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

Ruth came to take a bath when time went by and dropped the lobby lights.

The bath of the Blau family is in conjunction with that of the inn. Rossa and others often go in for drinks with adventurers because there is no particular decision not to go in with the customer. But Ruth always decides to come in when the customers are finished. Because Alec has been insistent on saying, "It's rude to go in with a guest, so don't."

(Oh, but someone's still in there today...)

I noticed that the wall hanging on the bath door indicated that a man was bathing. Alec has sporadically told me, so I usually don't want to go in when there are others, but I have a demon hunt tomorrow and I'm busy in the morning. I want to sleep early, so I want to take a bath.

(Sort of)

Ruth opened the door and went into the stripper. The sound of this door will tell the people inside that someone has come, if you don't like it, you just have to get out right away.

There is clothing for one person in about three tatami strippers, so it seemed to bathe only one person. Ruth took off all her clothes and opened the door with just a towel.

The bathroom, which is about five meters long, has three washrooms and a bath about three meters wide. Surrounded by wooden walls, the ceiling had large, bespoke windows. Thanks to this, not only the indoor lamp, but also the light of the moon comes in, so the bathroom is bright. I really wanted to make it look like an outdoor bath like it was in my previous life, but "you care when a woman enters," Alec once again objected resolutely to this, so I'm trying to ventilate it and make sure the wallboard doesn't rot.

Looking into the room where the hot air stood, I saw the person there who had been talking about it earlier.

"Ah, good evening, Mr. Maxim, I'm sorry to disturb you."

"Ru, Ruth, duh! -!"

When he greeted him brightly, Maxim, who was in the hot tub as he turned this way, was surprised to see Ruth for a moment before jumping, and for some reason he soaked his face in the hot tub with momentum.

"Duh, what's up? Mr. Maxim."

……

Speaking to Maxim's very weird movements, not that he sank his head all over the hot tub, for some reason the opponent raised his face by flipping his body direction with his face on and trying to turn his back on Ruth.

"Buha, haha... a little, a little! Thought I'd train you to dive!

"Ha… Are you training to dive, please be careful not to climb up"

"Absolutely!

Though wondering about Maxim, who would raise his voice if he did, Ruth would sit back in the washroom chair and start washing her body. When I finished washing my head as I had a conversation with Maxim, who kept his voice up, about "The night sky is beautiful" or "Thank you for preparing dinner," I grabbed a towel and headed to the tub.

"Become and excuse me."

"Ah... well, go ahead..."

As Ruth vacated one person and soaked him in the hot tub, he noticed Maxim pulling his body over to the edge without a scratch. Even from hiding it tightly in a towel before, I wondered if I didn't like naked dating, and Ruth also just pulled over to the edge and sank it all the way to his shoulder at once.

Warm hot water stains all over your body and tiredness rubs loose all at once.

"Huh... feels good..."

"Ku, uhh...!

Maxim groans strangely as he reacts to Ruth's voice. Looking at you, Maxim was sitting in the hot tub with his forehead on the side wall.

"Mr. Maxim, if you're not feeling well, you'd better get up early."

"It's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. Instead, you're in too good shape to stand up, or you're standing up"

"Stand up?"

"No, nothing! I'd like to indulge in some more hot tubs!

"I hope so."

I was concerned about Maxim's strange condition, but I thought it would be rude to speak too much, and Ruth lets the hot tub soak up her body. Father Rossa says naked dating is a good thing, but she also knows that distance is difficult. Even that Alec doesn't like taking a bath with Ruth, so I guess he's not good at it.

(Still, I knew Mr. Maxim was in good physical shape, too)

It's hard to tell because the surface of the hot tub is wavy because it's filled with hot water, but Maxim's back was out about a third because he was sitting on the front seat, so I could see that he had solid, wasteless muscles there. It doesn't feel as full of muscles as Rosa and Clark, but the difference in stature with Ruth is obvious. Ruth also thinks she has quite a few muscles, but she may not feel very masculine when compared.

(I guess the secret to being hot is muscle......)

I like this face and body, but Ruth was serious about whether he should still muscle it.

"... Ah, it's finally a demon hunt tomorrow"

"Ah, Yes. Tomorrow at last."

As Ruth was doing Maxim's muscle observations, he called out in a much calmer tense earlier. When Ruth hammered him as usual, Maxim gradually broke his front seat and washed his face with sinking hot water to his shoulders before taking a deep sigh. But for some reason, my gaze is on the day after tomorrow.

"Aren't you afraid of Lord Ruth?

"Afraid?"

"It's about the monster hunt."

"Um, if they ask you if you're afraid or not, maybe you're afraid"

Even Ruth is afraid of getting killed, and I don't think he wants to. Besides, they are demons whose intentions are impossible to communicate with, creatures who have no regard for this one. I don't have enough nerves to stay calm when I hear there are things I can eat out of my head alive when I stop by. The memorable world of the previous life is even worse because there was no such threat.

"… and yet you do not consider leaving this village?

"Leaving the village, are you..."

