Ch.350350 – Instructor

# Instructor

Instructor. Like trees along the road or desks in classrooms, they can be found everywhere around Gift Academy, but even their specifications aren’t shabby.

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Professor’s Direct Instructor: Direct consultation with desired professor.

Practical Assistant Instructor: Completion of practical assistance requirements for each department. Upper class students preferred.

Administrative Assistant Instructor: Completion of administrative assistance requirements for each department. Model students preferred.

Security Assistant Instructor: Document interview and basic training before field deployment.

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Professor’s Direct Instructor.

Commonly known as Teaching Assistant.

Those who catch a professor’s eye and take the teaching assistant route are already considerable talents from the moment they “catch a professor’s eye.”

Most are upper class students, with some specialized talents hired for specific lectures or professors.

Practical Assistant Instructor.

Commonly known as Training Instructor.

They require considerable skill as they’re called upon by professors for necessary lectures, helping individual students with practical training, correcting mistakes on site, and handling accidents.

Most are intermediate class students, though some versatile lower class talents are also hired through recommendations from the student council and department professors.

Administrative Assistant Instructor.

Commonly known as Administrative Instructor.

Those responsible for communicating with parents from around the world and local suppliers for lecture materials require considerable trustworthiness, so they need diligent academic records.

Most are lower class students, particularly those with few demerits in their lifestyle evaluation scores from instructors.

‘Those were the instructors I wanted to be.’

Hoping to earn points needed for advancement by taking a leave of absence and working as an instructor, he faced the harsh reality during his meeting with the department head.

“979th batch enrollment, failed 3rd year advancement exam, currently on leave of absence, Russo. Completed every year in the lower class with no particularly good evaluations from any professor. For these reasons, Professor’s Direct Instructor is impossible.”

“Yes…”

“Your completed course list shows you’re neither versatile enough to serve as a Practical Assistant nor have you proven such talent. You haven’t demonstrated the diligence required for Administrative Assistant either.”

“That’s unfair. When seniors a year above me monopolized experimental materials for their lectures, I had to travel far to collect materials and got caught in an accident…!”

“Will you make such excuses when you can’t help students?”

“…”

“Security Assistant Instructor. This is the only position left for you. Accept reality.”

Professor’s Direct Instructors can earn points according to their abilities as agreed with professors.

Training and Administrative Instructors are recognized as non-regular faculty by the Academy administration and can earn a stable average of 10,000 points monthly.

However, Security Instructors have high workloads with frequent night and emergency shifts, yet earn the least—only about 3,000 points monthly on average.

Working a full year earns 120,000 points versus 36,000 points.

Not a small difference at all.

Especially considering that 100,000 points are needed for 2nd year advancement, 1,000,000 points for 3rd year, and 10,000,000 points for senior year.

“It’s something that you can earn points even without skill. Remember that points you try to buy with money cost 100 times more, and earning money outside the Academy to buy points would take 100 times longer.”

“…Thank you for this opportunity.”

Family support, organizational support, national support.

For those without backing, Security Instructor was the last refuge.

How many students on leave were working themselves to death outside the Academy because they couldn’t even get this?

When they realize that even after pouring all their hard-earned money into education, their talent won’t yield proper results, students on leave sometimes prepare to drop out.

This might have been Russo’s future if he’d been rejected from even the Security Instructor position.

“We collect data needed for Professor Mahabharata’s control room practical evaluation monitoring and patrol various campus facilities and sites as requested by the control room. We sometimes closely monitor specific students, but with your skills, that’s out of the question, so I’ll proceed with site assignments.”

A veteran instructor distributed areas for the new security instructors.

“Monthly activity bonuses vary by area importance, and points may additionally change based on security instructor performance. Keep this in mind, work diligently, and strive to achieve above-standard results. Now, gather your supplied equipment and proceed with basic training necessary for security activities in each area.”

Russo felt wronged.

“Sir, isn’t dormitory security instructor the lowest-paying position? Do I really have to be here?”

“If you’re dissatisfied, either purchase a reassignment with another security instructor or settle it with a duel. I’ll accept the outcome, but I won’t accept complaints.”

“…”

What a crazy meritocracy this Academy is.

Do weak people have to earn fewer points even as the same type of instructor?

The best places for Security Instructors to fulfill their duties are locations where students are likely to cause trouble.

Dormitories are where exhausted students either sleep like the dead or are busy studying.

His chances of fulfilling his duties were infinitesimally low, and even those low chances had to be shared with other assigned instructors.

