Magi - Labyrinth of Magic 39

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Night 39: the incident\\
If I didn’t met kassim that day…\\
Probably that incident would have not happened\\
That incident?\\
About that…\\
Aladdin, probably I already told you about this once.\\ I did a great mistake in my past…\\
Kassim!\\
In a way or another his appearance changed but he was kassim\\
It seemed like kassim was surprised, he had doubtful face, just like he met a ghost\\
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at the beginning I hesitated to greet him because we separated in that way …
but, somehow or other, I spoke to him\\
k-assim right? Long time no see…\\
yo! It is you alibaba!\\
indeed, long time no see! Hahaha!!\\
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what’s wrong with you, why are you in such a place?\\
well, I just felt like taking a stroll\\
really! Me too, what coincidence\\
I don’t know what he was thinking at that time.\\
After throwing away any reserve, we talked and it felt enjoyable and nostalgic…\\
But if now I rethink about it, I become aware of it.\\
From those dark eyes that he had for an instant…\\
Kassim from that day, from the moment he met me, he was determined.\\
Determined to cause that incident…\\
Alibaba-kun…\\
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let’s go drinking something!\\
I didn’t know what he meant by that\\
Because we were still too young for that\\
But it felt a little vexing, because it felt like he was more mature than me…\\
And I followed him\\
And then… I understood that he was the one who brought people to that place!\\
And some frightening adults lower their heads one after another in front of a brat like him\\
Looking better at him, it looked like he has a good financial standing\\
Well then… a cheer for our reunion!\\
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k-kassim… what are doing right now?\\
where are you little sister Mariam and the others from the slums?\\
there are no slums anymore! They were driven away from the country\\
what boring topic to begin our reunion\\ well they are all in another residential area\\
you don’t know anything about it…\\
I… spent almost all my time secluded in the royal palace…\\
Anyway! Why don’t we stop talking about those gloomy thing!?\\
We are finally reunited, drink! You did not even take a sip!\\
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could it be that you don't drink?\\
I will drink it!!\\
Hey!\\
It has a strange taste… and I have a strange feeling… do they really all drink this stuff?\\
Haha, you gulp down everything is a single go, good!\\
Come on let’s drink!\\
In the three years I was in the royal palace, I learned a lot of thing. Characters, swordsmanship…\\
But, kassim learned a lot of things too. Something that I absolutely did not learn…\\
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acting, how to eat with others, how make to other drink, in other words all the things that concerned the adult’s social life\\
after that we talked about our past!\\
I got in a good mood too and began to talk with a loud voice while laughing together with him\\
Kassim began to complaint\\
Mariam was doing a lot of foolish things and he was troubled about her.\\
I laughed.\\
But I was probably the most foolish there\\
… then when we had almost finished of talking about the past…\\
that’s right, you said that you are secluded in the royal palace right?\\
so, how did you get here?\\
well you know… it was really difficult to slip away! They have a lot of guards\\
so…\\
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“tunnel”\\
“tunnel”!?\\
do you remember? When we were in the slums I was an expert when it came to create tunnels!\\
in the past you lost against me in the capture the flag game thanks to that move!\\
yeah, I remember. But how did you dig a tunnel in the high walls of the royal castle?\\
about that…\\
I began to talk in an exalted way.\\
Even if from the outside the look like strong walls, from the interior part they are not like that. \\ if you try to tear them a little the opening become broader, and I created a tunnel into the royal palace’s walls…\\
…\\wow…\\
kassim was admiring me\\
but I did not tell him the place. Even if I was drunk I was able to stop there\\
and kassim did not ask anything more about it\\
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so the night passed, and I had to return to the castle soon\\
but before that, there was something that I absolutely had to say to kassim\\
kassim… the day I went to the royal palace…\\
you know that day…\\
I’m… I sorry to have punched you\\
You said “Just get the fuck out of here!” just for my sake right!?\\
Yeah! That’s obvious!\\
We are friends after all, right!?\\
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I was really happy! Because kassim was thinking about me that time!\\
Plus we were good friends just like in the past!\\ and that gave me a great burst of courage\\
