Well, now that she's come to realize that her decisions as a commander brought suffering to her people and that Khalid's betrayal ended up being good for their country she lost her motivation to get revenge. I think that's why she thought it was time to let her past self go and accept living as Luci. Her fellow knights of sitora are probably gonna be back in the next few chapters. As Luci is an easy and valuable target they'd probably go after her. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
It'd be kinda funny sight to see. Anyway, the plot is thickening. Little by little the past is revealing itself and Luci is moving on. If she doesn't, then there's no future to Zed x Luci
the story is interesting but there are so many plots and wholes......so luci and estelle are related, and Luci's father loves her but doesn't really love her, and zed/jed/the good duke or whatever he's called knew estelle from before, and khalid had some reason in betraying his country bcs there was a tyrant ruling it and estelle didn't notice that and she only cared about having been recognized thus her undying loyalty and she kinda went to war for a tyrant king which makes her (as the story says) foolish, but then again she really had no choice cos the king wouldn't have listened to her anyway or he could have killed her but at the same time khalid also killed her bcs he was obsessed with her and when she was reborn she wanted to take revenge on khalid but she didn't really work for it??? like she was hoping the opportunity would present itself eventually?? and i guess the power struggle between the crown prince and the blonde prince was a way to make estelle/luci realize that while her life was all about serving her country, she didn't really cared for the political situation in it but it seems like a big part of the plot just to make her realize that??? and she not only has no intention of telling the duke that she's estelle but she's renouncing to herself by saying that estelle won't exist anymore bcs she's luci now but the whole plot about the star falling an all of that was that she has returned??? also being so angry at khalid (which is very valid, obvsly) and reacting to his provocations when khalid himself said that the only thing he doesn't want is for her to ignore him??? like, i know you're furious but he himself told you what he dreads the most and the thing that would hurt him most is the thing that less effort takes you (ignore him). also i think that they presented the sitara?? knights at the beginning (the old comrades of estelle and khalid) then forgot about them cos i was thinking about them for like 70 chapters and they just didn't appear and i am grateful to the translator(s) for i really can't understand some parts....the change the way the names are written and some deeper parts of the convos can't the deciphered lolol. anyway