White Room

The White Room (ホワイトルーム) is an educational institution where the early upbringing of Kiyotaka Ayanokōji took place. It was headed by Kiyotaka's father and was the main cause of the talents that he had developed which would help him in his later years. It was a secret facility that had not been disclose to the public.

History
The White Room was established 20 years ago, founded and headed by Kiyotaka's father, Professor Ayanokōji. It is an educational institution to raise a human and removing unnecessary things from their education. However, the institution was temporarily shut down for one year. This gave Kiyotaka a chance to escape to the Advanced Nurturing High School. The White Room started from the first year of the first generation's life, with new generations being formed annually. Each generation is educated under different leaders, and receives the corresponding education. Then, it is verified which group had the most effective education. Hundreds of children have been trained under the White Room's education system. Children of different generations wouldn't have been able to see each other. Although they were in the same facility, they did not know the appearance and names of anyone else but themselves.

All children in the White Room can grow to a certain level. However, trying to exceed that level has never been possible to begin with. According to Tsukishiro, the evidence can be found in that facility, which has been operating for nearly 20 years, and how not a single child has been able to reach the target except for Kiyotaka Ayanokōji but that was only 2 years ago during the first-year story. It's impossible for any White Roomer including Kiyotaka to know where they go after leaving the facility went. So far, most of the children raised in the White Room have their own problems, and so they cannot be put to good use like contributing to society outside that facility. While raise in the White Room, they are unable to live a normal life or grow up properly compared to every student who are not from that facility would. Tsukishiro remarks that they will not able to last in the real world environment, where their hearts have already long since been damaged by the White Room.

It was the goal of the White Room to have children be nurtured and raised with a complete education straight from birth. He stated that if this can be achieved successfully, Japan itself would experience growth the likes of which the world has never seen before. Under the influence of various mysterious factors taken into consideration and used under the White Room, people's growth varies greatly. It is impossible to cultivate success by using the same method over and over again on everyone, hence why there are different generations of White Roomers. The White Room was able to produce tangible results for people outside Kiyotaka's generation. In this case, it was said that the 5th and 6th generation of White Roomers are among those who happened to survived until the very end of their education, when there are some like them with the potential of producing great results. All that is left is to perfect the education system, and after doing so, the White Room may be considered an indispensable asset in the near future.

On the other hand, the White Room appeared in anime flashbacks when Kiyotaka, as a young child, and other children were lined up before one of them suddenly collapses as the other children are worried but he simply looks on unfazed. At some point in the past, a man who was later revealed to be his father appeared, told him that those who waste their talents are fools, which is probably the reason as to why he prefers to keep his talents hidden from others as to discard that man's ideals. Sometime after that, due to being suffered from the arduous training, a majority of the children dropped out leaving Kiyotaka as the only known remaining survivor, that led him to regard all humans as mere tools. Ichika Amasawa notes how the classrooms, the corridors, our assigned living chambers, everything was a world of pure whiteness.

According to Kiyotaka, during a meeting between him and his father, he had said that the White Room was perhaps the most efficient place in the whole world to raise a human. However, not everything could be taught there as it was an institution that threw away anything unnecessary to the extremes. In Volume 11.5 of the light novel, in a discussion between Kiyotaka and Tsukishiro, it has been stated that the White Room has had 19 generations of students in total, with each generation forming annually. Kiyotaka is from the "Demonic 4th Generation", which had the hardest and most cruel course of all generations. Kiyotaka has also confidently stated that, when it comes to the White Room, he is the best student to ever come out of it. As a result of his success, the faculty has been using Kiyotaka as the benchmark for future generations' students, including telling them to "exceed him" as their goal.

Furthermore, the White Room is a special kind of facility whose ultimate goal is to raise all people unto equivalent superiority. It is a place where they seek to prove that the limits of humanity are decided not by one's own genetics, but by their environment in which one is raised in. In other words, they want all people to harbor and develop outstanding talent, not just those blessed with excellent genes like Ichika. Children who are at the age of 10 years old were taught Systems’ Theory based on Project 5. And by the age of 11, it was said that they also end up learning about the Theory of Relativity based on Project 7. Kiyotaka's father firmly believes that his son is an existence that can become a perfect model, and lead the masses. Kiyotaka was the result of his father's absolute pursue of an ideal he sought to realize and build.

No one who studied in the White Room didn't know the name that is Kiyotaka Ayanokōji. It was due to how he was better than any student, at any grade or age that his name was often brought up all the times. None of the previous gens and after could surpass the last survivor of 4th generation. He alone had a huge impact on the entire White Room. It was said that no matter how extreme a training program is, he was able to leave behind a legacy of excellence. Regardless of how hard a genius White Room student tried to show off one's worth, no matter how excellent their grades and abilities were, they were still not easily recognized by their instructors except receive words of encouragement to try and become someone who can surpass Kiyotaka. All they got were simple commands, telling them to catch up to him. It was an idea that had been painstakingly instilled within the minds of those who were raise in the White Room. As Kiyotaka is no exception, other White Room students like himself had played against a great number of so-called professional instructors and fighters to hone their knowledge, skills, and abilities in all sorts of areas over time. White Room teaches different fields like the liberal arts, sciences, martial arts, self-defense techniques, lots of worldly wisdom, and so on. The instructors would strongly emphasize their words intentionally, looking to get the White Room students to surpass their potential by fanning the sense of rivalry with their best, invoking feelings of competition mentally against Kiyotaka.

