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

"Come on, we're going out"

The next morning, after breakfast, Alec and the valiant line leave the inn when they are finished getting ready early.

They'll sneak out of the village and start moving early in the morning that if it's time for the other villagers to move out, it'll be a noise.

"Hey, come on."

Daniel, Fritz, Colt, and Marianne were just leaving the village.

The four had been asked by the village chief to guide them on a line of brave men. Ruth is also walking beside Alec, one of its members leading the way.

(Well, I'm not supposed to need directions either. Because Alec is here)

At the point where Alec is from the village, I know he doesn't even need directions instead of escorts, but that's all the village chief didn't allow. As the village chief of Hashi village, which exists with the dungeon, I guess we can't send out a line of brave men without guidance. The village chief is someone who cares about that unexpectedly.

All right, let's go.

Alec's decree sent a line of brave men and Ruth to a dungeon on the side of Hashi village - what Alec and his men called the 'Ark'.

At first it was a line of nervousness, but the conversation started normally because strangely not a single demon appeared on the road, or eventually the mood of all the members loosened.

Marianne was apparently interested in three of Alec's associates, the women, who were aggressively speaking and totally flirting with the women's talk.

Fritz and Colt also talk to the Garcias normally with men other than Alec.

Though a line of brave men, they will not be proud, nor will they look down on the Ruth's, so it will be thanks to their great ease of speaking.

It's just that Alec and Daniel looked grumpy, pinching Ruth and talking about recent developments in the village. As always, we don't know if we're close or not.

(Don't worry about me last night, I have to do the job the village chief gave me.)

I still have the emotions I've had, but I can't care less about them all. Ruth shook his head and entered into a conversation between the two that seemed to develop into rhetoric, wondering if it was an important day for Alec and the others.

Thanks to that, the members reached the entrance to the dungeon lightly, in a relaxed mood that was also out for a picnic.

"There it is. Opening and closing devices!"

"Do you think I can use it?

"It didn't seem to have been used for a long time...... you have no problem. It's going to work thanks to good cleaning. Everyone in Hashi Village has been playing that role for a really long time."

A strange noise echoed around as Nurf and Fana checked near the entrance. I also feel a slight vibration, but the surrounding conditions remain the same.

Daniels and the others show vigilance, but Alec and the others had a spare atmosphere. Ruth hasn't alerted Alec either, so she's asking him how he's doing.

"Role?"

I was more concerned about Naughty's words than that. Nurf said 'its role', but is there a role or something in that mediocre village?

As Ruth tilted her neck, Alec, who was next door, opened her mouth.

"This Hashi village was called the Beginning Village."

"The village of beginnings?

"Yes, Hashi Village today is a name that I was able to name after a thousand years, and it used to be different."

"But why 'Beginning Village'?

"You know this dungeon is called 'The Ruins of Beginning'?

Alec told me that Ruth remembered that the village chief was calling this dungeon that way.

"It's a village for 'ruins of beginnings', so it's a 'village of beginnings'. This village exists for the" ruins of the beginning, "and the villagers are required to protect and manage the ruins from the outside."

"... I've never known anything like that"

When Ruth turned her gaze to Daniel, they also looked surprised. Even Marianne, the village chief's daughter, is leaning her neck. After all, no one knows that.

Alec nodded in agreement with Ruth and the others' reaction.

"Of course I didn't know. But the village chief should know. So the village chief is tough on the migrants. This village does not flourish or decline beyond a certain point, also because the village chief has thorough control of the village's population. If the population grows too much, it will be difficult to maintain stability as a village to protect the dungeons."

(Oh, speaking of which, Mr. Wonock said that before...)

"Hey, Ruth. Don't you think it's weird... '

I didn't think to ask you a strange question, but maybe Wonok originally knew why this village existed and asked Ruth, a villager, such a question. Do the residents of Hashi village understand properly and live in this place?

(Well, I gave a misguided answer)

Wonok laughed and flushed with his nose, as did Ruth's untargeted answer. I was never expelled from the village or taught my mission. Thinking about it, maybe it was really just a public story. Wonok has trouble seeing Ruth's reaction and enjoying it.

"Maybe that's what the village chief is worried about the money for?

"Well, I guess. Maybe half of it is his hobby."

To Ruth's question, Alec, as well as Daniels, laugh bitterly.

It seems that the village chief has a superior spiritual, not originally from this village, but came from somewhere else for that reason. In other words, in order to be the village chief of this village, he said that maintaining the village in order to protect the dungeon requires strength. The fact that the village chief became the village chief of Hashi village is also the life from King Deodart, if you follow the original.

(That much, what is this dungeon...?

Ruth felt suddenly horrified by the dungeons he had visited many times before and even turned into a playground.

"I'll tell you everything when I get home, because the details will be long. Look forward to it, all right?

"Okay... I'm looking forward to it"

When Ruth nods honestly, Alec stares narrowly. My fingertips got tangled with nature.

"Alec, you and Ruth will always hang out."

But Garcia looked back at the other members gathering near the entrance to the dungeon, when Ruth and the others were trying to distance themselves, realizing that there was Alec on the side. The other members notice the voice and turn their gaze to Ruth and the others.

Ruth rushed to push Alec, who was lying down when he saw the gaze directed at a line of brave men turned into a frightened one. It's not Alec leaving to that extent, of course, so it stays the same after all.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

"Where is it a little. Ever since I got back."

"Alec......"

