Chapter 69: The Second Trial

In the next week, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also worked very hard to run all kinds of announcements, on variety shows, music fans, interviews, and advertisements where he appeared...

And Sony's strong publicity ability and connections, as well as the special willingness to spend money, at this time, played to the fullest.

In order to further publicity, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was selected as the spokesperson of Sony's new mobile phone in the new quarter!

And through Sony, he became the RB spokesperson of Pepsi!

There are also many famous brand endorsements, which also makes Sakamoto Kiyoshi appear frequently, on TV and on the display screen on the street, not only to see Sakamoto Kiyoshi's appearance, but also to play Sakamoto Kiyoshi's song "I'm Yours" on the streets and alleys.

The whole street, the young people, are humming the chorus of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "I'm Yours", although the sound is not so accurate...

This phenomenon of seeing Kiyoshi Sakamoto everywhere he goes, and hearing Kiyoshi Sakamoto's songs, is called the "Sakamoto phenomenon" by media magazines.

"Sakamoto Whirlwind" swept the entire RB in just one week!

On February 22nd, Kiyoshi Sakamoto learned about the first week sales of his single at Sony, 700,000!

This kind of sales performance is one of the best in Sony Records, and even in the entire RB record industry.

Because of the RB record market, which has just begun to decline, the purchasing power of music fans is still very strong, and there is not much threat at this point in time when Kiyoshi Sakamoto releases a new single, so it has created Kiyoshi Sakamoto's singles sales to exceed 700,000 in a single week.

It is indisputable that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's song "I'm Yours" won the weekly crown of the public trust list, and the second place was "Toraji? Haiji's "Fantastipo" sold a measly small 80,000 copies, which is less than one-seventh of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's sales.

Such a sales list also made people from major record companies exclaim, the wolf is coming!!

Yes, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the terrible wolf, after two months of silence, showed his sharp fangs as soon as he appeared in the music industry.

After the first week of the golden sales period, Kiyoshi Sakamoto had a chance to take a break.

Because next, what he will face is an important test related to his future life, the second test of the University of Tokyo!

February 25th, it was a good day and it was a good day for the exam.

The weather was also very good, the sky was cloudless, and the warm sun shone on his body, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto felt warm.

Standing at the entrance of the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo, Kiyoshi Sakamoto sighed a little.

"Is this Todai?" muttered a few words, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked to a teaching building as instructed.

The University of Tokyo is a world-renowned research university headquartered in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, RB. As the highest academic temple of RB and the first of the seven old imperial universities, it enjoys an excellent reputation around the world.

Founded in 1877, Tokyo University was the first national comprehensive university in RB and one of the first Western-style universities in Asia.

Currently, the University of Tokyo has 10 faculties, 15 graduate schools, 11 affiliated research institutes, 13 university research centers, 3 affiliated libraries, and 2 institutes for advanced study.

In addition to the three main campuses of Hongo, Komaba, and Kashiwa, the University of Tokyo has affiliated institutions throughout the country.

There are too many celebrities to come from the University of Tokyo, and there are many famous alumni in the political, scientific and educational circles.

However, the most famous in the literary and artistic world should be Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Natsume Soseki, Yukio Mishima and several other RB generation writers.

Interestingly, Osamu Dazai still didn't finish his studies at the University of Tokyo, and dropped out halfway through.

Among these people, Kiyoshi Sakamoto prefers two writers, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Soseki Natsume.

Among them, Sakamoto Kiyoshi has a deep memory of Natsume Soseki.

Because in 1984, Natsume Soseki's head was printed on the yen 1,000 yuan banknote, and Sakamoto Kiyoshi, who came to RB as a reborn in 1994, also used a banknote with his face printed on it.

At that time, Sakamoto Kiyoshi didn't know who the man printed on the banknote was, until he went to school, and then from the textbook, he knew that the man was a generation of writers, Natsume Soseki.

Since then, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has been learning about this writer who has been a hundred years away from modern times.

By reading his works, Kiyoshi Sakamoto seems to have traveled through time and space to talk to Natsume Soseki a hundred years ago, Natsume Soseki's works are close to reality, showing the lives of ordinary people, describing their various problems in love, marriage, family and society, especially the inner contradictions of intellectuals and the painful feelings of not being able to find a way out, which is not only full of a strong atmosphere of the times, but also has a strong sense of ethics and morality and moral individualism.

His language is precise, colorful, and expressive, and he often mixes elegant language, colloquialism, Chinese, and Spanish into his works, which become a powerful means of narrating the storyline, portraying the characters, depicting the inner world, reflecting real life, and expressing the philosophy of life.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is particularly fond of the "love trilogy" he wrote, but Natsume Soseki's most well-known anecdote is the famous quote "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight".

