Parasites or not, I mainly like that the Shadows are not all depicted as evil, since the story is making it pretty clear that they can rebel against the house.
@I_need_a_break It isn't really the German Empire, it is more of a made up empire based as much on Bavaria as it is on Germany as a whole, as far as I can tell.
Naming a character after Richelieu isn't really all that more far fetched than having named the imperial family after Bismarck and...
In a sense she comes off more like an adopted elder sister that has to fill a motherly role, rather than an actual stepmother, not all that different from how the eldest sibling can sometimes take on a motherly/fatherly role to the younger siblings.
In either case I like stories like this where...
@karupin Not that I've read the webnovel, but I wouldn't be surprised if the author stopped with the webnovel in favour of just continuing it through the manga.
The only connections to the historical Artemisia I can see is their name and being active in Florence.
Artemisia was born in Rome and was already married when she came to Florence, and by the current time in the story she would have returned to Rome.
I wouldn't even be surprised if Artemisia...
To be honest when this began being translated I only expected it to be a 1 volume story, yet here we are at a volume 5 chapter from the end of 1999 and the story is still ongoing.
@dontknowhatosay The only medicine they mentioned for that was that they used boiled willow tree branches to treat the girls fever, that is not even close to be able to say that they have access to proper antibiotics.