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Ruri had clearly not expected her brother to give such a serious and affirmative answer to her spur-of-the-moment teasing, and she could not help feeling a little surprised.

She blinked her big eyes and asked curiously,

"Brother, does that mean you've really made up your mind to marry Karin?"

Seeing this, Senyo reached out and lightly tapped Ruri on the head, saying with mild reproach,

"Do I look like the kind of man who's fickle in love?"

Ruri rubbed her aching head and muttered under her breath,

"Hmph, who knows? Anyway, I've never seen you date anyone since we were kids..."

At that moment, Zhiyu, who had been silently listening to the siblings' conversation, stepped forward.

She knew that Senyo had always kept his word and would never joke about something so important.

Thus, Zhiyu asked softly,

"Then, Senyo, will your marriage follow the old system or the new one?"

Before ninja villages emerged, the entire world had been divided among ninja clans, each ruling its own territory.

At the time, every ninja clan had its own unique clan rules to manage internal affairs.

However, as time passed, some ninja villages became affiliated with certain countries and accepted a degree of their jurisdiction and restraint.

Once those ninja villages came under a nation's authority, the nation would usually establish a series of related laws or offer corresponding recommendations.

However, the clan rules followed by ninja clans for generations had long since become deeply ingrained.

In practice, if clan rules conflicted with the nation's recommendations, the matter could be handled flexibly according to the circumstances.

Take the Uchiha Clan, for example. Their rules stipulated that clan members could not marry before the age of fourteen, while sixteen was generally considered the appropriate age for marriage.

In contrast, while the Land of