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

(Speaking of which, Alec was like this when he was a kid....)

I'm a crybaby and I'm afraid of loneliness.It sounded light in words, but Alec was really cowardly and often crying at the time.He was always hiding behind Ruth.Thanks to this, Danielle and the others were intrigued and in a situation where they could be bullied at the same age.It's very inconceivable now.

(... no, well, it was cute, so I guess I shouldn't have covered up too much.)

I remember Ruth desperately covering for Alec, who was so cute and happy to be relied on.It was too much to think about now.Even though there was no offense, Danielle, who had been friendly until Alec came, was treated as a bad guy, and it wouldn't be strange to be dissatisfied.The dissatisfaction leads to Alec and is a vicious circle of bullying.

But I was also a child.

Being next to Alec when he was just crying was Ruth when he was a normal kid, before he could remember his previous life.Spiritually, Ruth is young, and there's no way he can think ahead.I realized the vicious circle only with the spirit of an adult.No, even if you have an adult spirit, if Alec cries, it's just a memory of spoiling you.

When I was chasing the boy without closing the distance, I eventually saw the church.It seems that he is on his way to the back of the church.

(It's just like the church in Hashi Village... what's really going on?)

There is no mistake in seeing the church that I have seen every day for twenty years.Although I feel a little different from what I saw at the end, the overall shape remains the church of the village that I remember.

(... is this the only way to go?)

A boy like Alec in his childhood, Hashi Village - both are just anxiety for Ruth nowadays.But if we don't keep an eye on it, we won't be able to understand the situation where Ruth is standing right now.

Ruth, who didn't even know why he was here, wanted as much information as he could.

Yeah, I see ~

Alec, who was running away, first reached behind the church and cried to someone.

Ruth turned his gaze to the crying man with his hand on his head.

"What's the matter, cry again.What's wrong with you, Alec? "

While stroking Alec's head in tears, the boy smiling funny with Nikoniko had blue eyes on his black hair.The overall atmosphere is delicate and fragile, but the children laugh and behave badly, and there is a gap with the appearance.

(That's...)

I had a bad feeling about Ruth.

The boy stroking Alec's head - he looked like Ruth when he was young.

(... you're kidding. Why am I there?)

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."It was just "Ruth Braw" himself in his childhood.

It was no longer a situation where I could think of other people's vagueness or mistakes.

(Oh, does that mean she's “Alec” too...)

Ruth turned to Alec, a young boy crying at Ruth.

When I looked at him in a negative mood, I felt different, but once I admitted it, he would only be visible to Alec himself.No, it definitely only looks like Alec.

(... what's going on, what... what's going on?)

Even though his memories are vague and he doesn't understand why he is here, Ruth feels desperate when he even sees a situation where “childhood selves exist in front of him”.

"Ruth, there it is! There it is, someone came after me!"

Huh?

Again, Alec, with Ruth and his eyes facing each other, complained of fear, pointing his finger behind young Ruth's back.

As a child, Ruth, who was stuck by Alec, turned his gaze towards Ruth with a smile.

(Ah... what should I do?)

Ruth doesn't know what to say to herself when she was young.

Alec was a crybaby at his age, but Ruth was active on the contrary.I didn't think it would be easy to accept a suspicious person who had chased Alec.

--But the blue eyes turned around never matched Ruth.

"There's nobody here."

Huh?

When I heard young Ruth's words, Alec and Ruth's voices overlapped.

You don't know what you're saying in front of you, and the confusion gets deeper and deeper.

At that moment, there was a noise from under my feet, and when I turned my gaze, a little rappy just came out.

"Ah! Alec, this is him!"

When young Ruth took his hand off Alec, he ran to Ruth's feet.--And I caught Rapi's neck at his feet “ignoring Ruth himself.”

"Alec, did you mistake him for someone else?"

"Chi, no! One of those bastards!"

One of the owls?

Young Ruth turned around again, but leaned his neck.

From his gaze, he should be looking around Ruth's belly, but his gaze is facing the forest.

"Alec is frightened that no one is here ~"

That's how young Ruth laughed and threw away the lapi he had.

Looking at Rapi dancing through space, Ruth reflexes his hand, but it passes barely through his body without falling into his hands, landing on the ground as it is.The child of Rapi, who was in danger, disappeared into the forest.

"... uhh"

The voice of surprise between young Alec and Ruth echoed again.

