[Accelerator doesn't visibly react to Harold's shock. It's a lot of kids, sure, but it's also perfectly normalized to send off your kids to Academy City. No one thinks of it as a death sentence, except maybe some of the people pawning off the Child Errors, who didn't want those kids to begin with.]

All the families who registered with their kids would disagree with you.

[Academy City's marketing department is very, very powerful.]

It means that any idiotic kid who wants clout, or to take over my spot as the top honour student, or any foreign organization or nation wants to destabilize the city or its esper program has to deal with me.

[Which is to say, he's spent about a third of his life having people either try to fight him or try to kill him.]