Sumi's days of poor mental health are certainly coming to a middle! Shiho goes to counseling! And someone's been having a weird time of things since April.

Next chapter, an Eggy Boy finally shows up.

I have to say, it's been tremendous fun making people scream about Sumi's mental state.

For a last-minute addition to chapter 1, 'it's Royal now!' is paying dividends.

Especially since canon didn't really get into her trauma due to it being from Akiren's point of view, not hers.

Also I really want to give the poor girl a hug. She really needs it badly.

SHE DOES

I think my favorite so far is managing to twist her into feeling inferior at her actual superior skill set because she can't conceive of having any positive traits that aren't borrowed from Kasumi.

Also because of Maruki brainwashing her into being her sister, who didn't have Sumire's skill at cooking.

Which is another level of fucked up honestly.

That too, yeah.

'It's my right as the elder sister' is doing her no favors here.

Not at all.

real Kasumi, kidding around: It's my right as the elder sister!
Sumi: Her right to be better at everything and mine to be superfluous.

(Pretty sure that in the original timeline Sumi died on or near her birthday, having chosen the least inconvenient method for others to clean up she could find.)

She hasn't yet done the work to reframe 'I killed her' into 'she thought I was worth dying for.' She can't comprehend that it needs doing, at the moment.

Her Palace is gonna be a whole Thing.