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xxxHOLiC Rou 213 translation (complete)
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ladydarkmoon and ashura_sama for scans and translations, which I read when I was first getting into the manga (back when I was just starting to learn Japanese!); chibiyuuto for encouragement and unflagging CLAMP enthusiasm; nokiirat for help scanning and for being a champion mod; and scottishrefugee, for scanning the pages I sent from Japan every week. Thanks as well to everyone who's commented on these translations; your support has meant a lot. Without further ado…
ETA: The raws are missing pages 26 and 27; I'll update the translation when they become available. Missing pages added, with thanks to anonymous!
!!! page 01
Watanuki: Yu…
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!!! page 02
So it was
Yuuko-san?
Watanuki: I awoke right after that.
Doumeki: Has Yuuko-san ever appeared in your dreams before now?
Watanuki: …No.
Doumeki: Do you know who made you have the dream?
Watanuki: No,
That was impossible too.
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!!! page 03
Watanuki: But,
Even if it's an allegorical dream of Yuuko-san's form,
It requires so much power to make that appear,
It's impossible.
Doumeki: Which means…
Watanuki: Next,
I have to strain all my techniques,
So that I can see the rest of that dream.
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!!! page 04
FX: SLowly
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!!! page 05
FX: Gently
FX: Light
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!!! page 06
Watanuki: This time I don't think you'll be able to get away that easily.
Or am I wrong?
If you weren't trying to flee--
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!!! page 07
Watanuki: In that case, won't you tell me?
Whose dream this is,
And for what purpose they're showing it to me?
Besides…
That retreating figure…
Oh…
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!!! page 08
Watanuki: That it can break my spells in a dream in which my powers are at their strongest means
That this is is the dream of a wizard who's stronger than me?
It can't be--
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!!! page 09
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!!! page 10
Watanuki: …Yuuko
-san.
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!!! page 11
Watanuki: Yuuko-san.
FX: Footstep
Watanuki: …I can't move.
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!!! page 12
Watanuki: Is this
Your dream, Yuuko-san?
If so,
Why am I stuck like this?
This dream…
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!!! page 13
Watanuki: Is coming apart…
Is this a dream
That you had in the distant past, Yuuko-san?
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!!! page 14
FX: Slowly
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!!! page 15
Watanuki: A bird…?
FX: Opening
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!!! page 16
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!!! page 17
Watanuki: I see.
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!!! page 18-19
Watauki: Already
That much time has passed
Since I inherited this store.
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!!! page 20
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!!! page 21
Watanuki: But even so…
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!!! page 22
Doumeki: It was Yuuko-san's
Dream?
Watanuki: …Yeah.
Seems it was a dream Yuuko-san had, long ago.
She left it behind to teach me something, I think.
My power has already become strong enough;
There's no more need for me to confine myself to this shop.
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!!! page 23
Watanuki: At some point in this interval enough time passed for that.
Speaking of which,
It was there, wasn't it? This story.
The dream even has a title.
Doumeki: Yume juuya?
Watanuki: Yes,
That's it.
They waited a hundred years in that one, right?
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!!! page 24
Watanuki: It's longer than that since I inherited the store, though.
You really do look just like him.
Your great-grandfather.
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!!! page 25
Not!Doumeki: I resemble him that much?
Watanuki: It'll be difficult to discover the ways in which you're not like him.
Well,
He looked just like his grandfather himself.
It might be that kind of lineage.
Not!Doumeki: Are you glad you could see her?
Even in a dream?
Watanuki: …Yes.
But
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!!! page 26
Watanuki: Even though the dream which that person left behind waited long enough to come apart,
I won't be able to see her again.
Not the real Yuuko-san.
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!!! page 27
Not!Doumeki: You haven't come to want to forget?
About Yuuko-san.
Watanuki: …No.
Besides,
Even if I become able to leave this store,
I'll continue the store,
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!!! page 28
Watanuki: For the purpose of waiting for Yuuko-san.
Not!Doumeki: …I see.
Watanuki: Now then, shall we drink?
FX: Slowly
Not!Doumeki: Yeah.
Watanuki: Whiskey,
On the rocks.
Not!Doumeki: Got it.
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!!! page 29
Not!Doumeki: It seems
That it's not the time to use this yet. [TN: 'Time' written 'moment.']
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!!! page 30
Not!Doumeki: Since it seems
It'd be painful for him to forget Yuuko-san,
Even now.
