"Are you Mr. Gaius?"
"That's right, I am."
"Then please come with me."
The day after registering and paying the fee, Carl followed the procedure sent to him after payment and arrived at the gates of Arasaka Academy at eight in the morning. After being verified by designated personnel, he entered Arasaka Academy for the first time under Gaius's identity, led by a staff member dressed in faculty attire.
Arasaka Academy's courses were mainly conducted through virtual reality, with AI-generated teaching plans tailored to students at different performance levels. Throughout the process, aside from the AI instructors responsible for teaching, there were still necessary faculty members to manage the students.
Like the young woman currently guiding Carl around Arasaka Academy. She looked to be in her twenties, and her role at the academy was to welcome new students.
As Carl listened to the welcoming staff member's introduction while walking through the sprawling Arasaka Academy in the City Center, he silently recalled what he knew about studying there.
Many people did not understand why, in 2075, when plugging in a chip could let someone master the skills contained within it, people still had to attend school. But anyone who had even a little contact with corporate operations understood that the theoretical knowledge behind those chips was not included. If one truly wanted to understand and master a skill, there was no way around studying.
Take a very simple example.
If someone installed a chef chip, they could immediately make scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Under the chip's effects, they could produce the exact same dish every time, as if following a program. But once the chip was removed, their memories related to it would vanish without a trace, just like when the chip was lost. Someone who did not even know how