In this chapter, the monster tells us that he knows the reason why the king didn't reveal his homosexuality to the villagers. He says that the reason is that the king wanted to bring up his son as his own, but when he drugged the child, he lost his temper and threatened to assault him. The monster breaks the child's arms and legs and then forces the child to take his own blood, which contains poison. He tells the monster that he wanted the boy to see his own eyes before he killed him, but the child was "tortured into insanity" before he was able to do so.