He then eats the latrine’s decorative olive branch.
The Romans pack up their marble seats and march away, defeated by pedantry. Nauseus is last seen requesting a transfer to a lighthouse in Britannia, where “at least the fog makes the boundaries unclear.”
When Obelix arrives to remove the latrine with a single punch, he finds a problem: you can’t punch a line. Nauseus points to a parchment, stamped by the Roman Senate, defining “The Middle” as a demilitarized administrative zone. Any attack on the latrine is an attack on the concept of halfway—punishable by having to fill out Form XLII (“Declaration of Aggressive Intentions in Triplicate”).