"Your Majesty, we have not seen each other for many days. I wonder how you have been these past few days? I can see that your body has grown weaker and weaker. What should be done? Why not let me examine you?"
"I told you before that my medical skill is quite decent. As long as you trust me, you will be fine. I am only afraid that you harbor suspicions toward me and will not dare let me treat you."
"I know that before I arrived, you had already summoned the imperial physicians to examine you. However, those physicians all said that your body is now extremely weak and that there is no way to treat it."
After Uchiha Hikaru returned, he saw that the monarch's health was far worse than before. He knew that the poisoning he had instructed the little palace maid beside him to carry out before leaving was now beginning to show results.
Moreover, Uchiha Hikaru felt that the time had come to act, because the timing, location, and support of the people all perfectly satisfied the conditions in his heart.
Still, seeing the monarch in his current state, he found him somewhat pitiful. He thought of waiting a few more days. Although he had been the one to propose that plan, he now found it somewhat cruel.
After dealing with the monarch so closely for so many days, he felt that the monarch was not an utterly wicked man. He was merely somewhat greedy and exceedingly incompetent.
Uchiha Hikaru also knew very clearly that, throughout all this, the monarch had not done any truly evil deeds. He had merely oppressed the common people.
As a monarch, oppressing the common people was indeed wrong. However, it had not reached the point where he deserved to