Like others have mentioned I don't trust the king to protect her one bit. The problem I see is the precedent this sets. Here we have a situation where he sees himself forced to use her in spite of what risk that put her in and he was willing to rationalize his decisions. What tells us that such...
So my prediction: It's a bit of a time shenanigan involved and the diary she read as the princess is actually her own of the life she lived in this different world. And the ferret is maybe actually the brown haired guy from the cover.
I'm curious how bad I guessed.
Dissolving the armed forces, huh? Makes sense. Without a centralised military force it would fall back upon the individual nobles to provide security for their own realms. This in term would weaken the influence of the crown. Because any future decisions would have to be made under the...
It was hillarious when Kayoko realised that it wasn't just a figure of speech - that Hibiki will actually make her swallow needles if she breaks the promise.
What rubs me the wrong way, is how little agency Reene has in this whole matter. She is pretty much treated like an object. And instead of presenting how irritating and humiliating this all is, even the author just rolls with it.