TRC 197 translation

[starlady]

Oh man, I'm supposed to be at the Manga Museum in less than nine hours. I need a time-turner.

[01]
Long ago he threw away
Doubt and ambivalence

To attain
That one thing.

Chapitre 197: Two Lives

[02]
FX: Ker-thump

[03]
Jr.: Sa...
ku...

FX: Springing forward

FX: Soft thud

Maru: Awful wounds.

Moro: Awful.

Yuuko: ....

[04]
FX: Smooth

Yuuko: In the condition
That he's alive.

More than the wounds he took in the battle with Fei Wong,
It's that you defied the dimensional movement, didn't you.

[05]
Yuuko: By your choice another future has been decided.

And by your choice hereafter,
another...

[06]
Jr.: ...I...

[07]
Yuuko: You returned.

From Clow-koku.

FX: Harsh gasp

Jr.: Sakura...

[08]
FX: Sharp pain

Yuuko: If you don't want to die, rest.

I received the price for your healing from your father, but
Absurd wounds received after your return are beyond its scope.

Jr.: A man
Appeared...in the reservoir...

FX: Sigh

On Sakura...
A seal...

[09]
Jr.: I...

Yuuko: The seal of death.

Jr.: !!

Then, when those black feathers
Cover Sakura...

She'll really...

[10]
Yuuko: She will die.

And the price to erase that seal is too great.

It would require someone's life in exchange.

Where are you trying to go?

[11]
Jr.: I'll go...back.
...To Clow-koku.

Yuuko: How will you go back?

You cannot cross dimensions.
Neither can your parents.

Jr.: If you have a wish, you grant it yourself.

FX: Clench

FX: Drip drip

If I hand over a price,
Can you...grant my wish?

FX: Grinding

[12]
Yuuko: ...If it's something I can do,
Yes.

Jr.: I want you to return me to Clow-koku.

Yuuko: Why?

Jr.: Sakura's,
I will...

I will search for a way to erase that seal.

[13]
Yuuko: Even in exchange for your own life?

Jr.: No...
I won't die...

And I won't...

Let Sakura die.

FX: Drip drip

Yuuko: ...Understood.
Then, the price.

[14]
Yuuko: What I will remit is just one-way.

In Clow-koku now, there are none who can either cross dimensions or cross over them.

In other words, inasmuch as there is no other means, you will not be able to return to the world you were in. [T/N: "Means" is written "method".]

You may never be able to see your father and mother,
and the other people who love you in your dimension, again.

[15]
Yuuko: That is the price.

Jr.: !!

Yuuko: Even so?

[16]
Jr.: ...I'll go.

I promised...

That I would...protect...

[17]
Jr.: Sakura...

[18]
FX: Soft collapse

Yuuko: It was mortifying, wasn't it,

To wish something of me.

But that vexation will make you stronger.

Because strength is not to bear everything alone.

[19]
Yuuko: You have already decided

The choice to part from your current happiness and return to Clow-koku.

And
You will choose again.

No matter which you choose,
It's a hard future.


No matter how much he cuts away,
That is the path of thorns--
                                                                                    
Yeah. Like I said, brutal. And that bed is starting to be a bad joke.

Also, Jr.'s brilliant plan is the worst plan I've ever heard in the entire history of horrible plans.

Comments

[crying4themoon.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! XD
It's even sadder than I imagined, though... :/

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

thank you and now again like watanuki in bed almost dead and all!!! MMMMMMM

[laury-kos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation!!!
again! CLAMP makes my brain hurts, coz i couldn't get some of the things Yuuko is saying, rly, the more we know about tsubasa the less we understand.. U_U

-"Also, Jr.'s brilliant plan is the worst plan I've ever heard in the entire history of horrible plans."
LOL so true!!!! xD, i mean he is going without returning and he will live a hell just for a girl that looks alike his mom, i mean ..srsly....

hehe, Thanks again!

[loveless-chan.livejournal.com]

When Yuko says "another future" was created... Do you think it means Watanuki? T_T
How is that even possible....? I give up CLAMP.... Just do whatever the heck you like....

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I got the impression that one future was the princess, and the other was Watanuki, but really, who knows?

[truthseeker48.livejournal.com]

A re-harsh (or maybe pre-harsh) of ch117 in Holic. Hrm. Wonder whats with the lack of butterflies in this version. The same soul tied to the same fate but of different hearts and bodies and worlds? >_> Both of them involved some sort of pinkie and some sort of promise too. Oh, CLAMP.

Though I am curious what's up with no one from Clow Country having the power to cross dimensions. Guess Sakura's Yukito =/= R!Sakura's Yukito? :/

Thanks for the translations~♥

[valentines-av.livejournal.com]

... in turn wouldn't that mean Touya-ou is R!Sakura's brother too? (as Touya and Yuki are always together?)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I got the impression that the Yukito in Clow-koku gets his power to send people across dimensions later--maybe as a result of what happens next.

[truthseeker48.livejournal.com]

...I was sort of hoping that Nadeshiko would be the one to have that power and that we'd see some of her magic~

[spacevlad.livejournal.com]

have you heard/obtained the new Sigur Ros album that came out this summer? It's quite different than their older stuff, but very good still....but it did make me realize that I'm sort of over them and have moved on to other things.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I heard of it, haven't heard it yet. At the moment I'm in love with World's End Girlfriend, who I think have commonalities with Sigur Ros but are much more post-rock.

[benkun.livejournal.com]

Late late late

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yup, this is why.

[tiljaunique.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation, even if it's like you said, brutal.
Poor Syaoran's parents. Because of their son's Aedipus complex they can't see him again. I'll end up believing FWR if this keeps going on like this.