TRC 221 translation

[starlady]

Intense day at work was intense. I do not know our products by their colors! I do not drink our products (or our competition's, for that matter)! Pretend I'm color-blind, sales reps, and tell me your order by product # or name!

Ahem. Still no color pages this week. Something's going down--who wants to speculate? A full color chapter? A 29th volume? Color spread at the end?

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!!! page 01
Yuuko: There is no need for you to bear anything more.
You have already suffered enough.

And the others of you as well.

Chapitre 221: The Providence That Was Reserved
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!!! page 02
Yuuko: However,

Even if we match our price,
It is difficult to give people life.

It's not that you will be able simply to be reborn, living your life and forgetting everything.

Even if you are born anew,
Your memories will remain.

The happy memories and the harsh memories.
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!!! page 03
And you will meet "this time" once again.

Shaoran: This time?
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!!! page 04
Yuuko: ...Now,
It is not the case that time is simply flowing in only one way from the past to the future.

The past and the future are mixed,
Multiply twisted and entangled.

Sakura: Because that person broke the principle...

Yuuko: Yes.
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!!! page 05
Yuuko: But
There is also a providence that is not broken.

The past and the future--

What decides everything is only choices in the "present."
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!!! page 06-07
Yuuko: You will go through new lives.

But once again,
You will encounter the others of you.

What will decide what happens when you encounter them

Is you. [TN: All these "you"s are in the plural.]
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!!! page 08
Shaoran: ...I..

Hurt various people...

Even Sakura...

Yuuko: That was not your will.

You were merely made to move according to Fei Wong's expectation.
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!!! page 09
Shaoran: But

The one who did it
...was me.

FX: Clench

Sakura: Even
If that is true,

If what you have done is a sin,

I want to bear that sin as well.
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!!! page 10
Shaoran: ...Sakura...

Sakura: If I'm punished sometime because of that, that's fine.
I want to live with you.
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!!! page 11
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!!! page 12
Yuuko: The choice is made.
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!!! page 13
FX: Gentle movement

FX: Magic

Shaoran: After we're born, we...

Yuuko: You will come into the world in the same dimension, the same world, and the same time.
Without fail, you will be able to meet.
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!!! page 14-15
Sakura: I can finally say it.

I...

Love you.
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!!! page 16
Shaoran: Me too.


The world's tomorrow,
Their future,
Will certainly come...

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Best chapter yet, I say. What are the odds that the clones are Shaoran Jr.'s parents? 

Comments

[dumdumdumbutt.livejournal.com]

I am so conflicted

I wanna say

omg clones yes finally ;___;

and agree with "Best chapter yet, I say."

but

"What are the odds that the clones are Shaoran Jr.'s parents?"

argh CLAMP.

[dumdumdumbutt.livejournal.com]

also, thanks for the translations again xD

[shinigami-lady.livejournal.com]

and once again im so agree with you.
argh CLAMP!

[shinigami-lady.livejournal.com]

by the way, thanks so much for the translations starlady-sama!

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation!

What are the odds that the clones are Shaoran Jr.'s parents?

I've been hoping for this for weeks now 8D

[marie1971.livejournal.com]

i think if this is the last book the color pages will come at the end thanks for the translation.

[chibi-mitsuki.livejournal.com]

-What are the odds that the clones are Shaoran Jr.'s parents?

this, I am confused by that.

Wasn't it already established that R!Syao's parents are CCS!Sakura and Syaoran? why would it be the clones? they don't have the same magical powers. Also, why would C!Syao teach him chinese martial arts and the Li magic? let alone have the jian sword if that were true? Sorry for askin, I am just confused by that statement ^^;

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be the clones exactly, it would be their reincarnations. So, they wouldn't have to have the same magic, abilities, or items.

[chibi-mitsuki.livejournal.com]

hmm I see your point

however, I thought that it was pretty clear that CCS!Saku and Syao are the parents of R!Syao.

