xxxHOLiC 143

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 143
[insert text: "Your family name holds an important meaning."]
[insert text: "Watanuki", written as "April 1st". / As his birthday as well as that of Sakura and Syaoran, that number, that family name, is "hitsuzen". / Where is the secret hidden in that name luring Watanuki as he wanders endlessly through his dreams...?]

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[side text: Ever dozing off, Watanuki slips into the world of dreams. Today should be an ordinary day of school... but who is this boy?!]
Person: Are you okay for shopping today? / I could help you carry it.
Watanuki: No, I'm fine. / I already went shopping yesterday.
Person: So how have you been?
Watanuki: I've been seeing them a lot less recently. // They haven't been chasing me or anything at all.
Person: And that one?

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[sFX: creak, creak, creak, creak]

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Watanuki: .....
[sFX: THUMP]
Watanuki: Aaaagh!

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Watanuki: It came a fair few times after that... // But it's not there any more.
Person: And the other...?
Watanuki: That's over...
[sFX: scratch]
Watanuki: !!

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Watanuki: It only happened that one time.
Person: It didn't follow you or anything?
Watanuki: No...
Person: Then, what about...?

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Watanuki: Now then... what should I make for dinner today...? // Agh! // An earthquake?!
[sFX: rumble]
Watanuki: Huh? // Huh?

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Watanuki: I still don't get what that was about... / I wonder what it could have been?
Person: And...?
Voice: Hello?

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Voice: Hello? // Hello? // Hello?
Person: You didn't answer it, right?
Watanuki: No...
Person: Then that should be okay, yeah?
Watanuki: Why is it that you're not supposed to answer things like that, I wonder?
Person: If you let them know that you can hear them, they'll just persist more and more.
Watanuki: ...That's true. // But still... // Calling out to someone and not getting any reply...

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Person: It seems sad?
Watanuki: ...Yeah.
Person: In that case, you have to answer.
Watanuki: ...Huh?

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Watanuki: ...You... / You gave a bone to me... that one time... // But you passed on... / That day...
Person: That's right, Kimihiro. / On that same day as your important family name.
Watanuki: Then why...?

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Person: This is a dream. // It's because... // ...this is a dream, you see?

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[sFX: ring ring ring // ring ring ring // ring ring ring // ring ring ring // ring ring]
Person: I wonder if you will meet people in dreams after me... // With many different people, in many different dreams... / Just like a final parting of sorts.

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Don't disappear

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[side text: Meeting one after another in dreams, the destiny up until now. Why "Don't disappear"? Why must it be Watanuki?! Why...?!]
[bottom text: Those eyes, opening full of tears... what future do they see?! Hitsuzen, on to the next must-read issue!!]