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Instructor. Something you can find anywhere while wandering around the Gift Academy, like trees by the roadside or desks in classrooms, but even that specification isn’t shabby.
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Professor Direct Instructor: One-on-one meetings with the desired professor.
Practical Support Instructor: Must complete practical support criteria for each department. Preference for upper classes.
Administrative Support Instructor: Must complete administrative support criteria for each department. Preference for model students.
Security Support Instructor: Field deployment after document interviews and basic training.
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Professor Direct Instructor.
Commonly referred to as Teaching Assistant.
Those who catch the specific professor’s eye and typically take the route of being a clerical assistant are already considerable talents at the ‘caught the professor’s eye’ stage.
Most are upper class, while some specialized talents for specific classes or professors are hired.
Practical Support Instructor.
Commonly referred to as Training Instructor.
Due to being called by the necessary class or professor at the moment, helping individual students with practice, it demands a certain level of skill to correct misguided attempts and manage incidents on-site.
Most are intermediate class, and some versatile lower-class talents are also hired upon recommendation from the Student Council and faculty professors.
Administrative Support Instructor.
Commonly referred to as Administrative Instructor.
Contacting local vendors necessary for parents from various countries and acquiring lecture materials, a significant degree of credibility is required, which demands diligent grades.
Most are lower class, and among them, diligent students with fewer deductions in the instructors’ evaluation are hired.
“I wanted instructors like that.”
To earn the points required for promotion, he was aiming to earn points through instructor activities after taking a leave of absence when he faced the harsh reality during an interview with the department head.
“Enrolled in class 979, failed third-year advancement examination, currently a leave student, Russo. Completed each year as a lower class, with no specially good evaluations from any professors. For these reasons, being a professor’s direct assistant is impossible.”
“Y-yes…”
“Your completed course list also does not demonstrate enough versatility to take on practical support, nor have you proven diligence to take on administrative support.”
“That’s unfair! The seniors one year above monopolized the experimental collection materials for their classes, going on expeditions far away, and got into accidents!”
“Will you continue to make excuses when you can’t assist students?”
“…”
“Security Support Instructor. That’s the only position left for you. Accept reality.”
Professor direct assistants can earn points based on their abilities, as agreed upon with the professor.
Training Instructors and Administrative Instructors are recognized as non-regular staff of the academy’s administration and can earn about 10,000 points monthly stably.
However, Security Instructors have high workload, and often work night shifts or emergency duties while earning barely 3,000 points on average monthly.
Earning 120,000 points a year contrasts starkly to just 36,000 points.
It’s certainly not a small difference.
Considering that 100,000 points are required for second-year advancement, 1,000,000 points for third-year advancement, and 10,000,000 points for fourth-year advancement, it’s even more significant.
“There is a way to earn points even without skills. If you try to make it up with money, you’ll have to pay 100 times more for the points. Don’t forget that earning money outside the academy to buy points will take much longer, potentially 100 times.”
“…Thank you for giving me a chance.”
Support from families, organizations, and countries.
For those without backers, being a Security Instructor was the last refuge they could rely on.
How many leave students were struggling hard to earn money outside the academy without achieving even this?
Even after pouring all that hard-earned money back into education, upon realizing they couldn’t capitalize on their talents, students often contemplate dropping out.
If he lost the position of Security Instructor, that would be the future Russo might face.
“We collect data necessary for Professor Mahabharata’s Control Room practice evaluations and patrol various facilities and locations on campus as requested by the Control Room. While we might engage in close surveillance of specific students, with your abilities, that’s out of reach, so we will conduct field assignments.”
An experienced teaching assistant with weighty credibility distributed areas for the new security assistants.
“Each area will provide activity bonuses monthly based on its importance, and performance as a Security Assistant may additionally affect your points. Keep this in mind, work sincerely, and strive to exceed the standard performance. Now, gather the equipment and conduct the basic training required for security activities in each area.”
Russo felt wronged.
“Instructor, isn’t the dormitory security assistant the lowest-paying position? Am I really meant to be here?”
“If you’re unhappy, you can barter with the Security Assistant in another area to swap postings or duel to decide. I’ll accept the result, but complaints are not welcome.”
“…”
What a strictly meritocratic academy it is!
Do the weak have to earn less points than other assistants?
The best place for a Security Assistant to fill their record would be where students are prone to incidents.
Dormitories are typically where exhausted students collapse into sleep or are busy with their studies.
His chances of racking up performance points here were infinitely low, and he had to share even that low potential with other assistants assigned.
