The Tobitake family home.
Smack!
"Waaah~"
"Stop hitting us~"
Tenyu and Maki were struck on the legs by a bamboo whip a meter long and as thin as a spicy strip.
Red welts appeared across the skin of their legs.
The two cried their eyes out~
Their hands kept rubbing the painful spots, as though that could ease the pain.
"Dad, I was wrong."
"What did you do wrong?"
"We can't lie to people."
"What nonsense. You still need to lie, or how will you become ninjas in the future?"
"Then... we can't lie to our own people?"
"What did I teach you? If you can't even fool your own people, how do you expect to fool the enemy?"
"Ah... then what did we do wrong?"
"You're still saying you did nothing wrong? I think your skins are itching."
Smack!
Waaah~
"Nooo~"
Feeling the pain in their legs, Tenyu and Maki hopped around, trying to dodge.
Only after Tobitake Tonbo had gotten his fill did he put down the whip.
The educational methods from his previous life were truly great. A little bamboo whip did not injure flesh or bone; it only hurt. It was perfect for discipline.
Rubbing their legs, Tenyu and Maki sat across from their father, tears streaking their little faces.
They felt that their father had something to say.
"First, people need to have principles. You can't lie to others."
The two little ones could only nod.
"Second, when you lie, you can't lie to your own people."
Wait, hadn't he just said the opposite?
"Third, the money you got through lying—you actually wanted to use your dad's craftsmanship to make a fortune for nothing. That's very wrong."
Tobitake Tonbo lectured them earnestly.
Got it. That last sentence was what he really wanted to say. The