It's dark outside, and the Duke's troops are on their way to the battlefield. They've been trained to do so, but they're about to be attacked. The Duke is sleeping in his palace, and he's worried about what's going to happen. He's also worried about the princess, because she's supposed to be guarding the throne room. He tells the princess to get out of the palace, because the rebels are coming. He also tells her that the Duke has been sleeping in the king's chambers, which means that the rebels have been able to sneak into his house without being caught. The duke, he says, is "worse than scum" because he tries to take power from the people, but the people don't trust him, so he can't do anything about it. The first coup in the history of the world, he tells us, was simply a "sovereign uprising" through a revolution. He explains that he used case studies from his overseas studies to figure out how he could control the entire city without alerting the people of the uprising. He has sent the language instructors to the instructors' special forces, who have been disguised as the real army. The real army has been led into the royal garden, where the Duke is hiding. He needs the Duke to tell the truth to the noblemen about the duke.