The next morning, the Minister of Justice arrives at the imperial palace to declare the crime of "rebellion" against the emperor. He tells the empress that he has ordered her to strip her of her position. The empress tells him that everything is a dream, and that she has been ordered to strip off her position by the prime minister. The minister tells her that the chief guards of the mansion are bringing the "dragon fighters" to the palace, wanting to know why the emperor ignored his dead mother and eaten from dirt. The prime minister tells the minister that after the emperor is stripped of his throne, all the remaining princes will be hard to control and no one will be able to rise to the throne.