The strongest high school student in Japan

He was comfortable, quite comfortable indeed.

Although helping the senior student was not just to get her gratitude, when someone thanked me sincerely, I always felt that "my efforts were worth it after all."

At least at this moment, he defended the agreement between the two and also defended everything that was left of Senior Sister Sakihara.

But his own life will go on.

Following a route he had walked countless times, he took the train to Chiyoda and then returned to his home.

As usual, when he returned home, it was already very late, but the house was still empty.

Both of his parents are busy people, and he has been accustomed to this situation since he was a child. He washes himself, then finds some frozen food from the refrigerator and eats it as dinner.

Usually after eating, he would go straight back to his room, either read a book or play games, and then go to bed after midnight.

But he didn't do that tonight. Instead, he stayed in the spacious living room, sat on the sofa, turned on the TV, and watched a variety show that he was not interested in at all.

When the hour hand on the clock reached close to 12, there was the sound of keys at the outer door. Amid the jingling sound of metal colliding, the door opened, and then his father, Zuo Shangqing, returned to the living room with tired steps.

As usual, Moishima Qing was wearing a neat black suit, holding a black briefcase in his hand, his tie was tied tightly, and even his hair was combed meticulously, looking like a standard official.

Although he has now been sent to a very difficult position and his future prospects have almost reached the top, he is still a member of the elite bureaucratic class after all, and he will never relax the work habits he has developed over the years.

He has become accustomed to self-control and self-discipline, and only with such self-discipline can he survive in the world of bureaucracy.

But after coming in, he looked at his son sitting on the sofa with some surprise.

Normally, the father and son don't communicate much. When they are at home, the son usually stays in his room, but today he surprisingly stayed in the hall.

Is there something wrong? Saigami Qing thought.

"Father." The son's actions proved his father's guess. After seeing his father coming, Mogami Jun turned off the TV directly and said, "I have something I want to ask you."

"What's the matter?" Mogami Qing put aside the doubts in his heart and sat directly on the sofa opposite Mogami Jun, then casually threw the briefcase in his hand onto the coffee table between the two of them.

The interaction between the father and son can be described as cold, and their expressions are equally calm and indifferent.

On the one hand, this is due to the same personality of the two people, and on the other hand, it is also the restrained and calm attitude that the Mogami family deliberately wants to cultivate. When Mogami Jun's grandfather Mogami Hiroshi was alive, he communicated with his son Mogami Kiyoshi in this way.

"The reception you told me about last night, held by Chairman Hyoudou of the Teiai Group, wasn't that simple, was it?" Mogami Jun didn't want to beat around the bush and asked straight to the point. "Is there something going on?"

"Why do you ask?" Zui Shangqing did not comment, but his eyes became a little more stern.

It seems like there really is a problem... Jun Mogami thought.

"I... heard from some sources that the people of the Hyoudou family have a certain kind of evil taste, and like to use people as props to play games for fun." Mogami Jun asked carefully, "Then... will President Hyoudou's so-called reception be similar..."

Mogami Kiyoshi didn't answer immediately, but raised his eyebrows slightly and began to stare at Mogami Jun.

Jun Mogami looked at his father calmly, neither flustered nor trying to please.

"It seems that you have begun to learn how to make reliable friends. That's good." After a long while, Saigami Kiyoshi replied, "You guessed it right. President Hyoudou Kazuto's so-called reception is, to put it bluntly, to find some people who have nothing and are in debt to play a gambling game with their lives as stakes, and the audience will watch their duel for fun."

Betting his life... Jun Mogami smacked his lips.

He never expected that his most horrific guess would come true.

"Then why are you letting me go? This kind of gambling is illegal. What if someone dies? How am I going to end it?" He couldn't help but say. "Please consider this invitation carefully."

Saigami Qing did not answer, but just looked at his son with a smile.

A chill ran down Mogami Jun's heart. "You...you participated in it too?"

"Yes, I have participated in it. I witnessed various gambling games as a spectator and sometimes even placed bets." Mogami Kiyoshi nodded coldly. "Watching people die from blood being drawn, falling to death from a building, being scalded to death by iron plates... To be honest, it's not a pleasant experience."

Now Mogami Jun understood why his father thought his question was stupid.

