@cixous: He's into Hiruma's friend. He even told Gen and the other guy a few chapters ago. He thought she was next to him and was trying to make a move.
Despite that it looks like chapters have become shorter and shorter, they have not. They have always been 20 pages long at most, there is just not much going on within those pages lately.
@LilMonsterGurlDesi; Well, she actually forced the prince to do her bidding in the original timeline. This time the prince got lucky, because someone with precognitive abilities happened to bankrupt his political rivals.