Tokyo Wingman King

Chapter 468 45. The Classroom of Contemptuous Soul Reflection and Excellent Virtue
Only Asama knew that the sigh in the principal's office was sincere.

He was very disappointed with himself.

When one's ability is insufficient to resolve a problem, one will give up the initiative, challenge principles or morals, and owe favors to others.
The biggest mistake I made when I came to KKIS was to misjudge the core problem of this school. What really led to the current situation of KKIS was not the [mediocrity] who indulged in bullying, but the [corruption] who colluded with others. From the beginning to the end, all his actions were still directed at the students, not the school teachers.

The second problem was that he was labeled as a person with nine backgrounds as soon as he entered the school. He could neither find room for maneuver nor endure the humiliation. Before he knew it, he was on the verge of being eliminated.
The third problem was that the plan could not keep up with the changes, the process of detonating the student union was too slow, and it failed to quickly divert the other party's attention.

In fact, he wanted to throw in the towel a little bit, and then use all kinds of tricks, charm and torture to solve KKIS's problems - this behavior is like a gorilla biting the rope when it can't untie the knot - he almost became a gorilla just now.

Asama, whose attempt to change species failed, was disappointed with himself again.

[Re-trial] This matter had only been 4 days and it had already failed.

It seems that the dream a few days ago in which Inugami was thrown out of the window and smashed into pieces had already revealed my mental state.

Deep in his heart, he unknowingly developed a sense of arrogance that would not tolerate being bullied by anyone, and this arrogance would occasionally prevent him from thinking of better solutions.

Accompanied by the principal and the rotating chairman of the student union, Asana walked out of the principal's office.

I don't know when the rain stopped, the sky was slightly blue, and the whole KKIS became bright under the sunshine. The petals of the marigolds and cosmos in the flower beds seemed to have been carefully wiped, containing raindrops, and swayed gently in the breeze with a slight hint of autumn along with the green grass.

It's a pity that some people in this school live worse than a blade of grass on the roadside.

At this moment, Asama was no longer a nine-tailed fox. Perhaps due to Yamagata Ariaki's order, the little tail that was staring at him was mostly gone.

After walking a few steps, a few first-year students who looked like they were being bullied came to him to consult about elective courses, winning 5 yen in a lottery, and winning 10 yen by rolling the dice.

Not all students disdain the money. Some of them have been bullied so badly that they have long been in dire poverty. This is why many KKIS students, like Sanchongqiu, work in faraway areas to supplement their family income.

After collecting three more signatures, Asana walked along the flower bed, dodging the water jets that were shot at his face by careless gardeners, and walked all the way back to the teaching building.

Although the big goal was declared a failure ahead of time, the small goals were not completely out of control.

The contract was signed again, and KKIS still gave an overbearing contract, but the overbearing party became [Shinichiro Kondo].

A new confidentiality agreement was also signed, and those who needed to maintain confidentiality became part of the management of KKIS.

Ariaki Yamagata was very happy. After signing a confidentiality agreement and a gambling freedom agreement, he not only cancelled all the fines imposed on Asama, but also opened a green channel for Asama's paid elective courses, and the class location was changed to the luxuriously decorated No. 1 multimedia tiered classroom.

Principal Sakon even used an attitude of "assessing the school's resources to win your favor" and invited Asama to participate in various activities organized by the school.

These changes were made possible by the unexpected help of Kujo Mise-sensei.

[Kondo Shinichiro], who put on the skin of the head of the Kujo family, avoided a lot of hostility.

[The elimination problem] has been solved, and there is room for solving the first and third problems accordingly.

The impromptu phone call just now explained several things——

For a small place like KKIS, the name Kujo Misaki still has a strong ruling power. Perhaps, Kujo Misaki himself is a vested interest in promoting this corruption, so he turned a blind eye to the affairs of KKIS;

The fact that Kujo Mishinari was willing to lend him a tiger skin instead of exposing his identity just shows that the head of the Kujo family supports him to stay in KKIS and do more things. On the surface, Kujo Mishinari was used as a knife by him, but in fact, Kujo Mishinari was waiting for him to become a knife. If they wanted him to be a knife, the price the Kujo family paid was not enough;

Principal Sakon's fawning and the actions of several school directors asking for a special line number also proved that there was no direct connection between this group of people and the highest authority in the Kujo family;
The investigator from the Kujo family that KKIS is wary of should not be limited to Kohinata Sakura. Perhaps they are from the Ikeda faction, or maybe they are from some other faction that is at odds with the Sakon faction. As for Miss Kujo, we still need to continue investigating Kohinata Sakura, and the result should be out today. If it is Alice Kujo, then there will be another explanation for why Ryuzoji Chanba came to KKIS.

