Chapter 152 Graduation 6 (2/2)
With the end of her speech, thunderous applause sounded throughout the entire auditorium and even the students at the backstage couldn't help but also give a round of applause.
It took about 2 minutes before the audience calmed down.
Leda Portia waited for the silence to continue, ”With this I end the graduation ceremony opening. Next up, the representative of the class will come up to give her speech. Please, give a round of applause for the 3627th class's first rank, Liese Böhm!”
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Leda calmly walked away from the center of the stage and stopped right at the corner, fairly away from the center, giving space to the representative.
Soon enough Liese emerged from behind the stage.
The lights shone on her figure, showing her beautiful face as she steadily walked towards the table at which Leda was.
At the moment, her aura completely underwent a change. She wasn't the same innocent and cute small girl that everyone knew. She had an aura of a leader, of someone that was born to be above people.
Leda's eyes sparkled with admiration when she saw the young girl that appeared in the stage.
Even the audience was in awe at her presence.
”Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen in the audience and across the universe.” Liese started with a calm and mature voice, ”My name is Liese Böhm, the 3627th class's representative. It's a pleasure to be at the presence of all of you at this important day for us, students and soon to be Protectors.”
”I would like to begin this speech by talking about the importance of Protectors. We are not young anymore. We are not as naive as we were were when we entered in the university. After hardships, tribulations and training, we become what we are today. The path we chose for ourselves is a hard one, we are going to put our lives on the line to protect our ideals, the Protectorate's ideals.”
”Fairness, justice and protection. We shall give these to those that greatly need, and wipe the evil and corruption from this universe.” Liese stop there and intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the Elders and Senior Protectors at the audience. It was only a fleeting glance and Liese quickly continued, ”Our path until today was tread with our friends, our comrades to support and share our burdens throughout the way.”
”Although we had competed against each other in grades and everything, we shall not be blinded by those superficial numbers that represent something temporary, and leave all this on the past, since from today forth we'll be all comrades in the battlefield, in the spaceship, in the station, everywhere.”
”This is all but the beginning of our journey. Until today we all have only trained, did simulations and went in some basic training on other planets. But the moment you choose which divison you enter, you will be facing life-threatening situations. We are only getting started, we wouldn't die, not before leaving our mark on history. The future belong to us, the young, and we are going to shape it as we see fit...” Liese continued her speech by talking about a few events that happened throughout their years and after a few minutes, she ended her speech, ”...We might never see each other again, after today, but the moments we spent together will always be dear to me. It has been a honor to study with all of you. May we meet again. May the Terrene Protectorate never fall!”
At the end of her speech, Liese gave a strong salute as her eyes glowed with unwavering determination.