Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 194

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 194: The Tone That Calls The Princess
[insert text: Since time long past, these two / have ever been intertwined in that place // until the far future...]

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[sFX: SHA~~~N]
Sakura: ...A bell...?
[sFX: SHA~~~N]
Sakura: It sounds like something hitting something else...
Syaoran: (I can't hear it! // Not a thing!!)
[sFX: SHA~~~~N]
Sakura: It's coming from over there, at the ruins...
[sFX: SHA~~~~N]
Sakura: It's just as though...

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Sakura: ...it's calling me... // ...Water... // ...The pool...?

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[no text just... ooh, watanuki]

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Sakura: Syaoran!!
Syaoran: ?! // ......!!

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Syaoran: !!

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Syaoran: Are you all right?!
Sakura: ...No... / Syaoran... // It's too dangerous...

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Sakura: Stay... // ...back...
Fujitaka: Princess!
Syaoran: Your Majesty! // She said she heard the sound of a bell... // And then she just screamed out and...
Fujitaka: ...And passed out where she stood.

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Fujitaka: This happens to her sometimes, when she dreams. // Did she say anything?
Syaoran: ...She seemed to be hearing the sound of a bell, coming from the ruins... // And I think she saw the purification pool. // Then she called out my name... // Said it was dangerous... to stay back...

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Fujitaka: Once the purification is over, she will not enter that place again until the next ritual...
Syaoran: Could she have been seeing... something happening at the pool tomorrow?
Fujitaka: I cannot say. // Even the Queen, the current priest of the ruins, has seen nothing of tomorrow in her dreams.
Syaoran: ......

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Syaoran: ...Would it be possible for me to go to the purification ground tomorrow?
Fujitaka: Only the priest is permitted to enter that place during the purification ceremony. // And on the final day, not only are we of the royal family forbidden from entering, even the priest herself may not enter that place. // However... you are not of the royal family. // Indeed, you are not even of this world.

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Fujitakak: You met the Princess during her purification, and yet the ceremony was able to continue. // Both the Queen and Yukito-kun said that the pool itself has permitted your presence. // For the sake of Sakura-hime, whom the water so loves.
Syaoran: Then...!
Fujitaka: However... / In her dream, the Princess told you to stay back... that it was dangerous...
Syaoran: ...Yes.

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Fujitaka: Your parents must be waiting for you in your own world. // I cannot allow you to attempt such a dangerous...
Syaoran: I will go. // I think that when she told me to stay back... / ...that meant that she herself was in danger. // I don't know what there is that I can do... // ...but if there is anything that I can do, then I will go.

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Fujitaka: Truly, // as her father, I would rather be by her side myself, but... // Here in this country, the rites held at the ruins are sacred things. // She has worked so hard, ever since she was three years old, to perform those rites and ascend to the priesthood... // And on her seventh birthday, the last rite of all... / ...to put it all to waste...

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Syaoran: I, too... / ...was taught many ceremonies and techniques by my own father, so I understand. // One must not put an end to such things once they have been begun. // Otherwise, there will be consequences for the one who began them...

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Fujitaka: ...So it is the same way in your country.
Syaoran: Yes. // Besides which... / ...I made a promise. // That this time, I would protect her.

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Fujitaka: ...Please, take care of Sakura.
[insert text: The fated seventh day... What does that resounding tone have in store for the young Princess?!]
[bottom text: Next week, Tsubasa will be taking a break so that the authors can collect data. We hope you will wait patiently for its return in Issue 35.]