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Chapter 115 – Luxury Liner (2)

“And from which colony might you have come, I wonder?”

A refined-looking lady delivers a refined-sounding insult at us.
She lacks the education to recognize my clothing as a Japanese kimono. And her husband beside her is no better.

“Now, now, it isn’t proper to speak so rudely. My wife was out of line. Where are you from? Italy, perhaps, or the Balkans?”

It seems he mistook Kouryuu-sensei for someone of Southern European descent. Admittedly, he could pass for that.

For the record, the two of them are speaking French. Up until the height of the age of imperialism, French was treasured across Europe as the most beautiful language and functioned as a semi-standard tongue among the upper class.
Judging from our appearance in fine silk garments, they probably assumed it was natural we’d understand them—and