"I'm sorry, Tifa..."
"The teacher is not bad at all..."
The continent of Crewell is the Republic of Trion. In the dean's office of the Alto School of Magic, the most formatted magic school in its capital Alto, the dean of the College of Magic, College Director Riera Foster and Tifa Baker, a privileged student until last year, sighed with a dark face.
"If only I had more talent..."
"No. It's not that Tifa doesn't have talent. Perhaps the control method taught at Alto Magic College just doesn't match your magic quality."
"But... it is true that I am no better than others..."
Riera gets troubled by Tifa's words, which are depressing to the bottom.
It is a rule, and even though there has been a harsh pursuit from the leading figures who are donating to the government and college of the Trion, it is a sentiment that we must virtually mutilate a girl who has just turned eight, both as an educator and as an elderly person.
Yes. Tifa just turned eight a while ago, she's just a little kid. Alto Magic College has a minimum age of admission of six and she is now a sophomore. In two months, he will advance to third grade.
Tifa has an attractive neat appearance with big purple eyes reminiscent of glittering honey blondes and amethysts and immense magic that can rival the Great Wizard and the famous Riera.
Normally, she is the girl who is promised the future, but unfortunately she was unable to move that vast amount of magic of her own volition, and her achievements in the key practical skills were devastating and utterly depressing.
"At the very least, I wish I could have given you back to your parents..."
"But the fact that ordinary people like us can be gathered here is because if we can't control the magic properly, sooner or later, we'll let them run wild and screw up around, right?
"… that's one of the reasons"
With unusual absorption and diligence, Tifa wears all the magical relationship seating taught at the college as knowledge.
Feel the spare that makes you feel it, take another deep sigh of sigh as you look at the girl's honey blonde whose nutritional status has deteriorated and yet not compromised her beauty.
The majority of scholarships had already been cut, and Tifa was in a state where even the student dormitories were not allowed to eat properly.
Even the cooks who cut up the dorm canteen aren't ghosts, so they're feeding their scholarship kids who can't afford to pay for their meals by sneaking up on bribes made from end ingredients and scraps of vegetables. but it's not a satisfactory quality and quantity meal because the budget is too much for a student dorm, and the cooks are misleading by giving a heartbreaking but not too much to cry and starve to death meal.
Most importantly, in the case of Tifa, who has been cut off from all support and cannot afford any room in her parents' house, the meal will not starve to death as of tomorrow, and she has been hunted down to the point where she may not even be allowed to live in a dorm and be kicked out.
"Whatever it is, it is all too outrageous to call children from here who have not reached Alto's working age, to stop subsidizing tuition because of quality problems, and not even take measures such as that habitual magic seal and attribute it to their parents. That's what I insisted..."
Lyella's claim did not reach the College's directors, nor the senators who drastically changed the system around the subsidy.
Yes, it is a senator. The Trion, as the name suggests, governs by a parliamentary democracy. As a result, regime and political policy change regularly, but this time was particularly dramatic.
Because both the regime of time and the first party of the opposition failed to deal with the spatial and temporal fluctuations that took place around the middle of last year and the massive outbreaks of monsters induced by their effects, causing constant damage.
Fortunately, the number of casualties was small for the scale of the outbreak, but the property damage that occurred to the people was proportionate in scale, and taking responsibility for it, Parliament was dissolved and both the President and the Prime Minister were forced to leave office.
As a result, a party that makes biased claims, like it has never been properly involved in politics before in a foam party, has won a great deal.
When such people are at the top, it is common for them not to get into a lot of things. As promised by the new government of the Republic of Trion, it began to cut budgets everywhere bulky, ignoring reason, reality, the context in which the system was created, etc.
Since the Alto School of Magic is also a national institution, it is not possible to avoid engaging with the government in various parts, including the budget, and has been directly hit by the runoff of the new regime in the form of all cuts in subsidies and tightening the requirements of the preferential and scholarship schemes.
Tifa was caught in a coup d 'état in her own ignorance, and she suffered the mess.
"A country can't change right away that once it's decided and done. But you guys have nothing to do with such adult circumstance. So if I were you, I should take care of you under particularly bad conditions, but you're not the only one..."
"Yes......"
Tifa can only nod with a given look at Riera, who seems sincerely sorry.
I know that I stand out and am being pushed into a bad position, but I also know that other privileged students are in a similar situation to what they are for.
If you say it in muscle, you should also come in the neck right now to reduce the burden, but say Tifa, who is so clever and ambitious at the age, just doesn't want to die yet.
"But I'm not going to do such an embarrassing imitation as an adult, such as holding hands without doing anything, before a child being forced to starve at the discretion of the country. If the country holds back the weakest being: children, let us face the status quo with that wisdom as part of the College of the Wise"
"What? But if I did that, my teacher would..."
