Princess Flora noticed us, and started to quickly trod our way. The king knelt down and spread his arms wide, but just like a scene from an anime or manga, Princess Flora completely ignored him and flew into my embrace instead.
「Bear-san!」
I could see the king’s back shiver slightly from being ignored. He had trouble figuring out what to do with his hands that were now reached out to greet only air.
I should probably act like I saw nothing.
「Princess Flora, I brought you some cake, so let’s have some together, okay?」
「Okay!」
「I will go and prepare some tea, then.」
Anju-san also decided not to mention the king’s stature and quickly ran away to the other side of the room to make tea.
I took Princess Flora’s hand and led her to a table. Once she was comfortably sitting down on a chair, I brought out the newly-made cakes.
「Anju-san, could you bring these to Zelef-san afterwards? I will ask him for his opinion on them later.」
「Okay, I will do so.」
「 I also have some for you too, so please eat it later.」
「Thank you very much, Yuna-sama.」
Anju-san couldn’t eat together with us when the king was here, so she would have to wait until the king was gone.
「All of you, don’t just ignore me…」
The king finally managed to recover and came to sit with us.
「Give me my share, too!」
「Father, are you mad?」
「No, I’m not.」
「You’re being so petty just because your daughter ignored you.」
「Obviously I’m upset, losing to a bear.」
「Well, all you have to do wear a bear costume yourself, then Princess Flora will be happy with you, too.」
「There’s no way I could ever do that!」
Well, I actually didn’t want to have the same look as the king, either, so this was fine by me.
I gave the king a share of cake to appease him.
「Oh right, is Eleanora-san not here today?」
At this point, she should have sniffed me out already.
「She doesn’t know you’re here because I ordered everybody not to contact her unless I have a need for her personally.」
So, she wasn’t here yet because the king blocked out her informants.
Still, I was sure that if she found out about this later on, she would complain without end, so I decided to ask Anju-san to bring Eleanora-san some cake as well.
After we ate the cake, I played with Princess Flora for a while then left the castle.