What extraordinary power...
Ugo!
No, Ugo!
This is bad. Everyone, run for it!
Are you all right?
Morg!
Thank you for saving me.
What about the Fog Troupe?
They're okay.
Thanks to Mister Sinbad, it doesn't look like there are any casualties.
His prompt warning allowed them to get away in time.
But that man down there...
Hey Aladdin, what happened to Ugo?
It looks like he's moving on his own will.
I don't know! He's never done this before...
Oh gosh, what is that monster?
Kou
akogare wo ima tsukanda
My desires are within reach.
daikansei no namari ni
If the loud, welcoming cheers
kokochiyoku utaretanara
shoot home straight into your heart,
saa tobikomou
then come and jump in!
ashita kara umare kawaru toka
People say they'll change the next day.
dareka ga mikiri tsuketa toka
But they give up so easily.
kono machi no style toka
That's just how it is here.
sonna mono ni nagasare tsuzukete
They get swept away by those excuses day by day.
kado no toreta genseki ni ha
They're nothing more than a chip, swept off the edge
kitto daremo you ha nai
and no longer needed by anyone.
fushigi to tobira no mukou ni ha
Guess what? Out there,
v.i.p nanoru yatsu ha naku
no one's swaggering around like a VIP.
daremo ga kunou no hate sa ore mo
Everyone suffers their own heartaches, myself included.
akogare wo ima tsukanda
But my desires are within reach.
mi wo yudanereba ii kaji ha kono te ni
Throw yourself in with abandon. I've got the wheel.
mitsu kazoete the show time
On the count of three, it's show time!
daikansei no namari ni
If the loud, welcoming cheers
kokochiyoku utaretanara
shoot home straight into your heart,
saa tobikomou
then come and jump in!
They've bullied our cute little Judal so much!
We managed to get here in the nick of time though.
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But he's so badly injured.
Ka Koubun, you'd better be able to heal him.
If he dies, we're in big trouble.
I am aware, Princess.
He is our Priest, he's of great importance.
Sin!
Yeah, they're from the Kou Empire.
The Kou Empire?
And the fact that they're using such powerful magical items
means they must be rather important.
The question is how important...
What? Does that monster still want to fight?
How interesting.
Then I'll fight you myself.
Please be careful, Princess.
Don't worry. Leave it to me.
You just worry about healing him.
Understood.
Spirit of sorrow and solitude,
I command thee and thine.
With my magoi as your source,
use your great power to bring my will to life.
Come forth, Vinea!
She can wield a Metal Vessel!
Let's go!
The heat!
He's going to evaporate all of my water!
You won't get away!
What's that?
Ugo!
How was that, Ka Koubun?
I'd expect nothing less of you, Princess.
How is my darling Judal?
I am administering emergency treatment as best I can,
but I will need proper facilities to heal him completely.
Then we should hurry.
Who are you?
All we did was save one of our allies because he was under attack by a monster.
No! Ugo was just trying to protect me! To protect everyone here!
That ally of yours was the one who attacked us first!
Oh?
So that means that you're that monster's master?
And all of those people below are his allies?
Enshin, Entai, Engi! Kill them.
Who are they?!
I'll take care of this boy.
And the three of you, kill all of the other trash.
What's going on?!
Help!
Stop him, Masrur!
He's on equal footing with Masrur?
These three must be the...
He's moving too fast! I can't fight back!
Morgiana!
Help me protect the others!
All right!
Everyone, stay behind me!
Your swordsmanship is quite good.
Let us fight.
H-He's so strong!
They look like they're having fun.
I'm going to start having fun now too.
Spirit of sorrow and solitude,
I command thee.
Cover my form, live in my frame.
What is she doing?
Change me into a great magician! Vinea!
Please stop, miss.
What do you think you're doing?
My transformation!
My lady, am I right to assume that you are a princess of the Kou Empire?
Wh-Who're you?
I am Sinbad, the King of Sindria.
Y-You're King Sinbad?
Ho-How long are you going to continue holding my hand?!
I apologize, Princess.
Don't you think it's improper for two people in our positions to be fighting here?
Bu-But that boy was the one who-!
Aladdin, why don't you stand down too?
It's okay. A djinn won't die that easily.
Your friend is still alive.
It's not like you to be so blinded by rage.
Princess, certain circumstances have led to my presence here in this country.
If such is the case for you as well, I would love to meet you in a more appropriate location.
I-I understand.
Everyone!
Yes?
We're leaving.
But Princess!
I said we're leaving!
And you! It's not like I'm leaving just because you told me to, got it?!
They really left.
Thank goodness.
