Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 186
Chapitre 186
Stagnant time
-01- (splash: Mokona)
Those feathers were
dazzling and warm.
May they induce nothing but
eternal sleep---
-02-
Mokona: Time never goes forward for these people.
... Right?
Mokona: Tomorrow doesn't come no matter how much time passes...
Mokona: That's kind of pretty sad.
Apple-kun: Mister!
Apple-kun: Thanks for earlier.
I finished up without dropping the shop's goods!
Shaoran: ......
Apple-oba-san: Thank you very much!
This child is an airhead.
-03-
Fai: But, it's possible
that maybe there's something sad about time's moving forward too.
Kurogane: Whaddya mean?
Fai: For example...
maybe after it goes on, something happens.
-04-
Nii-san: Those looks of yours,
are you from another country?
Kurogane: ... The conversation is the same, but
Kurogane: there's something weird.
Mokona: Whaat?
Kurogane: The number of people is decreasing.
Mokona: That's right.
Mokona: It feels like there were a bit more people the first time around.
-05-
Nii-san: The clothes you three are wearing are extremely different from each other.
Nii-san: Are you each from a different country?
Nii-san: How nice!
Fai: I'm sure
Fai: ... that the person who said, "Traveling alone is okay too, but of course with someone it's great," after this
Fai: isn't there.
-06-
Shaoran: ......
Nii-san: You should take it easy.
And the festival is just around the corner, too.
Shaoran: ... What festival is it?
-07-
Nii-san: It's the festival to celebrate the birthday of the princess of Clow country, Sakura-hime!
-08-
Mokona: Sakura-hime, you mean Sakura!?
Apple-kun: The princess is the princess!
Apple-kun: She's very cute!
Apple-oba-san: She's really a lovely princess!
Kurogane: ... This is
Clow country from which period?
Shaoran: How old is Sakura...
Shaoran: hime getting this birthday?
-09-
Apple-kun: Er...
With the next birthday
Apple-kun: she'll be seven!
Kurogane: So this is Clow country in the past, then?
Fai: Even if it's confirmed, we won't know from here.
Mokona: Wonder if we go to the castle to meet Sakura.
Apple-kun: The princess isn't in the castle!
-10-
Apple-kun: Before the birthday...
What was that, again?
Apple-oba-san: Cleansing. (T/N: Dictionary: "religious abstinence; purification".)
Apple-kun: That's right. So, she's in the ruins.
Shaoran: ... Sakura...
Of course... back then......
Mokona: "Of course"?
-11-
Apple-kun: Have you decided on an inn already?
Apple-kun: Then come to our place!
Apple-oba-san: That's right......
-14-
Nii-san: You should do that.
When you're in the middle of a journey...
-15-
Apple-kun: Besides, the nights in this country are terribly cold.
Shaoran: ......
Apple-kun: Sleeping outside is pretty much impossible.
Mokona: What!?
What's it!?
Mokona: Wh-...... Why all of a sudden!?
Mokona and the guys ain't doing anything!!
-16-
Shaoran: No.
We changed it.
Shaoran: We appeared in the middle of these people who were repeating the same time and the flow changed.
Mokona: Ah!
Mokona (flashback): Assuming it were repeating, wouldn't something change because Mokona and everyone came?
If Shaoran hadn't been there, maybe the kid here would've fallen.
Mokona: B-but...
Mokona: for them to melt!!
Kurogane: ... And this is why the number of people was decreasing?
-17-
Kurogane: These guys... are alive.
Fai: At least, they aren't some kind of illusion.
Mokona: You mean...
that by being here, whenever Mokona and the guys do something, this is happening to these people!?
Teaser: The formidable enemy in the way of Shaoran and company
is time that doesn't---
can't move forward!
Page 7: *SHIVER* Sakura's freaking birthday???
Page 9: I have a feeling Shaoran has something to do with this choice of time, too.
Page 10: Bad bad bad Fantastic Children vibes there. *shiver* I mean, look at Shaoran's face... Also, is this the same birthday we saw in the flashback in volume 4? That seems to be the most logical explanation for the fact that Shaoran seems to know what happened back then, but if other Shaoran and Sakura were around 14-15 at the beginning, this is too close to when other Shaoran showed up. In fact, so close that maybe it hadn't happened yet. And er... isn't it kinda careless to be using the ruins for stuff like "cleansing" and festivals when they don't know shit about the place?
Page 15: I'm pretty sure the Shaoran-dots/English translation here is along the lines of, "What the heck, his freaking mother just melted and he's going on about the dangers of sleeping outside?" (笑)