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xxxHolic, chapter 140

The plot thickens...


Chapter 140

-01-

Everyone is working with all their might
--- on the things they can do.

Even if the thick darkness starts to smash the dream,
Watanuki quietly, reassuringly tells Yuuko,
"... I'll try to do my best on my own".
Those feelings, what kind of future will they create!?


-02-

Side text: After being splashed with boiling water by Kohane's mother, Watanuki is looked after at Yuuko's shop. What is that appeared inside the sleep that once more claimed him...!?

Sakura: What's wrong?
Sakura: Are you hurt?

Watanuki: No, I'm not, but...

Sakura: Does it hurt? Don't endure it.

-03-

Sakura: I can't do anything, but
Sakura: ... tell me.

Sakura: At least let me worry.

Watanuki: Do you have people who won't let you worry?

-04-

Sakura: If what I saw in my dream comes true,
Sakura: right now, Fai-san is...

Watanuki: ... You saw a painful dream, didn't you?

Sakura: I just saw it.

Sakura: But, Fai-san has lived in the middle of that pain for a long time,
all alone, for a very, very long time.

-05-

Sakura: There are many things that Fai-san won't tell us, but
for each of those kind lies, I believe in Fai-san. (T/N: Particle omission relative to "each of those kind lies", so this might be a bit off.)

Sakura: Right now, my heart can't be together with them, but
my body is in that world.
Sakura: Because it's near Fai-san.

Sakura: My being able to choose to change the future

Sakura: caused my fallen body to become the chance for Fai-san's
forgotten past to be remembered.

-06-

Watanuki: Everyone who's travelling is there too, right?

Watanuki: "Shaoran"-kun is also with them, isn't he?
Watanuki: The one who came to Yuuko-san's shop later...

Sakura: I saw the dream in "Tokyo"

Sakura: and ended up doing nothing but making "Shaoran"-kun sad...

Watanuki: Was that also in order to change the future?

-07-

Sakura: It was because until the "time" when the future could be changed I had no choice but to behave as I'd seen in the dream...

Sakura: But,
even so,

Sakura: the part about hurting "Shaoran"-kun doesn't change.

Watanuki: ... Sakura-chan.

Watanuki: If I'm similar to "Shaoran"-kun,

-08-

Watanuki: he knows that you are not the kind of child who would hurt people by choice, Sakura-chan.

Watanuki: If you ended up having a misunderstanding,
I think he'd like you to say the truth.

Sakura: ... You're really similar.
You and "Shaoran"-kun.

Watanuki: I wonder.
Watanuki: My face, height and voice aren't similar at all, but...

-09-

Sakura: Your hearts are similar.

Sakura: Your birthday.
You told me it was April 1st.
Watanuki: ... Yeah.

Sakura: My birthday, and Shaoran-kun's is the same.
Sakura: Yours too.

Watanuki: It's my family name, too. Watanuki. (T/N: He's using all kanji here, so I figure he's saying "Watanuki", not "shigatsu tsuitachi".)
Though it's read as Watanuki.
Watanuki: But, my parents' names...

-10-

Watanuki: My... parents'... names...

-11-

Watanuki: Their... names...

-12-

Shaoran: Don't disappear.

-13-

Watanuki: ... Ah...

Watanuki: ... Again.
Watanuki: A dream?

Doumeki: ... You go home.
Doumeki: Go home, and hurry up to sleep.

Watanuki: ... Doumeki.

-14-

Side text: The words "don't disappear" that were raised, the parents' names that he cannot remember. The deepening enigma, the endless illusion, where will they lure Watanuki!?

Watanuki: ... I...

Watanuki: The names of my father and my mother...
I don't know them...


Sakura, kindly stop swallowing up your particles. It's childish, does not sound "cute", and makes my life much harder.

Page 5, plus the end of this week's TRC chapter, gives me an ominous feeling. Aim right, Kurogane!

It just occurred to me that Fai nearly ruined Sakura's plan when he realized that she was pretending. Phew! That was a close one!

I'm glad that Sakura has explained where the heck she saw the similarity between Shaoran and Watanuki, but I still think she's on crack.
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[info]kinoha

July 11 2007, 21:40:02 UTC 4 years ago

XD Thanks &hearts

[info]ashura_sama

July 11 2007, 21:45:38 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome!

