Seiji Fujiwara took over his private security company.

The company is called Bluewing, and it provides security consulting and personal bodyguard services worldwide.

Of course, the best team will serve him, the boss.

Ding Dong!

Suddenly, I received a text message on my phone.

"The principal of Toyonosaki?" Seiji Fujiwara picked it up and glanced at it, then paused slightly.

He had almost forgotten about this person.

No, it's that I almost forgot I was still Toyosaki's student.

"Do you want me to speak at the graduation ceremony as an outstanding graduate?" Seiji Fujiwara chuckled after reading the text message.

I didn't even notice the time.

Graduation time has already arrived.

“Okay, no problem.” Seiji Fujiwara replied to the text message.

……

……

At the same time, Toyosaki Academy.

The school bell rang, signaling the end of the school term.

Most students either participate in club activities or leave school directly.

Inside the classroom of Class B, Grade 11, there was still a girl's voice.

She has delicate features, regular facial features, and fair skin.

But for some reason, she seemed to be shrouded in a thin halo, making everything about her seem ordinary and unremarkable.

"Have we been overlooked again?"

Kato Megumi sat quietly in her seat, looking out the window.

She had a very low profile since childhood.

So much so that the students on duty who were just cleaning the classroom didn't even notice her.

Kato Megumi showed no surprise or dissatisfaction with this.

He just sighed softly.

She was already used to all of this.

Just then, the excited voices of several girls came from the corridor.

They seemed to have just finished their club activities and were getting ready to go home.

"Hey, have you heard? It seems like our school's legendary senior, Seiji Fujiwara, is coming back to give a graduation speech!"

"Really?!"

"Really? I can't believe such an important person would be willing to come back to Toyosaki."

"Yeah, I heard he owns several super profitable companies! And he's handsome too! He's practically the perfect prince straight out of a shoujo manga!"

"Ahhh, I really want to see him!"

"Me too! It would be even better if we could exchange contact information!"

Listening to the sounds in the corridor.

A slight ripple appeared in Kato Megumi's usually calm eyes.

Fujiwara...Seiji.

She had certainly heard of that name before.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that everyone in this school has heard of this legendary name.

"Fujiwara-senpai, what a powerful presence... Everyone's talking about him."

Kato Megumi looked out the window, and in a voice only she could hear, she murmured:

"I'm so envious..."

"If only I could have even one percent of his presence..."

Of course, it was only a slight envy.

Kato Megumi quickly calmed herself down, packed her things, and left the school.

……

……

March arrived quickly.

Graduation season, cherry blossoms fall like rain.

The graduation ceremony hall in Toyonosaki was filled with the sadness of parting and the anticipation of the future.

The young boys and girls, their faces still showing signs of innocence, were filled with reluctance to part.

Of course, Seiji Fujiwara, a seasoned veteran who has lived two lives, wouldn't experience any emotional fluctuations.

He sat in the front row of the graduates' section, idly playing with his phone.

He had no interest whatsoever in his peers who were either excited, sentimental, or trying to remain calm.

What they see as the "future" is, in Seiji Fujiwara's view, nothing more than a series of predictable cycles.

Strive, struggle, enter a big company, become a cog in the machine of society, be overwhelmed by KPIs and the 996 work schedule, and lose passion and youth in the daily grind.

He experienced it in his past life.

"Next, please welcome our graduate representative, the pride of Toyonosaki Academy, the renowned genius writer Seiji Fujiwara, who was admitted to the University of Tokyo as a special admissions student, to the stage to give a speech!"

Feeling emotional.

The emcee's loud voice rang out, accompanied by thunderous applause.

"It's my turn." Seiji Fujiwara turned off his phone screen and slowly straightened his uniform collar.

Amidst countless gazes filled with envy, jealousy, and admiration, he walked onto the podium with a relaxed gait that seemed out of place with his surroundings.

His handsome face appeared even more striking under the spotlight.

He didn't look at the speech on the podium, but casually cast his gaze across the sea of ​​people below, a slow smile playing on his lips.

His gaze swept over Kasumigaoka Utaha. The girl in black stockings was as beautiful as ever today, wearing a white headband, sitting gracefully in the chair, exuding a serene and elegant aura.

