Papa's intuition is naturally better but is sadly still off. At least he knows its got SOMETHING to do with him, he just can't put his finger on it.
ML be playing these fools though. Well... being a beast, he'd probably be back at least before the selection ends (or when he has to make a public appearance... eventually.)
At the cost of shipping scenes though. While I like scheming MC, we... can't have these two separate!