Is anyone injured?
Ugo's mark is gone!
I have to give him more power!
Sin.
How does it look, Jafar?
Thankfully, it doesn't look like there were any casualties.
That's great. Let's treat the wounded then.
We must regroup.
Excuse me.
I've gathered some cloth.
I also gave water to those who needed it.
Thank you. You should take a break.
No, I...
I will help treat the wounded.
Morgiana's a sweet girl.
Strong and kind.
Yes. She's observant and hardworking.
Are you all right?
Yeah, thank you.
It's so frustrating...
I wanted to help those two before returning to my homeland...
But I couldn't do anything.
Ow!
Dammit... What's the matter with me?
They were being attacked and I couldn't do anything!
What does it matter if I have a Metal Vessel if I can't use it when it matters most?
I really am pathetic... I'm so pissed off!
I don't have time to recover!
Dammit, how did I get that injury?
Where did this one come from?
And this one?!
Alibaba?
How are you feeling?
What are you doing?!
I-I was just checking my injuries!
Seriously...
Why didn't you ask for someone to help you dress your wounds?
They're fine.
I just wanted to take care of them really fast so I could get out there and help the others.
How's Aladdin doing?
He said he wanted to be alone.
I think he's really upset.
He's worried about Ugo disappearing.
I don't think that's the only thing he's worried about.
If Aladdin uses that mysterious power of his too much, his body pays the price.
The same thing happened in the 7th dungeon.
Hey, he's not breathing!
This is bad.
Is he still alive?
Aladdin!
Aladdin, pull yourself together!
Aladdin!
Remove his flute!
Get it off of him!
He's extremely weak.
He seems to be holding on still, but his condition is really dangerous.
No!
He used too much magoi.
It's true that Magi can use the magoi surrounding them limitlessly,
but they are limited by their own physical strength.
He's much weaker than he was last time!
Aladdin ran out of strength and could no longer draw on magoi from rukh.
So instead, he fed his own magoi to his flute.
To give one's magoi is to give one's life.
Even if he's a magi, running out of magoi means-
That's just how important Ugo was to Aladdin!
Alibaba!
But the eight-pointed star seal hasn't reappeared...
At any rate, Aladdin must rest.
It doesn't seem likely that he will wake in the next few days.
Chief!
Chief Alibaba!
What should we do now?
What's going to happen to the Fog Troupe? To the slums?
Chief!
Tell us, Chief!
Chief!
Please!
It'll be okay. Calm down.
Don't worry. I said I would overcome anything, didn't I?
Help from Sindria is on its way.
You guys should regroup and be ready to act when needed.
Go.
I-Is help really coming?
Yes.
You guys should hurry and treat the wounded too.
Go-Got it!
Yeah, let's go!
Yeah!
I'll go ready the supplies!
Yeah, there might still be things we can use at the harbor.
That's right! Let's go!
Dammit! Why am I so useless?
I can't help anyone. I can't even reassure them!
I'm sure Kassim could've done a much better job...
Wait! Where is Kassim?
We've got a problem!
What's wrong?
It's bad, Chief. The army is moving in on us!
What?
Barkak!
Young lord!
General Barkak!
You've changed so much, young lord.
It's hard to imagine you as the child I taught royal swordplay to all those years ago.
Why are you here?
Brother Sahbmad?
You're amazing, Alibaba.
You lead a whole troupe of thieves down here.
Simply amazing...
I could never do something like that.
I'm hopeless... Whenever I'm faced with a crowd of strangers, my legs just won't stop shaking.
Sahbmad...
Young lord, the Deputy King came here because he has something very important to tell you.
To us, this is enemy territory.
Please understand that the Deputy King has risked his life to journey here.
If it isn't Sahbmad!
King Sinbad!
It's very brave of you to come out here among all of these strangers.
You're not here because Ahbmad told you to come, are you?
No.
I had to apologize...
I put your life in danger.
I see. So it was you.
Huh?
The Fog Troupe's informant knew way too much. He had to be a person in a high place of power.
He leaked info about the army to the Fog Troupe,
and also informed the Fog Troupe that I was after them.
So you're the one, huh?
What?
S-Sahbmad did all that?
You didn't know?
I-I didn't know anything...
I did it because of Alibaba.
I thought if Alibaba was the one leading the Fog Troupe,
then they just might be able to do something for this country.
Sahbmad!
Alibaba was always able to do the things I couldn't.
I wanted Alibaba to stop Ahbmad!
What?
Stop Ahbmad?
What is so bad about Ahbmad that even his Deputy King would choose to support thieves to stop him?
I'm afraid of Ahbmad...
