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Aladdin: I just returned from the Dark Continent and received this message from sister Kougyoku: ‘Aladdin, there’s something that only you can do that I want you to do for me’
Aladdin: what could it be? No, I mustn’t get my hopes up. It’s probably work-related, like magic transfer circle for trading between the continetens, or the magic research institute that the Kou Empire is going to establish with Magnostadt?
Aladdin: she did say something only I could do. Could it be that it’s a personal request?
Kougyoku (Aladdin’s imagination): I couldn’t ask anyone else. There’s a place that I want you to go with me. But don’t get carried away, would you?
Aladdin: no, I mustn’t appear excited. I must act like normal. But what’s considered normal? It would be so much easier if there’s a spell for it (He’s thinking like his teacher)
Dressed up sharply and carrying a souvenir that he chose carefully.
Aladdin: alright, let’s go! Yo! Sister Kougyoku!
Kougyoku: there’s a serious problem that occurred in the Kou Empire and I want you to lend me your power, Aladdin.
Aladdin: it’s more serious than I thought. What happened?
Kougyoku: during the final battle, thanks to the shellphones, my image was broadcasted to the citizens of the Kou Empire.
Aladdin: and where’s the problem in that?
Kougyoku: it’s a big problem. Before the spread of the shellphones, stories about how the empress looked were only spread by rumors.
The capital during volume 30
Man: I just saw the new empress.
Man: she’s a young empress, isn’t she?
Man: but she appears reliable. Her speech was magnificent.
Kougyoku: I’m a warrior of the Ren family! I will never kneel to anyone!
Man: yeah, she reminded of emperor Hakutoku and lord Kouen when they were alive.
Man: she had the kind of stature that forces you to raise your head to look at them.
Boy: you mean she has a large build?
Man: yeah. She was buffed and her arms were so big that her veins were popping out.
Man: she looked like she could kill a tiger with one finger.
Boy: she seems so strong…
Man: Empress Kougyoku seems like a dignified personage.
Kougyoku (in the middle of inspecting the town in secret) : the rumors are spiraling out of control!
Kougyoku: and then my skinny self was projected for everyone to see…they all must be so disappointed.
Aladdin: is that so? I think an emperor like you is also fine.
Aladdin: such a weird aesthetic sense…which reminds me, Hakuryuu and uncle Kouen too…
Aladdin: uncle, what happened to your arm and legs?
Kouen: I gave them to Hakuryuu.
Hakuryuu: it seems Phenex has the ability to heal* old wounds (note: he used a word that means ‘shouldering another’s debt’ and I changed it to heal)
Aladdin: is that so? Then, can it also heal the burn scar on your face?
Hakuryuu and Kouen: heal it? what are you talking about?
Kouen: I think the scar makes you look dignified. It’s proof of the great fire and emphasizes on your legitimacy to the throne.
Aladdin: they said something like that. They probably see some peculiar value in such things.
Kougyoku: with the world changing, the Kou citizens must feel uneasy and I must not betray their expectations, and so…
Kougyoku: Aladdin, please, with your magic…
Kougyoku: make me look dignified. Turn me into a big man full of muscles with a two meter beard.
Aladdin: I…I think you’re fine the way you are, sister Kougyoku.
Kougyoku: the country can’t be governed with pretty words alone!
Koubun: your majesty! She adapted her brother’s thinking (note: he refers to volume 23 omake)
Koumei: cast that magic on me too. It seems it can make me fit without me putting any effort into it.
1) a rare red flower that blooms in a faraway place in the Kou Empire
2) sweets that he bought from the capital.
A video message from the Dark Continent.
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