Magi - Labyrinth of Magic 52

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Night 52: alibaba and sabumad\\
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bandit: who is that guy?\\
ali: sabumad-niisan…\\
bandit: sabumad? Who the hell is him?\\
bandit2: stupid, that’s should be the name of this country’s viceroy\\
bandit: but I heard that the viceroy doesn’t get involved into politics and\\
bandit: and he doesn’t shoe himself before people at all\\
bandit: what did he come here for…?\\
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barkak: young master!\\
barkak: I almost did not recognize you!\\
ali: barkak!\\
barkak: I didn’t think you were\\
barkak: the young boy which I taught swordsmanship in the past\\
barkak: today I received an order
barkak: the viceroy said that he wanted to meet you…\\
ali: nii-san…\\
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ali: sabumad-nii-san why are you here?\\
sabu: a-alibaba…\\
sabu: you are incredible…\\
sabu: this great number of thieves in this hideout…\\
sabu: call you boss. Really incredible\\
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sabu: f-for me something like that is impossible… I tremble so much that I cannot do that…\\
sabu: even now… I’m like that…\\
sabu: if I’m surrounded by so many people I don’t know…\\
sabu: my legs tremble so much that I cannot stop them…!\\
barkak: young master… the viceroy came here even if he is in such condition\\
barkak: because he has something to discuss with you\\
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barkak: this is enemy territory to us\\
barkak: consider that please, and try to sympathize with the feeling of the viceroy that came here risking his own life…\\
sin: hey, isn’t that you sabumad?\\
sabu: s-sinbad…\\
sin: what is doing here someone like you who is extremely terrified to show himself in front of other people?\\
sin: it is not like…\\ abumad that set you here, right?\\
sin: don’t worry. I will find a place where we can talk\\
sin: and I will guarantee for your security\\
sabu: y-yeah\\
sabu: but I have to apologize…\\
sabu: because your life was exposed to dangers…\\
sin: heh…\\
sin: I see, so that’s what happened\\
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sin: to obtain that level of information I thought that he would be a central figure of the politics but…\\ but I didn’t ever think it was you\\
sin: in other words the one who gave information to the fog corps\\
sin: the one who said to them that I was here to stop them\\
sin: was you right?\\
sin: sabumad!!\\
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sabu: … I did not have any other choice\\
sabu: it was not like I could let you destroy the fog corps\\
sin: … are you one of their accomplices?\\
sabu: i-it is not like that\\
sabu: I never involved myself with the fog corps neither I ever met them\\
sabu: but I began to leak information since…\\
sabu: alibaba joined them\\
sabu: I thought that the fog corps lead by him could do something about this country…\\
sabu: because alibaba is the person that since the past could do the things I was unable to do\\
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barkak: viceroy…\\
sabu: I want that alibaba…\\
sabu: stops my brother…\\
sin: stop?\\
sin: abumad…?\\
sin: it is true that the sorry state of this country is intolerable\\
sin: probably it is abumad, the king’s fault\\
sin: but for the viceroy to help some thieves!\\
son: why are you so afraid of abumad!?\\
sabu: afraid…?\\
sabu: t-that’s right… I’m afraid of him…\\
sabu: but, what really scare me are things he is doing\\
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sabu: no… maybe is not that…\\
sabu: anyway, frightful thing are happening in this country but…\\
w-why did things turn like this…?\\
that’s is really the thing that makes me afraid!!\\
sin: … sabumad…\\
barkak: … I will be the one that will do the talk from now on\\
barkak: the unusual phenomena that hit this country…\\
barkak: began when the previous king fell ill\\
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malkio: nice to meet you\\
malkio: I’m markio the baker\\
barkak: he was the mysterious man that called himself “adviser”\\
barkak: he said that he was walking through different countries in order to become the advisor of the public finance of those countries\\
malkio: what do you think? If you will be the king of this country soon\\
malkio: will you leave everything to us?\\
barkak: our country that in that time was in the middle of a economical crisis because of the stagnation of the commercial affairs with partebia\\
barkak: agreed to his proposal because he was a man said to have rebuilt the other countries public finance\\
barkak: and then…\\
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abumad: what is this!?\\
malkio: this is…\\
malkio: called “fuan”\\
malkio: the currency produced by the empire\\
abumad: ah? Isn’t this just a piece of paper…?\\
malkio: no!!\\
malkio this is not just a piece of paper! This is the proof of wealth in the empire\\
malkio: the nation that in the last years piled up more and more power! It is called “money”!!!\\
malkio: anyway, use this in out next trades…\\
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barkak: and “money” showed a frightening power in the trade towards the empire ‘s contiguous countries\\
barkak: those pieces of papers where changed into goods, art objects, furnishings, special products and other things\\
barkak: and we were so surprised by such incredible thing\\
barkak: that we decided to use that currency “fuan” in our country too\\
barkak: when our country imported goods, we would pay with “fuan”\\
barkak: on the other side we accepted “fuan” when we exported our goods\\
the “baker” lent us all the “fuan” we needed\\
but he applied a slight “interest” to those money\\
in this way barbadd economy became totally dependent on the “fuan”\\
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sin: what fools\\
to base one country’s economy on the currency which worth is decided by another country…\\
bandit: w-what’s the meaning of that?\\
barbak: he is right\\
barbak: the problem is that the fuan value finely fluctuated\\
barbak: what you could buy with a single fuan yesterday, suddenly was worth 2 fuan. In other words it’s value was cut by half.\\ and those time our country suffered great losses\\
sin: that’s the frightful thing about all this\\
sin: the currency, in other words those bills, originally are nothing more of pieces of paper without value\\
sin: that value of that bills\\
sin: is decided according to the desires of the one produciond them, the empire
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ja’far: that’s why in our country we use metal coins but that be converted in gold, but only in our country\\
ja’far: plus it is forbidden to the central bank to apply an interest on the currency\\
barbak: that’s right. The money that our country borrowed swelled up in a gigantic sum before we could realize it\\
barbak: and together with the little interest became difficult to pay\\
barbak: around that time the action of the fog corps began as well, and we had to increase the war funds as well\\
barbak: we began to pile up debts because of the debts we have done before but\\
barbak: malkio would not give us the money for free anymore\\
he gained various things as guarantee of those money\\
barbak: maritime rights\\ air right,\\ territorial concessions\\
barbak: and recently even trade rights…\\
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barbak: but the royal family, nobles and bureaucrat that are in charge of our country did not feel any danger\\
barbak: because their standard of living was maintained by the country’s debts\\
barbak: without caring about the high taxes that the majority of population had to pay and the dissolution of the public security\\
noble: the fuan\\
noble: we need more fuan or we will in trouble\\
noble: but, we don’t have any more assets we can give them as a guarantee in this country\\
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abumad: what are you talking about\\
abumad: we still have something\\
abumad: the next guarantee will be…\\
abumad: the population\\
noble: eh?\\
abumad: in this country there are still a lot of “population” that belongs to me!\\
abumad: after the trade rights we will use the “rights on people” as guarantee on our debt!\\
abumad: in that way we will be able to borrow even more fuan, right!?(hahahaha)\\
sabumad: brother… what the hell are you saying!?\\
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bandit: hey…\\
bandit: what did he mean by using the right on the populace as guarantee…!?\\
sabumad: my brother…\\
sabumad: intends to sell the people of this country…!!\\
sabumad: balbadd will offer to\\ the empire\\ reemu,\\ partebia\\
sabumad: manual labour as capital\\
sabumad: my brother wants\\
sabumad: to make balbadd in a slave producing country…!!\\