>>529093356
It's already confirmed
Volume F was a little vague about it but the nameless priests kinda gave away the game telling you the truth of the students, and basement man only further confirmed it later on. Thr mystic, the terror, the sublime, do you honestly believe these are just normal kids with magic powers living in an all child society where the government and all social positions of power are children, and all the adult roles are things that are meant to be purposefully foolish like stupid looking dogs or robots? Things were intentionally meant to see as absurd.

The Chinese CM for volume 3 which showed the "parade" Saori and the others watched as kids, where Atsuko was dragged around, already kinda reveals there never were any adults except Beatrice in Arius. Blacksuit basically thinks you're retarded when you first meet him for treating these things as children while knowing nothing about them in reality. Blacksuit always treated them as just mystics. They are divine mysteries given form.