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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