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Yusuf was the last person to be surprised by immortality. Well he should have been unsurprised.
See everything magical and good happened to Ruggiero. Ruggiero was his brother. Yusuf often wondered whether he was only given immortality for bad reasons as Yusuf found it more cursed than gifting.
Yusuf used to think it was his adopted father, Atlantes doing. Their father protested when Yusuf went out with friend, but never protested when Ruggiero did the same. Their father protested when Yusuf became a soldier, but applauded Ruggiero when he did the same.
His father also happened to be known as Atlantes the miracle man or Atlantes the wizard, so when Yusuf died the first time he silently swore at his father and prayed to God that God relayed his message to him.
Nicolo did not believe in magic. Perhaps he did once, but that was taken away.
If magic existed surely he would be Rogelio's side.
If magic existed, Rogelio's love would have been forever and always.
If magic existed he would not be a knight Templar.
If magic existed he would not have been punished for loving Rogelio.
Nicolo had been forced to be a Knights Templar for his crime of abominable sin. But really his only crime was love and his only crime was... In modern times you would call it punching above one's weight, back then one might say climbing a ladder that's wasn't yours.
His only crime was falling in love with Lord Rogelio, a man and a noblemen.
Nicolo however did believe in the ways of of God. He believed his dreams of a bearded man was from God.
And when he saw that bearded man, he believed God was leading him to salvation. He believed God wanted him to kill the bearded man in order to be forgive.
Oh how these two men were very, very wrong.