Something happened to Nashali? Hearing Princess Anna's words, Countess Xenia rarely showed a look of surprise. Then, she instinctively looked toward Abner.
Seeing this, Abner smiled. "You and Her Highness can go to the lounge. Don't worry about me."
He was not familiar with Miss Nashali anyway. At most, he had seen her bathing while hiding out at the Hot Spring Resort. He could not be bothered with this trivial matter... Besides, she was merely one of the candidates for "Tolerant Einhorn."
Meanwhile, when Princess Anna saw Xenia actually seeking Abner's opinion, she kept a composed expression on the surface, but was deeply shocked inside.
In her eyes, that pretty boy from the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess ought to have belonged to the countess. Who would have thought reality was the complete opposite...
The way things looked now, the countess was clearly completely wrapped around his finger... The adult world was truly complicated...
Even as she entered the lounge with Xenia, Anna was still pondering that question.
Elsewhere, after Xenia left, Abner picked up a glass of red wine from the dining area and mingled through the crowd, openly eavesdropping on their conversations.
"Admiral Beliak's air raid this time was absolutely brilliant! Loen was completely unprepared and could not even organize a decent counterattack."
"Yeah... It's a pity that the ironclads Loen had bragged about for so long were not in Pritz Harbor. Otherwise, we could have bombed them straight to the bottom of the harbor this time."
"I still think it was a little too easy... Of course, perhaps the Empire's intelligence agencies played an enormous role."
"Only that useless Demitryev got shot down... Heh, I said long ago that promoting a commoner officer like him to general was tarnishing Feysac's glory!"
"By the way, both Admiral