Lakshmi Bai was somewhat helpless, but she could only nod in agreement. Though each of her attendants possessed extraordinary skills, if they truly angered that woman... merely thinking of it sent a chill through her entire body.
Naturally, Lakshmi Bai had brought these people along for a special purpose, certainly not for show. It was simply that plans could never keep pace with changes, and besides, she herself did not entirely agree with the prince's approach.
Although Lakshmi Bai had not interacted much with Sophie, she knew that Sophie was absolutely someone not to be provoked. For this, Lakshmi Bai could only blame herself for being too lax with her subordinates, spoiling these people rotten.
In truth, that was clearly not what the visitors meant. Lakshmi Bai's attendants had never been qualified to enter the imperial palace from the beginning. The Austrian Empire's imperial palace was not somewhere one could enter and leave at will; they merely wished to tactfully remind the woman before them to mind her status and conduct.
Yet in Lakshmi Bai's eyes, Franz's status was probably much the same as that of the Jhansi prince. After all, India seemed even larger than Europe in her eyes.
Indians of this era were just like that—utterly inferior and utterly arrogant at once. On other people's territory, they liked to speak of their own rules; back in their homeland, they had to obey others' arrangements.
After all, there were not so many rules in the Jhansi prince's palace. Even her attendants could come and go as they pleased.
In fact, not only the Jhansi Principality—even the Maratha Empire had long since declined. After so many years under British colonization, in this age when rites had crumbled and music had fallen silent, stressing propriety and law instead made one seem