Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, chapitre 171

[ashurasama]

Sigh. My PS2 better be working again when I'm finished.


Chapitre 171
Beautiful battlefield

-01- (splash: Watanuki)

The past that only the floating
cherry blossoms glimpsed,
pointing out only that way.

-02-

SFX: goooooo (T/N: Roaring sound.)

Text: Wagering the feather and himself...
Does Shaoran stand a chance!?

Kendappa: Hold it.
SFX: su- (T/N: Quick and smooth movement.)

-03-

Kendappa: If you begin like this, Shirasaki castle will fall apart.

Kendappa: The fight will be inside a barrier. (T/N: Kekkai.)

SFX: su... (T/N: Slow movement.)
Fai: ......

SFX: pou (T/N: Light, I think.)

-04-05-

SFX: paa- (T/N: Light.)

SFX: don (T/N: Dramatic effect.)

-06-

Seishirou: A different space?
That could certainly be called a "barrier", right?

Seishirou: With this, however much damage is done, there will be no effect on the real space.

-07-

Seishirou: But the wounds are the same as the ones you'd get in the real world.

SFX: ba- (T/N: Springing into action, perhaps? "Sudden impact" doesn't make sense to me here.)
Seishirou: Well then, let's start over.

SFX: giiin (T/N: I'm going with metallic clatter for these.)
SFX: giin- (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

-08-

SFX: giin- (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

Kendappa: A long time ago, you'd also end up locked within a "barrier" without listening to what you kept being told,
right, Kurogane?
SFX: gin- (T/N: Metallic clatter.)
SFX: chi- (T/N: Annoyed.)
Kurogane: You only remember what doesn't need to be remembered, don't you?

SFX: kyoro (T/N: Searching around.)
Kurogane: Are those two outside?
SFX: gin- (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

Kendappa: We can't have the one who put up the "barrier" getting involved in the fight, now can we?

SFX: giiin (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

-09-

SFX: kiiii (T/N: Screeching.)

SFX: iii (T/N: Probably continued from the previous SFX.)
Tomoyo: Let's leave watching the battle to Kurogane, my sister and the others.

Tomoyo: Since you have something to say to me, don't you?

-10-

SFX: ba- (T/N: Sudden impact.)

SFX: ga (T/N: Impact.)

SFX: ba- (T/N: Sudden impact.)
SFX: giiin (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

-11-

SFX: hyun- (T/N: Quick movement.)

SFX: za- (T/N: Energetic movement.)

SFX: giiin (T/N: Metallic clatter.)

Kendappa: You're just watching them?

-12-

Kurogane: This is his fight.
Kurogane: Although it wasn't requested, I can't get involved. (T/N: I had trouble with this sentence. I think Kurogane means that even though Shaoran didn't explicitly tell him to back off, he will anyway.)

Kendappa: They really became many, huh? (T/N: Reference to Kendappa's weird line in 169.)

-13-

Kendappa: Did Tsukuyomi also
Kendappa: have an effect, maybe?

Fai: I heard you are a dreamseer,
Fai: that you can see the future through your dreams.

Fai: However,
I came to Nihon country,
Fai: met you,

-14-

Tomoyo: It's all right.

-15-

Tomoyo: Kurogane will not die.

Fai: and couldn't feel dreamseeing power
from you.

Tomoyo: It's the same with you.

-16-

Tomoyo: I handed it over to that person
Tomoyo: as payment.

Fai: ... That was to get us...

SFX: pou (T/N: Light?)

-17-

Yuuko: What is that you wanted so much to talk to me about that you even used your own magic?

Fai: Since I've already used so much magic,

Fai: it doesn't seem likely that we'll go to Celes and be able to leave without incident.
Fai: I'd like for that next country to be a safe one for them.

Yuuko: ... The next country after Celes, huh?
Yuuko: Though even if you call it safe, that has several meanings.

Fai: At least a world where if they get hurt, they can
Fai: get treated and rest.

Fai: As for the price...
Yuuko: For deciding the fate of four people,
I'll receive payment from the four.

-18-

Fai: But, this is my wish...

Yuuko: Exactly, so you need another payment along with the prize for the chess victory.
Yuuko: When you go to Celes, use your transport magic.

Fai: ... Yes.

-19-

Yuuko: Nevertheless, I already received part of the price. (T/N: I think the way Yuuko says this hints somewhat at the nature of the payment, though this is useless information since we already know what it was.)

Fai: Eh?
SFX: shun (T/N: Wilting.)

Fai: Was it to have us transported to Nihon country after Celes?

Fai: Back then, the one that person spoke of was you, wasn't it?

Fai: Tomoyo-hime.

