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I don’t know if it’s better or worse that the servants are talking about the duke (not) marrying his sister, instead of the people involved.

And it’s. It’s not a joke, or at least doesn’t feel like one. The writing is not comical or show that the characters feel the idea is absurd. So what is happening here.

I understand that equality is important inside the academy, but the crown prince’s health isn’t just confined to inside the academy. If he fell ill and died of overwork, that has political ramifications beyond any school council’s authority.

And Eldegarde is clearly taking advantage of that. The school is trying to be a bubble, a small world where monarchy doesn’t exist. But it’s all fake. What they do at school HAS to impact those outside it, otherwise the school actually has no purpose. So Eldegarde uses this false pretense of a world where he has more authority than the crown prince to affect the real world where the crown prince has more authority than him.

Overall it’s a stupid system and the ML should have contacted his parents the moment official duties were being delayed.