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"It's the best if you can find it, if you can't find it, it's an adventure." Ling Zui smiled.

"It seems that it is better to use some ingredients that can be preserved to make bento." Alice smiled.

Eugeo looked at the three friends with shining faces and sighed hard, but he still responded weakly: "Ah."

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The third rest day in July, it seems that the weather will be quite good.

Children over the age of ten have already taken over the vocation, and only on the rest day can they return to their childhood life and play outside until dinner time.

Zero, Eugeo and Kirito usually go fishing or play sword training games with other boys, but today they left the house before the morning mist cleared, and went directly to the old tree outside the village to wait for Alice .

"Is Alice a snail? Why hasn't she arrived yet?" Zero said lazily with his hands behind his head.

"That's right, it's too full." Kirito, who didn't realize that he was a few minutes late, echoed.After finishing speaking, he continued: "Girls are like this. They always regard dressing themselves as more important than being on time for appointments. I think after two years, she will be like Eugeo's sister, saying that she will get dirty. clothes instead of going into the forest."

"Is there any way, girls are like this." Eugeo replied with a wry smile on his mouth, but he suddenly remembered what Tongkou said about two years later.Since Alice is still a child who has not been given a vocation in terms of identity, the surroundings can still recognize her and the three of them.

However, as the daughter of the village chief, she is destined to become a model for the women in the village.

In the near future, she will be strictly forbidden to play with boys, and besides the sacred art, she will have to learn many life etiquettes.

And then... what will happen next.Will she marry into someone's house like Eugeo's eldest sister, Sili Ryo?

Although he is only a child, far from the age to talk about marriage, and he is still in love, he has a clear understanding of the difference between boys and girls, and there is also a feeling for things like this. Spend.

Many girls in the village have a different attitude towards Zero than others, even Alice is slightly different.

Eugeo knew that it was because Zero was so good-looking. Eugeo thought that Zero should be the most handsome person in the world, even though he had never been out of the village.

"Hey, what are you in a daze for? Didn't you get enough sleep yesterday?" Eugeo found Kirito suddenly looking at him with a surprised expression, so he nodded hurriedly and replied:

"Hmm, it's all right. Ah...it seems to be coming." He heard the sound of light footsteps, so he pointed to the village immediately and said so.

As Kirito said just now, Alice appeared only after clearing the morning mist, her rather neat blond hair was already tied up with a ribbon, and her white blouse kept shaking.

Eugeo couldn't help exchanging glances with his two close friends, held back his smile, and said in unison: "It's too slow!"

"It's because you guys arrived too early. Why are you still acting like a kid?" Alice didn't apologize at all, and after speaking, she stretched out the wicker basket in her right hand and the kettle in her left hand towards Kirito and Eugeo respectively. go out.

Ling blinked, watching the two look at them as if they were looking at "traitors", and shrugged helplessly.

It's not that I don't take it myself, it's that I have nothing to take.

After the two of them picked up the luggage resentfully, Alice turned to the small road extending north from the village border, and then bent down to pick up an ear of grass at her feet.The girl pointed at the rocky mountain standing in the distance with its swollen front end, and shouted vigorously:

"Then... let's go on the ice-seeking trip in summer!"

While wondering why it became like "the princess and her knight plus two attendants", Eugeo, Zero and Kirito caught up with Alice who had started to move forward.

This road runs through the village from north to south, and the ground on the south side is quite firm and flat due to the many people and carriages passing by; the road on the north side is seldom walked by people, so it is full of tree roots and stones, making it particularly difficult to walk.

But Alice walked briskly as if she was completely unaffected by the bad road conditions, humming and walking in front of the three boys.

Eugeo couldn't help feeling that she walked beautifully.

A few years ago, Alice would occasionally play sword practice games with the little devils in the village, and besides the nimble Zero, Eugeo and Kirito were also beaten by the twigs in her hands several times. But the wooden stick kept swinging in the air like encountering a wind spirit.

If Alice continues to practice, maybe she can really become the No.1 female guard in the village.

"A guard..." Eugeo couldn't help muttering.

Before he became a lumberjack of a giant tree, he once had this impossible dream.

If he can be selected as the "guard" that all the boys in the village yearn for, he will no longer have to hold a simple wooden stick that is just peeled off the bark, but he can get a real steel sword that is a middle-aged product, and he can even learn real swordsmanship.

More than that.

Every autumn, guards from various villages on the northern border can participate in the swordsmanship conference held in the southern town of Sakarya.

If you can get the top few in the competition, you will be able to become the guard of the town - which is equivalent to being recognized as a real swordsman, and you can be awarded the standard sword forged by the iron workshop in the central capital.But becoming a guard wasn't Eugeo's last dream.

If his strength is recognized by the guards, he will be eligible to take the entrance examination for the orthodox [Sword Cultivation Academy] in Central Centoria.

Although it was a rather difficult exam, as long as one could pass and graduate from the two-year academy, one could participate in the martial arts conference held in front of the emperor of the Norlancarus Empire.

It was said that Bercouli had won the championship in this tournament that year.

And the next step is the culmination of the dream, which is a contest that gathers all the heroes in the human world—the [Four Empires Unification Conference] personally held by the Axiom Church.

Only by winning the final victory in this battle that is said to be appreciated by the gods, can you stand at the top of all swordsmen, take over the divine mandate of maintaining world order, and become a warrior who can control flying dragons and fight evil spirits in the dark realm 【Integrity Knight】——

With Eugeo's imagination, it is really impossible to outline what kind of pattern it is, but he did have such a dream once.

Alice, who was unable to become a swordsman, might be able to leave the village as a trainee holy sorcerer and go to the school in Sakarya, or even the [Skill Academy] in the capital to study.

At that time, maybe I will be able to wear a green and light brown guard uniform, with a shining silver standard sword hanging from my waist, and stay beside Alice as her guard...

"That dream still has a chance to come true..." Kirito, who was walking beside him, suddenly murmured so softly that Eugeo raised his head immediately in fright.

Zero couldn't help but look sideways.

Eugeo couldn't help but smiled bitterly, and then asked and answered in a low voice: "No, there is no chance."

Yes, the period of dreaming is over.Last spring, Jike, the son of the current Chief of Guards, was given the vocation of being a trainee guard.

But his sword skills are not as good as Eugeo and Kirito, and of course he is far behind Alice, not to mention the best Zero...

Eugeo sighed, and spit out the slight dissatisfaction and several times of resignation: "Even the village chief can't change the vocation that has been decided."

Hearing this, Zero curled his lips and said in a low voice, "It's not that there is no way to change the vocation."

"Is there?" Eugeo asked in a daze.

"It's time to finish the work." Kirito said with a smile.

Eugeo smiled wryly this time because he couldn't stand Kirito's stubbornness.

These two partners have not given up on that lofty dream until now - to cut down Gigas Cedar, which is harder than iron, in their own generation.

"As long as that tree is cut down, our work will be finished beautifully, and then we can choose our vocation, right?" Kirito looked at Eugeo and Zero and said with a smile.

"Of course." Zero responded with a smile.

"That's right..." Eugeo said helplessly.