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Wow, it's finally the end.

I have some people to thank--namely, [livejournal.com profile] chibiyuuto, [livejournal.com profile] ladydarkmoon, and [livejournal.com profile] nokiirat, for getting me onto LJ and into Clamp fandom--and everyone who's read my translations and commented. I always feel awkward about being thanked, but really, thank you.


!!! page 01
Everything is my precious memories with you
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!!! page 02-03
Everyone's support
Gave us courage!

From now on
we'll
Always be together!


Chapitre 232: The World of Beginnings
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!!! page 04
FX: Crunch

FWR: Pay
The price

FX: Snaking movement

Shaoran: Fei Wong...!

Watanuki: Is he saying that if we don't hand over the price we won't get out of here?
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!!! page 05
Shaoran: If it's something I can hand over...!

Watanuki: The price can't give too much or snatch away too much.

If you hand over more than necessary,
You'll be injured.

Your body in the real world,
Your luck in the astral plane,

Your soul in the heavens.
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!!! page 06
Watanuki: If Yuuko-san were here, she might be able to tell us an appropriate price.

But...
She's not here now.

You can't yourself understand about yourself.
But since we're the same but not the same,

We might be able to understand.
Will the mutual prices correspond even though we leave here?

Shaoran: Fei Wong's last curse.

Watanuki: Without something precious, it won't be a payment.
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!!! page 07
Shaoran: But if you really throw away something precious,
It's meaningless.

Both: The payment.
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!!! page 08
Shaoran: Even if I leave here, I understand that it won't be nothing.
There are people who will be hurt and saddened by what I've decided.
Even so, I choose this price.

Watanuki: I don't think this is the correct price either.
Nevertheless, since I've chosen to wait,
I choose this price.
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!!! page 09-10
FX: Hissss

FX: LIGHT (of magic)
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!!! page 11
Watanuki: Thank you
For giving birth

To me.
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!!! page 12
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!!! page 13-14
FX: Pouring water
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!!! page 15
Shaoran: I...

The other...I...

Disapp...

FX: Splash splash

Sakura: I knew that it would turn out like this...

But...
Since you would absolutely come home, Shaoran...
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!!! page 16
Sakura: You and I, Shaoran.

If we have our memories,
It's not the end...

FX: Light

Sakura: So...
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!!! page 17
FX: Light breeze

S&S: !

FX: Light breeze

FX: Smoothly
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!!! page 18
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!!! page 19
FX: Splash

Splash

Loud splash
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!!! page 20
FX: Clunk

Kurogane: Since he left without me hitting him,

You take it.

Fai: They're sleeping now,
Both of them.
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!!! page 21-22
Fai: We'll start from there.

Shaoran: ...Thank...you.
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!!! page 23-24
Wishing for their good fortune,
The vibrant morning colors

Now mark the end
Of the dream's journey.

The End.

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Date: 2009-09-30 05:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cutesherry.livejournal.com
Thanks for the fast translation!
Well, there is still an epilogue chapter left for you to translate after this, if you feel like translating that is, so it's not totally 'the end' yet I guess aha~ The chapter's title is a bit worrisome somehow...? I just hope we won't get the exact same repeat of chapter 1 again, that would be 'version 3' already ^^;;

Well, the last chapter was a disappointment, not that I'm surprised by this fact or anything, but it felt weird: I expected it, since at this point of the manga pretty much nothing could satisfy us with all the plots holes and unanswered questions left hanging, but still, did actually some part of me still hope....?
The only 'surprise' was for Syaoran to get a feather inside of him too.
But really, that 'Syaoran' we are left with has really be angsty from start to end, always wearing a tired and painful face almost all the time, of course, it's due to the hard circumstances of his life but still, after watching him making a sad face for the past 2-3 years, I really got tired of it *sigh*
As for that 'Sakura', she doesn't interest me at all: there is no way I can get attached to a character I know nothing about beside some flashback scenes, unlike the other Sakura, I did not see her 'in action', I did not see the evolution of her character during the years nor anything: the fact she is named "Sakura" and has the face of "Sakura" doesn't attract me to this person at all. So yeah, whatever happens to her I don't care.
And seriously, WTH with her saying 'I knew this would be happening' *rolls eyes* So anti-climatic, I mean come on!!! Almost one of your first words awakened is 'Duh!I knew it!' *gah!*
I at least hope Syaoran's price will be revealed somehow in the epilogue (we already know that Watanuki's price is not aging and waiting forever for Yuuko inside the shop).

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Date: 2009-09-30 05:42 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cutesherry.livejournal.com
I just re-read my post and it sure sounds pretty negative ^^;;

I've spent the last 6 years following TRC day after day so, well, there is no helping it for me to be very critic...?

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Date: 2009-09-30 06:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ariadnechan.livejournal.com
i'm secoded you
they forget the vampires and hunters for naming a big hole plot


no group hug?? what about who was fwr??? how about the destiny of Kuro and Fay????

this is worse that the last weeks i was imagine it

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Date: 2009-09-30 15:22 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] starlady38.livejournal.com
I've suspected for a while now that the vampire plotline was never going to be resolved--that it was essentially a teaser for X, although Tokyo did really crack the TRC plot, too.

Kurogane swore he'd come back to Princess Tomoyo, so I feel safe in assuming that he and Fai will both wind up in Nihon-koku eventually.

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Date: 2009-09-30 20:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ariadnechan.livejournal.com
yep i think they will go to Nihon(too if Ohkawa doesn't mess up more with Fay saying i will stay by my daughter side) but that don't satisfies me at all !!!

i really hope a better end for holic!!(it have less plot holes, the egg is the big one)

and please ohkawa don't finish X until you comeback in your senses!!!

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Date: 2009-09-30 06:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laury-kos.livejournal.com
I COMPLETE AGREE WITH YOU
srsly CLAMP... , I'm alsmot crying bcoz of the anger and rage I feel inside, this NO good end, at all. U_U