Toru
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"What kind of a barmaid has that education?" I asked her with a scowl.

"I'm not a barmaid," she spat. "I just work at a bar for the time being."

I laughed. "Yes, yes. And I am the honoured Emperor, just no one recognizes, hai?"

"Are you going or not, Shorty?" she growled. My hand went to my katana.

"Watch what you say! I may have been a sailor, but I am samurai, too!"

A grin crept upon her face. "A sailor, are you? Easy for a sailor to get passage to another country, isn't it?"

"Kusou..." I murmered. After a while of staring up at her smug face, I finally nodded. "Fine. I will go. But I am not looking for a..." I thought a moment, couldn't think of the word, tried something else, "A not-stranger?"

She looked at me as if I were slightly insane. "You mean friend?"

"Hai, hai, fu-re-n-do," I said, mimicking the word to the best of my ability. "I am not interested in that. Now... we go."

She rolled her eyes and started to leave the alley we'd been in. I stopped her and said, as humbly as I could muster. "And... thank you for help."