xxxHOLiC 181

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 181
[Side text: A pitch-black world confronts Watanuki...]
Watanuki: I see... // This is... / ...another dream...

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[Side text: "Yuuko-san? Who's that?" One after another, past customers of the shop began saying these unbelievable words...!! Does the answer lie... within this darkness?!]
Watanuki: Haha... / Of course... // Just a dream... // When did I end up falling asleep, I wonder...? // I hope I didn't collapse on the side of the street or something... / I'd at least better be somewhere in the shop... // But still, even if this is a dream, does it have to be quite so dark? // Come on... there has to be something nicer than this... / Can't I come up with anything? A beautiful scene? AN interesting situation? / Anything?

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Watanuki: Still, I guess this darkness is better than that nasty bit before... / ...when I couldn't tell the dream from reality... // Everybody not even knowing... // ...about Yuuko-san... // But it's all just a dream.
Yuuko: ...No.

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Yuuko: This is no dream.

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Watanuki: Yuuko-san!! // Why... / ...can't I move?! // Yuuko-san!!

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Yuuko: This is reality. This is now. // The time that had been halted has merely begun to move once more.

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Watanuki: ...Wh... What are you talking about?! // No, forget that... those... those things... / What are they?! // Ugh...! / Why can't I move, damn it?!
Yuuko: Because this is not the "time" that you move within.
Watanuki: ...Yuuko-san...

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Yuuko: I am but a being... / ...that a certain person wished would remain... // ...and his wish was so strong... / ...that I failed to disappear. // I should not even exist. / I should have been gone a long time ago. // However...

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Yuuko: Thanks to the strength of those emotions, time was halted, // and I was trapped within that halted time. // For the sake of two world... // ...of two futures.
Watanuki: Yuuko...san...
Yuuko: Just now, the choice has been made, and time has begun to move once more. / Thus, I must move onward.

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Watanuki: Wait, please!! // I don't get this at all! // Heck, what are you even talking about?! / Other worlds?! Two futures?! / Like I even care about any of that!

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Watanuki: As far as I'm concerned, the only world... // ...is the world I see before my own eyes!!

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Watanuki: What's all this about a "choice"?! // I don't remember choosing anything! // Why should a choice in which I had no say... // ...decide... // ...decide...!

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Watanuki: ...decide anything about the person I care about?!

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Yuuko: ...Yes... of course. // But... // I'm afraid... / Before you were even born... // ...I was already dead.

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Watanuki: Wh... / What are... // ...you saying? // I... / I... // I met you, didn't I? / We went through so much... // You helped me meet with all sorts of people, and other things that can't really be called "people"...

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Watanuki: We went through so many bad things... and so many good things... / ...and I changed in all sorts of ways... // And all of it because I met you...!

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Yuuko: ...Thank you.
[Side text: I don't care about worlds or futures!! These overflowing words, these overflowing tears... to Watanuki, the only reality is these feelings he bears for Yuuko!!]
[Bottom text: To be continued next issue - see you in Young Magazine Issue 26, on sale Monday 25th May!]