The first dispute after the White Cedar Training Center stopped enrolling students was not over who owned the premises.
It was whether seventeen boxes of records could leave with the students.
The Training Facility said its course designs, grading standards, and mission routes were private materials.
Students could receive only a single statement of their completion status.
But there were only three possible statuses.
Completed.
Incomplete.
Left in breach of contract.
Takumi was listed as having left in breach of contract.
Xiaoying and Mei, who had left during the rescue, were also listed as incomplete.
Their injuries at the Quarry, the pain from the Performance Seal, and what they had actually learned appeared nowhere on it.
The investigation team first secured the original records.
Securing them did not mean making everything public.
Mission routes could contain information about clients.
Individual teachers' salaries did not need to be disclosed to every student.
Nor could records of other children's chakra and injuries be copied for one another.
Each student received copies of the course, assessment, mission, medical, sealing, and debt records pertaining to them.
Information involving others was redacted, with the scope and reasons for the redactions listed in the index.
The investigators did not simply thrust the copies into the students' hands.
Everyone first reviewed the index, checking their name, course dates, and the contents they could understand.
Young students could request an oral explanation, but receipt still had to be confirmed by the students themselves or their chosen caregivers.
One student discovered that he had been marked absent three times from nighttime tracking sessions he had never attended.
The Training Facility had copied another student's records into his file because they shared a name, then used those records to add retraining fees.
After the teachers' attendance rolls and the Performance