-20-21-

SFX: ga- (T/N: Impact.)

SFX: hyu (T/N: Quick movement.)

SFX: ga- (T/N: Impact.)

Teaser: Secret technique flash!
Is this it,
or...?

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Page 1: *SHIVER* This is an almost exact mirror of last week's cover. And, by the way... I freaking want my Holic back, dammit, CLAMP!

Pages 3 and 4-5: Deja-vù^8000+! And please don't be killing Tomoyo thank you very much.

Page 6: Really, Sei-chan... As if we don't know what a kekkai is. Ha!

Page 12: This is so frustrating!!! Why do I still have trouble with Kurogane's lines after doing this for over one year? T_T

Page 13: Fai switches his speech patterns. A pain to translate, but so cool.

Comments

[briteskies.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for your excellent translations! 0.0 You're so quick! *is impressed*

And oh nos! What happened to your PS2!? I hope it's working for you!

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

I-icon... ♥

I took a lot longer than I should today because of Kurogane's goddamn line. At least Yuuko's were unusually easy to translate.

My PS2 never really works well. It randomly freezes during bootup and won't boot again for hours. T_T Once it boots, if it doesn't freeze during the first 30' or so, it'll work okay.

[briteskies.livejournal.com]

lol, thank you, it always makes me laugh ;) Kero is always fun =3

I bet her lines ARE usually hard! *even more impressed*

And that must be frustrating! I'm sorry!!! You must really have to want to play something if it doesn't work right away ;) Though I'd probably wait for it to work anyway just so I didn't have to admit defeat ;) lol

thank you ^^

[shaoran-x.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translation.

This chapter is a good chapter but they advance not much (little being that I became too demanding lol)
I think shaolan beats too easily seishiro there is a bizarre thing

Re: thank you ^^

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

TRC's pacing is getting seriously annoying. I have nothing against slow pacing, but TRC feels like it's dragging, not just taking its time.

Yeah, it's going to look pretty bad on Seishirou's curriculum if he gets defeated by a kick, even if it's a Shaoran Kick™.

Re: thank you ^^

[shaoran-x.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it is not the Shaoran (clone) kick (gomen i am a big fanboy of the clone ^^)

When his back was?

[moko-ko-nyanko.livejournal.com]

Yo, Ashura-sama!! Arigatou gozaimasu for the translations for this week's Tsubasa chapter. *bows* It was very good although there is always something that they want to show in the past while there is a battle. That was so funny your LJ-cut saying that if Tomoyo-hime would've built a 5-pointed star. So definitely like "X" right there!! *laughs*

Really, Sei-chan... As if we don't know what a kekkai is. Ha!

WORD!! *dies laughing*

Demo ne, what got me very emotional was the scene of the flashback sequence where Fai was crying!! ;____; He really wanted to save Kurogane so much. Wait a minute!! O__o Did Syaoran really got Seishirou with a kick!? Is this the first time someone managed to touch him!? Please clarify me with this!! ONEGAI SHIMASU!!!

Once again, thank you so much for the translations! *deep bows*

Ja ne, Ashura-sama!
Nyanko-san ^__^

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

Yo! Dou itashimashite!

Well, at least they put flashbacks in the middle of the battle. It's better than 20 pages of nothing but fighting with no dialogue at all.

Fai was crying? Damn, I didn't notice.

I think Seishirou is just now understanding how exactly Shaoran has changed. For Shaoran to have gotten that kick (which looks very much like an other Shaoran skill), Seishirou has to have overlooked the part of Shaoran that can kick like that, so maybe he hadn't been taking the "other Shaoran" side into account.

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

Thanks ashura!!!! i wonder if the mask people could be for the secrecy?? like in ancient China??
like they are saying we don't hear and don't see anithing!!

About Kimihiro ia want my Hoolic back too see him make my heart break!!!

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

Maybe the masked people are just enemy ninja? It's more typical of ninja to be fully covered than to wear the kind of clothing Souma does. (Maybe it's on Kendappa's orders that she dresses like that. Bad Kendappa! XD)

[morgif-kun.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the translation ♥

Dragon-of-heaven!Tomoyo makes me worry about her safety too :/ but now her moon-shaped kekkai matches Subaru's star-shaped one lol
Is Seishirou bleeding in the last page? Maybe the twins are gonna make an appeareance cos Subaru is attracted by his prey's blood 8D *is very very hopeful*

I don't remember if the Holic hiatus is over next week or not... I really can't wait anymore, I need my fix! DX

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

You know, Kendappa in page 8 demonstrated more common sense than all the Ten no Ryuu together. XD

Subaru had better show up soon, because if Seishirou doesn't admit defeat now (which he probably won't do), things are going to get ugly for Shaoran. But I think Seishirou is carrying some kind of hidden intention (not necessarily his own -- I'm thinking Yuuko here) with all this "let's fight" thing (I still can't forget Fuuma's going all "daijoubu" when it was mentioned that Seishirou had a feather).

