Quote Originally Posted by Ryll
Lycoris/DA being older than the Meiji restoration was a bit of a surprise though. I had been under the assumption that it was much more a recent thing, in response to a ramp up in violence.
Yeah. I didn't think it was so ancient either, but I guess they just mean that the DA are just current Japan's covet peacekeepers/counterterrorism squad. I'm not sure that they necessarily meant the practice of using school girls, or even orphans was as old a practice.