The first reason given for the proposal to seal the files permanently was that children did not understand what could be made public.
The second was that someone might trick them into handing over chakra records.
The third was that the leaked roster had already proved ordinary school administrative staff unreliable.
All three risks existed.
Yet the proposal's answer was to keep even the students themselves from knowing what their files contained.
Nao's records were used for a trial review.
The first page listed her name, her chosen blue-line mark, and her sixty-day auditing status.
The second page contained her course selections.
The third recorded the roster leak, her departure from school, the storehouse rescue, and Soichi's claim to her care.
The security department intended to seal all three of those pages.
Nao asked to read them first.
On the third page, she found a sentence.
"Shows a tendency to flee the care area."
That sentence mentioned neither the roster leak nor her two inquiries about whether her new address would be made public again.
If the file were permanently sealed, her next care teacher would see only a child prone to running away.
Nao submitted a correction.
The record was amended to read: after her name and residence were leaked, she left of her own accord because her requests for safety went unanswered; her use of a concealed compartment in a logistics vehicle carried risks of injury and loss of contact.
The correction did not erase the dangerous behavior.
Nor did it strip the behavior of the circumstances in which it had occurred.
When Chengren reviewed his own records, he found that "Potential Combat Resource" remained in an early transcription.
Although the main form had been corrected, his safe-house application still cited the old content.
He requested that every