In this short scene, we learn that the princess is on her way to Ming's house, and that she is accompanied by her servant, who is also named Ming. The servant tells the princess that he has broken the sword-monstrous monument, and the princess asks him if he is afraid of becoming a laughingstock of the public. He says that if he can win the princess's smile, he will become a joke, and she will be his woman. He then shows her the sword that he can smash with his left hand. The princess exclaims that she can smash the sword with her right hand, and Ming is amazed. He tells the servant to go down and have a crack at the monument, but Ming says that even if he could, he simply cannot break it, and they simply do not have the