The June exams at Battle Axe School were the biggest public event in Hell's Kitchen.
In the past, Alvin had to warn every business in advance to keep the noise down...
Now, there was no need for that at all!
Three days before the exams, Hell's Kitchen became a quiet, peaceful neighborhood.
All the drunks and junkies were driven over to neighboring Brooklyn Borough for those few days.
Hell's Kitchen put away its guns and knives. Everyone looked like a respectable member of the middle class, and even swore less.
Chief Beckett came back from Northern Europe, and on the day of the exams, she organized the Hell's Kitchen police to block off the neighborhood's main roads.
Alvin stood at the school entrance, with the toughest-looking members of the school security department lined up behind him.
Last year, the Department of Education had sent people to give the school's graduating class a hard time...
According to the deadbeat student "Road Bully," if the asshole proctor hadn't been glued to his back like a fag, he might've gotten into MIT.
Of course, everyone knew the guy was full of shit. Even if you'd put the books right in front of him, there was a good chance he wouldn't have found the answers to copy...
But Alvin didn't care. His students felt they'd been treated unfairly...
As the Manhattan Axe, he would never let the same thing happen again.
Because of his mild-mannered appearance, Bourne had been left off the team "protecting" the ACT Education Organization staff.
Watching the pale-faced young Department of Education employees being escorted toward the school building by Domingo and the others, Bourne said with a smile to Frank, "Isn't this a bit much?
One of those guys looked like he'd pissed himself just now.
I don't think