Text-intensive chapter + lag-intensive computer == delay-intensive translation.


Chapitre 180
The princess' whereabouts

-01- (splash: Shaoran and Sakura)

The wish they bet on,
being those two,
they believed it would come true without fail.

-02-

Mokona: So, did Sakura-hime's soul
Mokona: ... disappear?

-03-

Mokona: Did Sakura always know
that she was a creation?

Yuuko: ... No.

Fai: I think Sakura-chan found out,
possibly,

Fai: after she recovered the feather in "Tokyo".

-04-

Fai: It wasn't only because the other Shaoran-kun had disappeared.

Fai: It's because,
from then on... that child changed.

Fai: It wasn't that she couldn't accept "Shaoran"-kun,
Fai: but knowing that she was also an existence called a replica...

-05-

Fai: she knew that "Shaoran"-kun's real Sakura was someone other than her,

Fai: so she must've continued to act like that towards you.

Yuuko: ...... Even so, in order to change the dream she saw,
she did everything she could.

-06-

Mokona: Sakura...

Kurogane: Since when did you know?

Fai: ... From the beginning.

Fai: Because I was told

Fai: by the one who devised this journey.

-07-

Fai: ... And that's precisely why

Fai: the wishes I could grant, I wanted to grant.

-08-

Yuuko: Sakura-hime's replica is unlike Shaoran.

Yuuko: In Shaoran's case, only the body of the original Shaoran was duplicated.

Yuuko: And the one who inserted the heart was the original Shaoran.

Fai: In Sakura-chan's case, body and heart
were both duplicated.

-09-

Fai: Therefore, those feathers that were scattered were the same as the original Sakura-chan.

Kurogane: Why the change from the kid's [duplication]?

Fai: ......

Fai: Even if
something happened to the duplicated Sakura-chan...

-10-

Fai: if he had the original...

Yuuko: He must've thought the exchange would be effective.
... Fei Wang.

-11-

Yuuko: Thus, he'd do the same thing over and over.

Yuuko: Even if with that,
Yuuko: creations though they may be
... lives were erased for that purpose.

-12-

Kurogane: ... So, has the princess' soul... disappeared?

Mokona: Sakura...!!

Mokona: It doesn't matter if Sakura was created!


-13-

Mokona: Sakura
is Sakura!!!

Shaoran: ...... That's right...

-14-

Shaoran: I've
always been watching
Shaoran: your journey.

Shaoran: ... That's exactly why

-15-

Shaoran: I'm taking her back.

-16-

Yuuko: Fei Wang's wish is
Yuuko: something that everyone wishes for,

Yuuko: if there's someone they didn't want
to lose.

Mokona: But

Mokona: once lost, they won't come back.

-17-

Yuuko: ......

Mokona: Where was Sakura's body taken?

-18-

Shaoran: I have a wish.

Shaoran: Please tell me
Sakura's whereabouts.

Yuuko: ... Which Sakura would that be?

-19-

Shaoran: Both of them.

Shaoran: I absolutely won't let Sakura die!

-20-21-

Yuuko: Suppose I tell you, what will the other two do?

Kurogane: Going.

Fai: I'll go.

-22-

Mokona: ... It's the same
Mokona: as when they first came to this shop.

Yuuko: Then,
Yuuko: the payment.

Teaser: The retraced memories, the revived determination,
now, towards a new journey!

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I'd really hate to be Kurogane (or possibly Mokona) right now. It's like everyone knew that Sakura was a replica and no one had the decency to tell him anything. I'm glad that Fai's somewhat exaggerated attitude towards Sakura gained more context now. I think he really just wanted to make her feel accepted and loved.

Page 11: Wouldn't it be cool if Sakura-replica were actually Sakura-replica #9?

Page 16: Oh, Clow, you bastard, look at what you did!

And damn you, CLAMP, what happened to -- and what was -- Sakura's soul, already?