Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 190

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 190: Those Who Know The World
[insert text: They knew that the time / when they would see each other once more // was not too far away]

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Sakura: Who are you...?
Syaoran: My name's... / Syao -
Sakura: Wait...

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Sakura: NO! // I'm sorry. // But, / you really mustn't touch me.

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Sakura: I'm sorry. // I'm going through a purification process right now, / so I mustn't be touched by anyone.
Syaoran: Purification... / Is there some kind of important ceremony coming up? // ...What?
Sakura: Oh, just... you knowing that purification is something that happens before important ceremonies... / It surprised me a little.
Syaoran: Well, I've done it a fair few times myself.
Sakura: Is that right...!

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Sakura: Those clothes aren't from Clow Country, are they? // Did you come from another country somewhere?
Syaoran: ...From a different world.
Sakura: A different... / ...world...
Syaoran: Yeah. // I came from a country called Japan, in a world separate from this one.

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Sakura: Japan...
Syaoran: You don't seem too surprised.
Sakura: Well, I was told... // By the high priest... / ...by my mother.

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Sakura: That the world... / ...to those who understand its existence... // ...is not a single entity.
Syaoran: ...I was told that, too. // By my mother.

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Sakura: But, how mysterious... / Japan and Clow Country... even though we're from different worlds, we can talk like this.
Syaoran: That's just coincidence... // ...No. // There is no coincidence in the world. / All that exists, is hitsuzen.
Sakura: Is that something that your mother told you, too?

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Syaoran: No. // My father.
Sakura: ...Hitsuzen. // Then maybe it's hitsuzen that the two of us met, as well!

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Syaoran: ......
Sakura: What's your name?
Syaoran: ...Li Syaoran.
Sakura: I'm Sakura of Clow Country.
Syaoran: ...The same name as my mother...
Sakura: Huh?

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Syaoran: (...She looks like her... // Like my mother, when she was young...)
Nadeshiko: I thought you were supposed to be undergoing purification?

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Sakura: Mother!
Syaoran: (This woman, too... // She looks just like the pictures I've seen of my mother's mother.)

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Nadeshiko: You do seem to be having fun, Sakura-hime.
Sakura: I - I'm sorry! / But, but, I did make sure he didn't touch me! / I did, honest! / I kind of fell over in the water... // But, but - !!
Nadeshiko: It's all right, I don't mind. // Welcome to Clow Country. // Visitor from another world.
Syaoran: How did you -
Nadeshiko: A dream.

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Syaoran: Are you a "yumemi", as well?
[sFX: rumble~ // rumble~~~~]
Sakura: Um - um - / This is just - !

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Nadeshiko: Well, it is getting late. / The purification ceremony is over for the day, so let us return to the castle. / I've got some of those apples you like so much.
Sakura: [aside]ahhh...[/aside]
Nadeshiko: You should come with us.
Syaoran: But...
Nadeshiko: I have prepared food for you as well, of course. // You like fruit, do you not?

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Syaoran: (So she, too, really can... / ...see the future in her dreams.)

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Sakura: Let's go and eat dinner together! / 'Kay?
Syaoran: O - Okay.
Sakura: Ya~~y!
Syaoran: [aside]Ah... // Aaahh![/aside]
[sFX: KA-SPLAT!!]

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Sakura: Over here!
Syaoran: Wow, it's a real castle...
Sakura: Is it that different? From "Japan".
Syaoran: We have deserts in Japan, too, / But it's certainly different from where I live, at least.
Fujitaka: Sakura-hime.

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Sakura: Father!

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Fujitaka: I'm afraid there are still six days left until the purification is complete, so...
Sakura: Yes... / Father.
Fujitaka: And who might your friend here be?
Sakura: I met him at the purification grounds, in the ruins!
Syaoran: My name is Li Syaoran.

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Fujitaka: I am Fujitaka, King of Clow Country. // Now, the two of you must be very hungry! / So we'll leave the talking for later.
Sakura: Come on!
Fujitaka: ...He's... yes, he must be.

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Nadeshiko: Indeed. // He is the one destined for Sakura-hime.
[insert text: The two's destiny / reaching across even worlds / moves swiftly onward!]
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