I didn't catch this from last chapter, but I'm very pleasantly surprised Katerina was also invited to join the dinner. Finally, Anastasia's family is introduced as well. Now I have a name to go on my notes for her mother and her brother. It seems Anastasia and Friedrich take after their mom more.
Kabedon! Ana kabedon'd Allen!
Well, damn, indeed.
Seems the duchess isn't very opposed either to the idea her daughter has romantic feelings for Allen. So her engagement to the stupid prince is officially cancelled, that makes things
much easier. The duke is also encouraging him to continue being her "friend" in school while being aware his daughter has growing romantic feelings for him. I like her family already, they're not automatically prejudiced just because he and his mother are commoners. They actually entertain the idea their daughter is in love with a commoner. Normally they'd just set up another engagement with another noble house, but thankfully that hasn't happened, at least not yet.
Dungeon exploration with Ana and Margaret are more fun to see than the usually stuffy, if not infuriating school scenes with Amy's insufferable clique. I'm surprised he easily showed them his guns, but I guess he trusts Ana and Margaret enough to do it.
Doing dungeon runs with Ana as a duo♥ That's not very different from an MMO gamer couple on a power leveling session.
Heck, I'd consider those as dates if they both had fun and learned more about each other in the process.