This is an entertainment program secretly organized by a group of tycoons and elite bureaucrats. Even if someone dies, how many people can be held accountable?

He felt a little uncomfortable and didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just sat there quietly.

"Don't misunderstand me, Jun." After a long silence, Saigami Qing suddenly spoke, "Although I'm not a good person, I'm not a pervert. I don't have a sadistic habit. I would feel compassion if I saw someone die in front of me."

"Then why do you still want to participate?!" Jun Mogami asked loudly.

"Because I want to be a human being, not a sheep." Said Zuishangqing.

"What do you mean...?" Mogami Jun was a little confused.

"What I mean is, I have to enter a circle that I have to enter, and I don't mind enduring unbearable things for this, and you, must do the same." Mogami Kiyoshi suddenly stood up and walked to the front of the window sill. "If President Hyoudou can support me, then I can endure this."

Then, he stretched out his hand and pulled hard, and the dark curtains were pulled open. In an instant, neon lights of various colors from the streets and buildings outside instantly poured into the living room, pounced on the father and son, and mixed out strange colors.

"The Japanese archipelago is a big sheepfold, with 120 million people living on it, but only a few thousand families can be called people, and the rest are nothing more than sheep. These few thousand families are in charge of this big sheepfold, and they can do whatever they want in the sheepfold." Zuishangqing looked at the street scene outside the building and said coldly, "They can trim the wool regularly, and they can also kill the sheep for meat. There is not much meaning in the high and low status of the 120 million sheep, it's just a difference in breed and meat quality-"

Mogami Jun frowned slightly.

"Even sheep can rebel sometimes."

"Yes, even sheep will bite their masters if they live in fear of losing their lives." Saigami Qing nodded, "So in order to make sheep live their lives obediently, people invented laws, bureaucracy, armies, interest rates, and our entire political system. You can think of them as table manners - people use elegant eating methods to reduce the pain of sheep and reduce their resistance."

Mogami Kiyoshi turned around and looked at Mogami Jun coldly, "But in the final analysis, no matter how gentle the table manners are, everything that sheep cherish is just a part of 'table manners', in order to make the sheep feel very safe and protected by the sheepfold. But unfortunately, sheep are sheep after all. Although the owner can give them illusory protection, he can still eat them when he wants to. The only difference is that some people pay attention to eating in a peaceful manner, while some people, in order to satisfy their own special hobbies, have to cut them into pieces and eat them. Hyoudou Kazutsugu is such a person... He just likes to see those guys wailing miserably and struggling to survive."

"...Even if you say so..." Jun Mogami still found it hard to accept.

"What's the difference between forcing people to commit suicide due to debt and forcing them to die in gambling for entertainment? There are 30,000 suicides in Japan every year, and most of them are simply devoured by the owners of the sheepfold. They die quietly, and no one will remember that they existed." Mogami Kiyomi was not moved at all, "Hyodo Kazutsugu is just showing society in the most bloody way."

Mogami Jun understood that he would never be able to refute Mogami Kiyoshi because he had already rationalized his own behavior and he had his own set of logic.

"So why do you drag me into this?" After a moment's silence, Mogami Jun asked again.

"You are so smart, how could you not think of it?" Zuishangqing pulled the curtains tightly and covered them again. His face became gloomy. "You are my only son. I cannot accept that my son gives up being a human being and becomes a sheep. In order not to be a sheep, our family has struggled for two generations! You are the third generation. You are not qualified to be among the dust and live and die in a muddle like those lost sheep! Therefore, you must obtain the qualification to be a human being, even if it costs you something."

Then, Saigami Qing touched his neck and loosened his tie dejectedly. "My future has almost reached its peak and I can't go any further. But you are different. You still have a future, the future of three generations of us - so you must reach the pinnacle of civil service. My only son, you must live like a human being! In order to achieve this goal, you must have a huge network of contacts. Your grandfather passed away, and my own network of contacts is not reliable. You need more contacts and more resources, and Hyodo and Tsun have all of these. In this case, what's wrong with attending his reception? Seeing how miserable the sheep are will make you realize how precious it is to be a human being!"

So, my father wanted to use this method to let me blend into the circle, maintain his network of contacts, and obtain resources for future advancement.

