Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 188
119 was shock. 178 was *facepalmnotagaindammit*. This, people, is pure WTF.
Chapitre 188
The ruins that day
-01- (splash: Shaoran)
The scar that doesn't heal, the light that can't be seen.
Forward. Even so, simply forward.
-02-
Mokona: Thanks.
Fai: Let's hurry.
Mokona: Maybe if this keeps up a bit longer sleepiness will come all of a sudden
and time will end up going back again.
-03-
Shaoran: ... No.
Shaoran: If we enter the ruins,
that probably won't happen.
-04-05-
Kurogane: How can you tell?
Shaoran: If my reasoning is correct,
Shaoran: it's because
Shaoran: time inside the ruins
should be stopped at that day.
-06-
Mokona: It opened on its own...!
Fai: It's like we're getting a reception.
Kurogane: A first-class one.
-07-
Mokona: There's
no one here?
Shaoran: The only ones that can enter the ruins during the cleansing are the priest
and the member of the royal family undergoing the ritual.
Fai: Is that royal... the Sakura-chan
you've been with long ago?
-08-
Shaoran: ... Yes.
-10-
Mokona: The water
Mokona: isn't moving.
-11-
Mokona: So time really
isn't moving, is it?
Fai: There's this much water in this desert land...
Fai: furthermore, preserved in the top of the building...
Fai: Of course there's engineering too, but
could that mean quite a lot of magic power is supporting this place?
Shaoran: Yeah.
Shaoran: That's one of the important duties of this country's priest.
Shaoran: And Sakura was
the one in the current royal family with the strongest magic power
Shaoran: and candidate to next priest.
-12-
Mokona: How long was Shaoran together with that Sakura?
Shaoran: ... Always.
Mokona: Eh?
Shaoran: We were always together.
Shaoran: Since we first met
seven days before her seventh birthday,
-13-
Shaoran: until I became the age I appear now,
Shaoran: the whole time.
Mokona: B- But
Shaoran was kept prisoner, right?
Mokona: Since Shaoran was a child.
-14-
Shaoran: Time was rewound (T/N: From the spoilers and the drawing, there is a strong implication that it's "Shaoran's time", but he didn't actually say that.)
Shaoran: as payment.
Kurogane: ... To that witch?
Shaoran: Yeah.
Mokona: To Yuuko.
Fai: Might I ask for what reason?
-15-
Shaoran: In order to take back
Shaoran: the Sakura of that day.
Teaser: Even if he loses something
he decided to protect her.
Everything began that day.
Yeah, Jr.'s theme in the "current music" is very much on purpose. Clone army, messed up age... If the Xenosaga writers read Tsubasa, they must either be going *facepalm* or laughing like mad. Bonus points if Shaoran does turn out to be Fei Wang's son.
What the heck, CLAMP, 15 pages?
Page 1: I must have a tattoo obsession or something. Shaoran looks so cool in this splash!
Page 6: What's with Fai and Kurogane both looking a tad on the psychotic side?
Page 10: So they've jumped from a loop into a complete freeze?
Page 14: Seeing as there's no "Shaoran's own time" in the original text, I'm even more inclined to believe the rewind affected more than just Shaoran. Unless, of course, Shaoran grew up in the time freeze. Regardless of how long he's actually been in the tube, if he and Sakura spent normal time together, there's no time for Sakura to grow up with him and then grow up (WTF again!) with other Shaoran, whom we know to have been released into Clow-koku as a child. Besides, if the rewind didn't effectively undo the past, what worth would it have as a payment? Lots of people would love to become 7-8 years younger, and I'm sure that "being a child again" wouldn't be much of a deterrent, so how is that payment? Also, Shaoran's magic power didn't get halved until he pulled the eye trick, so even if he experienced loss of physical ability it's still not that big a disadvantage. And undoing the past gives him a "relationship" payment of his own, too.
Page 15: Impression the first: something really bad happened to Sakura. Impression the second: putting aside for a minute how Fei Wang's body count far exceeds Shaoran's, how are Shaoran's intentions any better than Fei Wang's, in regards to the order of the multiverse?
