"Ah... my daughter.." the King and Queen hurriedly and raced against one another to hug their daughter. They looked like the Idiotic Rivals as they compete against each other for such a petty hug but they didn't care, their daughter was so cute at the moment that they were ignoring the fact that they were the King and Queen of one of the Three Kingdoms in the country.
Edora who was stiff since chapter 19 was still sweating until she slapped her forehead when she saw this. The King and Queen were too soft to their daughter that it was being a problem for the kingdom.
However, she was still not off the line. Although she was not entirely responsible for the princess since the princess had already reached the age of maturity of seventeen, that was only for the people. The problem was, nobody really thinks that the princess had already matured. How can this childish princess be matured?
The princess having great leadership was just propaganda for the people to accept their new princess while Edora will make all the decision-making in the background while teaching Princess Alisera about it.
So her duty was to actually become the princess's adviser. It was good and all until the King said;
"Do what Alisera want." and he meant that.
A direct order easily toppled her unspoken duty over the princess so she doesn't have real power over her. Edora just prayed that the King and Queen won't put the blame onto her and remember that they were the ones who ordered her to do as the princess pleases.
If Edora was blamed, the effort she gave all her life will crumble, but for the royalties, she is just another pawn ready to be replaced and at the same time, it will appease the nobles who wanted her out.
This could be an opportunity for the King and Queen to have an excuse to remove her. Although the King favors the strong. If they did not blame Edora, who would they blame? Themselves? Of course not. Then the princess? Absolutely not!
That was why there was a high probability that she is doomed!
After seeing that the King and Queen finally calmed down the two princes then greeted them as soon as possible to the point that it was instantaneous.
"Greetings, Your Royal Highness and Your Majesty from the Karan Kingdom!" even though only Prince Harold was the only one that spoke, the two of them bowed and it was already a given.
The King and Queen just nodded. They couldn't just ignore these two princes but they just couldn't care less so after their simple nod, they came back to Princess Alisera and then to the handsome young man who was sitting on the floor, resting even though he doesn't have a bead of sweat with him.
The musicians had long ago stopped and every noble, even Memi who only had her attention to Prince Harold would've noticed the King and Queen. At such distance, it would be impossible not to notice so she kept quiet. She cannot offend them no matter what.
"Papa, Mama, you attended my welcome party." Princess Alisera happily said.
The couple's anger was decreasing at a rapid pace with a bright smile.
"Alisera, call us King and Queen when we are in public." the Queen said.
The princess then nodded with a chuckle. Seeing this, the couple chuckled as well. Afterwhich, they glanced at the young man who was sitting on the floor and the fearsome face of the King that was akin to the face of Zeus became scarier as he saw this uncaring lad.
But towards the princess, he softly asked, "Alisera, who is this man who you were clinging to a moment ago."
"Ah! Yes!" Princess Alisera became excited and pulled Avion to them, whom she caught unguarded and surprised, "He's my new friend, Avion Teller."
"Oh..."
The whole hall's atmosphere was getting heavier when the Princess was clinging onto Avion again. Only two people were oblivious to these and that was the princess and Avion.
"Avion, these are my parents, the King and Queen of Karan Kingdom."
The King then gave a fierce glare towards Avion, having great use of his fearsome face. Even the pretty Queen was taking after the King.
But Avion who was unsocialized wasn't bothered and smiled back, "Hello, King Papa and Queen Mama." he lowered his head.
"...."
"...."
Never in the history books that he read was there a word "Papa" and "Mama" in it. If one explained the family history of a person, they wouldn't say that this was his Mama and that was his Papa.
Not even remembering the faces of his parents while being alone in the whole world just until now, Avion hadn't heard of the word Papa and Mama. It was not his fault.
But for those who didn't know this. Who would believe that Avion is the son of the Lord Sorcerer of Time and that he was left behind at such a young age and all of that complications? None!
For them, they thought he was just joking around, or worse, mocking the King and Queen. But even if he was just joking, it was still punishable! Nobody can treat the King and Queen with the same standing, especially when you are not even a noble.
To this, the King and Queen didn't know how to react. So there was only silence.
"...."
"...."
Avion furrowed his eyebrows while Princess Alisera was on full support as she was laughing at his "joke"
"You're Avion Teller," the King said with a domineering tone, "Right?"
The people felt that there was something about to come.
"Yes, King Papa." from what he read, Avion at least knew that one should be respectful to the King.
"I heard you slapped the princess?" it was the Queen's turn to speak and she dropped a bomb.
At that moment, the nobles had the idea of leaving their gifts there and going home.
"Yes, Queen Mama."
"Why?" the King asked.
"Because I don't like what she did." Avion innocently smiled.