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

Ruth, lying down, sighed deeply on the bed with the afternoon sun falling.

"What, Alec had left the King's capital for so long?"

Ruth, who reads through the letters he was receiving to the end, starts cleaning up the letters, saying so.

According to Alec's letter, he left the Wang capital immediately after the Kenhao Games, and after that, when he went to the village for his first purpose and did his valiant work, he immediately solved the problem there for the next village and immediately headed to a slightly larger city. Looks like he's traveling pretty fast.

When I saw the name of that large city on a map that was in the inn, it was quite far from Hashi village. Soon, Alec seemed to have gone quite far.

"But what is this“ pleasure for me too ”thing......?

And at the end of the last letter, he heard rumors of a well-known human being in a village, and it said that Alec would ignore the Goddess's words and head there first. Alec said, "Something that can solve your daily problems," and at the same time, "Ruth must be happy." However, the details of whether he was in a hurry when he was writing the letter were not mentioned, and he ended with a closing greeting.

"Well, I don't know if you even think about it and... ugh... you're free. I don't know if I can get out of the house yet."

Ruth looked out the window at the people working in the village's reconstruction work and dropped their shoulders.

Shortly after he fought Bal and Ruth lost consciousness, Maxim and the Knights came back in line. They were able to defeat all the rest of the demons that were in the village immediately because of it, and it seemed that there was no more damage than that. Afterwards, he confirmed that some safety had been ensured, and called the villagers who had hidden in the temple and those who had fallen outside the village, all of whom said they were pleased with each other's safety. It seems that Geo kept his promise to Ruth to see the injured from the edge, and even though it was all that fuss, he was able to make an end of it with no dead or seriously ill people.

And a week from that demon hunt. There was also the power of the Knights members who still remained for me, and the task of rebuilding the village was almost at an end.

(Well, I couldn't help you with anything, and I don't know the story very well)

Ruth apparently fell asleep for a while after that, and woke up three days after the village had already begun reconstruction work. Gio said it was a recoil that had used up his strength to its limits, but when he saw Celine and Rossa jumping in tears, he thought he had done something really bad. And because of that reason, I was worried about Celine for a while, and Ruth couldn't even help the inn, eating and sleeping away from her mother's room for three days.

"But I'm going to lose my body like this... today is the day to convince my mother."

While Ruth was healing, Maxim and Geo, as well as Bird and even that Daniel, apparently came to visit, but Celine refused to see them all. But the gifts that each brought me are properly in Ruth's hands, so I'll have to thank you and go around when I can get outside.

Ruth stood up as he made a big stretch, placing Alec's letter on the chest. And as I was thinking about going to see if Celine was back in her mother's room, the door to the room was just knocked.

"Mr. Gio, I hear you're leaving already. He wants to say hello to Ruth."

"Are you sure?

"Of course it's good. Because the hero wants to see you."

With Celine's smiling consent, Ruth hurries to the inn. Then there was an old man sitting on the couch in the usual lobby shaking his eyebrows enough to hide his eyes.

"Mr. Gio!

"Oh, Ruth, it's been a while."

Did Gio care about the sick Ruth, or when he slaps next to the couch, he prompts her to sit down.

"How's your body? Is there anything worse?

"Thanks to Gio for healing me, it doesn't hurt anywhere without any sequelae. Thank you so much."

"It's okay. I took care of a lot of people at the inn."

"... By the way, are you sure you're leaving?

When Ruth asked a few lonely questions, Gio must have raised his eyebrows.

"I'm sorry, but I'm retired. I don't think we should be too involved in this."

"I think everyone in the village is welcome."

"No matter how deceitful you are, you are not in this land. Besides, you're the real hero who defeated Bal in the first place, right? I received the title only because of your position. [M] So to speak."

Those who defeated Bal who broke into the village - it is the magician and geo of the journey. That is how it is passed on to the inhabitants of the village.

The only people who know the truth about Ruth's defeat are Daniel, Father and Gio to Father Rossa. And they didn't tell their surroundings what Ruth did.

The four did not tell the truth to the other villagers because Gio taught them that the power Ruth used to defeat Bal was not his own. And I saw Ruth dying if I used that power in person.

