64. Finding a job is difficult here (1)
“…Have you ever robbed nobles from safes?”
Lenny opened the heavy money bag on her desk and looked at me with her suspicious eyes. She’s a bit disappointed that she’s being questioned, but she’s convinced. The money I had in my pocket was enough to pay the tuition once more.
“I brought it after robbing a dungeon.”
“No, how much do you think you saved up to be able to pay tuition twice?”
“I brushed about five places.”
“A dungeon? Five places? Are you kidding?”
“Really.”
“Wow…This is the level of rooting out the dungeon.”
Leni took a gold coin from her pocket and held it up in her window. Are they doing counterfeit money checks? Lenny looked at it for a while, then bit off the gold coin.
“…Really.”
“Are your teeth okay?”
“Not much? In any case, it is a real gold coin.”
You didn’t bite a gold coin, but a chocolate shaped like a gold coin. I looked down at the gold coin that had been cut in half with teeth marks clearly visible. It’s a very harsh inspection method. You have to do this much to hear the sound of the final boss of Jin. As if it bothered me that I was staring at her, Leni opened her mouth as she set the gold coin in half on the desk.
“How long are you going to stare at me?”
“Isn’t that a pretty rare spectacle?”
“…What a strange sound. Millia is waiting for you, so why don’t you go? I have to go see Karina-sama.”
“Is Karina okay?”
“I like the habit of sticking the word ‘nim’ all the time. I don’t care, but there are quite a few people who look down on me.”
“Thank you for your kind advice.”
“No what…”
Lenny scratched her cheek shyly avoiding her gaze. Is this embarrassing? Maybe she’s simply not used to compliments. If you think about it, it might be because of the past that you lived rough in the original game, so even in the game, you showed a weak side to things like compliments. It wasn’t until in the game that she didn’t lead to a favorable impression… But it was an NPC that couldn’t be captured.
“Anyway, I’m working on cursing Karina-sama little by little. You will wake up soon.”
“Thank God.”
It was fortunate news while I was listening. Because if Karina goes wrong, no matter how hard she struggles, she won’t be able to survive in this fiercely doomed world. If she abandoned everything and ran away, she might live, but she’s not alive. I’d rather commit suicide.
…Isn’t it, do I still have to struggle?
I thought of Milia, Lenny, and Karina.
People who are at least close enough to be called friends. What a cowardly choice to leave those kids behind and run away alone. Even if you go, you have to go to the end. Even if the end is ruin.
I turned and walked to the door. As I grabbed the doorknob and turned it, Lenny spoke indifferently as if he had remembered.
“Milia is waiting for you in the drawing room, so go see it. Because she seems to have something to show.”
“Okay.”
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“John! Look at this!”
In front of me, Milia spun around with her arms open. It was something you would only see in a cartoon. After all, it might not be that strange since it’s inside a game. Millia smiled mischievously, placing her hands on her waist and puffing out her breasts. Her not-so-small breasts swayed slightly over the jacket, emphasizing her volume. Maybe because it was a school uniform, it was an outfit that emphasized the cuteness.
“It suits you well.”
“Isn’t it? Right? Lenny got it right!”
“…Looks expensive at first glance.”
As befits the most popular academy in the world, the uniform Milia wore was also made of very luxurious looking materials. She is wearing a navy blue jacket made of luxurious material with golden embroidery embroidered here and there, a black skirt that extends above the knee, and a white shirt visible through the jacket.
From noble mtl dot com.
It seems that the school uniform was set up before I came. Did I believe that I could raise money to pay for my tuition? Or did he try to pay the tuition by taking out his emergency money? Either way, the distance is too wide to match the image of a mad dog.
No, did you feel sympathy for the past that cannot be heard without Millia’s tears?
I don’t care if either way was helpful.
“John? John! Are you listening to me?”
“Ah, sorry. What were you talking about?”
“I was talking about transferring from the second semester, did you not hear anything?”
Don’t make a sad face. It’s just that people can lose their minds sometimes. I stroked Milia’s hair and sat on the couch in her living room. Leaning against her back, I couldn’t be that comfortable. Next time, I shouldn’t be doing five dungeons in two days.
