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Humans, sadly, can hold grudges for so long that they extend to the next generation. So what happens when a rejection of marriage sparks a grudge that harms innocent future generations?

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Now we know that Kalim's grandmother is a sister of a prince (back when Kalim's grandmother ran off to marry a merchant), who is the grandfather of Minajael Tealrajah. You would think that Kalim and Mina (short for this post) would have a close connection but they don't.

Here's the thing, Mina has suitors, we don't know how many letters are being sent. Mina has respect for his grandaunt (who ran and marry a merchant). There was an uproar when she left.

Now remember what I've written in the first paragraph of this post? About a grudge that harms the innocent future generations?

Who's to say that the former suitors of Kalim's grandmother didn't hold a grudge against the rejection or indirect rejection of a merchant being chosen over them? And that grudge has formed and shared to make a group of sorts? A mercenary guild has built against the royal family and is now targeting the Al-Asim and is using relatives to do so. Using every marriage rejection to hurt the Al-Asim.

So every time Mina rejects a marriage proposal, that mercenary guild swoops in to make a deal to then go after the Al-Asim. The mercenary guild uses the relatives of Al-Asim ("promising" that there's good fortune to come if the marriage goes through) to give the royal family the arranged marriage proposal letters, knowing it's going to be rejected, and uses that chance not only for those that been rejected to hire them but also to settle a generational grudge. The more bad blood between the royal family and the Al-Asim, the better pay and underground connections are formed. And these connections are what prevent it from the old ways to change more than ever than previous generations.

Mina finds out that the senders of the marriage proposals have connections to the Al-Asim and without talking to the adults, he already had experience of the adults not listening to him, decides that he won't have a good relationship with Kalim and the younger relatives. So Mina doesn't even know that every time he rejects, Kalim gets attacked by those who got rejected. Kalim doesn't know why his relatives send assassins after him (the relatives lost a "business" opportunity -their words- so they are taking their anger on the closest thing to the royal family, Kalim.) Kalim doesn't even know that his "Mina-nii-sama" doesn't have the same enthusiasm of seeing him like Kalim does to Mina. Mina only show enthusiasm and respect towards his greataunt, the one who ran away from the royal family.

It's not Mina's or Kalim's fault this happens. It's not Kalim's grandmother fault this happens.

But...how can you stop this 'grudge' and uproot it from it's roots to stop harming the future generations? The same grudge that it's stopping the change from the 'old ways' because this 'grudge' and others benefits from it?

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((Yes, I know that this 'grudge' can be easily called another name but I'm sticking to that word. The game gives hints of other bad organizations or actions (ex. Playful Land and its implication of...child tr***cking) but never gives a name to it.))

((This idea came about when it's mention that Mina rejects marriage proposals, Kalim is enthusiastic about seeing Mina but Mina doesn't returned it, and wiki stating that ones sending assassinations are relatives (though it's not told which branch of relatives but we can guess they aren't related to the royal family).))