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

Ruth and his men rushed all the way down the mountain with Gill straight to the village chief's house. In villages that do not exist, such as police organizations, they are supposed to gather at the village chief's house first if anything happens.

When the five men arrived at the village chief's house, they had familiar faces as expected. Starting with the village chief, there is even Ruth's father, Rossa. Given the fact that there is a Rossa who is hard to call on in terms of brains, they are in a situation where they need someone who can move.

"Are you back? You're not in the beginning ruins yet, are you?

"Yes. We made it, so I don't think anyone's stepping in. I'm leaving my oldest and second son untouchable, so I don't think there will ever be anyone in between or irrelevant."

Ruth and the others didn't notice, but they're monitoring the entrance to the dungeon where Colt's brothers are invisible. By the way, the Zelenka family is four brothers full of men and Colt is that third.

"Mayor, what is the situation now? Gil told me that the kidnapper had entered a mountain near here."

"I'll tell you about it."

I heard a low crouching voice from behind Rossa in Daniel's question. sleigh and something moves out. Apparently, I've been in my room since the beginning, but I couldn't see it hiding behind Rossa's good body.

"Washi is the village chief and geralt of the village of Mikana. I'm sorry to have gotten into all this mess with Hashi Village this time."

The man who appeared was the one who had grown a red and black beard that looked like a bristle to his chest. The eyes have a rounded and loving atmosphere, but the mouth is distracted by great dissatisfaction, and the atmosphere seems difficult. He wasn't very tall, but his body was disappointed and the hammer he was carrying on his back looked good on him. She would be about the same age as Rosa, but when she lined up, she found that she was only about the same age as her chest.

(Ah, my ears are hanging...)

The ears peeking through the gap in the man's mustache were not shaped like those of Ruth, a human race. Unlike humans, ears stretched vertically with pointy tips were something I had often seen in cartoons and comics in my previous life. Big beard, disappointed body, shallow black skin, small body, and pointy ears, from which you can think -

"It's Dwarf."

I heard a little whine of fritz behind me. I don't know how much Fritz's knowledge is, but his words don't seem wrong because the other two are nodding too.

(I knew it was)

I had a hunch that Gerald's appearance looked just like that of the alleged Dwarf species in his previous life, but it still seemed to hit Ruth's imagination as well. But Ruth was a little excited because all he saw was comics and TV screens, and this was the first time he had seen the real thing. In front of me, there exists the authenticity of a species that was only the product of an imagination - I had heard of its presence in Wonok, but I was still quite impressed when I saw it.

(That, but somewhere in this face...)

Ruth takes Gerald's face seriously even as he finds it rude.

Looking at the slightly drooping eyes, the disgruntled closed mouth, the distressing atmosphere and the red-black hair texture, he put the village chief standing next to him in his sight.

"... are you an official of the village chief?

"Hmm?"

"Ah."

Ruth holds her mouth down with her hand in an attempt to unwittingly hide the leaked whine because she was not really willing to speak on this occasion. But they got into their ears so tight, they looked at each other. Stared at by two eyeballs more powerful than the village chief, he smiled unharmed and bitter to delude himself.

"What, maybe you're the Dwarf interlocutor, because the inhabitants of this village didn't know?

"... it wouldn't be anything else to talk about. And some know."

Some of the adults nodded at the village chief's whining.

But those, including Daniel, look surprised that they did not know, as did Ruth.

Compared to neighboring Dwarves, they may be better than humans, but their small stature, their uncomfortable faces, and their bigoted personality may indeed be.

"He and I are cousins. Bartolo was in our village of Micana, but he was expected to come with a superior spirit, so he became the head of this village."

"Such a fine story."

The village chief muttered in disgust.

Apparently, the village chief was originally born in another village, but he moved to this village about twenty years ago when he was asked to become village chief.

He thought that the position of village chief was something that would be a very popular person born in the village, but that's not what he seems to be to talk about. The village chief of Hashi village seems to be nominated from generation to generation, and does not seem to be very well chosen from the villagers, which means that in the past the next village chief has also come from the Wang capital. Ruth thought it was a little different, but the residents of Hashi Village seemed obvious and often didn't care.

(That, but Dwarves weren't in a physique that hated spirituality or anything...... are Dwarves in this world different?

What Ruth knows is only a dwarf of the product of imagination. I didn't see the actual dwarf, so it's different and natural. But there seemed to be a human being who thought the same thing, asking the village chief a question. Again, the common sense in this world is that Dwarves don't like magic.

"… I am the crossing of Dwarves and Elves. Because your stature is better than Dwarf, your abilities are overwhelming, you don't have the strength of an arm. But thanks to you, we have the protection of the superior spirits."

The village chief shrugged with such a bitter face.

But more startling facts took Ruth's consciousness than the information that the mayor of the village, whose blood was mixed with Dwarf's, was the user of spirituality.

"Yes, some of you may have noticed in the current story, but our village of Micana has a lot of Dwarf and Elf mixed blood, or almost. Is it because of this, there are more villagers with higher abilities than their original species? It's just that the real Dwarves and the elves are so good at it."

