天下制覇

Is there some reason for the cloud border on the entire episode?

Impressions:

I still can't understand the headspace for this premise, and the more it tries to explain the minutia of how its particular version of cloning works, the wose it gets. She goes on and on about how her original never allows her to sleep in a bed, make her own choices, have her own life, which is okay because she's not a person and just a slave. And then… just leaves it at that. There's a five minute info dump about magical clone slave mechanics that only makes the girl come off as even more monstrous and petty. Even the premise in the title isn't really touched on this episode. She's a clone, who's a slave, being used by a petulant teenage girl to avoid problems. No complaints. No laments. She is not a person, and therefore this is how things are.

I would think obviously that the story would be about them both coming to the most very basic cogito ergo sum conclusion, but anime has disappointed me on that front far too many times before, and again, that ain't in this episode. Nothing even close to that, despite the twenty straight minutes of internal narration about how much of a slave she is or the slave mechanics. So it may indeed not ever come and it may just be about the ephemeral beauty of being someone's magical slave clone despite liking a boy. Again, assuming that indeed she does start doing so in a future episode. Someone else will have to find out.