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Makes you wonder whatās going through Kaitoās mind right about now. Imagine youāre in the 21st century (difficult, I know) and talking to some strange man whoās horrified that Japan is host to the English in this day and age. And then asks if the ship you came over on was attacked by English pirates. Good thing Kaitoās pretty out of it for this part of the conversation, I guess.
Kaito mentions a little later on that Vicenteās face looks like a Spaniardās. ā¦Is that a thing? I was under the impression that Spanish people, whether of the 16th or 21st century, werenāt physically identifiably unique in any way. Is that wrong?
ā¦Aaand Vicente flies into a rage and chokes Kaito out. Not the best way to part, my friend. And just like that, Vicente comes to the solid conclusion that Kaitoās talk of time travel is nonsense, while his mystical Easter future-telling magic must be the real deal. And due to said powers, Kaito mustāve been caught up in a scheme in Elizabethās palace, leading to his kidnapping and being dumped in Plymouth. Bravo.
The sailors talking smack about their ćé was pretty . Got a good laugh out of their laughing, haha.
I fell behind for a couple weeks but now Iām back in the game. With all the historical stuff, I had nearly forgotten that this is supposed to be BL. But, Vicente reminded me with all his cheek stroking and commenting on Kaitoās appearance. I donāt think he is going to be the love interest, though? I was thinking about what Iād do if I ended up time traveling like that and came to the conclusion Iād immediately be killed or captured. Iām excited to see what Kaito ends up telling his new found (?) gang about his background in the coming sections.
Listen, weāre quite cultured here. I only offer the highest of high-quality fiction.
Thatās pretty much where Iām at as well. As much as I love reading about these situations, actually being in one would absolutely not go to plan, haha. Iāll read about this all from a distance, thank you.
I think the part that surprised me the most this week was ęµ·ę immediately breaking all the rules of time travel. Why are you telling the Spanish guy sneaking around on English soil (clearly a spy), āOh, by the way, your admiral will die, this other fellow with no experience will take over, and you will lose terribly.ā Especially when it obviously canāt immediately prove anything anyway. I was like why are you saying these thiiiiings. Lucky for him Vicente can rationalize anything away, but weāll see how Vicente feels about this in the futureā¦
I loved this part! Looking forward to more cheeky pirate banter.
By the way, @eefara, are the illustrations only in the print version? I havenāt seen any in my kindle version.
My impression is that it refers to facial hair, hair cut, and clothes, like those soldiers:
ā¦ but in hindsight, I think I remember Vincent was cleanly shaved? And if I was a spy, I would get a culturally appropriate haircut, I guess. Only thing I have left is dark hair+dark eyesā¦
The poor kid hadnāt even heard of some of the sci-fi stuff they were talking about last chapter. No way heād know not to break the golden time-traveling rule.
Yep, thatās correct; theyāre physical only. Speaking of which, I need to take some pictures of the color illustrations in the frontā¦
He is clean-shaved, and has bright green eyes. Black hair at least, but yeah, Iām not sure what Kaitoās going for here.
If Vincente (did I spell this correctly? ) turns out to be our love interest, I will give him a big side-eyeā¦ at first Kato looks 12 to him and then like his sisterā¦
No first ānā, I believe, and according to the character book. Should just be Vicente. Ugh, now that looks really weird when I type it out in romanization for some reasonā¦
To be fair to the guy, I think he was just equating Kaitoās helplessness with his sisterās. Not that that may necessarily may make anything better, granted.
If you compare typical British faces with typical Spanish faces, itās quite easy to see that they are not the same. but I donāt know if this was true in 1500.
I know, right? I was internally screaming at Kaito during that whole bit. I really didnāt expect him to just outright admit to everything. And Vicenteās rationalisation was funny as well. Letās think about this. You meet this young man and have no explanation as to how he came to be here, heās wearing weird clothing, says lots of weird stuff like how there are many foreigners in Japan and on top of all that he seems to have some knowledge of the future. What could be an explanation for this? Could he be a time traveller like heās claiming to be? No, of course not. Thatās absurd. Itās much more likely that heās some kind of seer, nevermind that that only really explains one of the aforementioned oddities. I guess during that time period future-telling magic didnāt seem as far-fetched as it would nowadays but still. Just listen to him, heās telling the truth
Depending on how far you are already, things have started to happen for the last few weeks!
And then asks if the ship you came over on was attacked by English pirates. Good thing Kaitoās pretty out of it for this part of the conversation, I guess.
. Got a good laugh out of their laughing, haha.
I donāt think he is going to be the love interest, though? I was thinking about what Iād do if I ended up time traveling like that and came to the conclusion Iād immediately be killed or captured. Iām excited to see what Kaito ends up telling his new found (?) gang about his background in the coming sections. 
Speaking of which, I need to take some pictures of the color illustrations in the frontā¦
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