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In Shinsekai Yori (From the New World), children who show the potential to
become either Akkis (fiends/ogres) or Gouma (karma demons) are killed off and
removed from society.

Examples:

>   * Katayama Manabu - He cheats in the ball tournament and is disposed of
> near the end of episode 2.
>   * Aonuma Shun - He becomes a karma demon and dies after episode 10.
>   * Kutegawa Izumi - She becomes a karma demon and is told to commit suicide
> in Tomiko's dialogue in episode 12.
>

* * *

**But what about Amano Reiko?**

She "disappears" at the end of episode 1. But what did she do wrong?  
It was apparent that she wasn't skilled with her juryoku (psychic power or
Cantus). But is that reason enough to kill her off?

![I vaguely remember this...](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LTlQr.jpg)


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Why was Reiko "disposed of"?


I will use the manga to answer this question. There are quite a lot of
differences in the plot between the manga and the anime. However, the truth
about the history of mankind, how the human population is reduced and consists
of only Cantus users, and the checks and controls employed to prevent Cantus
(Juryoku - 呪力) users from killing each other are essentially the same.

!["Furthermore, the ones with a risk of subconscious collateral damage, those
who cannot control their psychokinesis, \[...\] were disposed of" - False
Minoshiro](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y7Pssl.png)

From the statement above, it seems that those who cannot control their Cantus
well may unconsciously cause collateral damage. Although there is no example
in the anime/manga, I guess that it is analogous to a shaky hand operating a
water tap: the water tap itself is not broken, but the poor control causes the
water (analogous to Cantus) to flow out much more or much less than necessary.

This is different from the case of Hashimoto-Appelbaum syndrome - Karma Demon
(Gouma), where a faulty running water tap would make a good analogy of: the
water just keeps running out without effective way to control the amount, like
the Cantus power of a Karma Demon is constantly leaking to his/her surrounding
subconsciously without any way of stopping. As seen in the anime, Shun can
only redirect his Cantus to orbit the balls, but the power leakage cannot be
stopped.


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