Shuri submits as witness a "White Priestess," and the court, puzzled, questions whether she intends to prove her chastity or something. Shuri: "Yes, Your Majesty. The deceased Marquis Johannes de Neuvanstein and I have never slept together during our 800-day marriage. Your Majesty just now permitted summoning witnesses and submitting additional evidence, so I will immediately annul the marriage according to the evidence that the priestess will now show." Lucretia gets mad at this and takes the fact that the two did not sleep together as an insult to her brother Johannes, saying how "If nothing else, Johannes had libido greater than others." Shuri: "Did you have a hobby of snooping around your brother's bedroom, Lady Sebastian [Lucretia]? How would you know anything of my husband's libido?" Everybody laughs. Lucretia: "Regardless, does it make any sense that while living with a woman like that he didn't sleep with her at all?!" Shuri: Girl, thanks for the compliments. Shuri forges forward introducing the witness and demand annulment of the marriage so that Jeremy, as head of the Neuvansteins, can request a duel of judgment. (I love how she assumes he'll win.) She has an internal monologue here about her decision to abandon the marquise title after the court questions whether this is something the deceased Johannes would have wanted. As she re-solidifies her decision— "Understood. Everyone, the circus is over." The empress has spoken! "Emperor." / "Now what?" / "I request the trial's dismissal." Empress: "Lady Neuvanstein, it seems the annulment you requested is unneeded, as it looks like you are already in your appropriate position."
Shuri submits as witness a "White Priestess," and the court, puzzled, questions whether she intends to prove her chastity or something.
Shuri: "Yes, Your Majesty. The deceased Marquis Johannes de Neuvanstein and I have never slept together during our 800-day marriage. Your Majesty just now permitted summoning witnesses and submitting additional evidence, so I will immediately annul the marriage according to the evidence that the priestess will now show."
Lucretia gets mad at this and takes the fact that the two did not sleep together as an insult to her brother Johannes, saying how "If nothing else, Johannes had libido greater than others."
Shuri: "Did you have a hobby of snooping around your brother's bedroom, Lady Sebastian [Lucretia]? How would you know anything of my husband's libido?"
Everybody laughs.
Lucretia: "Regardless, does it make any sense that while living with a woman like that he didn't sleep with her at all?!"
Shuri: Girl, thanks for the compliments.
Shuri forges forward introducing the witness and demand annulment of the marriage so that Jeremy, as head of the Neuvansteins, can request a duel of judgment. (I love how she assumes he'll win.) She has an internal monologue here about her decision to abandon the marquise title after the court questions whether this is something the deceased Johannes would have wanted. As she re-solidifies her decision—
"Understood. Everyone, the circus is over." The empress has spoken!
"Emperor." / "Now what?" / "I request the trial's dismissal."
Empress: "Lady Neuvanstein, it seems the annulment you requested is unneeded, as it looks like you are already in your appropriate position."