Magi: The alternative of Magic

by MimiTenshi

Solomon, a prince and king of Alma Torran, who does not fully understand the custom and is trying instead of his family to find answers to all of his questions. But nobody wanted to answer him. With the exception of Alayna, a mysterious woman who sat in an abandoned, old and secret library. But who is this Alayna and what secrets is she trying to keep secret?

23. 23rd Night: Memories of Karma Hikari

welcome back

This night is, I would say, exhausting night.
There are some sentences in there that you don't understand at first, which is why I have translated them below in the explanations ^^
The characters all belong to Shinobu Ohtaka.
I've only converted some changes.

Well, I don't want to stop you for long and wish you a lot of fun on my twenty-third night ^^

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I can still remember very well how I used to
Karma or Aladdin told everything I knew about him and what we did when we examined the legendary book.
"Unbelievable! This voice was a distinctly the voice of Goddess Alayna! The female form of God who died 15 years ago!" the Rukh Aladdin rejoiced, so Arba and I just stared at each other.
"You know she didn't die! She just went back to the Sacred Palace, stop at the Rukh to release the divine Rukh she possessed so that they could go into the new life that is now Aladdin!" my aunt said, so I nodded.
I don't know everything that Aunt Arba was told by Solomon and Sheba, because she thought I was still too young for that, but I knew that.
"Of course I'm aware of that! But I'm just wondering how she managed to put a message in it for us?" Aladdin, who still has his human form, wondered.
Now standing next to him and lifting the book, I turned it over and was startled when a Rukh attacked me.
Immediately, Rukh Aladdin defended me, pulled me behind him and stood in front of me like a true knight.
"What do you want from her?!" he asked the Rukh, who only looked at him questioningly.
With a language I didn't understand, Aladdin's attitude loosened up and turned back into a small Rukh.
Flying over to him, they conversed in a language that even Arba could not understand.
"You really don't understand a single word, Auntie?" I asked her, nodding.
"I'm already around 1100 years old, but even I can't understand and speak the language. It seems to be some language, which is not itself in the records of the god, where he met Timpani ..." she said, so I looked up at her and then back at the two Rukh who were talking wildly.
When they were finished, Rukh Aladdin came to me and snatched the book from my hand, so that I stared at him in perplexity.
"Bring it back Master and don't reveal that we had it, get it?!" Aladdin commanded with a stern tone, so that even Arba showed respect for him.
The Rukh took the book from him, bowed to him and then to us before disappearing with the book.
Not knowing what the hell was happening, I caught Aladdin as he threatened to fall to the ground.
"I think you used too much Magoi for this magic when you transformed into your human form," I said, gently stroking him as he lay exhausted on my hand.
"I did that... I know from Master and Solomon that I should never use this magic... Oh man! I'm going to get in such trouble when they find out..." he said, trying to hide behind my finger.
"Tell me, Rukh Aladdin, who was that and why did he attack Kougyoku?" my aunt asked, so that we both looked at her before I looked at Rukh, who was now lying on my lap as I sat down on a couch.
"The Rukh belonged to Alayna." he said, so that we looked at him speechlessly.
"Alayna was also able to look into the future as Meister can. She must have seen that at some point we will have the book in our hands, and I will try to translate it for you. That's probably why she put a Rukh in there on this certain page, which was supposed to make sure that we didn't read it ... 'You are not allowed to read the book! It belongs only to God and only he is allowed to read it!' the Rukh said to me ..." the Rukh explained to us, so that we nodded understandably.
"Apparently, she also wrote down the future in the book ... As well as what happened to Master..." he said now, so that I breathed a sigh of relief.
Arba also breathed a sigh of relief and tore the Rukh from my lap.
Asking him how he knew, he looked down to the ground and said that the Rukh of Alayna had confessed to him.
Releasing him, I caught him as he threatened to fall to the ground again.
"... So... Did this Alayna know that Prince Aladdin was being kidnapped by this monster?" asked Aunt Arba, looking only in the distant distance.
Looking at Rukh Aladdin, he shrugged his shoulders when she asked why she hadn't told Solomon and Sheba.
"I can't tell you, because I don't know Alayna's thoughts and approach..."
Not knowing what to make of it, I looked first at my aunt and then at the Rukh before I rose with him and said goodbye to my aunt.
"I'm going back to the pub. After all, I want to introduce Aladdin to you!" I grinned, trying to dispel the mood that was in the room.
Nodding, I then went back to the pub without continuing to pick on it.
After all, only I knew from whom we would get a reasonable answer.
And this was the God himself!

