[ The truth: Kakashi can never truly be retired as long as he has consciousness and as long as he has people he loves who he wants to protect. A Hokage to serve.

He sighs after a moment. ]

Mm, my Hokage-- ah, that's the title we give to the village leader-- is here in this world. So I will defer to him as to how he'd like for me to proceed.

[ Though, retirement does sound very, very nice... ]

It's possible he'd want us to continue operating in our previous capacity, especially as there are so many of us here.