[Pointing at the basket.] Seems pretty organized here, for having no government.
Not common the world over, but where I'm from it is. The bulk of Academy City's population are students who are having their ESP skills developed and honed.
It's not magic, though. There is a magic side to the world, but I don't know much about that except that I had some friends who I was helping that turned out to be magicians. [A little lie, but told easily since everything was just what he had been told, and sounded about as certain as everything else he was saying.]