Chapter 20: Part-Time Work
There was a saying that life was a series of problems.
A structure in which you climb over one mountain only to see the next one waiting.
And the peaks and valleys of those mountains in my case were like the Weierstrass function in that every point was continuous yet none were differentiable.
In other words, nothing ever went smoothly.
The immediate problem was tuition fees.
I already knew that Miss Heerlein’s golem research lab required a lot of funds so I couldn’t ask her for help. If I wanted to borrow something like two million won, then a graduate student in her lab would have to starve.
─ Sorry that I can’t do more for you. But I’ll talk to the housekeeper so you can stay at my place until you move into the dorms.
Furthermore, I’ve already received generously from Heerlein until now. I didn’t want to be further indebted to her financially.
Well, it was back to manual labor then. I guess my life wasn’t going to pan out anytime soon.
I wasn’t too happy about the scholarship that was offered by a thousand-year-old Academy was, but what could I do? The finances of a country constantly at war wouldn’t be all that stable.
What was war? Even if one won, they were fucked, and if they lost, they were all the more fucked. That was what war signified. It was a miracle that this nation was still standing after a thousand years.