65. Finding a job is difficult here (2)
“Milia, go in and sleep.”
“Ummm… “
You must be sleepy. Milia, who had been talking nonstop for several hours, finally began to blink her eyes as if exhausted. Seeing that she was even yawning, she looked really sleepy. Milia, who was dozing with her head nodding, held out her arm to me.
“Take me…”
I’m not a child, what are you doing?
“Get up and go.”
“It’s annoying to go to my room…”
He’s a child who rubs his eyes and whines. I carried Milia carefully. It didn’t fit her actions, but her body was Milia, who seemed to be the same age as Karina, so she felt quite heavy.
…Aren’t you fat?
No, before that, does Dyurahan gain weight? Eat old?
“John, you are thinking strange things… float… “
“I didn’t think much of it.”
Is it obvious?
I moved my legs to make some evasions. As the regular shaking continued, Miria fell asleep with even breathing.
“It’s hard to take care of a child…”
Apparently, she looks a little younger than Karina on the outside, but why does it feel like taking care of her anxious child when I put her in the water? Is it because she behaves like a child? But she doesn’t like it Just as a dog or cat demands attention from its owner, Milia also seems to be demanding affection from someone.
As I long for the smell of flesh, I was just grateful for this kind of pampering.
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The next afternoon, after lunch, I decided to talk to Lenny right away. Milia left saying that she had lunch and that she was taking a walk in the garden by herself. Milia was the one who really liked walking around, probably because she had been stuck in the dungeon for a long time.
Even when she was building a boat on an uninhabited island, whenever she had a chance, she would go around the island and pick up shells, or take a walk on the beach with Karina.
“Lenny. Are there any jobs available at the academy?”
At my question, Lenny sighed and tapped her teacup with her finger. The scarlet liquid remaining in her teacup creates ripples. With that strength and that much vibration, the power control is amazing. If you make a mistake, you could explode a teacup like a grenade.
Anyway, Lenny answered me with a dark expression.
“Hmm… I asked you while you were in the dungeon… I somehow solved the identity problem, right? But since I don’t have any experience, it’s difficult to get a job.”
“Isn’t this a bit like newcomers without experience here too?”
“What?”
“Nothing.”
People used to like newcomers with experience so much in the world, but it doesn’t seem to be much different here either.
Of course, the nuance will be different. They’re trying to hire a career position with a freshman salary, and here in Korea, we’re hiring people who work at the world’s best academy.
Of course, you can’t hire someone without experience.
In the first place, such a position would be possible only with a parachute. Wasn’t there actually a professor like that at the academy? My memory is fuzzy, but I think it was there.
Anyway, if you ask me if I can build a career right now, that is difficult. I don’t know if the story will be different if I catch all the Harpas Church by myself… But is it hard? Rather, I think it could be misunderstood as a spy.
It’s not like the status window gave me a mission for nothing.
This is a more troublesome problem than I thought.
At the very least, it should be a job that allows you to come and go to the academy, and it should also be a job that has a wide range of maneuvers. It was really difficult to meet that condition. It would be easiest to just get a job as Karina’s servant, but it would be ambiguous to continue intervening in the original story from now on.
How will a single employee get involved in an incident taking place within the school?
I’d rather be an escort knight like Lenny… Huh?
“Lenny, is there any position as an escort driver?”
“What?”
Lenny looked at me as if he was dumbfounded by that statement.
Well, even after I said it, it was a bit absurd. It’s not an easy position to be an escort knight for a saint. Still, my question seemed quite enticing, so Lenny didn’t deny it right away. He rested his chin on her chin for a moment, stared at her ceiling, and then rolled her eyes again to look at me.
“It’s an escort driver’s position… It might be easier.”
“Could it be easier?”
This is an unexpected answer.
From noble mtl dot com.
“Do you know what the most important condition for an escort knight is?”
“…Reliance?”
