div class="userstuff module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1088.62px; float: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: #2a2a2a;" role="article"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"That day, the sun had cast its harsh, glaring rays on the gleaming white buildings of Radar Town. Radar Town was an island located in the Grand Line, with a fairly unique location./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"As an island located a mere couple hundred miles away from Mariejois, Radar Town was both fortunate and unfortunate. On the bright side, they rarely had any pirates stopping by. However, that didn't mean that there wasn't any lack of criminals on Radar Town. The empty hole left by the pirates was filled with criminals - of the worst kind./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Beneath the facade of grandeur laid a disgusting amount of rot. There were no citizens of Radar, only slavers and the enslaved. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Bob glanced around at the business he'd built up from the ground and thought he was kind. Unlike the other buildings out there, the sign on his read 'Bob's Training Centre'. Customers could enter through the doors and be greeted by Marley, the young, pretty daughter of his neighbour that he'd hired as a receptionist. Bob was span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"civilised/span. He wasn't like the other businessmen out there, with their barbaric methods of culling the herd. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The Saint nodded slowly. "A new approach. I've heard of one of the dumb peasants revolting and actually daring to span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"injure/span their master before! My, that must never happen to my Maria-chan." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Bob saw his chance and took it. "Of course, Parlo-sama, that must never happen! At our training centre, we make sure that they learn through routine. We're always very strict with them, and there are punishments who don't complete their work satisfactorily, but never anything too old-fashioned so that they become rebellious. We've developed a new pedagogy over here, a methodology of sorts, you understand, for a new breed of slaves." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Internally, Bob winced. He'd never liked calling his products 'slaves'. The connotations of that word were far too brutish for his preference. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"As he brought the Saint on a tour of his building, he carefully pointed out those that he'd found suitable. Behind the one-way mirrors, all of his products were busy at work, with the newer ones learning to clean and cook up to standard. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"While passing by the office, he noticed Saint Parlo's eyes take on a gleam of interest and stopped in his tracks. Eagerly, Bob began to pull out his charm. "Here we have the office, which products that have been with us the longest are responsible for! On the right we have Yuzu-chan -"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Saint Parlo interrupted him at that. "Yuzu? The slaves here have names?" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Sensing some upcoming displeasure, Bob immediately explained himself. "Yes, Parlo-sama. We've found that allowing them to retain their names keeps them less... restless. Nonetheless, once ownership is transferred, you have no need to name them, and they can be identified by the numbers assigned to them in the Radar Slave Registry, of course! We do abide by the rules here." /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"That day, the sun had cast its harsh, glaring rays on the gleaming white buildings of Radar Town. Radar Town was an island located in the Grand Line, with a fairly unique location./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"As an island located a mere couple hundred miles away from Mariejois, Radar Town was both fortunate and unfortunate. On the bright side, they rarely had any pirates stopping by. However, that didn't mean that there wasn't any lack of criminals on Radar Town. The empty hole left by the pirates was filled with criminals - of the worst kind./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Smugglers. Child Traffickers. Slave Traders./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Beneath the facade of grandeur laid a disgusting amount of rot. There were no citizens of Radar, only slavers and the enslaved. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Bob glanced around at the business he'd built up from the ground and thought he was kind. Unlike the other buildings out there, the sign on his read 'Bob's Training Centre'. Customers could enter through the doors and be greeted by Marley, the young, pretty daughter of his neighbour that he'd hired as a receptionist. Bob was span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"civilised/span. He wasn't like the other businessmen out there, with their barbaric methods of culling the herd. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You see, Parlo-sama, over here we don't use whips or any of those old methods. Here, we've modernised our approach! We take them in young, you see, so that we can train them up to be obedient," he explained hurriedly, walking as briskly as he could whilst hunching over. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The Saint nodded slowly. "A new approach. I've heard of one of the dumb peasants revolting and actually daring to span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"injure/span their master before! My, that must never happen to my Maria-chan." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Bob saw his chance and took it. "Of course, Parlo-sama, that must never happen! At our training centre, we make sure that they learn through routine. We're always very strict with them, and there are punishments who don't complete their work satisfactorily, but never anything too old-fashioned so that they become rebellious. We've developed a new pedagogy over here, a methodology of sorts, you understand, for a new breed of slaves." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Internally, Bob winced. He'd never liked calling his products 'slaves'. The connotations of that word were far too brutish for his preference. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"As he brought the Saint on a tour of his building, he carefully pointed out those that he'd found suitable. Behind the one-way mirrors, all of his products were busy at work, with the newer ones learning to clean and cook up to standard. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"While passing by the office, he noticed Saint Parlo's eyes take on a gleam of interest and stopped in his tracks. Eagerly, Bob began to pull out his charm. "Here we have the office, which products that have been with us the longest are responsible for! On the right we have Yuzu-chan -"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Saint Parlo interrupted him at that. "Yuzu? The slaves here have names?" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Sensing some upcoming displeasure, Bob immediately explained himself. "Yes, Parlo-sama. We've found that allowing them to retain their names keeps them less... restless. Nonetheless, once ownership is transferred, you have no need to name them, and they can be identified by the numbers assigned to them in the Radar Slave Registry, of course! We do abide by the rules here." /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"His brows were furrowed, but the Saint seemed to accept his explanation. It was a fairly... alternative establishment, after all. /p
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