xxxHOLiC Rou special chapter translation

[starlady]

!!! page 01
Is there a wish you want to grant
Even if you lose
Everything?
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!!! page 02
FX: Rustling

Watanuki: Now,

What should I do…

Mokona: Did you do it yet, Watanuki?

FX: Tapping feet

Watanuki: No,
Not yet.

Mokona: Should Mokona think about it?

Watanuki: About my signature?
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!!! page 03
Mokona: Yeah!
I'll think about it awesomely!

FX: Clapping

Mokona: The impact is important for sure!
It has to look super-alloyed!
And the deformity!
You can't leave that out!

FX: Flash

FX: Ta-da

Watanuki: Why does an alternative signature
Have to be super-alloyed and deformed?

Mokona: That's cool, isn't it?
A signature like a special effects hero!

FX: Sudden

FX: Pressing and turning

Mokona: It'll be unique!
They'll understand immediately that it's Watanuki's!
That's a signature's real ability!!

Watanuki: Well, a signature certainly is proof of the person, but

FX: Pluck

Watanuki: Usually, deconstructing the first kanji of your name, or making a design of something natural, is the done thing, isn't it?
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!!! page 04
Watanuki: Like a flower

…Or a butterfly.

Mokona: …

FX: Plip plop

FX: Sound of the rain
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!!! page 05
Watanuki: Rain, though it's clear.

A foxes' wedding,
Huh?

…This is inevitability, too.

Shall I try it again, after so long?
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!!! page 06
Watanuki: Close your eyes, don't think of anything,

Listen only for the first thing that you hear.

FX: Screeching

Watanuki: ?

Shaoran: A bird…
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!!! page 07-08
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!!! page 09
FX: Smooth motion

Mokona: Welcome home!!

FX: Sudden

Mokona: I'm home!!
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!!! page 10
Fay: You're glad, aren't you, Mokona?

And Shaoran-kun too.

Watanuki: …Welcome.

Shaoran: We could finally come
Here.
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!!! page 11
M&M: Gently, gently--

Fay: The Mokonas are sleeping, huh?

Kurogane: If they just make a commotion and bounce around and drink and eat,
They'll get sleepy.

FX: Breathing

Fay: They were just that happy
To finally meet.

FX: Ice clattering

Kurogane: Well…
Yeah.
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!!! page 12
Fay: Shaoran-kun seems happy too.

He was always worried
About Watanuki-kun.

Kurogane: How many days is it
Since we left Clow country in these clothes?

Fay: Five hundred and twenty-days.
To us, that is.

But

It seems like it was longer for him.
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!!! page 13
Shaoran: …So
Now, the store is…

Watanuki: Yes.
I've become the owner.

And,
I'm sorry for breaking the eyeglasses you left.
They're in the storeroom, but--

Shaoran: Don't worry about it.

FX: Staring

Shaoran: …You've
Become strong.

In your power,

And your heart.
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!!! page 14
Watanuki: If that's true,

That'd be good.

Have you met Sakura-chan?

Shaoran: No,

Not yet.
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!!! page 15
Shaoran: But
We certainly will.

Watanuki: That's right.
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!!! page 16
Watanuki: If you wish hard, dreams will come true.
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!!! page 17
Mokona: Sorry.

FX: Glowing

Mokona: When this earring glows,
We have to go to the next world.

Mokona: It's all right.
We'll meet again.

FX: Sudden

Mokona: YES!!

Kurogane: Thanks for everything.

Fay: Sorry for freeloading for five days.
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!!! page 18
Watanuki: Not at all.
You helped with shopping and cooking in exchange for it.

FX: Bounce

Fay: Say goodbye to Doumeki-kun.

It's too bad, Kuro-sama.

He said he'd bring
The reserved sake next time.

Watanuki: I'll set aside Doumeki's sake
For when you come again.

Shaoran: Thanks.
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!!! page 19
FX: Swift

FX: Slowly
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!!! page 20

FX: Wind howling

Shaoran: This…

Watanuki: At this point I might
Be able to help you so that the next world you go to is where Sakura-chan is.

Shaoran: But
the price…
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!!! page 21
Watanuki: You already paid it

When you came to the store.

Shaoran: Huh?

Mokona: Later!

Mokona: Later!

FX: Swallowing sound
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!!! page 22
Shaoran: I'll absolutely tell Sakura
That you helped us be able to meet.

FX: Dissipating
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!!! page 23
Watanuki: I wonder if they went to the world where Sakura-chan is.

Mokona: They'll be fine,
Definitely.

That's right.
What was the price you received from Shaoran?

FX: Slowly…

Watanuki: The sign I received when I decided on a signature,
And scryed.

At that moment Shaoran-kun

Gave me a sound.

Shaoran: A bird…
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!!! page 24
FX: Unfolding

Watanuki: A signature is something you use your whole life,
And in an occupatin like mine it combines a seal of protection.

It's more than enough for a price.
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!!! page 25
Watanuki: I with them all the best
On their journey.

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I missed this manga, and our TRC heroes. But I couldn't help but think of branchandroot's post.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

what does "scryed" mean? Anyways I wish there was some Doumeki interaction with the Tsubasa gang.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

It's a kind of divination or magic in which you look into a mirror or reflective surface like water (or blood, if you want to be creepy) to see things, either in the present or in the future.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

thanks !!!!! you are great!!

