"Pharaoh" called Siamun "Pharaoh, wake up"
Pharaoh was in crying in his sleep, his heart ached and he could almost feel the wounds of the knight on his body, oh how torturous!
"Pharaoh" called Siamun, and the king finally woke up.
"What happened Siamun?"
"I'm worried Pharaoh, you've been acting weird ever since you received those gifts"
Pharaoh sat on his bed.
"What are you talking about Siamun?"
The old man sighed.
"My Pharaoh" he started "You've been really distracted since you started reading those things, you've seem to have lost the sense of time and space, you barely eat or sleep anymore" before Pharaoh could interrupt he added "Don't think I haven't noticed"
Pharaoh looked to the side, annoyed.
"Don't worry, I'm just really curious about what these people wrote, all these diaries seem to be connected" he explained "I feel like there's something there that I have to find, like I need to solve a puzzle, but I'm not sure what it is yet, maybe once I finish all the diaries I'll be able to solve this mystery" he said, exited.
"What mystery?" asked the old man, almost sarcastically.
"That's what I need to know"
"Pharaoh"
"Don't worry Siamun, everything will return to normal once I end this"
Siamun sighed in defeat and left the room murmuring a 'whatever'.
Pharaoh then opened the next diary, the owner was another man that shared his name, he wasn't sure who he was but he seemed to be some kind of lord.
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A young woman that it's supposedly descendant Hermos - or his family, I'm of those who firmly believe that Hermos and Critias were lovers - gave me a pair of diaries and the most beautiful doll I've ever seen; they supposedly belonged to Timaeus, I'm so excited!
I'll study the diaries and the doll once I return home, these might be the most precious treasures of my collection!
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These are original! Thought the first diary isn't of Timaeus, but a Doctor named Atem Sennen, my namesake!
These treasures have been well preserved, amazingly so, I wonder what they did so they could be preserved so perfectly.
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I checked the doll today, there are some darker spots on its lips, limbs, left shoulder and forehead, I assume something stained it and someone didn't clean it immediately after, the spots are almost unnoticeable though; there are marks that it's right leg was changed, presumably something happened to it - I assume - before the era of the dragon knights, so it must have happened when it belonged to the Doctor, who seems to be it's maker.
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I started reading the first diary - the original, written in old tongue - I wish I could find his medical diary, to see his notes on the plague, I've seen various writings of this strange illness that just disappeared one day and I would really like to know more about it.
I've also been translating it to Ranmos, though certain phrases are hard to since old tongue and Ranmos aren't that similar, because while we don't have the need to conjugate the auxiliars they did in ancient times, they also lack a lot of words we have, but they compensated this by summing verbs that could change the entire meaning of the sentence.
For example, at some point the Doctor starts calling his house - rarionn - which could be translated as 'den' because they didn't have a word for a house, they had ardan - home, tnepuckdan - workplace, laoamaldan - shop place, etc. but not house, so when he didn't feel like that house was his home he lacked another word that he could use, hence the use of rarionn.
It's good to see I didn't learn the old tongue in vain.
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I finished Doctor Sennen's diary and am working on Timaeus diary now.
The first half of his diary is the translation of Doctor Sennen's diary to old Ranmos; the second half is his actual diary, he wrote a lot less than the Doctor though; he talks about the doll, named Yugi - a word which in old tongue meant joy and in old Ranmos meant bloom and that evolved to mean rose in this time - which shows exactly how Doctor Sennen views Yugi - who is his source of joy - Timaeus also mentions where he found the manor, maybe I can go take a look.
They also mention this being Yami, who I assume is in some way divinity, because devils can't grant life, much less create a soul.
He put the feather in the inkwell and stood up, it was late and he should really go to sleep.
"Good night, my Lord " said someone behind him, he turned and paralyzed at the sight.
On the desk on where Yugi was seated, sat the shadow being referee in the diaries as Yami.
"You" he squeaked. Yami nodded.
"Me" he said almost mockingly.
"Why are you here?" he asked.
"You know why" he said unamused.
"You want to grant Yugi life by bounding him to me" he said, Yami nodded "May I ask why?"
"I find it amusing" he simply said.
"I don't understand?"
"You come back to life and still wish to have Yugi" he paused "Timaeus wished for Yugi too, when he read your diary, so I granted him his wish, and now that your soul returned to this world it yearns for Yugi once again. So I might as well grant you your wish once more" the lord gaped at him.
"Are you implying that I'm the reincarnation of Doctor Atem Sennen?" he needed to sit down.
"I'm pretty sure I'm not implying it, I'd recognize that soul anywhere" he said with a certain amount of sourness.
It almost sounded as if Yami disliked -or worst, hated- his soul.
