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Got caught stealing. I was also mouthing off at the cops so I was charged for resisting arrest too

And they thought juvenile hall was the best place for a kid that young? The American law system doesn't have anywhere better?

There’s a lot of things wrong with the system. How kids are handled is only part of the problem

Also, there’s a lot of corruption in Gotham

Fuck.

I guess I can't say it's that surprising. Shit's fucked back home, too.

How bad?

[Besides experimenting on kids and making them child soldiers…]

Because it's a closed city a lot of parents like to take advantage of that system to dump their kids. The kid gets assigned to a school, and their parents just disappear. Guardianship is supposed to be taken over by the city and their school, but it's common for certain research institutions attached to the schools to grab those kids and use them for prohibited experiments. Usually they end up dead, or worse.

No one's going to miss them, so who gives a shit? The city definitely doesn't.

It’s a whole city doing this? How do they get away with that shit?

Academy City is a fucking sovereign city-state. Even though it's located in Japan it isn't really beholden to the Japanese government.

Their marketing for the Power Curriculum Program, the thing that produces espers, is really strong. Most families will line up to register their kid, since they think the worst that'll happen is that their kid might not end up strong enough to manifest any kind of ability and still get an education at a city that's thirty years ahead of the rest of the world.

But I know there's been a lot of growing unrest in the rest of the world recently. It's mostly been from a growing contingent of parents who don't think the city's safe, and religious organizations.

So it’s the same old story

Rich psychopaths who are above government control

How’s that resistance going?

Fuck off. I'm not trying to change things from the inside. I've attacked some of the board members before for my own reasons, but I still technically work for those psychopaths.

I'm not the good guy in this situation.

Hah. Relax, I’m not judging

Even if I wanted to, I can’t. Crime lords don’t usually generate a lot of public good will

Right, yeah.

[Being sensitive over the slightest possibility that he's being perceived as a good person is normal, right.]

You must have a hell of a time with that.

Eh. I knew what I was signing up for when I decided to become one

And you still willingly signed up for it? Why?

It was the best option for what I wanted to do

What did you want to do?

Control crime

Crime’s gonna happen no matter what. It always has and it always will

So instead of fighting a losing battle in trying to stop it, better to control it