Broadly, Monna understood.
"Yes. I understand. But that's not the kind of question I really want to know. Although I was quite surprised to see that young and intelligent-looking woman taking the lead."
In her home country, there have been several women who took the lead as president. Adhering to liberalism and calling their own country a republic. The leadership of a president in the hands of a woman was not something new or taboo.
But it was different with Cattarina's world. The world in the novel that somehow had now become Monna's world too with some explanations that can't be grasped by logic.
"What I'm asking now is, are they in a special relationship?"
Being very straightforward and had no time for small talk. Then did not directly convey the question clearly. Monna gradually absorbed Cattarina's straightforward personality.
Hate having to waste a lot of time on something that was useless and invited curiosity.
