Two Weapons [Part 1]
Martha turned out to be Maasa!
In the Kingdom, as a commoner, Martha has no surna.
“Um… About that symbol… Do you know about it?”, asked Martha worriedly, seeing how intently the three siblings were staring at the symbol.
“Martha, this is not a good luck charm symbol, but Imperial Japanese writing.”
“That’s right, it’s read as ‘Ono Maasa’ in Imperial Japanese.”
To reassure Martha, George and William pointed at the characters and taught her to pronounce them.
“Wai-Wait a minute, please!!! Even George-sama and William-sama can speak Imperial Japanese? Not to ntion, even understanding Imperial Japanese writing which is said to be too complicated to decipher???” exclaid Joshua in surprise.
” “Ah……” “
Even though they had taken great pains so far to avoid revealing that Emma was not the only one with this ability, these brothers… they’ve done it now.
They even said that they could read the characters. Well, they couldn’t hide being able to understand the words kairo and haramaki anyway.
“… What could ‘Onono Maasa’ possibly an?”
Martha timidly asked in this awkward atmosphere. Martha was also bewildered at suddenly being placed at the heart of the problem without any prior knowledge.
“That is your na written in Imperial Japanese letters, Martha. ‘Onono’ is your family na, you see…… Hm?”
Eh… Co to think of it… Martha’s grandfather is…?
“If I recall correctly, Martha’s whole family all work for and live with our Stuart family, right?”
“Yes, my husband is also a servant in the Palace mansion. My father and mother died relatively young, but we have always been taken care of by the Stuart family.”
Martha’s husband was a coachman, whose current assignnt was to transport Palacian silk from Palace to the royal capital. He would have been called a long-distance truck driver in the other world.
Also, while all the servants in Palace were recognized as family, they had completely forgotten that Martha’s grandfather was the gardener, Imoko. He is a kind old man who often found rare insects and brought them to Emma.
Co to think about it, wasn’t there a son of a noble at the tea party, an expert on plants, who made a comnt like ‘the Stuarts’ garden had many plants from the East’…?
Imoko had decided against going to the royal capital because of his old age, but he was still taking care of the garden at the Palace mansion.
“…Martha’s grandfather …is the gardener Old Man Imoko, right?”
Just in case, Emma asked Martha for confirmation, and she nodded. George and William both seed to have forgotten about that fact, as they suddenly looked up in surprise.
” “Then, it ans that Old Man Imoko is an Imperial Japanese person? ……eh? His surna… Ono and Imoko, so ‘Onono Imoko’!?” “[1]
[T/N 1: Ono no Imoko was a Japanese politician and diplomat in the late 6th and early 7th century. He was one of the envoys to the Sui dynasty of China.]
The na of a historical figure in their previous life surfaced in Emma’s mind. As they were from an era much older than that of Takeda Shingen, the connection that this world had with that smartphone ga beca more tenuous.
“What about Imoko?”
Joshua couldn’t keep up at all and got confused.
“If it’s ‘Onono Imoko’, isn’t he that envoy to the Tang dynasty of China?!”
Even Wataru, a.k.a. George, who understood little about history, knew that.
Onii-chan… Onono Imoko was not an envoy to Tang but an envoy to the Sui dynasty. My big brother is slow as always…
“Even from the na, one could have suspected that Old Man Imoko was an Imperial Japanese, huh.”
Without the surna Onono, it was understandable that they didn’t realize Imoko was a Japanese na. It’s pronounced a little differently in the Kingdom language, and besides, it’s the na of soone from long ago. It’s also like if Marco Polo went only by Marco.
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