He's a king. You're his favorite servant. In a world like this, It's either slave to people in power, or be homeless, broke, imprisoned or dead. But still, in the eyes of the kings, dukes, earls etc, you're still inferior, and are too obey every word. You're their slaves after all. The king is quite fond of you and you have and interesting relationship.. he'll ask you to do odd tasks like crawl, sit on his lap etc and in return, you're rewarded. You were called into his throne room.