88. Tokyo Bay Cruise with The Protagonist's Speech
Yoshihiko Arima, 16 years old, from Adachi Ward, Tokyo.
The academic ability is superb, and it is common to get full marks in exams and win awards.
Sports are everything, since junior high school, all the sports clubs in the school want to replace the minister with him, and he will be harassed by the physical education teacher every semester.
He is so handsome that he will be accosted at least 10 times when he goes out grocery shopping in a middle-aged man's T-shirt on weekends, and he will receive business cards from several agents who look like fraudsters.
All the gangsters in Adachi Ward agree that Arima Yoshihiko is a dragon among men, and not a thing in the pond that has lived in Adachi for a long time.
But Arima Yoshihiko was never proud, he had no special hobbies, no noble pursuits.
"Do what you have to do, do your best." It was his life credo.
A few achievements are just the result of his best efforts.
When his parents died in an accident when he was 6 years old, and there were no relatives at home, Arima was adopted by a friend of his father's youth and joined a new family.
Since then, after losing his parents, he has one more father-in-law, one sister-in-law and three sisters.
My father's friend, Mr. Teruya, used to be a mob and now runs a motorcycle shop.
As the Thunderclan team is decreasing year by year, and the market share of motorcycles is also suffering from the impact of new energy electric motorcycles, Mr. Teruya can't make much money a month.
It is not easy for a middle-aged man to pull five children.
When I was in elementary school, Arima, who helped my little sister change diapers, still wondered why poorer families liked to have so many children.
Only later did he learn that Mr. Teruya was not related to Arima, Sister Natsune, Akina, Fuyuya, and Haruna, and Mr. Teruya said that he was just doing what he was supposed to do.
Like himself, they were all adopted by Mr. Teruya.
Some are the same as Arima, because Mr. Teruya intersected with their parents.
Yes, it's just a one-sided relationship, and if Mr. Teruya doesn't make a move, they will go to the welfare home.
After learning about this, it was as if something had been poured into it, and Arima, who had nowhere to land like floating dust in the light, slowly gained roots.
In addition to studying seriously, Yoshihiko Arima also started a work-study program to help Mr. Teruya subsidize his family.
Delivering milk and newspapers every morning, this kind of work is very good to do in Adachi Ward.
At night, he works as a bartender at the bar, and by the way, he helps the manager deal with people who don't have long eyes.
Write a little automatic script in the middle of the night and sell it on the Internet, about 5,000 yen a piece, and sell 1 a night on average.
I usually teach my sisters to make some small crafts and sell them online.
Occasionally, I will help my sister Xia Yin, who is a cartoonist on the street, to work overtime to catch up with the draft.
Sister Xia Yin gave up going to college when he was in his second year of national education, and while doing odd jobs to support his family, he dreamed of becoming a cartoonist.
Mr. Teruya and Sister Yi are both this kind of people, they have love from the bottom of their hearts, but they love the people around them even more.
So, Arima Yoshihiko's short-term life goal is to help Mr. Teruya send several younger sisters to college.
and then realize the wishes of the two of them-
Let the righteous sister no longer have to work, but go to a good art school for further study.
Let Mr. Teruya really have a good store, instead of using his own garage as a business place.
"There is no suffering that can justify your extreme depravity."
After a clash between Kuniji and the gangsters in the neighborhood, Mr. Teruya grabbed his arm and stopped his righteous punishment.
Mr. Teruya, who hasn't read much, has always been his life coach.
He made Arima a person who did not abuse violence, but worked hard to communicate, and made Arima a person who could create more happiness through sacrifice.
In the past three years since junior high school in the country, what has made their family happier and happier is not knowledge, money, or hard work, but the original intention of each member of the family to make their family happier.
The fireworks display in Adachi Ward is at least five times more beautiful than the fireworks that will be seen on this ship.
"Arima-san, are you in a daze? It's your turn to go up and speak. ”
Sakuragi reminded him beside him.
If he wants to be a partner in justice, and wants more people to transcend suffering and win happiness, in this school, he has something that must be done, and he needs to do his best.
Seeing her back, and also seeing the figure of another person at the same table, Arima Jiyan settled down.
Great teacher, good people are harder to do than bad people, but that's the fun of being a good person, isn't it?
There was no formal dress, so he wore a school uniform similar to a suit and walked to the podium in an upright posture.
I was silent for 1 minute until I landed on the ground and sniffed the needle.
