"Yugi I have a project for us."
"What kind of project?"
"Sugoroku, the man that runs the toy shop, wants to set up a possible magical delivery service to other kingdoms. I was hoping you had an idea of how to do that."
"Hmm…maybe." Yugi walked over and grabbed a book and sat down and started flipping through it. "Here. I'm not sure how to test it though. I mean even if we test it and it works from here to somewhere else in the kingdom that's no guarantee that it'll work long distances or work in reverse."
"We have to try. Wait, why does it need to go both ways?"
"Well so money can be exchanged, future orders can be given and in case something goes wrong exchanges or refunds."
"What made you think of all that Yugi? You're right, we will need that."
"My parents owned a small shop and as a kid I had to help out."
"What happened to it?"
"After I got old enough to go to college they sold the shop. They gave half the money from the sale to me for college, took the rest and went traveling. They used to send postcards often. But now I'm lucky to get one for Christmas."
"Did you get one this year?"
"No, not yet."
They worked for hours until they were certain it worked. It took a lot of trial and error but they were confident it'd work.
"Now we will just have to duplicate these mirrors based on the number of interested people."
"Are you confident you can do that and keep the spell on them?"Yami asked.
"I'm fairly certain that it'll work."
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The next morning at breakfast Yami was again eating in the kitchen with Mahaado's assistant. He told Dylan of his project.
"Sounds like a worthwhile cause. I doubt the master will agree as lots of kingdoms have toy stores and specialty stores. But if he does I'll agree to help you."
Yami, knowing Mahaado would never accept the request coming from him, an assistant, whispered to Seto that Dylan agreed but only if Mahaado agreed.
"King Mahaado, we were given a request by the owner of the local toy shop that he'd like to give toys to royal children attending the ball. Then if they are interested he'll set up a magical delivery service."
"You don't think other kingdoms have toy shops?"
"Sugoroku has been known to make toys from odd things besides what he gets from an outside supplier. He's also partnered with others in the community. They make dolls and things or in his younger days he made things from wood. Now he has a person for that. He gives them a little money for their contribution."
"That sounds like a wonderful passion and a great idea." Diana said.
"I'm sure he could offer new and unique gifts. Maybe I could even help him give the gifts out." Jasmine said.
Mahaado looked at his wife and sister-in-law in disbelief. Here he was ready to laugh at the absurd idea. Telling this king he was off his rocker. "Are you all crazy? I'm sure lots of kingdoms have something like this."
Diana looked at him challengingly, "Really? What's the toy store in the Star Kingdom like? I haven't had the chance to visit yet. Didn't you tell me that you personally got all the baby supplies from the crib to the toys?"
Mahaado went pale. He had told her that but the truth was he'd just picked a random guard to do it. He didn't even care enough to send a trusted guard or knight or even his assistant Dylan. If Honda had been a part of the kingdom at the time he'd likely have just sent him to do it. He just told the guard they were expecting a baby and to get whatever the store recommends and have them send the bill to the castle and they'd be paid upon delivery.
He didn't even assemble the crib or do anything to the room. Again he had that same guard to it. If Diana pressed him to tell her which guard. He couldn't even do that. He quickly decided to switch tactics, "Dylan, please assist in any way you can. Do what you must to help persuade other kingdoms of this excellent idea. I'll call for Rubio to take over."
Everyone wondered what just happened. A moment ago he hated the very idea and now suddenly it was the best idea ever. It seemed more like he was dodging Diana's question than actually accepting of the idea.
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Yami and Dylan worked together to contact the other kingdoms. Like Mahaado quite a few also scoffed at the very idea as like Mahaado they didn't know but assumed there was a local toy shop. But Dylan pressed and told them that King Mahaado really wanted everyone with children to participate. A few only agreed out of fear. Knowing how powerful the Star Kingdom was they didn't want to get on their bad side by rejecting. Others decided if it was good enough for the Star Kingdom it was good enough for them. Only a couple of kingdoms rejected the idea. But with a little magical persuasion from Dylan did give out the information on their children, numbers, gender, ages, what they might like. Dylan made sure they didn't remember giving this information. Yami didn't like using magic to extract information or in his opinion blackmail by throwing his kingdom's weight around. But it got the job done. He saw just talking to them through an open mirror portal Dylan created that if he had tried talking to them they like Mahaado would have all outright rejected the idea. He hated the thought of upsetting Sugoroku by telling him every kingdom hated his idea. So he said nothing to Dylan about his tactics.
Then he also noted that countries he'd never seen before and that there was clearly a language barrier if the sign he saw above the portal was any indication.