"We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" ""An Inevitable Meeting"" "I'm home, Dad." "Yes?" "Syaoran!" "Welcome home!" "How was excavating the ruins?" "Did you get hurt?" "Did you get any fevers?" "Did you make sure to eat right?" "Y-yes, ma'am, it went fine." "There's that politeness." "I told you I hated polite speech." "But Princess..." "Sakura." "I told you to call me by my name." "Uh, yeah..." ""Sa-ku-ra."" "S-Sakura." "I'm sorry..." "I must be heavy, huh?" "I really am glad you're back, Syaoran." "I'm home." "How long can you stay here this time?" "I just came to get a change of clothes." "I'm going back to work tonight." "Oh." "I do have to have some shopping to do to get ready for tomorrow's excavation, though." "Want to come with me?" "What are you acting so worked up about?" "You haven't, by any chance, snuck out of the castle again, have you?" "Well, when I say I'm going over to your place, Syaoran, it puts my brother in a bad mood." "The King is just worried about his little sister." "Maybe." "I get the feeling he's just being mean, though." "Wow, these look delicious!" "Syaoran, let's have these for a snack today." "Would you like to take them with you?" "You mean it?" "For you, Princess, I do." "The Princess is here!" "The Princess?" "The people of this land really do love their princess." "There's the Princess!" "The castle guard!" "If they catch me, they'll take me back to the castle." "What do we do?" "Let's go!" "I haven't run like that in a long while." "Me neither." "Let me stay with you here for a little longer." "It was my late father's dream to excavate those ruins." "It's been seven years, now..." "since you first came to this land, Syaoran." "Being an archeologist," "Dad went to the castle to get permission to study the ruins of this land." "That was the first time we ever met each other, huh?" "Dad passed away partway through excavation operations, but he said he had lived a happy life, and at the end, Dad was smiling." "Syaoran, would you like to come live in my castle?" "In the castle?" "That would be strange." "No, it wouldn't." "After all, Syaoran, you've been my friend since childhood." "Someone who isn't a member of the royal family couldn't live in the castle." "Besides, I can live just fine off my work excavating the ruins." "But still, lately, I haven't been able to see you because of your work, and I miss you." "Syaoran, don't you miss me?" "Sure I do." "But excavating those ruins was me and my dad's" "I know." "It was your precious dream, wasn't it?" "I know that, but still, I'd like to see you." "At night, when I go to bed, I always think, "I wonder what Syaoran is up to."" ""I wonder if he even thinks about me a little bit."" "I do think about you." "I think about you, too." "You know what?" "I have something I want to tell you, Syaoran." "Syaoran, I..." "A-are you all right?" "Just a little startled." "Once the bell rings, I have to get back." "Want me to walk you there?" "Mm-mm, I'll be fine." "Um, you know what?" "That thing I wanted to tell you- I'll tell you the next time I see you, okay?" "I'll make sure I say it, so just wait until then, okay?" "It isn't right to have these feelings, is it, Dad?" "Even if we were childhood friends, she's still the princess of this land." "I see you plain as day, Sakura." "I'm home, Brother Toya." "Were you over at that kid's place again?" "He's not a kid!" "He's Syaoran!" "For a brat like that, "kid" will do." "He's not a brat!" "Syaoran is a great guy who lives by himself, and works hard!" "He may be a great guy, but the brat is still a brat." "No he's not!" "How about the two of you call an end to this?" "Yukito-san!" "I received this a short while earlier from the squad of gentlemen who are excavating the ruins." "Is that?" "Yes, there are more ruins than just those that are above ground." "You see?" "There is a road here that continues on underground, right?" "Yes." "They say they will not know what lies any farther ahead until it is excavated." "Which means..." "Which means that kid will be busy for a long, long, long, long time." "Brother, you're so mean!" "You should not do that, my King." "I feel badly for the Princess." "Drop the polite talk when it's just the two of us." "But, my King..." "Yukito, we used to just be friends as kids, right?" "Toya..." "That kid makes me so mad." "However, he is the "Fated One," isn't he?" "Mm-hmm." "Syaoran-kun is Princess Sakura's Fated One." "Still..." "In my foretelling," "I saw incredible hardships awaiting the two of them in their future." "The Princess has a mysterious power." "I don't know what it is, exactly, but it is a power that will change the world." "It is also a power that beckons hardships and troubles." "For you who live in a false time, as an image reflected in a mirror, the time is at hand." "Everything begins now." "Weak!" "Weak!" "Isn't there anyone around with a bit more backbone!" "?" "Is it true, Souma?" "Yes." "I told him not to commit such bloodshed." "What shall we do, Princess Tomoyo?" "At this point, I have no choice." "Is the king asleep?" "Mm-hmm." "There wasn't any other way." "What will you do now, Fai?" "Good question." "Now that I have locked away King Ashura," "I doubt I can stay in this land anymore." "Or rather, in this world." "I have to go somewhere else- a world apart from King Ashura." "I wonder if Syaoran is still at work." "Next time I see Syaoran, I have to tell him that I've fallen in love with him." "What's that sound?" "It's a pretty sound..." "like something is being struck..." "It sounds like it's coming from the ruins." "It's calling... me..." "What could this mark be?" "It's not the crest of this land." "Princess?" "What are you doing here?" "What the!" "?" "What was that?" "Toya!" "Who are these guys!" "?" "What is this?" "Sakura!" "W-what's going on?" "Sakura!" "The power to cross dimensions, and wings to direct the destination." "That power is now reborn." "Sakura!" "Sakura!" "Sakura!" "She's growing cold, fast!" "We have failed." "No, this is where it all starts." "And when it is all over, I will have the power to transcend time and space." "You're late, kid!" "King!" "Is Sakura all right?" "Well, she..." "I asked you if my sister is all right!" "Yukito, have a look at Sakura." "As you wish." "Oh, my." "I have read your memories." "Light in the form of feathers scattered forth from the Princess' back, then?" "Yes." "I was afraid of that." "Those feathers were the Princess' mind." "H-her mind?" "The memories the Princess had within her, from the time she was born until today, have all disappeared." "And the mind that has scattered from her... is no longer in this world." "What did you say!" "?" "T-that can't be!" "A body without its mind is no more than an empty vessel." "If we don't do something, the Princess will be..." "Isn't there anything I can do?" "Kid..." "My sister is in your hands." "Right." "Come, this way!" "You're not stepping one foot past this point!" "I am now going to send you both to a place where someone from another world lives." "And ask her how to save the Princess!" "Sakura..." "Well then, I guess I'm off to see the witch." "What the hell are you doing!" "?" "You said you wanted to become stronger." "But there is no longer anyone stronger than you throughout my land." "Thus, I am sending you to another world." "You mean, you're getting rid of me like a common nuisance!" "All right then, please take care of yourself." "Why, you!" "I won't forget this!" "Princess, where did you send Kurogane?" "I sent him to the one." "I'm sure she will know how to handle him." "The journey now begins." "They're here." "Who are you?" "You are the Dimensional Witch, yes?" "I am called by that name." "Please, help Sakura!" "I beg you, please help Sakura!" "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "I am now going to send you both to a place where someone from another world lives." "To the one who holds the same power as her." "Sakura..." "Well then, I guess I'm off to see the witch." "What the hell are you doing!" "?" "You said you wanted to become stronger." "But there is no longer anyone stronger than you throughout my land." "Thus, I am sending you to another world." "You mean, you're getting rid of me like a common nuisance!" "All right then, please take care of yourself." "Why, you!" "I won't forget this!" "They're here." "Please, help Sakura!" "I beg you, please help Sakura!" ""The Power to Fight"" "The girl's name is Sakura?" "Yes." "And you?" "Syaoran." "This girl has lost something important." "And it has been scattered to many other worlds." "If nothing is done, this girl will die." "So, who are you?" "Identify yourself first." "I am Kurogane." "So, where is this place?" "This is Japan." "Huh?" "I was just in Japan." "That was a different Japan." "I don't get this!" "Who are you?" "A wizard from the land of