After leaving the hall, Kazemori Masaki instructed the school administrators who followed him out to keep an eye on the students and their emotional state, stressing that they must never let something like this happen again. The administrators hastily nodded in agreement. They were about to escort him to the gate when he waved them off, telling them to return to their work. He planned to walk around the school himself.
Kazemori Masaki then began strolling around the school. Whenever the students leaving the hall saw him, they greeted him eagerly. They had wanted to talk to him, but at their teachers' urging, they reluctantly returned to their classrooms.
As he watched the students leave, Kazemori Masaki noticed someone approaching. He glanced back and smiled. "Lady Toka."
It was Senju Toka, who shared a close relationship with Kazemori Masaki. After the First Shinobi World War left her with lingering health problems, she had become a teacher at the school. Having lost most of her combat capabilities, her wealth of experience and knowledge was all she could still put to use. She took her work at the school very seriously and now held a highly respected position there.
Besides pursuing her teaching career, Senju Toka, who no longer needed to undertake missions, had also found love. She had married a shinobi clan leader surnamed Fujino and given birth to a son, securing a measure of comfort for her later years. However close Satomi and she were, however much they resembled mother and daughter, there was only one person who could remain by Senju Toka's side in the years ahead.
Senju Toka's advancing age had changed her appearance. Her hair had turned white, and wrinkles had appeared on her face, but traces of her former vigor remained. Although she could no longer