i feel like the duke treasures the late empress so much. maybe he fell in love with her and yknow what's next. but idk too because of that flashback with ishina on the previous chapters. it looked like he gripped hard the empress' wrist and that shit ain't sitting right with me. (oKAY SO WTF I FORGOT THAT IT MENTIONED THAT THE LATE EMPRESS AND THE DUKE ARE DISTANT RELATIVES SO FUCK THIS THEORY OR SMTH)
this mf is really testing me though TuT i just wanna JSHDIDJSIDHDJSKSJDJSJ GRRRR BARK BARK WOOF him : D the part where he gets what he deserves better be great cos imma isekai in this shit if it isn't