Seresu, Fai D. Flowright." "Watanuki, go to the storeroom and get them." "R-right." "What should I do to save Sakura?" "Please tell me!" "In order to save her life, you must gather the fragments of her memory, which have been scattered to many other worlds." "Scattered fragments of her memory?" "You mean those feathers." "Yes, that's right." "Once you gather all of those feathers, you will be able to save the girl's life." "That is your wish, right?" "Yes." "And if you two are here, it means that you have a wish, as well." "A wish?" "That should be simple." "Send me back to where I came from, right now." "And I want to go anywhere but where I came from." "Your wishes are all the same." "You do not want to go back to your original world, so you want to go to another world." "You want to go back to your own world from this alternate world." "That's right." "And you want to go to various other worlds so you can save the girl, by gathering the scattered fragments of her memory from them." "Your objectives may be different, but the measures are the same." "In short, you want to go to different dimensions-different worlds." "But in order for you to go to different worlds, it requires a proportionate compensation." "Compensation?" "In order to grant your wish, you must offer something of comparable value." "Is that what you are saying?" "Yes, that's right." "It takes a proportionate compensation to travel to different worlds, so I cannot grant your individual wishes." "However, if the three of you have the same wish, then I would be okay with accepting compensation from all three of you." "All three of us?" "For example, in your case, that katana." "Don't be absurd!" "My Ginryu here is my life!" "There's no way in hell I'd give it to you!" "That's okay." "In return, there's "no way in hell" you're getting back to your original world." "What's it going to be?" "Count on me coming back for this." "Until then, you can have it." "Your compensation will be..." "the design on your back." "Are you sure you wouldn't rather take this staff?" "No." "The compensation has to be the thing of most worth to that person." "I guess I have no choice, then." "Syaoran, your compensation will be your relationship." "My relationship?" "The most important thing to you is your relationship with that girl." "So that's what I will take." "What do you mean?" "Even if all of the girl's memories come back to her, any memories she may have had concerning you up until now will never return." "So there will no longer be any past relationship between you and her." "That, Syaoran, will be your compensation." "What is this girl to you?" "Sakura... is my..." "Hurry!" "This way!" "This way!" "Won't someone get mad at us or anything if we play inside the castle?" "It's all right." "Never mind that, what should we play?" "...childhood friend..." "Syaoran!" "...the princess of our land..." "Um, you know what?" "That thing I wanted to tell you- I'll tell you the next time I see you, okay?" "...and she is very dear to me." "Even so, I will go." "There's no way I'm going to let Sakura die!" "Traveling through other worlds is more difficult than you can imagine." "There are many different worlds." "For example, there are the worlds where those two came from." "You can tell just by looking at their clothing, can't you?" "Both of them are from worlds different from the one you were in." "The people you know, and the people you've met in previous worlds will have sometimes lived completely different lives in other worlds, as well." "You may meet persons who have the same appearance in many different worlds, many times over." "There will be worlds full of nothing but criminals, worlds full of lies, and worlds in the middle of wars." "You will live and go on traveling through those worlds, seeking memory fragments without having any idea where they are, not knowing when your long, long journey will ever end." "But do not let your determination waver." "Right." "Resolution and strength of will." "You appear to be equipped with that which is necessary to see anything through." "They're here." "Yes." "This is Mokona Modoki, who will guide you to different worlds." "Hey, if there's one more of them, then hand it over." "That one is exclusively for communicating." "Mokona will take you to other worlds, but is unable to control which world you go to." "So whether or not your wishes are granted depends on fate." "But there is no such thing in the world as happenstance." "There is only inevitability." "It was inevitable that you would all meet." "Now, go on." "Mokona Modoki is all excited!" "Puu!" "Puu!" "What is this!" "?" "May they enjoy much happiness along their journey." "Sakura is the person most important to me." "So no matter what happens, there's no way I'm letting her die." "Even if Sakura forgets about me, there's no way..." "W-what's that?" "Your strength of feeling for the one you love is duly recognized." "Who are you?" "I am the master of those who control flame." "It's like, Puu!" "What was that just now?" "He's not playing along." "Looks like you've woken up." "Sakura!" "Where exactly are we?" "Good question." "We just barely woke up ourselves." "But there is one thing we can be certain of, and that is this world is unknown to us." "You haven't yet let go of that girl, huh?" "Mokona wants to be held, too!" "You're... um..." "Syaoran." "My name is a long one, so just call me Fai." "So, what should we call the man in black over there?" "It's not "the man in black," it's Kurogane." "Kurogane, huh?" "Can I call you "Kuro-chan" or "Kuro-rin"?" "Hold Mokona, too!" "Hold me!" "Hold me!" "Hey!" "What are you so worked up over!" "?" "She's as cold as ice." "If we don't do something soon, then before we even find her memory fragments, Sakura will..." "What are you doing over there!" "?" "Hurry!" "Hurry away from there!" "Who are you?" "My name is Saito Masayoshi." "You all are wearing rather unusual outfits." "Are you, by any chance, foreigners?" "Foreigners, huh?" "Well, I guess you could say that." "Whatever the case, this place is dangerous!" "Please hurry and get out of here!" "What's going on here!" "?" "We have to hurry, or it's going to start!" "Start?" "What will?" "Oh, it's started!" "Who are these guys?" "W-what do we do?" "Over there!" "Today is the day we settle this!" "That's just what we were hoping for." "Those people are the teams fighting a territorial battle over this neighborhood." "Ever since a few days ago, they've been circling this bridge, and continuing their battle on a daily basis." "That sounds like fun." "But none of them are carrying any weapons." "How do they fight?" "Isn't it obvious?" "They use their kudan." "Kudan?" "What are those?" "Let'em have it!" "So that's what you call kudan, is it?" "You really didn't know?" "What's that?" "What are you doing?" "This." "Is that?" "Sure enough." "I happened to glance it a moment ago." "This is a fragment of the girl's memory, right?" "It was caught on my clothing?" "That's a coincidence..." "There is no such thing in the world as coincidence." "At least, that's what that witch said, right?" "So you surely must have unconsciously caught this feather, in order to save the girl." "Or something!" "I really don't know." "Puu!" "At any rate, return it to her, quickly." "Right." "Look out!" "Hey!" "It's too dangerous!" "Please come back!" "That was rash." "Why would he do something so dangerous?" "In order to protect the one who is dear to him, he needs that feather." "To protect the one dear to him?" "Boss!" "One of the ordinary people is down there!" "Pay no mind!" "Keep on firing, firing, firing away!" "All right!" "What is he doing!" "?" "Get him!" "Get him!" "Right!" "Then it wasn't a dream!" "Why that..." "That man is possessed of a kudan!" "And what's more, it's special-grade!" "What's "special-grade"?" "Kudan have different rankings, and the strongest one is called "special-grade."" "Mokona understands." "Interesting..." "I need your power." "Will you fight together with me, so I can protect Sakura?" "I got it!" "He's a ringer who was hired by the other guys!" "Men, take care of that guy first!" "Run!" "Wait for me, Boss!" "Thank you." "It would seem that your kudan is special-grade, too." "I am Asagi Shogo." "And you are?" "Syaoran." "You control a flame kudan, huh?" "But my kudan..." "Yours is flame, and mine is water." "This should prove to be an interesting fight." