xxxHOLiC 150

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 150
[insert text: Watanuki softly prays... / "Please don't forget... / the fact that I'm here"]
[insert text: In those two world that transcend dimensions / Yuuko watches over those who guide "hitsuzen". / What truth do those eyes know of Watanuki...? / What future do those eyes wish for Watanuki...?]

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[side text: Her seances failing one after another, Kohane has been constantly scorned by her mother. With the words "I'll put an end to this", Kohane steps out to face the cameras once more. What could she mean?!]
Presenter: Today, we're going to be asking our two spirit mediums to give us some answers regarding this incident.
[sFX: flick]
Presenter: The story goes like this...
[sFX: twitch]
Presenter: This man you see here on the screen has been missing for three years now. / I am sure his wife must be very worried about him.

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Presenter: Well, then... / Where is this man now, exactly? // I would like to ask our two mediums to contact the other side now.
[sFX: twitch / twitch // twitch // twitch]

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Doumeki: ...They didn't seem to notice we were there at all... / ...Those security personnel.
Watanuki: ...Yes, it was very strange. // If this, too, is "hitsuzen"... / I think I have to meet up with Kohane-chan, no matter what. // And soon.

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Presenter: So you say the good lady's husband is alive?
Medium: Indeed. // I do not mean to intrude, but was he perhaps in considerable debt?
Wife: Y - Yes... / The truth is... // He never told me, but apparently he was borrowing a lot of money...
Medium: I am sure that he simply did not wish to cause you any trouble. // His disappearance was an attempt to ensure that you did not receive any unwelcome visits from debt-collectors...

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Medium: Worry not. / Your husband lives yet. / However, he does not wish to return home yet... / And he does not want anybody to look for him...
Wife: So he's really alive?!
[sFX: Waahhh]
Wife: I'm so glad...!
Presenter: And now...

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Presenter: Let us see what Kohane-san can come up with.
[sFX: twitch]
Presenter: Kohane-chan... // Where is this woman's husband now?

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Kohane: ...He's dead.

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Staff: Whoa, whoa... she's done it now... / She's been having nothing but failures recently, and now she comes out with this... // This is a live broadcast, right? Is this really okay?
Somebody: Aaaaahhhh!!!
[sFX: crash]
Watanuki: Kohane-chan!!

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Doumeki: Let's go.
[sFX: dash]
Presenter: W - / Wait a minute, madam...!

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People: Aaaaahhhh! // Aaaahhhh!!
[sFX: aaaahhhh!]
Wife: What did you say?!
Kohane: The man in that photograph is dead. // He died three years ago. Right now, he is confined in a tight space. // Still on his feet.
[sFX: drip]

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[sFX: mutter / mutter]
People: Isn't that just awful? // That poor woman...
Mother: Wait... / This isn't another of your mistakes, now, is it...?!
Presenter: Ahhh... / But in that case... // That would conflict with what the established medium here has said...

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Medium: I assure you, your husband is alive. // Now listen here, little girl. / I would suggest that you stop making up stories just because you aren't up to the task. // This is, after all, a matter of life and death.
Kohane: I'm just doing as I was told.
Presenter: What?

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Kohane: "I don't care if it's a lie..." / "Just give them what they want." // That's what my mother said.
[sFX: mutter, mutter]
[side text: With the resolution to "put an end to" it all, Kohane repeats her mother's words. Is this, too, "hitsuzen"? And where is Watanuki?!]