“A second-year leave student will take on the first-year new student dormitory due to insufficient abilities. You wouldn’t want to face the dormitories of capable third years or even higher fourth years that could squeeze you into the wall in just a second and leave effortlessly, nor will I send an incapable instructor there. For the same reason, area assignment changes are only permitted within the assigned class rankings or lower.”
The new student dormitory’s ratings range from A1 to B4.
The assignment grades operate under a six-tier security system with letters from A to Z, each divided into five groups of five: ABCDE / FGHIJ, and Z separate.
The lower the letter and number, the safer the facility, while higher letters indicate greater danger; thus, the New Student Dormitory was the safest location at the academy.
Safety zones for first-year students ABCDE.
Activity zones for second-year students FGHIJ.
Risk zones for third-year students KLMNO.
Prohibited zones for fourth-year students PQRST.
Disaster zones for professors UVWXY.
Z is strictly off-limits to anyone except the principal.
He didn’t particularly want thrills at work, but spending days accumulating paltry points in a place where he couldn’t expect bonuses or performance was leading to extreme stress.
“Damn it. Meanwhile, others must be earning way more points.”
The head of the Production Department even said this was a good opportunity, but Russo felt dissatisfied inside.
Students who can’t seize such an opportunity are practically no different from dropouts.
Among those remaining at the academy, it’s safe to say he considered himself at the bottom.
“Even if I stay as an assistant for a year, I’ll earn only 36,000 points. If I pass the third-year advancement exam, the promotion fee is 100,000 points, but if I fail, the required fee for promotion is a whopping 1,000,000 points, including the qualification acquisition rights. On the outside, that’s equivalent to 10,000 gold coins. Given my abilities, passing the promotion exam is practically impossible, and earning that much gold coin is equally impossible.”
The only way was to earn 1,000,000 points.
However, during that first semester, he practically earned no bonuses.
Just as he was mired in anguish, unexpectedly, a first-year student extended a helping hand.
“Instructor, if you help me with my business, I can pay you in points… Are you interested?”
Camela. The day he met this audacious female student, who acted as if she was the owner of the world, marked the beginning of his life transformation.
“Thank you. It wasn’t something particularly great that would attract the eye of the monitoring gaze.”
“That contract, if caught, could be dangerous. The Student Council won’t just stand by.”
“Well, if we don’t get caught, right? I intend to establish a much more cost-effective revenue model than Jezel’s Dark Trading Company or senior Velocasio’s slaves.”
Combining Jezel’s effective ways of capturing students’ freedom through the contract with the Dark Trading Company’s method of voluntarily eliciting cooperation.
As their owners fall into the usefulness of pet contracts, using the affections of numerous couples as bait, the ‘debt’ of the contracts explosively increases.
By the time they realize it, they’ll be buried under debts they can hardly escape from, making it easy to squeeze out points or exploit labor whenever they wish.
“What kind of profitability are we looking at?”
“Hehe. You seem curious. As of last week, it amounts to roughly this much?”
“50,000 points!?”
“I bought points with money, but there are plenty of fools who don’t know how to use what they’ve got. They’re all just idiots caught up in my pet contract design. Hehe.”
In just one week, he earned an amount higher than his salary.
And that wasn’t even the maximum profit; the revenue just kept climbing every week.
The funds needed for the renewal of the pet contract.
Even that single need attracted slaves disguised as masters to pay considerable amounts of points without hesitation.
“I… I want in too.”
“Oh dear. I didn’t really have any more requests.”
“Please. I need more points to advance to the third year. For a commoner like me to earn gold coins and exchange them for points is unrealistic. Earning from instructor work is just too slow. Please, I beg you.”
To earn 1,000,000 points from 36,000 points would take 28 years.
Even if he somehow managed to fill in 40,000 points as a side profit, it would still take 25 years.
Living as a leave student, unable to gain points from lectures or expect significant bonuses from his instructor work, was utterly miserable.
Camela represented a chance.
She was the sole individual capable of generating vast amounts of precious points and needed him.
“Hm~ If you sign the contract, I guess I could help. How about it?”
Despite having seen how Camela treats those who signed her contracts, he couldn’t bring himself to reject the offer.
And then time passed, leading him to face Oknodie.
[Protect Me]
Even if it wasn’t a command from Camela’s contract, retreating wasn’t an option.
If he lost this position, he’d give up on the dream of advancement before the term was even completed and leave the academy, settling for a mediocre life.
“Don’t touch Camela. If I leave here like this, I’ll let today’s incident remain unmentioned.”
“What if I don’t want to?”
“You’ll understand firsthand how strong a leave student who has gained instructor qualifications can be with that body.”
Even if Oknodie was the top student of Class 981, Russo wouldn’t back down. His eyes were filled with venom.
