On the wrist or on her face? In public, of course, while bringing all evidences. Let's destroy her image in public even further and make her feel helpless and useless. Destroying her mentally is better than offing her head after all. She is bent on doing social suicide after all, so, why not give her what she wants?
When you try to harass your adopted sister for being better than you, but you don't know that your adopted sister is an assassin that can splice your body seventy different ways
Huh Einrich is being fleshed out. Does this imply due to his mother’s stifiling upbringing he plays around with women less in a misogynistic way, and closer to an escapist way to try to have some control in his life. Hopefully this is a sign the writing of antagonistic characters will improve, who am I kidding the little sister exists.
Such childish and benign textbook methods of ‘villainess bullying heroine’
Like seriously, having your textbooks and belongings tampered with or having your shoes hidden are admittedly fucking annoying and irksome. But when a villainess using such paltry methods against the thieving cat of a heroine, it’s shouldn't be considered basis for exile or severe punishment.
Fucking flower garden heroines and capture targets (idiot cliche princes)
Maybe I won’t hate Einrich even at the end. Maybe~~
Serena, in a way, protected Scarnet and her friends from the flower vase. Small, probably just whatever from her. But I find it endearing
Oh but of course, the second her notebook ended up missing, the first thought that came to me is: "Rosemary stole it or had someone else do it for her"
Surprise surprise, she's doing all of that herself
I can't WAIT to watch her get the complete soul beaten out of her
Huh Einrich is being fleshed out. Does this imply due to his mother’s stifiling upbringing he plays around with women less in a misogynistic way, and closer to an escapist way to try to have some control in his life. Hopefully this is a sign the writing of antagonistic characters will improve, who am I kidding the little sister exists.
I think this is in part taking element from volume 2 story, about how children got affected by their parent.
The story revolves around siblings from neighbouring kingdom.
They are children of the (then) crown prince. One from his official marriage, and how wife run away from palace because she can’t take her husband never loving him even after all the patience she shown. Then a pair of boy and girl from his illicit affair with a gold digger he thought is “true love”.
The king is wrathful of his son’s stupidity, and thus declared he is skipping his son and will put his legitimate grandson in first line to the throne.
Children from the illicit affair are kept in palace so they can’t be used by political opponents. Their ambitious mother keep telling her son he is the rightful one for the crown. But the reality is, everyone looks down on the siblings (who acts like royalty even though the king had declared they will never be welcomed). The stress and feeling of inferiority came out as delinquent behaviour and also bullying.
Serena taught the crown prince to fight, and also her view that children are powerless so they can’t do anything with the adults trying to use them. The only way to get out is to be strong enough for you to control your own fate. So the prince found the resolve to execute his step brother.
Meanwhile, the stepsister is “missing” because Serena found her having potential as assassin specialising in seduction, and introduce her to Rick.
But... delinquent 2nd prince who acts as a contrasting character to the gentleman 1st prince seems to be a common enough otome character trope, because they will always live with the label of “number 2” and gets compared.
Also, this is probably when Einrich gets serious about Serena. Previously he seems to only treat her like a trophy. She’s sexy, got a good pedigree, and really hard to get. But in this scene, she became someone he believe can understand, accept, and watch his back. Someone he think is worth taking risk if it’s what it takes to get her to be by his side.
