Beloved Smiles and Baked Treats Casserole and his men invade the mansion so the chief escapes. Armire is arrested while Casserole and Pastry pursue the chief whom Pastry easily defeats, having magically sabotaged his sword back when they were still tied up. One month later Squale and Petra’s engagement is made public. Pastry privately confronts Lord Kadlececk on the implausibility of mercenaries kidnapping Licorice so easily, unless they received secret assistance from someone with an interest in seeing Armire dealt with for good. Kadleck, who was that very someone, is surprised by Pastry’s figuring out his scheme but admits it was wrong to put Licorice in danger and agrees to finance improvements to Casseroles farmlands in exchange for Pastry’s silence. Lord Hubareck is able to sneakily outmanoeuvre a panicking Pastry into agreeing to marry Licorice, leaving Casserole aghast. Kadlececk, thoroughly amused by Pastry’s predicament, gets petty revenge by announcing the engagement throughout the kingdom. Licorice is thrilled by the engagement and Pastry decides to make her as happy as he can. Knowing his fondness for sweets Licorice presents him cookies she made herself which Pastry forces himself to eat, concealing from her that she must have mistakenly used salt instead of sugar.