I Aim to Be an Adventurer with the Jobclass of “Jobless”

Alicia said she had a childhood tame named Crimina.

Serious Alicia and bright and pleasant Crimina.

Whatever the difference in personality, they said they were friends.

"Among the foresters (elves), Crimina was the poorest in witchcraft.

I can't even sign with the lower spirits, they say half a serving. "

Alicia spoke with a soft face, as she recalls at the time.

Inside the Forest Man (Elf), they say that signing with the Spirit would finally make it one serving, and Crimina has always been treated like a half serving - a falling out.

"It was the crimina that had been bewitched by the people inside that way,

With her bright personality, she didn't even look like she cared at all.

But Crimina cried in front of me. "

It's - the death of Crimina's mother.

Longevity compared to other races - on the contrary, foresters are said to live close to eternity.

"He said he was sick.

It's so serious that there's nothing you can do about it in healing magic.

Later, we found out that it was a curse from past wars. "

Even foresters (elves) who are good at witchcraft have an incurable illness.

For the first time then, Crimina may have learned such obvious facts.

"Then, she changed.

I was as bad at magic as ever, but I gained a little bit of my knowledge of medicine. "

'If it's pharmacy, we might also be able to cure diseases that can't be cured by magic,' Crimina said with a serious face she had never shown before.

But in self-study, there are limits.

'How can I acquire more varied knowledge?

How can I make it work?

I hear Crimina's been asking Alicia that.

"So I told Crimina about the Adventurer Development Agency.

Some active adventurers are also experts in pharmacy.

He said he could get a much better education than any other institution. "

Listening to Alicia, Crimina said she was determined to enroll in an adventurer training institution with a view to further improving her knowledge and skills in pharmacy.

To that end, he began studying magic with the goal of breaking through the entrance exams of adventurer training institutions.

Crimina, who was also worth the effort and succeeded in signing with the lower spirits, came to the exam with Alicia, and the two were safe and passed the entrance exam.

On her entrance exam grades, Alicia told Class A that Crimina was to be in Class B and Class B.

"We were delighted with each other's enrollment.

The classes are separate, but we swore to each other to try our best to get to our goals.

But... "

Alicia lays her eyes down.

"... for Crimina, enrolling in this college was a mistake in the first place"

He opened his mouth heavily with a sad, tense look.

"If I hadn't enrolled in this college, Crimina wouldn't have killed herself."

Suicide - that means Crimina killed herself.

"... what happened?

To my question.

"In this college of meritocracy, power is justice.

The high level of combat ability is a testament to outstanding students. "

Little by little Alicia's tone is reinforced, albeit with a pale mouthfeel.

"Of course, adventurers are professions with many patterns, many lives at stake.

Given that, the idea of good students = highly combative students is

Maybe it's never a mistake. "

I can't survive without power.

That's why the Adventurer Development Agency is trying to train strong adventurers with meritocracy.

If it is a profession with a lot of havoc, it seems natural.

"But put highly combatable students in Class A as excellent students.

Otherwise take the students to class B.

This clear division of classes sprouts the consciousness that is among the students "

What is that consciousness? And before I ask.

"It's a sense of superiority and inferiority.

Class A students develop a sense of superiority because they are strong and because they are defined as excellent.

Class B students develop a sense of inferiority because they are weak and because they are awkward. "

What Alicia was saying was somehow clear to me.

I do feel that the consciousness that comes from living in groups in these colleges without consciousness does exist.

That's a metaphor (once in a while) - like the other day when Lucy and Roofi were exposed to clear malice.

"And the malice of birth eroded Crimina"

Malice that eroded Crimina.

That's...

"To upper class and A-class students, Crimina said she was being assaulted.

I couldn't immediately notice......

Because I was desperate to maintain my grades, to build up my knowledge "

What's wrong with desperate things about yourself? I think, but if you look at Alicia's repentant face, you can't say the words.

"There continued to be a degree of harassment that did not lead to death.

- Maybe we should call it a jerk. "

It's a joke... something I don't have any luck with.

The concept is understandable.

That's - Alicia said, malice that occurs because it's a group.

"From those around us, it may just be an act to satisfy the feeling of superiority, but it gradually eroded Crimina..."

