episode_0066

Yuna is a student attending Sky City’s academy.

My mother is a housewife. Dad is a businessman.

It was an ordinary family, except that they were businessmen and not office workers.

“Number 83, right? Get ready because it’s next time. Student.”

Yuna, who had left the academy early, was now in the transfer testing center for the Mechanized Labor History Education Academy.

I organized my useless thoughts so that the red light on the headgear the examiner had attached did not come on.

Without thinking about anything. I emptied my thoughts like a convenient robot that only does what the human being tells me to do.

I tried to empty my mind, but useless thoughts kept coming in.

Yuna wanted to leave her mind empty, but she had no choice but to fill it with the reason she came here.

Humanoid was really convenient.

It was a tool that was hundreds of times more convenient than Android, where you could purchase yourself and become a free Android.

The remodeling surgery was also simple. The process was a process, but the minimum conditions for receiving it were also quite lax.

It did not require the aptitude level required for cyber implant or prosthetic surgery.

It’s a surgery that anyone can undergo as long as they have the slightest aptitude for mechanization modification… but the problem was that there wasn’t a shortage of people with even the slightest aptitude for mechanization.

Because of its extremely low aptitude rate, even if it became a low-performance Humanoid, it could be connected to the factory’s management computer and perform simple repetitive tasks.

An ordinary Humanoid was fully capable of using the technology of the corpuscle.

If you had gardening skills before undergoing the Humanoid mechanization modification surgery, it was a Humanoid for gardening. If you had skills such as cooking or driving, it was a convenient robot that could be deployed for related tasks.

If you had a high enough aptitude to install a cyber implant, you could use it for a variety of purposes by inserting a technical data chip into a separately created plug port, whether in your belly button or the back of your neck.

A low-level robot created to serve humans. Humanoid has long been a popular product in Sky City where supply cannot keep up with demand.

The lack of supply of bodies with aptitude for mechanization led to the qualitative improvement of Humanoid.

There was a reason why Sky City began supporting everything from Humanoid modification aptitude tests to surgery costs.

Humanoid clearly defined it as an object, but the logic was the same as recognizing partial human rights unless it was a type of permanent lease contract in which Humanoid handed over its ownership.

The Mechanized Labor History Academy was created from the beginning with the purpose of educating professional skills to students who do not show stress reactions even when receiving orders.

As soon as they enroll, students at the academy go through the process of giving up their human rights and are treated as mere objects to become mechanized laborers.

There was criticism that it was not an academy but a factory to produce high-performance, high-end Humanoids, but Sky City resolved the issue by granting human rights back to academy students who graduated with mechanized labor history.

Naturally, if the final shipment test called the graduation test is evaluated as below the standard, it will be shipped as a Humanoid with only slightly better performance, so the enthusiasm of the academy students who entered as a small body was also great.

The mechanized labor history system was also welcomed by non-combat academy students who were already attending the academy.

Although there was a condition that he had a personality that did not show a stress reaction even when receiving orders, it was an opportunity for even an ordinary person to become a high-quality worker in Sky City, where everyone would offer to scout him as long as he was shipped as a mechanized laborer, even if he did not have any innate special abilities. .

Yuna took the transfer exam for the Mechanized Labor History Education Academy.

I went to the transfer exam center held every month and wore an EEG-scanning headgear that detects stress responses, but…

“Application number 83. Eliminated.”

Just like last month, it fell this month too.

“Ugh….sorry.”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about. Student.”

Last month, I cleaned up the dirty room well, but when I saw a girl who suddenly came in, opened a milk carton and dumped it on the leather sofa, a red light came on in the brain wave detection headgear.

“If it had been 5 years ago, I would have passed, but now that everyone is trying to get in, it has become more and more difficult.”

I was comforted by the examiner who said that I would have definitely passed in the early days when the mechanized labor history system was introduced, but the same message of failure as last month came on the communication terminal.

The obstacle in this test was a free android who succeeded in purchasing her own instead of a girl who deliberately scattered wafer cookies on the carpet.

The content of the test was a simple task of cleaning a room as instructed by the android who hired him as a mechanized laborer, but he was caught by the android’s provocation asking if he really wanted to become a humanoid.

Instead of getting upset, Yuna responded, “I have confirmed the order,” while wearing a full-body bodysuit that will be worn like a school uniform until the moment she is “shipped” if she passes the test and is admitted as a new student. However, an honest red light came on in the brain wave detection headgear that Yuna was wearing. .

“Aptitude test next month. I’ll make a reservation now……”

There were several reasons why Yuna, who was already attending the academy as a non-combat student, took the transfer test for the mechanized labor history specialized training academy.

There are many different options… No matter what, mechanized labor history was the best option for Yuna, a non-combat academy student with no special abilities.

If I had majored in combat, I would have started working as a hero as soon as I graduated from the academy and was a citizen of Sky City, but it was impossible.

Monsters did not drop items, and treasure chests were evaluated to be empty even when opened, so the luck stat was evaluated to be so severe, but it was clear that if he had been in the combat department, he would have been able to work as a bodyguard.

However, Yuna was a non-combat academy student.

“This is the third time…so there’s a discount…right?”

Yuna paid next month’s exam fee in advance while trying to deal with the receptionist’s pitiful gaze.

I already failed twice, but I didn’t give up.

Yuna couldn’t give up because once she became a hero or a mechanized laborer, she planned to take her mother out instead of her father who came in after drinking and harassing her every day.

Yuna was not stupid. From the moment I found out who made the red handprint on my mother’s face, I changed my plan to graduate from the academy normally.

I worked hard to become a mechanized laborer who was treated as Sky City’s high-quality workforce.

Kuuk. I folded my hands and took out the checklist in my mind.

Before I forgot, I wrote down a plan to pass the next test in a notepad in my mind.