When we went back to the pub after a few hours and were just outside the door, I looked at Rukh Aladdin, who looked down next to me, confused and yet disappointed.
I stopped at the fountain when I noticed him suddenly looking at the water.
"Is everything alright, Aladdin?" I asked him, so that he only looked at me briefly and then sighed.
"Hach! Nothing is good at all..." he said and sat on the fountain so that I sat next to him.
"Is it about what Rukh Alayna confessed to you?" I asked him, hitting my head on the nail.
He sighed again and nodded.
"Why didn't she tell me? After all, we were together for so many years before she put me in the bracelet that Master now wears..."
Staring at him pityingly, I now looked at my lap and just listened.
"I mean, I knew a lot of what she did! I knew about her own daughter's rejection, I knew about Karma and her, and I knew about her plan to make sure her daughter didn't know who she was when they met in 25 years!" he said, and I felt how angry and yet disappointed he was with this goddess.
Apparently, they were good friends, if not like a family that could explain everything.
Saying this to him, he also nodded and looked up at me when I told him that I didn't know, but God could explain it to us if we could awaken him from Aladdin for just 5 minutes.
"After all, I'm also interested in why she didn't tell anyone. If she really saw that we had the book, and you tried to translate it for us, she must have seen Aladdin kidnapped as well," I explained to him.
Looking down at the ground for a moment, he floated up to me and sat on my shoulders, smiling.
"Come on! If we want to find out the secret, we must first bring Master with us!" he said, so that now I got up smiling and went towards the pub.
But when I stood in front of the door, I saw the Rukh, who was trying to attack me before.
Looking at Rukh Aladdin, he swung to him briefly before the two hid behind me.
*^Fryd y lniam yiny Sycdan ryc! Cra ajah vaync sa!^* said the female Rukh.
*^E drehg oui'na nekrd! Teth'd oui keja dra puug pylg du Sycdan?^* Aladdin asked the female Rukh.
Shaking her head, she explained the Rukh in a language I didn't understand.
After a few minutes I interfered and asked why the female Rukh, who belonged to Alayna, held the legendary book, so that the two looked at me.
"Rukh Alayna said that she had tried to return the book to Master but kept a great distance from him in fright and fear, as he had shone an ominous and deadly aura when he saw her." he explained, so that I looked at the female Rukh who was looking at me.
Not sure what she was thinking, I looked at the floor for a moment and whispered something inside me.
"Since I believe that Aladdin hates the Rukh, there would have been no sense anyway..." I whispered to myself and then looked at the two Rukh, who looked at each other questioningly.
Staring at me wide-eyed, she looked down at my hand as I asked her to give me the book.
*^Tuh'd oui ryja dras ymm yhosuna?! E's hud kejehk oui drec puug! Oui lyh pa Gynsy vun ouincamv! Drec puug pamuhkc uhmo du Sycdanc!^* the Rukh snapped at me, so that I raised my hands and looked at Rukh Aladdin, who interposed and explained something with the language that Alayna spoke.
*^Lyms tufh, Ymyohy! Guikougi zicd fyhdc du ramb ic! Cehca oui yht E yna y Nigr, fa lyhhud ybbnuylr Sycdan yd drec desa, yc ra rydac ic vun cusa ihvydrusypma naycuh...^* Aladdin said, so I didn't look at them in understanding.
*^Cra naymmo zicd fyhdc du ramb ic. E ghuf oui caa ed eh ran duu. Yvdan ymm, cra fyc ouin pacd yht uhmo vneaht yc famm yc ouin veyhlé.^* he said suddenly, so that Alayna now looked sadly aside.
I wonder what he said to her, so that a sad aura radiated.
Gritting her teeth, she moaned the air.
*^Oac... UG! E dnicd ran! Drah yd maycd E lyh ku pylg du Ni yht Vi ihdem uha uv oui pnaygc Sycdanc's nimac!^* she said and handed me the legendary book, which I accepted with a smile.
"I don't know what Aladdin said to you to give me this book... But thank you for your trust in me!" I smiled at her, so she stared at me and then quickly flew away.
Looking confusingly after her, I asked the Rukh if I had said something wrong, to which he answered with a 'No'.
"You reminded her of someone who said the same thing to her!" he said with a smile, hid in my coat and ordered me to return the book to his master.
Staring at him with a raised eyebrow, I said that he was not allowed to give me orders, whereupon he looked at me playfully offended and then replied with a smile with 'I know'.
So, I took a deep breath and opened the pub door.