But I'm even more afraid of the things that Ahbmad is trying to do.
The fact that I don't know how this country has fallen to this point is the scariest thing of all!
I will explain.
The abnormalities started right when the previous king fell sick.
What?
It's nice to meet you, Prince Ahbmad.
My name is Banker.
What do you think, future King?
Would you like to try entrusting everything to us Bankers?
He called himself a financial advisor.
At that time, our trade with Partevia was at a standstill.
Our economic situation was worsening by the day.
That man said he had fixed the financial situations of many other countries before,
and so we decided to follow his advice.
What are all of these bits of paper?
Those are not not bits of paper. Those are fuan.
Fuan?
Money with a fixed value, backed by the Kou Empire.
Try to using some next time you want to trade.
Hm...
That money really could be traded for all sorts of expensive goods, handicrafts, supplies, and special products.
Kou
The Banker was willing to lend us as much fuan as we wanted.
And before we knew it, our economy was completely dependent on the fuan.
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But we did not see the trap that awaited us.
What?
In order to borrow fuan, we had to pay interest.
But the value of the fuan slowly started to change.
Something that could be bought only yesterday for one fuan was now suddenly two fuan the next day.
All of the transactions eventually led to a huge loss for our country.
Metal currency is valuable because of the metal it's made of.
But paper money is different.
They're only pieces of paper.
They are only valuable with the backing of the country that created them.
I can't believe someone would use that as the economic standard...
In our country, we have promissory notes that can be traded for metal coin,
but they are only temporary and cannot be used outside of our country.
Our debt expanded tremendously.
We took on more loans to pay back our previous loans.
But the Banker wasn't willing to lend us the money for free anymore.
Our maritime rights, territorial rights, and trading rights,
were all seized as collateral.
No way!
Because of that, the people suffered.
The taxes were ever-rising and the supplies were never enough.
In order to silence the voices of discontent,
the King blocked off the slums and abandoned all those living there.
In the past, this used to be a rather prosperous port city.
The year after you left for the palace, an epidemic swept through the slums.
Rather than just pretend they didn't know about it,
the government tried to hide it, hide us, and completely closed off the slums.
The royalty and nobles in charge of the government did not feel any danger from the situation.
Their lives were only getting better.
I must have more fuan! We must borrow more!
But this country no longer has any more assets that can be used as collateral!
What do you mean? I see a lot right there.
My King, what are you looking at?
Look over there.
What?
Next time, we will use our people as collateral!
This country has more than enough people!
Next, we hand over the rights of our people as collateral.
There will never be a shortage of humans!
We will be able to borrow fuan forever.
What?
What do you mean he used our people's rights as collateral?
He's going to sell Balbadd's citizens.
To the Kou Empire, Laem, Partevia!
Ahbmad plans on making Balbadd into a slave-production country!
Everyday, Ahbmad spends money like water.
He doesn't care about anything else.
The nobles and bureaucrats only care about protecting their own comfortable lives, so they listen to Ahbmad.
Deputy King!
Morgiana!
Deputy King.
Did you come here because you want us to stop Ahbmad's plans?
T-That's right.
Let's do it, Alibaba!
Let's put an end to this madness!
Chief!
Young lord!
Alibaba!
nozoite miyou
Take a look
yubi bouenkyou
through your finger telescope.
me ni mieru sekai ha subete kako no monogatari sa
The world you see before your eyes is a story already told.
kagayaku mirai wo miushinau na yo
Don't lose sight of the bright future ahead.
kimi ni ha motto ippai yume to kibou ga arun da
You're destined to realize great hopes and dreams.
bootto shitetara minogashichau zo
But if you blink for too long, they'll leave you behind.
dekinai riyuu sagasu yori
Instead of searching for an excuse,
yatte mireba ii
why not just give it a try?
nozoite miyou
Take a look
yubi bouenkyou
through your finger telescope.
yubi to yubi wo marume ryoume ni ate
Make circles with your fingers and put them around your eyes.
imeeji shite sagashiteru mono
Picture your hopes and dreams!
atama no naka no adobenchaaa
Picture your personal adventure story!
doko he mukau?
Where are you headed?
yubi bouenkyou
What can you see
yubi no sono sukima ni nani ga mieru?
in the space between your fingers?
tooi you demo hontou ha chikai
It might seem far, but it's really not.
yogen no you na takaramono
It's a promise as valuable as any treasure!
From birth, people are destined to play certain roles.
You'll join me, won't you, Alibaba?
I think he's the one who can save this country.
Next time: Determination and Separation.
12th Night
Determination and Separation
Aladdin, what should I do?