xxxHOLiC 181 translation

[starlady]

Announcement: I will be attending Otakon 2009 in Baltimore this July! Anyone else? What parts of the con do you like best besides the dealers' room? It's been four years since I attended, and I'm looking to get a deeper/more rounded appreciation of the con as a con. This will be the first time I attend for longer than a day, too. Does anyone know any good restaurants that aren't in the Inner Harbor/are close to the hotel?

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!!! page 01
Watanuki: I see...

Is this
A dream again?
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!!! page 02
Watanuki: Ha ha!
I see.

So that's it.

I fell asleep at some time.

I hope I'm not on the side of the road or something.
At least let me be somewhere in the store.

But, since it's a dream at last, why is it pitch black?

Couldn't it be a prettier place or something?
Couldn't I be in some sort of interesting
situation?
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!!! page 03
Watanuki: But, compared with the earlier truth,
this is much better.

No one knowing

About Yuuko-san...

Because it's all a dream.

Yuuko: ...No.
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!!! page 04-05
Yuuko: It's not a dream.
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!!! page 06
 Watanuki: Yuuko-san!!

Why
won't I move!

FX: Slurping sound

Watanuki: Yuuko-san!!

FX: Slurping
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!!! page 07
Yuuko: This is real, this is now. [TN: Real written "reality," now written to emphasize the present-ness of it.]

Stopped time has merely started to move.
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!!! page 08
Watanuki: ...Wha--what are you saying!?

No, before that, why
Is that!?

Shit!
Why can't I move?

Yuuko: ...Because it's not the time for you to move. [TN: Time written "moment."]

Watanuki: ...Yuuko-san.
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!!! page 09
Yuuko: A person wished
That he only wanted me to be here.

That wish was too strong,
A thing that did not disappear. [TN: Thing written "existence."]

By rights I don't exist,
Since I should already not be here.

But
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!!! page 10
Yuuko: By the force of that wish, time stopped,

And I was fixed in that stopped time.

Two worlds,

For the sake of two futures.

Watanuki: Yuuko...san.

Yuuko: Now, the choice is made, and time moved.
So, I will proceed.
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!!! page 11
Watanuki: Please wait!!

I don't understand at all!

What is that, all of it!?
Another world!? Two of them!?
That doesn't follow what I know!
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!!! page 12
Watanuki: To me, the world is

The one that's before my eyes!!
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!!! page 13
Watanuki: What choice do you mean!?

I haven't decided anything!

Why, because of something I haven't decided,

Is my

My...!
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!!! page 14
Watanuki: Will something be decided about the person I care about!?
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!!! page 15
Yuuko: ...You're right.

But,
Before you were born,

I was dead.
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!!! page 16
Watanuki: Wha--
at do you mean?

That--

I,
I,

I met you, Yuuko-san,
And various things,

I met various people and things that weren't people--
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!!! page 17
Watanuki: I met plenty of good things and bad things,
I changed various things--

But that was all because you were there from the start, Yuuko-san!
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!!! page 18
Yuuko: ...Thank you.