When I walked into the pub, I was immediately greeted by Rhama, who was putting some chairs from the tables on the floor.
"What are you doing here at such an early hour?" he asked me, smiling, as he lowered the last chair.
Smiling back, I said that we were already half past 3.
"But you don't really keep up with the opening hours, do you?" I asked him and sat down at the bar to accept the drink that the owner poured into me.
Laughing, he replied that he was not really a morning person, like karma, and that he always slept until the evening hour.
"At least I would, if Karma doesn't always wake me up like that at 12 ..." he laughed bashfully and scratched the back of his head.
Looking at him with a smile at first, I then looked at him neutrally when he said the following: "Today, however, he did not wake me up as he usually does ..."
"How then?" I asked Rhama.
"I heard chattering, as if someone was breaking into our apartment. But when I saw Karma agitated looking for something and made everything mess up and talked something to myself, I just woke up bright from it ..." he said and looked up to see where the apartment of the two is.
Asking Rhama what karma was saying, he thought he had heard 'where this book is' and 'piss off'.
"Most likely, by the book he means his book, which he found 2 years ago," he said and then said to himself that he may have lost the book to his favorite place.
"His favorite place?" I asked him, so he looked at me and laughed and asked if he had said this out loud.
Nodding his answer, he sighed and looked again at the staircase.
"He loves to sit by the fountains around here and read. When I asked him why he was sitting there in the cold, he investigated the distance and replied that he was waiting for someone," he replied, so that I looked at him with wide eyes and then smiled at the counter.
Although he has lost his memories of his childhood before the kidnapping, he can remember that he had always waited for me at a certain well.
When we heard the apartment door open, we saw karma coming out and he shone a deadly dark aura, so that Rukh Aladdin trembled in fear in my coat.
"Did you find the book, Karma?" Rhama asked him.
"What are you doing here?! Are you stalking me or something wrong with you?! Can't you just leave me alone!" he snapped at me without answering his foster father's question.
Looking at him in shock, I took a deep breath and fished the book out of my coat.
Looking at it wide-eyed, he snatched it from my hands and asked me where I got it from.
"I saw it lying at the bottom of the well," I replied neutrally and still with a gentle smile, which Karma did not pay attention to and copied the book thoroughly.
"Have you read any of this?!" he asked me in a stern tone, so that I was thinking about whether I should lie to him or tell the truth.
"I looked into it, but I didn't understand anything because it's written in a strange font," I half lied to him.
I decided to tell only half the truth.
Staring at me with sinister eyes, this sinister look turned into a confused look, which now also made me confused.
Why did he always look at me like that when we met?
Postpone this until later, he closed his eyes and turned away from Rhama and me.
"Thank you for bringing the book back to me..." he said in low tones, but so clearly that we both looked at him in shock as he walked back up the stairs.
But before he left completely upstairs, he stopped and looked down at me again.
"You're pretty mysterious, Kougyoku. I would be happy if you could tell us a little more about yourself," he said at last, before disappearing through the apartment door.
At first, staring at the door a little puzzled, I smiled and looked at Rukh Aladdin, who noticed the changed aura in him as much as I did.
Not quite understanding what was happening, the owner of the pub looked at me and said that he hadn't seen Karma smile for almost 3 years.
When I looked into his pale gray eyes, I looked at the Rukh, who meanwhile came out of my coat and ate the cake that Rhama offered him.
Nodding, he flew on my shoulder and said what also concerns me.
"You know exactly who he is, don't you?" he asked him so that he looked at him.
"At least you can see me, even though that's not possible. Unless your life light is slowly running out." Aladdin explained, so that Rhama now put back the glass he had cleaned.
Waiting for his answer, the Rukh declared that he was still too young to die.
Looking at the Rukh again, he nodded and looked again at the apartment door on the first floor.
"Of course. He is the divine prince whom everyone thinks is dead. I realized that the day I took him in," he said and looked at us again.
"Why didn't you tell anyone you found him. You know perfectly well that he involuntarily withdraws Magoi from the people who are near him," I asked him and then looked at Aladdin.
He sighed and said that he was so helpless and this person who had kidnapped him was still walking free.
"You see what he looks like now. He doesn't look like the divine prince, but like a normal person. However, I picked up the phone at the beginning and wanted to let you know," he said and then looked at his hands.
