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Hikari turned to Thespian, who introduced herself as Shirona Hoshino earlier. Hikari didn't recognise the name, but it seemed like the opposite wasn't true, judging by the 'oh' she exclaimed earlier when Hikari introduced herself.

Not that it would narrow it down, a lot of people knew of her, in any case. Though considering Thespian seemed to be about her age, then maybe another student at Hane High? She supposed it would make sense that Seji, being a student of Hane High himself, would find recruits going into the same school.

Though the implication of having so many Black Crow users gathered in the same school meant that it was more common than she had thought, or there was something special about their school.

Well, that was probably a thought better addressed later after she knew for sure just how many were students of Hane High or alumni like Toma. For now, she'd best reply to Thespian.

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"The wish our target asked for was 'Freedom to do as they'd like'. The connotation meant 'absolute freedom', but there is no such thing as absolute freedom to do whatever you wish, as long as we live in a civil society. We're bound by the unspoken social contract to follow the rule of law, live and let live, respect the rights of others, and so on. Those are the sort of things that made humans congregating into communities, societies, and nations possible. An innocuous manifestation of the wish for 'Freedom to do as I like' could be something like being able to play loud music as much as you want, suppressing your neighbours' 'free will' to protest, forcing them to consent to that loud music being played. That's relatively harmless, but if  our target is of the more disreputable sort..."

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"...Well, I'm sure we all can imagine all sorts of immoral things a power that would make consent irrelevant could do. From being able to walk out of any store with unpaid goods to...worse. Hopefully, it's nowhere as bad as the worst scenario of...well...I don't need to spell it out, do I?"

[@Digmata]