01. The person who decided to play a supporting role
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Yes, the wind can blow up a blank piece of paper, but it cannot blow away a butterfly, because the power of life lies in disobedience.
Kitahara-san, I very much agree with the point you made in your letter. Please don't pay too much attention to the criticism around you, go your own way, and let others do what they say.
I believe that the scenery at the end of this road is as fascinating as its course.
Charismatic and your ever-loyal companion - Ichiro Oshima. ”
Asama still mimicked the handwriting of the boy in front of him, wrote his signature, folded the letter into the envelope, and gently wiped the glue on the table and glued it well.
"Thank you so much, really, thank you."
The new ace of the academy football club named Ichiro Oshima bowed more than 90 degrees to Asama very formally, picked up the letter that Asama had prepared, and was about to leave the department.
"Wait."
Asama, with unkempt hair that didn't look very well groomed, stood up, took out a bottle of perfume from the drawer of the bookshelf next to her, took back the envelope, sprayed it on it, and shook it again.
"Remember the perfume you used on the last date, remember to spray it on your gifts in the future, the warm and dry smell of bergamot and lavender is very popular with girls.
A scented letter can stand out from a pile of letters, and this smell will become your identification symbol and deepen her impression of you.
Well, just settle with your reserve money with me*, and buy a few bottles from me when you run out, I have the stock here. ”
*Note: Ichiro Oshima once asked Asama to help write a love letter for 200,000 yen, because Asama didn't really write it in love, so it was kept as Oshima's love reserve and placed in Asama.
In addition, Kitahara-san will go to the welfare center this weekend to do public welfare.
The address and contact information of the organizer of the public welfare activity are here, arrive 2 hours in advance, pretend to meet by chance, and pretend to be an enthusiastic public welfare member with 3-year-old qualifications.
I've already taken care of people, and I won't goof.
It is said that Kitahara was brought up by her grandfather, so remember to find an opportunity to talk about the story of Ling and her grandfather.
Please be sure to devote yourself to the public welfare activities in the future, and treat it as important as the ministry work.
Please keep in mind the other things on this as well. Okay, you go, I wish you good luck. ”
"Okay, okay, big teacher."
The new ace classmate was so moved that there were stars in his eyes, and he took a piece of A4 paper with a map printed with dense words written on it handed over by Asama, bowed solemnly, turned around and rushed out a little recklessly.
"Please wait for my good news!"
The relationship counseling department, which was only established this semester, is slowly starting to gain popularity.
And as a grass farmer who has no sense of existence at school, Asama has also gained a good reputation in the love counseling business.
"Teacher, I sent out all the straight curveballs, why hasn't Rinko reacted yet."
Nakamura, a second-year senior, cried and reported last week's defeat to Asama, a first-year senior.
"I want to make a breakthrough after just 1 date, and I'm a little anxious, Nakamura-senpai.
In short, the frivolous image of the past still has some influence, and I let you dye your black hair back, and this is also the reason why you wear a little plain on a date.
There are a lot of rumors in the circle of girls, and I believe that Senior Sister Sato also has concerns about this, and if she takes too much initiative, she will be beheaded by hundreds of people.
Judging from Sato's junior high school love interest, she is not good at this.
Be patient and believe that the things of a lifetime are not for a while, and the love of delayed gratification can go in the long run.
If you just regard Sato-senpai as a fast-in and fast-out high school love object, I advise your seniors to give up this kind of awareness. ”
After answering Nakamura in a tone that was not at all like that of a junior to a senior, Asama pushed open the secret door of the bookcase on the other side and took out a red tie with a white rabbit print on the bottom from the inner room.
Then he pulled out a magazine with two Dutch lop rabbits on the cover from the desk drawer in the middle of the department and handed it over.
"In short, being able to make an appointment is half the battle.
Try this tie on your next date, you always need some embellishments in a black suit, and recently Sato-senpai raised a rabbit, so take this opportunity to talk to her.
