xxxHOLiC Volume 2 - Chapter 01 Page 00 These scanslations were scanned, translated, and edited by the Be With You Scans Staff and others mentioned in the credits They were made for and by fans. Therefore, please do not use them for anything other than personal use (reading). Please remember to support the author(s) and site by buying the original copies of the manga and visiting Be With You Scans. Thank you. Website: http://bwys.cjb.net Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/bwyxholic Irc Channel #BWYS @ irc.irchighway.net [Credits] Scanner(s): Earth Dragon Translator(s): Earth Dragon; Anthony; MoonShadow; Touko; Iridesence Editor(s): Co_Okie_Thief Proofreader(s)/Quality Checker(s): Earth Dragon; Genbu Transcriber: AngelFlare (angelflare04@yahoo.com.ar ) -------------------------- Page 01 Yuuko: I've been waiting... Yuuko: for you. Yuuko: Though it is not the same, but it's you two living in a different World. -------------------------- Page 02-03 -------------------------- Page 04 Watanuki: Why... Watanuki: Why are there suddenly people falling from the sky? Syaoran: The Priest of my Country said that... If I just came here, There would be a way to save Sakura... -------------------------- Page 05 Yuuko: Her name is Sakura, right? Syaoran: Right! Yuuko: And you? Syaoran: Syaoran! Yuuko: This girl... lost many important things. Syaoran: ...Yes... -------------------------- Page 06 Yuuko: And... ...those things flew away to many different kinds of Worlds. Yuuko: If it continues like this, this girl will die. -------------------------- Page 07 sfx: squeeze Yuuko: Watanuki? Watanuki: Ah... Yes! Yuuko: Go to the Treasure Room, and help get me something. Watanuki: Okay. What do I need to get? Yuuko: Maru and Moro know. sfx: pull -------------------------- Page 08 Watanuki: Ah? Ah... That... Watanuki: Uh... right then, I tripped... Watanuki: Uh... The sky opened and people came out of this hole...This is unbelievable. Yuuko: Yes. Watanuki: Wha? -------------------------- Page 09 Watanuki: Where is Yuuko? (Where? Where are you? where? Where is she?) Yuuko: Right here! I'm talking to you through Maru and Moro. Watanuki: She can even do this kind of thing! Amazing! Watanuki: But the two people are ok, right...? They tried really hard to get here... Yuuko: They are OK! Well, not fully okay... Yuuko: Because they specially came from another World to ask me for help. Watanuki: Another World?! -------------------------- Page 10 Yuuko: Like I've said before, the World is very small... if it's limited to what you understand. Yuuko: But! Worlds... sfx: bong Yuuko: Before you understand them...there won't be just one. sfx: shiiiing -------------------------- Page 11 Watanuki: There is an amazing feeling here! Yuuko: That's because these things were created for this day. Yuuko: Do you know what "different" Worlds mean? Watanuki: Ah? Eh? Yuuko: In simple terms...there are many different Worlds, numerous Worlds... -------------------------- Page 12 Yuuko: Those children, they are from another World... In other words and Alternate World. Watanuki: Where did this sudden development come from? Yuuko: Wha?! You see such weird things everyday, why are you retreating do fast? Yuuko: Haven't you seen those sci-fi fantasy movies or comic books? It describes a World co-existing with our dimension at the present time, yet being very different from our World. Watanuki: Of course I have, but isn't it all fiction...? Yuuko: Yes! Those stories are fiction! But to those who know of its existence...it is a reality! -------------------------- Page 13 Yuuko: Those strange beings which you see everyday... to those who can't see it. Isn't it just fictitious to them? Yuuko: Had I not met him, I too would not have known... Other than the World we live in, there also exist so many other different Worlds! Watanuki: Met...who? Yuuko: That! He came from an Alternate World, the very same one as this white creature! -------------------------- Page 14 Yuuko: After he had created a World, he would then go on to create another World. Watanuki: Argh! I really don't understand! (It's too unreal! My mind can't accept it!) Yuuko: (Ahaha~) It's ok. Yuuko: Because it's a problem which won't surprise a person who understands, but will confuse one who doesn't. Yuuko: Anyway! In this way, we met this snow-looking creature, who looked very delicious! That person and I. Watanuki: That person? -------------------------- Page 15 Yuuko: The tricky magician who created this staff! Yuuko: His name is Clow Reed! Yuuko: That tricky guy and I, we were fated to meet...we're a little alike... Nevermind! Let's put that aside for awhile... Yuuko: Both of us met that Other World creature, then created these two! For that one day when the people, who are not of Clow Reed's bloodline...yet are the same people, come to this Shop. Watanuki: "Not of...yet the same". What do you mean by that? -------------------------- Page 16 Yuuko: The World in which we live in, there are also two people by the name of Sakura and Syaoran--... who belong to Clow's bloodline! Yuuko: However! They also exist in other Worlds! Yuuko: Those in our yard now-- Yuuko: Although they are from another World--... Yuuko: Their soul is the same! -------------------------- Page 17 Watanuki: Which means...I also exist in other Worlds? Yuuko: That's right! Watanuki: ... (Me? Different?) Yuuko: They were made so that we could pass it to the Syaoran and Sakura from another World! No! To be exact...those two who will come later...they will need it too! Watanuki: Wha?! Yuuko: Alright! Quickly bring it here, Watanuki! Our other guests are arriving! Watanuki: Eh? Eh? Yuuko: Do not let Maru and Moro touch it! Watanuki: Why? sfx: shine -------------------------- Page 18 Yuuko: Because