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "Yours is flame, and mine is water." "This should prove to be an interesting fight." ""The Exorcising Katana"" "Most of the teams are just a bunch of bad guys, but Shogo-san and his group are a good team, and the only ones who would never attack the weak." "Especially their leader, Shogo-san." "Everyone admires him." "Here goes." "You said your name was Syaoran, right?" "I've taken a liking to you." "Shogo, it's the police!" "Just as it was about to get good, too." "Men, scatter!" "I look forward to the next time we meet." "Sakura!" "Thank goodness." "Her body is getting warmer." "That's a bit of a relief." "What about that guy?" "It looks like he was worked over by that blast earlier." "No need to worry, though, he's just knocked out." "Who said I was worried?" "Never mind him," "I'm much more concerned about that guy." "I'm sorry if I startled you." "That was just..." "Your kudan, right?" "Yes." "You're a little bit of everything, huh?" "I've finally found you!" "Who are you?" "I'm Arisugawa Sorata." "And this here is my wife..." "Arashi." "Syaoran-kun, huh?" "He was so cool!" "My wife used to be a shrine maiden before we got married." "My honey looked absolutely divine in her shrine maiden getup." "She's given it up now because she's married, but her spiritual powers are still strong." "That's how she foretold you boys would be coming here." "This is a boarding house that we run." "We've got rooms available, so you can use them as you like." "That will help us out a lot." "But why are you being so kind to us?" "I'm indebted to Yuko-san- I mean the Dimensional Witch." "We'll take care of you as long as you're here." "However... if you lay a hand on my beloved honey, you'll pay for it." "And why are you saying that only to me?" "I'm teasing, I'm teasing." "Tease-tease!" "I'm serious, though." "All right, I won't touch her!" "I'll go put on some tea." "It looks like her color is getting better." "That's because of the feather." "But how do you plan to search for her feathers from here on?" "Well, I..." "Mokona knows!" "Mokona learned the wavelength of that feather." "So whenever a feather is near," "I'll go "Mekyo!"" "Mokona did it earlier, too." "That was for the one that got caught on Syaoran-kun's cape, right?" "No, another one." "When Syaoran was fighting, there was another, different feather nearby." "What?" "Mekyo!" "You said your name was Syaoran, right?" "I've taken a liking to you." "Shogo..." "This might just work out." "Will you tell us when you can sense a feather nearby?" "Leave it to me!" "It doesn't matter to me." "I'm going back to the world I came from." "That's my only objective." "I have absolutely no intention of sticking my nose in or helping you out in your affairs." "Okay." "This is my problem, after all." "I'll be careful not to cause you any trouble." "You sure are earnest, Syaoran-kun." "So, what about you?" "Are you going to help the kid out?" "Hmm..." "Good question." "For now, the most important thing for me to do is not return to my previous world." "Well, as long as it doesn't risk my life, I'll do so." "I don't have anything else to do, after all." "Thank you very much." "Mokona won't go to the next world until you find the feather." "Thank you too, Mokona." "Far in the light, I can see it in every scene of the night- a tiny feather of love." "I got to go." "Destiny never finds the way for me, my love." "Even in the night I see your face, in the dark." "So I never lose my way to you, never close my heart, the light is always there." "See you later, Syaoran!" "Time goes by." "We can never stay the same." "See you later, Syaoran!" "Time goes by." "We can never stay the same." "Now we've come so far from love memory." "Though your smile has gone, we will never be apart." "In our hearts we are one, for love melody." "The future arrives..." "So you are saying that you will not stop needlessly taking lives no matter what, is that right?" "I just want to get stronger." "More and more, to become stronger than anyone." "That is why I fight." "It doesn't matter to me who lives or dies." "Then I have no choice." "I am now going to send you to another world." "No, don't!" "You will surely meet many other people there." "Then you will learn the true meaning of strength." "As such, our parting will be a difficult one, but I will see you off." "But you're the one who's doing this!" "I will cast one other spell on you, first." "What was that!" "?" "It is a Shu curse." "A curse!" "?" "The curse is to keep you from taking any more lives unnecessarily." "Where are you!" "?" "Every time you kill someone, your strength will decrease." "Where are you, Princess Tomoyo!" "?" "It was a dream?" "Good morning." "You guys look good in those." "You should be okay walking around town in those outfits." "Okay then, we'll be off." "I will stay at Sakura-san's side." "If you'd be so kind." "There's some lunch money in there." "The three of you be good and eat together, now." "Thank you very much." "So, why are you giving it to the kid?" "Because he seems to be the most trustworthy." "What do you mean by that!" "?" "Yay!" "Just you wait, Sakura." "We'll make sure we find your feather." "Well?" "Mokona can't sense it." "You can't?" "What could it mean when you can't sense the wavelength of the feather today that you could yesterday?" "Kuro-tan, what do you think?" "Stop calling me by those weird names!" "Kuro-sama, you're scaring me." "Oh, for the love of!" "I-is that?" "What's the matter?" "It's her, no doubt about it!" "Kuro-tan!" "What is she doing here!" "?" "Never mind, it doesn't matter!" "It is a Shu curse." "I'll grab her, and have her remove that ridiculous spell from me!" "Did you find Kurogane-san?" "Kuro-tan is going to be a problem for us." "And here, we should be looking for that feather." "What's the matter?" "Puu!" "Maybe he figured out where Kuro-tan is." ""Okonomiyaki"" "There's a good smell coming from here!" "Now that you mention it, you're right." "Mokona is hungry." "Come on in!" "Come on in!" "How many in your party?" "Let's see, three of us-no, two of us and one animal, I guess." "In that case, right this way." "My King!" "What are you doing here?" "King?" "Our shop's system allows the customer to cook their own." "Please let it sit like that for a little while." "Mister, one bacon-and-egg butatama over here!" "Coming up!" "One butatama for the new customer!" "By "king," you mean he was a king in the land you were in before?" "Yes." "And the one that said "one butatama for the new customer"" "was a priest in the service of Deity?" "Yes." "You're late, kid!" "King!" "Is Sakura all right?" "Well, she..." "I asked you if my sister is all right!" "I was afraid of that." "Those feathers were the Princess' mind." "H-her mind?" "The memories the Princess had inside her, from the time she was born until today, have all disappeared." "And the mind that has scattered from her... is no longer in this world." "What did you say!" "?" "T-that can't be!" "Kid..." "My sister is in your hands." "Right." "You're not stepping one foot past this point!" "Please cook it yourself from here on." "The Dimensional Witch said something about that, huh?" "Traveling through other worlds is more difficult than you can imagine." "There are many different worlds." "The people you know, and the people you've met in previous worlds will have sometimes lived completely different lives in other worlds, as well." "You may meet persons who have the same appearance in many different worlds, many times over." "Those two are the same as the people in the land you were previously in, Syaoran-kun, and yet not the same." "You might say they have the same core." "Core?" "The essence of life." "One's nature, one's heart-something along those lines." "You mean, like a soul?" "That's right." "It's possible that Kurogane-san also found someone from the world he came from." "Damn it, where did she go?" "Hey, you!" "It's you, all right!" "To think that you would walk into our territory all on your own." "It saves us the trouble of having to track you down." "I've got no business with you." "Get lost." "You might not have any, but we do!" "What did you say?" "We're going to use you as bait to lure that detestable kid to join us." "I was delayed yesterday, but my kudan is first-grade!" "Now, unless you want to get hurt, you'll come with us!" "My kudan can change portions of its body to become like blades!" "I call that one..." "Kaninabe senkai!" "("Whirling Crab Pot")" "Kaninabe senkai!" "("Whirling Crab Pot")" "Kaninabe senkai!" "("Whirling Crab Pot")" "Suddenly start some trouble, will you?" "That bitch." "If only I had my sword, I could finish this with one slash." "My kudan can also use his armored spines as weapons!" "I call that one..." "Kani do" "Kani do" "Kani do" "Wait!" "You've got to be kidding me." "You're not going to beat me with that." "I can't die." "Not until I get back to the world I came from." "Not until I see her again!" "He has a kudan, too!" "You... were in my dream..." "What's this!" "?" "You're telling me to use you?" "So, you want to get wild, too?" "I can fulfill that wish!" "Hama Ryuojin!" "("Exorcising Dragon King Blade")" "C-change of plans." "Hey, man in black, you'll do." "Wanna be one of us?" "You've got to be joking." "There's only one person in my whole life that I'll ever serve." "Tomoyo." "What in the world happened to you today?" "Tell us, Kuro-rin." "Yeah, whatever." "Kuro-rin isn't listening to us at all." "So it seems." "Hey..." "Yes?" "Go to bed." "But..." "Just go to bed." "Okay, I will." "Good night, Sakura." