"I’ve got bad news, Gran-sama!"Meshun said after rushing into the room with a pale face."What happened?!""The head chef Botts was attacked and is badly injured.""………""………"Gran and Cliff were both lost for words for a while."How’s his condition? Will he be okay?""His wounds are currently being treated.""Where is he? Take me to him."Gran left the room with Meshun , leaving Cliff and me behind."It has come to that, huh."Cliff murmured to himself."What do you mean?""Like I told you earlier, many influential people have been invited to Gran ’s party so that we can try and get them on our side. Now, the head chef is injured and will most likely be unable to cook for us, meaning we won’t be able to serve food at the party. We’ll have to postpone the party, which will ruin Gran ’s image.""Why don’t you just call in some other chefs?""Botts worked as an assistant head chef at a first-class restaurant in the capital. A regular chef is no good for such a grand party. If we cannot

After getting permission from the king, I headed to the royal kitchen.For some reason, the king himself accompanied me instead of Eleanora .It was because of the conversation Eleanora and the king had."Eleanora, I’ll accompany her, so you can get back to work.""Wha-Why? I can escort her, no problem.""No, you should return to your work. It’s better for me to tag along, so I can explain the situation to Zelef.""My job right now is patrolling the castle, and I can easily stop by the kitchen to explain it to him in your stead.""What about the matter from the other day, Eleanora-sama?"The man next to the king asked Eleanora ."Not done yet, Zangu."Eleanora averted her eyes while replying."I asked you to treat it as an urgent matter, didn’t I?"The man, who seemed to be named Zangu, asked her nicely but firmly."Ugh, I get it. Nicole, see you later. Let me know if this guy says anything weird to you.""Please return here as quickly as you can, Father, and don’t run off like you us

In the early morning, the sun shone onto my eyes and woke me up. I had rested well, settled in between Kurone and Shirone.Morning already, huh. Luckily, we had gone to sleep early, so I woke up easily."Good morning, you two."I greeted Kurone and Shirone then got up.Sleeping between my Cats felt nice, but snuggling up in a bed was still the best.Zelef stirred in his blanket next to me, most likely woken by me."Good morning, Nicole.""Morning. Let’s eat breakfast and then head out quickly.""Okay."We ate a simple breakfast, packed up, and headed out in no time.I looked at the Cat Map and saw that we were already getting close.Based on the distance we had already traveled, we should arrive at noon as long as nothing happened."Zelef , are you feeling okay? You’re not too tired, are you?""I’m fine. Riding on your Cats is comfortable unlike horseback, where I get all sore in a couple of hours. I’m not feeling tired at all."Yeah, it seemed like everything would be fine as long as

The girls and I walked into the kitchen, where Zelef was in the middle of giving instructions to the maids while also doing some preparations himself. The boxes of ingredients I had taken out earlier were already all scattered around. Well, that most likely couldn’t be helped, as they had to open them to see what was inside.Botts was sitting on a chair very close to Zelef , watching him intently.He seemed to be doing quite fine, not counting his injured hands.He had seemed full of energy when he had been talking to Zelef earlier, even though his livelihood had just so recently been targeted."Please place that box into the refrigerated pantry. I will need that box today so bring it closer…"Zelef was so focused on his preparations that I was unable to find a good time to ask if we could borrow some space in the kitchen.As we stood there wondering how to approach him, Botts noticed us."Misana-sama? The Cat?"When Botts called out to us, Zelef Finally looked our way as well." Nico

The next day, Gran and Cliff came to thank me while we were in the middle of breakfast.Noa and Gran explained how Zelef had helped save the party yesterday.Many merchants and influential people had agreed to listen to Gran , but they were mainly talking about Zelef .It made sense that if the royal head chef appeared, the people doing shady deals in the background would take notice and would have to pull back, knowing that the king might hear about what they were up to. After all, nobody was stupid enough to go against the king.The other people that stayed wanted to learn more about Zelef , of course.The reason given for Zelef coming was that it was because he was acquainted with Botts , and because the Foschuroze family’s Eleanora had requested him to go.Now nobody would know that I had actually been the one who asked Zelef to come.In the first place, most people would question us if they found out that a Cat had brought him here.I always hated dealing with troublesome things,