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...Apparently Titus has more power than Scheherazade...

...When it comes to the decisions of the Rem Empire. Since he can just grant the Ko Empire a teleportal straight over their borders without taking it up with the Senate.

Meanwhile Scheherazade got conned into letting the Senate “phase” out slavery for a period 270 years longer than the Rem Empire has existed (they were founded by Emperor Remus 730 years ago). Keep in mind that 200 years ago, when Emperor Pernadius Alexius had the throne, there was no slavery. Since Scheherazade thinks that slavery is relatively recent (or whatever she said about overlooking the flaws of her children), it must have happened sometime during the past century or less.

So if slavery has existed for 100 years (probably less, but lets be generous), the Senate was able to con her into thinking that you would need 10 times as long to abolish it (since Titus, with Scheherazade’s memories, doesn’t call bullshit, I am forced to believe that yes, this is how it went down).

And now it turns out that while Scheherazade, mother and founder of Rem, was beholden to the Senate and Emperor, Titus, who battled against Rem in the battle that killed Scheherazade, apparently isn’t.

This is the same problem I had with Barkak and Balbadd. Just as how Titus should have needed to take this decision to the Senate to decide, Barkak (who should have lost all political relevance two revolutions ago) should have been forced to take the Ko teleportal decision to the Parliament to decide. The very structure of their “we’re a fabulous republic not a monarchy lol” should have forced them into it. At the very least, it should have been the decision of the elected Foreign Ministers (or their equivalents) rather than the military (Right General Barkak of Balbadd, No. 1 Fanboy of the Saluja Dynasty) and clergy (High Priest Titus Alexius of the Rem Empire, Traitor of the Battle of Magnostadt).

Okay, I get it. the author wants to reintroduce the old characters (who, apparently, formed friendships with Alibaba off-panel. Which... Holy shit am I tired of everything interesting when it comes to the characters happening off-panel, in backstages and omakes), but the only way this makes sense is if Rem and Balbadd were monarchies and Titus and Barkak were the monarchs.

Can I also point out that Titus is 5 years old. Regardless of his body’s and brain’s physical and hormonal maturity, he is 5 years old. With 5 years of life experience. During most of that time he was in Magnostadt, not in a government position.

Scheherazade was 268 years old when she died. She lived and breathed the government of Rem for 200 years. She watched the rise and fall of the Parthevian Empire. She was the High Priestess, and had been the High Priestess for 200 years by the time the First Emperor of the Ko Empire, Hakutoku, was born. Remember Old Man Rametoto of Imchakk? She’d been the High Priestess for 150+ years when he was in fucking diapers. Hell, she’d been the High Priestess for 100+ years before any of the characters that appear in both manga were zygotes (excluding Alma Torran characters and Pernadius and his household)!

Yet a 5-year-old with no worldly or political experiences can see through obvious political con double-speak that a 268-year-old with the experiences above couldn’t.

It’s kind of obvious why that happened when you step back and take a look. Both of these manga are prefixed with “Magi”. The “Magi” are the title characters, yet there is a certain pattern.

Aladdin, a male magi, as an embryo, survives the death of his mother, Sheba, a female magi who had the ability of complete control of her body yet died of bodily injuries (if she can pause a pregnancy for years without damage to either embryo or her own body, then she can pause a bleeding out ffs!).

Yunan, a male magi, despite dying over and over again, is reincarnated just as he was before and continues to live.

Judar, a male magi, is literally punched into space with nothing to stop his eternal journey out of the solar system yet somehow ends up on the Dark Continent and is allowed to return to life.

Scheherazade, a female magi who made multiple clones to inhabit so that she didn’t have to die, is dead.

Titus, a male magi, survives by inhabiting one of Scheherazade’s clones (which is inexplicably male as well, as we’ve seen puberty reveal in these last chapters, despite being made for the High Priestess).

Our only surviving female Magi. Our only living, female example of the title characters is... Arba. Who is currently worshiping a male character like a god and massaging his shoulders.