Arima took a deep breath,
Started an off-script speech that was not allowed to be carried out on this occasion-
"Students, congratulations, and welcome to this [unjust and unsolvable world].
As the winner of the June monthly test, you are all the best who stand out from the fierce competition, and the fairness and impartiality of Yinghe's monthly test exam, which emphasizes actual performance, are of course undoubted.
If it's unfair, I think everyone, including the winners, will be outraged.
Many of you must be enjoying this dinner with the idea that hard work will pay off, right?
But where you live, there is a hierarchy, and the place where you sit now is not the seat of the victor.
In today's two games, there are only a few real winners.
In other words, the victor cannot always be the winner, and you have been reduced to the loser.
Previous victories will not be the weight of victory in your next unknowable life exam.
Failure is the norm.
What awaits everyone in the future is a world in which hard work may not be rewarded, hard work may not have answers, and hard work may not lead to victory.
Please remember that as the winner of the June monthly test, you are sitting here, not the result of your efforts alone, but also the past environment that has made you.
Don't rely on yourself for the reasons for your past victories, your victory, in addition to your own wisdom and hard work, is someone who supports and encourages you, assists you, pushes you, promotes you, affirms you, and luck favors you.
There are more people in this world who have no reward no matter how hard they try, people who want to work hard but can't work hard, people who work too hard and are physically and mentally ruined. There are also people who want to work hard, but they keep emphasizing in their hearts that "it's not my turn anyway, people like me still forget it" and quit.
Therefore, please do not devote all your efforts to chasing personal victories.
Your advantages that have been shaped by your privileged environment are not to override those who have failed without enjoying them, but to use those abilities to help them.
Don't be reckless, let go of arrogance, and admit your own vulnerability and the possibility of failure, so that you can help each other and live in harmony.
The excellence pursued by our Yinghe College is not to turn ants into lions, women into men, and weak into strong.
It is to let any person be respected and contribute to his original face, ability, and identity.
The son of a mechanic, the son of a professor, the son of a merchant, the son of a king, stood on the same island and breathed the same air.
We need to know more about unity and get used to unity, so that we can face the next, more fragmented, unpredictable, and ready to enter the test of the end of the world.
Once upon a time, we have always lived in a world with standard answers.
In the future, we will enter a world full of powerless and unsolvable questions, a world of unreasonableness.
The unsolved problems of the predecessors, the new problems created by the adults of the present, and the sudden and puzzling problems of the future are all more troublesome than the problems that have failed 258 people today.
It's not something that can be won alone.
Steve Jobs once said that truly great ideas come when they collide like the friction of irregular stones of all sizes in a can.
The redundancy of diversity is always the wisdom of the continuation of species.
Solidarity and diversity can give the baton to the part of us who is seen as weak, but who are inseparable from us, when we have nothing to do.
[Personal victory] is not something to be proud of,
Superstition in the way of heaven will only lead you to arrogance or nothingness.
Winner, always want to be a winner.
So, they will preserve the fruits of victory, not share them.
So, they create strife, hatred, exploitation, instead of peace, benevolence and equality.
Chasing the result of [personal victory] will only make people inferior.
The reason why I'm standing here, standing here and talking nonsense.
It's because I've won the first place in the full score of three school years, because I've won the first place in the national mock exam, and because I've won the first place in the country in various knowledge competitions.
So, the freshman representative is me, and the student vice president is me.
Is this a triumph of hard work?
No, I don't spend more time studying every day than anyone else, or rather, less than most of my classmates who study seriously.
Living in Adachi Ward, I still have to spend a lot of time working part-time to support my family.
So, why did I get the first place? Why have I been able to defeat so many people who seek personal victory?
Because of talent? Because smart enough?
No.
Because what I am chasing is not [personal victory], what drives me is the suspicion of social injustice, the endless desire to do the right thing, and the belief that no less than ten thousand failures in other fields cannot kill me.
I want to find the answer to the problem of "the world of injustice and insolvability", and if not, I will work with more people to create the answer.
There is a saying in Huaxia - reaching is helping the world.
As a student of Yinghe, you can proudly say that you are already a prominent person.
But our world is not an isolated world, please take your responsibilities seriously, and please treat this ship with kindness, as well as the weak, the losers, and the disabled outside this ship.
At Yinghe, we pursue not only to master the existing knowledge, but also to hone the wisdom that leads people to hope, even the wisdom that has not yet been developed by human beings.