Yuna was planning to work part-time at a cafe full of Humanoids that had a maid business program installed.

Take the Mechanized Labor History Education Academy exam. Instead of drawing a red hatch saying that I failed in that part. I drew a circle in slightly lighter pink.

‘Because I didn’t give up!’

It wasn’t a regular request distributed by Sky City to the Hero Association, nor was it a request from an online order site, but it was enough to earn Yuna experience.

That day, Yuna did something called leveling up for the first time.

I felt the existence of skill points that could be used to learn new skills or raise skills I already knew to a higher level.

I also felt like my body had become a little stronger.

It didn’t end there. When I opened it, something new appeared in the status window, which had nothing special.

It was a special ability. One of the few incredible opportunities in life that could either bend the rules of the world or become a bit unique came to Yuna.

The first perk that appeared before Yuna’s eyes was complete garbage. It was a special ability that allowed you to ignore what the other person was saying even if you couldn’t understand it. It was a white background.

The second was a rare perk that reduced the magic power consumed when using magic by half. The border is purple.

It is one of the special abilities that all wizards earnestly pray for, but Yuna was a non-combat academy student who did not know how to fight, let alone use magic.

third. The last perk to appear was [Magical Girl].

It was a special ability that allowed her to transform into a magical girl without the help of a floating magic plush toy.

The color of the border was the same as the colored pencil in my heart that I had circled without giving up. It was a bright, shining pink.

Without hesitation, I chose the [Magical Girl] perk.

That’s how Yuna became a magical girl.

Yuna immediately transferred to the combat department.

Since I had already been exempted from paying tuition once when I entered the academy, I had to pay tuition every year from now on, but that was okay.

The aptitude test at the Mechanized Labor History Training Academy has been canceled.

Since I could transform into a magical girl at any time, I planned to register as a hero after graduating from the combat department.

Then, even though I was in the F class, it was enough because I had no problem living with my mother in Sky City, which permanently rents a large studio apartment.

If you worked hard and got promoted to a D-class hero, they even gave you an apartment to live in, so all that was left was to learn magic at the academy and graduate.

With all the problems resolved, Yuna made one more wish.

I didn’t want my dad, who complained that business wasn’t going well and that everyone was jealous of him, to bother my mom.

So Yuna made a wish.

“Accident…Accident?”

Yuna, who made a wish, received a call that her father had been in a car accident.

“You didn’t get run over…you hit me?”

He was a perpetrator, not a victim. Since I had some savings, it was okay if I hit someone. Since I was a citizen of Sky City and had insurance, it was okay if I got hit by an expensive car.

“Drinking….Driving…?”

Drunk Driving. It was said that no one would say anything even if the license was revoked or handed over to the Small and Medium Enterprises Exchange.

He said he hit a pedestrian in that state. It appears that the two expensive Humanoids in brand new condition were also made into scrap metal.

“It’s not covered by insurance…?”

I went to the insurance company with my mom, but the answer I got back was the same.

The answer was that it was not an accident for which insurance was responsible, but a crime for which the police officers should be responsible.

“Excluded from Humanoid payments?”

I could understand that my savings account had been confiscated. All of my assets were in my father’s name, so I thought I could do that.

I was planning on taking my mom with me as soon as I graduated from the academy, so it didn’t matter what happened to my dad.

“Well…why is that like that? I live alone with my mom!”

Yuna went to the local office to learn that they would provide a Humanoid to help with housework if she applied, but was rejected again.

It clearly met the conditions of being a citizen of Sky City and being a single-parent family.

However, what came back was a notification that Humanoid could not be paid.

Humanoid was provided to help fill the empty space in the family, but since the house was piled up with foreclosure tickets and immediate living expenses were urgent, they were planning to sell it or leave it at a rental center.

Yuna’s plan collapsed before it even started.

“The reason…..The reason….What is it….”

Yuna was able to kindly receive an explanation of the process by which Humanoid is paid to single-parent families. They said that it is not paid by Sky City, but by a private organization after a review that exists only as a formality.

The person in charge told me that I only failed the formal screening.

“We…Mom and I…didn’t do anything wrong…”

The reason the Humanoid payment was rejected was not because of drunk driving.

It was because of the business details that my father talked about.

“The Porters’ Association refused to review the payment. Well, there were complaints from other places too…”

“That…that…”

“It’s a private organization, so I can’t say anything about it. I know the situation is unfortunate, but…”

All I knew was that they followed a system where you could order and eat delivery food through a telecommunication terminal.

I couldn’t even imagine that it was the introduction of a matching system that intermediaries between porters and adventurers and collects a commission.

I found out that they were intentionally trying to make a profit by inserting unnecessary middlemen.

It wasn’t a monkey hand that granted wishes by misinterpreting them, but it was a world full of bad endings that even non-female protagonists could enter.

“Yuna.”

“Uh…Mom….”

Tears formed in Yuna’s eyes as she stood up strong even after failing the test.

The jewel that was sure to continue flowing without stopping at the slightest touch was barely hanging in Yuna’s pink eyes.

“Dormitory life. Our Yuna. You can do it well, right?”

“Uh…yeah…then…what about mom?”

“Mom….Mom is okay.”

Mom told Yuna that she had received an offer to work as a maid at the mansion. It was an ideal workplace that even provided accommodations and meals.

At first, I was planning to hire her as a full-time maid who would always live in the mansion, but after hearing Yuna’s story, I was given the condition to go out freely at any time outside of working hours.

There was a condition that she had to undergo Humanoid modification surgery in order to be connected to the house system, but considering Yuna’s tuition and living expenses, it was the best opportunity that would never come again.

“I’ll buy a lot of things Yuna likes this weekend.”

“Yes!”

Yuna, who became a magical girl, decided to try a little harder.