Ohh I completely forgot about that part! Then yeah that does make sense. Okay so to review: The most likely person to poison the king is the prince, Johnesse. How he did it was most likely the candy the king likes so much, the more he ate the more poison he would consume to the point where he is now laying in bed on the brink of death. The reason why the prince did this was to gain power and control over the kingdom so that way he can do whatever he wanted and through all the complicated political stuff onto Arth and Rebecca. From there he would put all the blame onto Pain as the killer and because of like 90% of the kingdom's hatred of him they would agree and have him executed. On Johnesse's side of the story, this does sound like a full-proof plan on paper. If not for my boy Arth already scheming up his own plan, the many MANY people around Pain as witnesses/alibis (i.e Lily and the foreigners), and because Pain is like 80% of the military power in the kingdom. If he dies this whole country is screwed!
I feel like the emperor poisoned himself cause things wasn’t going according to plan like he wanted to with CP and Rebecca , prolly thinking his death will force co to grow up ! But I’m confused I thought Greenie - can’t remember his name rn) was all for Payne ? What the heck is going on or is this a trick ? Someone dropped the novel or spoil me please