Chapter 407: Um, Miss Konoka

Her Majesty is smiling and waiting for me to say something. Certainly if she only smiles the air softens except Miss Konoka. Miss Konoka... is expressionless, yes. Please stop staring straight at that me. As a Japanese there was a tacit understanding one must not stare at a person, yes? Ah, she finally averted her eyes and looked down.

Even so just what should I talk to shrink the mental distance with Miss Konoka? I am bad at talking with unknown women and mixers, addressing a girl from my side, even a type with super attached, the hurdle was terribly high.

"Um, Miss Takamoto, Miss Takamoto Konoka. I want to talk a little, is it fine?"

Miss Konoka raises her face again and looks at me. She stares at me a while, reddens her cheeks a little and turns aside.

"Unfair."

She says potsuri. Un, there seems to have been a reaction for form. Using my outside to talk may be good. But I do not know how to use it.

"Miss Konoka, where did you come from?"

Ara? Did it become Japanese? How is it? Miss Konoka looks at me once more. After all she hears. Looking at Her Majesty from the side she is not particularly looking puzzled so she would be hearing.

"Where were you born?"

At my question Miss Konoka stares at my face again. Current Miss Konoka has become a face of what are you asking.

"You, where did you come from?"

At Miss Konoka’s question back Her Majesty swallows breath.

"I came from the Marie Kingdom. That kind of Miss Konoka where did you come from?"

As much as possible I try asking with a soft tone putting favor on. I do not know if there is effect.

"Ja, Japan."

For form I was answered.

"Where in Japan?"

Yes, asking further is important. Skill cultivated in sales, hearing the talk of the other’s birthplace, hearing the surname, if a rare surname, a surname that seems few, digging is the usual path.

"Eh!? Even if I say you will not understand, yes?"

A very ordinary reaction returns.

"Without asking I do not understand."

"What, cheeky despite a child."

She has clearly grown displeased but for form the talk continues.

"Could you tell me?"

"Hun, anyway I think you will not understand but Ishikawa Prefecture. Here, you do not know, yes?"

It came!!

"I know. A castle town and a large park in the middle of the town, that prefecture, yes? Um surely the name is"

I know but pretend not to know and try to draw it out. I try connecting the talk further.

"Eh! (and speechless a while) you, do you truly know? You are only pretending to know, yes? Deceiving me and trying to lead me out of the room, yes? What, already me because I am useless you try to dispose of me? Hey!..."

Miss Konoka grew excited. Does she not know among foreigners who came to Japan there are abnormal Japan experts and ones who know Japan’s history into the fine details slip in? That kind of guy asks history questions like poking the corner of a heavy box and enjoys troubling the Japanese who dealt with them. Current me is that kind of setting.

"Kenrokuen, yes?"

"Eh!?"

"Therefore Kenrokuen, yes? The park’s name."

"E... why... why... you, who?"

"I am Robin Marie, a prince of the Marie Kingdom."

"The Marie Kingdom, a country of this world? Or are you a child who came from Japan together with me?"

Miss Konoka stood from the sofa.

"No."

I want to say yes but now I still cannot say it.

"Then why do you know?"

"Because I studied. Ishikawa Prefecture’s prefectural office, no the prefecture’s capital is Kanazawa, yes?"

Dangerous! I almost said prefectural capital. I for form know one famous place name in each of the forty-seven prefectures and that prefecture’s capital. Incidentally about railways Kanazawa is the end of the Hokuriku Shinkansen... that is unrelated.

Miss Konoka is surprised. I denied but she does not seem to believe. If I were in Miss Konoka’s position I would react the same. Glancing at Her Majesty she is calm.

"Study, how do you understand Japan! Because I was summoned to another world! You came from Japan too, yes! Hey! Is it not so!!"

Miss Konoka grew fairly excited. Excited in a meaning different from until now return me, return me.

"I have come to this country from the neighboring country. In my country from long long ago there are people who came from another world. There are books that copied the contents those people told of the world they were in before. I like that kind of talk and read in. I remembered until I can recite from memory. Therefore I know the country called Japan. For some reason people who transferred, people who came from Japan are many."

"Japan!!"

Did I say too much? he thought while ending up saying it. After all I transferred from Japan and not much time has passed so meeting a person who came from Japan is glad! I want to hint the inside of me is Japanese but if I say too much the influence on those around is too large so I have to be careful there. When confiding it comes down to how much Miss Konoka can keep a secret. If she can keep it I want to talk as much as I like and comfort and strengthen her. Whether she can return I do not know but because she can come I think there is a method to go. Because even light novels there were ones going and coming.

Miss Konoka who sat petari on the sofa.

"Miss Konoka came from Japan, yes? Could you not tell me about Japan?"

"About Japan?"

"Yes, please tell me about Miss Konoka too. What kind of life you were doing, what kind of school you went to, could you not tell me?"

"About me?"

"Yes, that is so. And Japanese I had heard are black eyes black hair but why is Miss Konoka blue eyes blue hair?"

"This?"

Miss Konoka takes her hair in hand and winds it on a fingertip. There would be thanks to Her Majesty’s calming and my questions worked too and the poison is out.

"Actually I was doing a part-time at a maid cafe."

Her Majesty is muttering what is a maid’s cafe. That is so, maids there are mountains of in the palace being in a cafe what, you think. In the first place was there a thing called cafe in this country? He had not yet gone out to eat pudding either. If he tells this talk he feels a flow of taking Her Majesty will come...

But the good flow was until there.

"And there I was told do a cosplay of Miku-chan, put on a wig, put in color contacts and came out in front of the shop and then, that, suddenly, aaaaa, in front of the eyes aaaaa!!"

Saying that far Miss Konoka suddenly broke.

Her Majesty runs to Miss Konoka and puts a hand on her. Next Anouk too runs to Miss Konoka and is stroking her back. Miss Konoka is breathing ze! ze! ze! She looks suffering but I cannot do this or that and should not.