The source of this sentence comes from a translation of a short essay that Natsume Soseki gave to his students when he was an English teacher at school, asking the hero and heroine to translate into Japanese "I love you" when the hero and heroine are walking under the moon.

The student literally translates it as "I love you", but Natsume Soseki said that with the character of RB people, he would not say this, and should be more tactful and subtle.

The student asked, what should I say, Natsume Soseki pondered for a moment, and told the student that it was enough to say, "The moonlight is so beautiful tonight."

This sentence also has the implication of "the moon is the most beautiful to see with you", and in terms of pronunciation, the Japanese month, pronounced TSUKI, and the Japanese love and like, pronounced SUKI, if you say TSUKI faster, the other party may hear it as SUKI, in this way, it is also very much in line with the RB people's more introverted personality.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto likes this anecdote very much, not to mention whether the source of this anecdote is what Natsume Soseki said, but the feeling of this little story has given Kiyoshi Sakamoto a lot of spiritual comfort.

Because as a person who is already in his twenties and has the soul of the Celestial Empire, when he was in elementary and junior high school, he couldn't make friends to talk to at all.

So in the eight years of life, Sakamoto Kiyoshi has always been such a person who has no friends, long-term personal solitude, in order not to be so boring, he can only study and read, and his grades have always been the first in the school Sakamoto, there are still some bad things in the early days who want to teach him a lesson, because he studies well and looks handsome, this kind of person is either the most popular person, or the most bullied person.

Because he didn't care about playing with those children, Sakamoto Kiyoshi naturally became the kind of person who was bullied.

However, because Sakamoto Kiyoshi's grades are so good, he skips grades continuously, so that the bad people who want to bully Sakamoto Kiyoshi have no way to start.

Also, as the number one in the school, all the teachers, principals, and parents have their eyes on him, and there is no chance to bully Sakamoto Kiyoshi at all, so just like that, Sakamoto Kiyoshi escaped a lot of trouble.

And in the past eight years, Sakamoto Kiyoshi has also been alone for a long time, which has allowed him to exercise his heart in disguise, and also allowed him to grind away the shortcomings of his previous life, such as impatience and irfirmness.

The current Sakamoto Kiyoshi is the most satisfying place for himself. It's psychological.

The mentality is better, the heart is less likely to be fluctuated, and a firm heart is of great help to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's future.

In fact, in RB, many people have a very fragile glass heart.

Otherwise, how could there be so many students who dropped out of school because of campus bullying, transferred to another school, and suffered from depression during the middle and high school years;

In many cases, RB's school bullying is mainly cold violence, supplemented by verbal violence, and generally does not hit others, because that would only harm others and hurt themselves.

But in Sakamoto Kiyoshi's view, those cold violence and verbal violence are like playing.

The so-called cold violence is the isolation in the class, no one approaches or talks to that person, at most they throw away that person's books or hide their shoes.

There is also those verbal violence, as a junior high school student, high school student, and there is not much vocabulary for swearing, scolding and scolding are all those "go die" and "you are ugly" or something, for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, a person who has seen a lot of online violence on the Internet, it is simply not worth mentioning.

But when it comes to college, it's improved.

Because those who go to college are basically adults, they won't be as naïve as middle school and high school, and they don't like it, as long as they don't associate with that person, they won't go to such great lengths to cold violence and verbal violence.

With a lot of thoughts, Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly remembered that he had come to take the exam, so he immediately walked into the exam venue for the second test.

The answering time is two hours.

When Kiyoshi Sakamoto got the test paper, he looked at the questions and basically determined that he would definitely be able to pass.

Because in the test paper, there are no questions that Kiyoshi Sakamoto has not done.

An hour later, Kiyoshi Sakamoto had answered all the questions and handed in the paper.

Under the surprised gaze of the entire examination room, Sakamoto Kiyoshi walked out in a dashing manner.

The results of this test will not be known until March, so Kiyoshi Sakamoto went straight home after leaving the examination room.

Why didn't you stop by Todai?

Kiyoshi Sakamoto thinks that he will definitely be qualified, and he will definitely appear on the campus of Tokyo University in the future, and if he wants to visit or something, he will have a lot of time to visit, and there is no need to rush it.

Sakamoto, that's how confident!

A few days later, on March 1, Sakamoto received a notice from the University of Tokyo, telling him that he had passed the university's second test, congratulating him on joining the University of Tokyo family, and telling him to come to the entrance ceremony on time on April 1 of the following month.

"Todai, I'm here. With the notice in his hand, Kiyoshi Sakamoto muttered.