Amena responded, "What do you mean by 'this time'? Don't forget that I have vowed to stand by your side
always, through our marriage vows. Moreover, I am a skilled fighter, just like you!" As she spoke, she picked
up a soldier's sword and tossed it towards John, who caught it effortlessly. Amena challenged John to test her skills, but when he initially refused, she insisted. In a burst of anger, John launched a fierce attack with his sword.

However, Amena, without any weapons of her own, swiftly twisted the loose cloth of her gown in an anticlockwise motion, transforming it into a makeshift rope.

With a monkey-like agility, she caught
hold of John's sword, preventing it from striking him. In the struggle, John lost his balance and fell to the ground, his sword teetering dangerously close to his chest. Just as the sword was about to descend,

Amena, using her hand, placed her thumb underneath it, causing blood to gush forth. John quickly rose to his feet and rushed to see how much pain she was enduring, but Amena grabbed his hand with her own bloody hand, saying, "Let me fight alongside my husband, not just as a queen but as your equal."

John gazed at her with determined eyes and replied, "Alright, but I will not allow any harm to come to my wife
or our child!"

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