After nightfall, Kai brings Paedyn to Kitt’s study, intent on addressing the day’s events. Kai notices signs of Kitt’s concealed illness—pale skin, visible veins, bloodshot eyes, and gaunt cheeks—and the cleaned ceremonial sword that killed Calum. Despite the awkwardness of appearing on Kitt and Paedyn’s wedding night, Kai insists Paedyn stays for the conversation.

Kitt tries to dismiss the topic, but Kai confronts him: Kitt made his first kill, and the brother Kai knows would be devastated. Kitt rejects this, stressing his role as king and claiming necessity. Paedyn realizes and states that this was Kitt’s first kill, while Kai pushes for what Kitt is hiding.

Kitt frames Calum as a manipulator who controlled him, possibly as a Dual, and justifies the killing as protecting the realm. Kai challenges this, asking whether Calum’s death was actually tied to letters found in Queen Iris’s jewelry box. Paedyn deduces Kitt had already read them, recognized Calum’s handwriting, and feared being a bastard; Kitt admits he meant to dispose of the notes.

Kai offers that he would have eliminated a loose end to spare Kitt brutality, but Kitt counters that he wanted to save Kai and their bond. Pressing Kai with a hypothetical—whether Kai would protect Paedyn or Kitt if Calum threatened Paedyn—Kitt concludes Kai would choose Paedyn, revealing Kitt’s deepening resentment.

Kitt erupts, insisting it should always have been just the brothers, blaming Paedyn for shattering their lives “even the second she was born.” His fixation echoes Edric’s hatred of Ordinaries, though Kitt’s stems from jealousy and fear of losing Kai’s companionship rather than power.

As Kitt declares Paedyn the wedge between them and responsible for his parents’ deaths, Kai recognizes the true source of Kitt’s animosity: envy of Paedyn’s claim on Kai. Kai ends the confrontation by stating, “She killed your father, not mine,” and asserts that Paedyn is more Kitt’s family than Kai is, leaving Kitt stunned and the brothers further divided.