Welcome to the world of injustice and insolvability.
Now, everyone here can become a hero to break it.
We sit here, not to enjoy the fruits of victory, but to recognize our own shortcomings, let go of arrogance, and face up to problems.
We already have a road ahead of us.
It is the way out of the excellent predecessors of Ryuzaki Zero, Takashi Koya, and Gui Gongping.
The way to uphold justice and find answers is to embrace failure, unity, and diversity.
This road is the road of "all for one, one for all",
If you still have the dignity of the strong, if you also dream of the scenery of this road,
Please join me in creating victory for all.
This is the pursuit of the student union in the past, and it will also be the will of the student union in the future, which is the inheritance of the school motto of Yinghe [benevolence, excellence in Si].
The pride we are given by Yinghe is not our past, it defines our present, and our future.
Anyone who wants to oppose, obstruct, or distort this will, please test me first, and cross me.
Thank you! ”
The speech of the vice president of the student council ended.
The scene was at a loss.
Shouldn't it be about saying a few words of nonsense and then letting everyone eat and drink?
What is that statement just now? Rehearsal of the student council election four months in advance?
Konoe Chiyo looked cold, and the student council president, Gui Gongping, took the lead in standing up and applauded with the second and third grade tables.
Gui's predecessors were not low-minded, and his demonstration took the lead made the entire banquet hall burst into thunderous applause.
Asama also stood up and applauded with Futami and nodded to eye contact with Yoshihiko Arima.
He was walking towards the B-class seat, the table diagonally behind Asama's table.
There are horses, there are horses, you are giving a war letter to the guards.
The battle of student council ideas is put on the table, and is it possible to form an alliance with the student council president and seek an equal relationship with Chiyo Konoe in the confrontation?
The few words on the phone were fulfilled in a few days. Sure enough, the practical ability of the geniuses surpasses them by too much.
Takishima stood up and was pulled back by Nijo and sat down.
Yasaka did not applaud, but said with a smile on his face,
"Arima-san. What an arrogant statement. ”
Ryuzoji stopped his hands and frowned, his qualification to sit here was the last one that Arima gave him,
"Xuande's legacy, why is it slow?"
"Hahaha, I'll change the word - Versailles, senior. Don't pursue the first, just win the first by the way, isn't this Versailles? ”
The guard had his back to Arima the whole time, and at the moment he quietly looked at the cloth in front of the table and muttered to himself,
"Is the end point of a speech from a position of strength equal? It's ridiculous."
Is it done?
Arima Yoshihiko greeted everyone at the table and sat down in his seat, thinking with his eyes closed.
Compared to the speeches of Churchill, Hitler, Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others seeking unity, he is far from himself.
This speech is based on a speech given by Professor Chizuruko Ueno on equal rights at the entrance ceremony of the University of Tokyo.
The law is above it, and it is in it.
However, it is already "what should be done, do your best".
Maybe I was used by Gui's predecessors, but it was exactly what I wanted.
First of all, Gui Gongping, like the previous presidents of the student union of Yinghe, is a companion with himself.
"You have power when you serve the public, not when you dominate them."
The values of the Yinghe Student Union themselves are deeply consistent with themselves.
He has seen too many seniors who destroy themselves to zero, and treat self-interest and self-expression as dust under their feet.
He was touched by the legacy. He will not allow distortions.
Secondly, he has been treated as a dog, and he really needs to earn respect.
There is no illusion in the first place, and only by amplifying the antagonistic relationship can we get an equal relationship.
Do you really like Konoe?
Liked her excellence, but, he was disgusted by her destructiveness.
Chiyo Konoe, I will let you put away your arrogance, I will smooth your minions, and I will be your cage.
It's good for you, and good for everyone.
Arima Yoshihiko regarded his love as something like martyrdom.
Perhaps it is this emotion mixed with sacrifice for more people that makes it difficult for him to part with Chiyo Konoe.
Waiters dressed as bunny girls put dishes on the table one after another.
Yoshihiko Arima opened his eyes and glanced back at Asama still water.
Teacher, you said that you want a friend who is "always fair and kind, always self-disciplined, and only loyal and forgiving all his life".
Is it true?
Thank you for the reward from the boss of [Winter Horse Millet is a fairy]!
Female readers, Modo Modo~ I said, I should have female readers in this book.
Thank you all for your support, I will do my best
(End of chapter)