huh... well, not forgiving MC for being dense with Zirconia and her pretty easily made misunderstanding... but MC has addressed Valetta as a love interest internally to himself a few chapters ago. He didn't want to do anything with her yet because he's 25 and she's 15 (and the noble girl is 14). Yes yes, medieval society and faster growing up aside, I'm glad he's at least wanting to wait until they 'adult' up some.