xxxHOLiC 145

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[Top text: The deepening illusion, the widening mystery. Where does Watanuki's future lead?!]

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 145
[insert text: The "reality" that you have experienced makes you stronger... // He wants to grant Yuuko's wish... that itself is the wish that Watanuki made!! // That heart... can it become stronger still than destiny?! That heart... can it lead the dream to reality?!]

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[no text, just more glorious colour artwork]

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Watanuki: ...Good morning.
Yuuko: ...Good morning.

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Watanuki: Now, then, let's make us some breakfast...
[sFX: shift]
[sFX: topple]
Mokona: Waaah!
Watanuki: Ah, sorry, sorry!
[sFX: ahhh...]
Mokona: You're horrible, Watanuki! And Mokona went to the trouble of sleeping together with you and everything...
Watanuki: I'll make you something nice for breakfast, okay?
Mokona: I want banana pancakes!
Watanuki: Okay. // And Yuuko-san, what would you like?
Yuuko: Bee~~~r!♥

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Watanuki: THAT'S NOT EVEN FOOD AT ALL!! [aside]honestly...![/aside]
Yuuko: [aside]ahahaha![/aside]
[sFX: wave, wave]
Watanuki: You can't be drinking first thing in the morning!
Mokona: Ehhhhh...
Watanuki: (Even if this is just a dream... // This is my life, and it means a lot to me. // Yuuko-san said that if I wish hard enough, it can become reality... // ...and I believe in her.

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[sFX: slam]
[sFX: stare...]

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Watanuki: I do have a shadow...
Doumeki: Well, one would expect you to.
Watanuki: ...I guess that means I'm a human.
Doumeki: Hmm?
Watanuki: [aside]hm.[/aside]
Flashback!Doumeki: ...You should head home. // Head home and go to sleep.

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Watanuki: Huh, you don't keep telling me to head home today. / ...Which means, this can't be connected to that time.
Doumeki: [aside]?[/aside] // You half-asleep or something...?
Watanuki: ...Even if I were, I'd still try to do what I could. // [aside]Besides, surely YOU'RE the one who looks like you're half-asleep.[/aside]
[sFX: thrust]
Doumeki: Lunch, huh?
Watanuki: Doumeki.
Doumeki: What?

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Watanuki: The food I make... do you like it?
Doumeki: Yeah.

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Watanuki: I see. // Well, that's fine then!
Doumeki: ...You know, I think you SHOULD head home.
Watanuki: And why's that, then?
Doumeki: Forget dozing off, did you hit your head on something?
[sFX: wheew...]
[sFX: slap]
Watanuki: You reeeally never let up with the rudeness, do you?!!!
[sFX: gaaaahhh]
Himawari: Getting on as well as ever, are we?

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Tanpopo: Pi!
Watanuki: Himawari-chan!
Himawari: Watanuki-kun, are you okay?
Watanuki: Huh? / What d'you mean?
Himawari: Well, you didn't have a comeback... [aside]Normally you'd be all "We're not getting on well at all~~!" or something...[/aside]
[sFX: nyanyanya~!]
Watanuki: Well, you know...

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Watanuki: I was just thinking that being able to see you every day like this... / ...isn't something I should be just taking for granted... // But rather... / ...it's something that I really ought to deeply treasure. // That's why when I saw you, I was just so glad...
Himawari: ...Watanuki-kun...

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Himawari: I feel the same way!
Watanuki: For lunch today, I've made crab cream korokke!
[sFX: ta-daaa!]
Himawari: Ah! I love cream korokke!
[sFX: clap clap]
Doumeki: What about fried prawns?
Watanuki: They're in there too! // [aside]They're in there too, but it really pisses me off the way you ask about them as though it would be ridiculous for them NOT to be...!
Himawari: You two really do get on so well...
[sFX: stare...]

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Doumeki: There's another parcel thing in here...
Watanuki: Keep your hands off that!　[aside]don't even think about it![/aside]
[sFX: SNAP]
Watanuki: That one's for Kohane-chan, okay?

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[no text just sakura]

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[side text: And then, right there, Sakura appeared!! This hand that swoops in through the darkness... what fate does it bring Watanuki and the others?!]
[bottom text: To be continued next issue... see you in Young Magazine Issue 51, out on November 19th!]