Regarding the clone matter though, I would hope to see that they had their own separate lives away from R!Syao (in a separate country). That seems to make more sense to me than the clones being R!Syao's parents.

Narcolico says

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the translation.

It was never established that CCS and Shaoran were their parents.

If the Clones are the parents, then those Seishirou's statements about Shoran looking like his father are starting to make sense...

Re: Narcolico says

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Oo, that's a good point.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Not exactly. There is a great deal of ambiguity as to whether or not Jr.'s parents are the same Shaoran and Sakura from CCS--Lady Sakura, Jr.'s mother, says that the Sakura who gave her the Star Staff (who is most likely the Sakura from CCS) was "from another world." Possibly this could mean that the Sakura with the Star Staff was a younger version of Lady Sakura, but personally I think that Jr.'s parents are not the same Shaoran and Sakura from CCS. In retrospect, Jr.'s inheriting the name and the sword seem rather not CCS-worldly. Neither do his parents' clothes.

[mikayukixx.livejournal.com]

EEEEPPPPPPPPPP!!!!<3 ;O
thanks for the translation <33333333333333333
I could die in peace

[tiggerpuss.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[laury-kos.livejournal.com]

this chapter was sooo beautiful!!!
they deserve their happy ending!, for sure!!
can't wait to see their life together TT-TT!!!
so happy they get to keep their memories too :3

[tiljaunique.livejournal.com]

Thanks starlady for a wonderful chapter!

What are the odds that the clones are Shaoran Jr.'s parents?
Of course, you took the words right out of my mouth. I have the same strong feeling about that as the twisted truth. So that would mean that Sakura and Syaoran were never the ones from CCS in the first place. That would actually be a relief. I was beginning to think that Mokona had forgotten her original CCS designs.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I agree it would be a relief--and I really have the strong feeling that the Sakura who gave Jr.'s mother the star staff is CCS!Sakura.

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

I can understand the doubts of many fans about Parents|SxS and also how wonderfully convenient, plot wise, it would be for them not to be the CCS|SxS but better to be actually the reincarnated clones from TRC, it would explain quite well why father and son looks exactly the same...but still, you are forgetting an iron clad sentence repeated enough by both Yuuko and FWR for us to remember it for a lifetime: "Syaoran is Clow Reed blood related relative", having inherited those powers mainly from his father's side, who is a Li. Starting from the point Clow Reed was undoubtedly recognized as being the same as CCS, they can only be CCS|SxS since they are the only ones who could have given birth to someone who could be said related to Clow Reed through blood ties.

[outou.livejournal.com]

Yet Li Xiaolang is only distantly related to Clow (it's obvious by his surname alone), whereas F.W.R. has insinuated that Junior is Clow's direct descendant.

Besides, we now know that Clow gave up what was left of his magical powers to save Syaoran. Wouldn't it be possible for those powers to be passed on to him, in order to better enable him to change the future? And have we not seen Junior's father use Clow's magic--something that Li Xiaolang never demonstrated the ability to do?

Furthermore, as the clones are being reincarnated, couldn't one of them be reborn as a true descendant of Clow?

[rave-chick.livejournal.com]

Does exchanging power include blood? I know it didn't in CCS, but that was between Yue (a created being) and Toya (a human). If Reincd!Syaoran receives Clow's power (though even that's debatable as Yuuko says it's a 'price') via blood, would that make him a blood-relative?

I get the feeling Clamp's been using that term very carefully... well, that or we got lost in translation! XD

[chocoshins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation, did not look at the scans yet, but can i ask something? For the "i love you", was the "aishiteru" used, or the "suki"?

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Suki. I waffled on "love." I waffle on most word choices before I make them. But in context, I thought "love" seemed more fitting than "like."

[tryxkittie.livejournal.com]

What? The clones ares Shaoran Jr.'s parents? Are you sure?

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Not sure, but I very much think so. chibiyuuto has a longer explanation as to why.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

thank you!!! so that is the dessision!!