Aoto's footsteps faltered slightly.
Harada deliberately lowered the tone of his voice.
With his exquisite voice control, only those close to him, including Aoto, could hear what he just said.
As soon as Harada finished speaking, Nagakura looked at him with a face full of astonishment: "Those Western women's faces are so strange looking. Seeing such faces, you still have the mood to do that kind of thing?"
Although the "Black Ship Incident" of American Commodore Perry commanding the fleet into Edo Bay happened seven years ago in Kaei 6 (1853), Japan didn't immediately open its doors because of the incident.
Fearing the martial power of the United States, the Edo Shogunate did not dare refuse the demands to open the country, but feared abandoning the "National Lockdown Order" as a national policy would invite criticism across the nation once the doors were opened.
