"Running a house and 'helping clients' are hardly appropriate topics for a child," he says, though he's not admonishing her; rather, the tight control in his voice is so he doesn't say something he regrets. She seems to be proud of what she does, but if it's all she's known...

Kay had been proud of being the Yatagarasu, but that was worlds different than...this. The girl had chosen to become a thief. Misa hadn't chosen this life. Her childhood had been stolen.

"Self-defense, however, is a valuable skill that everyone ought to learn. Tell me, Misa," he says, his voice gentle, "what other subjects do you know? Math? Science? Literature?" He'd grown up with a thirst for knowledge, and even if Gregory Edgeworth hadn't encouraged his spirit and Manfred von Karma hadn't enforced it, he would have studied everything he could. Had her natural curiosity been quashed in favor of what she was 'supposed' to learn?