Chapter 90: Speculation
[Edited by deathbricks, Bunny, Arthur300000, and ArchmageNaoki]
A very brief BLWA overview:
* BLWA was founded in 82754, but did not admit its first students until 82766. The academy began with pre-college level but later was expanded to a complete education system (kindergarten to postgraduate).
* Even though there is a ‘lady’ in the BLWA name, the academy accepts students regardless of gender or race.
* BLWA has seven schools, 40+ departments, 80+ labs, centers, and programs that engage in interdisciplinary work.
* The academy offers free access to class lecture notes, exams, and videos through the institute website.
* On the campus, we use only physical coins (Human Empire Crowns). Why? Because there have been too many failed hacking attempts in the last tens years, and we don’t want to welcome the police force everytime it happens.
* To get around the campus, you can walk, take a bus, rent a bike, or try the experimental teleportation gate at your own risk. The fees and a map is included on the back side.
I discovered an academy guidebook laying between the master bed and its bedside table. Maybe I tossed and turned a bit too much last night.
Anyways, the teleportation gate that was mentioned in the book looked interesting. Also, this town seemed to use coins instead of credits, huh? Let's see how many of those coins I have left.
I brought up the storage devices management menu. Then input my query.
Filter: Coins Sort by: Value descending
1,105 x Gold coins
18 x Big silver coins
45 x Small silver coins
2 x Bronze coins
Alright, I still got some of them. Thanks to my laziness, I didn’t exchange them back to credits yet. Let’s see, a small silver coin was about one credit, right? And ten small silver coins is equal to one big silver coin. Then a gold coin means ten big silver coins… So, doesn’t that mean a gold coin is only worth 10 panties? As expected of panties in this world, they are worth their weight in gold.
“Hey Kuro, are you there?” As I was contemplating the profundity of panties and the currency of this world, Barbara knocked on my door.
I ran to open the door for her, and Barbara pounced on me as soon as I saw her.
“Fwaa, as expected, hugging Kuro feels the best.” … For some reason, it seems like Barbara contracted some kind of bad behavior from my family.
“Nyaa.” Ms. Fluffy, the flying leopard, also came with her. She rubbed her side against my leg.
“Hey Ms. Fluffy, are you healthy?” I grabbed her and checked her body meticulously. She was a bit longer than the last time I saw her. Moreover, her fur felt even more fluffy.
“Look, look, I trained her to act like an owl!” Barbara bragged and made a gesture. “Come, show Kuro what we practiced.” Then Ms. Fluffy jumped on Barbara's shoulder, stood up straight, and looked around with big round eyes… Alright, I’ve never heard of anyone who could train a cat to look like an owl. It’s supposed to be an impressive feat, but somehow I felt like they were also being idiots at the same time...
“She can also transform into a scarf, look, look!” Barbara moved her index finger around, and Ms. Fluffy began to wrap herself around Barbara’s neck.
“Isn’t that too heavy?” I asked as I remembered when she slept on top of me. But Ms. Fluffy just stared at me like I said something rude.
“No problem, she uses her floating ability to make herself lighter.” Barbara bragged. “Here, try her on.” She sent Ms. Fluffy to me. Wow, this is warm and comfortable.
“The camouflage skill is necessary for the snow leopard’s survival. So it’s no surprise that it will excel at this kind of activity.” Skynet suddenly added while I was praising Ms. Fluffy for her resourcefulness… She isn’t jealous of Ms. Fluffy, right?
“Anyways, mistress, the job distribution console is ready.” She notified me.
Because my sentence was to work here for ten days as a teacher’s aide, I needed to take a job every day from this automatic system. All I needed to do is put my ID card in that console next to the television and it would tell me what to do for today. However, its indicator light had been red since last night. Now, it had turned green indicating that the console was ready. I told Barbara to make herself comfortable and walked over to it, inserted my card, and waited.
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Job for mad dog attacker:
Collect the listed ingredients needed for a lab experiment within one day:
5 fourth class or above monster corpses
2 third class or above monster corpses
50 kg of a dungeon’s flora
Job instructions:
1. Take bus 102 to the nearby dungeon.
2. Kill monsters there and collect the ingredients there.
3. Take bus 104 back to the biology department.
4. Show your ID card and ingredients there to finish the job.
Warning:
1. Although the method for ingredient acquisition is not restricted, attacking any civilian, student, or another adventurer here is a capital offense.
2. Monster corpses need to be at least 80% intact.
… It seemed that the written exam result is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I was hoping for a more peaceful job like sleeping my days off in the classroom or something, but as a mad dog attacker, there is no such thing, huh?
Anyways, the job seemed easy, the third class monster wasn’t that difficult. It was on the same level as those flying spaghetti monsters in that forest and those big floating eyeballs in the Beastkin kingdom. Fourth class monsters were even easier. Hmm, maybe I should leave Cocoa with Barbara. Bringing those girls along would only get in my way.
After that Cocoa came out from her den, I mean the bathroom. Ms. Fluffy jumped away and flew back to Barbara as soon as I walked into the steam filled bathroom. Maybe she hates fog? Anyways, it took only five minutes for me to finish my morning business. Then we left the dorm a bit before eight. Of course, I was in my catgirl disguise.
