Crossing over, and then being blocked by a rich JK.

Chapter 431 Speech Incident (The End) [5K5]

For any high school student, giving a speech on stage on behalf of his or her grade is both a "troublesome thing" that they will complain about, and a "show-off" thing that they will take very seriously in their hearts.

Seito Takigawa was no exception. From the moment he learned that he had become a representative of the freshman class, he began to prepare. He not only read through several speech manuscripts, but also specifically studied his demeanor and facial expressions during the speech.

and so……

Takigawa Seito took a deep breath and began his speech.

"Hello, teachers, students, seniors, I am Seito Takigawa from the first year of high school, and the topic I will be speaking about this time is "The Importance of Learning."

After the words were spoken, the students in the audience all had subtle expressions.

The students in the first year of high school were still trying hard to maintain a serious expression, but the students in the second and third years were a little overwhelmed.

Of course, this is not because the first-year high school students have a high level of awareness, but because the teacher has explained it to them from the very beginning.

——No matter what Takigawa Seito said, he is the representative of the first year of high school after all. As a first-year high school student, he should be given the most basic respect. Without saying too much, at least you can't ruin your own family's show, right?

"I think that studying is not only for myself, but also for my parents, who have worked so hard to raise me..."

On the stage, Seito Takigawa read his speech with great emotion and became more and more immersed in it.

Below the stage, the first-year high school students went from barely holding their breath in the beginning to being completely unable to hold it together.

Frankly speaking, Takigawa Seito's speech was powerful, he had some skills in recitation, and his voice was not so loud that it was unbearable to listen to, but the problem was that what he said was too official, especially the preaching part, which made the listeners frown.

To give a not-so-appropriate example, Takigawa Seito's speech didn't sound like something a freshman in high school could say. Instead, it sounded like something a principal of that age could say. He pressed his head and told you that you study for your family, and if you don't study hard, you're being unfilial.

At first glance, this seems to be the truth. After all, being a parent is not easy. But if you think about it carefully, you will find that it is too preachy and full of moral blackmail, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"He may have overexerted himself a bit."

The corners of Watanabe Yu's mouth twitched, and he complained to Anhara Risa in a low voice.

To be honest, he actually wanted to say that this person was crazy, but when the words came to his lips, he held them back.

This situation is obviously a case of lack of experience and 'thinking' that one has guessed the right answer.

At other times, it wouldn't be a big problem to talk about this kind of content, but the problem is that this is not the time to do so. This is the time when the principal wants to show off in front of your school.

This is very embarrassing.

"Well, optimistically speaking, there should be no external interference to disrupt his studies in the next three years."

Risa Yasuhara stroked her chin and said this in a somewhat uncle-like manner.

"What do you mean?"

Watanabe Yu was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding the speed with which Risa Yasuhara jumped to the topic, nor the meaning of her words.

It's funny, in the past it was always Yasuhara Risa who said that he jumped around too much, but now it's him who thinks she jumps around too much.

"That means he loses the right to choose his spouse for the next three years."

Yasuhara Risa turned her head and gave him a look that said 'how can you be so stupid'.

"It's not such an exaggeration."

Watanabe Yuu thinks that he shouldn't be too sure about what to say, what if?

There are always some girls who have eyes that can discover beauty.

"It's so exaggerated." Yasuhara Risa pouted. "When I was in high school, a girl in our class was harassed by a gangster outside the school. I happened to see him, so I picked up a brick, right? I think so. Anyway, I hit that gangster. As a result, I didn't have a romantic relationship throughout high school."

Of course, it wasn’t entirely because of this. Part of the reason was that she didn’t want to fall in love at that time, but the impact of the brick incident was indeed huge.

At least after this incident, the boys in her class and the neighboring classes looked at her with awe, while the girls were completely the opposite, they looked at her with admiration and adoration.

There was even a girl who confessed to her in her senior year of high school, but she flatly rejected her request.

"Brilliant!"

Watanabe Yu thought about it and felt that this word was more appropriate.

From this perspective alone, the evaluation of the girls in the class is not wrong. Sister Rina does have the temperament of a big sister, or the feeling of a "prince".

