That's what you'd think....
But note the difference in reaction between Serena and the "BFF"....
Serena's trained assassin's eye spotted the Thing addressed in the last panels of the chapter, whereas BFF didn't..
Seems Crown Princey has his own motives for playing punchbag to his step...
Archimaira, as stated above.. That one fell flat.
Funny how that one is also one of the DMCA'd manga, even though it was on "Hiatus".. Just goes to show how vindictive the DMCA's were.
Ah.... Durian.....
The seeds taste really good... Durian ice cream is the bomb..
The fruit flesh.... It's sort of the indonesian Sürstrommung... You do not open the fruit Inside... ;)
It isn't.
This is more like combining Houses/bloodlines after three generations of outbreeding. Something the sensible Noble Houses did, and the Spanish Habsburgs forgot.
They're Cousins, but really only in name.
Bias-cut cheese-cloth interlining. Gives rigidity and stretch/flex in specific directions. If properly connected with the right stitches in the right places.
That top's a lot more solid than it looks.. Which is the whole point... ;)
The wrinkles you see in the dress are because the outermost...
Not the King, but he's so predictable as to what his reaction would be, it's easy to see how a faction within the Kingdom would ruthlessly exploit it.
If the King just killed his own child just to have an excuse to start a war... That's pure psychopath territory..
The magical miracle of dressmaking... 😋
Helped by the implied youthful gravity-resistant firmness and pertness of her Assets.
Those ladies exist, they're just really uncommon.
And no... you can't buy stuff like that off the shelf. To work as intended the dresses, especially the body, need to be...
IF ...
And even then... Any church inquisition gets their hands on MC... And even think about doing Inquisitiony things...
You would be depriving a Fenrir, a Faerie Dragon, and a ...King/Emperor Slime by now... of their Private Chef....
What do you think would happen?
And that's before the...
Sheesh... they really are incapable of breaking out of the japanese society mould and accept they're not in Kansas anymore, can't they? The Entitlement.... It's Real™
What're they going to do? Write a Sternly Worded Letter of Disapproval?
Also... Good idea to assault the Messenger who happens...