Jun Mogami finally understood his father's plan.

He bit his lip.

"So what if I become a bureaucrat? I am nothing more than a sheepdog guarding the sheepfold for my master."

"It's an interesting metaphor. You can grasp the essence of things very quickly, which really makes me feel relieved." Mogami Qing smiled slightly, "But you are too self-deprecating. Bureaucrats are not sheepdogs but shepherds. Although they have to guard the sheepfold for their masters, they can also hide the wool and mutton for themselves. One day, shepherds can also start their own businesses, right?"

It's hard to refute. Although it sounds harsh, if you think about it carefully, you always feel that Saigami Qing has a point.

But even if you become such a "person", what's the point?

"Even so, I don't want to do it." Mogami Jun replied. "If I have to be a sheep instead of a human, then I choose to do nothing."

Then he stood up, took the initiative to end the conversation with his father, returned to his room and closed the door heavily.

29. Secret Report

After the argument, Jun Mogami and his father parted ways unhappily. He walked back to his room in front of his father and slammed the door.

He seldom showed his emotions, and this time he rarely lost his composure in front of his father.

He understood that although what his father said was a bit extreme, it made sense.

Japan is a country with clear distinctions between the upper and lower classes and strict hierarchies. The upper class has no scruples about driving the lower class or taking advantage of them for their own amusement. Everyone is trapped in the cage of social networks and cannot stop. The whole country has become lifeless.

What Zuishangqing contemptuously called “one hundred and twenty million sheep” is also a vivid portrayal of this.

Not to mention Japan, even other countries, how much better are they?

But he found it difficult to agree with this "truth".

As a chaebol, the Hyoudou family controls resources that are unimaginable to ordinary people, but instead of using these resources to promote social efficiency and progress, they take pleasure in the suffering of others; as an elite bureaucrat, Mogami Kiyomi enjoys generous treatment from the state, but it would be fine if he did not seek welfare for the people, but instead he aided and abetted the evil and even thought it was natural... What glory can such an upper class have, no matter how glamorous they appear to be?

Even if you become a member of the "upper class", flatter and curry favor with Hyoudou Kazutsugu, and collude with the Hyoudou family, what honor is there in becoming a member of this "upper class"?

Anyway, Jun Mogami doesn't think so, and he doesn't want to be that kind of person at all.

Jun Mogami never considers himself as a messenger of justice. On the contrary, he has a weak sense of morality and does not care about the means to achieve his goals... But there is a limit to all this.

Hyoudou Kazutsugu has already gone beyond this limit.

He would rather lose the support of the Hyoudou family than beg for mercy from them and follow them in their evil deeds. He made up his mind secretly.

He knew that from a utilitarian point of view, his determination seemed a little naive, but he would never regret this naivety.

Isn't the ability to stick to one's childish ideas what makes one a human being?

Jun Mogami slept quite late that night, and only got out of bed in a daze when the alarm clock rang.

After stumbling over and simply washing up, he went straight to school. Mogami Kiyoshi did not discuss the matter with Mogami Jun again, but had breakfast as usual and went to work. In his father's opinion, Mogami Jun's behavior last night was just a child's occasional willful temper.

In the end, he still has to be sensible and obedient. He will understand my painstaking efforts and then walk on the path I have paved for him.

As for that little bit of conscience, it will be swallowed up by this society sooner or later.

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"Wow, Jun, you look terrible. Did you play games all night?" When Jun Mogami quietly came to the classroom, his friend Kenji Sugishita asked exaggeratedly. "You have dark circles under your eyes."

"That's about right." Mogami Jun gave a wry smile, "I haven't been in a good state lately."

"Is it because of what happened to Senior Sagihara?" Sugishita Kenji naturally thought of something wrong, and then looked at him worriedly, "I told you, this will not do you any good at all, hurry up and give up while there is still time..."

"On the contrary, Sagina-senpai makes me very happy." Mogami Jun shook his head. "If I could spend more time with her, I would probably be more relaxed..."

"Isn't this completely possessed?" Sugishita Kenji didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and finally he could only spread his hands, "Okay, Jun, I can't control what you want to do, but it's best not to fall behind in grades. This is your lifeline that you absolutely cannot give up, right?"

