xxxHOLiC 159

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 159
[side text: Kohane asks about Watanuki. What could she be after...?!]
Kohane: I heard that at first, the two of you didn't get along. / You and Kimihiro-kun. // That from the moment you first met, you were fighting with one another.
Doumeki: The moment our eyes met on the stairs, / the idiot just practically blew up in my face.
Kohane: Kimihiro-kun told me... / ...that the moment he saw your face, he suddenly felt inexplicably annoyed and his foot just moved by itself.
Doumeki: Yeah, into a flying kick.
Kohane: So when did you become friends?

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[side text: In the storage room at the fortune-teller's house, Kohane questions Doumeki with an earnest gaze. She wants to know an important "truth"...]
Doumeki: If you asked him, I bet he'd say we still haven't. // If it weren't for Yuuko-san... / ...coming and asking if they could borrow my place for their ghost-story game... // ...he might still have been attacking me every time he sees me even now. / [aside]the idiot.[/aside]
Kohane: And you, Shizuka-kun? // How did you feel about Kimihiro-kun?

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Doumeki: An annoying guy. // That ghost-story game was pretty eventful... / ...but I can't say I honestly thought anything would change. // After all, he certainly didn't want to. / And I had no reason to have anything to do with him.
Kohane: Then why? // If that was how you felt, then why was it that you decided to involve yourself with him?

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Doumeki: ...It was a rainy day.

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[no text just flashback]

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Flashback!Watanuki: ...I guess I'm going to die like this, too. // All alone.

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Doumeki: "All... alone."
Kohane: ...I see.
Doumeki: See what?
Kohane: The difference between me and Kimihiro-kun.

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Kohane: Ever since that time when we first met, I always knew that Kimihiro-kun and I were similar somehow. // But I thought that couldn't be right. // I was all alone... // ...but Kimihiro-kun wasn't like that. // That day in the rain, he may have been all alone... // But not any more.

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Kohane: He has all of you.
[sFX: place]
Doumeki: ...And he has you, too.

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Kohane: ...Yes, I hope so.
[sFX: touch]
Kohane: But... // I no longer have the power to exorcise... // You have something... // ...don't you?

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Flashback!Yuuko: Hold on to this. // You will need it for that which is yet to come.
Doumeki: ...Yeah.

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Kohane: Please... take care of Kimihiro-kun.

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Kohane: Try not to hesitate. // Even if that moment comes...

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[sFX: squeeze]
[side text: She is no longer alone... and wants to be alone no longer!! Her feelings for Watanuki and for Doumeki, flowing from those hands!!]
[bottom text: Is all of this hitsuzen, leading up to "that which is yet to come"?! Don't miss the next issue, on sale June 30th!!]