v - razones
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Alibaba was..someone worthy of the title "King". The charismatic leader was smart, clever, simple, straight-forward, patient, honest and of course charismatic. He would do anything to help the citizen of Balbadd—he is the fucking prince for the god's sake. He would became the villain if they need him to. He even led a thief troop to raid noble houses for money and foods to feed his citizen.
Alibaba would do anything to ensure his citizen happy, safe and sound. He is a great King Candidate, with his own flaws and his own plus. His Magi certainly didn't make a mistake in choosing him.
Alibaba is exactly what they need him to be.
Then what about him? What about Shirou himself? What could Shirou be proud of?
Maybe his face? No. He is just a mere male with common reddish hair and golden yellow eyes...or maybe not that common.
(...Red? Isn't his hair black before?)
Wait, he stopped as he faced his reflection on the surface of the river that flowed across Balbadd, his hand trailed his own cheek and deeply inspecting his golden eyes. Aren't his eyes blue before?
He blinked as he try to remember those days he spent studying under Sara's turtleage.
"You have such a good shade of black as hair. It fits your pale face just right. But I really want to cut it short."
Ah, he longed for Quor. He had cut his hair short there, didn't he?
How are they there he wonder? Is his lot going to be fine without his aid? Did Tizta and the others really get out of the Dungeon that day?
Niyet won't sent them somewhere else right?
"Your eyes, too, are sharp and keen. It's beautiful shade of blue, just like how sky looks at times like this."
Ah, he remembered his eyes as blue. Not gold. Sara said it herself.
(And his hair as black. Not red.)
(How could this be..?)
He sighed. How did his features even changed drastically like this? Is this Niyet's fault too?
Like, the man with weary eyes even choose him as his King Candidate when he clearly didn't have what it takes to be a King, nor the blessing of Magi. He stood there as he single-handedly decided to just simply picked him. And now, he reside inside of his sword.
The Caliburn, Sword of Stone, which history, legend, making and power he could saw, replicate and use at will, but not the djinn that resided within it.
He cannot read Niyet.
He doesn't know it's powers beside changing colours of things at will (well, maybe that's what happened with his hair and eyes?) and sometimes levitating things off the ground when he compacted some of his magoi into his sword and it change into another sword entirely (what the heck is that? ...what the heck is Djinn Equip, Alibaba help!).
He really doesn't know it's power at all.
He does not understand why Niyet choose him at all.
(Hm...?)
Maybe his habbit and personality? No. That time, he was just being selfish (or selfless?) when he decided that no one will die in his watch.
(He is tired of deaths. Maybe traumatized. But it's definitely bad for his health, to see anyone dying by his eyes. Sara smiled, but that's just humane. He wondered.)
That one time he just want to be useful. He just want to actually be brave and stand up for those he want to protect for once.
(They say, you cannot enter Niyet without the intent. There's reasons why that dungeon was named Niyet.)
Then, what intention did he have when he decided to enter Niyet?
What did he do to deserve the right to became Niyet's "king"?
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...is it because of his answer?
"Cause I want my life to be useful for once, I want to save someone."
..because he want to be the Hero of Justice?
...or is it because he want to save someone?
...or because he want to be useful even just for that once?
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Maybe because he have his faith in believeing; the ideal he want to follow to the end of his his time.
(Niyet is the Djinn of Faith and Tenacity after all.)
His ideal..?
(To save everyone?)
His impossible ideal...?
(He can't save everyone.)
His faith.
(But to save many, he need to doom the few.)
His broken promise...
To a caring father. To the gentle parents. To a beautiful king. To his beloved siblings. To the people he never clearly remembet.
—to his future self.
"Even if you are not wrong, doesn't mean you are right."
(To him.)
"Why do I want to be the Hero of Justice?"
(Why do I need to follow an impossible ideal?)
(Why do I need to fulfill a forgotten promise?)
"How do I even know what it is?"
He stared blankly at the blurring reflection on the water surface. He don't know what is right, nor what's wrong. But he know his priority is to make anyone he could reach happy, safe and sound.
He know the perfect way to do so.
"I need to eliminate those corrupt nobleman."
(Whatever it takes.)
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trivia:
razones is Ukrainan for "reasons"
Jie is an oni in disguise /imsorry