I can't tell if the empress is evil, like she seems like a decent person until she said that lionel will die if his territory doesn't flourish within 7 years. I also hope the crown prince and lionel make up, they were so cute in that one panel
Yeah I was feeling the same thing, like, Lionel being the way he is would NEVER of actually made the Dutchy better even before the Empress told him to. I mean, he wasn't doing a good job to begin with--but still. Like what you said, it felt more like because of the way he is she had no other choice than to make such drastic measures for him to actually even attempt at it. We'll see eventually tho!
ok so why are ppl hating on her, you can't tell me you wouldn't have hated it too if u were in her position and knew NOTHING. Nobody was willing to tell her anything even though she was the center of it all??? the ppl hating her should be hating the emperor, that mf literally admitted it himself that he did it out of "childish stubborness"











omg I love how pathetic pina is ts so satisfyinggg