I was wondering why she was suddenly a princess and had a party, turns out it was two different people!
Feels like he has no sense of urgency, if he lets the timer go that close to the end without fine-combing anything that can relate to the event. That including raiding the libraries of all bigger organizations for clues, and flash-unpausing at times to ask various people (including guilds and village chiefs and so on) for big events (should have given him knowledge of that seal that both guild swordsman and princess went to.