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "A bird that has lost its wings cannot fly through the sky we call memories." "But I believe that as long as I am now alive, my memories will be born anew, just like the flow of time." ""The Immaculate Wanderer"" "They're my hand-me-downs, but at least she has a change of clothes." "I'm thinking we should go to the south side of town today." "Oh?" "Be careful." "Hey..." "We're just about ready to go, Syaoran-kun." "Okay." "We're off, Sakura." "She shows signs of waking up." "So it would appear." "There is a power hidden within people's hearts that is difficult to believe." "Even more so when that person's heart is so sublime." "Sir, is this your first time trying takoyaki?" "This is called "takoyaki," is it?" "Takoyaki!" "Takoyaki!" "How do you eat it?" "You put it in your mouth and chew it." "There's something I've been wondering about for a while now." "Do you take me for a sucker!" "?" "There's something I've been wondering about for a while now." "No, you don't suck them," "Mind if I ask you?" "No, you don't suck them," "What is it?" "You chew them, sir." "That girl, Sakura-chan- what kind of girl is she?" "Sakura is my childhood friend, and a member of the royal family in the land where I'm from." "That's not what I mean." "What I want to know is, what is the girl's "essence"?" "Essence?" "During that matter with Kuro-rin," "remember, we talked about essences?" "The early bird gets the worm!" "Hey, don't eat them all!" "You mean that thing about how people we've met in worlds we were in before will have lived completely different lives in other worlds?" "Ever since I heard that," "I've started thinking about different people's essences." "The way they think about different things, and behave, and the influence they have on people around them." "I have the feeling that the "essence" of that person doesn't change, even if the world in which they live is different." "Well, that's just the kind of feeling I get, you know?" "Sakura's essence..." "Here you all are!" "I'm sorry, while I was tending to something, Sakura-san..." "Sakura!" "?" "Sakura is gone?" "Yes, while I had taken my eyes off of her." "Sakura is awake?" "Sounds like it." "I'm going to go look for her!" "Where will you look?" "Well..." "Still, I can't leave Sakura all on her own." "What do we do?" "We can't just let her go, can we?" "Sakura-chan doesn't have her memories." "Besides, it would be a problem if some unsavory folk decided to set their sights on her." "Kind of like what happened to you earlier, Kuro-rin." "Who are you calling Kuro-rin!" "?" "Kuro-rin!" "Kuro-rin!" "You keep quiet, too!" "I'm going to return." "It's possible that Sakura-san will come back." "Yes, if you please." "Sakura... where did you go?" "See?" "No mistake, right?" "Mm-hmm." "That is definitely the girlie that was with them." "Well, then let's just" "Wait!" "Why are you stopping me?" "If we can lure that girl to come with us, that kid and the man in black will be at our beck and call." "Of course that's true, but I'm just saying not to go rough on her." "You see, at times like this..." "Hello there, Miss." "Hello there." "Boss, no reaction." "You idiot!" "She's from a foreign country, so she doesn't understand what we're saying!" "So, why are we having okonomiyaki?" "Just a moment." "Because we don't have anything at our hideout, right?" "Okay, okay, okay," "Because we don't have anything at our hideout, right?" "A-set butatama, thanks for waiting!" "It's difficult with her staring at it like that." "Is okonomiyaki really that novel to you?" "Miss, what's your name?" "What is your name?" "Sakura." "B-Boss, she does speak our language, doesn't she?" "I-it does look that way." "Isn't that?" "By the way, sirs..." "Perish the thought, but sirs, you're not thinking of doing anything that would be wrong to this girl, are you?" "W-why would you say that?" "Just because I don't always hear the best stories about you, sirs." "Delicious!" "This is most delicious!" "Did you find Sakura-chan?" "Do I even have to answer that?" "I didn't see her, either." "Oh yeah, here." "Kuro-tan, this is for you." "He's quite unwieldy you know?" "Now, look..." "That'll do it." "You're so rash." "Fai-san!" "Kurogane-san!" "Did you see Sakura?" "We looked around ourselves, but no." "I see..." "Syaoran-kun!" "Mekyo!" "What?" "You saw Sakura?" "Yes." "She was with those guys." "That gang of punks from before?" "That's right." "I definitely saw her." "Please wait!" "I have an idea." "An idea?" "Where is this place?" "This is our hideout, of course." "Stop gabbing and get on with it." "As long as we have the girl, that kid and the others are right in the palm of my hand." "Then, Shogo's team will be one big pushover!" "It's so big!" "What is this?" "Where did all of my men go?" "What is that?" ""We have run out of patience for the way you always lose, Boss."" ""We can no longer be on your team." "We are all leaving."" ""Please do not come looking for us." "The whole team"" "T-this can't be..." "I started it 25 years ago." "One hardship after another," "I struggled to finally get the team this big..." "What's the matter?" "Don't "what's the matter" me!" "This is all your friends' fault!" "Because of you guys, my team is my team is..." "Don't cry." "Don't cry." "I'm beaten." "Are you sure this is going to work?" "It's true, my kudan is fourth-grade, the weakest rank, but it does have the power to locate people." "That's how you found out where we were, huh?" "That's right." "Powerful kudan only possess those who have strong hearts." "Kudan are controlled by one's heart, like Shogo-san and Syaoran-kun do." "That's why a weak person like me can only be possessed by a weak kudan." "Masayoshi-kun..." "But there are still things that I can do." "Please, have faith in me." "Mm-hmm, thanks." "That way." "It's so big." "We ate okonomiyaki together." "She comforted me..." "and smiles with that pretty face... when actually, we tricked her into letting us bring her here." "It's like I feel guilty for doing it." "It does, doesn't it?" "If I had run into that smiling face earlier," "I think I would have walked down a more respectable path right around now." "That's why I've made up my mind." "You've made up your mind to do what?" "What do you want to discuss?" "As of today, I've decided to dissolve my team, and go back to living decently." "What?" "I'm giving my territory to you." "Do what you want with it." "What exactly has come over you?" "I'm not saying." "I've made up my mind not to talk about her to anyone." "Her?" "I see." "Boss!" "W-we've got a problem!" "What's wrong?" "Sakura-chan is up there!" "Sakura-chan!" "I just took my eyes off her for a second, and no sooner did I realize she was suddenly gone, than she had climbed up there." "What the hell were you doing!" "?" "So, it was her." "Shogo, do something." "I'll take care of it." "Miss?" "You really like being up high this much?" "Mm-hmm." "Then I'll show you a fantastic view." "Come over here." "Hang on tight!" "Right!" "Shogo took her away just when things were getting good, huh?" "It's better this way." "Take care, Sakura-chan." "Gee whiz, Shogo, what are you doing!" "?" "What's the matter?" "Feathers..." "My feathers..." "I have to find them." "Hey!" "Wings are things given form by a person's memories." "Even if they have all been lost, they do not disappear all at once." "But then, like the light of a candle at the end, as it is burning out, it only lasts for a moment." "Sakura!" "Sakura!" "Nicely done." "It's okay." "She doesn't appear to be hurt." "Sakura, open your eyes." "This is a real feather..." "She said something about them." "Shogo-san!" "The girl is one of your group, huh?" "What did Sakura... what did Sakura say?" "She said she was going to look for her own feathers." "Her feathers?" "I'll take a rain check on our battle until the next time we meet." "Far in the light, I can see it in every scene of the night- a tiny feather of love." "I got to go." "Destiny never finds the way for me," "Destiny never finds the way for me, Sakura-chan might have been trying unconsciously" "Destiny never finds the way for me, to search for her own memories for herself, huh?" "My love." "To search for her own memories for herself, huh?" "Even in the night I see your face," "Even in the night I see your face, Yes." "Even in the night I see your face, in the dark." "I fell asleep." "In the dark." "You sleep too much." "In the dark." "Mokona had a dream." "A dream that made me go "Mekyo!"" "So I never lose my way to you, Mokona had a dream." "A dream that made me go "Mekyo!"" "So I never lose my way to you, Next time, let it be a real one, and not a dream, okay?" "Never close my heart, Next time, let it be a real one, and not a dream, okay?" "Never close my heart, Count on me!" "The light is always there." "Come to mention it-Syogo-kun, wasn't it?" " said that thanks to Sakura-chan, those bad fellows had a change of heart." "Right." "Time goes by." "We can never stay the same." "Right." "Time goes by." "We can never stay the same." "Kindness so great, it can change the hearts of wicked men..." "Now we've come so far from love memory." "Kindness so great, it can change the hearts of wicked men..." "Now we've come so far from love memory." "That could be what Sakura-chan's essence is, couldn't it?" "Though your smile has gone," "Though your smile has gone, Yes." "We will never be apart." "We will never be apart." "Sakura, I promise you, I will find your feather next time, okay?" "In our hearts we are one, for love melody Sakura, I promise you, I will find your feather next time, okay?" "The future arrives with your love." