xxxHOLiC Rou 194 translation
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starladyWow, I totally forgot it was Thursday there for a while.
You know, there's no way I'm going to accomplish this anywhere but a proper desk. *gets up and moves*
!!! page 01
FX: Ting
Ti-ting
Ting
Dying of love,
More than the crying cicada,
FX: Ting
tTing
Ting
The uncrying firefly
Burns with love
FX: Rumble-slide
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!!! page 02-03
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!!! page 04
Tsuki-usagi: You've become quite good,
Store owner.
Cart: Moon Rabbit Pipes
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!!! page 05
Watanuki: Because I had a good master.
FX: Soft thunk
Tsuki-usagi: You said that that lady appeared in your dream,
And taught you attentively.
Watanuki: Yes.
FX: Slowly
Watanuki: In thanks for this.
But, I can't use the plectrum.
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!!! page 06
Tsuki-usagi: So then kouta.
Watanuki: I can still only play the one song you just heard.
Tsuki-usagi: That's enough for the girls to hit on you.
Watanuki: Where are there girls to hit on me?
Tsuki-usagi: There might be one among your customers,
A person to become a companion.
Watanuki: A partner, huh.
Tsuki-usagi: Well then.
To work, to work.
FX: Pat
How's the mood of that beautiful lady over there?
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!!! page 07
Tsuki-usagi: She might be in a bit of a mood.
FX: Slowly
No matter how many times I see it, it's a thoroughly charming pipe.
That's good luck for a bamboo pipestem seller.
Watanuki: I'm glad.
You'll help me, too.
Since it seems there are almost no pipestem sellers in the outside world.
Tsuki-usagi: It seems that humans don't smoke pipes anymore.
Well, they're still in active service in the world over there.
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!!! page 08
Tsuki-usagi: Here.
FX: Smoking
The pipestem is full of little splits.
Watanuki: Before this,
I dropped it.
Tsuki-usagi: You have to treat this lady gently.
Even if she gets away, she won't let you know.
Watanuki: It won't come to that. I treasure it.
It toppled over in broad daylight.
Tsuki-usagi: Oh, oh, you didn't overdo the noontime drinking, did you?
Watanuki: I wasn't drinking.
Tsuki-usagi: Was it the Shirakawa Night Ferry again?
Watanuki: Sort of, yes.
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!!! page 09
Tsuki-usagi: Seeing dreams is part of your business, store owner, but
If you over do it, you won't be able to disembark from that night ferry.
Watanuki: ...I know.
---------------
!!! page 10
Tsuki-usagi: Now then,
I can swap out the pipestem.
FX: Thock
Watanuki: Right.
FX: Smooth
Tsuki-usagi: And...
I can brush
The bowl and the mouthpiece.
Watanuki: Please do.
FX: Kyuup
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!!! page 11
FX: Slowly
FX: Smooth
FX: Rattle rattle
Whistle
Cough
Cough
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!!! page 12
Cough
Cough
Cough
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!!! page 13
Watanuki: It's fascinating every time I watch,
Those fishy things.
Tsuki-usagi: These guys love tar.
They get filled up being in the pipestem cart,
And I can ply my trade.
FX: Whistle
Watanuki: It's interdependence, huh.
FX: Popping up
Tsuki-usagi: What color would you like?
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!!! page 14
Watanuki: ...Red.
Tsuki-usagi: Right.
FX: Twist twist
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!!! page 15
FX: Smooth
Plunk
Squeezing
Squeezing
---------------
!!! page 16
FX: Quick and smooth
Watanuki: ...Beautiful.
FX: Exhaling
I've cleaned it myself,
But it doesn't compare to this.
Tsuki-usagi: If an amateur could do it, the professional's business would dry up.
---------------
!!! page 17
Watanuki: ...Indeed.
Thank you.
Tsuki-usagi: I'm glad that you say that.
Watanuki: Now then,
What about the price?
I've made the usual zunda mochi...
Tsuki-usagi: Oo.
Watanuki: But, you changed the pipestem too; this won't be enough.
Tsuki-usagi: In that case, store owner, let me be a little selfish.
Watanuki: What is it?
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!!! page 18
Tsuki-usagi: Say "welcome."
Watanuki: Aren't you already here?
Tsuki-usagi: Well,
Think of it as a payment.
Watanuki: ...That's fine, then.
---------------
!!! page 19
Watanuki: Welcome.
FX: With a bang
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!!! page 20
Spider-lady: Thank you
For the invitation.
T/N: The Shirakawa Night Ferry is a literal translation of an expression meaning "to be sound asleep". (The original title of Yoshimoto Banana's novel Asleep is this exact expression.) Normally I'd translate it metaphorically, but the pipeseller's next line plays on the literal meaning.
(Apparently according to Wikipedia the expression is related to the Shirakawa river in Kyoto, the boat in question crossing the river [which is quite small nowadays] many times at night, but I'm too tired to puzzle out the exact meaning. I note the Kyoto connection with happiness, however.)
I guess even in Japan you have to invite the demons across your threshold yourself.
