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

Ruth, Ruth!

"Eh... ah, Alec? Have you eaten already?"

"Hmm... what are you dozing off for?Let's eat a lot of rice later.More than that, are you okay? "

Huh?

After Alec confirmed his safety, his consciousness finally returned to reality.Shake your head slightly, then check your surroundings - stunned.

"Where... here?"

"I don't know... I thought I was wrapped up in the dark, and I was here."

It was a dark world.It's darker than the darkest room I've ever seen.It was too dark to even know if I was floating in space or standing on the ground.

Alec and Ruth, we can only sense their presence.

This pattern again?

Again?

"I've done this again and again, and I'm getting used to the boulders...."

Originally, I should be worried, but Ruth is flying into an unreal space twice in a ark and about four times in other cases.It's also a problem to get used to things like this, but thanks to it, I can almost grasp the situation at a glance.Again, Ruth was brought to a strange place.When I told Alec about it, he was laughing.

Anyway, let's find a way out.

"That's right... it feels like it's on the ground?"

"Ground? Yeah, I feel like I'm walking."

Well, can you drop me off?

Ruth was unconscious with Alec holding him.It seems that this kept the conversation in the same attitude.If you're floating in space, if you're on the ground, you want to walk on your own.

"No."

"Alec... let me down."

"I have a bad feeling about this. Stay like this."

"Uhh...."

If Alec says, "I have a bad feeling,” it's hard to say that Ruth forced me to drop it.I knew very well that his hunch wouldn't end up just because of his mind, and I knew that incredible things would happen in this unreal space.

We started searching for the exit with no choice but to hold it.

Ruth!

Looking for an exit for a while, a low and bright voice echoed.

"Karen!?"

Karen was the one who found Ruth and rushed over.Ruth asks Alec to drop him off, and the two of us approach Karen.

"Karen and the others were here!"

"Yes, that black thing attacked us too.It was hard! "

"Is everybody okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's go, come on!"

Ah, yeah.

Ruth was pulled by Karen and ran in a hurry toward her.

Alec followed Ruth silently, holding his hand.

A little further, all my friends were gathered.Everyone seems not to be injured.

"Luce, I'm so glad you're okay!"

"I was worried!"

"Looks like we can find a way out of this."

"I couldn't find an exit without Lord Ruth."

All right, here we go. Ruth, you stay in the middle of us. "

"Yeah, but if Alec isn't the tail, I'll be right back."

"You just have to stay at the back, Alec."

Heh?

Ruth remembered the strange discomfort at this time.

You don't have to be together.Alec needs to be alone, so Ruth needs to stay in our center. "

No, but...

Confused by Cyrus's story, someone touched Alec's hand this time.

"How long have you been holding hands?You can't move when you need to! "

That's what Kia said and tried to rip their hands off.

But, of course, it was blocked by Alec, and Ruth was attracted, and Kia was distracted.

"What the hell!"

"What's my line, why are you forcing me to leave?"

"Alec, I know you're just reunited with Ruth and I'm worried, but be mindful of your group behavior.You two should be separated here. "

"Yeah, I'm not always showing you where you're messing with me."

"Karen... that's not what I meant."

"Alec, grow up.I'm sure you still have something to do. "

"We'll take care of Ruth and his guards.You can help me get to the exit. "

"Brave man, what can you do... Ruth, what's wrong?"

While Ruth was listening to them, he stepped aside with Alec.

Alec listens to his buddies' remarks with a lot of patience, forcing him to push.

"Ruth?"

"... you guys are different."

What about it?

Ruth's words covered everyone, including Alec.

"No, I'm saying it's someone else.What do you want to do by pretending to be my buddy?What is the purpose? "

Ruth whispers his vigilance to Alec, but slowly distance himself from them.

"What are you talking about? It's real!I'm not just talking about purpose... of course. "

"I wish Alec had been involved in this alone, but he won't let Ruth go, so here's what happened."

"I'm a brave man, so solve every problem by yourself.Leave Ruth out of this! "

”They pretended to be friends," he told Ruth, remembering only the discomfort.But it doesn't resonate.

"Hey, Ruth?"

"Don't worry, Alec. These people aren't the ones I know... they're fakes."

I felt strange from the beginning.Ruth and Alec were in danger, but they all looked worried about Ruth.After that, for some reason, Ruth and Alec were naturally moving separately.It's just a feeling of discomfort.