"But every time I saw him sitting drearily in the room, Rukh would come up to me and tell me to take him in for a while... I couldn't do it to him like that. In addition, I knew from friendly guards that the prince was always locked up in the palace and only did things there at his young age that were too much for a child."
I nodded knowingly and said that I knew this too.
"When we were children, he told me about his suffering. Although at a young age he did not possess the divine abilities to fulfill every wish, but arbitrarily fulfilled something, he had been virtually forced to do so..." I said and looked sadly at the counter.
Nodding in agreement, he explained that his parents had not forced him to do this, but his grandmother.
"I learned from a guard friend that King Solomon and Queen Sheba had tried to spend more time with their beloved child each time... But Queen Alma persuaded them that this was his duty and that mankind wanted it that way..."
When he explained his reasons to me, I took his hands and smiled at him.
"You have a kind-hearted heart, Mr. Wiki!" I said, so that he smiled bashfully to the side and only did what his deceased girlfriend had predicted to him.
Not understanding what he meant, I looked at the apartment door, where Karma came out again.
Staring at me, he walked past me and put the food on the counter, which he had probably cooked.
"I didn't even know you were still here," he said to me numbly and sat a little away from me at the counter.
"Do you have a problem with that?" I asked him a little, as I don't like the way he spoke to me at all.
Staring at me, he then looked at Rhama and said that he had to eat something, otherwise he would fall over again in the pub.
Now looking at Rhama, he smiled at his foster son and thanked him for the meal, before he took a few cables.
Karma also started eating, so I looked at Rukh Aladdin, who was hiding in my cloak again, and nodded.
Thinking, I looked over at the 15-year-old, who was staring at me the whole time.
Nervously, I asked him if I had anything on my face, but he didn't answer and looked away again.
I saw him furrowing his brows and thinking about something before staring at me again.
"Why? Why don't I see her?" he asked himself, so Rhama and I looked at him questioningly.
He took one last bite before sitting next to me and staring at me from top to bottom, which made me quite nervous.
Swallowing a lump when I looked into his blood-red eyes, my ears turned a little red as he came closer to mine with his face.
"Where do you even know my real name from?" he asked me now, staring into my pink eyes.
"You told me," I replied, to which he shook his head and said that he hadn't told anyone his real name.
"But it's true! You once told me as a child who you were and where you came from," I explained, so that he looked at me wide-eyed.
"This cannot be! I was kidnapped as a child! I never met you there!" he said, so that I giggled a little, which was no laughing matter.
"Stupid! You introduced yourself before your kidnapping!"
Now looking down at the floor, he rested his head on the counter and complained that he didn't understand.
Looking at Rhama, who was silently listening to our conversation the whole time, he explained to Karma that we have known each other since we were little.
"She told me a little bit about your past," he said, so Karma looked at me and asked if this was true.
I nodded and then shook my head when he asked me if I had also revealed Rhama his real name.
I knew that his foster father knew his real name, but I didn't want to tell him.
So, he sighed and investigated the distance.
Looking at Rhama, who was also looking at me, I nodded when I understood his questioning face.
"If you want, you can come with me. I could tell you about your past," I suggested, so Karma looked at me and then looked at his foster father.
He nodded with a smile.
"I know how much you miss your past before the kidnapping. And if Kougyoku can tell you all about it, then I'll entrust it to you," he smiled.
Looking at the counter and now with a sad expression, he looked at Rhama with a numb expression, nodded and went up to the apartment to pack things, since I am taking him with me today.
When, after a few minutes of karma with a full bag, this book came down, I said that it would not be easy to convince the emperor of this.
"What do you mean?" he asked me.
"Well, the Empress I told something about you, and she would allow me to take you in the palace a while ago ... But the emperor didn't," I said, explaining that he would not accept strangers.
"Unless you work there..." I said at last, so Karma touched his chin and suggested that he could work there as a servant.
Looking at him questioningly, Rhama asked if he really wanted that.
"After all, you wouldn't be at Kougyoku's side anymore, who can tell you your past," he said.
"Yes, then I'll just be her personal servant!"
Smiling at him, I nodded and said that this would be a great idea.
So, I got up from my seat and walked to the door with him and the pub owner.
Turning to him, the young man first opened his mouth, but closed it again when he did not dare to say anything.
Knowing what he wanted to say, Karma startled when Rhama pulled him in a hug.
"The door is always open for you here. Please never forget that you always have a place in my heart, Karma."
Seeing how he lost tears and took him in his arms, I also lost tears.
So, we said goodbye to him and made our way to the palace.

