Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 162

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 162 The Hole In That Past
[TN: The wording suggests a kind of "plot hole", reflecting what actually happens in the chapter.]
[insert text: Like the fleeting stars // Endlessly reborn souls / Unrecoverable life]

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Fai: Twins truly are an evil omen... // They bring misfortune... // Misfortune... // It drove Valeria's king mad... // And caused the deaths of innocents...

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Fai: All thanks to those twins' misfortune...

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Ashura: Now, then... // There are none left alive within the castle walls... / So perhaps I should seek outside. // For people to kill.

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Fai: KIIIIIING!!!
[TN: There's no real good way to render it in English... I tend to translate "Ou" when used as a term of address as "Your Majesty", but that just doesn't work as an anguished scream. Substituting his name would hardly be any better, and would imply something that isn't there, since Fai never calls Ashura by his name. I figure "King" is the best of a bad set of possibilities ~_~]

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Kurogane: I thought I told you... / Your past means nothing to me. // Besides which... / If what he just showed us really was your past, it doesn't even make any sense.
Fai: Wha... what?

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Kurogane: If your magical power grows the more you use it... // If you'd just kept using it as much as you liked and kept getting stronger, // it'd have become difficult for your curse to "kill someone whose magical power exceeds your own" to take effect. // And yet... // What he just said when we saw him in the past...
Ashura: Your magic becomes more powerful the more you use it, however... // If you place this mark on your body, until the seal is removed, your power will be kept at its current level.

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Kurogane: What good does it do to stop you from becoming stronger?! // If that was your past... then why did you take on that seal?!
Ashura: I cannot remove that curse. / But I can at least restrain it. // Your magic becomes more powerful the more you use it, however... / If you place this mark on your body, until the seal is removed, your power will be kept at its current level.

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Fai: ..But...... // In that case....
Ashura: Everything... / Will be fine. // When you get a little older, // When "that time" comes, my magical power will exceed your own. / It would be troublesome for your power to become stronger before then. // Your curse to "kill one whose magical power exceeds your own"... // Will vanish once it has been fulfilled.

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Ashura: The one who is killed at that time... // Must be myself. // You do not have to dwell on this. // Simply... / You must be sure to remember that I have given you this seal.

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Kurogane: Quit with the nonsense. // Just showing me a piece of the past that explains away my issue... what exactly are you up to?!

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Ashura: I just want you to grant my wish. / Fai.
[insert text: Life on the line... The moment he has been running from is coming ever closer!]