At her reply, Lenny smiled with satisfaction and took her bottle and poured her drink into the teacup. That’s alcohol. It’s tea. This isn’t Russia, are you drinking tea? From the time I talked to him, he kept mixing and drinking, and now it seemed he had drunk half of the bottle. It’s good that her face doesn’t blush even after that.
Well, even after being pickled in that poisonous drug mushroom, she gave away all the monsters that were called monsters, and she wouldn’t even get drunk.
“Right. Trust. Because of that one, all the guys who wanted to become the saintess’s escort knights fell out. Because all kinds of guys really supported me. Aristocrats mad with a desire for honor, and idiots who mistakenly think that their skills are excellent. Patients with delusions who can clearly see their plans. It’s not like I’m working alone as an escort driver.”
As if he had suffered quite a bit, Lenny’s voice radiated annoyance that he couldn’t hide.
“There is a lot of hardship.”
“Well, not too long ago, working as an escort by myself was quite manageable. But things have changed a bit.”
I can hear this grinding. It was the sound that came out of Lenny’s mouth. It must be because of the incidents we experienced before coming to this academy. It was a memory I don’t want to recall.
“Is it because of the Harpas guys?”
“Right.”
Unexpected risks. Ambush and raid by the Harpas Church. As if showing off, the female deer that took advantage of Lenny’s absence was truly lethal. In the game, such an ambush occurred only in the middle and late stages, so the main character’s party blocked it together, but it was an ambush in the early stages without even a proper teammate.
There was no one like this.
Could this be the effect of adding the true ending?
At least I read the true ending DLC trailer or the patch history.
“I’m not a golem, so it’s difficult for me to be by Karina-sama’s side 24 hours a day. That’s why I need someone to protect Karina-sama when I’m gone.”
“…Am I trustworthy?”
“At least than those idiots. I don’t know what to say with my mouth… But you’ve never touched Karina-sama. Honestly, it wouldn’t have been strange to touch it… It would have accumulated a lot.”
Lenny scratched his cheek and averted his gaze, as if it was awkward to say such a thing. She was certainly a bit of an awkward talker to say the least. From my point of view, since it was a major character in the original work, it was close to not even thinking about touching it. It’s absurd that the world I fell in cheated on ‘Survival Academy’, but the main heroine, Karina, was washed up on an uninhabited island.
Would you call me crazy?
“Thank you for taking a good look at it.”
“Well, because I, Karina-sama, and you saved my life. Just think of it as repaying the favor.”
If you think so.
“Okay. Then, if it is passed in terms of trust, what comes next is skill?”
At my words, Lenny nodded her head. It was only natural that she had the skills to come out. Lenny took a sip of her liquid, whether it was alcohol or tea, and opened her mouth.
“Right. No matter how trustworthy she is, it means nothing without the ability to protect her escort target. In that respect, I think your skills are very good in terms of escort target escort.”
“There are quite a few people who are more capable than me.”
“I can’t say no. But there are few people more trustworthy than you, and the important thing is whether or not you can secure an escape route. You can dig and hide anywhere, or make passages to move around, right?”
“…That’s right.”
“I think it’s an advantage that can’t be ignored just by using that ability for escort. Because direct combat can be done somehow on my line. But…”
“But?”
“This time, my career is holding me back. Although I have the authority to write letters of recommendation, I still need some kind of experience to convince the higher ups. But isn’t it a bit like giving away 10 years of life on an uninhabited island? We’ve seen a little of what you’ve been through, but we’re not high-ranking people.”
Indeed.
Anyway, I think there has to be something to the extent that you won’t hear “No matter how much this is…”.
But a career isn’t something you can build up in a short period of time.
“Is there any way?”
“Not very much. I want to be like this, but…”
Lenny seemed to have thought of a method in his own way. I drank my portion of tea and waited for Lenny to speak. Lenny paused, perhaps trying to organize his thoughts, before opening his mouth.
“So, I will write letters of recommendation whenever I can, so go to each guild and take the test. Wouldn’t it be a good career if you stick to a few of them and get a license?”
That’s a really tricky way.
I nodded my head willingly to the answer to push ahead with the quantity.