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "Sakura!" "Sakura!" "Sakura-chan might have been trying unconsciously to search for her own memories for herself, huh?" "Yes." "I fell asleep." "You sleep too much." "Mokona had a dream." "A dream that made me go "Mekyo!"" "Next time, let it be a real one, and not a dream, okay?" "Count on me!" "Kindness so great, it can change the hearts of wicked men..." "That could be what Sakura-chan's essence is, couldn't it?" "Yes." "Sakura, I promise you, I will find your feather next time, okay?" ""The Wizard's Battle"" "Are you okay, my Princess?" "I told you, I don't like polite speech." "I beg your-uh...sorry." "Still, are you sure you're okay?" "I'm fine." "I just have a little fever." "The doctor said it would come down right away once I lie down." "But you know..." "I think I will get better faster if you were to hold my hand." "Would you?" "You should get some sleep." "Mm-hmm." "If I sleep like this, the first thing I'll see when I open my eyes will be you, Syaoran." "I will find your feather." "I promise." "I'm home, Honey!" "Lay one on me to welcome me home, right here!" "I see, so you didn't find it today, either." "So, you were having a strategy meeting?" "That lump is amazing!" "Arashi is strong!" "That lump is amazing!" "Mokona first sensed the feather here, on this bridge." "The next time he sensed it was near the takoyaki stand." "That one was a dream, right?" "It wasn't a dream." "I realized it later." "Get it together, whitey." "You too, Kuro-rin!" "Don't call me Kuro-rin!" "If the wavelength he felt once wasn't in the same place later," "Kuro-rin!" "Kuro-rin!" "Wouldn't that mean that the feather was taken away by something that was moving?" "Shut up!" "Something that was moving?" "What's more, if it appears and then disappears, it could mean..." "A kudan!" "If it is a kudan, it would definitely appear and then disappear." "Once the kudan disappears, the wavelength disappears, too?" "Sakura's feather is inside a kudan?" "But just whose kudan is it inside of?" "That's the real question." "Everyone in this land is possessed of a kudan." "The way I think about it, the kudan are like myriad deities." "Myriad, or in other words, lots." "Every person has a kudan possessing them, which protects them." "How are we supposed to find the one who has taken Sakura's feather if there are so many of them?" "I don't have any ideas about that, but the one thing I can say is that you can be sure that it is a fairly strong kudan." "Why do you say that?" "Sakura-san's feather- which is to say, her memory fragment- is like a very strong crystal of the mind." "In order to take the feather inside themselves, the kudan would also need to be at least as strong." "That makes sense." "For now, looking for strong kudan would be the shortest route to finding Sakura-chan's feather." "Easier said than done." "There isn't anyone that normally walks around with their kudan out, is there?" "Mokona can't tell like this." "For that matter, even if we do figure out who it is that has it, do you think they'll simply say "Oh, you don't say?" and hand it over?" "Syaoran-kun!" "Masayoshi-kun..." "Have you found the feather yet?" "No, not yet." "In that case, please let me help you." "Today is Sunday and all..." "You're sure?" "Yes." "Thanks, Masayoshi-kun." "Masa-yoshi truly is a good guy!" "("True-good")" "Masayoshi-kun!" "Mokona!" ""I await you at Hanshin Castle." What is this?" "Fai-san!" "Kurogane-san!" "Shiramasoi ihe semawafu..." "(Why did that bird-like thing...) ...makobe yuhai kufuehe, kobefu hakoba?" "(...just fly away with those other two?" ")" "Asoke watakuke kamewa wama soki..." "(This letter appears to be...)" "Horu eyogi horukuke okoga hosere." "(...a challenge from somebody.)" "Sorese rumi shifu hekoba, takatamesen." "(I can't understand what you're saying.)" "Umomi yo, gorui kihakukaso?" "(Kuro-rin, what's wrong with you?" ")" "My ears haven't gone bad on me, but suddenly, I can't understand what they're saying." "There isn't anything different now than there was a moment ago..." "Mokona!" "?" "Mokona!" "?" "Mokona!" "?" "Yay!" "We're so high!" "Help!" "Look, are you sure he's the one that Shogo-kun has taken a liking to?" "No doubt about it." "According to our investigation as your personal guard the shortest one in their group has to be Syaoran." "This Hanshin Castle is pretty far away, huh?" "It might be better if we took some kind of vehicle." "No doubt." "We're getting through to each other, huh?" "It appears so." "I'm sure it must be because we're getting closer to Mokona." "Swinging!" "Swinging!" "I'm like a balloon!" "Mr. Wind, blow, blow!" "Blow some more!" "Mokona was acting as our interpreter, huh?" "This is a pain!" "So that's Hanshin Castle." "Up there." "Look." "Swinging!" "Swinging!" "I'm like a" "Masayoshi-kun!" "Whitey sure seems to be enjoying himself." "Here goes!" "Let me handle this!" "Hama Ryuojin!" "Captain!" "Wake up!" "Sure enough, it looks like you boys don't have enough power." "Who's the girl?" "You must be living under a rock if you don't know who Primera-chan is!" "Primera-chan sings and dances, and also does drama!" "She's the biggest idol in the whole country!" "On top of that, she is possessed by an extremely powerful kudan!" "That's right." "I've been waiting for you guys." "Please return Mokona and Masayoshi-kun to us." "Masayoshi-kun?" "You mean, that isn't Syaoran?" "I am Syaoran." "You idiots!" "You boys were completely wrong," "We're sorry!" "We're sorry!" "Weren't you!" "?" "We're sorry!" "We're sorry!" "If you want something with me, I'm listening." "Oh, no." "If you want me to return those two, you have to fight me." "I couldn't..." "She's got to be kidding." "How can we fight her?" "I'll take care of this somehow or other." "Fai-san..." "I'll have my kudan help me out." "Fai-san!" "He's been possessed by a kudan, too?" "Well, shall we get started?" "I'll be right back." "He's flying!" "These kudan really can do anything, huh?" "It's not fair that you can fly!" "I can't do that!" "If that's how it's going to be, watch this!" "My kudan-chan!" "Come on!" "Sha-king!" "Try taking on my kudan-chan's attack!" "Fai-san!" "You startled me." "So that's your kudan, huh?" "I'll bet Mokona was thrilled by that attack." "Amazing!" "Amazing!" "Primera-chan's kudan is special-grade, so please be careful!" "Rats!" "Still, you won't beat me!" "No more flying!" "No more dodging!" "No more running away!" "How come I can't hit you!" "?" "It does look like it would hurt if you did hit me." "He may look delicate, but he knows how to fight." "Yes, he does." "That doesn't surprise you." "Judging by the way Fai-san carries himself, as well as the look in his eyes and such, I kind of figured as much." "Looks like you're no dummy." "If that's the way you want it, mic change!" "My kudan-chan!" "Transform!" "Now that my kudan-chan has turned into a mic stand, you're not getting away!" "Fai-san!" "Fai-san..." "I'm all right." "I'm more concerned about what Mokona thinks." "Spinning!" "Spinning!" "I'm like a water balloon!" "No change, it seems." "Well, he is singing." "So if Mokona has no reaction when she is fighting with her kudan..." "It means that she doesn't have Sakura's feather." "What are you all mumbling about?" "Giving up now?" "What happens if I do give up?" "Isn't it obvious?" "I take on Syaoran next." "I'm afraid we can't have that." "Syaoran-kun has some important business to attend to." "If I could, I'd like to be the one to finish this." "In that case, you'll just have to beat me!" "I wouldn't want to hurt such a cute girl, so can we stop?" "R" "Rats!" "Watch out!" "Huh?" "Is this?" "What are you up to, Primera?" "Shogo-kun!" "I saw you, you