The village chief of Micana Village, who laughs gahaha, is a dwarf from wherever he sees it, but he also seems to be usually good at spirituality. Dwarf and Elf thought they weren't close, but everything doesn't seem to be. I guess there are some that have different ideas everywhere.

Again, Gerald's children didn't seem like themselves, and he boasted that she was a tall beautiful man and beauty. I hear your wife has a thick elf blood.

"Well, that's why. There are a few strange dwarves and elves in our village. Black, red-haired, brown-skinned elves, silver-haired little dwarves - and there are a lot of rotten people in the world who want to buy and pet people like that."

The face of Gerardt, who had laughed luxuriously until earlier, became progressively steeper as he went in the second half. At the end of the day, it's going to beat the hammer on my back.

"Such a thief attacked our village in large numbers about ten days ago. Just when the men were mowing B-rank demons out in the mountains. When I returned, the women and children were gone, and the men who remained in the village were injured. Fortunately, there were no dead, but the whole village was vandalized, and the food was wiped out except for what I kept hidden."

Gerardt says it was suspicious in the first place because of the presence of a B-rank demon in a nearby mountain. That's not even what the thief did. In other words, the opponent could have systematically attacked the village. But there was only one big mistake the thief made.

"They misjudged what they were capable of."

Realizing the thought of thieves, they rushed ahead of the route from the village to the big city. And he ambushed a thief trying to run away in a carriage and attacked him. Thanks to this, we were able to capture the majority of the hostages there. But he later noticed that some of the thieves were fleeing on a different route with several hostages.

The Gerards rushed around to find out that the remaining thieves had fled towards the mountain. And he followed his footsteps, and he grabbed it to the point where the thief walked into the mountains around here a few days ago.

"We keep an eye on the route to the Wang capital, but so far no such person has passed through. And the mountain range behind this village is such a mountain that it cannot be crossed without a physically capable, oculus level sub. It has been confirmed to Bartolo that there are no other routes to the big cities besides these two in terms of location pattern. If they do, they'll most likely be hiding in this mountain. I am not familiar with geography because this is a little far from the villages of Washi et al. That's why I asked for your help in Hashi village. I'm sorry, but I need you to help the women and children in our village."

Gerald lowered his head quietly, suppressing his earlier roughness.

The inhabitants of the village of Micana, starting with the battle against the B-ranked demons, were only brought in about eight people, including watchdogs, with more wounded in fights and pursuits with the thieves. They don't have enough people to search the whole mountain, and they want manpower anyway.

"... As for this one, it's like I just got caught, but it's bad to hear that there's a bunch of thieves in the mountains in our village. Even if the ruins of the beginning, which are also the heritage of the village, are broken down as a place of contention. With that in mind, I had no choice but to respond to the request for support from the village of Micana."

"Damn, I'm worried, I'm gonna help you."

"… I'll tell you what, I demand it in return."

"Yes, you do."

"Of course."

He was a geralt with a deep sigh in return for the village chief, but eventually when he spoke to the Dwarf man who had given up or was lying next to him, the man handed the village chief a big bag. I'm complaining, but Gerald didn't seem to expect me to rescue him for free either.

When the village chief checked the contents of the bag, he softened his mochi expression and looked back.

"I received a thank you from the village of Micana. Distribute to each person later. That's why we're going to rescue those who were captured in the village together and capture the thieves - gather people together because we're going to start investigating the whole mountain to find where the thieves are. And Rossa."

"What is it?"

"I want you to stay with the inhabitants of the village of Mikana. Is the inn empty?

"There must have just been a vacancy...... Ruth, can you go back to the inn and talk to your mother for me?

Copy that.

"Oh, my lady!

Ruth, voiced by Rossa, said a gentle greeting to Daniels and the others and tried to leave the room, but before that Gerald raised his voice. Looking back from his previous experience, Gerald looks straight at Ruth and flickers at her mouth, thinking that "lady" isn't herself.

"I think our son Gordon and Yuan at Helly's are going to the lady's quarters, so call me back. Those two, keep the inn secure, do something else, then don't come back."

"Oh, yes, that's fine... you know, I'm a man. Lady's a little."

"To?"

When Ruth said so, Gerald looked surprised. He has a sinister face next to it where the village chief just says, 'Don't talk about irrelevant things'.

But because I didn't make this kind of correction, it was a pain in the ass when I mowed the demon, so I thought I would definitely have to tell you this time, and Ruth took his gaze off the village chief.

"Oh, shit. Bad, bad! We don't know if it's a man or a woman. I'm sure we're used to seeing it, but there's no way we could have seen it coming from another village. Sorry, Ji...... no, brother! Well, that's pretty enough for my village, Gahaha."

Ruth, who could be corrected, followed the village chief's house with his chest down as he returned a bitter laugh to Gerald, who laughed lavishly. But I was worried that Gerardt might be quite tired of making a mistake about Ruth, even though he should be used to seeing beautiful men and women like Elves.