Tie 50,000 yen, thank you for your patronage... Uh, the magazine is free, you're welcome.
By the way, about the second date with Sato-senpai, senior, you pay attention to these points......"
The No. 3 pitcher in the baseball club, Class B in the second year, Ban Kusa Nakamura held a tie in his left hand and a magazine in his right hand, and walked out of the department with renewed confidence, as if he was an Internet addict teenager who had just gotten new equipment and couldn't wait to get a copy of it.
Asama still water checked today's sales in his mobile phone, shook his head, stretched his waist like soaked tea leaves, leaned back on the soft chair, picked up "Simulacrum and Simulation" on the desk and read it again.
Although it is a more philosophical book, Baudrillard is more like a writer, using emotional intuition to interpret a certain truth, and Asama feels that this truth can also be applied to a relationship counselor.
Russell said that man is a credulous credulous animal, and that he must believe something, and that if there is no good basis for such a belief, a bad basis can be dealt with.
Coincidentally, Borges also mentioned that falling in love with someone is like creating a religion in which the gods are unreliable.
Simulacrum, replacing the real with the false, and more in line with the "real" than the real.
Love is exactly this kind of thing, and nowadays, it has become a distorted belief that both parties test each other.
It is this kind of blind, fanatical, impulsive belief that heals Asama's terminally ill poverty.
Pointing upwards in the still water of Asama, he held the bridge of his nose with heavy black-rimmed glasses, and in just two months, he has earned almost 4 million yen, a net profit.
It is no wonder that the financial crisis in the previous life could not stop the business of marriage agencies, and in the United States, it is said that the divorce rate will decrease during the financial crisis.
Two months ago, Asama helped Sakagami, a fellow classmate from Okinawa, become a potential substitute for the baseball team.
It only took two weeks to train him to shoot a few signature pitches and corresponding poses, and through a makeover, an exotic atmosphere full of Okinawa flavor, and a hot-blooded teenager who challenged the selection, he quickly became the core of the class.
Sakagami also realized the freedom to choose a mate, and chose a petite but ambitious Kobayashi San as his girlfriend among the more than ten girls who liked him.
It was also through the old and new from Sakagami that Asama met the seniors of Nakamura with new meal tickets.
Also two months ago, Asama helped Wang Dahui, a fighter from Osaka, become the real boss of the first grade, and through several characters such as the prodigal son turning back, the hero saves the beauty, and likes kittens, he successfully showed his personal charm, and Yamashita San, who is a reader model but has a top academic performance, is smoothly together.
A month ago, Asama helped Komaba-san, who is in the otaku department but has the "God of SONY Raiders", through an offline meeting in online games, and successfully and Hanzawa-san of the Seika Girls' School next door, who is said to be the child of Nintendo executives, successfully achieved the double bond of "original friend" and "lover";
At the same time, Asama also helped Nijo-san, a chaebol lady who retained her outdated tsundere attributes, and tweeted several classic COS images that met the target XP, and then cosplayed a working girl who experienced life in the shopping street, and met Takishima-san, who was 100% indecisive, and became a couple two weeks later.
As the acting head of the relationship counseling department, Asama Shizumizu feels like a supercar salesman, and although he knows a lot about cars, he is also the group of people who are the furthest away from owning luxury cars.
Love is a distorted religion, a heavy responsibility, a performance that is over-interpreted in form over content.
Asama can smear the golden glow on the peacock's feathers, but he can't modify their buttocks.
The love of young people is mostly a clever disguise, and whoever exposes his shortcomings first will become a loser.
But those who unscrupulously expose their inferior roots, but fantasize that someone will fall from the sky and love them unconditionally, are even more fools.
He wasn't sure how long the lovers who had been matched would last long.
But the underlying logic of many firm beliefs is a fictitious lie, and as long as they gaze at each other at the same angle, they can get a subsistence allowance of "at least an impeccable memory of youth".
