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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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

[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.

[jlarinda.livejournal.com]

Me too! *points to icon's keywords* But a few chapters ago, we're told that Sakura met CCS!Sakura in a dream, and that's how she got the staff. It was all a big trick :/

But it wouldn't make sense to interrupt the final battle against FWR to tell us that the clones are somewhere else. However, to interrupt it to explain to us that these two characters who've just joined the battle are actually the reincarnations of the clones? Does make sense.

Besides, they'll both keep their memories. It would be awful if they were born in a totally random country and never got to find out if R!Syao and the others won, or what.

[rave-chick.livejournal.com]

>>>But a few chapters ago, we're told that Sakura met CCS!Sakura in a dream, and that's how she got the staff. It was all a big trick :/

So CCS!Sakura and Reincarnated!Sakura are two different Sakura's? That makes sense... except for the part that Reincd!Sakura has star power - the same as CCS!Sakua's?

>>>But it wouldn't make sense to interrupt the final battle against FWR to tell us that the clones are somewhere else. However, to interrupt it to explain to us that these two characters who've just joined the battle are actually the reincarnations of the clones? Does make sense.

This I agree with completely... poor them! Just how long were they hidden for?

>>>Besides, they'll both keep their memories. It would be awful if they were born in a totally random country and never got to find out if R!Syao and the others won, or what.

And again, this only makes sense if CCS!Sakura and Reincd!Sakura are two different people, as you never get any memory recall in CCS.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

But Yuuko just said in this chapter that the clones will definitely encounter the other versions of themselves. On balance, that probably doesn't mean that the clones are Jr.'s parents, but I also don't think that CCS!Shaoran and Sakura are Jr.'s parents. Maybe.

[rave-chick.livejournal.com]

er versions, she probably meant the clones they were reincarnated from - which they are meeting in the final battle now...

Isn't if funny to think that papa!Syaoran encountered his original when his son was born? What a paradox!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I take the fact that, when Yuuko says that they will meet the other versions of themselves, seven-year old Princess Sakura and seven-year old Junior are behind the clones, that she meant the originals, and not the clones in their reincarnated forms.

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.

[outou.livejournal.com]

You made a very good point about Junior's father passing on his name--it's apparently historically taboo in China to name someone after someone else. Granted, it's also historically taboo to marry your cousin in China, and CLAMP didn't pay much regard to that, but...

Considering that the clones will be keeping their memories, the idea that they could reincarnate into Li Xiaolang and Sakura Kinomoto seems right out, as well.

[rave-chick.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly - there's actually a lot evidence to say this is true - there were no memories of all this in the CCS timeline, the fabled 'meeting', the clothes!! ^_^

But that does make me wonder about the powers - Clow's and CCS!Sakura's (very developed ones)- and which world/dimension/thing they were hiding in to have that much power and not get noticed by FWR, Clow, Mokonas, All the Sakura's, all the Syaoran's and Fai??? That is one big list of people...

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I think the fact that Fai says that he should have sensed Jr.'s parents' existence, and the fact that Yuuko says the past and future are currently all mixed up, are significant here--if the clones are about to be reincarnated, it explains why Fai didn't sense them, because they hadn't been reincarnated yet. I think.