Well, I'm going to buy some more milk.

Pardon me.

Do you live at this store you came from just now?

She's speaking Japanese?

Uh, yes, I'm a maid here.

In truth, I am a maid at the neighboring house.

Neighbor... ah, so you work for Miss Elza!

Since you know that much, I'll make this belated greeting as quick as I can.

For a foreigner, that sure is an awfully Japan-centric joke...

Let me see... according to Ushikintoto Ginka-dono I just met...

The elder one is Inca-dono, and the younger would be Tamurin-dono, yes? More archaisms: "-dono" is an old version of "-sama", and she ends the sentence with "de gozaru", an ultra-formal verb for "to be". Not quite as moldy as some of the other terms in this comic, but still enough to get you some weird looks if used conversationally.

That's not quite right, and isn't "Tamurin" from "Emerald Dragon"? A popular multi-console JRPG from the early 90s. Tamurin (Tamryn) was the female lead.

This lowly vassal is called Mifilinah, but the mistress just calls me "Mifi". 拙者 (sessha) is an obsolete first-person pronoun. By kanji, it means roughly "clumsy one", so I translated by that.

"Lowly vassal"?

Incidentally, I would very much like to introduce myself to your own mistress.

Ah, yeah... Seren.

We-ell...

Locked in that room is the proprietress of this shop, Kamishiro Seren (currently in reserve), but... how to say it...

Locked in that room is the proprietress of this shop, Kamishiro Seren (currently in reserve), but... how to say it...

The Amanoiwato Legend!? One of the centerpieces of Japanese mythology. Too complicated to explain properly here, but Google "Amaterasu"+"cave" and you'll get the idea.

She's serious.