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- ... - ... - ... - Why does it seem to me that this sounds like something Bajena could have come up with? - the elderly Nihon woman doesn't know how else to comment on it. - I suppose that would be fair, but... uh... I wouldn't really want that name to be associated with me in the minds of the masses... Not that I prefer pompous, empty titles, but they do have a certain image in people's minds, which helps them trust me with the secrets in the matters they come to me with...
Finally overcoming her embarrassment and numerous pauses, she cheerfully answers the first question: - It's simple - it's one of those things that made my homeland the greatest in its time. All your "misters," "twisters" - they're just an embryonic form that doesn't express the full range of human relationships, which are deeper than they seem and include intersecting planes of social status and personal attitude 🤓. San is the standard, kun... When I realized during our first meeting that you were younger than me by... a couple of years... and you continued to address me informally, something inside my head rebelled against continuing the formality. So I adopted a simpler form 🤓. I've already said that you were the first person I addressed informally, and the same applies to this suffix. Ironically, given the circumstances. With Trude-sama, it was the opposite - she is -sama for the same reason that Kami is - the real one, not the fake-cat one. Understanding who was in front of me, I adopted a more polite form - and not at all out of subservience, but simply out of politeness 🤓. Although there is irony in this too, because it should be the other way around - because we came to her establishment as customers and paid for it 🤓. What else?... There were a few, if you can put it that way, comrades-in-arms who deserve the respectful suffix -dono because of this fact. Someone will criticize me for using it because I don't belong to the group of people who usually throw it around 🤓 - well, what can you do to me, I'm in another city. Or, for example, Bajena - chan, because we are close, although initially she was -san. Do you understand the depth of the system now? 🤓 In other cultures, something like this is absolutely impossible," Aiyano explained the subtext to the newcomer with a sense of undeniable objective national and cultural superiority 🤓. - There are also others, for example, denoting certain areas of professional activity, but they are more situational, and what I have just said is a maximum simplification, there are more nuances 🤓," she concluded her useful lecture.
- So, that's how it is, very interesting. And by that, I don't mean "thank you, very interesting," but "thank you for this interesting lesson" 😎. Your eloquent explanations clearly demonstrate your love for your own people and their culture; I, for example, would not be able to describe the linguistic traditions of the Empire or even the cultural features of Margel so readily. - The Lord was flattered that he was the first person Aiyano addressed informally, but he didn't voice this thought. - Kun, huh? Yes, I see. Yes... I think I'll be very happy to be your kun. Listen, when we get home, would you mind telling me more about your Nihon, its way of life, and all that? Don't think I'm trying to trick you into spending time with me; I'm really interested. Although I won't hide the fact that if there were another Nihon woman in this world, I probably wouldn't spend time on her lessons, no matter how fascinating they might be, so yes - for me, it would be like killing two birds with one stone. As for the nickname, I'll call you that when it's just the two of us, okay, Aiyaiya?