It's Good to Save a Friend

Being by a friend's side when they are struggling the most is a Popular Person's Duty.

Even if that place is a Cliff to the Underworld, or the Imperial Palace where the Emperor is Operating in the shadows.

A Popular Person doesn't abandon their friends~.

Even though she tied a part of her hair with a Purple Ribbon, Pastel herself was strictly Pink-Pink incarnate.

If Ellie was suffering Confinement in the Imperial Palace, she had the refreshing audacity to come save her, even if it meant making a remark like 'A Dad who torments his Daughter's friend has no Parental Qualification' to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor.

…Even if it was an embarrassing remark.

It was a remark that Mom, watching from the afterlife, would stare daggers at, but since she was in the afterlife anyway, wouldn't it be fine?

I think Mom, who died without doing her Reverse Harem Management, is also responsible!

I think Mom has no right to say anything even if her Daughter suddenly declares a Stepfather to save a friend. If anything, I have a lot more to say!

She proudly declared this to Mom and turned her head...