"Face it, even so, it doesn't mean anything hits you from the front. Fortunately, not all budgets were taken or all donations turned down. Besides, we've already set up a system of cooperation with a number of private organizations to help you make money to the extent that internships and excuses work."
"Eh, that's pretty amazing..."
"It's no big deal. Because, Tifa, you ask for more than you deserve."
Tifa accidentally finds herself in Riera's harsh expression. Since I don't eat anything I can't work with, there is no difference in trying, but I am very anxious to see if I am prepared to live like that.
but only to Tifa, if the situation is going to be worse than this, I'm no longer going to have to die. It's not "enough," it's just "do it and show it."
"Um, Doctor. What can I do..."
"You will have the College do the job of delivering the materials used in the experiment. Some of these items are for private use, so each faculty member is supposed to order them with pocket money after coloring the reward."
"You just have to do what you did in a field work lecture, on your own, right?
Tifa knows what to do and brightens her face. Add to that reaction the slightly hasty appearance of Riera.
"On your own, don't. You're eight years old, and you don't have the means to protect yourself. The gatekeeper won't let you out."
"Uh, then you have to go with someone, right? … Could it be that earlier private organisations will cooperate, the story is…"
"Yeah. For the moment, in a story that concerns you directly, I've negotiated to be able to hire adventurers at some adventurers' taverns at no cost. Not exactly at a cost, but on an annual contract, I arranged for someone I could trust to escort me."
Tifa's big eyes sparkle in Riera's words.
"Will the adventurers cooperate!!"
"Yeah. But you're just a kid. Make sure it's too late to head to the Adventurer's Tavern before noon. We're going to be late, and there's going to be some really bad quality drunks in the nightclub."
"Yes. I'm not as close as I can to someone who's drinking. My neighbor, Uncle Kevin, got violent when he drank."
Riella puts her neck on a person named Uncle Kevin next door and immediately assumes she is Tifa's home neighbor.
To be honest, an adventurer's liquor store is not such a raw level of poor quality drunkenness. but you won't even have to bother to threaten Tifa, who has already pulled at that neighbor's point, additionally.
"So, I'm not ready for this job yet today, so it won't be until tomorrow that you can work. Of all the Adventurers' Taverns that you are seeking help from, the closest one will be the Riki Ancient Coin Pavilion."
"Um, shouldn't we go say hello now?
"... right. On second thought, you have to make a proper introduction over there. But I don't have a faculty available today. I have to explain the same thing to a few more people after this."
"... you know, I shouldn't have explained it with the other kids, not just me..."
"Exactly, no other student is as stranded as you. There are quite a few differences about what the treatment will be starting tomorrow, and I have trouble explaining them poorly together and even if they still think it's okay"
"... I see"
To Riera's explanation, Tifa shows quite convincingly. There are no more bad students who are being hunted down than myself, if you ask me, then I will snap.
In such a different way from Tifa, the inner much-necked liera. Even though I was old enough to get into old age, I had no idea until Tifa told me the obvious thing about introducing students to the Adventurer's Tavern who passed the request for cooperation.
It is very painful for an old man to overlook such a common sense thing to say how much he continued to haunt his head about helping his godchildren placed in irrational and harsh situations.
"I have to go alone after tomorrow anyway, so I'm going alone today for now"
"... Really? Okay, I'll write you a letter of introduction, so just wait a minute."
"Yes, thank you"
"No. I'm sorry I didn't mean to bother you."
With that said, Riera quickly gets a letter of introduction in a beautiful letter. Putting it in an envelope and giving it to Tifa, Tifa happily receives it and bows her head one, leaving the room with a light foothold.
"... even if they say the best sage in the country, etc., the reality is just a pitiful old man who has no wisdom or power to resist the irrationality of the state, nor can he properly rescue a child who is irrationally caught up in it, or..."
Riera confirms that Tifa has left the room and mocks herself that way with a sigh. As I get older, I have to be aware that with my body I am also fading in terms of influence.
I can no longer protect my students myself. At least not while I'm doing my job as Dean of the College. I don't have enough strength or time at all.
I guess it's time to nominate a successor to take over the duties of Dean of the College and retire from the tabular stage.
"... whoever takes over, let's start by educating the children driven by this mess without starving to death"
There are no other students being pushed as far as Tifa, but there are still a few students whose dormitory and food aid will be completely cut off from next season.
We must also give them jobs and create pretexts under which schools and liera can afford dormitories and food.
We don't all need to hire adventurers to do the level job of, like, Tifa, but a few of us will need to wave that kind of job as we see how it goes.
"... you were right to leave the old system frozen"
Various systems once existed to make students earn tuition. A system that no longer needed to be used after the state started granting subsidies and was left behind just in case, although abolition was considered for the time being.
Write references to students who are likely to feed off in the future, remembering the proceedings for that resurrection and other runaways, and list the jobs they will do.
It was Riera praying to grow up a little splendid so that the children could overcome this difficulty while advancing the full range of things they would be able to do as elders.