"Why are you all here?"
Hikigaya Hachiman always felt that Academy City's "Brothers' Association" was ridiculous. He didn't know if all their parents had been traumatized in some way, but every family seemed to have a difficult younger sister.
Fortunately, though, Komachi was great! She didn't have any of the weird problems the other sisters had.
Kuro looked around at the others, confused. "Weren't you the one who asked us to come? You said you wanted to set up a Honkai energy boundary around the Far East to make it independent from the rest of the world."
"What? Is that what I said? My goal was just to clean out these upper-echelon people in the Far East who are just occupying positions. To see if they've done anything to betray the country, and then deal with the chaotic voices within."
Hikigaya Hachiman felt that Academy City was overreacting a bit. He couldn't believe they had actually listened to his proposal and sent people over.
Horikita Manabu frowned. "Dr. Tesla arranged it. An orbital drop has already been scheduled. Academy City originally thought you needed the help of Honkai energy. So they just had an AI design the boundary and set it up for you."
Hikigaya Hachiman was stunned. He had never expected his power to reach this level.
I just wanted to teach those bastards a good lesson.
Since Academy City had backed him so quickly, as the "number one" in the Far East, he had nothing left to hesitate about.
"The current situation is that the Prime Minister of the Far East has already resigned and has no intention of competing with me for now. I called you guys over to deal with these people. We urgently need a powerful, swift, and precise armed force to handle those bastards."
Hikigaya Hachiman knew his own capabilities, of course. He could only count on this group of madmen from Academy City.
"Leave the troublesome stuff to me. I've successfully touched the power of the Stigma and have the latest armor from Academy City. These people won't escape our sight."
Horikita Manabu had already fully entered the stage of creating his own Stigma. He had reached the point where he could use the Stigma Space to shape the Stigma Will he needed.
Hikigaya Hachiman watched as Horikita Manabu held up a Stigma symbol formed from condensed Honkai energy in his palm. He couldn't understand what combination of elements formed this symbol. Even Academy City didn't know the meaning of these symbols; the symbols created by each person with their own Stigma were different.
There might be some similarities in parts of the symbols for some people. For example, some might have polygons, circles, triangles, crescents, swords... all sorts of abstract geometric shapes from reality would be similar.
"Brother Horikita, what you're saying is a bit scary. How are you guys planning to deal with these people?"
"With this..." Azusagawa Sakuta took out a very beautiful crystal sphere from his person. The crystal was clearly made of Honkai energy.
"Inside is the latest AI tracking system. You just need to gather those people after a meeting, and this AI system can use magnetic levitation to control the Honkai energy crystals and get them close to these people. Then, at a critical moment, it will fly up close to them and explode, using Honkai energy to instantly kill them."
"Don't worry, we control it through quantum communication and lock onto the targets with a quantum computer. There's no chance of missing. It's much more efficient than killing them one by one."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's scalp tingled as he listened. Who would have thought that Academy City's technology could have advanced to this degree?
An enlarged version of the Lagann-hen system that could kill people, was that it?
"No, I just need to deal with these people according to the law," Hikigaya Hachiman said. After he finished speaking, the members of the "Brothers' Association" suddenly fell silent.
Uesugi Futaro looked at Hikigaya Hachiman in shock. "I never thought you were so cruel. We just want to kill them, but you want them to rot in prison for the rest of their lives."
I'm cruel?!
Hikigaya Hachiman looked at his brothers in shock. He couldn't believe that after not seeing each other for such a short time, these people now thought that killing was the less cruel option.
"Wait, is there a way to solve this without killing them?"
Horikita Manabu nodded. "There is. And that is to punish these people according to the laws of Academy City. We will first strip them of their power. Whatever they did to the common people in the past, whatever rights they deprived the common people of, we will deprive them of their rights in equal measure. Then we will inform the common people of this, and from then on, whatever the common people do to them will not be punished."
"After that, we in Academy City will humanely carry out corresponding modifications on these people to ensure that they don't commit suicide to escape their punishment after losing these rights."
"After the punishment period is over, we will send them to the Second Academy City in the Middle East for corresponding trauma repair based on their mental state."
"After the repair is complete, they will have paid off their debts. Then they will return to the normal social order, and we will carry out corresponding secondary education according to Academy City's juvenile law."
Hikigaya Hachiman quickly stopped Horikita Manabu. His head was a bit of a mess right now. He had never expected Academy City to have become so radical on the path of rule of law after he left. He couldn't understand it at all.
Hachiman asked in amazement, "How can there be a juvenile law? What is juvenile law?"
Horikita Manabu continued to explain, "The so-called juvenile law is a law constructed based on a person's level of understanding of Academy City's society. Only after passing the corresponding legal assessment can it be determined that this person is an adult with the ability to understand the social order."
Great, so I've become a new adult too, huh?
Hikigaya Hachiman clicked his tongue in amazement. He had never expected that "juvenile" would no longer be a protected, vulnerable group, but would be classified as "a group that may or may not understand the social order." Those who couldn't understand were not suitable to receive the social security of Academy City.
He was afraid that in the future, everyone would be scrambling to "become an adult."
"Academy City's genetic technology is developing too quickly. The stereotype that 'infants' are weak has basically disappeared. After birth, people can immediately receive education, and at the same time, with the new external living womb organs, people can be born with the physical abilities of an eighteen-year-old from the primitive era. Academy City will maximize a person's individual activity and perception abilities. This is the basic satisfaction of individual needs under the system of geneticism."
Horikita Manabu's explanation startled Hikigaya Hachiman a little.
Hachiman shook his head and sighed. "In that case, killing them is indeed for their own good. The thought of them having to endure Academy City's harsh and terrible punishments in the future, and even being able to atone for their sins and start their lives over, is just too terrifying!"
Hikigaya Hachiman looked at his brothers and asked, "You guys... you've been conscripted before, right? To save these senior officials of the Far East from the humiliation of being conscripted, we have no choice but to give them the dignity of a samurai!"
Horikita Manabu wanted to explain that he actually hadn't, but it was better to be on the same page at a time like this.
That's right. Now, everyone here had been conscripted.