"It's about the people they brainwash here," Kyousuke responded. He returned to looking through the books as he spoke, trying to make it look like this was just a casual conversation with no deeper meaning to it, even though that couldn't be farther from the truth. "I was wondering how much you know about it. Like if anyone's ever broken their on them."

That was all he needed to know: whether there was something he could actually do, or whether he needed to make one. It was bad enough that they made people attack each other, like they'd just seen with Korra, but the idea that one of his best friends no longer even understood who he was... He just couldn't deal with that.