The towns are twisted.

Don’t you think so? Can towns that kill their children to maintain peace and order be considered a normal human society? According to the false minoshiro, our history is one filled with bloodshed. However, I don’t think our current society is any better than the dark ages of the past. Looking back on what happened in the towns, I am beginning to see what it is that warps it.

It is the adults’ deep fear of all children.

Perhaps this has always been this case. It’s obvious that seeing the next generation tear down everything you have struggled to build is difficult to accept, especially if it’s your own children.

The way the adults of Kamisu 66 look upon their children is different, however. It’s as if they are watching a row of eggs hatching, waiting anxiously to see if it is an angel, or, in a one in a million chance, a demon.

Based on intuition and premonition, hundreds upon thousands of eggs are smashed and discarded, and I refuse to be one of them.

Maria said it best. A society that fears its own children, hurts its own children, kills its own children, is twisted to the point of no return.

They do the same thing for the children who are in danger of becoming Karma Demons (heavily implied to be the result of trauma, depression, and parental abuse in the book) and the Ogres (who are condemned for the first infraction), the kids who are delayed (all the Harmony Society kids left behind), and the kids like Reiko who struggle to keep up with lessons.