"Here, let's eat more than that.My mom said she'd make Alec's mug today.Dad's gonna eat everything, so let's go. "

"Eh... ah, yeah! Whoa, Ruth!"

Alec was surprised, but Ruth pulled his hand and ran away.

He turned his gaze to Ruth, who was stunned only once, but looked no further.

"... eh, what do you mean?"

I don't know anything anymore.

There was the village of Hashi, which was supposed to have collapsed, and Alec and Ruth, who appeared young, were not recognized by young Ruth and could not touch Rapi.

"... what's happening to me?"

There was no answer to Ruth's question.

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The border village of Hashi, which belongs to the kingdom of Deodart, where Ruth was born.

The village was said to have been ten days' walk from King's Landing, and there was only a small dungeon beside it, and there were no major specialties, but the efforts of the inhabitants gave way to a peaceful and calm time.

Everybody, dinner ~

"Yes."

The children in front of Ruth's eyes were called to their mother's voice and headed to their respective houses for lunch.The adults on the side looked gently at the children laughing so as not to fall.What a peaceful sight.

Ruth just watched the children run "through Ruth's body” to her mother.

"... after all, I don't have any substance."

Ruth starts walking around the village sighing.

(How unrecognized.....)

A little while ago, I had such a hunch after seeing young Alec and Ruth, but after coming to the square in the crowded village, I changed my mind.

Whether you're sneaking up on the residents in the wellbore meeting, wandering into the shop, or shouting loudly, nobody looks at Ruth in front of you.It behaves as if nothing existed there.

(No doubt... I'm not supposed to be here.)

Ruth, who was worried about not being able to touch the little rappies, tried to pull out the plants, grab the shop goods, and touched the residents' shoulders with a voice, but none of it ended up being possible.I can't even touch the things of this world without being recognized.

On the contrary, after knowing that I was unstable, I couldn't stand up straight without being aware of the ground.Earlier, it turned vertically on the spot, and it was difficult to go back.Because I can't even touch the ground.

I wonder if ghosts are like this.

Nevertheless, I don't think Ruth died in reality.

(Well, in the first place, it seems like this is not a modern hashi village.)

Loose didn't know much about the housewives who continued the well end meeting, the faces of the running children, and the shops that spread out in Central Square.

(Not only me, Alec, but everyone in this village is much younger than the looks I know)

Most villagers looked much younger than Ruth remembered.It is not a level of youth, it is a level that can only be considered to be completely rewinding in age.There are rare strangers in the village, but they are people who have migrated elsewhere, and in the unfamiliar elderly, they must be people who are not in the world in modern times.

In addition, the shops and buildings that still exist today still exist in the central square where Ruth is now, but the state is different.

Nowadays, the new bakery next door and Danielle's parents, the Gorath family, have a slightly tinted hue.Conversely, the old Brau house was still beautiful before it was destroyed by the Fusion Demon.The Duran family that my brother Clark went to his son-in-law is also brand new.

There was only one answer from that.

I think this is the old Hashi village.

I've come to the past - laughing that such a story is impossible, but if I accept what is happening in front of me, I can only think of it that way.

(Imagine, about ten years... no, based on what “me” looks like, this should be Hashi Village about 16 years ago.)

─ What's the matter, cry again.What's wrong with you, Alec? "

Ruth, who remembers his previous life, doesn't talk that way.Especially immediately after I remembered, I was trying to talk to my parents in respectful language, and I was about to create a groove for my family.Then again, it is certain that this was before Ruth remembered his previous life.

(When I remembered my previous life, my fifth birthday was supposed to be around... how tall would that be?)

Alec came to the village when he was four, so nothing more.The age difference between Ruth and Alec is six months.It is now warm Aristotelian season, based on the appearance of young and bright trees.In other words, around Ruth's birthday.It would be Aristotle's season before and after Ruth turns four to five.

As such, when I remembered various past events, my head suddenly cleared up.

(Ah, speaking of which, Alec came back crying looking for me."Someone I don't know chased me"... and Rapi was the killer after all.)

Looking back in time, I remembered that exactly the same thing happened earlier.I was supposed to forgive Alec when he cried, but now I'm just changing my role to being a suspicious man to chase.

If this memory were correct, it was more and more likely that this was the world of the past.More than that, there is no element to deny.

(... I know where this is... but the question is, why am I here?)

It's not normal to come to the world of the past.I don't think I'm in this place for any reason.

But Ruth couldn't remember anything until he got here.I don't even know what it means.