Asama casually holds the red thread between everyone, but he will not be cocooned.
Yes, even if he jumps off Mt. Fuji, he will not be the protagonist in those tragicomedies of love.
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The wind outside caressed the curtains, scratched Asama's arm slightly, and the shouts of the sports club in the distant playground and the sound of the performance in the piano room upstairs blended together, writing the word youth into Asama's ears.
It's a good season for a lazy night's sleep.
Asama put the book down, lay down on the desk, his head slightly to the left, his right hand on the table with his forehead, his left hand covered the top of his neck, ran in a few positions, found his comfort zone, and fell asleep.
If the world is a stage and life is a drama, then you will see that the ordinary and boring scenes are full of people who claim to be the protagonists.
Talent is the only antidote to vulgarity. But people who can "know yourself and recognize your talents" are as rare as the protagonists in epic stories.
In Asama's eyes of still water, there is no difficulty in "recognizing one's own mediocrity". In his life of almost 50 years in two lifetimes combined, he knew that he was just a mortal.
In a country where people are unfamiliar with the place, re-adapting to a solidified and sick society, just like when the game is far from clearing, the system has a bug and sends itself to the second week, which is like a hybrid of the hell mode of Miyazaki Hidetaka and the zero krypton mode of the pig farm game.
Even if he lives again, Asama still water is just a reproduction of the mediocrity of the previous life.
There is no dark blue plus points, no grandfather, no system, no chat group, and no hanging life, which is the reality of this world.
The memory is average, and he can't be a gambling king or a copyist; The appearance is also mediocre, if you want to be a handsome guy in Tokyo and make your debut, you have to go to South Korea to change the magic; I didn't have any skills in my previous life, and my level of reincarnation in this life was average; Except for working hard enough, Asama still water can be said to be the embodiment of [ordinary people who can be seen everywhere].
At the end of the day, it's about working hard to improve yourself. Bai Juyi, who didn't memorize a few songs in his previous life, has memorized it like a stream in this life; Calculus, which I didn't learn in my previous life, has mastered one or two in advance in this life; In the previous life, English did not match the characters, and he has shaken hands with himself with Japanese; That's why Asama was able to come from the countryside of the Izu Peninsula to live in Tokyo and become a member of one of the most prestigious aristocratic schools.
However, compared to the rich childhood he experienced in his previous life, this life is much paler, and Asama can't even remember the girl who often sneaks at his table for 2 years, and the name of the neighbor's three boys who often come to visit.
In their eyes, I am afraid that I am an emotionless nerd. This is also a mediocre person who chooses to change his life, and he must make a trade-off.
There is nothing wrong with this, it can be a gift to those protagonists who are strong-willed and have a bumpy fate, and the talent suitable for mediocrity is only self-reflection and hard work.
Asama is definitely not a suitable person to be the protagonist.
Playing games, he likes to play assist; Playing football, he likes to sit on the bench; Take group photos, he likes to stand in the back corner; When doing team projects, he likes to put his name on the back burner.
When he was a child, he watched cartoons, focusing on the passers-by and being thrilled that they could always assist the protagonist at critical moments;
When he grew up, he read novels and movies, and he was more willing to devote energy to analyzing the motivations of the villains, supporting characters and cannon fodder, and sighing for their tragic fate.
Even if Asama lives again, he still doesn't want to be the protagonist of life.
But rather than mediocre people, Asama wants to be a supporting role between the protagonist and ordinary passers-by.
For example, Pippen under Jordan's halo, Watson under the halo of Sherlock Holmes, Gongsun Ce under Bao Qingtian's halo, and Ximen Blowing Snow under Lu Xiaofeng's halo.
The light faced by the protagonist is too dazzling, and he is a supporting character reserve who is naturally attracted to supporting roles.
In Asama's heart,
The low-level supporting characters exist for the protagonist.
A high-level supporting role, who is next to him, who is the protagonist.
Asama wants to be such a supporting character.