That’s why I did not notice it. That kassim’s subordinate that received the money from him,\\
Followed me to the royal palace…\\
I was really stupid…\\
Alibaba-kun
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from the day I met kassim, I spent some peaceful days for a short while\\
it was the usual harsh training but, after that break, I faced forward for the future like I never did.\\
in one of those days I was called by the king\\
the king was fallen ill one year before that, and all the power was transferred to his older son abumad.\\
the king said\\
I will not life long\\ but this country must not continue on this road\\
Things were not going well for Barbadd \\ our principal commercial partner, Parthebia was declining and, in his place the north eastern empire that was increasing its power,\\
Was interfering economically thanks to its military power\\
An empire!?\\
At that time an empire’s emissary was always together with abumad and he even could interfere with political affairs\\
Abumad is a person that neglects his work, so he left all the annoying things to that emissary\\
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the king said…\\
“I leave this country to you”\\
I was surprised… was he saying that I should become the king?\\
Obviously I thought that I would be impossible from someone like me that was nothing more that a child coming from the slums\\
And after I stayed silent for a while\\
I know that this is unreasonable\\
But… I don’t have other choice but leave it to you…\\
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the king told me.\\
that this country was in a dangerous situation\\
he was uneasy about leaving the political situation in the hands for abumad and sabumad which education was left to his legal wife\\
but he said that he would not life for long anymore…\\
you majesty, there is only one thing I want to ask\\
… what is it?\\
you majesty about my mother…\\ how do you felt about her?\\
anis huh…\\
anis, that’s my mother’s name\\
I had a lot of obligations…\\
And we could not be together…\\
But…\\
Yeah…\\
I loved her\\
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thank you very much, your majesty.\\
thanks to those words, I can do it\\
for the first time I realized my true feeling\\
this man is my father\\
but I cannot do as you command\\
in this country there are my two brothers already… the two princes abumad and sabumad\\
I think that if interfere right now, the country will be in chaos\\ plus I…\\
I lived in the slums for years, so I’m able to understand the populace’s feeling… I want to make use of that and\\
I want to help my brothers with all my might\\
I see…\\
I leave everything to you\\
That were my humblest feeling\\
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I thought that I would devote all my power to this country!\\
… but it was the last meeting I had with the king…\\
and then that night the incident happened…\\
I was thinking about what happened during my meeting with the king and I could not sleep,\\
I got up from the beg and went behind the principal building…\\
That was a dark night without even the moon…\\
I could only use the light of the stars to look around my surroundings\\
And HE was there!\\
42c kassim! I was surprised. Why is he here!?\\
!?what? kassim?\\
did he come here to visit me…?\\
obviously that’s wasn’t the case. Several people I did not know entered after kassim.\\
I knew the faces of several of them. That’s right they were part of the kassim group of robbers in the slums!\\
They were following him, and entered in the castle to pillage it\\
Kassim was still a thief!!\\
Plus to a scale totally different from the past!!\\
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what should I do!?\\ should I call someone!?\\ Should I say something to him!?\\
if they attack me…\\do I have fight them!?\\
what if kassim is caught…!?\\
“I leave this country to you”\\
will he be executed!!?\\ Why!!? We promised…\\
why!? Why did this happen!?\\
why? That’s because I was not able to see through his real nature \\
he made me drunk and I spilled all the beans\\
I was too conceited, “dedicate myself to the country” you say? The truth is that it was just hesitation toward the weight of my responsibilities\\
And then that time I was unable to move a single finger\\
I did not want kassim to be caught, and I did not want the royal castle to be attacked\\
I could not chose anything, that’s because I was a coward…\\
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someone found us… what should we do boss?\\
yeah…\\
k…kas…sim?\\
don’t kill him…\\
tie him and then let him go\\
and then the things I heard in my half-conscious state were\\
the sound of flames, the voices of the people that were running arounf trying to escape…\\
kassim set on fire the buildings around him, and made use of that chance to take the royal treasure and get away\\
kassim used the “tunnel” that I told him about in that bar room to transport the royal treasure away from the castle\\