"I see. So, you're only here because they wanted to protect you from someone," Karma said when I told him half my life story.
"Yes. I'm a native of Torran. Only my father is a Kouran and therefore the emperor of this empire," I told him as we walked up the stairs so that two guards came towards us.
Asking myself who this boy on my left is, I explained that he belonged to me and that I would like to talk to the emperor.
Looking at each other, they nodded and opened the gate for us, so that we both walked towards the throne room.
"Well, the king and queen at the time banished me to this country," I said with a smile so that he stared at me in shock.
"Wait! Real?! They banished you here?!"
Nodding, I smiled and knocked on the gate leading to the throne room.
Taking a deep breath, I went inside to ask the emperor for permission to make Karma as my servant.
Bowing to him, I ordered him to kneel when I saw him staring at the emperor.
"Karma! Get down on your knees! Immediately!"
When he looked at me, he did so reluctantly and lowered his head as well.
With a stern look, he looked over me and asked what I wanted from him and who this impudent person was.
I trembled all over and replied that this boy on my left would like to work here as a servant.
Then, when I heard the door open, I heard Aunt Arba's voice.
"Oh, Kougyoku! Is that the boy you told me about?" she asked me sweetly, as always, so that I looked up at her and nodded with a smile.
"Exactly! I'd like to make him my personal servant if I'm allowed to!" I asked, and then looked at my father, who was still looking down at us sternly.
Karma didn't raise his head a bit, and only raised it when the emperor asked him to introduce himself.
Clearing his throat, a little, he closed his eyes, bowed decently, almost as if he had always done it all his life, and introduced himself appropriately.
"My name is Karma Hikari! If you allow me, I will serve your eighth imperial princess with all my heart, Your Highness!"
With the last sentence he opened his blood-red eyes, looked at the two of them with a serious face and I blinked over at Arba, who looked at him slightly shocked when he gave his last name.
She knew that this was the missing prince and knew this surname all too well.
This would be the surname of Solomon, Sheba and Aladdin if they did not return to the palace.
I saw how she had to pull herself together not to jump up right away, push Karma into her arms and ask where he had been trapped all these years.
But when she looked at me and I shook my head slightly, she took a deep breath and then looked at him.
"So, you want to serve the eighth imperial princess?" she asked him, so he looked at her and nodded.
She smiled mischievously and looked at my father, who did not give the impression of appointing karma as a servant for me, which unfortunately was also the truth.
"I won't allow it!"
Looking at him in disappointment, I looked at Arba, who brought rewords.
"My beloved! Please think! This young man is a perfect servant for your daughter! Wouldn't it be wise to appoint him this?" she asked him.