Fifth gen and beyond, some of those who studied start to “worship” Kiyotaka who had been made a God by them, viewing how unreachable he is compared to themselves. Such White Room children that idolize him had originally accepted education to become number 1 than anyone else. However, they gave up on becoming number 1 themselves and were removed from the competition after realizing how impossible for them it was to overcome and beat Kiyotaka's results plus accomplishments. Unlike the worshipers, there were others who instead began harboring immense feelings of jealousy and hatred when it comes to Kiyotaka as rivals and competitors. Those particular White Room students don't welcome the fact that Kiyotaka was called a masterpiece and wishes to disprove it with their own hands. The goal of the White Room wasn't to create people who could become number 1. Rather, it was to establish the research that could allow for mass production of exceptional people equal to Kiyotaka himself. That was the real reason for the White Room's existence. As long as it is an example of a success story, it didn't really matter who it will be in the end, whether that person was Kiyotaka or another White Room student

In the White Room, there wasn't any rule expressly forbidding romance like there is for idols but things that would allow a romance to successfully be established absolutely didn't exist there. Playtime, holidays, such things didn't exist there. Other than toilet breaks and bath times, we were constantly monitored. A romantic development cannot conceivably occur. People raised from the white Room never fail to make preparations to defend themselves at all times in there. Students who failed the White Room were of no value to the higher-ups. If they are deem worthless, unsuccessful White Room students would end up in the same place as their peers who were eliminated down the road. Kiyotaka had seen countless children excluding himself suffering from the problem in the White Room where they are unable to pour out their true feelings, believing it's a painful place for them to be in when there isn't anyone they can properly hold a talk with. There are a group of people in that facility who eventually broke down and disappeared, described by Kiyotaka as beyond hope of recovery. Currently, the White Room has recently resumed operations to do their experiments.

4th Gen
They focus on pure individualism. With all of the students dropping out due to its excessively harsh education, almost everybody from this generation of children are gone except for only one child who managed to survive and pass the final course easily. Due to being train under excessive individualism, children were often crushed one after another until the last one remain standing strong. However, regardless of successes and failures, those with poor scores notwithstanding and those with excellent scores were still allowed to come in contact with each other.


 * Kiyotaka Ayanokōji

5th Gen
They focus on communication and collaborations. All children were required to maintain a minimum level of interpersonal communication before being allowed to talk to one another. Only those raised in the White Room with the same skills as this group of children could properly have a conversation with them without problem but in the real world, it was said to be impossible by Tsukishiro.
 * Ichika Amasawa

Trivia

 * Although the place makes minor appearances in the anime, its name was only first mentioned by Arisu Sakayanagi after meeting and greeting Kiyotaka for the first time in high school.
 * Arisu is also the only known student so far of the Advanced Nurturing High School, other than Kiyotaka, to have visited the facility.
 * While the White Room is the most “efficient” place to raise a human, it does not teach the necessary social skills for everyday life as shown is Volume 8 during the Mixed Training Camp.
 * Tsukishiro noted how Kiyotaka is the one and only White Room student with the depth in his two eyes that was filled with deep darkness, it was something those other excellent White Room students can’t imitate.
 * Kiyotaka regards the White Room as a place where there was no gender bias in the children raised in that facility since their pedagogy treated boys and girls equally.
 * The meals provided within the White Room were controlled down to the smallest detail. It was basically impossible for the children growing up in that environment to be obese.
 * There were periodical physical examinations in the White Room. They collected vastly more data than what a normal school's physical examinations would measure.
 * The subject of falling in love can't be learn in the White Room.
 * In the White Room, Kiyotaka learned how to play chess.
 * For a student from the White Room, getting a perfect score on the entrance exam for enrolling in Advanced Nurturing High School wouldn't be difficult in the slightest. They'd be able to get an A or A+ rating in Academic Ability with ease if they desired to. In other words, that meant that they'd be able to control their rating however they wanted within the OAA app like the lowest rating E.
 * Kiyotaka stated that if Takuya Yagami was from the White Room, he was an opponent the former wouldn't want to face.
 * Arisu Sakayanagi's dearest wish was destroying Kiyotaka, the White Room's greatest masterpiece and proved that a false genius can be defeated by a natural-born talent like herself.
 * Kiyotaka's butler Matsuo notes that the one and only known place a White Room student could make their escape successfully outside its facility was in Advanced Nurturing High School.
 * Kiyotaka considered the White Room quite problematic from a human-rights perspective.
 * From Arisu's point of view, she sees Kiyotaka as the first success in the White Room where they had managed to achieve unlike with other students who couldn't measure to their standard.