Hmm.... what to say, what to say... I need to extend my vocabulary, seriously. I'm running out of positive adjectives. I'll use

I really liked the whole conflict with that guy Tamazaki. It really deepens the whole dilemma occurring through Seishin. With so much confusion going on, a snarky arrogant character (who doesn't even look fit to be a ninja) really added to the depth of the confusing situation. And then we meet Shichirobei, who slightly lightens the scene only to show that no one truly knows what is going on. Even with the few jounin hanging about, no one seems to be helping the situation, and I really like how you are portraying all of this.

At the end, when Yurika barged in, I was slightly thinking about how things may be looking up, but with the trend going on, things might actually be headed downwards. I'm not too sure, so I'll just eagerly wait for the next chapter :D

Awesome job, such intensity throughout this chapter. I love it all! Keep up the great work! Oh, and congrats for making it to chapter 50... even if it is technically chapter 7, but still, it's 50 chapters of pure genius.

Author's Response: Thank you! It's my fiftieth 'installment' of SWB and I have secretly been quite excited about it, as I have been about the fact that if you total my reviews from ff.net and TONFA I now have over a hundred. Typically though, I'm not content and am already anxiously awaiting the next milestones (for me I think the biggest one will be when I've got Chapter 7 and hopefully 8 finished up and with it the first major arc of this story. At least I hope it will be done at the end of 8, if not it will be 9), but there's still a sense of accomplishment in having got this far.
Remember when I said I didn't think I was introducing any more OCs? Yeah... I got to this installment and then... yeah...
I'm surprised you liked Tamazaki though. He was such a stereotypical stock character it made me balk, but I took the view that having very little time and space, playing on stereotypes actually made it easier for me to get the points I wanted across and you seem to have picked up on them perfectly, so I must have done something right.
And to be perfectly honest, I actually couldn't say whether things are headed up, down or, quite possibly, sideways myself - and obviously I know what's happening, so there you go. You'll have to tell me as the chapter progresses.
Here's to 50 installments! I'm toasting with ... a hamster, as Casimir seems determined not to let me sleep tonight. Can't say how I feel about this first fifty (I could murder Naomi sometimes... and very nearly did), but you seem to like them and I trust your judgement, so that makes me happy.