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Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2008-12-17 09:57 pm
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xxxHOLiC 171 translation

[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

[identity profile] thomas51.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
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:

[identity profile] starlady38.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] thomas51.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm wandering if at the end of Holic, we'll get to see a smoking watanuki, asking, "what's your wish?" XD

[identity profile] lialiakicks.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
...if that's how Holic ends, I think I will cry. D: It just seems so anti-climatic...?

[identity profile] lodelco.livejournal.com 2008-12-18 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
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.