[info]su_chan

July 11 2007, 21:49:47 UTC 4 years ago

Sakura: But, Fai-san has lived in the middle of that pain for a long time,
all alone, for a very, very long time.

-05-

Sakura: There are many things that Fai-san won't tell us, but
for each of those kind lies, I believe in Fai-san.


Beautiful lines.... SAkura knows too much.. is starting to sound like Yuuko....

caused my fallen body to become the chance for Fai-san's
forgotten past to be remembered.


Well , Sakura is not worried for anybody.... isn't her? Kuro will do right ^_^

[info]ashura_sama

July 11 2007, 21:53:07 UTC 4 years ago

She isn't innocent of overlooking her own safety, though, and that's what worries me. I need to find more examples of "kikkake" to dispel the impression that line gave me.

[info]jjblue1

July 11 2007, 21:58:15 UTC 4 years ago

WOW! Thank you so much for this!
Damn is getting so intriguing! Why does CLAMP feel the need to make a break right now?!?
... all this make me wonder if Watanuki is Fei Wang long forgotten son or something... this would explain what does he have in common with the other two Clow descendant...
But Sakura... Sharoan's birthday isn't really April 1st... you gave him this birthday... for all we know he could have been born on January 1st... stop telling he HAS this birthday...

Anyway would you mind if I were to translate this?

[info]ashura_sama

July 11 2007, 23:21:58 UTC 4 years ago

You know, I'm thinking that maybe Shaoran really -was- cloned on an April 1st. Though it's still weird for 2-3 dimensions to have the same calendar system. And are the parents that died really Watanuki's blood parents?

Anyway would you mind if I were to translate this?
Go ahead, no problem-o!

[info]jjblue1

4 years ago

[info]ariadnechan

July 11 2007, 22:57:43 UTC 4 years ago

thanks i really want to know about this chapter!!!!
but i really have a terrible feeleng about Xiao in the dream with Sakura ans Watanuki and Watanuki feel bad is all Yukito don't disapear vib and i do't wanna!!!!!


Ashura my friend i can ask you a favor a frinds of mine do scanlation in spanish o trc and you grant them permission??? http://www.freewebs.com/kuropun/
they work with pikari translation but now want to use yours!!!

[info]ashura_sama

July 11 2007, 23:23:57 UTC 4 years ago

Right now I'm more worried about Sakura's body back in Celes... I have a bad feeling about real Fai...

Ashura my friend i can ask you a favor a frinds of mine do scanlation in spanish o trc and you grant them permission???
I'm getting famous! XD No problem!

[info]fai_fan

July 11 2007, 23:27:18 UTC 4 years ago

I don't understand: when did Fay realize that Sakura was pretending? What was she pretending about? And how would that have ruined her plan?

[info]ashura_sama

July 11 2007, 23:35:18 UTC 4 years ago

Back in Infinity, when she "hesitated" during one of the matches, Fai caught on it. He could have made the events stray from the course of the premonition, and that would have left Sakura trying to change a future that wasn't "set in place" anymore.

[info]lodelco

July 12 2007, 00:17:18 UTC 4 years ago

Hn. There's that egg again. So I'm guessing that the egg Doumeki is safe-guarding will come into play soon?

Also, I think its whats happening to R!Syaoran right now is whats happening to Watanuki. I think it all started when R!Syao stepped into Celes. Yuuko was wearing those Celes style clothes when Watanuki fainted after all and I can assume it was also around the time the TRC gang stepped into Celes. Also, with all those accidents happening to Watanuki before, we've never actually seen R!Syaoran reacting physically to them in return.

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 00:32:55 UTC 4 years ago

Hmmm, you're right about the Celes thing. I wonder if this is an effect of the three-world connection? Though that was supposed to have been closed after Chi and Freya went separate ways, wasn't it?

What the heck -is- Doumeki supposed to do with the egg? Take it to the dream world so that he can smash it on the clone's head? XD

[info]lodelco

4 years ago

[info]fantasy2004

July 12 2007, 01:51:03 UTC 4 years ago

thanks

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 01:52:58 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome! ^_^

[info]senefen

July 12 2007, 02:03:13 UTC 4 years ago

Don't disappear, don't disappear. What is Watanuki exactly?
He's a dreamseer to some extent. Syaoran's affraid he'll disappear (how?). And hes forgetting his parents.

