't know how to trust you. "

Cyrus enters the conversation from the back, rushed by a young man who repeats "I don't know."

Without questioning the voice, the young man distorted his face with dissatisfaction.

"I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say!... that's why I didn't want to talk about anything extra. "

In pursuit of his fellow men, the young man speaks as if he were a fool.We both know it's a foreign object in this world, but we don't seem to trust it.

(--he is)

However, Ruth was so upset that he realized that there was a possibility.

(--he's probably)

The situation where Ruth and the others entered the ark.

Alec's location.

“Ruth Knows The World of the Former Life" reproduced here.

"I have to help you."

Together, one reason came to mind.My heart is trembling at the possibility.

(No way... no way... but...)

Repeated denial only brings one answer to Ruth.Sometimes we have to check to see if that possibility is true.

"... I have a favor to ask you."

What is it?

"Would you mind taking off your hat?"

"... hah? Why?"

"I want to see your face. Your....."

"So why?"

"I think I know why you... know me."

Ruth's words shook the fingertips of a young man holding a hat.

"Is that true...? Do you really understand?"

"Yes"

In Ruth's confident words, the young man grabbed his deeply worn hat with a small tongue.

"I don't really like showing my face..."

With that, the young man lifts his hat from his head.

(Ah....)

Hidden inside the hat were light hair colors of fluffy pigments and thin eyes of pigments that glow when exposed to light.A beautiful face that is difficult to judge for both women and men.Thin body, about the same age as Ruth.

I had a hunch.

The same world you saw in the ark.It was very similar to the time when Ruth was there.The young man said, "Someone is using their memories on their own."In this case, Zagres is the only one who can use his memory on his own.

Whose is the memory used?

"... you are Mitsuko-san.... Miyamoto Mitsuki-san, right?"

"Eh...?"

Isn't it right?

I have never seen the actual product.But Ruth can't be mistaken for seeing him in his dreams.

I don't look like a woman as I did when I was in front of filial piety, but I can't forget the look on my face and the color of my hair and eyes when I was away from the Japanese.I am worried that the atmosphere is different from the atmosphere I saw in my dreams, but from his standing behavior and verbal attitude, I think his essence is here.

The light nodded with a carefree expression.

"... I am Miyamoto Hikaru, of course.How did you know my name? "

"... I knew it."

In front of Ruth and the others was Miyamoto Mitsumi, the man Takashi Tanizaki saved his life.

(... after all, Mitsuko-san was inside Alec)

Ruth has been told that Alec's predecessor was a young man named Miyamoto Hikaru.

However, even if Ruth had talked about his previous life, Alec had never talked about himself.That's why I didn't think Alec had any memories of light.I thought the previous life had disappeared.

(But deep down in the memory - no, deeper down, Alec had the memory of Mitsuko-san.... yes, you've only reacted to "emails" once in a while.)

When we talked about the book interacting with Geo during the snowy season, Alec said the word "mail," even though Ruth didn't say it.I said, "Did you say that?"but Ruth still remembers what Alec said.

(Alec's memories of his previous life were sinking deeply.It must be because of the strong seal on the memory)

Alec is currently being held captive by Zagres.According to Geo, Zagres is not just trying to take Alec's magic, he's trying to take it all.

At that time, Zagres destroyed and absorbed even the seal of memory.It was coincidentally reproduced in a ark filled with the magic of Zagres - the possibility is not zero.