"I'm sorry, but they don't say that I know... because they're telling me exactly why I came here before I came here."

Ruth didn't come back for the world, he came to save Alec because the world doesn't matter.

My friends came with me convinced by Ruth's story.And yet, coming here and suddenly leaving Ruth and Alec, not to mention despising Alec.

Sometimes they looked stunned, but they basically smiled and watched Ruth and the others.

"... I see. We're being met by a fake."

"Is that what this is all about?"

The moment we were wrapped up in the darkness, with some interference, Ruth and the others flew away.And they are merging with fakes and trying to pull away with some intent.It is not difficult to think so.

"Never let go."

"Of course."

Looking down with his hands tied together, Ruth crouched on the spot.

"Ha!"

Gyaaa!

Karen in front of her screams at Alec's attack as if she wasn't hers.Then it quickly became dust.

"Well, that's easy!"

Alec releases the magic one after the other to Kia, Ed, Maxim, Yuan, and Silas, who is integrated with Orha.Though they showed some resistance, none of them escaped Alec's magic, and all of them attacked and vanished like dust.

I knew it, but it must have been all a mirage.

"Whose magic did this happen?"

"Whose?"

"It takes a lot of magic to do this... but Zagres is gone."

"I don't feel his magic... but there is something around, but I don't know."

"I don't know if you want to come out, I'm in trouble..."

"Alec!"

When Ruth and the others were wondering who the magicians were, a different voice sounded to them.Turning to the person who heard the voice, there was...

"Garcia!?"

There were six of Alec's fellow brave men, Garcia, Eliza, Fana, Curtis, Moore, and Nurf.They stand on their backs with light as if they had come to tear open space.

"Good, you're safe, Alec!"

"Why, you guys....?"

"I heard from Cyrus, who came out of the ark earlier, that you were missing in the ark!"

"We hurried there and we came this way."

They said they couldn't do any more searches.

It was Alec's fault.

"Come on, Alec, let's go outside.There's still something you have to do. "

They were part of a rescue party that they called in after Cyrus and the others escaped safely.

Certainly, Cyrus and his team will not be able to confront the phenomenon of missing hero levels.It wouldn't be strange to decide that you should call for help.

"Oh, yes, Mr. Ruth, I'm sorry, but we're in a hurry.I'll make a way for you to come back later. "

Eh!?

"We're in a lot of trouble out there.It's dangerous for Ruth, so please come back later. "

Oh, really?

"I'll leave your ride, and I'll get you out of here by myself."

The moment Curtis was about to say it, a big hole opened in his body.

"Ah, Alec...."

"Ruth, back off, they're fakes, too.You're imitating what you want. "

"Alek-sama, what are you doing?!"

Alec unleashes magic again, and now Eliza disappears.Garcia, Fanna, Moore, Nurf and Alec quickly disappeared without resistance.

"I knew it was a fake..."

I was half convinced that Ruth was a little strange.Because I understood why they came and why they hastened Alec's escape.

"Damn, I don't know what the guy who made this misunderstood, but my people can't treat Ruth like shit.I had a hard time getting my memory erased. "

Alec says that Ruth has been recognized as the most important person among Alec's people since his memory was erased by a superior spiritual cannagra.They can't just try to get Alec out.

"Besides, they know this trigger is your death, but they can't leave Ruth behind even though it's not a safe zone."

"Ah, sure."

Ruth is hard to understand because he doesn't have much interaction with the Garcians, but they don't want to be ashamed of the name "The Brave One", otherwise they'll never leave the weak alone.That's why I only felt uncomfortable with Alec.

"But when we get to this point, the guy who locked us up really wants us to act in pieces."

Looks like it.

Ruth and the others hold each other's hands again for confirmation.If you let go of your hand here for any reason, it will surely be carried out according to the will of the master of the scheme.

"Alec, instead of looking for an exit, can you make a hole in this world and break it?"

"Break it?"

Ruth can't destroy a drawn world by himself, but with Alec, some power play is possible.

While Natasha was there, Alec made a hole in the world from the outside.Now they're both inside, and it's not the same as then, but Ruth wondered if it could be destroyed in the same way.

"I see, it's troublesome from the inside, but it's not impossible to reason... let's try it!"

"Nice to meet you...?"

When Alec tried to create magic, there was a crack in the space to block it.The glass came out of a broken space.