YMMV / Middlewest

• Complete Monster: Nicolas Raider is a seemingly polite man who has countless runaway children across the Middlewest captured and enslaved to work on his farms. Raider is introduced fatally electrocuting a boy who attempted to escape. Nicolas puts the children to work on fields of highly flammable Ethol. Nicolas takes an interest in Abel, trying to manipulate the boy into becoming his employee. When Abel uses his new position to plan an escape with his friends, Nicolas lets it happen to test Abel, planning to beat him when the boy stands up to him. After an army comprised of people who came to save the children attacks his farm, Nicolas orders them and the rebellious children killed, and tries to force Abel to watch the massacre before killing him.