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Chapter 211 – On the Eve of the Manchurian Incident (2)

“At your age, to have traveled all over the world… I’m truly envious.”

Kawashima-san, the Qing dynasty princess, looked at me with undisguised admiration. As for me, after talking about Shanghai, I had only given a condensed, easy-to-digest-style account of my travels through Europe and America, limited to whatever I could still remember, and I was finally running out of material.

And yet, my turn to speak still wasn’t ending. At a loss over what I should talk about next, I felt close to despair.

Just then, as if he had seen straight through me, Ishihara Kanji broke into a smile.

“Well then, it’s about time we offered a story of our own in return. Would that be acceptable, Your Highness?”

“Acceptable. Personally, I’d like to keep talking with Reiko like this until dawn. Besides, Ishihara, you weren’t properly listening to Reiko’s