Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 159

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[Top text: Colour pages; the Celes Arc climax!]
[insert text: You who wait in a dream // I will...]
[TN: That insert text could be read in a couple of ways, and I'm not sure which was intended. It could be read as a full sentence with a hanging object, which is how I've translated it, with the "yume de matteru" modifying the "anata", and an unspoken sentence afterwards. That makes the most literal sense in context (since Sakura is "waiting in a dream", and the ellipses following "anata wo" could signify the unspoken wish of R!Syaoran (or any or the others aiming for her for that matter). The other way it could be read is with the first part as a full sentence, and the second part expanding on it, in which case the meaning would be "I am waiting in (my dreams/a dream)... for you". In that case, it could be interpreted as being from Sakura's or Watanuki's point of view, or with a little poetic license, from R!Syaoran/other protagonists' points of view. Of course, since it *is* poetic, it could well be intended to reflect all of the above, which makes it completely impossible to translate properly. But at least we get the beautiful colour artwork.]

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 159 "The Magician's Lies"
[insert text: For the sake of that momentary glimmer // Bloom to your fullest // Until your blossoms scatter]
[Top-left box: The Tsubasa original artwork and official guidebook 1-2 are now on sale and highly popular!! Volume 19 is also on sale, and getting rave reviews!!]
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[i'm not translating all that, at least not right now ~_~]

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Fei Wong: I will send you on a journey. / Together with a desert princess and a clone that I have prepared.
Yuui: And the ones who will collect me are those two...?
Fei Wong: No. // Although it will be a visitor from another world. // There is one more who I intended to send alongside you, / but the witch anticipated me.
Yuui: Witch...?
Fei Wong: One who holds great magical power, the Witch who freely crosses dimensions.

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Fei Wong: She read what was to come before my own dreamseer, // and before I could take action, // she entrusted that child to the dreamseeing princess of Nihon Country. // If it happens that you meet with that child, / he will be the witch's pawn. // He will hinder not just me, // but also your own wish.

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Yuui: Wish...
Fei Wong: You wish to restore his life, do you not? // Your twin, your other half.
Yuui: ...Do you too / wish to meet again with a person who has died?

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Fei Wong: ...... // I must have the desert princess go on a journey. // In order to store the memory of numerous time axes in that body, / and activate the ruins that sleep in the Clow Country. // In order to achieve my wish. // You, together with the clone, will protect the princess and prolong her journey.
Yuui: ...Until when?
Fei Wong: Until the princess returns to Clow Country.

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Fei Wong: You must remove all obstacles to the continuation of that journey. // In the case that / the youngster from Nihon Country - the witch's pawn - becomes an obstacle, you must remove him also.
Yuui: You mean... kill him?
Fei Wong: For you, who chose yourself and murdered your other half, // what hesitation should you have to kill others?
Yuui: Get Yuui out of here.

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Yuui: I'll go... / Together with Fai...
Fei Wong: A body without a soul will rot. // Taking him with you will only speed that process. // A feather will fall into the world to which the one who is coming to meet you will take you. / It is a feather of the princess' memories. It conceals great power. You should be able to understand this. // If you insert this feather into your other half, he will not rot away.

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Fei Wong: It is not only one feather that will fall. // Take one of them with you when you set out on your journey. // We cannot have the princess dying as soon as she begins her journey.
Yuui: How many feathers... will fall...?
Fei Wong: The dreams have not told me that much thus far. // Dreamseers cannot see all. // Well... For Clow Reed, that may have been possible.
Yuui: ...Clow.

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Fei Wong: Do not forget. You are my pawn. // Until the wish is achieved. // And until the other curse is removed.

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Ashura: Could there be anything else you would like me to do?
Fai: ........

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Fai: Cut my hair. // Even if it's only hair, I want to be able to be beside him when we are apart.
Ashura: Then, together with that hair, / Would it be all right if I laid this beside your precious child?
Fai: What...?
Ashura: Flourite. // It is a stone that, here in Celes, acts as protection.
Fai: Flourite....
[TN: Ashura uses a pure katakana "Flourite". Fai uses the kanji for the Japanese name for the real stone, fluorite. "Flourite" may just be a misspelling of "fluorite", but it's the official spelling Clamp have used in the past for Fai's last name, and since there's a mythology surrounding it here, and they use the English word rather than the Japanese word, I'd say it works nicely to keep Clamp's spelling to reflect that.]

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Ashura: You can have it too. / Not as a stone, but a name. // From today, you are / Fai Flourite of Celes Country.
[TN: So where did the "D" come from? Strongly tempted to draw parallels with One Piece...]

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Ashura: This name will protect you.
Fai: Why.... / are you doing this for me...? // All this...
Ashura: I have... // Something I would like to request of you. // That is something for later, however.

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Ashura: Now, let's cut your hair, Fai. / We can place the hair with this stone, alongside your precious person. // And then... // A new day can begin.
[TN: That last line, I'm trying to retain the spirit more than the literal translation. Of course, in Japanese, "hibi" - day - can be both singular and plural, so it can refer to both the next day, and all the days to come. And literally, Ashura says "let us begin (a new day/new days)". But that just doesn't work as well in translation, I feel.]
Fai: (No matter how hard or how sad it gets... // I'll keep living.)

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Fai: (Until I can... revive Fai, / Until I can achieve my wish, I can't die. // Even if I have to take somebody's life with my own hands.)

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[insert text: Can destiny not be avoided? Does that blade herald further tragedy? Or...?]
[bottom text: To be continued in Issue 33]