Now we can see how the comic relief "obliviousness" can actually fuck everything up in an instance. Hopefull MC will learn from this but i highly doubt it. At least there are characters in-universe who are aware of the clusterfuck she just caused like the heroine.
Almelia is a very awkward girl who is extremely easy to misread as cruel when she just wants to come off as a stoic authority.
Almelia is an awkward girl who is guaranteed to come off as cruel because shes been abused into fearing the repercussions of acting in any way besides as a stoic authority. She falls in love with Serina because the Gyaru ditz is seemingly INVULNERABLE to criticism, open about herself and her emotions and flaws, and observant enough to understand the difference between discipline and severity while also not holding anything of that difference against Almelia.
Except
Serina's Gyaru Obfuscating stupidity is a mask to maintain composure. We've seen that Serina is observant, but now we can accurately identify that shes a highly inflexible person, who requires a plan for any interaction to overcome her personal insecurities.
What we have actually seen the real Serina to be is someone who has quite literally lost everything. Shes been Isekai'd but she is originally an outgoing person who had lots of buddies and maybe even a few friends, a caring family, and the near infinite horizon of the internet as mechanisms to support herself. But that woman died, lost everything and everyone she cared about, and struck rock bottom so hard it cracked, dropping her into a new Universe. And where every Manga, Anime, and Novel will tell you that getting Isekai'd is something special, and you will be able to achieve legends within the newfound infinite horizon of potential you were cast upon, this woman found herself as the baby Serina Flamel, a poor baroness who has barely enough magical capability to cast a single fireball, after which she will be physically and mentally crippled for a few hours at least.
Its getting to the point where i dont know if Serina even knows who she is anymore, if hiding behind the Gyaru Armor is all she knows about herself. Or is it the blade she wields to manipulate and guide Almelia out of her dark fate. I cant tell because weve only gotten glimpses of who Serina actually is when shes vulnerable, as weve only seen it when she was moping after private sparring previously and her crippling impostor syndrome when she monologued about how her mastery of the arcane is literally impossible within this world. We dont know if she was just legitimately Hannibal Lecturing the inferior mortals around her, or if she was trying to psych herself up in a world constructed by her dieing mind in her final moments, where nothing is real and she is powerless about the ultimate outcome.
The only thing im really certain of in this scene though, is that Estelle in game, and by extension Gyaru Serina, are not aware of the aftermath of the clash of Fiancées at the end of this chapter. Noble Serina was likely expelled in retaliation by Almelia for betraying Almelia's infatuation, where as Almelia has come to love the mask that is Gyaru Serina. Since Game Estella never saw Almelia become truly depressed, Gyaru Serina doesnt have a perspective of just how much she just hurt her master.
