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

"That, now..."

Open your eyes. Ruth looks around.

"Nobody...... right? It's my fault..."

'... sprinkle...'

"No, it's not my fault"

No one in the room, but a whispering voice in his ear is sure to reach Ruth's ear. The clear sound of it didn't seem like an illusion.

But there's nobody in the room.

"... it's a child's voice, isn't it?

Ruth decides to try to respond to that voice, albeit vigilantly.

"Who? Who is it?

'... that's right. Hmm... Ta, soo, soo...'

I didn't sound familiar with the childish high voice calling for help. It is not the voice of the children in the village. Ruth, who frequently faces them, understands.

(Then whose voice is this? No, he seems to be saying "help" more than that, so I need to help him...)

If a young child is looking for help, it may not be if he thinks about this and why. Maybe he's in danger of a bad life.

"Help me, are they doing something?

"And... I can't get out..."

"Are you trapped somewhere?

Ruth frowns. When a small child is locked up, it is not a calm thing.

"Where are you now?

"Over here......"

"This way?"

"Over here......"

My voice only tells me "this way," but I noticed that the sound was not coming from my ear, but from far away.

Ruth opened the window and looked out. The voice seems to be coming from outside the building to Ruth.

(I don't know what the principle is...)

I've never heard Ruth hear a voice like this before.

This past year, however, I was easily convinced by Ruth, who had been caught up in various events unlikely in his normal life, that he "must be using some great technique" without questioning it.

Alec returns frequently, using something extraordinary called forwarding. There is nothing strange about the magic of flying your voice to a designated location.

"Over here, come..."

The voice was echoing from the house next door - the one where Wonok's house was.

(Let's go... and before that)

Ruth went back to his nostalgia with the trash and clothes that came out in the brown bag he had. Because I don't know anything yet, but if my mother Celine dumps me, it's tough, and I don't know what to answer if I find an incompatible trash can in this world.

Just in case you put Orha on your hips belt, down the stairs Ruth heads next door.

"Around here..."

Ruth, who came as close to his former Wonok house with his voice as a clue, looked for anything around him. But it's been beautifully flattened, so there's no place to hide, and there's no way the child's incarcerated.

"Hey, where are you?

"Over here......"

"I don't know this way. I need a few more tips on where you are."

"Of..."

"Huh?"

"In the Ground"

At the same time as his voice sounds, the ground where Wonok's mansion was situated glows.

I noticed a thin red light I had seen somewhere depicting the demon squares.

"What is this? - Whoa."

As soon as Ruth touched the demon cube that appeared on the ground, he felt his body floating like it had fallen into a hole, he was slapped from his ass to the ground.

"Just... what, all of a sudden..."

He was accidentally hit and dropped to the hard ground, so he couldn't even take the reception. He hits me in the butt and groans at the pain.

"........................ where?

Waking up physically with her butt mopping, Ruth realizes she's in a place she doesn't know about.

It was a passage-like place surrounded by stone, with no sky, trees or ground in sight. Though there are small lights, the dim, damp air drifts around and the irresistible callousness slightly snorts.

"Could it have been... forwarding technique, was it?

I know because I'm watching Alec come to Ruth, but I've never used it myself, so it's just a prediction. But considering Ruth was on sunny ground earlier, it would be more reasonable to assume he was flown somewhere with those things.

"Where is it going?

Nothing was going to happen when I waited, so Ruth moves on back.

After walking for a while, I saw the door at the poke.

(Demon Squad... Wouldn't open it)

The door depicted a large demonic formation. There's no entrance to plug in the keys, but whatever you do, you don't freak out. I guess this demon squad is locking the door.

But when Ruth, who gave up, tried to find another place, he heard a slight voice.

"Sprinkle..."

To that weak voice, Ruth clears his ears. Without making jiggly noises, I heard voices again. It sounds like it's coming from the end of the door.

"The voice child just now? Are you there?

When Ruth knocks on the door, he hears the sound of dragging the chain.

"... Brother Ruth?

Back to Ruth's question was the voice of a child I had just heard. When I was flown by magic or something and it sounded to my ear, it sounded childish, but when I heard it through the door it seemed a little more grown-up.

"You know about me?

Ruth didn't remember the voice. But if you know his name, maybe he's a kid I've met somewhere before.

"I know. It's the first time we've had a conversation."

"First time?"

"That's right. Because I..." Addy. "

Ruth opens her eyes when she hears the name.

Addy was hired as a servant by Wonok, the name of a demonic boy. Wonok picked up where there were no parents and they were lost in the mountains - but I don't know the truth.

"Addy!? Are you Addy?

He should have been unable to speak without speaking. Ruth never heard a voice either.

