xxxHOLiC Rou 213 translation (complete)

[starlady]

I owe many people thanks relating to this manga: 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

Comments

[chibiyuuto.livejournal.com]

wow, such beautiful words you said about me there, I'm flattered!

Thank you also big time for all your efforts! You were the bridge between me and the XXXHOLiC World.

Hope you keep reading your translations for Kobato., GATE 7 and whatever comes next =)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Heh, of course! =)