Alicia noticed something was wrong with Crimina, and she said an event was a hang-up.

"Crimina was eating in the courtyard that day.

When I looked at Crimina, who was eating alone, and came closer to talk to her for a long time,

Before I spoke, several senior students spoke to Crimina- "

Alicia's voice was trembling.

I don't know if that's regret or anger.

"He was taking Crimina's meal, throwing it on the ground, and making her curse.

Incompetence, garbage, incredible sight, I remember doubting my eyes... "

Once, Alicia, who bit her lips off, continued to breathe and talk small.

"But the hardest thing I could believe was how Crimina looked with nothing to say back.

I couldn't bear it when Crimina, who I knew was bright, told me her goal of making drugs that could cure any disease happily, did nothing and just leaned over. "

Alicia said she came in to help.

But the other classmate, he left himself to anger and decided he had no chance of winning, and he decided to take Crimina and run away from the courtyard.

When Alicia suddenly showed up and pulled Crimina's hand, she said she was opening her eyes, as if surprised from the bottom of her heart.

Then, on the run to the right place, Alicia said she heard.

"How can you not say anything back! and made me expose my emotions.

I didn't know then what I was pissed off about.

I couldn't forgive her for not being able to do anything. "

To Alicia, who exposes her anger, Crimina is.

"I'm sure Alicia won't know."

Looks lonely.

"The sadness of weakness is not known to the strong."

She answered that with a laugh.

"I didn't know what that meant.

I wonder what you're talking about...

But I'm already going to know that there's something I don't know if I don't try to take that stand.

But it was too late... "

A few days after such an exchange...

Crimina visited Alicia's room in the quarters.

Crimina said she was packing her bags.

"'Because I'm leaving school,' Crimina said.

Naturally, I wasn't convinced.

What about the target?

You promised me you'd work hard for the rest of my life. "

Every word, Alicia keeps talking, seeping through the color of deep regret.

"To my words, Crimina laughed again.

Laugh lonely. "

And.

"Hello, if anyone asks Alicia for help, then, at least a little bit.

Give him a hand.

Just like when you helped me. "

This is what Crimina said at the end.

"Just like I said I told you everything, I left that one word and Crimina left the college."

Then they received a letter to Alicia from inside the Forester (Elf).

Compared to other races, the closed foresters (elves) also interact more with the outside world than before, but it was nonetheless quite unusual for letters and such to be sent.

Surprised Alicia immediately cut the seal of the letter and looked inside.

Then...

"It was a letter informing us that Crimina had lost her life herself"

At this time, he gradually conducted an investigation into the problems that were occurring in Crimina and learned about the various problems.

That's malice - that there was a problem with figs.

"I only saw myself.

I didn't lend a firm ear to Crimina's words and didn't even try to understand them.

And I noticed. "

Continue the words so that you can curl and stand.

"Just now. Superiority and inferiority...... my relationship with Crimina was exactly that.

I was somewhere in my heart, looking down at her.

Even Crimina, who I thought was a dear friend, just pretended to care.

She was like I killed her... "

I'm sure Alicia has suffered many times.

That's enough to be eroded by the curse.

"So I must make amends.

her death... must not be wasted "

Is that why Alicia is obsessed with the order of the College?

"Indeed, on top of the college's defining meritocracy, Crimina could have been the weak.

But she had qualities.

Above all, I was willing.

She was definitely an excellent student, at least in terms of pharmacy and conditioning "

Where the College defines power as excellence, other than combat ability, it is where it was excellence, and that is where it is treated as' garbage 'as in Crimina.

"It's not just Crimina.

Many students in class B leave the college on these issues.

If you say it's meritocracy, it's certainly not until then......

But it's also true that many students are talented in blacksmiths, pharmacy, formulation, alchemy, and many other aspects. "

Beliefs must have sprung up.

Ironically, Crimina's death sprouted that thought on Alicia.

"So I wanted to protect many of the students in this college.

We thought we needed someone who would maintain order in the true sense of the word, more than all students would enroll in this college with a goal. "

Perhaps that is a heretical idea within this college of meritocracy.

"But I have the strength to do that.

That's not just strength.

Position - I needed power.

So I decided to belong to the Student Council.

