Chapter 117 Graduation and Cold-blooded Her [For Mengmeng
Yumiko Iwase, the eldest member of Nogizaka46, announced that she has officially graduated from the Nogizaka team. Oda can understand her choice, after all, the Nogizaka group has just started after a year, and Iwase
She is already 22 years old, but she is still unable to make her mark in the Under team. Naturally, she will be forced to graduate and turn to her own career. The idol life in Nogizaka this year can also give her a layer of gold, making her
Her subsequent development was smoother.
The normal exchanges between Oda and Iwase can be said to be very few. At most, they are only familiar with each other at meet-and-greet meetings, so Oda has no real feelings about her graduation. At the farewell ceremony, Takayama and Sakurai both cried.
It was a complete mess, but Oda could never feel sad. In the end, he just praised Iwase for her excellence in music and gave her good wishes for her future life - perhaps this sentence was decorated with Oda's rhetoric.
It seemed very powerful, but Oda knew that there was actually no emotion in his words.
After all, although it sounds a bit cold-blooded to say this, in Oda's view, they are just colleagues who work in the same place and have not much contact with each other.
However, during the whole day of recording Iwase's graduation ceremony, the atmosphere in the entire team was quite depressing. Before this, the members had never thought about anything related to graduation. In the eyes of this group of dream-chasing girls, everything
The members are all teammates who have progressed together, but someone suddenly parted ways with everyone.
So, will more members choose to graduate in the future? The answer to this question is definitely YES, but the members are not willing to think more about this issue.
Although everyone is still friends, although everyone can still contact each other and go out for fun, it is undeniable that Iwase and they are in different worlds from now on.
On the way home, Nishino kept her head down and remained silent. For her, graduation still seemed so far away, yet so close. Since her confession was rejected, she began to work hard to get rid of her feelings for Oda.
A sense of dependence. Although many times I can't help but think of her when something happens, but what also appears in my mind is what Oda said to me at that time, "I am not your world, Na-chan, you are not."
You should have your own life."
She once read a comic called "Legend of Sword and Wind", in which Griffith, one of the protagonists, once said this: "Friends to me will never be attached to other people's dreams. Valuable people
, never rely on others to exist...For me, the so-called friends must be equals."
Well, I have always regarded Koichi as my goal. I am satisfied with becoming the Seven Gods of Good Luck with her, achieving the same position as her and being able to stand by her side. Do I deserve to like Oda? This question is like
The small and sharp thorns pierced her heart fiercely.
"Do I really like Oda?" Nishino originally planned to ask himself about it after he completely got rid of his dependence on Oda. But the unfolding of today's "graduation ceremony" made this question resurface.
in her mind.
In fact, Nishino has always been a little unclear about why Oda wanted to become an idol. Ikoma did it to change himself, Takayama did it for the dream of Yamaguchi Momoe in his heart, and he did it to make friends... As for Oda, Nishino actually did it before
I asked Oda this question, but Oda brushed it off vaguely and did not elaborate. However, from Oda’s calm attitude when the selection results of these singles were announced, Nishino could also feel that Oda was not
They don’t particularly care about the level of their selection results. In other words, for the word idol, most members regard it as a dream, but Oda only regards it as a career.
"Xiaoichi, Sister Iwase graduated today..." Nishino, who thought for a long time, finally just sighed in a low voice.
"Yes, I won't see her in the training room starting tomorrow." Oda nodded, "After all, she is the first member to graduate from Nogizaka, so everyone should be quite sad."
"But...why do I feel that you are not very sad, Xiaoichi?" Nishino struggled for a while, but still asked this question.
This question was a bit unexpected for Oda. She rubbed her head and thought for a while: "Maybe it's because Iwase and I are not very familiar with each other, and her graduation is also a good thing for her."
After hearing Oda's words, Nishino raised his head in surprise.
"After all, Iwase is already 22 years old. Although it doesn't sound good to say this, she is no longer suitable to be an idol in this group." Oda continued, "After graduation, I should be able to get better offers through Nogizaka's connections.
Work, I remember Iwase plays the guitar very well, maybe she can join a band or make a solo debut."
Hearing Oda's words, Nishino lowered his head again. Although Oda is 3 years younger than him, she is much more mature mentally than him. At the same time, Oda's calm attitude towards graduation also made Nishino a little panicked: "
If it were a small city, I would definitely say these five words, 'I'm going to graduate' to everyone on a normal working day with a very normal attitude."
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Oda has actually thought about the word "graduation" before. In her understanding, graduation has two meanings: one is to retire after success and choose to challenge a higher peak; the other is because of the process of climbing.
It was too difficult and I chose to give up. Obviously, Iwase fell into the latter category, but if it were Oda himself, he would only choose the first one.
In fact, Oda doesn't really care about the position she was selected for. What she cares about is whether her abilities and efforts have been sufficiently recognized.
Oda had been defeated in both the second and third singles before, but Oda felt uncomfortable only when he was defeated in the second single. Because he was told the reason for losing the third single in advance, and his ability was fully respected.
Since you have to do your best when doing something, this is a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder of Miss Oda, a Virgo. To be an idol, you must do your best; to climb the slope, you must try your best to climb to the top; to stick to one thing
You have to do your best in everything you do.
Oda has always maintained his own attitude towards these issues.
On this day, Oda, who had just run barefoot around the altar 108 times on a rainy day, was already a little exhausted. When he saw the natural waterfall in front of him, he doubted his own heart for the first time.