Oh Mr General!

1. Job Application

The year was 2100.

The bustling age of Virtual Technology.

The craze these days were online virtual video games that shook both children's and adult's hearts. People were rarely seen outside as the convenience of online shopping has been minimized to the hours.

In the technologically advanced society of Country Z, a boy was walking down the stone-tiled pavements of the famous Glory Road, carved onto the grounds for life were names of famous individuals.

There were people from different industries all aggregated together. Some of them were elderly scientists, while the youngest was a 12-year-old child who shook the world with his heaven defining voice. Only those who were born in Country Z and had brought glory would be eligible for this.

Sato Takahashi, a 20-year-old youth was walking with soulless eyes down this path. His future looked dimmed and his hopes were destroyed. A second-year university student who had just dropped out of school due to a lack of financial funds.

Just a week ago, Sato had found out that his scholarship backer had to file for bankruptcy due to his greed. He borrowed from loan sharks that would not hesitate to take everything.

In the end, the poor student was left with no choice but to leave school and take a gap year.

Right now, Sato has to find a job that could pay him a high wage and take a short term employee like him. He was desperate for cash and yet his looming long and hard journey scares him deeply. He feared that he would never be able to complete his university education and would forever be labeled as a failure.

As Sato walked down Glory Road, he came across a high-tech bulletin board that showed the latest jobs in the market right now. He immediately perked up and began running through the list.

The once sad youth was immediately fueled with adrenaline as he yearned for his bright future. As long as he gets hired into a high paying job, by the end of the year, he would be back in university in no time!

Scrolling through the list of jobs, the hopeful Sato had his hopes extinguished within minutes.

Most of the high paying jobs listed all required at least a bachelor's degree of some sort, while others required job experience. For Sato's case, he has always been relying on the scholarship funds in the school to survive everyday. Never once did he have to go out and earn a living. Now, this lack of job experience has turned around to bite him.

"What am I going to do now that I can't find a job to pay for my university funds?" Sato sighed as he looked at his feet despairingly. As he looked down gloomily, his eyes caught sight of the job listed at the bottom of the bulletin board.

"Personal Assistant Required. High paying job. No degree required."

The youth immediately shouted out as he tapped on to the job. Sato took down a memo on his phone on the job and where he had to file in an application.

When finished, he resolutely walked back home into his old and dingy one-room apartment located in the suburbs of the town. In order to save some of the scholarship funds his organization was giving him, Sato chose to stay in one of the oldest areas in Country Z, instead of staying in the school dorms which were twice as expensive.

The door to his room creaked loudly as he opened it up. Inside his room was a simple wooden table where he would usually eat his meals and complete his everyday assignments. There was a single bed that could barely fit the 176cm and an old "Windows 10" desktop* sitting at the corner of the room.

To the left, it was a small kitchen and mini-fridge that allowed Sato to cook some cheap simple meals for himself. There was only one stovetop and a small sink beside it. The stove was still connected to a gas can.

On the right side of the room was a shutter door that lead to his tiny bathroom. It didn't have enough space to fit a proper shower and they had to make the toilet area into a shower area too. His house did not resemble a highly technologically advanced society at all.

Sato shut the door behind him and took his jacket off, throwing it onto his bed.

He walked excitedly towards his desktop and booted it up. After a few minutes the monitor had finally loaded up and he keyed in his password. In this era, the internet was a national wide connection that was available for everyone. So long as one has a device that could connect to the internet, they could use it free of charge.

Sato woke his phone up and sent the link from his phone to his computer. The site loaded up to show the job website.

"Army Job Application Site"

Sato squinted at the screen and thought to himself, "Why would the army need a personal assistant? This seems a little sketchy. " He hesitated before filling up the form, he wasn't sure if this was the right thing to do.

He looked around his room and it hit him; he really needed a job no matter what. Sato could not live like this anymore. He needed to get back on his feet!

He stretched his arms and began filling up his application form.

Name: Sato Takahashi

Age: 20

Highest education: 2nd Year University Dropout

His eyes hovered over this: "Short Introduction about yourself (describe your hobbies, aspirations, values)"

At this point, Sato stopped filling in his application as he thought about what to write. He needed to be able to impress his employer yet not sound like a douche.

"I might as well describe my circumstance to the employer and hope that they will sympathize me." He shrugged as he continued typing.

"I am a youth that is currently struggling financially to get through university. It was the very reason I applied to this job as I desperately needed a job to help fund my education journey. I would confidently say I am a hard worker that does not know when to give up. I will always put my best effort into whatever I am doing and I do not tolerate handing in last-minute work. My hobbies include reading light novels and visiting the orphanage to spend time with children."

Tying up the loose ends, Sato sent out his application and hoped for the best. He closed his eyes and cupped his hands together, praying to the gods above. "Oh God, please help me get this job! All this time, I have used my own efforts to achieve what I got today. So, all you gotta do is help me now."

What Sato did not know was that this job required to have a university degree in some form of management specialty. It was the job site that inputted the wrong data into their system.

It was the start of Sato's crazy journey.

*author's note: In this era, they were already up to Windows XV