Ruth gestures to Alec, who is completely unwilling to move from side to side, "Get out of the way." Then Alec finally let go of Ruth while he seemed unhappy.

Go straight to Garcia's side and peek into the naves' hands.

Ruth decided to approach the Daniels watching a little farther and ask how they were doing with them. By the way, I felt a tremendously subtle gaze at Marianne at the head, but I endured while meditating on my eyes to apologize for "not reading the air" in my heart. Only Daniel looked far in the face like his soul had fallen out.

"So, what's the hassle?"

"This device is still from the old generation, so it was a little complicated..."

"Hmm? That's where it says..."

Again, there is a strange noise coming from Alec and the others. The unheard sound, close to the mechanical sounds of previous life, was shaking the entire forest.

"What's going on with this?

"Come on......"

Until now Ruth had no major doubts about the dungeon. But when I listen to Alec and the others, he says it's an 'opening and closing device', and even though Ruth and the others are doing something in front of him, the whole forest is moving.

(Maybe this dungeon isn't just a relic?

At that moment, my feelings widened

(... I don't know what it's like...)

I felt a similar rush in my heart to anxiety. But when it comes to the dungeon, I rush to the neck that there should be no reason to remember that feeling.

"Oh, you're working fine"

When Ruth and the others returned their gaze to the entrance to the dungeon to Curtis's voice, strange shaped frames popped up there around the staircase to the basement, which was always pompous open. Around it you can see some red light, lit or extinguished. If you say it in a previous life, it feels like a flashing light in a state of readiness before the door closes and moves out.

(Could this dungeon be the same build as Gilmore...?

When Alec and the others say it's the last place, and the earlier stories taken together, maybe this ruin is more complicated than the Ruth and the others think.

"Hey, what's this..."

"Red light?

As proof of that, Daniels was very surprised at how the entrance looked the first time he saw it.

"You're officially open. Ready."

I hear Alec's hard voice. I felt that there was finally a determination to go to the last place.

"Alec... you're going, right?

As Ruth spoke, Alec looked back and nodded. There I saw Ruth's usual opposite sweetness and his temper for what would happen ahead.

"When we get in, this place closes automatically. But just in case, Ruth and the others, as the village chief has told me, mark and set aside a landmark to keep people away from their surroundings. Well, I don't think anyone can get in because the door's closed, just in case. Because idiots are everywhere in the world."

"Okay."

"Then you get away from this place as soon as you're ready. I don't know what's gonna happen."

"Yeah. You got it, too."

When Ruth replied, Alec and the others headed down the stairs in turn, spearheading Garcia. The view inside the dungeon from the entrance felt different than usual. First of all, the shape of the lamp on which the lights are lit is changing.

Alec, who remained until the end, rushed closer to the side as he turned toward Ruth and began to descend backwards. Daniels and the others approach the entrance to imitate Ruth.

"Well, I asked for it. I'll be right back, Ruth."

"Yeah, I'll be waiting. Alec...... be careful"

At the same time Ruth replied, a mechanical sound rang and a door similar to the shutter blocking the entrance to the stairs appeared. It blocked Alec's and Ruth's sight and eventually made a loud noise and closed it completely.

"... are you okay now?

A small vibration continued for some time after the door closed, but Daniel raised his voice as he was on guard around where it finally fitted.

Okay, let's get ready.

Ruth and the others stood roped around the entrance and placed a sign that said 'No entry during dungeon blockade for a while'. As Alec said, the entrance is covered in hard metal, which is unlikely to open in simple magic, but I wouldn't have done it to alert you.

"You're done. So, shall we go home?"

To Daniel's voice the Fritz walk out ready to go home.

Ruth also picked up the remaining rope and tried to keep going to the mountain road.

- But I look back because I'm worried about the end of the door where Alec disappeared.

(I don't know, I moan...)

Neither Alec nor his people were as good as when we met before. I saw a determination to try something difficult, but it looked like I was sure of a bright future. It wasn't at all the kind of atmosphere Ruth would learn to worry about.

And yet for some reason I can't stop making heartbeat noises.

(... just glad I dropped you off? Really)

I don't feel that way, like I'm forgetting something important. A disgusting feeling overshadows Ruth, like you can't remember what you shouldn't forget.

"Don't worry."

With such a voice, Ruth looked back with great surprise, with her hands resting on her shoulders. It was Daniel with his mouth as a letter to.

"There's no way that Alec's bastard is going to leave you. I'll be right back."

Beyond Daniel were three people stopping their legs knowing Ruth wouldn't move. Everyone cared about Ruth and waited for me.

"That's right. I'm sorry, let's go."

Fritz, who was leading the way in Ruth's voice, starts walking by decree "We're leaving". Ruth followed it along with Daniel.

"If anything happens to you, he might break it."

"Ha..."

I would have laughed "no way," but as for Ruth, who sees Alec distorting even the space when he gets anxious from time to time, I wasn't used to that mood.

(When I first left the village, I didn't feel that far...)

Sometimes Ruth himself didn't understand his thoughts at the time, but I felt a little more calm about Alec as well. Now that I think about it, it conveys my thoughts properly, and I don't think it's understated, but I think I could afford a little more than I currently do.

When I think about it, I feel my chest area squirm for some reason.

"Ruth."

"Hmm?"

"Don't look like that. He said it was okay."

"Oh. Yeah, I'm so sorry"

Ruth decided to change the subject when it was bad for Daniel, who was worried about me if I had a dark face forever.

The five men, who returned to the village without a thing, were dissolved after completing their report to the village chief.