"Oh, I just can't WAIT to be king!"

Lion doesn't appear to be looking at the cub though. The smug look on the cub's face makes me think this could even be a "my dad's bigger than your dad" type of sitch, where the cub has just shoved a big festering pile of damp leaves into another cub's school bag, and now has run back to dad knowing that fat philistine is way too dumb to try to encourage his own cub to behave like a halfway decent human being lion.

Good kitty :3

kid learned Hakuna Matata quite early