oh yeah, I already liked this series but this chapter is truly gold, showing how a patriachic society works, how easy it is to hurt the pride of some people when going against the unwritten rules and presenting us not only a truly equally mc couple but also good side characters like our princess, those noble girls or the emperor who truly reviews things, and I even like our villains in that they are good written, they are neither the overdramatic evil mastermind aka maou nor so pathetic and dumb that you ask yourself how that ever could function and their hate-love-dependency relationship is good