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How did the narrator and Lord Otori overpower the intruder?
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Solution
The narrator & Lord Otori knew that there was someone outside so to be prepared & for their safety, they kept a sword & knife with them. Step by step they were trying to follow the person outside with patience. The moment he entered inside Lord Otori took him in a stranglehold & the intruder wriggled backwards wherein the narrator leaped at him and all
three of them fall into the garden.
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