Warning: As usual, please note that my level of Japanese is basic at most, so I cannot guarantee the following snippets are completely accurate. In other words, these can be completely wrong, and I might have left some parts out because I didn’t understand them. Also, feel free to repost them anywhere - just link back, please :)



In which lots of expected and unexpected things happen… and a certain tofumental child shows some great growth. Meanwhile, brace yourself the alimor fans are coming xD.

Additional notice: this came out super late, so I have not proofread any of this.

Status: CONFIRMED

Mor confronts Hakuryuu, asking if he intended to kill himself with that sword. He replies that there is no way he would do that, since he is now king and must protect his country, when:

Mor: “Alibaba is dead. You killed him”.

Mor: In spite of her words, Mor feels responsible for Alibaba’s death, as she thinks that had she stopped Hakuryuu back when he confessed to her, Alibaba wouldn’t have died.

Hakuryuu: “You loved him, didn’t you?”

Mor: “Yes. I didn’t know it myself, but I loved that person. I think I was in love with him. I finally noticed my own feelings”.

Mor: She is not saying this out if spite, though, and says that he should protect his country. She will be watching him, together with Aladdin, and if he becomes strange again, she will stop him.

stop him. Now alone, Hakuryuu muses to his elder brothers that he completed his revenge, yet he feels that he has no strength left, when he was so full of energy before… . Sinbad said that they should destroy the borders between nations, but he killed so many people to regain his country… .

Hakuryuu: “I did not kill Kouen” . Hakuryuu has been thinking hard about everything, and realized that once you kill, you also become empty - something he does not want as a way of life anymore. He wants to keep living and moving forward, together with his country (and for the sake of it).

Hakuryuu has been thinking hard about everything, and realized that once you kill, you also become empty - something he does not want as a way of life anymore. He wants to keep living and moving forward, together with his country (and for the sake of it). Hakuryuu: “ I’ve decided to put an end to my revenge. The man known as Ren Kouen is now gone from this world”. And so, Hakuryuu’s rukh slowly turns white again… .

The man known as Ren Kouen is now gone from this world”. Meanwhile, 3 days later we find the someone arrives to meet his brothers…

Koumei: “It can’t be…”

Kouha: “It can’t be true…”

Kouen: “As unsightly as it is, I’m alive ”, Kouen laughs while Kouha clings to him crying.



Koumei: Kouha: Kouen: Kouen laughs while Kouha clings to him crying. But we all saw his head being chopped off, right? Well, as it turns out, the “Kouen” who got “executed” was Aladdin, disguised with water magic. Aladdin is now walking around, and finds Kougyoku promising Hakuryuu (apparently) that she will serve him in “body and soul”. However, as soon as he is out of sight she angrily clenches her fist…

Kougyoku: “I won’t ever, ever, ever, ever forgive you… SINBAD!!!”



Overall, this was a rather… interesting and surprising chapter. Kouen being alive shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people, but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by Hakuryuu’s growth. Yes, it took way more than it should have and he did many unforgivable things; however, I’m extremely pleased that he found his own answer by himself - no magic, no “power of friendship”, no anyone “beating some sense into him”.

And you know, I wonder if now he likes himself a little more.

I have said many times in the past that his mind was way too full with revenge, which was the driving force of his life, to even consider things like love and such. Seeing him consciously choose to let go of that and find a different will to live was… just wow. I honestly thought it very unlikely that we would ever get to see that.

On the Kou brothers, I really can’t wait to see Kouha’s reaction. For those who were wondering, Kouen does seem to be walking with a cane, which is completely logical considering the state of his legs in the past chapter. He seemed to be in good spirits, though.

Now, Kougyoku. Oh dear, Kougyoku. Her reaction immediately took me back to the Ka Koubun incident when they first arrived in Sindria. I don’t remember it too well, but I think her words were pretty similar? And this time, she has all the right in the world to be furious. Still, I want to see how her brothers reacted - I can imagine they didn’t blame her, but will it be possible for them to trust that she is not being controlled again?

Finally, I wonder how in the loop Sinbad is of all these things. My guess is that he doesn’t know, and it makes me a little anxious about a future confrontation between him and Aladdin.

Meanwhile, the Dragon Express is awfully late.

PS: In case anyone is wondering, I’m intentionally not talking about Mor for now.