If we report this to the village as it were, it would mean that Ruth was hiding it even though he had powerful powers, and they thought that he would be forced to use that power when something happened in the future. For that reason, the four people who feared that Ruth would be equally worn out decided that it was the magician and geo of the journey who defeated Bal in an aggressive manner.

(As for me, you saved me. Really...)

It is difficult for a village to be treated like a hero for something that is not in its own power, even as Ruth. So I was very grateful for their decision. To listen, Gio, who was treated like a village hero instead of Ruth, seemed to have been a pretty nasty thing to do this past week, and he can't even get his head up for taking on that role in that sense.

Not just the four people who knew the end, but for some reason even the village chief didn't tell the other villagers in detail about Ruth's work. And the people at the shrine were also appreciated by Geo, but they didn't see Ruth fighting firsthand.

For this reason, in the end, Ruth seems to pass on only as the young man who helped exterminate the demons with Daniel in this uprising but who was badly injured by his bal opponent.

"But it's no different than Mr. Gio who saved the lives of everyone in the village, who rightly said he was a 'hero' in that sense"

"I don't care about heroes. A title like that doesn't help in hiding. Ruth, do you hear from your father? About the bracelet."

"Ah, yes. You sealed it for me, didn't you?

Ruth switched her head to the subject of the bracelet.

When Gio stops by to check it out, it seems that this silver bracelet that Ruth keeps from Alec is a hell of a thing that allows Ruth to use some of Alec's abilities when he feels in danger. It still looks like Alec's power was when he defeated that Bal.

(Really, you make incredible things, Alec...)

But Alec's power is the power of the brave. They're too strong for ordinary people to use freely, and if they use it poorly, they're dying like Ruth. So Geo put a seal on his bracelet to prevent the force from being activated.

As for Ruth, who was asked by Rossa how she had woken up to herself, I thought she would never want to use it again, so it was a mind-boggling thought for Geo's consideration. I don't like it when my arms are raised or something.

"Thank you very much for the overlap…."

"................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Well, I guess it's time to go home."

That's how Gio stood up with his cane and headed towards the inn door.

Ruth raised her voice to hear what had always bothered her.

"Mr. Gio, did you go to your son's grave?

……

When Ruth called out, he stopped. "We're going home now," Gio returned calmly. After all, it seems difficult to upset the old man with this much. That's why I decided to ask you some more questions.

"I hope so..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... And for a reason I came to this Hashi village, the home of my disciple. Different?

"............... Come on, what do you think?

Geo's voice is the usual blur. I didn't feel like I was affirming or denying Ruth's words.

(I don't think Gio is just a magician......)

The litter of light, the fortification technique, and the cure to Ruth that even the priest gave up, I'm sure it must have been Geo who released everyone's state of fear and calmed them down even when it got noisy in the temple. It was very unlikely that a geo with so much magic would be a common sorcerer. Ruth doesn't want to reveal who Gio is and do something about it. I just wondered why so many people came to this village. And I wanted to know why you did so much for the village.

(But can't you...)

After all, when I felt sorry that I didn't know anything about Gio, I looked back at him without knowing what he was thinking.

"…… Whew, Ruth. What do you want?

"Eh?"

"What do you want when you wait for a brave man named Alec?

I don't have a good idea of what Gio's talking about. But think about it a little, and then give me an answer.

"Er... peace in the village"

Alec's face came to me for a moment, but I knew enough that I was working hard with the letter. I thought I shouldn't have said that my face was like that.

But you anticipated Ruth's idea of that, Gio moves his eyebrows happily.

"Let's leave it at that... then."

Open the door and Geo leaves. When I was sorry to see her again, I noticed that there was a book on the couch that Geo was sitting on that wasn't from the inn.

"Forgotten things............! It's Geo......... Huh?

But even when I opened the door and looked over, there was nowhere to see Gio just leaving. I looked around for a while after that, or asked the villagers who worked nearby and said no one had seen Gio.

(Gio, who were you really?

In the end, Ruth had no choice but to return to the inn with the book.