xxxHOLiC 185 translation

[starlady]

!!! page 01
Watanuki: ...Doumeki.

Doumeki: What?
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!!! page 02-03
Watanuki: ...I will succeed to this shop.
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!!! page 04
Watanuki: Yuuko-san said that she would grant my first wish,

But I won't get rid of the power to see spirits.

With this power,

And with this shop, I can grant the wishes of different people and of things that aren't people,
And protect this shop.

I'll keep it for a long, long time.
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!!! page 05
Watanuki: Until I can meet Yuuko-san again.
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!!! page 06
Doumeki: You'll do the store while you're attending school?

Watanuki: I won't go.
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!!! page 07
Watanuki: That's not it.

I can't go.

I can't leave this store any more.

Doumeki: ...What do you mean?
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!!! page 08
Watanuki: That

Is the price.
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!!! page 09
Watanuki: Because I've decided to hold it
Forever,

I've decided to pay the "time" within me as the price. [TN: "Time" written "moments."]

I can't leave the store any more.

I won't age any more.

Doumeki: Does that mean you won't die?
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!!! page 10
Watanuki: There's no living thing that doesn't die.

No matter how much we wish, people die.
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!!! page 11
Watanuki: So
I too will die.
Someday, absolutely.

But
Until then
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!!! page 12
Watanuki: Until I can meet Yuuko-san,

For a long,
Long time,

I will be in charge of this shop.
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!!! page 13
FX: Rustle

Doumeki: So this

Is his
...Choice, huh?
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!!! page 14
Doumeki: So therefore this, only once--
No, that there will be no more than one necessity to use it.

Certainly...

I can't use it on him.
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!!! page 15
FX: Soft clink

FX: Inhalation

FX: Cough cough cough

Cough...
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!!! page 16
FX: Inhaling

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It's actually downright freaky how much Watanuki looks like Clow. Also, how perfect a touch is it that he coughs the first time? Can you still get lung cancer if you're not aging? Watanuki, futoukou! Sort of.

Comments

[herm-nefer.livejournal.com]

There is one particular cell that had me staring at it because he looks SO much like Clow Reed. This chapter also reminded me of the splash page where Watanuki is sitting in a tree wearing Clow Reed's coat like he's wearing Yuuko's in this one...

*face palm* Watanuki became the female Yuuko in one chapter...

thanks for translating ^^

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

That was what, vol. 23 of TRC, the deluxe cover? It was totally prophetic.

[shaoron88.livejournal.com]

It isn't deluxe cover of vol. 23, is deluxe cover of vol. 22

http://www.crossed-destinies.net/galeria/covers/tankoubon22-sfront.jpg

[dumdumdumbutt.livejournal.com]

ah. actually I think she's talking about the splashpage of.. some kind of chapter idk

one moment



this :d (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a87/dumdumdumbutt/manga%20color%20shit/tsubasa202splash.png)