Chapter 294: Chapter 289 Garden Party

The King enters the gardens without any announcement, the crowd only becoming aware of his presence once Gwen escapes his grasp and darts away, a well-staged plan to find the girl he met with this morning. 

He finds her with Duke Cain's usual two Companions, plus two other lovely young ladies, a cat girl, and an Elf. James briefly considers that he might have been set up, but judging by the way they're positioned and how they noticed Gwen long before seeing him following behind her, it seems more likely that they have simply begun to get along. 

Two of the three are quite dainty, but the third, the cat girl, is the tallest of the ladies present. Even though her dress is designed to hide her figure subtly while still showing her feminine curves, the fact that her prodigious chest entirely shields Gwen from above when she hugs her is clear to the eyes of the teenage King.