@Kryloth Gamma's frustration and Sid's compliment to her in chapters 62 and 63.
https://tenshihonyakusha.wordpress.com/to-be-a-power-in-the-shadows/power-shadow-ch-062/
She appears to have a thing for the priest, which I would gladly ship (fornication is mentioned as violation to her faith, so what if they get married?)...
I am still 50:50 towards the hero if he is scum or has special circumstances.
The contract was just full of malice. I am disappointed in both the prince and the assistant's blackmail and their reaction to it being trivial. Were contracts really absolute in medieval ages where there weren't laws regulating them? This chapter alone had given me thoughts of outright dropping...