"Of course I understand this." Mogami Jun nodded, "Don't worry, I will work hard this time and will never fail again!"

"I hope so." Sugishita Kenji was still a little skeptical, "But seriously, you'd better be careful. Recently, many people's grades have caught up. In high school, everyone is trying hard to get into a good university. It's not as easy to beat them as it was in junior high school."

"That being said, I still have absolute confidence that I can win." Mogami Jun answered without hesitation, "I'm telling you, I'm going to get first place in the school in this exam, just wait and see."

"what?"

Jun Mogami ignored Kenji Sugishita's exclamation and devoted himself to studying.

Although the school test results are not very important in theory, they are the source of his pride and self-esteem, and are also the concrete manifestation of his "value" in the school. More importantly, this time he has promised Teacher Yichuan that he will get the first place in the school.

Although it is not easy to get the first place in this school full of elite students, Mogami Jun believes that as long as he performs well, he will have a chance of success - after all, since entering this school, he has hardly fallen out of the top three in the grade ranking.

Recently, because he no longer bothers Takasaki Mayu, people in the class no longer target him. Although they still ignore him intentionally or unintentionally, they don't take any action to make trouble for him. In general, he has returned to his original state, becoming an unsociable and lonely top student.

However, this time, in addition to Kenji Sugishita, he had another classmate with whom he could talk.

During the lunch break, he came to a corner on the south side of the school that was hidden by walls and grass.

Not long ago, he played a trick on Takasaki Mayu here. It was quite interesting to think about it.

And the heroine of that incident was right next to him at this moment.

"This... This is the compensation for this month." Shimizu Minoru carefully took out a ten thousand yuan bill from his wallet, then bent down and held it in front of him with both hands, "Please accept it, Jun... Junni-chan."

It seemed that because he still hadn't gotten used to this name, Shimizu Minoru's face turned slightly red due to embarrassment, and his voice trembled a little.

Ah, did I bully her too much? Mogami Jun suddenly felt a little guilty.

Of course, even so, he still accepted the compensation from the other party. After all, it was what he deserved.

"Xiao Shi, you don't have to be so cautious when talking to me. Since you've already apologized to me and I've accepted your apology, there's no conflict between us. Just treat me like you normally would when chatting with classmates."

"Because... because of my fault, Junni-chan lost her important phone... it's only natural for me to apologize." Shimizu Minoru still looked nervous. "Juni-chan, don't worry about me. I'm... I'm very happy that I can make up for my mistake!"

Isn't this too stubborn? Mogami Jun was a little amused and didn't know how to enlighten her.

"Okay... Anyway, don't worry. I'm not going to do nothing after receiving your money. At least Zhenyou has promised me that she won't bully you for no reason anymore, so just enjoy your friendship with them..."

"Speaking of this, Junni-chan..." Shimizu Minoru swayed slightly uneasily, lowered his head and stared at his little leather shoes, looking shy.

"Is there anything you need my help with again?" Mogami Jun looked at the other person with some curiosity.

Xiao Shi's current behavior clearly shows that he is hiding something.

"No, I'm fine now. There's nothing to bother you with." Shimizu shook his head gently to deny it, then bit his lip, "Yes... there is one thing that makes me feel very worried. I don't know what to do."

"What happened?" Mogami Jun asked.

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"Recently... recently when I was hanging out with Zhenyou and the others, a... a friend from another class boasted to Zhenyou that she could now get the test papers for every school exam, and asked... asked Zhenyou if she wanted to improve her grades." Shimizu Minoru spoke intermittently about the shadow weighing on his heart, "She... she spoke with such certainty, as if it were really true..."

"What?!" Mogami Jun was shocked. "Really?"

"It's true, I heard it. I think this kind of thing... is very wrong, it discredits... discredits the efforts of other students. But... but if I tell the teacher, maybe... maybe Yuzu-chan will be troubled again... so, I... I don't know what to do." Shimizu Minoru was made even more nervous by Mogami Jun's attitude, and he spoke more hesitantly. "Later... I thought, I'm not smart enough to think of a solution, but... if it was Junni-chan, there should be a way, so... so... Junni-chan, tell me, what should I do?"

Having said this, she stopped talking, then raised her head and looked at Mogami Jun cautiously.