Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 187
Chapitre 187
The consequences of wishes
-01- (splash: Fai and Kamui)
The flowing blood whispered:
even if you'll defy your own destiny
protect that person--- (T/N: "That" is written in a somewhat unusual way with an unusual reading.)
-02-
Fei Wang: Though the people in that time lapse
are repeating the same actions within it,
Fei Wang: even so, they live.
Fei Wang: Repeating the same things,
Fei Wang: not moving forward,
that's what sustains their existence.
-03-
Fei Wang: Therefore,
Fei Wang: when one who doesn't repeat the same things appears,
Fei Wang: that equilibrium is destroyed.
Fei Wang: Whenever you obtain new information,
whenever you attempt to approach that which you seek,
Fei Wang: lives within the time lapse are lost.
-04-
Shaoran: Let's go to the ruins!
Shaoran: Sakura is there.
Fai: And...
which Sakura is that?
-05-
Shaoran: The Sakura I met. (T/N: No kanji difference this time, but this is typeset with little dots for emphasis.)
Kurogane: Met
through that eye?
Shaoran: ... No, not like that.
-06-
Shaoran: It's the Sakura
who's always been by my side until I was captured.
-08-
Apple-kun: Where are you guys going?
Apple-kun: It's dangerous outside the city!
-09-
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
-10-
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Mokona: Won't these people go back to normal!?
Mokona: Are they gonna die like this!?
-11-
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Guys!
Apple-kun: Mom's cooking is great!
-12-
Shaoran: ... Stagnant time is the same as death.
Shaoran: But the actions I'll take from now on
are inexcusable even in face of that.
Shaoran: I'll go
in order to grant my wish.
Shaoran: I'll take on the consequences... all of them, myself. (T/N: "Myself" could also be translated as "this body", which might or might not be significant.)
-13-
Apple-kun: She makes pah'yu
with apples.
Apple-kun: I'm sure you'll love it!
-14-
Apple-kun: Come stay for the night!
Apple-kun: Come stay for the... night...
Fai: ... You'll hurt yourself.
-15-
Kurogane: Living inside that stagnant time thing is the same as dying.
Kurogane: Besides,
Kurogane: if you're at fault, I must be just as much, too.
Fai: Me too.
Mokona: Mokona too!
-16-
Shaoran: ... Thanks.
Fei Wang: Those who wish are all alike.
Fei Wang: If people conflict with their own wishes, they must choose. (T/N: Furigana/kanji mismatch on "people". The kanji says "other people".)
Fei Wang: To give up on their wishes,
Fei Wang: or to trample on people's wishes in order to grant their own. (T/N: Same as above with "people".)
Fei Wang: Just now,
you certainly forsook the townspeople for the sake of your own wish.
-17-
Fei Wang: We are the same.
Fei Wang: Even in our wishes.
Teaser: The power of rival dispositions!
Who awaits in the future they moved on to!?
Pages 2-3: I've decided to keep "time lapse" for now. I thought of "time slice", but that brings me cracktastic mental images about computer OSs. What do you folks think, is "time slice" better?
Pages 6-7: First things first, what the hell is Shaoran looking at? Now, when exactly did we leave Tsubasa and enter some dystopian world where people's memories get rewritten and kids who were written out of those memories get replaced for clones who are really enemy agents? No, seriously. Did Sakura have a secret life or what? How the heck did she manage to spend so much time with someone and keep Touya oblivious to the whole thing? She obviously had no such ability back in chapter 1. Is she even Clow-ou's real daughter? Someone (syaoranmew, I think) once commented that it's strange that Touya and Sakura are siblings in two different worlds. It is. I mean, Hokuto and Subaru don't seem to have enjoyed that privilege.
Page 11: The top-left panel kills any thought I might have had about Shaoran's not looking like Fujimoto. (笑)
Page 12: YAY for Sakura-replica paraphrasing!
Page 15: Crackish comment: this is looking a lot like dimension travel magic. And now that I went and made this comment, I'm afraid it'll be an easy way out and cheapen the whole conflict of this arc.
Page 17: Obligatory WTF concerning Fei Wang's wish. And, hello CLAMP, I want an explanation as to why this specific period of time has been "cut"!