In this chapter, we are introduced to the protagonist, who explains that he has wasted a great deal of time and energy trying to use the General's orders on his mistress, and that he must strike her with the fatal blow. He tells us that after many temptations he has decided that the time is right. He says that he will strike her from an angle that she cannot dodge. He then launches into a series of jokes about how he will defeat her and that she will not be able to dodge him. He also says that she has already seen through his plan, and so he will have to take his orders and follow his original plan. The protagonist exclaims that he needs