we're most likely not going to have a wholesome familial relationship, but I think rather the king having the so called hots for the MC - all it really is is an extremely strange way of doting that gets the MC flustered. Like the king picks her up a few times and caresses her face a bit or get her to touch him back. Also, in the next chapters, we meet the knight and mostly likely the king's younger brother whom is similar in age to Nina. It seems like there's a lot of fun interactions between the younger brother and Nina more than the king from the kiddo blushing a lot at Nina and looking at her longingly. So there's hope that the king is not the ML, but if he is...I hope he's just the second and not the primary...