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xxxHolic, chapter 155
I apologize for the delay. My sleeping schedule just won't stay put. T_T


Chapter 155

-01- (splash: Yuuko)

Because so that people can change
all that's needed is meeting---

Watanuki and Kohane. Their bond tries to change the
circumstances that they couldn't change alone.
With non-stopping feelings for her mother in her chest,
what kind of future will Kohane wish for!?

-02-

Side text: Watanuki calmly talks about Kohane's mother's violence. But his back was overflowing with determination and honesty!!

Watanuki: How many onigiri will you have? (T/N: Onigiri.)
Doumeki: ... Five.

Doumeki: So, you didn't run this time, huh?

Watanuki: Had I run back there, she'd probably have targetted Kohane-chan.
Watanuki: Ingredients... salmon, plums, salmon roe,
what else?

-03-

Doumeki: Yakitarako and torisoboro. (T/N: Yakitarako is grilled cod roe and torisobo is minced chicken with soy sauce.)
Doumeki: You could run with her.

Watanuki: There's no torisoboro.

Watanuki: Yeah.
But that mother likely wouldn't have stopped if she didn't hit someone.
Doumeki: Irijako. (T/N: Some kind of fried fish.)

Doumeki: So? Why is that you had to be hit?

Watanuki: Okay.
Irijako I have.

-04-

Watanuki: If other people had been hit back there,
a little oversight and it'd turn into assault.
Watanuki: And then it'd make Kohane-chan even sadder.

Doumeki: Oh well, make six.
Negi miso. (T/N: Negi is a type of onion.)

Doumeki: And when she saw you get hit,
Doumeki: do you think that kid wasn't sad?

Watanuki: Yeah.

-05-

Watanuki: But Kohane-chan, of course... didn't want to see her mother in a situation any harder than this one.

Watanuki: Besides, even if something happened upon my being hit,
Watanuki: you were there.

-06-

Doumeki: ... You really did
hit your head, didn't you?
Doumeki: And a hard blow at that.

Doumeki: Hey, make grilled fish too. And deep-fried tofu.

Watanuki: Just how much are you gonna eat in the morning?

Doumeki: Make it.

Watanuki: After Yuuko-san and Kohane-chan's breakfast!

-07-

Doumeki: Where's that kid?
Watanuki: With Yuuko-san.

-08-

Kohane: Thank you for letting me stay the night,
Kohane: and for this kimono too.

Yuuko: It suits you well.
Kohane: ... Thank you.

Mokona: You're not like when you came yesterday.

Kohane: I myself don't know.

-09-

Kohane: But,
Kohane: maybe it's because I was able to cry so much.

Mokona: Mokona likes Kohane this way.

Kohane: ... Thank you.

-10-

Yuuko: This is a shop where wishes are granted in exchange for a price.

Yuuko: Kohane-chan.
Yuuko: For you to have been able to come into the shop
means that you have a wish.

Kohane: ... Yes.

Yuuko: And what is your wish?

Kohane: I'd like mama

-11-

Kohane: to be happy.

Kohane: But, the way things are, even if we're together, it'll only get worse.

Kohane: So first I want to be happy
and wait for mama to notice

-12-

Kohane: that happiness isn't stuff like money or showing up on TV;
Kohane: just being happy together with your loved ones is enough.

Kohane: ... When I met Kimihiro-kun
Kohane: I discovered that.

Yuuko: Indeed.

-13-

Kohane: For that end,
Kohane: I believe it's better that I don't have my powers.

Kohane: I thought if I had them, even as a child I might be able to protect mama,
Kohane: but that was impossible.

Yuuko: Wrong.

Yuuko: You protected your mother
as much as you possibly could.

-14-

Side text: The "wish" has finally came out of Kohane's mouth!! How will Yuuko answer to Kohane, who says she wants to save her mother at the price of the abilities she possesses!?

Kohane: ... I wonder.

Yuuko: You did.

Kohane: I'd like to give my powers as payment in order to stop the people who say bad things about mama in the TV, newspapers, Internet and all,
Kohane: so that mama can live in that house properly.

---

Sigh... This arc really is going all the way to the end of the volume, isn't it? Kohane is cute and all, but I'd really like to see stuff like Watanuki's and Yuuko's natures dealt with.

Page 3: Doumeki, stop torturing Watanuki and me and ask for more common ingredients, will you?

Page 4: This font they use in normal dialogue needs to DIE. I'd say "slowly and painfully", but "slowly" would make me put up with it while it dies, so I'll opt for "quickly and painfully". And what the heck, Watanuki, hadn't we gone through this before?

Page 6: I'm not the only one who thinks Watanuki totally looks like a housewife in the last panel, am I?

Pages 9-14: You know, if -I- were in Kohane's situation, I'd probably be asking to work at the shop instead. If given a choice between going back to a psychotic mother and staying somewhere I can get guidance in the natural and supernatural departments, spend time with my only friend and have a cute black manjuu to cheer me up? You bet I wouldn't be going back.