Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 172

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 172: The Crumbling Logic
[insert text: No matter how long we're apart / We'll always be able to understand each other // For we will never change]

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[insert text: A clash in Nihon Country! Is this the end? Syaoran's deadly kick!]
Mokona: Is it over?
Fuuma: No.
Kurogane: ......

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Seishirou: ...That which I taught to Syaoran-kun... // ...it would appear that you, too, have benefited from it.
Fuuma: It looks like Nii-san has just become even more serious about this.
Mokona: But if he gets serious... what will happen then?

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Fuuma: Could be a little scary, I guess.
Syaoran: !

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[distinct lack of text]

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Mokona: "SYAORAN"!!

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Everybody: !!
Tomoyo: We who see that the future... // ...can do nothing but read what lies ahead. // That is why we always pray that those we love may walk a happy path. // Although there is very little that we can actually achieve.

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Tomoyo: Very like your King.
Fai: ...So you knew Ashura-ou.
Tomoyo: Dreams are all interconnected. // Even we dreamseers, who see the future through our dreams, can become aware of one another's presence within those dreams.

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Fai: Then the King knew what was to come through his dreams?
Tomoyo: He saw what was to come... / ...and searched endlessly for a path in which you could feasibly be saved. // Even as he himself broke down.

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Tomoyo: But to change the path ahead is a very difficult task. // The smallest word, the tiniest motion, / that which lies in people's hearts... // The future takes all these things as its cues to determine the path to come. // Just like ripples on the water's surface.

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Tomoyo: I daresay, too... // ...that it was because she knew this / that Sakura-hime was unable to tell any of you what she had to do.
Fai: ...... // When I think back to His Majesty's actions... / He did many things behind which I find it difficult to see any kind of logic. // So that must have been...

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Tomoyo: That logic is crumbling away. // For the sake of Fei Wong Reed's dream.

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Mokona: "Syaoran"...! // "Syaoran"!!
Fuuma: Careful, now.
Mokona: But, but...! / "Syaoran" is...!

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Seishirou: Now, then. / I think I shall leave.

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Syaoran: ...Wait.

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Syaoran: We haven't... finished yet.
Seishirou: So it would appear.

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Seishirou: You really do look just like him.
Syaoran: I will retrieve that feather... whatever it takes.

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Syaoran: RAITEI // SHOURAI!!!
[insert text: I can't lose!! For the sake of the ones I love... for the sake of my two selves!]

EDIT: I've removed all references to "refusal" in this chapter. That was a translation error. I was assuming that the "kotowari" reading on the "logic" kanji was an imposed reading, meaning "refusal", which is what "kotowari" generally means. However, on further investigation, it would appear that "kotowari" is actually a little-used natural reading of the kanji in question. So it does just mean "logic", it's just an odd way of saying it. Doesn't show up at all as a word in the dictionary I use... but then again, Tomoyo doesn't exactly speak particularly "normally" ~_~