The next day, everyone in the kingdom had been talking excitedly about the mystery princess and the lost slipper. However, the cheerfulness in the kingdom has turned into sorrow. That evening, Kit was told by one of the servants that his father is not well and needs to speak with him. Thomas was already in the bedchamber when Kit walked in. The King looked up at him. "Oh, you've come. Good." Thomas and Kit looked at him and with tears in his eyes, Kit said, "Oh, Father. Please don't go." "Please, Papa, please don't go," Thomas said giving his father a hug. "I must, my boys. You two needn't be alone. Kit, take the Princess Chelina." Kit couldn't say a word.
"What if I commanded you to do so?" The King asked. "I love and respect you," Kit answered. "But I will not. I believe that we need not look outside of our borders for strength or guidance. What we need is right before us, and we need only to have courage and be kind to see it." The King smiled. "Just so. You've become your own man. Good. And perhaps with the little time left to me I could become the father you deserve. You must not marry for advantage, you must marry for love." He looked at Thomas. "Thomas, you will do the same, too." "Do you really mean it, Papa?" Thomas asked his father. The King smiled at his youngest son and patted him on the head. To Kit, he said, "Find that girl. Find her. Go on. They're all talking about the...the forgetful one who loses her shoes." The three laughed. "Oh, be cheerful, boys," said the King as he coughed one last time. "Thank you, Father," Kit and Thomas said. "Thank you, my boys." The tears began rolling down the brothers' faces. "I love you, Father," Kit and Thomas sobbed as they lie by their father's side.
After a funeral was held for the King, the Town Crier returned to town with another proclamation. "Know that our new king hereby declares his love for...the mysterious princess as wore glass slippers to the ball," he read from his scroll. "And requests that she present herself at the palace whereupon, if she be willing, he will forthwith, marry her with all due ceremony." The crowd murmured in shock as Ella and Alyssa Rose smiled at each other before riding home to tell Lady Tremaine and the stepsisters the news. A few days later, a huge number of women have lined up at the palace trying on the other glass slipper, but to no avail. When Rosalie gave the girls the news that the other slipper didn't fit any of the women, including herself, in the kingdom, they quickly rushed home to fetch the slipper they hid under the floorboards. When they opened the floorboard, Ella and Alyssa Rose gasped. The glass slipper was gone!