"I just thought you were complimenting me."

Yasuhara Risa rolled her eyes.

On the stage, Takigawa Seito's speech had just ended. After he said "Thank you everyone", applause broke out from the audience, especially from the second and third year high school students who clapped particularly hard. It was obvious that they were tortured a lot.

As for the principal, he didn't say anything, but nodded thoughtfully.

It seemed that Seito Takigawa's performance was normal in his eyes.

"Then let us invite the first-year high school representative from China Private Academy, Nozomi Kitayama, to come on stage and give a speech."

The vice-president, holding the topic, walked up to the podium and naturally began to speak the connecting words.

As he finished speaking, a girl came out from the team of China Private Academy. She had a very literary look and was a quiet, reading-loving student in the literature department.

Under Yamada Kei's encouraging gaze, she walked up to the podium and came to the podium.

"Hello, students and teachers. I am Kitayama Nozomi, a freshman from China Private College. The topic of my speech today is "Remnants of Books"."

She paused and continued speaking without any stage fright.

"As Heraclitus's river flows through Borges' hourglass, we salvage the poems left behind by Odysseus in the tracks of Apollo's chariot..."

To be honest, the girl's voice was very clear, and it sounded like the sound of ice cubes colliding in summer, but what she said made people feel drowsy.

But one thing is true, everyone knows it, this girl's temperament is really not deceptive, she has really read a lot of books.

"How to evaluate."

Watanabe Yu turned his head and met Yasuhara Risa's gaze.

"It's hard to evaluate."

Risa Yasuhara rubbed her eyebrows hard and felt inexplicably relieved.

It turned out that this was not the so-called battle of gods, but the excellent matching mechanism. They had just sent away a eloquent preacher, and then a little girl who didn't speak human language came from China Private College.

Apart from the gathering of all the best people and the excellent matching mechanism, she really couldn't think of any other adjectives.

"In fact, her choice of words and sentences, 'Some people question the value of youth - it is the promise solidified on the strings of Orpheus', is quite good. At least I can't write it. And I can probably hear that her major is Greek literature."

Watanabe You pursed his lips. This was not out of modesty, but the truth. Even if he was a time traveler, he could not write such a content that quoted from classics everywhere.

She has really read the book, but the problem is that what she talked about was superficial. It seemed that she quoted classics, used parallelism, and used metaphors, and she used everything that could be used, but she didn't mention any of the key points.

To put it simply, it's like in online novels, where the whole thing is full of fancy words, but the plot is not told at all, and no characters appear. It's just fabricated description.

"you are right."

Risa Yasuhara sighed and patted Yu Watanabe's shoulder with emotion.

She suddenly understood why Watanabe Yu was so confident.

After listening to these people's speeches, she inevitably began to become confident, and this confidence expanded into complacency at a rather exaggerated rate.

"They're like those in the movies..."

Risa Yasuhara was suddenly at a loss for words.

"Xiao Karami (Chinese)."

Watanabe Yuu took up the conversation without thinking.

"Huh? Laughing Kalami (Chinese)? What's that?"

Yasuhara Risa looked at him with a puzzled look.

"That's probably what you want to say, a passerby or a minor character."

Watanabe Yu gave the answer.

"It's not nice to say that, and it's not respectful. Don't say it next time." Yasuhara Risa gave him a reproachful look, and then changed the subject the next second, "But the description of little Karami (Chinese) is quite interesting, and it sounds cute at first.

"By the way, if you put yourself in his shoes, are you considered a villain?"

After all, considering someone's ability, his presence here is already a dimensionality reduction attack, and there is a bit of bullying in it.

This was not to mention the fact that this guy had stirred up trouble at China Private Academy, not only having directly taken seventh place in Class A, but also having plucked the most popular flower from the latter.

In the eyes of the students at China Private Academy, this guy is a complete villain, the kind that eats and takes things.

"Who would say that to their students?" Watanabe Yu gave someone a 'claw' look, and then answered her question, "No, I didn't take it by force, nor did I use despicable means. I achieved my results through my own ability." Can you please stop being so honest?

