The magician's return
-01- (splash: Shaoran)
For the sake of the memories
and the body of the tomorrow you,
now, for one moment,
I become a gust of wind.
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Label: Celes country
-04-
Shaoran: That castle is... (T/N: This is just a generic start of sentence. It could be a question, a silly comment, whatever.)
Fai: Where I was, Castle Ruval. (T/N: Not sure how to romanize ルヴァル, does anyone recognize the name?)
Mokona: It's no good!
I don't know where Sakura's body is!
Shaoran: Mokona, what you've been detecting was the presence of the princess' feathers.
Shaoran: The feathers are the princess' memories, her heart,
so you probably don't know about the body that is without a soul.
Fai: Sakura-chan is over there.
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Kurogane: How can you tell?
Fai: Although her body and soul are separated, Sakura-chan is still alive.
And
Fai: the presence of living things comes from nowhere other than that castle.
Mokona: What about the other people in this country?
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Fai: ......
Mokona: Hmmm, how should we go to the castle?
Climbing those stairs?
Fai: It's not like they're really there.
Kurogane: An illusion?
-07-
Shaoran: Fuuka Shourai! (T/N: "Invocation of the wind petals".)
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Mokona: Shaoran can also use this kind of magic, right?
-10-
Mokona: They look like... the clothes Fai is wearing.
Kurogane: The people of this castle?
Shaoran: ......
Fai: That's right.
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Kurogane: What's up?
Mokona: Does your head hurt?
Shaoran: ... No.
Mokona: You really okay?
Shaoran: I'm all right.
We must search for the princess... (T/N: This sentence probably uses the "-nai to ikenai/naranai" form, and was cut after the "to". There's a small chance that Shaoran was going to say something else, like a negative consequence of not searching for Sakura's body.)
-12-
Mokona: ......
Kurogane: Can you tell where in the castle is the princess' body?
Fai: ... Yes.
-13-
Fai: ......
-15-
Ashura-ou: Welcome back,
Ashura-ou: Fai.
-16-
Fai: ... I thought I'd be able to not return,
if possible.
Fai: Ashura-ou.
-17-
Ashura-ou: Even though you promised
Ashura-ou: that you'd grant my wish.
Ashura-ou: I've been waiting for you.
Ashura-ou: This child
Ashura-ou: has also been waiting
-18-
Ashura-ou: for you, all the time.
Teaser: Those young eyes,
what kind of memories
do they project on the king, on the magician?
There might be page numbering/ordering errors here, please warn me ASAP if you see one. Same goes for any lines I might have missed.
Okay, this time I think I made it pretty clear that someone saying "<something> wa" does not mean that the person knows what the <something> is. It was stupid of me not to put this kind of note in previous translations.
Page 4: All right, Shaoran, you kinda lost me there. Heart, or soul, or do you know that they can't be trivially separated? And if you know that, what the heck were you thinking back in Acid Tokyo? And why does it creep me out to see Fai talk about Sakura's body as "Sakura-chan"?
Page 15: This is a historical moment! Ashura-ou, alive, talking, not in a flashback! YAY!!!
May 30 2007, 15:06:44 UTC 4 years ago
"Ashura-ou, alive, talking, not in a flashback!" I agree this is a historical event!
May 30 2007, 15:14:25 UTC 4 years ago
Now Clow needs a historical event like that, but unfortunately I think -that- one will stay forever in wish-land.
May 30 2007, 16:26:16 UTC 4 years ago
Maybe someday they'll return...
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Ah, little romanization note: the "va" in "Ruval" is a katakana vu + small a, so it's really "va".
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May 30 2007, 15:27:40 UTC 4 years ago
Why is 'Foy' alive?
What was Ashura-ou's wish?
We have TRC next week right?
BTW I uploaded some doujins at the Tsubasa forums. There are four different links for each and none of the are MegaUpload or Sendspace. So... Please? :3
May 30 2007, 15:37:45 UTC 4 years ago
Ashura-ou's wish? This being CLAMP, I'd say something like he wishes for Fai to kill him. XD
As far as I know, next week is both TRC and Holic.
I'm a bit busy this week, I'll look at the doujins when I have more free time, 'kay?
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I thought maybe ルヴァル would be something from a CLAMP manga I haven't read, but no one said anything so maybe it's not.
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May 30 2007, 16:27:19 UTC 4 years ago
no holic next week see chibiyuuto san they want to kills us with hungryness!!1
i love the art of the chap, ashura, fay, Kuro, even Xiao look so good y poor foy look so creapy
ireally think the celes art will be an horror movie one!!!!
i'm freezing i can't sense my fingers!!!! go for a coffe!!!
May 30 2007, 18:11:49 UTC 4 years ago
May 30 2007, 17:27:11 UTC 4 years ago
Thank you very much for translating it!
May 30 2007, 18:12:45 UTC 4 years ago
May 30 2007, 17:46:20 UTC 4 years ago
>.> If it's the little boy is one of the little boys in the tower then it's very off because clearly Fai grew up and he's much older than he appeared. This little boy looks the same age as when they were in the tower. Maybe it's a piece of Fai that he left behind...*sigh* I'm confusing myself. Sorry for ranting. I appreciate the translation very much, thank you. *bow*
May 30 2007, 18:19:41 UTC 4 years ago
That's an interesting thought. As for the age thing, we know it's possible in CLAMP-verse to magically stop someone from growing up. Eriol did it, and it also happened to Shaoran (though in his case it was probably forced).
Though it's possible that the brat is really just an illusion. I mean, where has he been hiding all this time?
May 30 2007, 17:52:26 UTC 4 years ago
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I wonder what kind of arc this will be. Right now it looks like it's just going to be one very long talk. Also, is Sakura coming back to hear about all the messy details of Fai's past? It'll be very headwall-inducing if she's "spared" from this one.
Hmmm, I wonder if the Holic break next week means we'll be seeing the fated meeting with the clone within 1-2 chapters?
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May 30 2007, 22:44:14 UTC 4 years ago
The one by one chapters are killing me I need more. T.T
May 31 2007, 11:16:09 UTC 4 years ago
To me, this is a nice change compared to the beginning/middle of Infinity, when we just wanted it to freaking be over already. It's good to have an arc that actually makes us eager to read the next chapter.
May 30 2007, 23:52:10 UTC 4 years ago
I'm concerned about Syaoran...At first I thought he was feeling the Clone somewhere, but after reading what everyone's been saying, I think it's quite likely that it's because of his apparent connection with Watanuki. Maybe he can see spirits or something like that (in CCS, those with strong magic power could see, or at least feel, spirits and ghosts).
It looks like Celes will be a very bloody and/or creepy arc for some reason...I'm so looking forward to it! XD
Thanks for the translation!!
May 31 2007, 11:22:01 UTC 4 years ago
Actually, I'm not as concerned about Shaoran as I was when the spoilers came out. I seriously thought he would be getting his CLAMP-maimingTM in this arc. But now it looks more like a supernatural thing, and he having some experience in magic is a lot more reassuring than it'd be if it had been Watanuki in his place.
I recently joked in TF about white going well with crimson. Looks like CLAMP also thinks so. XD
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