Tou no Madoushi

He said he cares about noble women.

Shardiff often stopped working hands and turned to Lynn. The expression feels frightened.

"Stop. Stop it. I'm not going to make love beyond my status. It's just so hard."

"Ha."

Lynn connects the wiring to the machine in front of her as she replies carelessly.

Lynn and Shardiff are just taking classes together on the Magic of Machinery.

"Humans have a decent way of life. I've seen people trying to go beyond that. We've all been so unhappy."

"But Theo said it doesn't matter if you're a magician, it doesn't matter if you're a nobleman or a slave."

Lynn said not so much to be annoyed and disprove, but only at the usual rate.

"You know, Lynn. That's pre-construction. Besides, you're from the slave class. If I were to marry an aristocratic daughter, all my kinsman relatives would come forward and stop me from getting married. You can't even be socially obliterated."

"It's not like I'm gonna do this with her either."

Lynn shrugs her shoulders.

"It's just that she gets tangled up in Theo if she does. I'll always be by Theo's side. Then, even if I don't like it, sometimes my hands touch me. [M] I know she doesn't care about me... Hi."

"I see. That's a pain in the ass."

Shardiff thinks arm in arm. Lynn laughs cously. It was a funny thing about Shardiff that even such a shabby consultation would give me serious thought.

(I guess I've stayed in college many times because of poor procedures this way)

Lynn had become close to Shardiff throughout his classes of witty magic.

There was basically a lot of work to be done in pairs of skilled demon instruction classes, but Theo stopped early, so Lynn worked with Shardiff every time.

I was scared of him at first, Lynn, but as I talked, I was just old enough to hear a lot of stories that would help me be familiar with the world.

Besides, he was the one you could have fun with in a frantic, funny way for being like that detached person.

I'd rather treat younger people like Lynn equally without making an unpleasant face.

Lynn quickly nostalgic for Shardiff, who likes to listen to older stories.

"Nevertheless..."

Lynn sighed when she saw the work in front of her.

"It's a distracting task. It's called magic."

It is its contents to assemble the machine as per the design document given, but the task was cumbersome and boring.

At first it was Lynn, who enjoyed the work carried out in line with the design document, but has pioneered a chimatima repetition of similar work for extended periods.

It seems true that ingenious magic is an area that has developed in recent years with a clear light on its feet.

But the skillful magic initial class was a black byte, if I may say so.

It means that you can also learn useful knowledge for the future with allowances, but the allowances were thin and equal to nothing you could learn.

The salary is paid on a percentage basis only for the number of design documents that have been done, but when I converted my annual salary based on the actual work time spent, I found that it was less than a part-time job around it.

It was impossible to make a million legicas a year just for class time, or even if you worked outside class time.

Theo became unauthorized absent from class because he could see it or not "can you do it". Lynn was briefed on how the world works.

"You bet. This is a black byte."

There's Shardiff. What do you say?

"I knew you were"

"It is true that a mechanical magician is an intelligent and highly paid profession on the upper floors of the tower. However, it is also a profession that is highly unequal due to the skills and knowledge acquired. It's an industry with multiple layers of subcontracting. The upstream process is highly paid instead of demanding high knowledge and skills. On the other hand, the downstream process can be contracted even with low knowledge and skills, but it is not suitable for a thin salary. Subcontracting is also subcontracted here. That's the bottom line. Even if you can read a design book like this, it won't do you any good in the future."

"Why is Mr. Shardiff in this class when he knows so much about it?"

"You're determined because you can't turn your neck because of debt. I've been in college for almost 20 years, and I've been paying for my scholarship all this time. It is no longer possible to repay it. You don't even have to pay interest. So after negotiating with the Magic Instructors Association, it's taking this class that they've been offering instead of paying off their debts. There seems to be a shortage of people who can read and write magic characters and do this kind of low-level labor even with them. They barely have to be sold out."

"Ha."

Lynn freaked out a little.

Does it make sense to stick to college enrollment that much?

I would have lived a better life if I'd given up so many places before my neck stopped spinning because of debt.

"Anyway, most classes with allowances are black bytes bearing the name of the class. It's wiser not to."

"Yes. Me and Theo aren't going to be in this class later either. I'm going to take some paid classes instead."

