"Yeah? She was cool. Pretty strict but I learned a lot."

"Why wouldn't she be allowed around students? Sounds valuable, if she's strong."

"She killed millions of people and scorched a continent to glass. That's not the sort of example that should be followed."

He feels like there's a wrong answer, here. "Including noncombatants?"

"Ransheer was inhabited. She didn't care. She could have engaged the army and forced a retreat, but instead she decided to deny the world to everyone."

"That's. Inappropriate, yeah."

"Well, it's not like she did that in front of us."

"If she'd been acting against orders she would've gotten in trouble, here, though admittedly many countries would tend to let things slide if it didn't negatively impact them."

"No one achieved their goals at Ransheer. Except maybe her."

"She would've been censored for that kind of disobedience here, at a minimum. Military actions without prior approval are often punished outright."

"Good."

That got awkward real quick. Anneia's just going to be a little quiet now until Tasara has some time to cool off from the Eliese thing.

"Is that sort of thing common where you're from?"

"Unauthorized military actions or glassing continents?"

"Uh, more the first, I'd hope not the second."

"Most of the time a magical girl old enough to cause significant damage has learned how to work with her theater's other commanders. But we are officers in our own right and sometimes outrank anyone else on the field."

"That's usually not how we do things, people with field command are relatively rare and have to pass a test, there's actually a few people who get stuck at the apprentice level because they're not considered ready for leadership. People who can completely make their own decisions regarding the battlefield are much rarer, someone who makes it to jounin would be extremely unlikely to do something like that."

"Strategic... blunders on the scale of Ransheer happen very rarely. Most of the time it is a younger girl sticking her neck out too far and getting herself or her squad killed, or pulling through by sheer luck."

It is in fact very useful information that they can glass continents. And that Tasara objects this strongly.

"I think our system for that might be pretty decent, we put newly graduated genin on teams under a more experienced commander, only let them advance as they mature - I think we didn't do anything like that during the Warring States period, which tended to end poorly for the inexperienced..."

"We train girls until they are eighteen. If they are lucky, they will be assigned to a front with someone more experienced they can learn from. But the war is unforgiving, and unceasing."

He goes quiet for a bit, then: "We had that a bit ago, during the Third War. Throwing kids at the meat grinder before they could get their feet under them. But the Great Wars tend to burn out, and we've been at peace almost eight years now."

"I'm glad for you."

"Yeah. It's been. A change." He thinks for a moment. To keep that peace... He really could use them as a peacekeeping force. Which means on his side, not the clan's, not the village's. Ugh. Politics.

"There's been some tension lately, but I'm hoping to try and keep it from spiraling out of control. That man I was fighting - Danzo - seemed to be hoping the opposite, as far as I could tell."

"That tracks with his behavior."

"He was one of the sorts who claimed he was always doing things for the good of the village. Seemed to be his own good, more often." A moment of quiet, then, "Hopefully negotiations will be easier with him out of the picture, though suspicion for his disappearance might fall unideally..."