It was crazy. In the last dungeon, when I saw a company of orcs heavily armed in the boss room, I was dumbfounded, so I immediately burst out with a twinge of lust. In order to catch it, he plastered the front of the boss room with traps, released all the poisons he brought to neutralize them, and used his skills to reduce the number metallurgically for half a day.
Later, the orc who seemed to be the captain even looked at me with a tired face.
“…Are you tired?”
“Yes.”
Milia looked at me with worried eyes. I’m not tired enough to look at you with those eyes. I said to Milia, tapping the armrest of her sofa with her finger.
“Continue talking. What about the second semester?”
“I decided to transfer! It’s hard right now in the middle of the first semester, so I take the transfer test and enter from the second semester!”
“Which faculty did you decide to go to?”
“I’m going to the Faculty of Liberal Arts!”
Faculty of Liberal Arts. Among the faculties of Calon Academy, it belongs to the neutral department. In fact, it was a department that played a role similar to the university we know. A department that studies various subjects close to liberal arts at a superficial level.
After all, it is a structure that requires graduate students to go to advanced courses, but there is no worry about getting a job just by graduating from the Faculty of Liberal Arts. I remember reading roughly such settings in the tooltip of the loading window.
…I can’t remember the details of the story, so why do I remember this well?
“Do you have the confidence to study well?”
“So I’m going to study at the library!”
“It would be difficult to keep up with the progress without a teacher-“
I can’t believe the little boy in front of me, but a person from hundreds of years ago. No, that’s precisely the setting, so common sense and culture in this world are at a level similar to that of a newborn baby. In other words, it means that you have to learn everything from the beginning, can you learn it all before the second semester starts? There is no one to teach you.
The only person we know is Lenny, and even Lenny isn’t educated enough to teach Milia.
…Do I have to earn money to get a private tutor? How much does it cost to hire a tutor?
I felt dizzy at the unexpected cost of private education. Why am I taking on the responsibility without pleasure? Escaping from an uninhabited island and being a parent who has nothing to do! Am I destined to die of old age as a bachelor after being a parent for the rest of my life!
“…I want to date.”
“Dating?”
“… It’s a mistake. Don’t mind.”
It seems that he said what he was thinking over and over again. It’s time to get rid of this habit. I can’t even stick the tongs in my mouth. If you keep going like this, you might even talk about an important future that you shouldn’t tell others about.
“Does John want to date?”
When I looked at Milia at Milia’s question, she was looking at me with her very excited face. Maybe I told someone I shouldn’t have told. When she thought so, she let out a sigh.
“…I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to.”
Isn’t dating in the golden age of life something everyone does at least once? I don’t know if there will be a golden age in my life before or now.
“With whom?”
“…Because I haven’t lived a leisurely life enough to think about that.”
I took a rough look. Although there are people who clearly do not have romantic feelings. Right now, the people I’m close with are Milia, Karina, Lenny, and Sif, but aren’t there many relationships that have many difficulties in many ways to develop into a romantic relationship? I don’t think we’re close enough to think we want to date.
I think I’ve accumulated a lot of unreasonable comradeship.
“I see… Come to think of it, I never even thought about it!”
“It’s a gathering of mother-of-pearl solos.”
“Is that so?”
Milia and I giggled, no matter who said it first. I don’t know why he’s laughing, but he laughs. Milia, who had been laughing for a long time, stopped laughing and told me.
“If it’s John, you’ll be able to make friends!”
“You?”
“I want to try, but going to school is more important than that!”
“…Is that so?”
Does she mean to follow her own dreams in her own way? It’s a good attitude.
“Go hard wherever you go.”
“Of course! When I graduate from school and do well, I’ll pay you back with interest for everything I’ve done so far!”
“Then I guess I should erase a lot of light in the meantime.”
“Hee hee, delete it as much as you like! I’ll pay you back later!”
…I don’t think I’ll be able to pay it back.
I smiled at Milia who spoke confidently. Still, it was strange to think like that. Then, in the meantime, I have to earn money so that Millia can graduate.
…A decent job that would give you a decent status.