Although she had reluctantly married him, she did not get along with my father at all.
She called him beloved only out of politeness, but detested him abysmally.
I know from her that she had created the Kou Empire, but had served as an advisor to the emperor at the time, who died by fire with his two sons.
Gyokuen, the empress at the time, fell into a depression, so Arba decided to rule the empire and marry my father so that the then empress could continue to live in the palace with her two children.
Hah... such are the stupid rules of this empire ...

"I don't care! This boy seems dangerous! As a magician, you can feel how he withdraws the Magoi, don't you?!" said my father.
"I am well aware of it! Plus, I'm still in charge here! You only joined because I promised my friends something, and I won't let you break it!" said Arba, lifting herself from her seat and walking to us.
Looking at my father, who was only looking at us more sinisterly, I then looked back when I heard my brother's voice.
"If I could make a suggestion? What if this dirty little boy served for me?" said my brother Kouha Ren.
Throwing his arms at him, I looked at Karma, who stared at him in confusion.
"Um... You're a little boy, but not me," he said straight ahead, so that I had to stop laughing.
It's true.
While Karma is around 167 cm tall, my brother is 158 cm tall, although he had to look down a bit.
Arba also had to stop laughing, as did Rukh Aladdin, who, however, giggled softly.
"Hihihi! That's how I know Master! He always tells the truth, even if it puts himself in danger!" he chuckled, so I nodded in agreement.
"What did you just say?!" Kouha asked him in an annoyed and angry tone.
"That you're smaller than me. Didn't you understand me?" he asked him, and I wish I could tell him that maybe he shouldn't irritate my brother.
Because he jumped away from him a little and looked at him with a look of death that I had only seen him a few times.
"Are you even aware of who you're talking to?!" he asked him, so that he just shook his head.
"No. Should I know?"
Silently watching her, I looked at Kouha, who was trembling with anger and pulling out his sword, which can automatically enlarge.
"YOU DIRTY LITTLE BOY! I AM THE THIRD IMPERIAL PRINCE OF THIS REALM, KOUHA REN! AND FOR YOU PLAGUING ME, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" he cried out and ran straight to Karma.
Arba as well as I wanted to run quickly to him and stop Koha with his attack.
But before we knew it, Karma gave way to the attack with an infidelity, turned slightly so that he was behind Kouha and hit his neck with the side of his hand.
I was amazed to hear from Arba that this was her defense.
Looking at her, he whispered in a trembling and smiling voice that she had taught this to Aladdin when he was a child.
"It's unbelievable that he still knows this..."
"I don't care who you are. I also didn't mean to offend you if you felt offended. All I want is to find out my past," Karma said calmly and looked down at Kouha, who is now lying unconscious on the ground.
Now looking at my father, who had watched everything, he clapped and rose from his seat.
"You're a puny boy, but your dodges and attacks are admirable! They remind me of the attacks of the Empress up front..." he said, looking at Arba.
"I allow you to serve the eighth imperial princess! But remember; If you make just one mistake, I'll lock you up in the dungeon..." he whispered in his ear.
He blinked several times before bowing slightly and thanking him.
While Kouha was being carried into his room by some guards, Karma walked slowly to me and the Empress, who really must pull herself together incredibly.
"Tell me, young man, where do you know this technique from?" she asked him, and then she couldn't pull herself together any longer.
But instead of answering her, he just stared at me.
When I realized this, I swallowed my little nervousness before smiling and then answering her before he could answer her.
"Karma must have seen it somewhere, hasn't he?" I asked him, grabbing his hands.
Staring at her in confusion, I asked him the same thing as Arba had done before, so he looked at me again.
"Oh this... My body moved automatically. I think I beat him unconscious out of instinct," he said simply.
Nodding in understanding, I then looked over at Aunt Arba, who was not exactly pleased with the answer.
I think she was hoping he would say that she had taught him in his childhood.
But when she looked at me and I showed her a serious face, she cleared her throat and ordered us to follow her.
"Now that the emperor has also allowed you to serve the princess on your right, you will of course get uniforms," she said demandingly.
I heard in her voice that she didn't really want to talk to the prince like that.
But since Rukh Aladdin had told her everything we knew during the episode about the uniform, namely that Aladdin knew nothing but his name and what was in his capture, she cleared her throat again and tried to speak to him as imperially as possible.
"You also get a stay in the palace so that the princess can call you to her at any time."
Staring at her, Karma nodded, and then looked around a bit.
I couldn't see his gaze, but it didn't seem like he felt imprisoned.
"What your services are, I will send you some of our servants! They'll teach you everything else!" she said, and already saw the other servants she was talking about.
"Good afternoon, Your Majesty!" the four greeted her with a slight bow.
"Good afternoon, you four! This is a newcomer who wants to serve the imperial princess Kougyoku! I ask you to show him everything you know!" she said and went to the red-haired man.
"Above all, I would like to ask you to test his skills of combat, Dorji." my aunt whispered.
Staring at her in confusion, she said she would explain it to him later, so he nodded and stared at Karma.
"So you're a new servant of our imperial princess?" he asked, looking at him and nodding.
"Well, welcome to our group then! We only serve the Empress, Princess Hakuey and from time to time Princess Kougyoku! My name is Dorji, and I serve to protect our realm!" Dorji introduced himself kindly.
"The two behind me are called Bator and Boyan. They belong to my cavalry," he introduced his troops, who stagger kindly to Karma.
"My name is Toya. I bring the food and cook for them as well. I'm happy to meet you and teach you everything," Toya smiled kindly.
But just as friendly to them, Karma just nodded and introduced himself.
"I am Karma Hikari. It's an honor to learn everything from you," he said insensitively.
Looking at him, I then looked at Arba, who cleared her throat again.
"Now that evening is slowly approaching, your ministry will not begin until tomorrow, Karma. First, rest. Please show him his accommodation and bring him suitable clothes so that he can start immediately tomorrow."
Nodding, the four bowed and then showed him his accommodation when I had said goodbye to him.
"See you tomorrow. Have a good night," I smiled at him, so he just stared at me silently and then nodded gently before looking down at the floor.

