thefoundation | [CONTINUE + 2] Week 1 || Act: mingle

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round 6

[CONTINUE + 2] Week 1 || Act: mingle

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your third 'time' trying this monday.

There doesn't seem to be many Monsters here...or at least, you think there was more before? Huh.

Well, whatever.

You still have a mission - And with two trials under your belt, you're now a little closer to figuring things out.

...How much longer will this repeat?

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[He shrugs, and then he drinks.]

There wasn't time to go to an actual school in the mafia, but anyone who wasn't done with school yet still had to learn to be a functioning adult. So they made us do individual lessons on our own.

Maybe they should do something like that here...

They don't?

[He's too old for school but he assumed the kids would be getting an education within the Foundation. Then again, 6350s weren't considered people until recently, so.]

I never heard about anything like that.

Huh.

[He's shouting across the room to Solomon:]

HEY! MAKE THE KIDS GO TO SCHOOL!

[ to himself and those near him. ] That's the loudest I've heard Nakajima.

[ and, shouting back: ]

THAT WOULD BE A POTENTIAL BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY!

[He's yelling back to him:]

THEY NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL IF THEY'RE KIDS! OR AT LEAST DO ONLINE LEARNING! KNOWLEDGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT!

HOMESCHOOLING IS LEGAL! I CAN START DEVELOPING A PROGRAM!

I DON'T NEED TO BE HOMESCHOOLED! IT'S FINE!

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LEARN THINGS! BUT THERE'S ENOUGH KIDS AROUND, YOU CAN JUST MAKE A SCHOOL AT ONE OF THE SITES!

DREW CAN JUST WATCH DOCUMENTARIES FOR ME!

ISN'T THAT CHEATING?

IT'S NOT CHEATING! HE'S IN MY BRAIN! HE REMEMBERS PEOPLES NAMES AND MY COMPUTER PASSWORDS FOR ME!

EVEN IF HE'S WATCHING FOR YOU, HE STILL NEEDS TO GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN FOR BOTH OF YOU!

BUT I DON'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL!

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And there's a lot of terrible information masquerading as documentaries.

Yeah, he gets me to look everything up afterwards if he wants to learn more or thinks something was bullshit.

He's learned to be sociable. That is actually what schooling is also good for, honestly.

[see also: none of us assholes went to public school and look how we turned out]

I never went to school, so I can't really say.

[ there were no high schools in ancient israel! and much less for kings that were 15 years old! ]

Observation is key. Notice Ren-kun went to high school--though he also dropped out.

Well that's not good. He should at least try getting his GED or something similar.

[ he pauses. ]

Maybe I can help him out after this.

Maybe don't say maybe. The Foundation was the one who interrupted his education, after all.

[taking sips from his drink]

Well, I can't send them to school. Do you know how many documents would have to be forged? The most I can do is set up some program for schooling, but who knows what the rest will say.

Do you know how many shady nerds who love paperwork you have on your staff now?

[he says this with amusement and affection because one of the nerds is Ango]

Still does not take away the fact that we would be sending children that are, in essence, not human. If something happens and others learn of their nature, we would have to cover it up. In other words, it's too risky.