Feelings (Part I)
The young tamer told his companion how the Emperor had managed to hide his daughter's existence from everyone and how the Empress had never done anything to remedy that situation. He told her that Sui had spent her adolescence locked in a room and that the only moments of freedom were caused by her escapes from the Palace.
Shioko was a great supporter of the female gender and was convinced that in that era, women could not express their true potential and were seen as mere sexual objects capable only of satisfying the needs of men.
They did not have the right to participate in political life and the only ways to get to the top ranks of society were through recruitment in a guild or through marriage to a wealthy man.