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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.
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