I can’t say he can reach the level of Xu Changqing, but at least he is a Chang Yin.

You said so, Lao Tong.

While the two were chatting and arguing, applause broke out from the audience again, this time just like before, with the same enthusiasm and the same sense of relief.

If Takigawa Seito's speech made people feel helpless, then Kitayama Nozomi's speech made people feel awe-inspiring.

But in this day and age, people will instinctively stay away from things that they don't understand or think are impressive.

"Well, thank you Kitayama for your wonderful speech. Next, let us welcome the representative of the second-year students, Watanabe Yuu!"

The vice principal spoke while unconsciously lengthening his tone.

He knew and understood Watanabe Yu, and was well aware of how reliable this student was.

Of course, there are also some people who want to find someone else to clean their ears.

The speeches of the first two children really gave him a headache. Either they were too mature for their age, with the sound of experienced people nagging, or they were talking nonsense and no one knew what they were talking about after talking for a long time.

"Go."

Yasuhara Risa patted his back and gave him a gentle push.

"Do I need to go on stage over there?"

To be on the safe side, Watanabe Yu stopped and asked a question first.

If there were regulations on the direction for going up onto the stage, it would be somewhat disrespectful for him to rush up from the direction of leaving the stage.

"No, just go up directly."

Risa Yasuhara shook her head, signaling him to stop wasting time and go up quickly.

However, thanks to the outstanding performance of the two student representatives before her, she is not nervous at all now. She even wants to find a bag of melon seeds to eat while watching what Watanabe Yu will say.

"Ok."

Watanabe Yu turned three steps into two, stepped lightly onto the stairs, and came to the podium in front of the rostrum.

Below the stage, Kitada Ze frowned.

He knew Watanabe Yuu and knew that it was this man who kidnapped Amemiya.

But this is the first time I have looked at it so closely.

Just by looking at Watanabe Yu's face and the latter's broad shoulders and narrow waist, he instinctively felt uncomfortable.

In terms of face, Watanabe Yu is better than him. In terms of figure, if he is not mistaken, Watanabe Yu has abdominal muscles, which is also better than him.

In other words, the only way he could possibly surpass the latter was his talent and family background.

And there is a question mark about the family background. He really doesn't believe that Nitta Keiya would make friends with people from ordinary families.

The gap between the two is really too big.

Subconsciously, he turned his head and looked at Amamiya Ayana.

She, who had previously looked indifferent to her surroundings, was now staring at the stage, her gaze fixed firmly on that man's face. The coldness from before had long since faded away, and the slightly raised corner of her mouth was like a needle, piercing his heart.

You will definitely fail in your speech!

He angrily withdrew his gaze and cursed the person on the stage in his heart.

He did notice that Watanabe Yu did not bring any manuscript paper. In other words, this person wanted to give a speech without a script, but giving a speech without a script is not that easy.

Especially with so many people watching, if there's even a small mistake and we can't make up for it, we're doomed.

“The topic I’m going to talk about today is ‘Live in the Present Moment.’”

As Watanabe Yu was speaking, he adjusted the microphone. Due to his height, the original position of the microphone was not suitable and had to be moved a little higher.

"Of course, I originally wanted to talk to you about studying, but my grades were barely good, and the rankings were more entertaining, so after hesitating for a long time, I gave up. This is not my strong point."

Watanabe Yu shrugged. What he said was not nonsense. He was an exchange student last semester, and his grades in Chengnan Private High School were all zero.

“But I do have some experience in fighting anxiety, or preventing excessive self-consumption.

“But this cannot be considered as imparting or teaching. It is just my personal experience sharing.

"When I entered high school, I was in awe of Tokyo and our school because I came from a small town. I always felt like a country boy coming to the city. I was anxious at the time because I felt that everyone was so good and I was a little too bad.

"When I was in a small place, I was ranked first in my class and school, one of the best. But after changing the environment, everything changed. I was the leader before and now I am at the bottom. No matter how hard I try, I can't catch up.

"I even thought at one point that I shouldn't have come to Tokyo, and even thought about escaping, packing my bags and going back to my own place.