"That's right, brother Ruth. I've seen you many times, Addy."

His voice was a flatter voice without discouragement than I thought. His voice is high and childish, but the way he talks is a little grown-up. It sounds as if an adult is forced to speak in a child's voice.

(No, I don't care about that now)

"You're starting to have a voice, Addy. Good."

"... yeah. There's a lot going on..."

"More than that, Addy, how did you get here? Didn't you go back to the country with Mr. Wonock?

When Wonock disappeared, Addy was gone with him. That's exactly why I thought he could have been taken, too, but there's no sign of Wonok nearby. Ruth wonders why he's in such a weird place with only one person.

"He... left me here."

"What, put it down?

"I'm going to be busy, so I want you to take care of yourself. It's terrible, isn't it? Besides, the door was locked so I wouldn't go out on my own... so I couldn't even see my Ruth brothers. I missed you so much."

"Mr. Wonok..."

Ruth sighed at what Wonock was likely to do.

(Why, it's always extreme to do...)

Ruth believes that the essence of Wonok is not evil, although it is destructive. It was also because of Ruth's normal continuation of interactions, while finding out that he had terrible powers.

I can assume that there must have been circumstances again this time, but it was likely that Addy didn't understand what Wonock wanted to do. I guess it's only natural that Ruth doesn't understand it every time either. Always drop your shoulders knowing the truth later.

"Addy, I'm sure Mr. Wonock left you for a reason. My body hasn't healed yet..."

Addy has fallen at Wonock's house before. I haven't heard you recovered from Wonok since. For his safety, there's a good chance he left us here.

"Yeah. I don't think so. He said he needed medical attention already. And if I had to go outside, I'd have told you to call Brother Ruth."

"Huh? Me?

"Brother Ruth heard me too, so you've come this far, haven't you? I'm sure it's his trick."

"Oh, I see..."

Apparently, it was Wonock's fault that Addy heard Ruth in the house. Then that strange situation was also convincing.

(I doubt why you did such a pain in the ass, but Addy's voice does look fine... and Mr. Wonock really wouldn't be surprised if you bothered him and locked Addy up properly and went somewhere...)

Anyway, he's the kind of man who would deliberately put Adi to use to the Wang capital during a major event in Hashi village such as the Spirit Festival. I don't like reading the air, timing it, that kind of thing, and I only act so I can move easily. It must also be difficult for Wonok to think about the feelings of trapped Addy.

(Besides, if Addy was really bad enough to go outside, he wouldn't draw a demon cube in that place)

If I put a demon squad for transfer on the ground where anyone can come, I can come to this place even if it's not Ruth. If I was bad, there was a good chance Bird would have come who worried about Addy.

So the testimony that Wonok originally drew Ruth to find Addy's presence was also well believed.

"I get it. In the meantime, open the door. But this doesn't open normally..."

"That's right. Something to keep me from opening it even if it's not Brother Ruth. Brother Ruth said the power of the Orihalcon would open it."

"Mr. Wonok, I was even telling Addy about Orha..."

There's no way he doesn't know the nature of the Orihalcon, though he's too prepped to be stunned by the surrounding Wonok. It is likely that I was creating a demonic square exclusively assuming these things. Then nothing's wrong with Addy knowing.

As Ruth approached Orha, who was lowering to her waist, the demonic squares painted on the door began to glow loosely. The reaction seems to be showing.

"Oh, wait a minute, Brother Ruth...... whoa. Yes, if you stab Orihalcon in the middle of the demon squad, turn right."

"Oh, yeah."

Moving as Addy instructed, I heard a chatter and a key unlock from the door that didn't respond to anything I'd done earlier.

Ruth gently opens the door.

"That's dim..."

It looked like a killing landscape inside. There are only a few low light lamps and a large desk with something like an experimental appliance, plus a qualitative sleeping area and a hand washing area. Very unlikely to leave one child behind. I wonder what was going on with the food.

"Addy, it's okay... A, D...?

Ruth tried to speak to the boy who was hiding behind the door, but unlike what he imagined, his voice dull.

"Oh, did I surprise you? He said it was a side effect of treatment."

It wasn't Addy who looked like a little kid there.

Around his age he was a mid teenager, tall enough to be near Ruth's nose, and had a boy with a face about midway between adults and children.

Above all, it was different from Addy I had seen so far. The eyes, which had longitudinal eyes reminiscent of animals, have thinned sideways and disappeared into their expressions. The hair, which was mixed in brown, also dyed black and was not originally taken apart and characteristic of the face, but the impression is blurred more generally. If I was in the city, I would have definitely looked confused.

(That... what is this face, somewhere?

A sense of moya moya strikes Ruth.