[crofe-sima.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for the translation.

"Kurogane: How many days is it
Since we left Clow country in these clothes?

Fay: Five hundred and twenty-days.
To us, that is. "

wait, what.

[shushu-yaoi.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot! <3

[tsubasafan101.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for the trans! ehhh...so The TRC gang has been traveling for 1 and 1/2 year(s)...
Mind if I borrow the Trans? I probably might create a translated scans...or maybe not.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

You're welcome to use the script with credit!

[tsubasafan101.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! I'll be crediting you of course!

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

The most surprising line is definitely this for me:

Watanuki: Yes.
I've become the owner.

And,
I'm sorry for taking the eyeglasses you left.
They were in the storeroom, but--

Shaoran: Don't worry about it.

What message is Clamp trying to pass here...?

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

And thanks for your translation!! :D

[scottishrefugee.livejournal.com]

Judging from chapter 204 of Holic, I *think* here Watanuki is saying he's worry for taking off the eyeglasses left to him by Syaoran, and that they are now in the storeroom.

[scottishrefugee.livejournal.com]

I meant "sorry", obviously. *headdesk*

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I have to re-read 204, then. Damn unmarked subjects...

[cutesherry.livejournal.com]

Your reasoning indeed make a lot more sens ^^
Thanks for the clarification! :D You 'saved' me before I started burning my brain cells trying to find out an explanation to this XD

[(Anonymous)]

"Watanuki is saying he's [sorry] for taking off the eyeglasses left to him by Syaoran, and that they are now in the storeroom."

I think you have it backwards. "Are now" would imply the present tense. Look at what he's saying:

Watanuki:
I'm sorry for taking the eyeglasses you left.
They were in the storeroom, but--

"Were", as in the past tense.
If he finished it is a reasonable possibility to guess "They were in the storeroom, but [my glasses broke.]" or ["my glasses broke and I found them."]
There is not a way you can finish that sentence to imply your suggestion.

This phrasing (the using of past tense) implies that the glasses he's referring to are the glasses he's wearing now. And that those glasses were actually left there (in the storeroom) by Syaoran.

Now which Syaoran? I have no idea. I was digging through the past Tsubasa and looking at the prices being paid. One that was paid but we never see is the one C!Syaoran paid for Yuko treating R!Syaoran/Tsubasa/his son's injuries.
Take a look here: http://www.onemanga.com/Tsubasa_Reservoir_Chronicles/197/08/
So we know a payment was made but know not of what the payment was. (Odd because CLAMP normally tell us sooner or later.) Where does Yuko store the payments? In the storeroom. So it's indeed possible that the payment could have been the glasses themselves.

Watanuki said the glasses seem like they are protecting him (http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/204/19/) and the seals on the box... Clow's and Yuko's like it was protecting or as Watanuki say, "sealing away" the glasses. (http://www.onemanga.com/xxxHolic/204/18/) (Maybe sealing them until the right time?)

We know that C!Syaoran is also Watanuki's father and that C!Syaoran is inside R!Syaoran right now, so maybe Watanuki was addressing that part of Syaoran?

Glasses being one way to protect their child seems like something C!Sakura and C!Syaoran would do. They did many other ceremonies to protect Watanuki, even his name is made to protect him. So I can see them leaving the glasses for him somehow and then Yuko & Clow making the box to seal the magic for the time being.
Although, it had to be a time when Clow and Yuko were together so it could be they foresaw that they would need such a box much like they foresaw the need for the two Mokonas...

Just some food for thought but I definitely, and respectfully, think you have the interpretation backwards based on the wording.

~ Justine (I don't have an account ^^; )

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm rereading the page now, finally...and I think you're right. The line now reads

And,
I'm sorry for breaking the eyeglasses you left.
They're in the storeroom, but--

For some reason I was misreading 割る as　渡す, which didn't help. :-) Thanks for the input! And please don't stop, it's very helpful.

[scottishrefugee.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for your reply to judge if, in the end, I had been wrong or not. Seems now I was right ^^

[ragingfirefall.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much! I always really appreciate your translations. Thanks also for providing the link to branchandroot's post, which I found fascinating. ^_^

[scottishrefugee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your translation!

[mairenn-k.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for translating!

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Dude, how many days have been?

And I started reading that post and the I noted the username. Uhm, yeah, no thanks.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

And...is there something I should know? Because that is the only post by that user I have read ever, as far as I can remember.

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, not that interesting, but she just touches my squick points (http://the-willow.insanejournal.com/976172.html?format=light). Not that it should stop you for linking her.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I remember reading that post, but not the name of the person the Willow called out.

The basic point was that CLAMP can't deal with mature women having power--they usually wind up dead (like Yuuko) or cut off from the action (like Princess Sakura at the end of TRC). Which once I read it seemed obvious enough that I should have spotted it myself, but I don't want to forget it now that I have been alerted.

[leviathanmirror.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translation.

question

[(Anonymous)]

excuse me,
what is it that watanuki hold when he was doing 'Close your eyes, don't think of anything, Listen only for the first thing that you hear' ?

I can't remember on which chapter watanuki did it for the first time.
can anyone tell me please.

Thanks.