When Gen entered the transitional Witness Seats for the last time, he did not sit in the center.
Seven authorities that needed to be returned lay on the table.
The witness seal for the Lunar Surface Voice Channel.
Temporary access to the monitoring summaries for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
The cross-verification index for the tailed beasts' refusal documents.
The authority to receive high-risk dōjutsu applications.
The Cross-Regional Archive Discrepancy Table.
The Emergency Meeting Summons Seal.
And the Record Confirmation Stamp, valid only during this round of handovers.
Each had a new recipient.
No single person took over all of them.
Acceptance involved more than a string of signatures.
Each new custodian had to perform a reading or shutdown test on the spot.
The Lunar Surface witness seal could open the application index, but not the Voice Channel.
The index of tailed beast refusal documents could only show whether permission existed, not display all nine documents in full.
The Emergency Meeting Summons Seal could notify the various seats, but could not vote on behalf of anyone absent.
One recipient mistook access privileges for approval authority.
The test failed on the spot.
The scope of the authority was explained again, and the handover was duly delayed by an hour.
No one marked a failed test as complete merely because his departure date was approaching.
Gen checked the seals one by one.
He confirmed the acceptance times.
He confirmed that the Old Seal had been invalidated.
Finally, he stamped his own authority register with a termination stamp.
Someone handed him another extension request.
The first independent meeting would address a Lunar Surface monitoring discrepancy.
The new members disagreed over whether two Observation Windows needed to be closed.
If Gen stayed another three days, they could at least ensure a smooth