Well, I'm back to the same state as when I was playing games with Chiyo Konoe. I really haven't made any progress at all.
What Komaba and Takishima said about "dimensionality reduction strike" all hit them in the face.

Is this also part of the old guard’s plan?

What do they want to see?
[Asama Shizumi secretly commanded those oppressed people in KKIS to resist bullying, punish evil and promote good, uncovered the dark side of a certain education group, helped the Kujo family remove the cancer, and allowed the Konoe family to gain control of the Five Regiments] Is this the kind of script?
Do I need to perform for them?
These bullshit things should be solved by these bastards themselves, right?

The pride in my heart resisted all of this, but in the final analysis, it was he who agreed to come to KKIS [to find me].

Have you ever solved the problem quietly behind the scenes?
No.

Have you ever helped those who are in pain to get back on their feet?

No, Mieaki Aki and Yuekanchuan Mika just took a small step forward.

Have you managed to help a hopeless person return to the right path?

No, Ashoka converted to Buddhism because he regretted the brutal war, and St. Paul converted to Christianity because he had a disagreement with the Jewish doctrine. Asama did not see any of the people holding the butcher knife who had regrets and contradictions in their hearts. He just wanted to be convenient these days and sent a group of people to the hospital, and planned to send more people to the hospital or prison.

【The third time, between difficult and easy, I chose easy. 】

[The fourth time, I made a mistake myself, but used the mistakes of others to comfort myself.]

[The sixth time, when I despised an ugly face, I didn’t know that face was one of my own masks.]

Gibran's seven sentences about despising one's own soul hit Asana in the face.

This feeling is very similar to swearing to everyone that you can complete the game by your own operation, but in the end you turned on the modifier before leaving the Novice Village.

I don’t know how long it will take to digest this uncomfortable feeling.

Let’s do something serious!!!
Listening to the music recommended by Pochi, Asana sat in the empty Humanities Group ① office, flipping through his phone with one hand to search for various messages, and organizing his class notes for Ryuzoji Chanba with the other hand, while thinking about other things in his head.

In his current capacity, it is still a bit difficult to integrate into the [corruption] of KKIS. This group of people is not very interested in the 5000 million dollars he promised in three years. It is obvious that they are full. Whether they can become accomplices still needs to be planned. Let's see what kind of activities KKIS will prepare for them.
As for the teachers, in addition to continuing to investigate the members of the Humanities Group ①, we need to have more contact with Vice-Principal Matsueda Masamune, and we also need to find an opportunity to contact Mr. Nanyun.

As for students, the training plan for the three little ones will continue. Yesterday, Fangmen Fujiayin was deliberately left aside. It is estimated that after school today, she will still be squatting in the library.

Although Ariaki Yamagata has signed a confidentiality agreement, the other three brotherhoods are unaware of it and will definitely look to him for gold coins. Should they get rid of [KID] before Ariaki Yamagata is off guard, or should they cooperate with [KID] openly to obtain more information and deal with the other brotherhoods?
It all depends on Yamagata's performance.

Anyway, all the villains of the Brotherhood are on suspended death penalty in Asama's case.

Since both gambling and elective courses are open, use one hand to hold the handle and the other to increase the favorability, and slowly screen out the useful people.

Asama's last ethics class of the week welcomed some special audiences. Principal Sakon, Vice Principal Matsueda, prefect Himekawa, nine heads of the liberal arts department including head of liberal arts department ① Kono, the homeroom teacher of Class 9, Grade 6, and three people from the assessment team were all standing in the back row of the classroom.

The main members of the [KID] student council, such as Ariaki Yamagata and Hoho Natsukawa, and senior cadres, all sat in the first three rows of the classroom.

In addition, most of the first-year students gathered outside the classroom, looking at [Shinichiro Kondo] in front of the podium through the open glass windows.

This is perhaps the most popular ethics class in the history of KKIS.

When Asama entered the classroom, he stretched his body as soon as he saw her. I smiled and greeted Hisahisa Mabuchi, the monitor of the 50th grade class who won 6 yen by throwing dice in the corner that morning.

"Are you not going to continue the gambling game from this morning, Mr. Kondo?"

"I hate repeating myself. You don't want to eat only curry and rice every day, do you?"

