Part 2 Apparently, the weather was good on the third rest day of the seventh month. Only on rest days were children above ten, who had already been given their Sacred Task, allowed to play around until dinner as they had in their childhood. Eugeo and Kirito usually spent it doing things like fishing and practicing their sword skills with other boys, however today they left their homes before the morning mist even disappeared, and waited for Alice under the old tree at the edge of the village. “......She’s slow!” Even though he had been waiting with Eugeo for only a few minutes, Kirito grumbled, “I can’t understand why dressing has a higher priority than coming on time to girls. Maybe in two years she will be like your sister, who had her clothes dirtied in the forest and refused to wear them afterwards.” “It can’t be helped, girls are like that anyway.” Having said that with a bitter smile, Eugeo then suddenly thought about what would happen in two years time. Alice would still be a child without a Sacred Task, people around her would still tolerate her preference of being together with Eugeo and Kirito. But since she was the daughter of the village chief, it had been partially decided that she had to act as a standard model for the