"Now, my Lord" he almost spat the title "Won't you make the deal?" a pale hand appeared form his dark body.
Almost automatically he reached out and grabbed it.
Yami pulled Lord Atem to himself and pressed his lips to his for merely seconds before letting go.
He then turned to Yugi and unlike with Atem the kiss was soft and Yami even seemed to enjoy it.
He didn't turn back to Atem.
"Now you just need to call his name" he said before disappearing in the shadows.
Atem just kept staring at where Yami had been, too shocked to even notice he was holding his breath.
He gasped, his brain screaming from the lack of oxygen, and let himself fall on the floor.
He could hardly believe all the information that Yami spat on his face.
So there is life after death he thought and reincarnation is totally a thing.
It was, shocking, to say the least. He controlled his breathing to try and relax.
He looked at his hands, where those the hands that made Yugi? He was Doctor Sennen's reincarnation, did they look alike? He gulped and looked up to Yugi.
I guess Yugi is the one who can answer that.
So he called his name, hesitant.
"Yu-gi" he said. He stood up, his limbs were shaking slightly "Yugi?"
Slowly, agonizingly slowly, Yugi opened his eyes.
Time stopped.
Yugi stared at him, gaping, for what felt like an eternity before finally opening his mouth.
"Atem?" he asked, pleaded.
Atem nodded slowly.
Yugi cried.
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I'm still shook, apparently I am the reincarnation of Doctor Atem Sennen and I assume we really do look alike, since the moment Yugi saw me -yes, I accepted Yami's deal- he started crying, without sharing a single tear, the moment I got close he didn't hesitate to hug me and I couldn't help a strange feel of joy appear in my heart, it's really strange, I'm not really sure were all these feeling are coming from, but I guess my soul -like Yami said- yearns for Yugi.
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The staff freaked out a little when I presented Yugi to them, but he won their hearts in a week or less.
Yugi was so excited to meet so many people, I read again the diaries, this seems to be the first time Yugi coexist with so many people, at first it was just Doctor Sennen -I guess me? But it feels weird to say that - and with Timaeus it was just them, Critias and Hermos.
x - xx - xxx
There someone in my staff that doesn't seem to be fond of Yugi. I gave Yugi the room next to mine -it's so he has his own private space, because I really doubt he sleeps- and yesterday all his robes were missing, we found them later in the lake.
I can't find a reason for someone to do that to Yugi, who has done nothing bad to anyone ever.
I'll have to pay more attention to my staff, this type of behavior is unacceptable.
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Yugi's stuff keeps disappearing, but at least now I know that it's a girl who has been tormenting Yugi, I'm not really sure who yet, but I'll find our sooner or later.
Meanwhile Yugi has basically moved to my room.
x - xx - xxx
We found the culpable, her name is Tea Garden, she's the maiden in charge of cleaning Yugi's room; I talked to her and gave her an ultimatum, I hope this will stop the harassment; when I asked why had she done that she blushed and started stuttering, she looked very nervous, so I assume she likes someone and sees Yugi as a love rival. Pitiful.
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I've received a letter from my cousin, I'll have to leave for a couple of weeks, I won't bring Yugi with me, the road to my cousin's place isn't the safest so I'll rather Yugi stay home, safe and sound, he probably won't be happy with my decision but once I tell him my reasons I think he'll agree with staying, of course not without making me bring him something, not that I wouldn't anyway.
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I was at my cousin's house for almost a week, I received an emergency letter that some people broke into our home, so I returned immediately.
Yugi was harmed, he confronted the intruders so they attacked him with an axe, his arms were basically destroyed; I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried, Yugi insisted that he was alright, and that at least no one else was harmed.
I have to thank Jounouchi and Honda too, since they were the ones who saved my dear.
The intruders stole some money and jewelry, fortunately none of my treasures. But that doesn't mean that I'll just let them go, no one who harms Yugi will go unpunished.
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Ootogi -my carpenter- made Yugi a new pair of arms, I offered to pay but he doesn't want to accept anything, says he's happy to help.
Concerning the criminals, we found their bodies in the lake, no one knows how that could have happened but I can't shake the feeling that Yami is behind this.
That was the last entry.
Pharaoh stared blankly at the diary.
That couldn't be it, could it?
The rest of the pages were completely blank, what could have happened?
He knew the answer.
He had died, just like the others, but how?
Doctor Sennen died because of the plague.
The dragon knight Timaeus died because of the battle injuries.
But Lord Atem?
What was his tragic end?
Everything seemed to be going all right -as noted in his diary- but something must have happened for it to end so abruptly.
Pharaoh cursed out loud. He had so many questions!
He ruffled his hair in frustration and took a moment to breath before opening the next diary.
