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...

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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.