This is just my theory but maybe the emperor has been going to where she sleeps and talks to her and maybe the brother does it too so when she woke up and 'recognized' the brother but not him, it hurt his feelings. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
I'm so with you, I've been waiting on the ending and just rereading it over and over for years. I'm glad I didn't have to learn how to read Japanese just so I could translate the ending myself.
This is just my theory but maybe the emperor has been going to where she sleeps and talks to her and maybe the brother does it too so when she woke up and 'recognized' the brother but not him, it hurt his feelings. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
That's a good theory I like it