The White Room Project was originally drafted under the name [Talent Development Plan]. Its goal was to create an educational institution directly under the government that would provide education from early childhood through adulthood. Both its name and its purpose made it clear that Naoe Jinnosuke had established the project to counter the rapidly rising Onijima Faction and the Advanced Nurturing High School under its umbrella.
It was later named the White Room because the facility's interior was entirely white.
Because of the unusual nature of its educational model, its initial students were provisionally designated as "abandoned children." Under the guise of government initiatives and charity, they obtained children from orphanages and took children from families unable to afford raising them. These ordinary children, without parents or any special background, became the White Room's first students.
To achieve better educational results, the White Room did not recruit conventional teachers for its teaching staff. Everyone who joined the team was a highly accomplished graduate who had been dismissed from a legitimate hospital or school for various reasons and had certain psychological or moral issues. Precisely because of this, they could minimize the interference of psychological factors such as pity and sympathy in their education and experiments when implementing the teaching plan.
It was worth noting that Naoe Jinnosuke himself had not raised funds for the White Room Project in its early stages, providing only some connections and policy support. Ayanokoji Atsuomi had talked various conglomerates into supplying all the money needed to build the facility and purchase equipment.
For that very reason, he had to regularly show those conglomerates the results of the White Room's education, and those results were the children themselves.
When the conglomerates saw these children, abandoned from birth and possessing no particularly impressive innate qualities, demonstrate learning