Chapitre 188
The ruins that day
-01- (splash: Shaoran)
The scar that doesn't heal, the light that can't be seen.
Forward. Even so, simply forward.
-02-
Mokona: Thanks.
Fai: Let's hurry.
Mokona: Maybe if this keeps up a bit longer sleepiness will come all of a sudden
and time will end up going back again.
-03-
Shaoran: ... No.
Shaoran: If we enter the ruins,
that probably won't happen.
-04-05-
Kurogane: How can you tell?
Shaoran: If my reasoning is correct,
Shaoran: it's because
Shaoran: time inside the ruins
should be stopped at that day.
-06-
Mokona: It opened on its own...!
Fai: It's like we're getting a reception.
Kurogane: A first-class one.
-07-
Mokona: There's
no one here?
Shaoran: The only ones that can enter the ruins during the cleansing are the priest
and the member of the royal family undergoing the ritual.
Fai: Is that royal... the Sakura-chan
you've been with long ago?
-08-
Shaoran: ... Yes.
-10-
Mokona: The water
Mokona: isn't moving.
-11-
Mokona: So time really
isn't moving, is it?
Fai: There's this much water in this desert land...
Fai: furthermore, preserved in the top of the building...
Fai: Of course there's engineering too, but
could that mean quite a lot of magic power is supporting this place?
Shaoran: Yeah.
Shaoran: That's one of the important duties of this country's priest.
Shaoran: And Sakura was
the one in the current royal family with the strongest magic power
Shaoran: and candidate to next priest.
-12-
Mokona: How long was Shaoran together with that Sakura?
Shaoran: ... Always.
Mokona: Eh?
Shaoran: We were always together.
Shaoran: Since we first met
seven days before her seventh birthday,
-13-
Shaoran: until I became the age I appear now,
Shaoran: the whole time.
Mokona: B- But
Shaoran was kept prisoner, right?
Mokona: Since Shaoran was a child.
-14-
Shaoran: Time was rewound (T/N: From the spoilers and the drawing, there is a strong implication that it's "Shaoran's time", but he didn't actually say that.)
Shaoran: as payment.
Kurogane: ... To that witch?
Shaoran: Yeah.
Mokona: To Yuuko.
Fai: Might I ask for what reason?
-15-
Shaoran: In order to take back
Shaoran: the Sakura of that day.
Teaser: Even if he loses something
he decided to protect her.
Everything began that day.
Yeah, Jr.'s theme in the "current music" is very much on purpose. Clone army, messed up age... If the Xenosaga writers read Tsubasa, they must either be going *facepalm* or laughing like mad. Bonus points if Shaoran does turn out to be Fei Wang's son.
What the heck, CLAMP, 15 pages?
Page 1: I must have a tattoo obsession or something. Shaoran looks so cool in this splash!
Page 6: What's with Fai and Kurogane both looking a tad on the psychotic side?
Page 10: So they've jumped from a loop into a complete freeze?
Page 14: Seeing as there's no "Shaoran's own time" in the original text, I'm even more inclined to believe the rewind affected more than just Shaoran. Unless, of course, Shaoran grew up in the time freeze. Regardless of how long he's actually been in the tube, if he and Sakura spent normal time together, there's no time for Sakura to grow up with him and then grow up (WTF again!) with other Shaoran, whom we know to have been released into Clow-koku as a child. Besides, if the rewind didn't effectively undo the past, what worth would it have as a payment? Lots of people would love to become 7-8 years younger, and I'm sure that "being a child again" wouldn't be much of a deterrent, so how is that payment? Also, Shaoran's magic power didn't get halved until he pulled the eye trick, so even if he experienced loss of physical ability it's still not that big a disadvantage. And undoing the past gives him a "relationship" payment of his own, too.
Page 15: Impression the first: something really bad happened to Sakura. Impression the second: putting aside for a minute how Fei Wang's body count far exceeds Shaoran's, how are Shaoran's intentions any better than Fei Wang's, in regards to the order of the multiverse?