they have no soul. That's why you will have to open the case and bring them to me. Watanuki: Is that alright? Yuuko: If you are strong enough, then there shouldn't be a problem! sfx: touch; pwshhh sfx: shiing; touch -------------------------- Page 19 ??? [White]: (Ta-da!) You--! Look like an ugly monster! -------------------------- Page 20 Watanuki: Watch what you're saying! sfx: pet ??? [Black]: Ah! What do you mean he looks like one...he is one! ??? [White]: Yup! Watanuki: Do you have something agains me, black one?! sfx: rubs sfx: shiiiing Watanuki: What?! sfx: shiiiing sfx: tap tap -------------------------- Page 21 -------------------------- Page 22 Watanuki: Wha! More people came?! -------------------------- Page 23 Yuuko: Here he comes... Yuuko: Thank you, Watanuki. Watanuki: Ah! And this one? Yuuko: Don't worry! Yuuko: We only need to give them the White one right now. -------------------------- Page 24 Yuuko: The Black one is for us to take care of. Yuuko: The child here is called Mokona Modoki. Mokona will take you to other Worlds. Watanuki: This whole thing is just to go to another World? (Snow-looking one goes with the white guys.) sfx: Black one Yuuko: Right... Mokona can bring people into different Worlds, Yuuko: Clow Reed and I made them. Watanuki: Do you know those four people? -------------------------- Page 25 Yuuko: No, only Syaoran and Sakura are from the same World. Yuuko: The next... two are Kurogane and Master Fai, from different Worlds. Those two should've just met. Watanuki: Eh, I don't understand...Why did they have to travel? Different Worlds are hard to even imagine. Wait! Even if they arrived here at the same time by chance... Yuuko: I already said this, Yuuko: Nothing in this World happens by chance. Everything that happens is nothing more than Fate. -------------------------- Page 26 Yuuko: Your meeting, was fated. Yuuko: Syaoran.. Your said price...it's the nature of your relationship. Watanuki: What's that? Yuuko: This time the wish, however, is a very ruthless matter. An unfulfilling price is also not appropriately named. Yuuko: That is why everyone has to give the thing they treasure the most as the price. -------------------------- Page 27 Yuuko: What Syaoran treasures most is Sakura. The time that he spent with Sakura. The relationship the two started... and succeded in... that is the most important treasure. Yuuko: Which is why I want this as the payment. Yuuko: But, Do you still want to follow through with it? Syaoran: Yes... -------------------------- Page 28 Yuuko: Motivation and sincerity! It seems that you have already fulfilled the conditions needed to complete this mission. Yuuko: Then, sfx: shiiiing sfx: shiiiing sfx: shiiiing sfx: shiiiing -------------------------- Page 29 Mokona: Go~~~~~~~~!! -------------------------- Page 30 sfx: shiiiing sfx: vroom sfx: drip drip Yuuko: Hopefully... their journey is safe and sucessful. sfx: shine -------------------------- Page 31 Watanuki: You took the memories then... Yuuko: Four people are using Mokona Modoki to travel to other dimensions, Sakura is one of them, isn't she? Yuuko: Which means... that I'll have to take something from Sakura too. Watanuki: Ah... Yuuko: Sakura left the Country without anything, so she has nothing valuable to give me. Yuuko: Also, her memories are already scattered. Sakura's most important thing are her memories of Syaoran. Watanuki: About that... -------------------------- Page 32 Yuuko: Indeed! The price Sakura has to pay. During this trip, she is the one who needs Mokona Modoki the most, so her price is also the heaviest. Yuuko: Actually I should also have taken away Syaoran's memories of Sakura, Yuuko: But... That should be enough. Yuuko: The most important person to him has already lost her memories. Yuuko: Syaoran has already sacrificed his relationship with her. -------------------------- Page 33 Yuuko: Still, I'm too soft-hearted. Watanuki: I fell that nothing will go wrong. Watanuki: Hasn't Yuuko mentioned this before? Motivation and sincerity are needed to achieve one's goal. To pursue a thing even if the present World is lost. Even when comfort is abandoned, knowing the importance of the thing to be lost and the pain it brings though. Still yearning for it, existing for it, that is true determination. Watanuki: Though it's the first time I met Syaoran, but I can see from his expressions that he is truly determined with sincerity and motivation! Wouldn't he definitely achieve what he wants to do? And between him and the girl, everything would be alright! -------------------------- Page 34 Yuuko: It's "Nothing can ever go wrong". Watanuki: What? Yuuko: (Hehe--) Though existing in different Worlds, the soul is the same! Yuuko: Nothing will go wrong for the two of them! Both Clow and I thought so, and that's why we created the Mokonas. -------------------------- Page 35 Yuuko: Also, it's the same for the burly black one and the lanky white one. (The two of them are a samurai and a mage.) sfx: smile Yuuko: Maru and Moro, please if you will, put the sword and the tattoo into the Treasure Room. Maru & Moro: Yes~~! sfx: tap tap Yuuko: (Ah~~) Ah! Wouldn't it be wonderful to have some beer after work! Watanuki: After all this and it's on me again to prepare! sfx: slap; bun bun Mokona: Mokona wants beer too! sfx: smile Watanuki: What! This thing drinks beer, too? Yuuko: That's not a thing, it's called Mokona! sfx: buu -------------------------- Page 36 Yuuko: He's going to stay in the Shop so you'll have to get along with it. Mokona: Please give me Guidance. Watanuki: Does this also count as part of my job?! (ARGH!! I have to take care of this black-headed thing!) Yuuko: Ah ha ha ha ha!! sfx: pull Watanuki: This isn't a bit funny! --------------------------