???

She couldn't find a way to go to that other country so Duke "gave her" the way. I think it was something like:

Duke: "I'm sorry for all this. Nothing happened to you, right?"
Ali: "Did you see? Wasn't "my villainess" perfect?"

...on last panel

ohhhhh wow that's cool. the king is also cool since i'm pretty sure he caught on to it being the smartass that he is.

I think so. That card might be like an internal code given to those on missions