About dreams:
With Sakura Watanuiki is wearing what looks like his PJs, when he then talks to Syaoran he's in his school uniform (what he's wearing in real life). When he's with Haruka he's in a Yukata thing.
Why do his clothes change depending on who summoned him?

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 02:47:12 UTC 4 years ago

Good point about Watanuki's dream world clothes.

Shaoran has been afraid that Watanuki will disappear for a long time now. That's what he paid the price for, most likely before he was imprisoned. I'm still a bit worried about the "alone but not alone" thing, too.

[info]senefen

4 years ago

[info]chloesong

July 12 2007, 02:26:16 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you for translating!!
That just makes a lot of things make more sense. ><
Poor Sakura, she sounds so lonely. And Watanuki... D: please stop giving "I'm not actually real" vibes.

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 02:48:45 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome!

It's a relief that Sakura wasn't mistreating Shaoran and letting down the guys in the tournament for no (good) reason. Though this leaves the question of what exactly are her plans towards the clone.

[info]chiisana_sora

July 12 2007, 09:16:13 UTC 4 years ago

thank you for the translation! now watanuki does not remember his parent's names... and that could probably mean that his parents are from CLAMP's previous manga? I think it's strange that he remembered that his father taught him cooking, but he does not remember the name...

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 19:06:46 UTC 4 years ago

It's -too- suspicious how CLAMP has been hiding his parents' faces. I mean, it'd be easy to draw a random couple if they were unimportant to everything else.

I think Watanuki forgot his parents' names very recently. If he hadn't remembered back in the fortune-teller baa-chan chapters, he'd have noticed it -- I think.

[info]una_clover

July 12 2007, 10:03:30 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks so much :3

I'm thinkig about what kind of person is Watanuki in reality...
He didn't remember names, faces of his parents... Who is he? o_O

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 19:10:20 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome!

I'm thinking that maybe Watanuki is a survivor from an erased timeline. It wouldn't be the first erased timeline we come across, and would explain the "impossible existence" thing, as well as the fear that he will "disappear" as opposed to "die", and it'd sorta explain the vision from 132.

[info]una_clover

4 years ago

[info]ariadnechan

July 12 2007, 15:42:27 UTC 4 years ago

Ashura you will translate 159 of tsubasa?????
i'm waiting for you!!!!

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 19:03:47 UTC 4 years ago

Sorry, I ended up delaying TRC, but I'll do it today.

Anonymous

July 12 2007, 16:46:27 UTC 4 years ago

Missing bit of translation...?

Excuse me for bothering you, but I have a doubt...

This is your translation of page 7:



-07-

Sakura: Because until the "time" when the future could be changed I had no choice but to behave as I'd seen in the dream...

Sakura: the part about hurting "Shaoran"-kun doesn't change.

Watanuki: ... Sakura-chan.

Watanuki: If I'm similar to "Shaoran"-kun,



I'm doing the Italian translation for my personal use. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but between the first and the second line spoken by Sakura there's a speech bubble you didn't translate. Not knowing Japanese, I'm not even sure what's being said there...

It would be very kind of you if you could translate it for us.

Thanks in advance!

[info]ashura_sama

July 12 2007, 19:02:49 UTC 4 years ago

Re: Missing bit of translation...?

Fixed. I must've missed that bubble when switching between windows (my text editor window happened to be right over it).

Thanks for pointing it out!

Anonymous

4 years ago

[info]shadow922

July 13 2007, 05:09:03 UTC 4 years ago

*Spins, laughs, bows* Thanks so much!

I wish Domeki had more parts in the story. And Watanuki BETTER not disappear. If he does... I'll... cry. T.T

[info]ashura_sama

July 13 2007, 05:30:06 UTC 4 years ago

You're welcome!

If Watanuki disappears and it's like what we saw in chapter 132, it'll be, like, the retcon of the century. TRC will simply fall apart, and Holic will never have existed in the first place. Must. Not. Happen!
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