Then, when I was in my chamber with Arba, I looked at her as she jumped joyfully.
"He's actually the missing prince! His reflexes resemble Solomon's too much and his appearance also resembles those of the legend of the god!" she said joyfully, so that I nodded with a smile.
"I'm sorry I didn't believe you from the beginning! I thought that you were just imagining it ... That was wrong of me..." she apologized to me, so I shook my head and forgave her.
Smiling at me, she said that all she had to do now was make sure that Solomon and Sheba came here with her.
"You haven't done it yet?" I asked her, shaking her head.
"I didn't want to give them unnecessary hopes of finding their beloved child again, so I wanted to take a picture of him myself," I said.
Nodding in understanding, I looked at Rukh Aladdin, who, however, finds it strange.
"What do you find strange?" I asked him.
"You've probably noticed yourself that he stares at you all the time with a questioning mine, while he stares at everyone else insensitively and with full hatred. He also cried when he said goodbye to Rhama..." he said, so I nodded.
"Yes, his aura also softened when I gave him the book back ..." I said and asked myself why that was so.
When we heard laughter from my window, we saw Judar following me the whole time.
"Well, that's because you might be special, witch!" said the 23-year-old, so I snapped at him that I wasn't a witch.
"Yes, yes! Anyway!" he just said and went to the fruit plate to grab a peach.
Sighing, I rolled my eyes and asked him what he meant.
"He's trying to find something in you that he can't see! Your Rukh!" he said with a grin and then bit into the fruit.
"But he hates the Rukh! Why should he see my Rukh if he hates her?" I asked him, looking out the window when a black and white Rukh appeared.
"Because he knows you! At least that's what I heard when I secretly watched him!" he said, so that Aladdin flew to him.
"But he told her that he didn't know her at all! So he must have lied to her!"
Shaking his head, the black-and-white Rukh explained that he didn't know me at all.
"But when he was captured, he saw a girl who looked like Kougyoku." said the Rukh, who, by the way, is called David.
Sitting on my bed, I looked at him in confusion and then stared at my hands.
Not understanding, I asked him what he meant by that, so he just shrugged his shoulders and couldn't figure it out.
Looking at my hands again, I looked at my aunt, who was quietly listening in on everything.
"Well, there's a lot we need to know from Aladdin, because only he can answer our questions," she said and then looked at me.
"However, since he is interested in you, I ask you to ask everything we need to know," Arba said, so I nodded my head and wished her and the two who came from my window a good night.
But before she left my room, she said that she was now doing everything she could to ask the then king and queen to come to Kou.
Smiling, I nodded, put on my sleeping clothes, took off my make-up and lay down in bed next to the Rukh.
I stared at myself with determination and said that I would do everything I could to regain his trust before I fell asleep.

