Yea, the soldier seems suspicious to me, too. But more importantly... They get access to the princess without having to, say, meet the King, Prime Minister, or some other equally important figure for vetting?
At first I tought Reese was the mentioned princess and she was decided to marry the teacher. ? Then it was just her sister who would marry someone, but actually is ill. ?
@GodGinrai I believe she brought them there without any warning as she escaped without telling anyone apparently.
Rather, this maid seems to be the head of maids as she can boss around an imperial soldier/guardian. Her authority should be quite high too.
Well, I do agree it's still a bit too much to allow total strangers into the soon-to-be-married princess' room just like this.
Soldier guy seems like the kind of character that is in love with the princess he has sworn to protect and gets overzealous at protecting her now,
only to later crying dogeza in front of mc after he heals her (if she is ill at all)
@GodGinrai
The king seems a bit excessive, unless the king is a really doting father or insane like the king in Berserk. Prime minister would also be strange: what would he have to do with the king's family matters? A prime minister is a political office handling affairs of the state. A senechal/steward might be more appropriate if it requires a really high official in the first place. I'd say the queen might have been a good choice, or perhaps a prince (of an adult age). Assuming such are around.
@Kaarme Rather, the difficulty in meeting anyone in those positions should just reduce the likelihood of ever meeting the princess. It's not like them being hard to meet makes the guard and procedures around the royal family any less suffocating.
@GodGinrai
I'm willing to ignore the general difficulty since Reese was there. She's a sister and has the permit to come and go, without much ado. It was only a question if people of a somewhat known background (Reese's friends from the school) she willingly brough along were allowed to meet the princess. As we saw, that proposition was already met with 50% opposition (that was overruled). In the end if Riefel was in grave danger anyway, what was there to lose? The king himself might have allowed it. We can assume Senia, as Riefel's personal attendant, could judge whether something is appropriate or not. Otherwise she wouldn't have kept her position for years.
I feel like this is already solid ten steps into overanalysing...
@Kaarme Yea, we're definitely far past the "acceptable amount of analysis" line. But honestly, I feel there should have at least been more resistance to that meeting than what we got, so it therefore killed my immersion a bit.