It's possible. Which would be a first since Chiaki hasn't had Faite tamper with her life yet.



Technically an APB isn't the same as an arrest warrant. It's just "bring in this person for questioning if you see him/her". The former is issued by police departments and doesn't guarantee jail, while the latter is issued by a judge and usually requires a short stay in jail until you appear before that judge. So the legal side of it depends entirely on if the Lair Legion answer to the police or only to the justice system. I sound like Lisa now.

Other than that, though she doesn't make a big deal of it, in some ways Chiaki knows Hatman probably better than he knows himself. She knows that if she speaks to him in person right now, there will be a conflict within him between Jay, a friend of hers, and Hatman, the Lair Legion's poster boy for order and justice.

She thinks he'll probably bring her in if only because he'll weigh his options and believe that no immediate harm will come to her because of it, because he can then balance that by representing her and speaking on her behalf.

But she also sees the fault in his logic - that this is a witch hunt. The APB is just the start of it, the powers that be are breathing down the Commissioner's neck to make someone pay for the Safe breakout - because it's something that scares the public, and is politically embarrassing. The Safe is supposed to be the unbreakable place the city puts people that are too dangerous for society, to lock them away forever - if it's no longer that way, it's too scary a thought. The only solution is to blame it on someone on the "outside", and if Chiaki has to pay for it with live in prison, so be it, to save the Mayor's career. That's what Chiaki sees in this.

Chiaki doesn't want to be on the run forever. She has a plan not to be, though - as public memory of the jailbreak begins to fade because of other events, the witch hunt will end, and it will be safer for her to resolve the issue. She just needs to buy some time.



Even after she sort of helped things this time?


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Chiaki doesn't actually live at the mansion, and visits relatively infrequently (i.e. less than Visionary does). If you meant Liu Xi though...yes, even she realizes that she's not really living her own life, she's just an accessory. Since she has already rejected the Lair Legion she decided to go to Paradpolis U to try and carve out a life for herself. The question is where she lives while she does that - and since commute distance isn't an issue for her, it could be anywhere.



I originally picked Paradopolis U because it has its own neighborhood, probably its own character, and definitely is a large place for exploration. As weird as it is, Liu Xi can only explore the Lair Mansion so much before it starts to feel a bit like a prison.