You know, there's no way I'm going to accomplish this anywhere but a proper desk. *gets up and moves*
!!! page 01
FX: Ting
Ti-ting
Ting
Dying of love,
More than the crying cicada,
FX: Ting
tTing
Ting
The uncrying firefly
Burns with love
FX: Rumble-slide
---------------
!!! page 02-03
---------------
!!! page 04
Tsuki-usagi: You've become quite good,
Store owner.
Cart: Moon Rabbit Pipes
---------------
!!! page 05
Watanuki: Because I had a good master.
FX: Soft thunk
Tsuki-usagi: You said that that lady appeared in your dream,
And taught you attentively.
Watanuki: Yes.
FX: Slowly
Watanuki: In thanks for this.
But, I can't use the plectrum.
---------------
!!! page 06
Tsuki-usagi: So then kouta.
Watanuki: I can still only play the one song you just heard.
Tsuki-usagi: That's enough for the girls to hit on you.
Watanuki: Where are there girls to hit on me?
Tsuki-usagi: There might be one among your customers,
A person to become a companion.
Watanuki: A partner, huh.
Tsuki-usagi: Well then.
To work, to work.
FX: Pat
How's the mood of that beautiful lady over there?
---------------
!!! page 07
Tsuki-usagi: She might be in a bit of a mood.
FX: Slowly
No matter how many times I see it, it's a thoroughly charming pipe.
That's good luck for a bamboo pipestem seller.
Watanuki: I'm glad.
You'll help me, too.
Since it seems there are almost no pipestem sellers in the outside world.
Tsuki-usagi: It seems that humans don't smoke pipes anymore.
Well, they're still in active service in the world over there.
---------------
!!! page 08
Tsuki-usagi: Here.
FX: Smoking
The pipestem is full of little splits.
Watanuki: Before this,
I dropped it.
Tsuki-usagi: You have to treat this lady gently.
Even if she gets away, she won't let you know.
Watanuki: It won't come to that. I treasure it.
It toppled over in broad daylight.
Tsuki-usagi: Oh, oh, you didn't overdo the noontime drinking, did you?
Watanuki: I wasn't drinking.
Tsuki-usagi: Was it the Shirakawa Night Ferry again?
Watanuki: Sort of, yes.
---------------
!!! page 09
Tsuki-usagi: Seeing dreams is part of your business, store owner, but
If you over do it, you won't be able to disembark from that night ferry.
Watanuki: ...I know.
---------------
!!! page 10
Tsuki-usagi: Now then,
I can swap out the pipestem.
FX: Thock
Watanuki: Right.
FX: Smooth
Tsuki-usagi: And...
I can brush
The bowl and the mouthpiece.
Watanuki: Please do.
FX: Kyuup
---------------
!!! page 11
FX: Slowly
FX: Smooth
FX: Rattle rattle
Whistle
Cough
Cough
---------------
!!! page 12
Cough
Cough
Cough
---------------
!!! page 13
Watanuki: It's fascinating every time I watch,
Those fishy things.
Tsuki-usagi: These guys love tar.
They get filled up being in the pipestem cart,
And I can ply my trade.
FX: Whistle
Watanuki: It's interdependence, huh.
FX: Popping up
Tsuki-usagi: What color would you like?
---------------
!!! page 14
Watanuki: ...Red.
Tsuki-usagi: Right.
FX: Twist twist
---------------
!!! page 15
FX: Smooth
Plunk
Squeezing
Squeezing
---------------
!!! page 16
FX: Quick and smooth
Watanuki: ...Beautiful.
FX: Exhaling
I've cleaned it myself,
But it doesn't compare to this.
Tsuki-usagi: If an amateur could do it, the professional's business would dry up.
---------------
!!! page 17
Watanuki: ...Indeed.
Thank you.
Tsuki-usagi: I'm glad that you say that.
Watanuki: Now then,
What about the price?
I've made the usual zunda mochi...
Tsuki-usagi: Oo.
Watanuki: But, you changed the pipestem too; this won't be enough.
Tsuki-usagi: In that case, store owner, let me be a little selfish.
Watanuki: What is it?
---------------
!!! page 18
Tsuki-usagi: Say "welcome."
Watanuki: Aren't you already here?
Tsuki-usagi: Well,
Think of it as a payment.
Watanuki: ...That's fine, then.
---------------
!!! page 19
Watanuki: Welcome.
FX: With a bang
---------------
!!! page 20
Spider-lady: Thank you
For the invitation.
T/N: The Shirakawa Night Ferry is a literal translation of an expression meaning "to be sound asleep". (The original title of Yoshimoto Banana's novel Asleep is this exact expression.) Normally I'd translate it metaphorically, but the pipeseller's next line plays on the literal meaning.
(Apparently according to Wikipedia the expression is related to the Shirakawa river in Kyoto, the boat in question crossing the river [which is quite small nowadays] many times at night, but I'm too tired to puzzle out the exact meaning. I note the Kyoto connection with happiness, however.)
I guess even in Japan you have to invite the demons across your threshold yourself.
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Date: 2009-12-18 07:12 (UTC)And you aren't the only one who forgot it was thursday for a moment aha~
From what I can see, Clamp are pretty far from being in any rush of finishing XXXHolic and are peacefully adding up new stories one after another, I'm not complaining though :D
I wonder if we will ever get an artbook for Holic *random thought*