Between the Lines 1

The name of the entire group was Skill-Out.

It was a group of teenagers gathered together after they were eliminated from the esper development program that formed the basis of Academy City's school curriculum.

Truthfully, the name Skill-Out was like a mafia or a motorcycle gang; they weren't really an organization, but rather a collective term. The groups would go against each other, and they would also work with each other; it was a complicated group. But to the outside world that didn't know of the truth, they were just guys who were useless at school and who caused lots of trouble.

In truth, that was a wrong impression.

No matter where they had been born, no matter what they did, they were all moral activists who would fight society. Wanting their own place of belonging, it became a home for them.

Among all the Skill-Out gangs, the ways to decide a leader, leadership capacity, and management means differed.

In the past, one of the groups had a certain boy as its leader.

His name was Komaba Ritoku.

A boy who died back in October.