Chapter 56: The E.A.G.
Uncle Tom spent the next hour going over everything that he knew. Captain Sergei had already gone through most of this information, but he was happy to add his own personal experiences or opinions for the benefit of Kellen and the Captain. It turns out that the organisation called themselves E.A.G. Espers against Guides. It was simple, and disgusting.
What they found out was that this was a much larger group than they thought.
The E.A.G. had branches across the globe. Ever since the Guide Act was put into place about 40 years ago, there had been active protests from both sides. The Guides protested because at first, it put a huge target on their backs. It made it easier for those who wanted to harm them to find them if they registered with a government body and told them where they were hiding. But when the Act actually worked in protecting them, it gained more positive attention from Guides. It had taken about 10 years for the attitude to flip for Guides, and now most Guides were registered. Any Guide who wasn’t obviously had their own reasons, and even if Kellen didn’t like that they wouldn’t, he was not one to force others.
The Espers, however, were a different story. They didn’t like the Act because it attempted to put a stop to their horrendous behaviour. Prior to the international agreement to put the Guiding Act into action, Guides were not treated like humans. They had been treated like cattle. Creatures to be dragged around and used until they were worthless.
For female Guides...you can only imagine what it was like for them. Kellen got sick even thinking about the treatment before the Act was put into place. He knew that nowadays, Espers were still crazy, but they knew better now. No one, unless they weren’t afraid of getting caught by the government, behaved that way anymore.
But that didn’t mean there wasn’t a full fucking movement of like minded individuals out there.
Kellen wanted to assume that the E.A.G. started from a good place. He wanted to believe that they were just worried that there would come a time where Guides were actually too powerful. Where Guides had more authority than Espers. Maybe in their twisted minds there was a point down the line where Espers would have actual collars and Guides would hold the leashes of them. Kellen knew that was never going to happen, but he wanted to believe that their fears actually came from a somewhat reasonable place, instead of bigotry and a desire to possess others.
But the more that he heard about the group, the more he knew that he had too high of hopes for them.
Uncle Tom made it clear that the branch had been in operation in the area for about five years. Each branch had an Esper who ran it, and they had to be at least B Class to be in charge. The rumour on the streets was that the Head of the E.A.G. was potentially S Class. Kellen shivered at the thought that there was a chance a true psycho was running the show.