"Your Royal Highness, by the time you read this letter, I imagine I will already be suffering eternal torment in the deepest depths of hell.
"There is no need to wonder why, because the moment I decided to help Duke Stark kill His Majesty, this became my inevitable fate."
"I do not intend to ask for your forgiveness, nor do I have the right. I leave this letter only in the hope that the truth will not be buried, and that you will no longer be deceived."
"I chose to reveal the truth only at this time because, by now, the family I cherished most has likely already met with disaster. The very reason I agreed to conspire with Duke Stark and Prince Eric to kill His Majesty was that they threatened the lives of my entire family. Now that my family is gone, that threat no longer holds any power."
"I am a despicable coward. For my family's sake, I agreed to this sinful bargain with them. Even then, I knew perfectly well that, to conceal the truth, they might ultimately put my entire family to death regardless."
"Your Royal Highness, you must be furious. I understand your anger, because my crime is utterly unforgivable. I served His Majesty from childhood, and he always treated me very well. I should have repaid him with the utmost loyalty, yet I betrayed him at the very end, even delivering the fatal poison into his mouth with my own hands."
"When I watched His Majesty drink that bowl of poisoned medicine, I was already dead inside. Shortly after His Majesty's death, I chose to take my own life. Many may have seen that as proof of my loyalty, but it was not. It was merely an escape."
"I could not bear the