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Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 196

Chapitre 196
A moment's hesitation

-01- (splash: post-rewind Shaoran and pre-rewind Shaoran)

Entrusted wish, transmitted power,
surge right now,
until you're at the peak of the peak!

-02-

Shaoran: Sakura!!

-03-

Sakura: ... That's wrong.

Sakura: My real
name is...

-08-

Shaoran: Sakura---!!!

-09-

Fei Wang: The future always follows from choices.

Fei Wang: Just now, that hand not taken because of a moment's hesitation
Fei Wang: has decided the path from now on.

-11-

Shaoran: ... Sakura...

Fei Wang: These black wings are...

-12-

Fei Wang: a carved seal of death.

Fei Wang: When the seal carved today, at this time,
has fully covered her body, that moment

-13-

Fei Wang: will be the last.

Shaoran: Why!?

Shaoran: Why
Sakura...!!

-14-

Fei Wang: To grant a wish.

Shaoran: Raitei Shourai! (T/N: Shaoran's lightning spell.)

-15-

Fei Wang: Seems like you grasp magic in itself.
Fei Wang: Then, you should understand
that you cannot win.

-16-

Fei Wang: If you take another hit,
Fei Wang: you'll die.

-17-

Fei Wang: ... Will you also fight for a wish?

Fei Wang: Will the goal wished for become the same for you and me both?

-19-

Shaoran: Saku... ra......

Teaser: A clear difference in power?
Neither that hand nor those feelings
reached her...

Page 3: *facepalm* Sakura! Is that any time to be talking about names? For one, you're being, like, kidnapped. And, you know, Fei Wang is kinda listening if you do say your true name. Didn't Nadeshiko teach you anything at all?

Page 11: *SHIVER* The shape of that seal creeped me out more than anything I've read in Tsubasa.

Page 18: Yuuko, you're too soft.

So, pre-rewind Sakura's days are counted. And I get the clear impression that Fei Wang is playing Shaoran just like he did Yuui. Now I can't help but think that the whole objective of this attack was making Shaoran wish for the rewind, either for the rewind itself, or because Fei Wang wanted to somehow take advantage of the price for it. I'm hoping we get to see little Watanuki again in the next chapter. I'm curious as to how he factors in all this, and why the hell Sakura saw him in her vision.

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[info]kaducos
2008-08-08 08:36 am UTC (link)
Page 11: *SHIVER* The shape of that seal creeped me out more than anything I've read in Tsubasa.

it aint the first time he uses this shape for magic:
http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/133/21/

I think that this seal will work seven years from that moment. it'll try to kill sakura, and that is the time that yuuko freezes the time in the ruins and rewind the time in clow-koku.
but, this whole thing doesn't match up with the idea that sakura should be living and travel from dimension to dimension..
maybe he counting on shaoran to try to save her or something..

and thanks for the translation!

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[info]ashura_sama
2008-08-08 09:25 am UTC (link)
Actually, I meant it more like we never had any clear meaning associated with the wings until now. I was kinda like, "WTF, the series logo (sort of) is Sakura's death sentence? o_O"

but, this whole thing doesn't match up with the idea that sakura should be living and travel from dimension to dimension..
That's why I think Fei Wang is manipulating Shaoran. I might even go so far as to call bullshit on the "seal of death", though we'll probably find out in the next chapter whether Shaoran decided to risk testing it.

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[info]chloesong
2008-08-08 08:40 am UTC (link)
"Page 3: *facepalm* Sakura! Is that any time to be talking about names?"
YES, My thoughts exactly!!! >-<;;


"Page 18: Yuuko, you're too soft."
Lol, I'm just gave she saved the lil Syaoran. I felt so bad for him. Dx

THANK YOU FOR THE TRANSLATION!! and T/Ns!! XD<3

First post? 8D?

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[info]chloesong
2008-08-08 08:41 am UTC (link)
>.< Foiled

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-08 08:57 am UTC (link)
I think the events unfold like this:

Syaoran goes to Clow Country, meets Sakura. Seventh day, death seal, blah, blah. Since Syaoran had told the others he had been with Sakura 'up to the age you see me now', Sakura and Syaoran were together for seven years (with Syaoran probably attempting to find a way to undo Fei Wong's magic) but Sakura died. Syaoran knows of only one way to reverse this - to go back to that seventh day. Here he plays directly into Fei Wong's hands, and he is captured. Fei Wong clones him, releases the Clone after the seventh day. However, at this point something happens at the timeline. Clow enters (from another world?) and Fujitaka abdicates, all according to Fei Wong's plans. Then we have seven years take two blah blah, then the events of Tsubasa.

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[info]vande_bot
2008-08-08 01:40 pm UTC (link)
quickest possible summary every :p

but dang Fei Wang Reed you evil evil man

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-11 09:52 am UTC (link)
On top of that, I would not be surprised if the feather Yuuko found in Kohane's body was Sakura's memory of the original, ejected before she died so if Syaoran could make things right, she would be able to remember him (wow that sounded better in my head)

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[info]vande_bot
2008-08-11 05:54 pm UTC (link)
perhaps but her memories of Syaoran are sealed within the Black Monoka's ear-ring

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-12 10:21 am UTC (link)
As are Watanuki's memories of the past too, indicating they'll be needed some day.

