In love war? HELL YES!Yep, she lost.
While he may not be interested in her romantically; that doesn't mean he is being honest about his feelings. He won the competition for her sake, and he is pretending like that is not the case.Thanks for the chapter.
Honestly, our mc here might be the only character in manga where "dont get the wrong idea" can be believably interpreted as 100% honest with no tsundere thoughts at all.
If i didnt know any better id suspect him to be aromantic