[ Furrowing his brow, Bakura steeples his fingers and leans his lips into his thumbs. ]

Yes... it was the kind of place where violence was simply a fact of life. Even children as young as eleven were known to jump any high school students that were either unlucky enough to rub them the wrong way, or simply had something that they coveted.

Sometimes I feel like my friend's magic was doing more to stop these crimes than any of the local authorities did, and even that was only able to address the violence within my friend's immediate line of sight.