Even if you can't change the policy of the entire college, you can change the policy of the student council one by one. "

It interferes with other students by having power by belonging to student councils and by listing the activities of maintaining minimum order.

To protect one or more students.

And I'm going to be president of the Student Council starting this year, on the arrow tip where I was supposed to be more active as well.

"Mr. Mars, you've been integrating"

Alicia loosened her tense face.

"Genius enough to have been recommended and incorporated by a Lernia instructor.

I can't let you go wild.

I thought so, and I spoke to you. "

Join the student council. I was surprised when he asked me out abruptly.

"... I was, I was scared.

If you... No, all the powerful students.

If more students symbolize meritocracy, I can do nothing without power.

Whatever beauty you say, you can't change anything with powerless power.

I may not be able to protect myself again... but I'm scared and scared and I can't help it "

Did Alicia want to put me in control?

And I wanted to put you in a position to defend as a student council.

"So I tried you.

Hobbyist thinking, to know its strength.

If you were one attracted to power, it would have been easy to be flexible too......

You were not such a purposeful person. "

Point your eyes straight at the back of your glasses.

"I can't believe you're stronger than Falt, I didn't even think you were then."

I smiled bitterly when I said that.

"This is why I said I was arbitrary.

And that's why we're bound by maintaining order in this college - protecting our students. "

To Alicia, who finished talking about everything.

"Why did you just tell me this story?

"During the game - because I saw you helping Mr. Elisha without looking at yourself.

Now I want to believe you. "

Did Alicia feel anything about that behavior?

I just acted the way I wanted.

Like Alicia, I don't have the big idea of wanting to protect this college student.

And.

"Hey Alicia, let me get this straight.

The way we do it now, we can't protect the students of this college. "

"... I guess so.

While I speak, I understand that that is the ideal theory "

But he wants to follow that ideal.

Seems like a serious realist, whose contents are idealism.

No, is that even for redemption?

One day, can Alicia forgive herself?

Crimina in the first place......

"I don't know about Alicia and Crimina.

At least, even without the pros and cons.

For Alicia, and Crimina, we were dear friends to each other, weren't we?

"... that's not true.

I was satisfied with my superiority, wasn't I?

This is not the story that started when I came to this college.

Since I was in the woods (elves), I've compared myself to Crimina, who was said to be half a servant.

I invited Crimina to the academy because if she was there, I wouldn't fall... "

"You don't have to blame yourself so much, do you?

In the first place, Crimina relied on Alicia.

You said you wanted me to help you, didn't you?

Isn't that because, for Crimina, Alicia's only trustworthy friend?

"... such a convenient idea..."

It doesn't convince me.

It is also true that it is too convenient.

"You know, it can be convenient, right?

In the first place, what are you trying to do now?

Isn't that a dream idealist-like goal?

Then think of it as your own convenience. "

"... Mr. Mars"

"And well, it's not a bad idea to go after an ideal.

If only we could make an effort to turn that into reality. "

"... it's a difficult road, but it must be"

Alicia at the head.

Her breasts are filled with certain beliefs.

"Well, let's start by changing the way we do it."

"... Huh?

"If you want to protect everyone, you don't have to worry about college."

"That's... what?

Just fine.

"Are the other students still in the arena?

I could have done one thing, along with the Commission's introduction.

"... what do you think?

The Neaneers were catching my eye... "

(... can you tell if you go)

Thoughts, I got out of bed.

"Mars, what the hell are you doing?

"Seniors ask for Ellie"

That's all I told you, I tried to leave the infirmary.

At that time...

"Alicia, we've got a problem"

Falt, who has abruptly metastasized, said such a thing from the side of his appearance.

"What is it?

"I've been making a good noise ever since.

... the battle began because the fool of the reflex provoked instructor Larnia "

"Ha!? What do you mean, we even played a game?

Are the students hurt?

"No, there are no injured people.

Ning Lo, they're all excited. "

"Huh!? What is it!

Combat Teaching Room - The Arena (Colosseum) seems to be a complete festival.

"And anyway, there might be.

We have to stop it somehow - contact the other instructors. "

"Alicia, I'm coming.

Everybody's still just fine if you're over there. "

- In that place, let's just say I'm going to make one declaration.