May 8th, the Golden Week holidays had ended.
After a period of respite, or rather, several consecutive days off, there were quite a few people who couldn't immediately adjust their state after Golden Week, and this was especially prominent among students.
"Haaah~!"
During the break, a long, lazy yawn came from Aki Tomoya's back right.
Kamigō Yoshihiko, who was in the back right, was slumped over his desk, his eyes filled with fatigue, as if he had been completely drained.
However, Aki Tomoya could imagine how excited this guy was before the end of Golden Week, like he was on steroids during the holiday.
This kind of thing happens often, it's very common.
Playing like crazy during the holidays, even having a blast on the last day is normal, and then when it's time to work or go to school the next day, looking wilted, everyone has more or less experienced it.
"Aki Tomoya, you're a monster, you're still so energetic!"
Kamigō Yoshihiko looked enviously at Aki Tomoya in front of him.
Compared to playing, studying is definitely more mentally taxing, just thinking about that knowledge makes Kamigō Yoshihiko's brain cells die quite a bit.
And after properly relaxing during Golden Week, he returned to school looking no different from being drained. Kamigō Yoshihiko was very curious about how Aki Tomoya managed to stay so energetic.
"You probably stayed up late every day during Golden Week."
Aki Tomoya sighed.
A otaku on holiday nights, those who understand, understand, right? They can play a game all night without getting bored.
Even if it's a holiday, there should be some moderation. Staying up until morning every day, grinding games until your liver is gone, and if you continue like this for a while and still look energetic when you return to a normal schedule, you must be a beast!
"Don't talk about me, you must have slept very late during Golden Week too, you guy, whenever you decide to do something, you just bury yourself in hard work, it's really enviable, unlike me…"
Kamigō Yoshihiko seemed to have regained some energy and started to tease.
Although his goal wasn't to go to University, he was just messing around during Golden Week and indeed stayed up late playing games every day.
But even so, it doesn't mean that those preparing for exams slept early.
"Me? I'm alright, I slept quite early during Golden Week."
Aki Tomoya replied casually.
"How early?"
"Usually, I review until one or two o'clock."
"For a normal person, that's not early anymore!"
Kamigō Yoshihiko instantly revived to full health, but looking at the aftermath, it was just a brief recovery.
After complaining, Kamigō Yoshihiko couldn't help but sigh, "I really can't figure out why you can still be so energetic…"
"What's there to say about that? Rest when you should rest, supplement nutrients when you should supplement them. I'm not forcing myself. If you think people like me are monsters, then just in Asia alone, there are probably tens of thousands of monsters more ruthless than me."
Aki Tomoya knew that he was just taking advantage of his foundation. If it were the situation during the college entrance exam back then, it wouldn't have been easy at all.
He had done all the reference questions on the market, and occasionally even took some stimulating folk remedies. When he finally ended up with neurasthenia, he couldn't help but wonder, what was all that effort for?
High school was really the peak of knowledge, and then like some people, he threw away all that knowledge after starting work.
"Is Tokyo University, that place, that good?"
Kamigō Yoshihiko muttered. He hadn't planned his own life much. Perhaps after graduating from high school, without considering the path of further education, he would probably take a job recommendation from the school, then honestly move out of his home to be a corporate slave, and then go on blind dates around the age of thirty.
Regarding Tokyo University, he only knew that in the mouths of adults, if you got in there, it would be a glorious thing for the family, and it seemed that the people there were in another world.
"Yoshihiko, have you ever visited Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Keio, or Waseda University?"
Aki Tomoya propped his chin with his hand and looked back at Kamigō Yoshihiko, his eyes seemingly filled with nostalgia because of his friend's words.
"Do I look like someone who would be interested in that kind of place?"
Kamigō Yoshihiko chuckled awkwardly.
Actually, it wasn't that he didn't have the thought. When he first entered middle school, he did have that idea, but it quickly vanished into thin air.
"Have you been?"
Kamigō Yoshihiko asked in return at this point, thinking that Aki Tomoya had already visited that kind of place at some point and was planning to hear his impressions.
However, to his disappointment, Aki Tomoya shook his head.
"I haven't been to those places."
Isn't that a matter of course? Before the second year of high school, he was still an otaku. The places he visited the most were Akihabara and doujinshi events. How could he have the leisure to visit a University?
"Eh…"
Kamigō Yoshihiko showed a disappointed expression upon hearing this answer.
He had originally thought that Aki Tomoya had secretly gone!
But thinking about it carefully, it was true. If it weren't for the sudden change in the second year of high school, who would have thought that his friend would decide on his goal at this time, and it sounded like an impossible goal.
"What's there to be disappointed about? I really haven't been to those Universities."
Aki Tomoya laughed wryly.
He had indeed never been to Tokyo University, Kyoto University, or Waseda and Keio, neither in his previous life nor this one.
However, he had the good fortune to visit Tsinghua once.
That place is like the status of Tokyo University in Japan, it's been mythologized in the minds of both adults and students.
Perhaps there are some pretentious people who scoff at that place, but for him, after visiting, he knew what it felt like to be in that kind of environment.
However, it's laughable to say that he, who was full of ambition back then, failed the exam.
Just one step away, but this step was out of reach.
The regret of being just one step away but unable to cross it is still fresh in his memory.
But it's just regret, even if he couldn't get into Tsinghua, he got into a very good University. Life isn't just about one option like Tsinghua.
"The top University, how many people's dreams it is. Even if I don't get into Tokyo University this time, Keio's Faculty of Medicine is also quite good."
Aki Tomoya teased himself in this way.
He thought this in his heart, but before he had even taken the mock exam for Tokyo University, other schools were not within his consideration at all. Although his goal had reached the highest level, he definitely had a fallback plan.
Moreover, if you really want to have a place in a society like Japan, Doctor, lawyer, and police are the best choices.
And as for the Faculty of Medicine, in Japan, the status of Tokyo University's Faculty of Medicine is really different from other Universities, it's completely two concepts.
To get as close as possible to the best choice when you can still choose, this is what Aki Tomoya is thinking at the moment.
"Yoshihiko, you should also plan your future properly."
"I'll be fine with my two-dimensional wives!"
Let's pretend Aki Tomoya didn't say that.
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