Zweig once said that the greatest blessing in life is to discover his calling at the most creative age.
As a supporting role, isn't it a career that can be both virtuous and artistic?
Isn't it benevolent to let people who are not confident be confident and take the initiative in their own lives?
Isn't it righteous to be outspoken to the protagonist, analyze the gains and losses, and help him grow?
Isn't it wise to win first and then seek war, to succeed when you plan things, and to collect money and clothes after doing things?
Knowing the difficulties, being able to resist C, giving enough money and lowering your body to be a pawn, isn't this brave?
Planning never falsely reports the budget, the purchasing agent only charges a little errand fee, and the bill details are clear at a glance, isn't this a letter?
In the previous life, Asama looked up at the reflections of many protagonists and even idols, and achieved nothing. What I didn't understand in my previous life, I had an epiphany in 15 years in this life.
There is also a bonus for giving assists.
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Two knocks on the door, waking up the shallow sleep, followed by an accusation outside,
"It's rude."
The door of the department was opened again, and a young man with the same black hair and black frame, but more than ten times more handsome than Asama, walked in very formally and politely, making Asama look like an incompetent interviewer.
"You're... Asama-san...? Arima was a little surprised to see Asama's face hanging on Halako.
Asama rubbed his face and put on his glasses, "Yes, with or without glasses, Asama is also." Arima-san, may I ask, what are you doing? ”
"It's not an important matter, take the liberty of asking, isn't the head of the love counseling department here?"
"Well, with the naked eye, it's just the two of us here, and I'm not the minister."
"That's... The one in everyone's mouth... Big... Old... Division... Isn't he there either? Arima was a little ashamed to say the word "big teacher".
Asama smiled and cleared his throat: "Arima-san, if there is no accident, the big teacher you are looking for should refer to me." ”
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There was silence for dozens of seconds, and no one spoke, as if no one broke this embarrassment, and no one would feel embarrassed.
Arima Yoshihiko, one of the representatives of the first-year freshmen, is also the first place in the entrance examination, and is worthy of the name. When he was in middle school, he was a master of winning awards and newspapers by studying.
At the same time, he has excellent character, good manners, good manners, and has the atmosphere of an old cadre, and successfully joined the student union as vice president, and if nothing else, he will become the next president.
If you want to know why Asama and Arima know each other, the answer is: they are classmates.
On the day of admission, Class A of the first year was filled with seats for freshmen on the computer. Asama took the second seat by the front door, and Arima drew the second-to-last place by the window at the back of the classroom, the penultimate place was an empty table, and the third-to-last place was a beauty.
Under the gathering of elements, it instantly attracted Asama.
Coupled with the impeccable appearance from the ends of his hair to the heel, and the big black-framed glasses that look like a school bully and a seal prop, Asama is even more sure that Arima is the C-position of his high school campus life, even if there is a cold-faced little green dragon behind Arima Yoshihiko, Asama will not feel strange.
How can there be no protagonist around the supporting role, if you can be the wingman of the protagonist of Destiny Arima, then this stop of life in high school will be in vain.
It's a pity that the two don't have much intersection.,If you divide it according to social level,Arima should be an S-class popular king who doesn't run social and has fans.,And Asama is a D-class animal with no sense of existence.。
After witnessing Arima entering the water one after another to save two girls who were rowing and drowning without permission, and then despite his soaked clothes, he asked the student council to repair the leaky boat and put up a sign, and finally had a cold and fever before returning to school for 3 days.
Asama, who is a human being, is even more convinced that Arima Yoshihiko is an absolute protagonist with the light of golden legends.
And this perfect protagonist, who can be called a perfect protagonist, is bowing at this time, pleading with Asama:
"Shallow... Big teacher... Out of precaution, there is something I would like to ask you.
I have a girl I care about, I'm not sure if she likes me, I need your help. ”
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Hearing this, Asama smiled, when the monsoon of love blows, even the heart of an old cadre can't help but stir.