It isn't dissimilar. [ Eichi looks at his own tea for a long moment, and then looks back at the other Eichi. They're both working with incomplete information, nothing but preconceived notions to crowd out everything else from their mind, make everything that much more of a struggle. It's hard for Eichi to understand, but he thinks he can get the feeling of it, if not the specifics. It isn't hard to read the atmosphere.

If he could, he would have preferred the other Eichi to never see Yumenosaki. It must be like raining on his parade. ]

The "students" there are carefully monitored and tracked, with very little freedom allowed to them. [ There are reasons that Eichi isn't there, reasons that Eichi never considered sending any of his pets there. Even someone as rule-abiding as Keito wouldn't come out the same, and all the changes that Eichi could have forseen are exactly what he doesn't want to happen. ]

This is the sort of thing that our society is built on. It might be rotten to the core, but it's still ours, until we manage to overthrow it.

[ Ah, maybe he shouldn't speak such treasonous thoughts outloud in public. ]