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Still trying to figure out the gender of the emperor the TL keeps swapping.
As angry as I am at the Crown Prince I have to say he was also a child raised in a birdcage to be useless and non threatening to the nobles in order to preserve his life just like his sister. The only difference is that she has 7 years of hindsight as well as an imperial education in alchemy and possibly politics. I'm really unsurprised he was used and actually impressed that they needed to brainwash him honestly.