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She's easily the most overtly connected to themes of sexual assault/agency over ones body. Though the theme itself is deeply woven into a stupidly large amount of scenes in the manga. See to drawing seals on peoples bodies, the scene where Sasaran has Agott (sickening btw), and the weight of memory erasure spells.

But.

It's not lost on me that of all known apprentice outfits Luluci's is the most revealing. Stay with me now.

Her apprentices wardrobe is composed of loose silken textures, exposed shoulders/arms, and light pastel colors.

It's fairly exposed in comparison to other outfits seen in the manga. The girls in Qifrey's atelier and Jujy are fully covered head to toe. Even Ininia who is aligned with the brimmed caps is still fully covered. It's also good to note that the intent of witches robes are to obfuscate non-witches view of them casting. And though Luluci's outfit could achieve that goal it would be relatively difficult too. Again, the other girls outfits mentioned are composed of weighty materials that would be harder to move in harsh weather climates-and their outfits are more apt for said enviornments-while Luluci's movements could exposed by a light breeze.

Now on to why I think Luluci's apprentice outfit is the way it is. There's two reasons. Her own masters bias and how little childrens(!) agency is valued in witch society. Master's design their apprentices outfits, and it seems that Luluci's master let his perversion of women guide his design. Exposed skin and a belt meant to tighten up the silhouette.

The revealing nature of his apprentices clothes also gives them nowhere to hide in times of stress. Time and time again in the manga characters like Coco, Tetia, and Euini curl into their outfits to hold onto a sense of safety.

Luluci doesn't get to have that. She's exposed to world, and with the way her master treats her, it's on purpose.

They're given to this man like a product.

It's so well done on Shirahama's part to execute Luluci's belief in the knights moralis not just through the explicit content of her backstory, but the implied context as well. The way she's dressed sticks out sorely against almost all other characters we know at this point.

ITS SO GOOD I'M ACTUALLY GOING CRAZY.

So now I gotta shitpost about every aspect of it I love and ofc I'm starting with the knights moralis bc (to reiterate) holy shit they're so interesting.

EVEN JUST THE DESIGN OF THEIR CAPS. like forgive me if anyones pointed this out before and I'm just stupid but the design of the caps is so fascinating. Like it's noted throughout pretty much the entire manga that the presence of a brim or anything that obscures someones vision of a witches face is bad. BUT the knights moralis have the visors-for lack of a better term-on their caps. And it's not just a personal choice for a handful of them, it's standard, it's uniform. The visors already look like they can obscure the vision of the witch wearing the moralis caps, but more than that if they were to slip even an inch everyone else would be blind to the witch wearing the hat. I also think it's worth noting that the visors would blind the knight, it's not the case of a brim (typically) the witch could see through them. It's like a one way/two way mirror situation.

The knights are blind to justice, or in Easthies case blinded by justice.

The visual storytelling is actually a work of art because before we're introduced to the knights motivations (like Luluci) we're shown how the presence of the knights is like slapping a bandaid on a bullet wound. Like it's no coincidence that the knights aren't presented as a strictly good entity visually, nor a fully bad one. They're representative of the systems they uphold (the blinding capacity of their caps) and the people that make up the system (Luluci, Galga, etc) and how there's no full goodness to their presence or even their name.