"Your royal highness," the narrator tells us, "the imperial physically has told us to 'take good care' of the sub-director. If he gets beaten today, he'll be dying. So lock him up and copy the heart-sutra over and over again until he's dead. He's had enough of this. He tells us that in his entire career, he hasn't seen anything like this before. In fact, he says, in "slight fever" all the time, sometimes even the director has a "retrograde memory loss" . He wants the director to "recall his memories" if he doesn't believe that he has forgotten anything in the past.