Let's be real - had he tried to sell or even just gift the pelt to the nobles, some bigshot from a guild or a noble would have stolen the credit and tried to slander or kill Yajin to silence him. Yajin suffering from having zero clout is the running theme in all plots in this story.
So the answer to her question if Alice values Clara for herself still revolves entirely around Iruma?
This was much weaker than it could and should have been.
What an odd manga. The plot is on such a slow burn that it's unclear if it's going anywhere at all. It came out swinging with grand ideas about genociding all aliens and introducing an alien hunting organization, but since then it's just the characters going back and forth about their...
"You have passed the Scala Exam, but we do not grant you the rank of Vav."
"What? How can you do this? This is outrageous! It's unfair! How can you pass Scala and not be a rank Vav?"