"No problem, even if it's the same flavor of curry~"

Asama glanced around the classroom and asked,

"Who will help me supervise Mabuchi and make him stick to eating the curry I specified for 100 days? If he succeeds, I will give him 4500 million and give the supervisor 500 million. If the supervisor finds that he eats food other than the specified curry or goes on a hunger strike, he will pay the supervisor 4500 million and give me 500 million. If there is a case of covering up fraud, both of you will need to pay me 3000 million, and I will randomly select someone in this classroom to share the money with him. How about it?"

The crowd suddenly became excited.

"Mr. Kondo, I haven't even mentioned the bet with you yet!"

"Mr. Mabuchi, you can't have the courage to participate in the gambling game only when it is in your favor."

Perhaps it was because of the presence of Ariaki Yamagata, but Class 6 of Grade was restrained even in their noise and teasing, as if they were a group of qualified atmosphere group actors.

If he hadn't seen the five silent bullies in the corner of Class 6, Grade , Asana would have really thought that KKIS had become a normal school.

What surprised many people was that this class was not nearly as interesting as the one taught in Class 7 of Year .

But the student union members and the group of adults at the back of the classroom were lost in thought.

“Many people think that ethics is morality and morality is philosophy, which is not entirely wrong.

The meaning of morality in Greece is far more than the various dogmas we talk about today, but something more intuitive and inspiring.

The Greeks created a word specifically for this concept - Arete, which means: excellence.

Later generations also translated it as "morality" and "virtue", while the British translated this word into "steep ridgeline".

The common point of these translations is that they are high and difficult to reach.

However, excellence and morality have now been separated and become something more personal and concrete.

Therefore, it is obviously a step in the wrong direction to understand the Greeks' highest pursuit of philosophy [Arete] in terms of today's excellence and morality.

In fact, philosophy is not just love + wisdom. It actually symbolizes a confluence. One river flows with the wisdom of physiologoi, a contemplative naturalist like Thales and Heraclitus, and the other river flows with the wisdom of sophists, a sophist or orator like Protagoras. The two rivers have merged with the efforts of three generations of teachers and students, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. What they spread was Philosophy, and what they practiced was Arete.

Arete encompasses the pursuit of personal excellence, civic virtue, knowledge and wisdom, as well as aesthetics and art. It represents the noblest human values ​​in ancient Greek philosophy, emphasizing the unity of individual and social moral perfection and social responsibility.

People in later generations are flocking to [Philosophy], and we have witnessed too much philosophy in human history."

A two-inch wide roll of paper suddenly appeared in Asama's hand. He shook it gently, and the roll of paper fell to the ground and rolled to the feet of Mr. Kono in the back row of the classroom.

The note was filled with the names of philosophers.

Seeing Asana's magic, the students who were dizzy from the overwhelming information finally perked up. They listened to Asana continue,
"This scroll contains the names of 2000 people who explored [Philosophy], and 1/20 of them will appear again in our ethics class.

However, the exploration of Arete has entered a state of ignorance, and it has been used more in the deification of religious leaders and national heroes. "

A fire without source ignited in Asana's palm, and the roll of paper in his hand burned rapidly as if it had been soaked in kerosene, but it did not turn into ashes. Instead, it turned into another list with white words on a black background, which contained all the names of famous heroes and great men in human history.

“Ancient Greek philosophy has become a two-sided moon today. People only know the front side of the moon [Philosophy], but not the back side [Arete].

This is also why most people who study philosophy can only become scholars who bury themselves in piles of old papers, but cannot become great men who are famous in a certain place.

A true philosophy class must be an ethics class. We study philosophy not only to add a thinking model or path, but more importantly, to learn how to cultivate ourselves [Arete’s excellent virtues].

"The paper just now must be thermal paper."

"Nonsense, thermal paper is not burn-resistant. Kondo used a trick and threw a new roll of paper."

Ironically, inside and outside the classroom, more people were whispering about the [magic] on the front side of the moon rather than the [ethics class] on the back side of the moon.

Ariaki Yamagata was like the most conservative top student, listening to every word Asama said.

He knew very well that this was the fourth lecture of Asama's class "The Birth of Ancient Greek Philosophy" and that there must be a metaphor targeting them.

Lacking virtue, can't you become a great man?
"Mr. Kondo, you mean you can make us great people?"

Yamagata asked.

"There are so many people who use money, but the rich are only a minority after all. Do you think it's because of money?"

Asama replied.

Xiachuan Sui Sui frowned and said,
"You are changing the concept. Teachers are not media tools like money, but guides."

"Well said, Natsukawa-san. [A teacher is not a tool, but a guide.] I hope everyone will remember this sentence. This is the first step to [Arete]."

Masamune Matsueda was already clapping loudly at the back of the classroom.

(End of this chapter)