ZeroOBK wrote...
Episode 2:
With even more random delinquents! (Seriously has the Index universe turned delinquents into a plot device?)
Here's a logical explanation about that:
Mostly taken from the To Aru wikia,
Academy City's total population is about 2.3 million with 80% of them being students and 1/8 of those students living in the city dorms. Of the entire student population, about 60% of them have the ability to demonstrate only a slight amount of psychic ability (these are level 0 Power Users).
That 60% is a big number, which means 1.104 million students are level zeros. And there's this:
20% of the of the remaining students in Academy City pursue other subjects instead of going under the Power Curriculum Program, like Tsuchimikado Maika, who studies in a maid school.
So, 20% of the remaining students are not interested in the esper programs at all.
This pretty much explains the "high delinquent encounter rate", since 80% from the whole student bodies are not strong espers. The stereotypical treatment from the scientists and espers with the fact that levels are used as a status symbol, it's not strange that a large number of them might give up and rebel, which resulted in the birth of delinquents, drop outs and the formation of "Skill Out", the armed Lvl 0s that are against Espers.
The estimated total number of the member of Skill Out is 20% of the Level 0s.