“I don’t know if you can understand that feeling, it’s an indescribable sense of loss, a pain in which your worldview is impacted and reshaped.

“But later, in a conversation with a friend, I learned something, which is to look at the problem from a different perspective, or to look at the problem more comprehensively.

“First, clarify the objective facts, analyze the problems you encounter, your own situation, and the solutions to the problems, then clarify the goals, and then break down the difficulties.

“It is difficult to write 100 questions at one go, but if you divide the 100 questions into 10 groups, it is not that difficult.

“From my personal experience, the easiest place to make mistakes is not in splitting things up, nor in objectively analyzing problems, but in actually evaluating yourself, or evaluating your own abilities.

“It is always easy for people to not see themselves clearly. In other words, to see themselves clearly, they need to admit that they are imperfect and there is a gap between themselves and the way they imagine themselves.

"It's like thinking that making a big scene in front of a girl you like will attract her attention, or even her affection.

“Actually, that’s not the case. People will think you have a second-year syndrome. This is a personal experience of a friend of mine. Please remember not to imitate me.

"Back to the point, for example, I am a typical person who has nothing good except being handsome - just kidding, I am good at concentrating on one thing, but my talent is only average, so for me, I should not think about achieving success overnight, but be down-to-earth.

“So I comforted myself. Although I had accomplished nothing and was confused and had poor grades when I first came to Tokyo, from another perspective, being confused means that I have no goals, and having no goals means that there are many goals to choose from.

“The results are also poor, but if you look at it from another perspective, there is a lot of room for improvement.

“As for accomplishing nothing, this is a phased thing, it’s happening right now, not in the future.

“What people are best at doing is to project the current situation into the future, whether good or bad, and then use a virtual future to intimidate or deceive their present selves.

“But people often forget one thing: the future is determined by countless present moments. If I am bad today and tomorrow, it does not mean I will be bad in the future.

"So I learned to make peace with myself, to look at the world and problems from a different perspective, and to evaluate myself honestly and objectively. This way, I wouldn't easily lose my original intention, or be discouraged by the gap between people and turn into a puddle of mud.

"Even though we are still salty after a comeback, at least we tried, right? We also got the results, and we proved that we have turned things around.

“As for how to transform from a salted fish into a carp, and then, like in the Chinese cultural stories, leap over the Dragon Gate and become a dragon, it all depends on cherishing every moment and working hard to live well and do well every day as an independent self.

“Although there are only two or three opportunities in life, I believe that people who cherish the present and live in the present will not miss such opportunities.

"I hope my little sharing can be of some help to you. Let's encourage each other!"

Having said that, Watanabe Yu made a standard fist-clasping salute.

Not only did the atmosphere get to this point, but he also felt that this move was fashionable enough.

After the words were spoken, the audience fell into a brief silence.

Then, thunderous applause broke out.

Maybe Watanabe Yu's choice of words and sentences are not so affectionate or elegant, and this guy even dares to joke openly on the stage, but everyone can hear and feel that he is very sincere.

As for whether what he said has any reference value, the people in the audience know very well that it is quite valuable for reference.

Although Watanabe Yu was quiet for a while last semester, there are still many rumors about him in the school. Anyone who has visited the school forum has heard his story.

Including but not limited to going from the last in the class to the top ten in one semester, bravely fighting against gangsters, and the stories that have to be told to the senior students.

By the way, the last keyword has the most searches.

"Oh, it's just a substitution of concepts. Living in the present can't solve any problems."

In the audience, although he felt that what Watanabe Yu said made sense, Kitada Ze couldn't help but refute it.

He couldn't accept that Watanabe Yu had succeeded in giving an impromptu speech, and had done it so well, so well that he himself knew he couldn't do it to that level.

But the next moment, his open mouth suddenly became silent.

It wasn't because Teacher Yamada called a halt, nor was it because he angered everyone, but because Amemiya Ayana turned her head and looked at him coldly.

He suddenly understood the feelings of those suitors of Amamiya Ayana who had suddenly given up. No, it would be more appropriate to say that he could empathize with them.

(End of this chapter)