Eriri, who was not far away, deliberately glared at him fiercely, and as if to cause trouble, secretly made faces at him.

So cute.

Seiji Fujiwara smiled inwardly, his gaze not lingering for long before turning to the graduates whose faces were blurred, immersed in the illusory sense of ritual of "graduation".

Congratulations on your graduation!

He spoke, his voice clear and resonant, carrying throughout the auditorium through the microphone.

“Starting tomorrow, most of you will spend the rest of your lives proving one thing—that your efforts today are meaningless.”

The very first sentence plunged the entire room into a deathly silence.

The applause stopped abruptly, and everyone stared in disbelief at Seiji Fujiwara on the stage.

The teachers looked somewhat embarrassed, while the graduates looked bewildered and confused.

Seiji Fujiwara didn't care at all.

"You will enter university, enter society, and then discover that what you are facing is a dull and boring world that has already been set by rules. Your dreams, passions, and personalities will be crushed by the machine called 'reality' and turned into monotonous canned products called 'adults'."

He paused, then his smile deepened.

"Of course, there are always exceptions. Like me."

Chapter 124 Kato-kun, my condition remains valid (1/2)

This extremely arrogant statement, instead of provoking resentment, drew admiration and respect from the students in the audience.

Because he is Seiji Fujiwara, the youngest winner of the Rampo Prize and the Naoki Prize, a genius with a net worth of over a billion yen.

His arrogance, in the face of worldly success, was interpreted as "self-assured confidence."

"So, my suggestion is,"

Seiji Fujiwara shrugged. "If you can't be a rule-maker, then recognize your place and try to find a way to survive in the cracks. That's all I have to say, thank you."

Inside the auditorium, applause, whispers, and teachers' awkward coughs mingled together, creating a peculiar soundscape.

Kato Megumi sat in the back corner, clapping her hands gently, just like everyone else.

Her movements were precise, and her expression was calm, just as she had in any group activity in the past, perfectly playing the role of an "ordinary" background character.

Her gaze followed the figure who stepped down from the podium.

Seiji Fujiwara.

Kato Megumi's impression of Toyonosaki's star student wasn't actually that deep.

A genius writer, a special admission student to the University of Tokyo, a born businessman...

These labels are so dazzling that they seem somewhat unreal, like a character existing in another dimension.

"...striving to find a space to survive in the cracks."

Recalling his last words on stage, Kato Megumi silently grumbled in her usual calm tone.

'Ah, what a typical arrogant remark of a victor.'

'However, considering his status and position, could it be considered...honest?'

Unlike the girls around her, she didn't cast fervent or adoring glances at Seiji Fujiwara; nor did she, like some of the boys, show obvious jealousy or resentment.

Megumi Kato was merely an observer.

In her view, Seiji Fujiwara was like a max-level, pay-to-win player in a popular game, talking at length about his strategy tips to a group of level 1 slimes in the beginner village, saying that "this game is actually very simple".

Although it sounds infuriating, everything he said was indeed the truth to him.

Just then, it seemed as if he sensed her gaze.

The figure who had already returned to his seat suddenly turned his head and, without warning, cast his gaze in her direction.

Their eyes met in mid-air, separated by dozens of meters.

The surrounding noise seemed to vanish in that instant.

The arrogance and mockery that had been there on stage were gone from Fujiwara Seiji's eyes.

It was a deeper look in his eyes, as if he had unexpectedly discovered a dusty treasure in a dimly lit warehouse, his eyes filled with surprise.

Kato Megumi was somewhat confused by such a gaze.

She tilted her head slightly, almost imperceptibly, a hint of doubt in her otherwise calm eyes.

"Is there... something on my face?"

This is what she was thinking.

Seiji Fujiwara didn't look any further. Instead, he turned back, picked up his phone again, as if the brief eye contact he had just made was just an illusion.

Kato Megumi also withdrew her gaze and let out a soft sigh of relief.

"Next, all graduates, please stand up and sing the school song together..."

Kato Megumi stood up and, together with the others, sang the melody she knew by heart.

……

……

the other side.

Seiji Fujiwara thought to himself, 'I almost forgot about Megumi Kato… her presence is really weak.'

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