That night, lying in her bed beside her puppet, Anna was thinking about how to grow the Army in the future. Her thoughts also drifted to the warning she had received from the being.
She had great difficulty to bring the puppet there secretly and was almost caught by her maid Ciel. She'd be mad if her lady was now walking with another woman while dismissing her trusty maid.
So she had the puppet pulled up through the window. It was only possible because it was light and the other 9 pushed it up.
Anna then remembered to code how to climb on the puppet and left it in her room while she had dinner. She had also remembered to change her clothes.
The puppet was allowed remain there until very early morning. After that it'd have to leave before Ciel came to wake her up.
Anna was sweating and breathing heavily but her mind was clearer than ever. She didn't know how to handle the warning about the too much indulgence warning.
Plus there was her sister's last wish, "Be the good older sister I couldn't be."
"Maybe if I use these puppets to secretly sort out some of the troubles of my father's lands, that Being won't hold any grudges against me?" She muttered to herself.
As for being the good older sister, she had clear reference of her own older sister from her previous life, so she was not very worried about it.
But what about indulging too much? How much is actually too much? Will her sleeping with the puppets every night be considered too much?
There was no answer to these questions for now. Soon her physical tiredness took over and she fell into deep sleep.
In the morning, her sleep broke when the first morning light fell on her face. The warmth was pleasant but the light on her eyes were a bit disturbing.
She woke up only to find the puppet still beside her. Its equipments like the canteen, helmet, mess kit all over the floor. Courtesy of last night.
But more than that, she remembers clearly designing the function of collecting the equipments and leaving through the window before morning. But something hadn't worked.
Anna put her right hand on the puppet's head trying to figure out what went wrong. But then Ciel knocked.
"Young miss, it's time to wake up. Master and mistress are waiting." Ciel said like it was the most normal routine. "Do you need any help to dress up?"
Thinking quick Anna decided, now is not the time to fix the codes. "No Ciel, I can do it by myself. Tell mother that I'll be there in 5 minutes."
"As you wish young lady," Ciel replied from outside. There was a hint of disappointment in her voice. After all she liked dressing up Anna, who was a beauty in her own right.
However, Anna had no time to rest, she immediately collected all the equipments and dressed the puppet accordingly.
Then she dragged the puppet towards the window and just tossed it out crashing inside a bush.
After the cleanup of the criminal records, Anna rushed to the bathroom washed her face and tried to get dressed hurriedly.
But alas, she was not yet so familiar with these frilly dresses to wear them before a ravellie. She got entangled in the laces.
Meanwhile, Ciel came knocking on the door again, "Young miss are you done yet?"
Resigning to her fate she called called her maid in. This immediately got the maid fired up. She rushed inside and saw the seen of the little girl all tangled up.
Her dignified young lady, heir of House Heldt… knotted up like a prisoner of war.
The gown was inside-out, the ribbons twisted into impossible knots. One lace had looped around Anna's neck and arm, pinning her own hand to her head. She stood frozen, glaring at the mirror like it had personally betrayed her.
Ciel let out a laugh. After a hearty laugh, she went ahead and tried to help her young miss out of the dilemma. However, she also found the dress to be too tightly entangled to be salvaged.
Finally after somehow getting her out of the dress by cutting the laces with a scissor Ciel dressed Anna in a cute pink dress.
Then she sniffed the room and felt a weird smell from her young miss' room.
"What is it, Ciel?" Anna asked suspicious if she got caught.
"it's nothing young miss, we must hurry otherwise your mother will be angry."
Remembering her mother's nature, Anna rushed down. She'd think about what went wrong with the puppet later.