Reincarnated As The Hero Ring

Vicar introduced himself and Eli as it would be rude not to do so. Even though Vicar didn't like the idea, he had to play along and pretend that Eli was his fiance. It was all to avoid telling Tane the truth if he knows that Vicar trying to escape the dungeon cell. He would surely tell the guardsmen or think of Vicar as a wanted criminal and capture Vicar instead. 

With all of the introduction was over. Tane offers us to stay at his house, he said that it would be dangerous in the woods at night. Vicar gladly accepts his offer, he then leads us the way. His house was not far from here, it just took a few minutes to get there. It was not a large house, it was a wooden cottage. 

He then knocks on the door, the door then opens up by an old lady. 

"Do you get the herbs Tane?" 

"I got it grandma... it is in my pouch." 

The old lady finally notices our presence here when she looks at Tane behind. She then asks a question towards Tane. 

"Who these people you brought home? Your friends?... No, you don't have any friends if I recall correctly." 

"I met them in the woods and offer them to stay in our place for the night."

"Oh! Welcome to our home..." The old lady greets us kindly, she immediately invites us to enter the house as she said that we will catch a cold if we stay outside for too long. 

The first thing in my mind when I saw this cottage and the old lady was that we had stumbled on a witch house. But it was all gone after the old lady shows up hospitality, she prepares some foods for us and gives Vicar and Eli two pairs of dried cloth as she saw their cloth was soaked. 

The old lady asks for the herb that she needed from Tane, she said that she needed to for the food. She then asks Tane to entertain us while she cooks the food. Tane then shows us the room that we could use to sleep in, he apologizes for the lack of bed as he said that they didn't get visitors often. 

There only people who would visit here were merchants as Tane's grandmother was an alchemist and she sells the potions to them. But they would not stay long, they would leave after they finish doing their business. Tane then asks Vicar a question. 

"I realize that your fiance never talks... is she the shy type."

"She not mine!... Ehem... She was a shy person that has some speech disorders, that's why she rarely talks."

"Okay... I bet you must be a rich man right?"

"Me? A rich man..." Vicar laughs as he continues to say, "There no way that I'm a rich man... I just an ordinary person." 

"But the ring you wore was a gold ring! There no denied that you indeed a rich man..." 

"Oh! That's why you called me rich... This ring is given to me by my friend, she was rich not me." Vicar said. 

Tane wanted to ask more but it seems that he has to hold that questions for now as his grandmother was calling Tane and us for dinner. We all then head to the kitchen and sit down on the chair while Tane's grandmother placing all the foods she cooks on the table. 

Before Vicar starts to eat, he introduces himself and Eli as he forgot to do so earlier. I could see his face when he says Eli was his fiance, he really does not like it at all. Tane already starts to reach the foods on the table and his grandmother quickly hits Tane hand.

"Let's not be rude in front of our guest!" Tane's grandmother scolds him.

"But I'm hungry..."

"The guest should be the one that gets the food first!"

"Nah! It's fine... we should eat together." Vicar said.

"You lucky that this young man is a good man." With that, all of the people in the room started to eat their food. 

The food looks delicious, there was some unfamiliar dish that I had never seen in this world yet. Sadly, I could not taste the food as I am a ring. I could just see Vicar and Tane happy faces when they eat the food, I bet that it was delicious as they eat more than one. Sometimes, I wish that I had a body like a human as being a ring really limits what I can do. 

While they were eating, Tane's grandmother notices something was wrong. She asks Vicar why does his fiance does not eat a thing. Vicar just realizes that Eli didn't eat the food at all, he was too busy eating that he forgets about Eli. 

"Ummm... She prefers to eat alone." Vicar said that. When I heard that Vicar choose that reason, I thought that they surely get suspicious towards us. 

Luckily, they both believe it. It surprised me on how do they believe that. If it was me, I obviously would not believe it as there no people in the world that would prefer to eat alone. That would be too sad for someone to eat alone. Even I eat with somebody in my old world, with my anime body pillows of course. 

Thinking back to my old life, I think that I living a sad life. I should really socialize more rather than spending time with the body pillows. I then realized that there might be a person that enjoys eating alone cause I'm also one of them, besides this a different world than mine. 

After they all finish eating their food, Vicar and Eli headed to their room. Vicar had to take some food for Eli to made the lie he made earlier looks somewhat realistic. Vicar closed the door of that room and place the food on the bed as there weres no tables in here. 

Eli was clinging all of the time, I really don't know what was this dead problem. Why would she cling to him, Vicar was not his husband. If you wanted to say resemblance, Vicar's face and Sir Allen's face were totally different from each other. 

Vicar really didn't know what to do with Eli, he could not get Eli to stop clinging at him. He then asks Eli a question and hoping that this time Eli would answer them. 

"Why do you cling to me that much?" 

"I love you!" 

"I'm not your husband! I'm a different person and you know that didn't you..." Vicar said. 

"I love you!" She said the same thing as earlier. 

This is the problem when you talk with Eli, she always gave the same answer as always. I could see that Vicar had lost his patience, he pushed Eli on the bed, and the food spill because of that. Eli pulled Vicar's arm and Vicar was struggling to get out of it. Tane then suddenly enters the rooms. 

"Vicar... You forgot the wa-wa-wa-water" Tane stuttered as he saw Vicar and Eli. 

I bet that he had the wrong idea about his situation again, well I will not blame him for getting it wrong. The positions of Eli and Vicar in the bed will give anyone the wrong idea. Vicar immediately stand up and tried to explain the situation.

"Tane! I could..." Before he could finish, Tane was already trying to leave the room.

"I'm so-so-sorry! I should knock first... I didn't see anything." He slowly walked to the door. 

"This is not what it looks like! Tane hears me out..." Vicar shout but Tane didn't stop as begins to walk faster and finally exit the room. He also closes the door hardly. 

Vicar could not do anything to stop him as Eli was pulling his shirt. The situation has gotten more awkward now. He then looks at Eli, Vicar knows that it would not happen if he didn't push Eli away. He regretted his action and all I could do was watch it happen. 

"Vicar... I sure Tane will understand it." I said that to Vicar. 

"No, he will not, I'm sure he will spread rumors about me..." 

"Well, all you could do now is wait for the morning and explain to him what really happens." 

"There no hope for that... he surely will not believe it at all." 

"Just try for it... we don't know if he, believes it or not, I bet that he will believe it if you tell him what exactly happens here."

I know that I said that but it was just to cheer Vicar up. I do know that Tane will not believe it at all as he thought Eli and Vicar were fiances. But I doubt that he will spread rumors about this as he seems to be a man that can keep a secret perfectly fine. 

"Let's not think about it too much Vicar, better head to sleep cause we need to go back to the town right?"

"Huh... Okay.."