Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE 162

Yay, it's out tuesday for once.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program--

i seem to be getting pms quite often, so for the record:
my translations are free for anyone to use as long as I get credit - thanks!

01
儚き星星の如く
輪廻する魂
戻らない命
Just as the stars above,
Lives come and go in an instant,
never to return again

ch.162 - 綻びた過去 - A fabricated past
(t/n - the word here lit means "to come apart"...this is my best take)

left is a box saying that holic and TRC is airing in HD-TV (i suppose the old seasons). Think it's always been there, I havent noticed till now lol.

02 no text
bottom - this is NOT a work of fiction, everything is real, and Yuui is your baby's daddy. //sarcasm

03
やはり双子は凶兆
Twins were an ill omen after all!!

不幸を呼ぶ
They bring misfortune!

不幸を
This misfortune

ヴァレリア皇乱心遊ばし
has driven the Valerian king mad

罪ない人を殺め
And brought death to innocent people!

04
すべては不幸の双子の
Everything was the fault of those twins!!

05
さて
Hmm...

場内はもう誰も生きていないから
外に出て探そうか
Since there's no one alive left in this castle,
I guess I'll go take a look outside

殺す者を
For someone to kill

06
王ーーーーー！！
ASURA----!!!
(T/N - he says "king" = your highness, as in the title he always call him...i dont feel this is appropriate in english here)

07 no text
left - tsubasa info. Next week TRC will be on break but a drama CD will be coming out instead. And some info on the new DVD OVA I assume.

08-09 pwnage

10 more pwnage

11 look out

12 uh oh

13
いった筈だ
お前の過去は関係ねえとは
I thought I told you already
I don't give a damn about your past

それに
俺たちにそいつが見せたのがおまえの過去だというなら辻褄があってねぇだろう
Besides,
If what we just saw was really your past, then there's a big gap in that story

な・・・に
What...are you...?

14
お前の魔力が使えばつかう程強くなるものなら
使いたいだけ使って更に強くなれば
「自分より魔力が強い者を殺す」とかいう呪いは発動し辛くなる
-If that part about your magic becoming stronger was true,
-It means that you should've just used it as much as you like
-By strengthening your magic, it would've been impossible for that curse about someone stronger than you to activate

だが
さっき視た過去であいつは言ってた
-But,
-Back in that flashback he said:

君の魔力は使えば使うほどつよくなるだが
これを身に写せば文様が消えるまで君の力がこれ以上強くなる事を抑えてくれる
-Your magic will become stronger the more you use it
-However, if you place this pattern on your body, it will stop your powers from growing until it disappears

15
強くなるのを抑えてどうするんだ
-What were you trying to do by making yourself weaker?

あれがおまえの過去なら何故おまえはそんあ紋章を負った
-If that was really your past, then why the hell did you take that crest?

それを解くことは出来ないが
抑える事は出来る
-I can't undo your curse, but
-I can help you to suppress it

君の魔力は使えば使うほど強くなるもんだが
これを身に写せば文様が消えるまで君の力がこれ以上強くなる事を抑えてくれる
-Your magic will become stronger the more you use it
-However, if you place this pattern on your body, it will stop your powers from growing until it disappears

16
でも
それじゃ
...but
if i do that, then...!

それで
いいんだよ
-This is
-For the best

もう少し君が大人になって
You'll be an adult soon enough

その時が来たら私の魔力は君を超える
それまでに君の魔力があまり強くなっては困るんだ
-When that time comes, my magic will surpass yours
-It's going to cause a lot of trouble if your powers grow too much before then

君に掛けられた君をより魔力が強い者を殺すと言う呪いは
一度きりで解けてしまう
-After all, that curse which forces you to kill whoever has stronger magic than you...
-Will work only once and then come undone

17
その時殺して貰うのは
私でなくては
-When the time comes, the one I want you to kill
-is none other than me

考えなくていいんだよこの事は
ただ
私が君に紋章を渡した事だけ覚えていてくれればいい
-Please, don't think too much of this
-All I ask...
-Is for you to remember that it was I who gave you this crest

18
茶番はいい加減にしろよ！
-You can drop the act!

こんな綻びが分かる過去を見せて何を企んでやがる
-Just what the hell are you trying to do by showing us this obviously fake version of the past!?

19
-願いを叶えて欲しいだけだよ
-ファイ
I just want Fai
to grant my wish

(t/n - ARG! TRC loves dropping subjects. I think it's HIS wish, but it could be FAI's, a'la bad guy showing fake sympathy...I tend to read too much into stuff. Also I can't fit the bubbles they way they wrote it in the comic, oh well. I give up)

lower right:

命を賭して　なお逃げ続けてきた瞬間！
staking one's life/all the more/escape/long standing/moment
(DO NOT USE THIS LINE! I am VERY unsure about this and would love a 2nd opinon)

bottom: Next time the author is going to collect data (aka clubbing). To be continued in issue 38 (when the author is sober again)!

left - next page details about the new DVD release! Must see!

-end-

ZOMG why does this comic have to be so deceitfully simple?! I was almost done an hour ago and then the last page or two threw me in a loop!!

All I got out of this chapter is Yuuko might not have been the big bad greedy lady she appeared to be in the beginning. Might her taking Fai's tattoo have actually helped him...hmm?