xxxHOLiC 185

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[TN: After returning from Japan, completing a hellish assignment (including losing about two hundred words in a crash and having to retype them from scratch), taking a breather and getting somewhat addicted to Tales of VS, I'm finally back and getting down to work on my backlog! Installment 11: two chapters of xxxHOLiC!]

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 185
[Side text: In this shop without Yuuko, of what is Watanuki about to speak?!]
Watanuki: ...Doumeki.
[SFX: swish]
Doumeki: ...What is it?

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Watanuki: I'm going to take over this shop.
[TN: Watanuki looks so epic here that I'm suddenly half-hoping that he somehow turns out to be Clow Reed himself.]

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[Side text: With his glasses in hand once more, Watanuki enshrouds himself in Yuuko's kimono!! His unwavering feelings and resolution overflow through his words!!]
Watanuki: Yuuko-san said that she would grant that first wish of mine... // ...but I refuse to lose my ability to see the supernatural. // I will use that power... // ...here in this shop, to help grant the wishes of many people, and things that are not people... / ...protecting this shop... // ...and always, always waiting.

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Watanuki: Until I can meet Yuuko-san once more.

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Doumeki: You're going to run a shop while you're still going to school?
Watanuki: I will not go.

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Watanuki: ...Or rather... // I cannot go. // I am no longer able to leave this shop.
Doumeki: ...What do you mean?

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Watanuki: That is... // ...my price.

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Watanuki: I decided that I would wait. / As such... // I chose to give up the "time" within myself as the price. // I am unable to leave this shop. // I will no longer age.
Doumeki: You mean... you'll never die?

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Watanuki: There is no such thing as a creature that will never die. // No matter how one may wish, death will always come.

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Watanuki: As such, / I too will die. // One day, for certain. // However... / Until then...

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Watanuki: Until I am able to meet Yuuko-san... // I will always, / always, // be waiting here in this shop.

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[SFX: swoosh]
Doumeki: So this... // ...is his... / ...choice...

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Doumeki: That's why this can only be used once... / No... there will only be a need to use it once. // Sure enough... // He wouldn't be able to use it.

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[SFX: tap... // breathe // cough / cough / cough // cough...]

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[SFX: breathe...]
[Side text: In order to stand firm against an eternal farewell, he pays his own 'time' as the price!! At the end of his long wait, will a miracle await him? Or else...?!]
[Bottom text: Egg in hand, Doumeki seems troubled. Is the time of his decision almost here?! Next chapter will be on sale on 24th August!!]