Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 197

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 197: Two Lives
[insert text: My indecision and my hesitation / I discarded long ago. // So that I may obtain / one single thing...]


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Syaoran: ...Sa... / ...ku...
Maru: He's terribly hurt!
Moro: Terribly!
Yuuko: ......

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Yuuko: He still lives... / ...That's something, at least. // You were already badly wounded in your battle with Fei Wong... / ...and I suppose you attempted to resist the dimensional transfer on top of that.

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Yuuko: Thanks to the choice you made, another future was set in place. // And the choice that you have yet to make... / ...will decide yet another...

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Syaoran: ...I......

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Syaoran: I'm back...
Yuuko: Back from Clow Country.
Syaoran: Sakura...!

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Yuuko: If you don't want to die, I suggest you get some rest. // Your father has paid me the necessary price for your treatment... / ...but it doesn't cover any injuries that you may do yourself through overexertion after returning.
Syaoran: A man... / ...appeared... at the pool... // Placed... a seal... / ...upon Sakura...

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Syaoran: It was...
Yuuko: The Seal of Death.
Syaoran: ...!! // But then... when those black wings grow... / ...and cover her entire body... / She's really going to...

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Yuuko: ...She will die. // Furthermore, / the price required to remove that seal would be far too great. // One life would have to be sacrificed to save another. // Where exactly do you mean to go?

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Syaoran: I'm going... back. / ...To Clow Country.
Yuuko: And how will you do that? // You have not the ability to cross dimensions. / Neither do your parents.
Flashback!Syaoran: Any wishes that I might have, I will grant myself.
Syaoran: If I pay you a price... / Will you... grant a wish for me?

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Yuuko: ...If is is within my power, / yes.
Syaoran: I want you to return me to Clow Country.
Yuuko: Why?
Syaoran: I'm going... / ...to find... / ...a way to remove that seal from Sakura.

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Yuuko: In exchange for your own life?
Syaoran: No... / I refuse to die... // And I refuse... // ...to let Sakura die!
Yuuko: ...Very well. / The price, then.

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Yuuko: I will send you there, but it will be a one-way journey. // In Clow Country right now, there exist none with the power to cross dimensions or send others across them. // In other words, short of some new development, you will have no way to return to the world from which you came. // You may never see your father, your mother, / or any of the other people from your own world who care for you, ever again.

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Yuuko: That is the price.
Syaoran: ...!!
Yuuko: Will you still go?

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Syaoran: ...I will. // I made a promise... // To protect her.

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Syaoran: To protect... Sakura.

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Yuuko: It must have been painful... // ...For you to ask a wish of me. // However, / that pain will only make you stronger. // For merely shouldering everything upon one's own back is not truly strength.

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Yuuko: You have chosen once more. // You have made the choice to leave behind all the happiness you currently possess, and return to Clow Country. // And thus... / You will have to choose once more. // A choice where either option... / ...brings a painful future.
[insert text: No matter how he may slice them aside... his path remains strewn with thorns.]
[bottom text: Starting next time, Tsubasa will be taking a break so that the authors can collect data. Hold on for its return in Issue 41!]
[TN: This issue, for reference, is Issue 38.]