The final sentence (2)

Everyone is in a daze. I'm using a dead, crazy woman's words for my gain. Word she told only to me, at that.

Her butler delivered information and proof about poisoning soon after the logs. The Empress Grandmother had been planning to use her own death to make trouble for the Empress. She was lucky she met me, so her plan will be carried out till the end.

I'm not sure Princess Lyland would have been able to reach this point. She doesn't have any link to those trying to destroy her country, so she would have sweated more into retrieving information and evidence.

Among the things the Empress Grandmother left me as a legacy, there were instructions about how to use her death to my advantage, covered by the documents and other trivialities she left to me. I worked hard to decode her messages, but it was worth every gram of effort.

«Just when I could ask a question or two, her majesty died,» I sigh. «And her death was so similar to her son's.»