“Second-year students on leave are assigned to first-year dormitories due to insufficient skills. You wouldn’t want to be assigned to third-year dormitories or worse, fourth-year dormitories, where they could trap your waist in a wall in one second and leave leisurely, and we have no intention of dispatching such incompetent instructors. For the same reason, area reassignments are only permitted within or below your assigned grade.”

The freshman dormitory grades range from A1 to B4.

The assignment grade uses a 6-level security system dividing the 26 alphabets from A to Z into five groups of five (ABCDE / FGHIJ, etc.) with Z separate.

In this system where lower letters and numbers indicate safer facilities and higher letters indicate more dangerous ones, the freshman dormitory was the safest place in the Academy.

1st year safe zone: ABCDE.

2nd year activity zone: FGHIJ.

3rd year danger zone: KLMNO.

4th year forbidden zone: PQRST.

Professor disaster zone: UVWXY.

Z: No entry allowed except for the Principal.

While he didn’t particularly want thrills at his workplace, accumulating only meager points in this exile where he couldn’t expect bonuses or achievements led to extreme stress.

“Damn it. Even while I’m stuck here, others are earning more points.”

Although the Production Department Dean said even this was a good opportunity, Russo was secretly dissatisfied.

Students who couldn’t grasp even this much of an opportunity were essentially dropouts.

Among those remaining at the Academy, he could rightfully consider himself at the very bottom.

‘Even working as an instructor for a year only earns 36,000 points. The advancement fee for passing the 3rd year advancement exam is 100,000 points, but if I fail, the fee including advancement qualification rights is 1,000,000 points. That’s 10,000 gold coins in outside society standards. Passing the advancement exam with my skills is practically impossible, and earning that many gold coins is equally impossible.’

There was no option but to earn 1,000,000 points.

However, the bonuses he’d earned during the past semester were practically nonexistent.

Surprisingly, help came from a 1st year student while he was deep in contemplation.

“Instructor. If you help with my business, I can provide you with points… Are you interested?”

Camella. His life changed from the day he met this bold female student who acted as if she owned the world.

“Thank you. It wasn’t exactly something I wanted to get caught with by watchful eyes.”

“That contract is dangerous if you get caught. The student council won’t sit idle either.”

“Then we just don’t get caught. I’m planning to build a much more cost-effective profit model than Giselle’s Black Market or senior Valocassio’s slaves.”

She combines Valocassio’s method of taking away students’ freedom through contract effects with the Black Market’s method of eliciting voluntary cooperation.

Using owners and slaves addicted to pet contracts and the romantic feelings of numerous couples as bait, she explosively increases the “debt” on contracts.

By the time they realize it, they’re crushed under inescapable debt, making it trivial to squeeze out points or exploit their labor.

“How profitable is it?”

“Hmm. You seem quite curious. As of last week, about this much?”

“50,000 points!?”

“There are plenty of fools who bought points with money but don’t know how to use them properly. All of them fell victim to my pet contract design. Hehe.”

In just one week, she earned more points than his monthly salary.

And that wasn’t even the maximum profit—the income was growing every week.

Funds needed for renewing pet contracts.

There were slaves wearing the mask of masters who willingly paid enormous points just for that one thing.

“Let me… let me in too.”

“My, I don’t really have anything else to ask of you.”

“Please. I need more points to advance to third year. For a commoner like me, earning gold coins and converting them to points is unrealistic. Earning through instructor work is too slow. Please, I’m begging you.”

It would take 28 years to earn 1,000,000 points at 36,000 points per year.

Even if he somehow managed 40,000 points with side income, it would still take 25 years.

The life of a student on leave who can’t earn points from lectures or expect big bonuses from instructor work is this miserable.

Camella was an opportunity.

The only person who needed him while possessing the talent to earn precious points in large quantities.

“Hmm~ If you sign a contract, I could help you with anything. What do you say?”

Despite having seen with his own eyes how Camella treated those who signed contracts, he couldn’t refuse her offer.

And time passed until this moment when he faced Oknodie.

[Pro-tect me]

Even without the command using Camella’s contract seal, he had no choice but to stand his ground.

If he lost this position, he would abandon his dream of advancement before completing his term and leave the Academy to settle for mediocrity.

“Don’t touch Camella. Leave now and I’ll overlook today’s incident.”

“And if I refuse?”

“You’ll learn firsthand how strong a student on leave who’s qualified as an instructor can be.”

He couldn’t back down even if his opponent was Oknodie, the top student of the 981st batch. Russo’s eyes filled with fierce determination.