I mentioned earlier how the Handler really doesn't give a shit about the Eden kids' bus being hijacked until she learns Anya and Damian have been captured. I don't think this reflects badly on her - she is a spy boss for the West, she is not there to care about the welfare of children of Ostania's richest and most powerful. That's the secret police's job.
The one important plot point potentially relevant for the future here isn't so much the Handler doesn't care about the Eden kids, but why she would not call Twilight, especially when the first and most obvious thing everyone at WISE wondered about was whether to get him involved. Maybe it's because he's the best agent they have? Or maybe it's because the agency by now seems to consider him a dad? It's left ambiguous.
Sylvia's reason for having him off the board is because he's already on a mission somewhere else. But we all know that 1) Twilight is kind of a super spy and can Get Things Done quickly when he needs to, and 2) WISE often throws several missions at him at once. So what's going on? (apart from Endo needing to take him out of this storyline... for now?)
As others have pointed out, it's probably because the Handler understands Twilight is absolutely compromised and loves Anya dearly, and he'd probably to something very silly for his daughter. I mean, even in Chapter 1/ Episode 1 when he arguably hasn't grown attached to the little girl yet, he risked his own life to enter enemy territory to save her. And he did make WISE rent a whole castle and sent every agent they have to play make-believe with his daughter. And there's also this look - anime only, but not that far off from how she smiles at Twilight when she talks about Anya later on in the manga.
She knows. And that's why Sylvia released Twilight to go on a family holiday to play with Anya. She jokingly tells him it's a 'mission' to take care of Anya's care and education... but that's only because she knows her protege is a bit dense when it comes to things like this and needs a prod. But also because it is very amusing to her.
And Twilight knows that she knows too, and that she had in fact, sent him to spend time with Anya because she knows he wants to. Otherwise... why the lack of a WISE pin throughout the trip? Why did he deliberately ignore all the listening devices littered around the cruise ship?
At the end of the Cruise Ship Arc, we had this little exchange between Sylvia and Twilight. Both acknowledge that the holiday was indeed not a real mission. And the Handler smiles again, and observes that either Twilight is highly capable - of being a spy and locking away how he feels about his family, or completely incompetent - being in complete denial that he has feelings for his family in the first place. She knows.
Which again leads us to why she would not notify Twilight that his daughter has been kidnapped. She must understand there will be consequences for her for that decision. Maybe because she doesn't want to have her best agent confront his own feelings which would definitely compromise Operation Strix? Or maybe, just maybe she knows the news would break him. And as much of a cold woman she can be when it comes to spy craft, she actually cares for Twilight, and don't want him to fear his family coming to harm, not again.
She had, after all, a daughter around Anya's age too. She knows.
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