The wonderful gift given to her by Darrel had so many benefits, in a nutshell, it's wonderful, but he didn't understand why Elofa's overreaction.
Elofa amazed by the gift said with embarrassment "I can't give you an answer now, we just met and you know I'm a princess of an entire kingdom, I have to fulfill obligations as such..."
Darrel confused wondered what was going on, so naively he was about to ask her why she was exaggerating but not before being interrupted by the surrounding crowd, who were muttering stuff he couldn't hear and then some elves who looked like the king's guards appeared and invited him to follow them into the castle or more like ordered.
As they were escorted by the royal guards, Darrel failed to ask Elora or the guards what was happening and why they were in such a hurry.
Once we arrived in the castle Darrel was bombarded with questions by the king who seemed angry, but as fast as he was talking he didn't understand what he was saying.
Elora, once calmed down, tried to do the calm her father "Father calm down, I know it's sudden but it's something that happens often" said very gently
The king a little calmer than before replied in an angry tone "Yes but the others who proposed were elves and they were also strong, with a high condensation of mana and belonged to respectable families, this one here not only he is a human , he's both physically and spiritually weak, we don't even know where he's from, not to mention he doesn't either, he could be a dirty bandit or who knows what!" said the king getting more and more furious at every word he said.
"Aside from your strong discrimination towards humans, which will never change, he's a normal human like everyone else and..." all of a sudden Elora didn't know what to say, because in the short time she was with Darrel she didn't know that merits to list them that the king could accept and didn't know if he had any.
The king said without surprise "You see, he has no value as living being!
But thinking back to the ring given to her, Elora replied with "But he proposed to me with a ring set with a Laucrasse incastonated in it, there is nothing more rare and wonderful for an elf, the other elves have never made me a proposal with a jewel with Laucrasse incastonated in it"
The king exclaimed "WHAT! it's true what he says huma-, emh, I meant Darrel, right? Tell me where did you get that from?"
Meanwhile Darrel who was still thinking about the fact that he had unknowingly proposed to Elora, but didn't have the courage to interrupt them to say it was only a gift, a normal gift, for a normal occasion, but the pressure between the two was suffocating, by now it was game-in at this point it was better to play and possibly win or at least survive.
"Eh? ah yes, secret of mine?" said Darrel seeing how the king had forgotten that he had lost his memory.
"Well, if you don't want to reveal your secret of how you found it, so be it, but remember I'm watching you!" said the king that was immediately scolded by her daughter.
"Father!"
"I'm sorry, we're all a bit nervous right now, we'll talk about it again tonight at the banquet, now, everyone in their rooms! And just to say I don't approve and I won't approve of any marriage between you two!" continued the insistent king.
"Dad!" Elofa said scolding the king again.
Later that night just before the banquet, the iron minded Darrel decided to pluck up his courage and...instantly run away from the castle as far as possible not wanting to deal with the elves anymore, he had such a headache.