Bestowal Education System

## Detailed Summary

The Bestowal Educational System (or the Bestowal Educational Program) is a private institute run by the Safeguarding Office, having started in 1976. It is also backed up with the Reconnaissance Department, granting its right to stay hidden from the eyes of the government or other worldwide groups such as the ICPO. Its main purpose was to create an army of elite warriors to combat many tribes or cults that proved to be a danger to the government. The start of the project involved gathering children of European descent who had no homes and placing them into a private facility hidden away from the public. This was done with the help of the Reconnaissance Department. Once a child would step foot into the facility, they shall be granted a codename (usually with numbers in them) and be forced to say it whenever they were to introduce themselves to another person.

Children would also be totally isolated once they entered the facility, with most children begging the staff to let them see the sun again. This would lead the children inside the facility to eventually forget their names after several experiments of mentally breaking them down. The reason for this was because most cults were focused on pure intellect and manipulation, meaning the perfect counter would be to mold the child into being absolutely loyal to their cause, leaving them free from hypnosis. The training that the children received at the Bestowal Educational System was intense and grueling. They were subjected to a wide range of physical and mental exercises designed to push them to their limits and prepare them for sudden-death situations.

The curriculum at the facility was highly specialized, with a focus on combat tactics, espionage, and intelligence gathering. The children were taught to be proficient in a variety of skills, including hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and cryptography. This would lead to many children mentally breaking down. However, the main part of the Bestowal Educational System was its so-called "arguments." First, the children were taught the language of manipulating someone, such as isolating them or using their guilt against them. In these "arguments" two or more children would be placed together in a white room, where they are to debate the existence of one another and if they should even continue living life. Most children would grow violent after these classes and eventually have sudden outbursts that mostly revolved around jealousy.

Due to this, some children would die not only because of their mentality being taken away from them, but also because of other children (even their friends) attacking them. To keep the experiment going, the staff quickly set up new ground rules and perimeters around the facility, isolating the children even more by giving them their own rooms with only a bed. Food would be given to them through a small small door below the door handle, enough for a food tray to fit in. To have the children regain their strength, the staff gave them healthy food that although were still edible, didn't taste any good. After the project was proven a success, the Safeguarding Office expanded its range throughout the world in secret, building more facilities in rural forests.

Once that was done, more and more children would be gathered and placed inside these institutions and be experimented on no matter their language preference. Of course, children from different countries would be placed inside their own facilities. For example, Japanese children would be in a facility with more Japanese children, same goes for American children. After the required steps were completed, the children inside the facilities would face the same torture every as usual. The reason the staff was able to get away with this was because of cover-ups and their choices. You see, the Safeguarding Office chose children without a past, without a family or any relatives. These children were never noticed. By the time they were kidnapped, they would already be gone. These experiments would continue until 2001, nearly 34 years after the experiment had proven a success.

This wasn't because of the public finding out or the government overthrowing the project, it was because of the students and the staff. Once the facilities were running out of room for children to stay in, the Safeguarding Office decided to cut some corners and ship some students from one facility to the other in secret so the public wouldn't find out. This was surprisingly simple as most of the children had given up all hope. But once the children from other facilities arrived at another, a plan would soon start. A plan that gave children the thing they needed the most: hope.

The experiment had gone on for long enough, and soon, the children decided to put an end to it all. Of course, there were some problems with this. Most of the children were divided and had enemies. Hence, they created small groups with one another, using the methods the staff had taught them to eventually kill them. The staff also dealt blows to the children as well. This would commonly be by killing them physically or by manipulating them.

This caused many betrayals throughout both sides, so as the conflict between the students and staff escalated, the violence spilled over to unfold nothing but brutality. Staff members killed other staff members, students killed other students, and the once-great program descended into chaos and bloodshed. More staff members from other facilities were ordered to get the situation under control, but still experienced major damage. Most of them were even caught up in the fight. The few children that were detained were sent to another facility, where they would be taught to behave. This was done by harsh punishments and abuse. But this could only last so long however, as the children would manipulate their punishers into killing others.

Several Safeguarding Office units were deployed to handle the situation with weapons. But this made it even worse, the troops were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of children and staff that had learned battle tactics from their experience. This would lead to even more chaos as some children used firearms to fight back against the staff and other groups as well. This would lead to even more units being deployed and eventually killed. After a while, the Safeguarding Office quit the project, leaving the children, staff, and their units to fight to the death. Once the war was over, there were barely any children left with the only survivors being Ryū Harvie, Mike Westley, and Dr. Oliver Liam.