xxxHOLiC 160

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xxxHOLiC
Chapter 160
[insert text right: "Please... take care of Kimihiro-kun." / She is no longer alone... and wants to be alone no longer.]
[insert text left: Kohane's overflowing feelings for Watanuki. Kohane's wish, that she hopes will reach Doumeki. No matter how difficult "that which is yet to come" may be, they will wander, struggle, and grasp hold of the future...!!]

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[side text: Watanuki and the others have been resting peacefully together. Kohane places her heart into a present for Yuuko-san, and into her feelings for everyone.]
Doumeki: Thank you for the food today.
FortuneTeller: Oh, no, I should be thanking you! / For the wonderful sake you brought! // [aside]you were rather an excellent sport yourself! I'll have to make sure I have some of my own old, good sake ready next time![/aside]
Doumeki: [aside]Then I'll bring some awamori...[/aside]
Watanuki: [aside]after drinking all that, they're still talking about alcohol?![/aside]
Kohane: Here.
[sFX: give]
Kohane: For Yuuko-san and Mokona-kun.
Watanuki: Thank you. / I'm sure they'll both be pleased.
Kohane: Yes, I hope so...

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Watanuki: It was very tasty, after all! // I don't know what Yuuko-san would do to me if she found out that me and him had hogged it all! / [aside]same goes for Mokona...[/aside]
Kohane: Oh, good... // Will you teach me again another time? / About cooking...
Watanuki: Of course. // And one day, hopefully you'll be able to cook for your mother. / Right?

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Kohane: ...Yes.

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Doumeki: ...But, still... // I'm kind of impressed that her mother actually agreed to let her live with someone else.
Watanuki: Apparently the old lady and Kohane-chan went and talked her into it together. // It took a fair few days... / ...but in the end, she let her go without making a fuss. // ...Kohane-chan certainly does smile a lot these days...
Doumeki: Yeah.

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Watanuki: So I'm sure her mother, too, will be able to change. // I mean, Kohane-chan's changed so much...
[sFX: step]
Doumeki: That girl... // She wasn't too comfortable with giving that balloon to her mother.

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Watanuki: Why not?
Doumeki: Well... // Apparently she wanted to give it back to you, if she could.
Watanuki: It belongs to her. // She should give it to whoever she wants to give it to.

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Doumeki: She was saying... // ...how if you had it, then it might still have been able to help you out, if something bad happened.
Watanuki: ...I'm sorry I made you worry... / ...Kohane-chan.
Doumeki: ......
Watanuki: You know...

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Watanuki: I've always had this feeling that... // "I shouldn't be here". // I've considered that it might be because my parents died, leaving just me behind... // But somehow I don't think that's quite it.

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Doumeki: ...How do you mean?
Watanuki: I don't know. // I can't remember.

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Doumeki: What's that meant to mean?
Watanuki: Exactly what it sounds like. // But... / Recently I've started to think...

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Watanuki: ...that even if I can't remember, myself, still... // ...as long as there are people who remember me, I'd like to stay just where I am.
[side text: Watanuki's ever-shifting state... his distress without end. But his connections with and feelings for others are beginning to change him!!]
[bottom text: Is Watanuki's very existence bound up in hitsuzen, leading to "that which is yet to come"?! Don't miss the next issue!!]