know!" "What is she bickering about?" "I don't know." "So that's it." ""Asagi Liquor" Between school and helping out my folks, I've been busy!" ""Asagi Liquor" I'm in the middle of a delivery right now, even!" "I'm in the middle of a delivery right now, even!" "But I miss you!" "And so I thought that since you'd taken a liking to Syaoran, if I could beat him and place him in my personal guard, you'd play with me when you came to see him." "But that's not even Syaoran." "Syaoran!" "Syaoran!" "Mokona!" "Your eyes!" "It's here!" "The feather is right around here!" "Where!" "?" "Who has it!" "?" "I don't know, but I just sensed an incredibly strong wavelength." "Sure enough, one of the kudan probably has it." "But what does it mean when it gets stronger and weaker like that?" "Sorata-san said that the kudan protect the ones that they possess." "So they give off their strongest power when they are defending that person." "In other words, we won't know who it is unless we fight them." "Shogo-kun!" "Good grief..." "Shogo-kun!" "Primera!" "Looks like they've sorted things out for themselves." "Troublemaking bastards." "Feather?" "That's right." "I'm asking if your kudan has Sakura's feather caught inside of it." "Well, that's a good question." "You can find that out once we have our kudan fight each other, can't you?" "When I said that I had taken a liking to you, I really meant it." "You're strong, you know." "Not in physical strength, I mean-in here." "That's why I've been wanting to try mixing it up with you." "Using our kudan!" "Very well." "Your challenge is accepted." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat," "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "Huh?" "Is this?" "What are you up to, Primera?" "Shogo-kun!" "Mekyo!" "It's here!" "The feather is right around here!" "You're strong, you know." "Not in physical strength, I mean-in here." "That's why I've been wanting to try mixing it up with you." "Using our kudan!" "Very well." "Your challenge is accepted." ""Uncrying Tears"" "You guys stay out of this." "Ready..." "Go!" "Watch out!" "That was cool, Syaoran-kun." "Looks like he's no fool, whose only virtue is his mild-manneredness, either." "How did he suddenly come to be able to use those moves?" "He probably saw the way you fought and got the basics down." "You think so?" "Syaoran-kun may still be a child, but he must have already been through a lot, himself." "Shogo-kun!" "Amazing!" "I've never been knocked back this far." "You seriously are strong, Syaoran." "How can you be that strong, anyway?" "I have something that I must do." "I see." "Guys, give me a little room." "Set..." "Go!" "Shogo, you dummy!" "Whenever he becomes caught up in a battle, he gets so unmindful!" "Syaoran-kun!" "Syaroan-kun, you're incredible..." "Even as someone from a foreign country..." "even as someone not from this land, you've already mastered your kudan so well." "And yet, I'm so..." "I want to become stronger, too!" "Stronger, like Syaoran-kun!" "Look out!" "Oh, no!" "Y-you saved me." "No..." "I can't escape by myself!" "I can..." "I can be stronger, too!" "It's okay!" "Hold on to me!" "Watch out!" "You're kidding me." "I-Is that?" "That is Masayoshi-kun's kudan, right?" "When I said they could do anything, there has to be a limit." "Mekyo!" "There's the feather!" "Sakura's feather is inside that kudan!" "It is?" "We found it!" "So the one who took the feather inside itself..." "Was that one?" "Hold on, what are you doing?" "Mokona is cheering you on!" "Puu!" "Puu!" "Puu!" "Puu!" "I was so scared!" "There, there." "It's all right now." "Go "there, there" to Mokona, too!" "Not even I would be able to stand up to that guy." "But I thought the feather was supposed to have been taken by a strong kudan." "Masayoshi-kun's kudan has always been strong, but a kudan is influenced by the heart of the one possessing it." "It must have been influenced by Masayoshi-kun, who is convinced that he is weak." "He wouldn't..." "Stop!" "I'm all right now!" "Go back to normal!" "Why won't it do what he says?" "The power of the feather must be too strong." "Not even Masayoshi-kun is able to control the kudan now." "Stop!" "What are you thinking of doing?" "I'm going to take Sakura's feather back." "How do you plan to fight that huge thing?" "If you're not careful, you could die." "I won't die." "I still have something I must do, so I won't die." "I'll be right back." "He didn't ask for any help." "Syaoran-kun is strong, in more ways than one." "I have a feeling I know why he is possessed by a flame kudan." "Ding-aling-aling..." "Just you wait, Sakura." "I promise you, I will get your feather back." "Stop!" "Stop, I tell you!" "Is that the feather that Syaoran-kun is looking for?" "Syaoran-kun!" "The thing that I am looking for is within your kudan right now." "Is this it?" "I need to take it back." "If you come close to us now, Syaoran-kun, you'll get hurt!" "Stop!" "Syaoran-kun is..." "Syaoran-kun is going to die!" "Syaoran-kun..." "It's so hot!" "Masayoshi-kun!" "It's okay...please take it..." "Masayoshi-kun..." "If your feather is inside my kudan, Syaoran-kun, then I want to be sure to give it back." "So, even though it may be hot, I'll be fine." "Please take it!" "That should prevent any fires from spreading for now." "It looks that way." "What happened to him?" "If you mean Syaoran-kun, look, he's over there." "I've gotten back one of Sakura's feathers-Sakura's memories." "Open your eyes for me, Sakura." "You should get some sleep." "Mm-hmm." "If I sleep like this, the first thing I'll see when I open my eyes will be you, Syaoran." "Sakura!" "Sakura!" "Who are you?" "I'm Syaoran." "You are Princess Sakura." "Please try to remain calm as you listen to this." "You are a princess in another world." "Another world?" "Right now, you have lost your memories, and we are traveling to different worlds in order to gather those memories again." "Are you alone?" "No, there are others who are traveling with us." "And you are with them?" "Yes." "Even though you don't know them?" "Yes." "Princess Sakura, it's nice to meet you." "My name is Fai D. Flowright." "And over there is..." "Kurogane." "And this fluffy little cutie is..." "Mokona Modoki!" "Call me Mokona." "Sakura, handshake, handshake!" "We're friends!" "We're friends!" "I thought he might cry when it happened." "I wonder if he's crying right now." "Who knows?" "But if he doesn't want to cry, he'll just have to become stronger." "Enough that he can get through anything without having to cry." "Mm-hmm." "Was there someone holding my hand while I was asleep?" "It was awfully warm." "But then, I also think that there is the kind of strength to cry when you need to." "It appears that one of her memories has been returned to her." "Yeah." "But she won't necessarily be blessed with such good fortune on the rest of her journey." "I will obtain the power to transcend time and space, no matter what." "No matter how much blood must be shed." "Why, you!" "That was mine!" "First eaten, first served!" "What was that!" "?" "Masayoshi-kun, I really am grateful." "All right, if that's how you want it, I can play that game, too." "Not at all." "I should be thanking you." "All right, if that's how you want it, I can play that game, too." "Yo!" "Shogo-san!" "What are you doing here?" "It's not like I've gotten rid of my information network, you know?" "King, I'll have an order of butamodan!" "I'll have a tonpeiyaki, King!" "Calling you "King" has really started to stick, huh?" "Sheesh, I hate that nickname." "King, I'll have some Oolong tea!" "Don't call me "King," would you?" "Sorry about running out in the middle of our fight back there." "Under the circumstances, you had no choice." "Besides, I was totally losing that battle." "Shogo-san..." "So, I was wondering..." "Ah, you're tickling me!" "Why don't you join...my team?" "Leaving already?" "Yes." "I see." "Next time you're here, come to one of my concerts, okay?" "I'll save you some arena seats." "Sure." "Right now, Sakura-chan is even prettier than before." "She's sparkling." "She's beautiful!" "Are you okay?" "Yes." "I'm still a little sleepy, though." "Don't look down." "If there's something that you've gotta do, then look only forward." "Right." "Mokona Modoki is all excited!" "Puu!" "We're really grateful for everything!" "We wish you safe travels." "May you find Sakura-san's feather in your next world, too." "Boss, are you okay?" "Boss, are you okay?" "Boss, are you okay?" "Thank you." "I'm scared." "It's okay." "I'm here with you." