Magi 210
Kougyoku stole the chapter. <3
Nice, one of the more enjoyable chapters in a while. Cherry boy meme continues to be a pain in the ass for Alibaba, much to my humor.
I've been passive on this whole alibaba takes a trip to balbadd arc and was more interested with Aladdin and Yunan, but this is actually getting interesting. Honestly, Alibaba would be a fool to be just used like that, but this actually could work out in his favor. It's pretty obvious that the Kou empire isn't fully united, people like Kougyoku, Hakuei, and Hakuryuu are definitely future allies. He could always do some sort of an inside man job, and take back Balbadd himself. Though that's just me spouting rubbish.
The thing is, it's really a no way to win for Alibaba, either he gets used by Kouen or Sinbad. Even if Kouen is a villain to Alibaba (the guy is in charge of his country), if you think about it so is Sinbad. Everyone is out to be the king of the world, Kouen doing it through taking over countries and Sinbad doing it through talks. Aladdin said it himself a while back (
http://i.imgur.com/f2vPngH.png), Sinbad is a guy that will make you go with his flow. So really, Alibaba is being used by Sinbad too. Aladdin has already decided that he doesn't want to follow SInbad's flow, It's been mentioned a few times about how Alibaba isn't following his own path to reclaim Balbadd, he's been going along with whatever Sinbad tells him too and isn't leading himself.
More on Sinbad, I always got the feeling he would end up as a future villain in the story. It's obvious he has his own agenda, and he's just trying to use Alibaba and Aladdin to get to where he wants. I believe in the future, Alibaba and Aladdin will have to oppose Sinbad, or that Sinbad will get in their way or something. Mogamett alluded to this imo (
http://i.imgur.com/ZeopLpM.png and
http://i.imgur.com/DkvTjQc.png), he was talking to the people of Magnostadt but it looks like words of advice to Aladdin, and in extension Alibaba too.
Sorry if this post is all over the place, I just started writing and added things as I wrote. So what I'm saying is that Alibaba taking Kouen's side is just as bad as Alibaba sticking with Sinbad. Maybe being with Kouen would be better since he gets to try to make Balbadd a better place, but imo he's better off without either. Not that it's possible right now but he is. Oh, and Sinbad is just as much a big bad wolf as Kouen. Obviously the biggest of them all is al-thamen but that looks more like an end of the manga battle than the game of thrones thats going on.
