Academy City. Also called Academy City of Science and Technology. Built from science, for science. It was a masterpiece within the land of Japan, a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the Tokyo Metropolitan Employment Area. As the city's name suggests, it is a city of several schools and institutions of higher learning from kindergarten to university level that learn side-by-side along with the scientists who research on psychic powers and higher technology, the latter being one of the primary reasons for its establishment. It is the most advanced city in the world and its technology is said to be 30 years ahead of the world. Academy City is composed of 23 districts, called School Districts which are simply numbered from one to twenty-three and each of these districts have a specific purpose.<br/><br/>Located just west of Tokyo, it is located in a region where there is a constant wind that flows within the city, allowing its wind turbines to generate power. Climate in Academy City is the same in Tokyo and other surrounding areas, though through its technological advances they are able to predict the weather much more accurately and can actually give schedules on when the weather might change. Academy City is roughly 1/3 the size of Tokyo.<br/><br/>As stated, Academy City is composed of 23 districts, which are simply called School Districts and are numbered from one to twenty-three. Each of these districts has a specific purpose; all 23 School Districts of Academy City, including their functions and purposes:<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><ul>District 1: Where most of the city's administration is located.<br/>District 2: Training areas for Judgment and Anti-Skill, military-related facilities.<br/>District 3: Accommodations for authorized outsiders (which also includes hotels, private pools, etc.)<br/>District 4: Food-related facilities, including experimental crop-growing.<br/>District 5: Mostly filled with universities and junior colleges.<br/>District 6: Recreational facilities, which also includes an amusement park.<br/>District 7: Middle and high schools, school dormitories, boarding houses, hospitals, the "Windowless Building" where Aleister Crowley is located.<br/>District 8: Mainly for the various teaching staff of the city.<br/>District 9: Industrial arts and fine arts schools.<br/>District 10: Reformatories, nuclear energy research facilities, the city's only cemetery.<br/>District 11: Goods transfer.<br/>District 12: Theology system schools.<br/>District 13: Kindergartens and primary schools.<br/>District 14: Accommodations and various other facilities for overseas students.<br/>District 15: A large district consisting of the city's major shopping district and mass communications facilities.<br/>District 16: This District focuses on commerce.<br/>District 17: Railway cargo storage and organization. Location of a special prison for high-profile criminals.<br/>District 18: Kirigaoka Girls' Academy and Nagatenjouki Academy.<br/>District 19: The function of this section is uncertain and has been in a decline recently.<br/>District 20. Schools focused on raising athletic students along with their esper abilities.<br/>District 21: Dams for water storage; observatory in the mountains.<br/>District 22: The smallest district in terms of surface area; this district is mainly for developing technology for an underground town in the face of land shortages in major cities.<br/>District 23: Airline companies and aeronautics and space development.</ul></span><br/><br/>Indeed, an amazing city, consisting of nearly 2.3 million people, students mainly derive of these numbers, the percentage being a rough 80%. However, not everyone in Academy City were students, and one such case happened to be Glyph Renkei. He was an anomaly in the city of science, and very few knew of his existence. But that was okay, he preferred it that way actually. It made it a whole lot easier to do his job, that was for sure. At the moment he was supposed to be meeting with a group of people in a coffee shop located within school district 7, a lot more discreet and less obvious place to meet someone.<br/><br/>In a far corner of the coffee shop, a laptop was set up, with a note sitting on top of it. It read:<span style="color: #00FFFF"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="text-decoration: underline">'To: Yu-chan. I'll be here. Open computer and we'll talk. -Glitch'</span></span></span>He'd left instructions with one of the servers that if a group of visitors of the city was to come in, she was to show them the laptop. He was indeed waiting, but not where anyone would suspect. Glancing at the time, he saw that it was almost time for them to meet, there was about ten more minutes to the agreed upon time of arrival. He had told the person whom he was talking with, to meet him at 3:15 pm sharp. If they were late he wasn't going to hang around, just doing as much as he had was risking getting into trouble, but he wasn't too worried about that fact.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, not too far from the cafe, sitting alone on a bench with a sketchpad in his hand, was a young man named Tristram. He was an odd one, always preferring to be alone rather than with others, but by no means was he shut off or distant. He was kind to all, and if someone happened to ask him something he would try his best to help them out with whatever they needed. On the page that was open, his pencil gliding across the page, one could see that he was drawing the city around him. It was actually the cafe across the street from where he was sitting, an old building and rather rustic compared to the new fancy buildings that were the norm in Academy city. Tristram thought it was a beautiful building, thus was the reason he was taking the time to draw it.<br/><br/>His appearance was that of a thin teenager, a few bandages could be seen on his hands and one covered his cheek. He wore a hooded sweater and worn out dark jeans, along with sneakers that were black and white. Wrapped in the loops of his pants, concealed slightly but not hidden completely, was what looked to be a long metal chain, wrapped about three or four times, the end hanging out to the side. After a while, he hears some voices coming closer down the sidewalk and looks toward them, a casual and slightly blank expression on his. A group of three, two men and one woman, the men carrying large bags. He was certain these folk were visitors of the city, they didn't look to fit in that well here. Tristram wondered what they were up to, but says nothing, instead turns back to his drawing.<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/to-aru-majutsu-no-index/images/f/fd/Academy_city_map.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20101019073814"><span style="font-size: 85%; line-height: 116%;">Map of Academy City</span></a>