A few days passed, and the prince's birthday and Karmas were imminent.
I tried everything I could to get him to tell me something about himself, but he's so stubborn that he didn't say a word.
All he answers is that he doesn't want to remember it and I should tell him his past.
I sighed, I knew I promised him, so after his training with Dorji I told him something that was quite difficult for me because he just looked too good in his clothes.
He wore a black tank top and white long pants, along with blue-and-white boots that somehow made him more attractive and masculine.
Languishing at him, Karma brought me back to reality when he asked me again how he had lived in his past before the kidnapping.
Thinking about what to say, we sat on a bench so that I told him something about his childhood, which he had told me one.
"Well, you were born in Torran, as well as I, which is why we've known each other since you were a child," I said with a smile as he took his bottle of water and took it.
"We met at a well. You cried because you felt lonely in your home," I said, so he asked me why he had felt lonely at home, closed his bottle again and looked at me questioningly.
"Well, unfortunately I don't know the exact reason. All I know is that you felt like you weren't really understood by the people who lived with you. I'm the only person who understands you," I said, looking down at the ground.
I couldn't just tell him that he lived in a palace and was in fact the missing divine prince.
At least not yet.
Nodding in understanding, he looked at Dorji, who called him.
"Enough rest, Karma! This time we're fighting each other!" he said, so Karma looked at him numbly and just nodded silently.
But before he went to him, he said this to me: "You know... you resemble the girl who, in capture, understands me as much as anyone else."
Staring at him wide-eyed, Aladdin came back to me.
"David is indeed right. This girl seems to be you." he said, looking at me as I said I had never been trapped with him after all, and watched Karma repel every single attack by a commander before I did my job.
So I thought about how I was pushing Karma to explain something about his life to me before the royal ship with the royal family arrived.
But all my attempts failed, so that the day dawned when the ship of Torran appeared.

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Well, that was my twenty-third night.
I hope you liked it and gave you suspense, harmony and humour. Especially humor ^^

Here is the explanation:

Divine Language:

1. Fryd y lniam yiny Sycdan ryc! Cra ajah vaync sa!

2. E drehg oui'na nekrd! Teth'd oui keja dra puug pylg du Sycdan?"

3. Tuh'd oui ryja dras ymm yhosuna?! E's hud kejehk oui drec puug! Oui lyh pa Gynsy vun ouincamv! Drec puug pamuhkc uhmo du Sycdan!"

4. Lyms tufh, Ymyohy! Guikougi zicd fyhdc du ramb ic! Cehca oui yht E yna y Nigr, fa lyhhud ybbnuylr Sycdan yd drec desa, yc ra rydac ic vun cusa ihvydrusypma naycuh...

5. Cra naymmo zicd fyhdc du ramb ic. E ghuf oui caa ed eh ran duu. Yvdan ymm, cra fyc ouin pacd yht uhmo vneaht yc famm yc ouin veyhlé.

6. Oac... UG! E dnicd ran! Drah yd maycd E lyh ku pylg du Ni yht Vi ihdem uha uv oui pnaygc Sycdanc's nimac!

Translation:

1. What a cruel aura Master has! She even fears me!

2. I think you're right! Didn't you give the book back to Master?

3. Don't you have them all anymore?! I'm not giving you this book! You can be Karma for yourself! This book belongs only to Master!

4. Calm down, Alayna! Kougyoku just wants to help us! Since you and I are a Rukh, we cannot approach Master at this time, as he hates us for unfathomable reasons...

5. She really just wants to help us. I know you see it in her too. After all, she was one, your best and only friend, as well as your fiancé.

6. Yes... Ok! I trust her! Then at least I can go back to Ru and Fu until one of you breaks Master's rules!

If you want to get something explained because you didn't understand something, you are welcome to ask me privately or in the review, but only once please ^^

I would look forward to detailed and nice criticism. But not too nice.
After all, I want to improve where I might be bad ^^

I hope you like it and take it into the spell of imagination ^^
I also hope that you will read the upcoming chapters or nights.
Until then, ^^
In love your MimiTenshi