“Do your best, Barbara.” We split up in front of the dorm. I already suggested to Barbara that we should have breakfast together, but she said that she had to run to the administrative building for her entrance exam. So, I had no other choice but to cheer for her and pat goodbye to Ms. Fluffy which was already coiled around her neck.
“Also, here Cocoa, please take care of Barbara for today.” I handed Cocoa ten gold coins.
“Eh? Thanks!” Cocoa always seemed happy when she received money. Well, she didn’t have human’s coins on her. This much should suffice for a day.
“But don’t you want me to go with you?” She tilted her head.
“No, it’s an easy job. I alone should be fine.” Cocoa isn’t as strong as my siblings, even Pristia could single-handedly beat her in a fair fight. Of course, she is useful with all the odd jobs, but I don’t want to worry about her when I fight.
“O-okay, stay safe then.” Cocoa suddenly hugged me. I was surprised by her action, anyways she seemed to be a good girl, so I couldn’t help myself but pat her head.
“It’s alright, you know who you’re talking with? I’m the-” As I was propping her back and started to brag a bit, the dorm’s front gate opened with a loud bang.
“Ah! That was so great!” It was the voice of one of the girls who interrupted my sleep last night...
“Yeah, it was fun to look at his face when he was on his last legs.” Another pink haired girl giggled.
“Alright, let’s hunt for another dude to fuck!” A tanned girl with strange makeup on her face energetically pushed the other girls along... Compared to them, my niece who came to this campus because of her wizardry fetish seemed to be a lot more diligent. Yep, because of them, I can look at my niece in a new light.
“Hey! What are you doing!?” Cocoa protested… Oops, I accidentally covered Cocoa’s eyes with my hands. Wait, shouldn’t I cover my niece’s eyes instead? Or rather ears? Anyways, there was no man following them outside. Maybe he was already in heaven, in all kinds of meanings, I mean... fifteen times a night, huh? May the force be with you.
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Before I hopped on the bus to the nearby dungeon. I spotted one of the street stalls selling delicious looking crepes, so I joined its waiting line.
The academy town’s scenery was totally different from yesterday night. The deserted midnight street was now bustling with kids and teenagers. Along lines of colorful street stalls that spanned the entire length of the main street offered thousands of different merchandise. Some of them are just normal items like foods, toys, clothes, and accessories. Some are serious stuff like weapons, adventuring gear, and assortments of monster cores. There were a few of them selling stuff that I couldn’t identify. Anyways, I will come back to check them later. A half day should be enough to finish the request.
The population ratio here was also different from a normal human town. Normally, humans were about 90% of the population, and other types of people were wearing hoods or something to make themselves inconspicuous. However, in this place, the humans were only about half, I think. And there were all kinds of people in the mix. Beastkin were the second place which consisted of about 20 percent. The rest were, elves, dwarves, cyborgs, robots, and isn’t that a walking skeleton?
[Hey, Skynet, isn’t that one of your kind?] I pointed at a robot girl who was leading a group of kindergarteners across the street.
[It’s rude to point at people, mistress. And yes, that is a CX-21 model, a civilian type cybernetic body.] She replied.
[Uh, how much is that?] I asked. That android model looked nice. I began to imagine her in different outfits.
[It’s only two hundred thousand credits, and there is 10 month with 0% interest payment installment plan.] … That expensive!? It was about a third of my money. Wait, I could pay 20,000 credits every month for ten months instead. That would… still expensive!
20,000 credits were still way over my monthly income. I was lucky to earn this much money, but there was no guarantee that I would keep earning this much. Hmm, maybe I should open a blacksmith shop. If I could sell two of my weapons at the same price that bathrobe guy paid when he bought a sword from me, I could easily buy Skynet a new body.
On the website that she brought up, there were many types of cybernetic bodies. The one we were talking about had the ability of an average human. There were also those combat types which came with all kinds of neat functions, but all of them were above one million credits per unit. Hah, it seemed my savings would never be enough, huh? Oh, let’s check those sex-bot type-
“Hey cutie pie, what would you like to have?” The crepes store owner auntie interrupted my train of thought. Oh, it was already my turn in the queue.
“One strawberry chocolate crepe with an extra scoop of vanilla ice cream.” I ordered.
“Coming right up!” She replied and began working on my crepe. Hmm, by the way, it seemed the ratio of men versus women was a bit off here. From what I could see, most adults here were female and only about ten percent of them seemed to be male. On the contrary, kids were more balanced, they had about a 50-50 gender ratio.
For some reason, the older people are, the fewer males there are. Is there something at work here? My mind quickly turned to those five girls next to my room… Nah, if that had really happened, they would be wanted criminals already.
“It’s four silver coins.” A short haired girl asked me to pay. Her face looked similar to the store owner auntie.
“Here you are.” I handed her the coins and took my crepe.
Needless to say, the crepe was super yummy. I enjoyed it while waiting for the bus and watching the crepes shop line getting longer and longer. At some point, the short-haired girl had to come out of her shop and manage the line.
About two minutes later, the bus came. I popped the last piece of the crepe into my mouth and jumped on the bus. And as always, I had to fight with the driver to pay the fee…