Fang Li had not failed to notice it either.
Ever since last night, the way Rivi looked at Alice had become somewhat different from before.
Previously, Rivi had looked at Alice as though she were a barbarian he wanted to avoid at all costs.
But now, the way Rivi looked at Alice carried the interest of a man toward a woman.
Clearly, Rivi had been captivated by Alice's charm.
Otherwise, this prince would not have suddenly said something like that.
Alice, however, clearly had not noticed.
"Does dissolving the engagement not count?" Alice asked, deeply troubled. "But Father should already have discussed it with your country, and your country agreed to dissolve the engagement as well, didn't it?"
"Th... that was because the people around me kept saying that everyone in the Belzerg Kingdom was a barbarian!" Rivi hurriedly explained. "They said that in the Belzerg Kingdom, even a princess could casually slay powerful monsters, that they had none of a girl's charm at all, so I agreed to it!"
Thinking about it carefully, perhaps that was why Rivi had acted so impatient and arrogantly during the previous talks.
Those actions had been intended to distance himself from the people of Belzerg, ensuring that Belzerg's envoys would fail to obtain funding and that Alice, his former fiancée, would come to thoroughly hate him.
But now, Rivi had clearly regretted it.
"I... I was merely deceived!" Rivi pleaded earnestly. "S... so, as a symbol of our alliance and friendship, our engagement..."
Perhaps that was an understandable reason.
Although Rivi had indeed been far too quick to believe one side of the story, neither side had ultimately suffered too much unpleasantness.
In that case, considering the alliance between their two nations, restoring the engagement even under these circumstances did not seem entirely