[morgif-kun.livejournal.com]

Kendappa in page 8 demonstrated more common sense than all the Ten no Ryuu together. XD
lol, so true! Kekkai are kinda pointless if you get killed in the middle of the fight XD

About Seishirou, I wouldn't put it past Yuuko to chave charged him with Syaoran's tutorage too, besides the eye. The things he wouldn't do to meet his Subaru-kun! :D

[kinoha.livejournal.com]

;-; yeah, ne? *misses 'holic*
XDDD that it's Sei-chan from them all who explains that~
*hugs* I hope your PS2 will work again?
Thank you so much for the translation!

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! ^_^

I'm actually waiting for the temperature to drop a bit before trying to turn on the damn troublesome thing again. It usually helps, and most of my long runs playing were at night.

[kinoha.livejournal.com]

Ah...so it's partly because of overheating? Good luck with that XD;

[su-chan.livejournal.com]

Page 6: Really, Sei-chan... As if we don't know what a kekkai is. Ha!

LOL!!!!! well TRC tends to explain things again for newcomers, like Mokona telling the names of Fuuma and Seishiro when they appeared, we already know who they are, is just in case some ppl does not.... but can be tyring sometimes :-/

Fay was love in this chapter T_T

Thank you!

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I'm for the inclusion of glossary pages. XD At least all the explanations that both readers and characters already know would be skippable. Character pages in the tankoubon release, like we have in Urasawa Naoki's manga, would be neat too. In Monster, there were even chasing/investigating/evading relationship arrows between the characters.

[itzeen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translations.... a very interesting (little slow) chapter, I hope more action the next chapter (and also more info)

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

You know, I found the Fai/Tomoyo convo boring. Maybe it's my being one-track-minded and wanting my Shao/Wata WTF-ness back, or at least an explanation about Shao's father.

[kowaiki.livejournal.com]

Get a PINK slim PS2, Neither-san XD Only joking. Let the silver slim! Where are you up to in KH? I'm playing too. I'm at Atlantica right now. I'm being very patient though (I remember the last time I played Atlantica I got rather frustrated at the controls). Got to go read TRC 171...*wanders off*

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

I was in Hollow Bastion, got past Riku, then decided to go back and finish my cups first. Then I decided to play some Chain, I'm on the 4th floor if I'm not mistaken, got my ass kicked by Cloud last time I played. ARRRGH, I need more 0-cards. T_T

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

And yeah, the Atlantica swimming controls are so ERGH.

[kowaiki.livejournal.com]

One of the best game control improvement in KH II is that you can control your camera angle! I nearly forgot in KH that we can't...and man that is frustrating. I haven't had much time to play games at all in the past few days ;__;

Wow so you got KHII FM+ too?!! Or are you playing the GBA version again? You know, I didn't realise how useful 0-cards were until near the end of the game. I felt stupid, ha. Wait until you get to the Replica, I got my butt kicked every time I faced him, arggghh (may be except for the first time. You face him like 4 times in total?!!)

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm playing the PS2 version. And ergh, Replica. The last Sora vs. Replica fight is really annoying, I only got past it by abusing the savestate feature in the GBA version. Though it's easier to move in the PS2 (once you get used to it), and there's more room to avoid him.

I got around to using 0-cards relatively quickly, but I pretty much ignored enemy cards until Riku's game.

[kowaiki.livejournal.com]

I still ignore the enemy cards. They take up so much CP and don't seem very useful to me. May be I haven't tried using enough. I think the Replica fight may be a tad easier now I know how to use the o-cards properly.

You're breezing through the game pretty quickly though by the looks. You're probably a more skilled gamer than I am^^;

[silverblade219.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the translation ^^

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! ^_^

[jenny-1260.livejournal.com]

Thank you as always!!

Page 1: *SHIVER* This is an almost exact mirror of last week's cover. And, by the way... I freaking want my Holic back, dammit, CLAMP!
I KNOOOOOOW what you mean..... I miss the whole Syao/Wata thing, which has been ignored for quite a while now due to no holic....

[ashura-sama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

I wonder where the heck TRC is going to have to hold up Holic for this long. Maybe Sakura is coming back to TRC? (I'm going to miss her in Holic, though -- that bit in when she told Watanuki about how Kurogane was -so- going to scold her and other thoughts on the rest of the gang was the cutest thing to ever come from any version of her.)