xxxHOLiC 171 translation

[starlady]

[01]
Watanuki: I'm sorry for making you come all this way.

Client: Not at all.
But if you're going to teach me cooking,
Wouldn't my house...

[02-03]
When the butterfly's dream is granted,
what sort of truth will be created? 

Haruka said it:
That "even if it is a dream, if there are people who are believed, wished for,
loved, then it will become reality.
And that butterfly is still dreaming."

And so Watanuki asked:

"Is the butterfly Yuuko-san?"

Now, without waking,
To what sort of truth is the dream
Becoming connected!?

[04]
Yuuko: Cooking here?

Watanuki: ...Yes.

[05]
Yuuko: Weren't you teaching her at her house?

Watanuki: That's right.

But

Yuuko: ...I understand.

The usage fee will be the Japanese liquor from the day before yesterday and Watanuki's strong alcohol side dish.

Watanuki: I've got it!

I'll make dressed boiled bonito.

[06]
Yuuko: Will you teach that to her?

Watanuki: ...No,
Not to that person.

Client: Rice balls?

Watanuki: Yes.

[07]
Client: Um,
I think I can make that without being instructed.

Watanuki: Indeed.

But, today I want to make and eat them.

You, that is.

[08]
Mokona: So she came.

Doumeki: Yeah.

Mokona: I wonder if she'll eat, that client.

FX: Quaff

Doumeki: He'll manage something,

Somehow.

[09]
FX: Grin

Mokona: Drink up.

Doumeki: Yeah.

FX: Glug glug of bottle

Client: I thought we discussed this, but
What I've made, I...

Watanuki: You don't want to eat it.

Because what you've made is disgusting.

[10]
Client: Yes.

Watanuki: You're fine with watching, huh?

Client: Huh?

Watanuki: You're fine with
Watching yourself.

[11]
Client: That is

...Yes.

Watanuki: You're fine with
touching yourself too.

Client: ...I don't understand
What you want to say.

[12]
Himawari: Hello.

Doumeki: Hey.

Kohane: Hello.

Himawari: I met her just up the road.
Since Kohane-chan said she was going to Yuuko-san's store too, we came together.

FX: Nod

I came to speak to Watanuki-kun, but...

FX: Bounce

[13]
Kohane: Kimihiro-kun is in the kitchen?

Doumeki: Right.

Kohane: Is it all right if I go to help?

FX: Bounce

Mokona: At the moment there's a client
in the kitchen.

Watanuki is with that client.

Himawari: A client of Yuuko-san?

[14]
Mokona: No.

Of Watanuki.

Watanuki: ...I, at the moment I can't tell the taste of what I've made.

Client: ...Huh?

Watanuki: To be precise, I have no memory of having tasted.

[15]
Client: Your meaning, I...

Watanuki: Don't understand.
Neither do I.

But I can cook.

Because even without memories, the body remembers.

[16]
Watanuki: I like it.
Cooking.

Since I live alone, I can do various other household chores too,
but cooking is my favorite.

I certainly enjoy what I've made.

But, I said I thought that it wasn't just that when someone asked me before.

[17]
Watanuki: I wonder if it's because you show yourself in cooking.

Client: Yourself...?

Watanuki: What the person who made it likes,
Dislikes,

What they ate, whom they met, what they were thinking about.

So

[18]
Watanuki: It's because you want them to know who you are that you have people eat the food that you've made.

I thought, "Eating what you've made yourself is a way of knowing yourself, isn't it?"

FX: Clench

                                                             
T/N
p.2: "Truth" is written "reality."
                                                            
So the gang's all here, and bastard!Watanuki is raking the client over the coals. Good for him. I've got five hundred yen that says this is the last volume.

p.s. love the color spread.
p.p.s. Doumeki + Mokona = <3

Comments

[thomas51.livejournal.com]

Who cares for tsubasa's fights and revelations? Damn Syaorans and their little stupid magic fight. We need to know more about cooking with Watanuki-sensei. u__u"
Anyway, besides that, Watanuki seems to be so much more...mature. I don't know, like, he really "moved forward". But it'd be better if CLAMP showed that in another way than cooking lessons.
Well, last 2008 chap. It`s kinda depressive. D:

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's totally backing this woman into a corner. I for one enjoy it.

Still, it is a bit depressing. It all has that air of finality that I associate with the end of the year, and of major endeavors.

[thomas51.livejournal.com]

I'm wandering if at the end of Holic, we'll get to see a smoking watanuki, asking, "what's your wish?" XD

[lialiakicks.livejournal.com]

...if that's how Holic ends, I think I will cry. D: It just seems so anti-climatic...?

[lodelco.livejournal.com]

Watanuki is better off without becoming another Yuuko. She sure as hell wouldn't want him to be like her. Besides, this is Watanuki we are talking about. I'm sure he really cares about what happens to her.

[empressmaude.livejournal.com]

When did Watanuki get so cool? He's starting to worry me a little though, acting like Yuuko. I also want to know what kind of memories he lost, and how they will affect him when/if he finds out. Also, it makes me really nervous that all the people he cares about are gathered together, like they're going to be there for the finale or something.

I don't want Holic to end ;_; At least give Watanuki a happy ending, Clamp.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure this is the last volume, given the point at which TRC is. At the most one more volume after this (so 18 total).

18 is a nice number. Yes, Watanuki has gotten pretty awesome; I like it too.

[tiljaunique.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, this should be the last volume, what with Tsubasa already said to end in April, and Clamp saying both have to end at the same time, there's just not enough time for any other volume.

I like Watanuki's bullying of that woman, she should be getting twitchy by now for what we saw ^^

[(Anonymous)]

I've been wondering if this once-a-month schedule has been at least partly to make everything last until April.

If nothing else, they want to keep interest high while the four OADs are being released.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

thank you very much!!!!!!