Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 164

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 164: Kindness and Weakness
[insert text: Even should I be wounded, / I can still fight. // For I was born // to grant that wish.]

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[TEXT!]
Fai: About Sakura-chan...
[TN: I take no credit for this line. It's from Skystar's translation. I failed to come up with a decent way of rendering it in English, but this works perfectly.]
[TN: I hate hanging sentences. The sentence reads "Sakura-chan wo", so "Sakura-chan" is the object of some unspoken sentence. He could be asking Syaoran to take care of her, saying he wants/wanted to do something for her, or any number of other things. It's impossible to really tell, but I think asking Syaoran to take care of/save her is probably the most likely. Stupid Syaoran, interrupting. ~_~]
Syaoran: Don't...
[TN: This is either a "you mustn't" or a "it's no use". the former seems more likely, but... well, I figure this works best ~_~]

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Fai: I'm not kind at all... // I'm just weak. // And it's that weakness of mine that brought about this situation.

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Fai: ...Let's bring an end to it, / Your Majesty. // To that wish of yours...

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Fai: ...and also... / ...to my own wish.

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[do exclamation marks count as text?]
Syaoran: !!

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Ashura: I told you, did I not? / The more I use my magic to murder people, the stronger it becomes. // Besides which, it seems that you have lost one of the eyes that are the source of your power.
Syaoran: Raitei...

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Syaoran: !!
Ashura: You were trying to bring death to the both of us, weren't you? // But even if you had both of your eyes, that would not be enough to defeat me.

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Ashura: You have always been longing for it to end. / For that life of yours, which sent your precious brother to his death, to end. // And that longing only increased when you discovered my own wish. // However, you cannot die. // Because you have to bring Fai back to life.

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Ashura: And yet even so... / Of your own free will, you sought to bring an end to your life along with mine. // Is it for their sake...? // In that case, if I kill them... // ...the resulting rage may be what you need to defeat me.

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Ashura: A protective seal...?

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[insert text: In that instant... / What did those men... / ...see beyond that blade?!]
[bottom text: Next issue - the conclusion of the battle? / To be continued in issue 40]

EDIT: My original translation of page 6 was extremely lacking; I've rehauled it. Both of the lines are rather... vague and difficult to translate.

EDIT: I keep changing page 6 ~_~

EDIT: Fixed stupid, stupid typo on page 18 - there was a word missing from a sentence. Why do I only spot these things when reading the scanlations? ~_~

EDIT: After reading Skystar's translation (which was irritatingly good), I've changed page 6 again. I hope Skystar doesn't mind my borrowing a short line of hers to replace the one line of mine that I was never satisfied with ~_~