These details accumulate together to form a kind of stubborn thoroughness—as if the Empress is silently declaring: even if the world collapses, she still insists on squeezing these trivial concerns into every crevice.
All this was just like back then, when her parents passed away due to an alchemy experiment, leaving her the only member of the family, Aunt Annie burst into her life as an old friend of her mother.
Back then, Annie was still the Eldest Princess of the Royal Family, yet she would always rush to Brandelis Manor after military meetings, just to care for Perfikot who had lost her parents.
She attempted to adopt Perfikot in the name of the Royal Family, solely to properly care for the child who had just lost all relatives.
However, Perfikot at the time rejected the concern from everyone around her, like a wounded young beast, she isolated herself within Brandelis Manor.