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[info]vande_bot
2008-08-12 02:08 pm UTC (link)
yup that would be my thought as well

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[info]starlady38
2008-08-08 03:01 pm UTC (link)
That is a horrible thought, that Jr.'s presence there brought it all about. But that's the problem with trying to change the future.

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-08 06:42 pm UTC (link)
On page 04-05 of this chapter http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/196/04-05/ if u havent seen it remind me a lot of chapter 191 when CLAMP put in bolded letters "U can't touch her before the cleansing is over" maybe that would be one ridn't take her hand mmm or maybe Sakura wouldn't have say that sakura isn't her name.
OnyxSyaoran

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[info]itzeen
2008-08-09 02:42 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the translations!!!

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[info]truthseeker48
2008-08-09 03:13 am UTC (link)
Now I can't help but think that the whole objective of this attack was making Shaoran wish for the rewind...

So you think when Yuuko mentioned that this was FWR's second time trying for this wish, the first time was actually before R!Syaoran and R!Sakura were even in Clow Country...?

The future always follows from choices

...it's still strange to hear CLAMP say this after all their earlier works ;;

Thanks for the translations~~

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[info]valentines_av
2008-08-09 04:30 am UTC (link)
Maybe it was Watanuki?
I mean this will prolly count as a crack theory, but what if something Watanuki did stopped Ass-chin the first time, and those actions were what cause Watanuki to give up his memory/past- Yuko did say he paid the same price as Syaoran (the memories)for the same goal (to save someone)

We already know he's vital to the events, if not the most important person. (Yup, I'm betting he's more important than the princess)

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[info]truthseeker48
2008-08-09 05:06 pm UTC (link)
You mean before R!Syaoran went to Clow to meet someone, Watanuki went to Clow to meet someone?

Now that I'm thinking about it, in that dream when he was being taken to the world of the dead, didn't his mom say someone was waiting for him too?

It's hard to believe that these people are supposed to be close and R!Syaoran even says he very imporatant to him and yet--nothing.

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[info]valentines_av
2008-08-09 04:20 am UTC (link)
Thanks!
It's kind disturbing that I (well, we all) have been walking around with a bunch of TRC merch emblazoned with a death seal o_O

Erm... Did FWR just say maybe his and Syaoran's wishes would end up the same... is he just referring to resurrection of a dead person? (and then I'm assuming he means zombie!Clow and that Sakura actually will kick the bucket)

Crack theory- Watanuki- reborn Clow X3 That would have a certain awesomeness to it ^_^

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-09 11:45 am UTC (link)
maybe it is not sakura we see, but an illusion created by fei wand lead, so that is why she said "sakura is not my name (maybe it is the girl who teleported shaolan from Fei wang's lair to yuuko's shop ?)

and concerning watanuki, maybe he's an alternative of shaolan Jr who would have touched sakura's hand ?

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[info]jenny_1260
2008-08-09 05:21 am UTC (link)
Your translation of pg 12 is much more clearer than the version I saw from onemanga. Thank you for the translations as alway!!

Wow... I am always amazed at how TRC fans have so many ideas of what's going on... I get so confused by time rewounds and the vague cryptic dialogue and the drawings where magic is everywhere (eg pg 19) that I didn't realize it was Yuuko saving him. (I thought FWR decimated R-Syao in a strange, unusual way... turning him into liquid XD). Again, it shows how Yuuko has planned everything, even using the excuse of 'your 7 days is up' to pull R-Syao out...

I'm still a bit confused about the time rewound of Sakura or Syaoran. I can't remember, did CLAMP say in the manga that something had been rewound (and what was it??), or was it just a theory? I always thought that C-Saku/C-Syaoran came after R-Syao/R-Saku in terms of timeline, it didn't occur to me the Clones might have REPLACED the Reals in the timeline by rewounding time, and now I was wondering if that has been confirmed.

Also equally curious about Watanuki, the mysterious factor.

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[info]valentines_av
2008-08-09 10:46 am UTC (link)
Oh you know I totally missed that! It didn't actually occur to me it was Yuko pulling him out of there (I was half asleep when I read it XD)

...Now I'm thinking maybe Watanuki saved him... Aww com on CLAMP, throw us a roast sized bone!

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[info]umamandy
2008-08-10 05:53 am UTC (link)
ditto, I thought that it was the weirdo lightning bolt disintergrating him. I feel so stupid XDD

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[info]truthseeker48
2008-08-09 05:23 pm UTC (link)
It was back in ch188 that R!Syaoran said he had his time turned back. But the meaning to that isn't completely clear yet. Especially since in the Shura arc it was already mentioned that you can't turn back time. And if time was really turned back than R!Syaoran should have lost his memories too and then forgot why he turned back his time. lol sound more like Watanuki

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[info]crying4themoon
2008-08-09 12:38 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for the translation! XD

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