xxxHOLiC Rou 186 translation

[starlady]

Damn the dream-font. Son of a bitch, I lost my copy of volume 1 in customs.

!!! page 01
There is much mystery in the world, but

No matter how strange,
How bizarre these events,

If people are not present,
If people don't see them,
If people aren't affected by them,

They are merely phenomena,
Just things that pass by.

People,
People,
People.

Of all the living things in this world, people themselves are the most mysterious of all.
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!!! page 02
FX: Footstep
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!!! page 03
FX: Bam

FX: Rustle rustle
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!!! page 04
Maru & Moro: Welcome.

Doumeki: I'm not a customer.

Maru & Moro: Then,
Welcome home.

FX: Snatch

FX: Footsteps
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!!! page 05
Doumeki: I'm not the master here.

Maru & Moro: But it really is welcome home.

FX: Rumble-slide

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!!! page 06-07
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!!! page 08
Mokona: Yo.

Doumeki: Hey.

Watanuki: ...Sleepy...

Doumeki: It's already five.

Maru & Moro FX: Ee! Ee!

Mokona FX: Bounce

Mokona: Watanuki was awake a while ago.

Doumeki: You're sleeping too much,
All the time.

Watanuki: It doesn't matter.

If I sleep whenever customers don't come.

So,
You went out to buy things?
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!!! page 09
Doumeki: Yeah.

FX: Sudden

Maru: Overflowing--

Moro: To the top--

Watanuki: Yes.

You bought decent things.

You're not bad at picking things out.

Doumeki: Because you'd make a fuss.

Maru & Moro FX: Ee! Ee!

Watanuki: If you're going to eat, aren't things of good nature best?

Doumeki: I'll eat

FX: Soft rattle

Doumeki: Dinner.
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!!! page 10
Watanuki: Maru, Moro, help me--

FX: Rumble-slide

Maru & Moro: Right!

FX: Rumble-shut

Mokona: Watanuki was the same as always.

Doumeki: ...Really.
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!!! page 11
Doumeki: Thanks for the food.

Mokona: Thanks for the food.

Watanuki: Yeah--

FX: Burble

FX: Munch munch munch
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!!! page 12
Watanuki: Now that you mention it,
Why are you making that face?

Doumeki: School.

Watanuki: College?

Doumeki: Yeah.

Watanuki: Speaking of school, are students intentionally wearing suits now?

FX: Soft rattle

FX: Slowly

Doumeki: My professor had a meeting.
I was on the side, showing the visual aids on the laptop.

Watanuki: Oh,
That's right, your professor is bad at computers.
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!!! page 13
Watanuki: But
You're folklore studies, right.

Doumeki: How many times is that?

Watanuki: I'll say it how many times I like.

You were good at science, weren't you.

FX: Twirling

Watanuki: It's weird that you decided that so suddenly, without thinking.
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!!! page 14
Doumeki: I said this four years ago.
I have an interest.

Because there are various things Gramps left at my house.

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Oh Doumeki, just keep growing hotter. Watanuki, on the other hand, needs to lay off the drugs.

I hate these chapters where it's a struggle to make things sound natural.

Comments

[canon-4-life.livejournal.com]

Based on the last chapter and this recent chapter, my impression is Doumeki is the person whom he can rely on regarding this matter. I mean, after I read almost 200 chappies of HOLiC, even he told some odd things to Himawari and Kohane, until the end Watanuki is still consulting to Doumeki since he's the one can only relate to this after the exchange of eye and blood. It makes me sad that I think Himawari and Kohane might help him but alas both of them are still missing in action. After reading 185 and 186, only Doumeki is link in the outside world.

plus CLAMP again, skipped the egg issue, goddamnit >

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

But even if he is more house wife in a sense...he has change a lot in the sense of himself, it is not only his smoking new habit, but his approach to life, watanuki never spend the day sleeping, without cleaning or let all well done around him!

and the confidence in himself is like the Watanuki you can see in the covers!!!

He is concern for Doumeki and Doumeki for him that is clear water!!
But i feel they are disconnected, because maybe the Kimiro's decision to wait an eternity for Yuuko...
and Doumeki tries to be the more close to Kimihiro as he could learning something who could unite them both

Why Doumeki you don't live with him anymore?????
wath about the Egg????

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why Doumeki didn't use the egg then is probably the million-credit question at this point.

ETA: "Rou" means "cage" and I think Watanuki is in one--the shop, maybe.