When you notice her "Jewel Eater" Rep that you assume was restricted to her Home Kingdom somehow made it as far as the Empire! You realize the Author's premise HEDGES on "misunderstandings!" Meaning this won't be THE LAST TIME this shit happens, no matter what "Jewel Eater" is stuck to FMC because otherwise the writer can't
And I'm VERY curious on what the writer is doing here with her explaining nothing at all and just acts nuts! (Guy above me said it best, she's acting VERY Autistic, I feel the artists and writer BADLY convey how FMC acted at that moment! Her "Smile" I can get, but really, no one with common sense would act that way trying to help someone they met! She even acts SHOCKED just making claims with no real proof and acting a maniac, also DEMANDING to hand it over to HERSELF was idiotic! This also had the Artists and Writer fuck themselves over as they should have had the Maid's bring up her "Villainess Name" that indicates the Lies about her reached the Empire AFTER that scene! By having FMC know BEFORE, it just makes her look even MORE stupid that she acted like that because it just PROVES the BS about her being obsessive over Jewelry! I mean she COULDN'T wait till AFTER to talk with the Prince about it, she had to act like "she never had a Ounce of Etiquette Training? I refuse to see what happened as aything but a LITERAL unsubtle IDIOT/CONFLICT BALL for the sake of conflict has to be something with her that makes her hyperfocus on the task she places herself on that she only realizes too late that she's fucked herself over! Like as the Prince said last chapter, by smacking the crown, even if a fake, and with her "artifically enforced" bad reputation! Even if she was correct, she still allowed her enemy, her ex "an excuse to condemn her!")