Angelica/Relationships

Angelica has a somewhat strained relationship with her parents. Due to her many failings in the past they are quick to assume the worst when their older daughter in involved. To avoid situations where Angelica's blunders would harm her, her family and even their entire house they actively try to keep Angelica out of positions of power and authority.

Angelica's younger sister Lieseleta, much like their parents, is often exasperated by her sister's lack of interest in basically anything that isn't related to combat and serving Lady Rozemyne.

Angelica had a very loyal mindset from the beginning, but Rozemyne's succesfull efforts to enable Angelica to graduate the Royal Academy and giving sentience to her manablade Stenluke have made Angelica utterly devoted to her to the point where she doesn't even hesitate to move against members of the archduke's family if it's to protect Rozemyne, as she demonstrated by pinning Wilfried to the ground and even raising her blade against Ferdinand at one point.

Rozemyne in turn also takes good care of Angelica and appreciates her loyalty and combat skills. She tries to also get Angelica to improve her mental capacities with limited successes.

In regards to her retainer Angelica seems to behave the same way she does to anything other than combat training - she just takes it as a given without spending a second more thought on it than necessary.

As the higher ranking noble and the clearly more intelligent of them, Angelica easily defers to his authority. They do not seem to have any interactions outside of work and Rozemyne's attempts to raise Angelica's grades.

The combat ability and loyalty that Angelica showed during the attack on the archduke's children right after Charlotte's baptism, as well as her use of enhancement magic impressed Bonifatius. While they were guarding the captured culprint, he decided to make her his disciple.

Under his tutelege Angelica became a superb fighter and the two developed a lot of respect for each other. Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 3 This went so far that Bonifatius even insisted her her marrying into their family which eventually led to Angelica getting engaged to Bonifatius grandson Eckhart.

Spoiler from Part 4 Volume 3

Angelica and Eckhart are engaged to be married, with her being slated to become his second wife. The two of them do not seem to have any feelings for each other, neither positive nor negative. Eckhart goes along with it due to pressure from his family, while Angelica does so because she blindly trusts Bonifatius who pushed for her marrying into his family.

Angelica feels a little sorry for Eckhart since "he could be anyone" as she put it, with her only requirement of a husband being that he does not get between her and her service to Rozemyne. Eckhart in turn also remarked that a girl as uninterested in love and romance would be a perfect fit for him right now.

Both of them are in absolutely no hurry to actually get married.

Unlike many other nobles Angelica treats grey robes the same way she treats any fellow noble, neither holding their lower status nor their association with the temple against them. She is even willing to defer to Rozemyne's attendant priests in any issue that does not interfere with her guard duty, something that is practically unthinkable for any other noble than her.

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