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!!! page 31
ladydarkmoon and ashura_sama for scans and translations, which I read when I was first getting into the manga (back when I was just starting to learn Japanese!); chibiyuuto for encouragement and unflagging CLAMP enthusiasm; nokiirat for help scanning and for being a champion mod; and scottishrefugee, for scanning the pages I sent from Japan every week. Thanks as well to everyone who's commented on these translations; your support has meant a lot. Without further ado…!!! page 01
Watanuki: Yu…
-------------
!!! page 02
So it was
Yuuko-san?
Watanuki: I awoke right after that.
Doumeki: Has Yuuko-san ever appeared in your dreams before now?
Watanuki: …No.
Doumeki: Do you know who made you have the dream?
Watanuki: No,
That was impossible too.
-------------
!!! page 03
Watanuki: But,
Even if it's an allegorical dream of Yuuko-san's form,
It requires so much power to make that appear,
It's impossible.
Doumeki: Which means…
Watanuki: Next,
I have to strain all my techniques,
So that I can see the rest of that dream.
-------------
!!! page 04
FX: SLowly
-------------
!!! page 05
FX: Gently
FX: Light
-------------
!!! page 06
Watanuki: This time I don't think you'll be able to get away that easily.
Or am I wrong?
If you weren't trying to flee--
-------------
!!! page 07
Watanuki: In that case, won't you tell me?
Whose dream this is,
And for what purpose they're showing it to me?
Besides…
That retreating figure…
Oh…
-------------
!!! page 08
Watanuki: That it can break my spells in a dream in which my powers are at their strongest means
That this is is the dream of a wizard who's stronger than me?
It can't be--
-------------
!!! page 09
-------------
!!! page 10
Watanuki: …Yuuko
-san.
-------------
!!! page 11
Watanuki: Yuuko-san.
FX: Footstep
Watanuki: …I can't move.
-------------
!!! page 12
Watanuki: Is this
Your dream, Yuuko-san?
If so,
Why am I stuck like this?
This dream…
-------------
!!! page 13
Watanuki: Is coming apart…
Is this a dream
That you had in the distant past, Yuuko-san?
-------------
!!! page 14
FX: Slowly
-------------
!!! page 15
Watanuki: A bird…?
FX: Opening
-------------
!!! page 16
-------------
!!! page 17
Watanuki: I see.
-------------
!!! page 18-19
Watauki: Already
That much time has passed
Since I inherited this store.
-------------
!!! page 20
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!!! page 21
Watanuki: But even so…
-------------
!!! page 22
Doumeki: It was Yuuko-san's
Dream?
Watanuki: …Yeah.
Seems it was a dream Yuuko-san had, long ago.
She left it behind to teach me something, I think.
My power has already become strong enough;
There's no more need for me to confine myself to this shop.
-------------
!!! page 23
Watanuki: At some point in this interval enough time passed for that.
Speaking of which,
It was there, wasn't it? This story.
The dream even has a title.
Doumeki: Yume juuya?
Watanuki: Yes,
That's it.
They waited a hundred years in that one, right?
-------------
!!! page 24
Watanuki: It's longer than that since I inherited the store, though.
You really do look just like him.
Your great-grandfather.
-------------
!!! page 25
Not!Doumeki: I resemble him that much?
Watanuki: It'll be difficult to discover the ways in which you're not like him.
Well,
He looked just like his grandfather himself.
It might be that kind of lineage.
Not!Doumeki: Are you glad you could see her?
Even in a dream?
Watanuki: …Yes.
But
-------------
!!! page 26
Watanuki: Even though the dream which that person left behind waited long enough to come apart,
I won't be able to see her again.
Not the real Yuuko-san.
--------------
!!! page 27
Not!Doumeki: You haven't come to want to forget?
About Yuuko-san.
Watanuki: …No.
Besides,
Even if I become able to leave this store,
I'll continue the store,
---------------
!!! page 28
Watanuki: For the purpose of waiting for Yuuko-san.
Not!Doumeki: …I see.
Watanuki: Now then, shall we drink?
FX: Slowly
Not!Doumeki: Yeah.
Watanuki: Whiskey,
On the rocks.
Not!Doumeki: Got it.
-------------
!!! page 29
Not!Doumeki: It seems
That it's not the time to use this yet. [TN: 'Time' written 'moment.']
-------------
!!! page 30
Not!Doumeki: Since it seems
It'd be painful for him to forget Yuuko-san,
Even now.
------------
!!! page 31
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I find this whole debacle a great insult to his character development just because CLAMP can't be half-assed to break away from their so called "rules of the universe".
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