Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 188

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Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE
Chapitre 188: The Ruins On That Day
[insert text: Wounds that do not heal... A light that I cannot see... / Onwards... Even so, I just keep moving onwards...]

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Mokona: Thanks...
Fai: We should hurry.
Mokona: D'you think in a little bit we might suddenly get sleepy... / ...and find ourselves sent back in time again?

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Syaoran: ...No. // Once we enter the ruins... / I don't think that will happen.

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Kurogane: How d'you know that?
Syaoran: If what I'm thinking is correct... // Then the time inside these ruins... // ...should be stopped completely... / ...preserved as it was on that day.

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Mokona: It opened all on its own...!
Fai: Looks like somebody's expecting us.
Syaoran: Fine by me.

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Mokona: Isn't there... / anybody here?
Syaoran: The only ones allowed to enter the ruins during the purification ceremony... / ...are the priest, and the royal to be purified.
Fai: And that royal would be... Sakura-chan...? / The one who was with you?

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Syaoran: ...Yeah.

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[no text just prettys]

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Mokona: The water... // ...it isn't moving...

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Mokona: You were right... time really isn't moving in here...
Fai: All this water in the middle of the desert... // ...and it's being stored on top of the building, as well... // That would require excellent architecture, of course, / but also a great deal of magic to sustain the situation...
Syaoran: Yeah... // That's one of the important duties of the priest of this land. // And Sakura... / ...as the most magically powerful person in the current royal family... // ...was a candidate for the priest's successor.

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Mokona: Syaoran, how long were you and that Sakura together...?
Syaoran: ...Always.
Mokona: Huh?
Syaoran: We were always together. // From the first time we met... / ...seven days before her seventh birthday...

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Syaoran: ...until I reached the age you see me at now. // Always.
Mokona: B - But... / Syaoran, you were captured, weren't you? // When you were just a kid...

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Syaoran: I had my time turned back. // By way of a "price".
[TN: So he did pay an actual price in advance... I guess that screws the theory I stated in the last Holic chapter, then ~_~]
Kurogane: ...To the witch...?
Syoaran: Yes.
Mokona: Yuuko...?
Fai: Would you mind if I ask the reason?

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Syaoran: So that I could retrieve... // ...the Sakura of that day.
[insert text: He has decided to protect... / No matter what he stands to lose. / It all began on that day.]