"If you give it to the King's Capital, you won't be threatened by demons, and you won't have to hunt dangerously to earn a living, it's very safe."

Ruth was never born out of this village. I often listen to Clark about Wang Du, and I know that the world is wide because I have memories of my previous life. I'm sure there are a lot of things in the world that Ruth doesn't know. It's not like I don't want to see or hear that.

(But you don't want to leave the village)

Ruth vaguely took over his parents' quarters in this village and took it for granted that he was dying. It is tantamount to not having such an idea per se. As much as I realized that Maxim had the means to do that for the first time. I wonder why.

"I don't hate hunting. Hunt your prey with your own hands and receive everything with gratitude. I'm sure that's what fades away when you get out of the city. I don't like that."

Because I know a peaceful world for a minute in my previous life, I was afraid of taking my life, and I couldn't even hunt properly at first. But one time I realized that it was made up of the deaths of many creatures in my previous life. And now that that's what I see in front of me, I think I need to take more care of it. I guess that's why life in the mountains seems so important that Ruth doesn't want to get out of here.

"Besides, I like to run a lodging here. That's a small income compared to the Wang Capital Inn, and I can't afford luxury, but it's a small inn, so it's close to guests, and it's a lot of fun to do. I wish I could inherit it properly and make it a little bigger."

As for Ruth, he doesn't think he needs a big lodging in a village of this size. However, based on the foundations created by my parents, I also had a dream of making it a lodging house that I would like to come to the village again.

"Lord Ruth is young, but he's thinking ahead."

"... No, I don't think so."

Ruth, who didn't think she could be praised there, laughed in the light.

"And then we have to wait for Alec to come back to the village"

"……… Lord Alec?

"Alec, who has completed his valiant mission, says he will return to the village. He wants me to wait. That's why I have to say" welcome back "to you then. So until then, if he's not in the village normally, he'll cry."

That said, I heard Maxim take a deep sigh.

"... Lord Ruth cares about Lord Alec."

"Because I'm a child friendly and my best friend"

"... best friend, is it"

For some reason, Maxim smiled dry. The sound sounded a little lonely and I thought that something had gone wrong, but the reason did not come to mind.

"Lord Ruth."

And I wondered if the silence had persisted for a while, and I heard the water moving my body, and Maxim turned my body around and looked at me on the spot.

That face was so serious, I think he's trying to talk serious, and Ruth turns to Maxim in the same way. For some reason at that moment I heard a weird groan from Maxim calling me "Ugh," which attracted my eyes, but I stopped worrying about Ruth as well because she didn't try to distract me from her gaze at all. You have to look me in the eye when you're serious.

"Tomorrow I will do everything in my power to hunt demons for this village."

"Yes, thank you."

"Instead, I wish Lord Ruth well."

"To me?

"Yes. Can you pray and wait so I can come back safely?

Maxim, whose cheeks are red because he's soaking in the hot tub, tells him seriously. From the looks of it, I don't think you're joking.

(Oh, you know what?)

I'm sure there will be a difference in motivation if there are people waiting to return or not. You can make a mistake if you say this to a woman in the village poorly. So much so that even Ruth got a little thrilled. Of course, Maxim doesn't make weird mistakes because he knows he didn't see Ruth as such when he found out she wasn't a woman.

Ruth stared straight at Maxim as he calmed his mind, which had been a little bothered.

"Mr. Maxim. Waiting for your safe return. Good luck with that."

"Huh... Thank you very much. Lord Ruth, I will do my best for you."

I was a little concerned about "for you," but Maxim's face, who called himself "me," blew up a lot because it was sweet and loose. There was a lot of light gathering in my black eyes, and I felt it stained red. Because of that, I can feel the heat like a bouquet and a hue boiling out of Maxim - and.

"Mr. Maxim..."

"I wonder."

"There's blood from my nose..."

"Huh!?

Maxim's, there is zero tarari and red blood from the center of his sparkling smile.

(eh, isn't this a good idea!?

I think it must have been a long conversation in the hot tub that caused Ruth to cramp his face. Tomorrow is an important demon hunt, but if you let Maxim fall, it's important.

"Mr. Maxim, you let him up! I'm in a hurry to get ice."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

As soon as Ruth tried to get out of the hot tub in a hurry to bring ice from the innkeeper, a scream resembling a scream was raised from Maxim. And when I'm surprised by that, I exaggerate gestures and urge Maxim to return. But his face remains facing the day after tomorrow.

"Lord Ruth, please don't go up from the hot tub! Please!

"Uh, so, but, get some ice"

"It's okay. 'I just let it go up', so it stops right away! So please stay immersed there! Please! Do it for me, too! This is really not good anymore, a lot!

"Are you ill?

"Chi, it's not. I am in very good health. It's rather too good, I'm in trouble there!

"Ha ha……………?

In the end Maxim told Ruth to be immersed in the hot tub and for some reason he headed to the stripper in a weird position. And when I get my butterflies done and get dressed, I say hello to Ruth and leave the bathroom.

"... are you sure you're okay..."

Ruth was a little nervous about his usual calm, non-Maxim-like words and actions.