and there had been a childless king , and despite his best efforts he could not prolong his line through intersection with any queen or princess or remedial herb and so on and so forth and the brave son ventured into the wild with his faithful brother and his ludicrously fidelious wife , and the invulnerable demon king receives word of the wifes beauty , and through intricate traps and idiotic female frailty the heros wife is abducted , and the hero takes great pains to weave an ironclad alliance with a nation of party-loving monkeys , and the monkeys own hero scouts the demons kingdom and unleashes great destruction there at little to no cost to his own simian well-being , and the two armies plus the monkeys inevitable gear up for war , and upon the battlefield the hero meets the and the companion tripped over the outstretched leg of a sleeping beggar and he vociferates his disdain of the current state of alleys in the historical centre of a once great city and the beggar now fully awakened makes no reply but gets up and jumps onto companions back and issues a series of rapid and exceedingly well-executed stabs of his switchblade to companions chest .