So frustrating

Yeahhh...at first I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt because they're young, but they were adults in their past lives. I know people can be gullible, but they're killing me. :T

You both right. Just to add on if there are any reading these comments saying something along the lines of how they were traumatized after the abuse they went through with their mother, but trauma like such doesn't work the same way on adults (20-year-olds) the way it does on actual children. Sure they would be affected somewhat but it should so drastically affect their psyche the way it would actual 5-year-olds. At the very least, their ability to think with common logic should not have been affected unless they suffered something similar as actual children prior to reincarnation.

Well see, yes and no. I don't think the experience would be any less scary. They started over as babies, so let's say just for the sake of evaluating them...they had their memory and knowledge since they were babies. However, it also seems like they were abused for a very long time. Given their small size that experience could still be pretty mentally/physically scarring. HOWEVER, their common sense and intuition seem to be wayyyyyyyyyyyy off. Like, I get it, you don't trust the father because you were abandoned, but did you ever think to sit down and have a conversation with him? Ask questions? Seek out some meaning to the behavior? As an adult that's where my mind would be.

That is what I mean. I didn't mean to say it won't be scary or scarring. To be powerless in the face of danger is always scary and scarring no matter your age, but my point was the same as what you elaborated in that the common sense of asking more questions and attempting communication is missing. Also, it's incongruent in that they showed enough common sense about trusting Ishina before to tell them the brutal truth as opposed to the fake nicety by the other maids/servants, but cannot seem to do the same for this evil duke or whatever his position is. My only conclusion is that they were immature to begin with and this whole "lived 20 years prior" and remembered was pointless to the plot. It might have been more interesting/understanding if the story showed more of a struggle in them reconciling what they know/believe from their past lives and their current reality and the opposition they face (ie: the strict social structure between nobles and commoners of their current lives vs. modern day general acceptance one's birth had nothing to do with their worth).