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "Don't look down." "If there's something that you've gotta do, then look only forward." "Right." "Mokona Modoki is all excited!" "Puu!" "We're really grateful for everything!" "We wish you safe travels." "May you find Sakura-san's feather in your next world, too." "Boss, are you okay?" "Boss, are you okay?" "Boss, are you okay?" "Thank you." "I'm scared." "It's okay." "I'm here with you." ""The Shattered Memento"" "Are you okay, Princess Sakura?" "Puu!" "We've arrived in a new land!" "This isn't the world I came from, huh?" "It's not the world I came from, either." "This is a new world." "What's this, what's this?" "Where the hell did you guys spring up from?" "Looks like we've caught someone's eye." "Mokona is an object of attention!" "Tee-hee!" "What are you tee-heeing about?" "Why don't you come with me?" "Ow!" "Puu!" "Why, you!" "Who do you think you're kicking!" "?" "Stop!" "You keep out of everyone's business, you foolish son!" "Cyunyan!" "Why, you..." "Who do you think I am!" "?" "I am the noble son of the lord who controls the town of Ryeon Huei!" "Who are you calling a lord?" "Up until a year ago, he was just an unknown practitioner of the arts!" "Don't you disparage my father!" "I may be tolerant towards you, but you know what will happen to you if you go against my father, don't you!" "?" "Noble son!" "What?" "My father?" "All right." "You can be sure I'll get you back for what you've done today!" "Be ready for it!" "We're pulling out!" "Are you hurt?" "I'm all right." "Wow, that was quite a scene, and right after we arrived, too." "Syaoran, that was amazing!" "Mokona can kick, too!" "I'll help you." "Mokona, too!" "Come on, Kuro-pin, pick this up, pick this up." "What a pain." "Here." "Thanks, Mokona." "Father, what is the emergency?" "The source of my power has just started to emit a mysterious glow." "Has there been any change?" "That's my father for you." "Now that you mention it, I ran into an unusual bunch in the marketplace." "An unusual bunch?" "That should do it." "There were still some over here." "Oh, you're the girl from earlier." "Those are funny outfits." "She said your outfit was funny, Kuro-rin." "Kurogane is funny!" "If I look funny, then you look funny, too!" "Are you guys...by any chance?" "Come!" "Um, where are we?" "My house." "Don't you have anything to say?" "Don't you?" "No, uh, we just barely arrived in this land, and for that matter, we just barely met you." "You really don't have anything?" "No...we don't..." "I see." "You're not them." "Now that I think about it, there's no way that kids like you could be mitteishu." "Mitteishu?" "Right." "Top-secret investigators that the government of this land dispatches." "They're called mitteishu." "They go throughout the land to make sure that the feudal lords over each area aren't up to any wrongdoing." "That's like Mito Komon!" "Mito..." "Komon?" "Mito Komon was the man who..." ""Suke-san, you listen too." "Kaku-san, you listen too."" ""Ha ha ha ha ha"" "...did that." "I don't quite understand." "I've been wondering this for a while now, but what is that thing?" "A talking Manju bun?" "Mokona is Mokona!" "Mokona is, well, our mascot, I guess." "Either that or our idol." "Mokona is an idol!" "Someone popular!" "While we're at it, we should introduce ourselves." "You, as I recall, are..." "Cyunyan." "Right, right, Cyunyan-chan." "I'm Fai." "This is Sakura-chan, that is Syaoran-kun, and that is Kuro-poo." "That's Kurogane!" "Kuro-poo!" "Kuro-poo!" "Shut up!" "So, continuing from where we left off," "Cyunyan-chan, you've been waiting a long time for these Mitteishu from the government to come?" "That's right." "Is the lord here really that bad a guy?" "He's not just bad, he's the worst!" "What he did to my mother..." "The wind?" "Sounds like it, let's see." "You can't go outside!" "This is no natural wind." "It's the lord!" "This is his doing!" "Cyunyan, how do you like the taste of my father's power!" "?" "What are those guys doing there!" "?" "What's the matter, my son?" "Those guys are the unusual bunch that I saw in the market!" "What?" "They couldn't be mitteishu, could they?" "Either that, or they could have something to do with the source of my power here." "But either way as long as this is here, I am invulnerable." "Why should I have to fix someone else's house?" "She let us stay the night here, so it's only right." "Still, who would have thought that little kid was the only one living in this house?" "Cyunyan-chan said that her mother had passed away, huh?" "So how long are we planning to stay here?" "That's all up to Mokona, right?" "Good grief, why does that white Manju always stick to that kid's shoulder?" "I hope Syaoran-kun and the others find something out." "But is the princess doing all right?" "She's always zoning out, isn't she?" "It's her memory." "Sakura-chan doesn't have enough of it to go back to the way she was before." "She's only recovered two of her feathers." "She seems to have gotten some of her memories back, but it's still a long way from what you could call complete." "And, even if she does get all of her memories back, her memories of Syaoran-kun won't return to her." "Even so, Syaoran-kun will search for the feathers of Sakura-chan's memories, which have scattered to many different worlds." "No matter what hardships lie ahead of him." "Hey, you!" "What are you relaxing for!" "?" "You get to work!" "Oh, Kuro-pippi, I was just thinking, maybe I'd watch over you while you worked." "Sakura, what kind of clothes do you like?" "How about here, Mokona?" "I don't know." "This whole area is filled with some kind of mysterious power." "Mysterious power?" "What's this?" "It's a lottery they're holding to draw customers to the market." "You there, miss..." "You appear to be a traveler." "How would you like to come try your luck?" "There are four first prizes in all." "If you get a yellow ball, you hit the jackpot." "Well, go ahead." "You don't have to turn it that much." "They're all first prizes!" "Amazing!" "You did it, Sakura!" "First prize!" "Mm-hmm!" "You both look good in those." "This will save us a lot of trouble in finding clothes for all of you." "Sakura, well done!" "I'm sure you must be one of God's favored daughters, Sakura." "God's favored daughters?" "My mother always used to say that that's what people who have especially good fortune are called." "God loves them especially, so they have good luck." "Have you always been like that?" "I don't know." "Why not?" "The only thing I can remember is my name, and a town in the middle of the desert." "It's a place with nothing but sand on all sides, but everyone living inside there takes good care of the little greenery and water it has." "Aside from that, I can't remember anything." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have asked that." "Mm-mm." "Right now, I'm told that we're journeying to gather my lost memories." "I may have forgotten, but that's what I've been told by...um..." "Syaoran-kun." "Listen, Syaoran-kun, can I call you just "Syaoran" from now on?" "Brother said that when people are especially close to each other, they call them by just their names." "So just call me "Sakura," okay?" "Okay, Syaoran?" "Right, Princess Sakura." "What's that?" "This is what happens when you fail to pay your taxes." "How could you do this!" "?" "There you are, little girl." "This is in return for yesterday." "You again, huh!" "?" "Stand aside!" "I won't stand aside." "Why, you..." "That fan!" "Go!" "That fan used to be my mother's." "Hijutsu is the power to bring happiness to others." "One must never use it for one's own self-interest." "Do you understand, Cyunyan?" "It was a long, long time after that before I truly understood the meaning of those words." "When that father and son came to our town, the hijutsu they used wasn't all that great, but then, a year ago, it suddenly became stronger." "They drove the previous feudal lord out, and started ruling the town themselves." "In order to save the suffering townspeople, my mother fought against the lord, but they killed her." "The wind is coming!" "That should teach you." "This is my power!" "How do you like my father's power!" "?" "Syaoran-kun!" "Shake it off!" "The father steps in during a fight between children!" "?" "You two really are the lowest of the low!" "Shut up." "W-wait!" "That was my mother's!" "That was the only thing of my mother's that I had left..." "You like that?" "If you don't like that, then why don't you take down my father, Cyunyan?" "But then, you can't lay a finger on my father, can you?" "Keep yapping it up." "Someday, the mitteishu will come to this town for sure." "No, they won't." "Why would they?" "Don't look down." "If there's something that you've gotta do, then look only forward." "Mother!" "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again." "We're chasing dreams without end in a world without a guide." "These overlapping feelings pierce the beating of my heart as the unwavering verse quietly goes on." "From far away in the sky, our shadows blur together as our memories are recorded amid inevitability and whimsy." "Even if the whirlpools