"Fine, I can apologize to you for this. I really shouldn't have stopped a knight. I took it too much for granted." Caroso said, "Now that it's happened, we should think carefully about what to do next."
Caroso did not continue what he had been about to say. Celica was still here.
Ailin opened her mouth. She was the sort who responded to gentleness, not force. If Caroso had argued with her, she could have kept arguing with him forever.
But Caroso had backed down, and she suddenly did not know what to say. She calmed down quite a bit as well.
Caroso could be anything, but he cared about saving face and handled matters with methods rather than blind stubbornness. Otherwise, all those political classes he had taken would have been for nothing.
Clearly, the King of the Pander Empire had only raised Ailin as an ordinary princess, intending for her to marry someday. He had hardly taught her any politics, which had shaped her into who she was.
Caroso sat down on the sofa and said to Ailin, "Sit. Let's think carefully about how to solve this."
Ailin sat down when she heard that. "The best opportunity has already passed. He probably..."
At that, Ailin clenched her teeth.
She could not blame Caroso for everything, either.
But... that knight had suffered too much.
"Let's put what happened before aside. Otherwise, it'll affect what we do next. I stopped you in this matter, and I was wrong, so I'll see this through to the end." A sharp gleam flashed in Caroso's eyes.
``` [Holy shit?]
[Damn, Boss Caro was originally trying to drag Ailin into this, so why does it look like he's helping her run this auction out of guilt?]
[It really does!]
[Is this part of the