It's a magical world

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!

(  Once the harvest is in and the animals put away for the winter/To stand at the uncomprehending window cultivating the desert/With salt tears which will never do anyone any good. )

Well, I'm caught up with CLAMP translations at least…

With thanks to Fail Manga, here we go! Happy Friday (donations for magazine costs are accepted there as well).

( The monkish and the frivolous alike were to be trapped in death's capacious claw )

Originally posted at Dreamwidth Studios; you can comment there using OpenID or a DW account.

Thanks to Rena-chan for the raws--if you're able, please consider chipping in to help her continue to be able to provide scans! (Thanks also to Anonymous for the camera raws, on which I did the first few pages of this. Sorry I couldn't put it out sooner.)

( There was no life you could live out to its end/And no attitude which, in the end, would save you. )

Thanks to Rena-chan for the raws. Please consider chipping in here to help her keep buying the magazines if you've got a few bucks to spare.

( And in vagrant shadow her mothball truth is eaten./In cool, like-it-or-not shadow the humdrum is consumed. )

Camera raws can be found here thanks to anonymous. Also, this chapter was ridiculously well timed, and in some ways so is my translation. Enjoy the equinox, all! 

( If you ever get close to a human, and human behavior... )

CLAMP have outdone themselves with this one.

( These foolish dreams you know they plague me still )

And now I must go sleep the sleep of those who will have to shovel out their cars for work in the morning.

( You must choose, but choose wisely. )

So I translated "pearl" as "butterfly" last time. Whoops.

I've got to run to work right now, so I'll fix that in the relevant chapter and finagle the formatting in this chapter when I get back later tonight. Finished! 

( No time for clever cut text! )