 Canny as well as ambitious, he manages through a stratagem to switch Tsotuga's fan for a duplicate.When the testy monarch eventually loses his temper with him as he had with his previous ministers and tries to fan him away, Zamben produces the true fan and dispatches the tyrant with his own weapon.To allay suspicion, he and Nasako give out that the vanished ruler had absent-mindedly fanned "himself".