The official seals on the enrollment list were harder to explain than the private school's seal

All six Western Border recommendation seals were genuine.

The seals came from three different resettlement offices.

Their dates of issuance spanned two years.

No one could explain them away as secret forgeries by the White Cedar Training Center anymore.

The six families each explained how they had understood the official seals.

Two families had initially worried that private Forehead Protectors would not qualify their children for missions. Resettlement workers had told them, "The authorities have already verified it. It's as safe as a regular Ninja Academy."

One family had asked whether their child could leave partway through. The answer they received was, "With an official seal, you won't owe any unreasonable fees."

The other three families had not understood the contracts. They had simply taken the recommendation field as a guarantee that the Land of Fire would take responsibility for the consequences.

The official seals did not directly state any of that.

But the verbal explanations from the staff handling the cases, together with the standardized recommendation format, had created that trust.

The investigation recorded the written contents, verbal explanations, and families' actual understanding separately. The narrowest wording on the seals could not be used to deny every effect they had had.

The first resettlement office had only forwarded an old recommendation list.

At the time, the White Cedar Training Center held an ordinary teaching license, and no complaints about Performance Seals had yet been discovered.

The staff member handling it had made no on-site inspection, but had carried over "safe and qualified" from a higher-level document into the recommendation field.

He had not deliberately sent children into danger.

He still had to answer why he had put his own seal on a conclusion he had not personally verified.

The second resettlement office had received a complaint from a parent