"It's a wise choice, I'd say, but there's actually a trap there too. If you take all the expensive classes, your scholarship debt will swell and you shouldn't eat at work in the province. In addition, there is a substantial enrollment fee, like tuition at the college, to get into and out of each tier of the tower. That gets more and more cassava as the hierarchy goes up. That's where we need to go to the top of the tower with our lives at stake to get high salaries. Thus the wizards are sorted by their talents without refusal. The talented man climbs everywhere to gain high-paying bureaucrats, honor, and even power. On the other hand, a guy with no talent will lose his way in debt, and eventually he will be sold off as a slave, or he will sit in the corner of the Dallas Tower like me. If you're a nobleman or a bourgeoisie, you can have your parents replace you with gold. But if you go deeper, your life will go crazy with them."

"... then I figured I should just graduate with no charge classes and save as much tuition as possible"

With that said, Shardiff puts his arms together again to make a difficult face.

"Right. Certainly the pressure on scholarship repayment would be somewhat weaker if you graduated from uncharged classes alone. But there's another trap there too... Well, if you live here, come on. You'll see. Anyway, if you want to live in this tower, you have to think about how to shake yourself. Especially if he's not as close as you."

At the end of the day, Shardiff suddenly turns to face.

"Oh, you're not feeling well today"

Shardiff was working on connecting the wiring. Pouring magic has deformed the junction and made the connection mechanism, but Shardiff didn't seem to be able to produce magic well. Lynn pours magic into the wiring instead of Shardiff.

I'm sorry.

"... no"

"At this age, it's also a little difficult to magic out. It's the end of such an easy task. Well, I guess it's a bad idea to spend a lot of time in the daze without training."

Exactly. Shardiff gives a tired look.

No matter how strong he was, his wasted years and weakness could not be hidden.

"You wouldn't have done this if you had studied more seriously, too"

"Surely there could have been an unserious part of me, too. But that's not even the problem. I didn't have any talent in the first place."

Shardiff sighs and looks away.

"I went up to the higher class for a while, too. I met a guy there who couldn't win no matter what he did. It was synchronous, but I thought he was a genius. But even him, the 200th floor was the limit of ordinary people. From the true genius at the top of the tower, what a difference it is between me and him as much as Mijinko and Alinko. I haven't been willing to do anything since I figured that out. It's a life of falling and staying years and now just desperately clinging to Alfrid"

"Why are you so obsessed with Alfredo? Ren Lil would have lived without having to carry a lot of debt."

"I want to see it. I couldn't reach the top of this tower, no matter how much my sync scratched me, or the guy who's going to be a resident of the sky. Not with Renlil for that. Alfredo conveys information on the upper tier, albeit slightly. We need to step on it in Alfredo."

Lynn smiled bitterly.

"You're a drunk, too.

Although Lynn was frightened, there was nothing to feel about the clean living that shakes her life on the stick.

"So did you find anyone who was likely to reach the 1000 hierarchy?

"Oh, they found me"

"Did you find it?

"It's Doriath. Still a college student chick demon mentor, but he's definitely the best delicacy of the last twenty years. Remember, there's nothing to lose."

"I don't know if I'm talented at the time of graduate school... how do I know that"

"Huh. Lynn, you're not trying to fool me. I've still seen a lot of humans alone in this. And their fate. Now I can almost see his talent just by looking at his face. This guy has a limit up to 200 floors, and this guy has a limit up to 300 floors, and so on."

(Hmm)

Lynn was interested in this topic. How confident and willing I am to speak of Shardiff. Maybe he really has the eyesight to spot the talent of a magic conductor. Lynn decided to try hitting Shardiff with the questions she had been concerned about for a long time.

"So what about me? How talented am I? [M] Could you possibly be a genius?

Shardiff returns to work as soon as he sees Chirali and Lynn's face.

"No. I can't feel any talent from you. Even if you work hard, even if you're lucky enough to get to the 100th floor, the 200th floor is the limit."

That's all I'm saying, stop the pity and work, and now I'm going to look at Lynn with a pity eye.

"I'm not saying anything bad. Get away from this tower now. Before you're like me."

Lynn decided to listen in half.

Next time, episode 20, "Scouting Magrillheim"