of time we pass through, were to waste away, I'll still believe in your voice." "We're chasing dreams without end in a future without a guide." "And even if I lose my light, someday, with the twinkling flame you lit in my heart, these fragments of hope will change into wings" "Sometimes, people forget about the courage it takes to live." "But as long as people believe in something in their hearts, courage will never disappear completely." "Someone is calling me..." ""God's Favored Daughter"" "Syaoran-kun..." "I'm okay." "For the feudal lord to be able to beat you, Syaoran-kun, he must have a fairly formidable hijutsu." "The lord and his son use that power to control the town." "Still, there are only two of them." "If everyone in town ganged up on them, you should be able to take them." "Of course, we've tried." "Half a year ago, the townspeople joined forces and tried to put those two down." "But the lord's castle has his hijutsu cast around it, and nobody could get near it." "So that's it." "That hijutsu must be the mysterious power that Mokona mentioned." "A whole lot of mysterious power, and I can't make out the feather's wavelength very well." "If you can't get inside the castle, you could just wait until the lord comes out of it." "The lord never comes out of the castle." "Then, what about his son?" "Suppose you took him hostage?" "Hostage, you say?" "That was sort of a dark thing you just said, huh?" "That won't work, either." "He watches over the whole town with his hijutsu." "So you'd be attacked by the wind, like Syaoran-kun was yesterday." "Then it has to be storming the castle." "Which means, it's vital that you have a leader." "Without someone who knows how to fight to lead you, the castle will never fall, no matter how much you attack it." "There's no way we have anyone that good at fighting here in town." "Sure you do, right here." "You'd do that for us?" "I guess." "Kuro-pon, that's unusually cooperative of you, huh?" "By any chance, have you grown tired of that?" "Of course I have." "You can fix the roof by yourself!" "I've made up my mind to attack the lord's castle." "First, we'll need some soldiers." "Leave that to me." "I know where we can find some." "Father, it looks like that little girl is plotting something again." "The castle's defenses are seamless." "Let her be." "Still, why do we need to let Cyunyan live?" "I was thinking of making the girl your wife someday." "You were what!" "?" "Cyunyan has the makings to become an even greater practitioner of the arts than her mother was." "My thinking was that the quickest way to bring that power into our family is to have her become your wife but with this, that probably won't be necessary any longer." "Heh, I'm relieved to hear that." "In time, we will afford Cyunyan her death, just as we did her mother." "Then, mother and daughter can live together happily in the next life." "What is this place?" "You'll see once you go inside." "Go on." "Don't worry, these are my guests." "What's going on?" "This is the secret gathering place for the courageous among the townspeople, who do not approve of the lord's rule, and have secretly resolved to fight him." "Is that Cyunyan's voice I hear?" "I-it's you!" "Sorata and Arashi!" "It's been so long." "You guys know them?" "No, this is the first time I've ever seen them." "Me, too." "What is that thing?" "I'm not "that thing," I'm Mo-ko-na." "M-Mokona?" "He may have a strange appearance, but he's also one of my guests." "Are you two in love-love?" "L-love-love?" "You both are fond of each other, right?" "No, I wouldn't say..." "Someday, we plan on being husband and wife." "W-we do?" "Don't we?" "S-sure we do...mm-hmm..." "I knew it!" "Never mind that," "I need a favor." "So in other words, the couple that we know and those two people have the same souls, but in this world, they have been living different lives." "Do you understand, Princess?" "More or less." "You're giving up fighting?" "But why?" "Don't say that, Cyunyan." "But!" "That was the outcome of what we all discussed with each other." "We were defeated soundly in that fight a half year ago." "W-what is this?" "We're just no match for his hijutsu, and so and so, I hate to say this, but we can't afford to have any more casualties." "But!" "Cyunyan..." "I have to go..." "Fine..." "M-Mother!" "It's no use, Cyunyan." "Your mother is already dead." "It's not true!" "I will not even permit condolences toward those who defy me." "Mother!" "Your mother's soul will not be called home to Heaven, nor will it find rest in the earth, but will wander for eternity in a barren otherworld!" "Mother!" "Mother!" "Mother!" "Now, all those who would impede me are gone." "This town is now mine!" "I need power." "A strong power, so that I may avenge my mother." "Cyunyan, there you are." "I'm sorry we couldn't be any help." "Because of our defeat a half year ago, everyone has lost the courage to fight." "Please understand." "I have to go." "Princess!" "What's the matter, Princess?" "What's the matter?" "Sakura!" "Don't!" "Sakura!" "Stop!" "Once you go through the gate, you can never return!" "Sakura!" "Syaoran, don't go!" "I'm sorry, Syaoran." "If you had gone, the townspeople would suffer again." "We can't have any more victims." "I know." "Still I am going." "And I will be sure to bring Sakura back here." "Syaoran..." "There are eight castle gates in all, huh?" "We'll have to break our way through one of them." "Hey!" "What are you being so lazy for!" "?" "If you're going to hit it, then hit it!" "If you're going to complain, Kuro-pon, then why don't you do it?" "You've gotta be kidding me." "You think I'd fix the roof over storming a castle?" "Hijutsu, huh?" "So that's it." "Bad news!" "Bad news!" "It's Syaoran and Sakura!" "Did something happen to the two of them?" "That kid would do something on his own before I could storm the castle." "The hijutsu that has been cast over the castle is stronger than I thought." "Once you go inside the gate, you can never come out again." "What?" "Then, are they?" "Princess!" "If you can hear me, please answer!" "Syaoran-kun!" "Princess!" "Princess!" "Princess..." "Princess!" "Syaoran-kun..." "Princess, I'm coming now!" "All right then, shall we begin?" "First, the torture of hellfire." "Princess!" "And now, the torture of stone." "H- help me!" "Princess!" "Syaoran-kun!" "You're okay now, Princess." "Syaoran-kun..." "Now then, which torture shall I send them next?" "Father!" "What's the matter?" "What have we here?" "Cyunyan has been saying some funny things, and getting the people in town together." "Funny things?" "Cyunyan, stop talking nonsense." "No one who has been drawn inside the gate has ever come back." "Sakura is one of God's favored daughters, so she's sure to come back." "Do you think that what Cyunyan is saying is true?" "I don't know." "I don't know, but if it is true..." "Princess!" "Syaoran-kun!" "Princess!" "Princess Sakura!" "Wait..." "You poor thing..." "So, our voices reached you, did they?" "Thank goodness you've realized who we are." "They're all people from town." "What?" "Since then, as they've been living in this otherworld, before they knew it, they had taken on these forms." "Is that right?" "But don't worry." "Once the hijutsu is lifted, I'm sure you'll get your original forms back." "You, who were able to touch these people without a second thought, despite their horrifying appearances, are indeed one of God's favored daughters." "Beloved daughter of God, now, go forth." "Return back to the place where you belong, together with the one you love." "Princess!" "Is that?" "Syaoran!" "And Sakura-chan is with him." "T-they came back!" "Yes." "Just like Cyunyan said they would!" "That girl is one of God's favored daughters!" "I had faith that you'd return!" "Why, those!" "How did they get out of there!" "?" "It appears that that group of people are not ordinary folk." "Now that it's come to this..." "So, we're not storming the castle after all, huh?" "That's no fun." "Still, it looks like the mood of the townspeople has changed a little." "So if we defeat the lord, our friends who were drawn inside the gate will come back, right?" "That's right." "Now that we know that, we can't very well give up fighting, can we?" "You mean?" "It will take some time to convince everyone, but just you wait." "Now, awaken, my despicable, evil princess." "My name...is Kiishimu." "You know, when this town is bathed in twilight, there will be a little seed that drops from your hand." "If you can call this trodden-down dirt a road, does closing my eyes count as love?" "If this world had been flat, the two of us would never have met." "We were both running to keep our distance." "But now, without reducing speed, no matter how far apart we are, as the miracle repeats itself, we will come face to face again." "We will come face to face again."