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Ooh! Ooh are we saying that Lava Lamp almost won outright and Seishirou had to use the FEATHER to get from being obliterated on the spot?

Wow! You go Lava Lamp! That’s really impressive!

Everybody clap please the rehearsal is still going. We were all definitely paying attention Lava Lamp good work!

#I assume Seishirou is going to cheat now and use the feather #liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #tsubasa #Vol 173 #Lava Lamp GUy #Seishirou #in some very CRISP panels here oh my goodness #those last two in particular #so gorgeous #the cracked glasses #the whipped hair #the amused smile #UGH amazing

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OH OK

SO WERE CONTINUING A SENTENCE SHE SAID A CHAPTER AGO BUT ALSO CLARIFYING IT IN A WAY THAT CHANGES THE ENTIRE MEANING OF THE SENTENCE? Like no wait ok I’m going to count. That was 11 pages ago, including a chapter break that would have included at least a week of waiting during the original release.

That sure was a *gestures vaguely at cliffhangers in general* choice

But absolutely absurd timing aside, Tomoyo’s clarification comes swooping in to say that yeah, no, the crumbling of reality isn’t a side effect of Evil Wolverine’s wish but actually IS the intended goal itself. I suppose if you were trying to bring someone back from the dead in a universe where that’s not possible you really would HAVE to ruin the laws of reality first in order for it to be even possible. So that checks out. I like that.

(And I really really enjoy the way Tomoyo looks at the top of the page like that look)

Oh Fai.

#Someone get this man a hug!#Kurogane where are you!#come here immediately your husband needs it #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 173 #Tomoyo #Fai #Evil Wolverine #Edit: Woops that page was a double page spread let's add that in now #Gosh that's gorgeous

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Chapitre 173 - The Wish to Overturn

Oh gosh don’t you love how we get a Sakura cover and it’s gorgeous with a touch of overwhelmingly sad?

She has her eyes closed, as if asleep - but not in a passive way this time. Her face is pointed upward, as if with awareness; her hands are open and poised as if doing something (maybe even holding something, or someone); and she’s floating above the ground, as if using magic. Which, like. The last time she was floating like that was in Infinity - which is how she arrived in the realm of dreams in the first place, but her pose here reinforces that it was with intention and purpose, and she’s working towards both.

Potentially connected to this idea, one of the long strands of material streaming off her clothing is stretching off panel, up above her, in the direction she’s looking, almost but not quite like a red string of fate connecting her to someone far away, especially since the other end of the fabric isn’t doing this.

It’s a really interesting touch that the petals of sakura blossoms are drifting down all around her, and even falling down to rest on the ground below her. It calls back to her physical body currently resting in a sakura tree, which she can’t see, because she’s not there, but something about the connection is reaching her even now and bleeding into her reality. Or is it perhaps a hint of several Sakuras in the plot, some fallen discarded, others still in motion.

Either way, she has a printed flower on her clothing, almost like a name tag, or a branding. And does that mean anything? That she’s surrounded by actual real sakura petals but still requires something else to assign her the Sakura identity? And the one intended to represent her on her clothing is so visibly a man-made imitation instead of the real thing?

But leaving all THAT aside, overlaid over the image is pattern like threads, weaving together and apart like direction of fate itself. So many possible futures, some crossing over, others not, all centered around Sakura and what she’s trying to accomplish - like the title says, her wish to overturn the dream that must end.

Oh! And there’s text! I almost forgot. It should say something along the lines of: Fragments of dream, falling all round, not even knowing, if she will awaken to the morning.

Which adds an even sadder layer to the whole thing, so yay. Thanks CLAMP.

#Let's play duck duck goose #but instead it's sakura sakura Sakura #You go Sakura you can do it!#Tsubasa #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Vol 173 #Also how interesting that it’s a Dream that must end #And that to fight it Sakura must be asleep #That’s a nice touch

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Ok I’m locking my answers into: the big swirly circle thing in the previous post was Seishirou using the power of the feather, but Lava Lamp just RUSHES IN and grabs it before he can finish.

And the blackness is whatever magic was coming out of the feather

And the branches are the tree retaliating to protect Sakura. Is that it? Am I close?

Ok so it’s either that, or he’s doing the branches thing on purpose to draw on their connection to Sakura? SO HE CAN LEAVE

NO WAIT NEW ANSWER HES USING THE FEATHER TO GO INSIDE THE TREE! OR USING THE TREE AS A DOOR?

IS THAT IT???

#The fun new clamp guessing game:#What is happening on page?#I think I’ve got it though I’m pretty happy now #liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #tsubasa #Vol 173 #Lava Lamp GUy #Fai #Kurogane #Tomoyo #Mokona #I do LOVE whenever we get the chance to have #a full family Shocked Face moment #:O :O :O :O

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OH is he trying to leave? Is he just ctrl alt deleting his way out of the fight? Good for him! He was trying to do that anyway. I appreciate the version of Seishirou that is more committed to just Leaving instead of the Additional Murder option.

Or is - oh!

Is he not the one doing that?

Is the feather going off on its own? Or is someone calling it from another dimension? Hmm.

OH or did Lava Lamp use magic on it to pull it closer to himself?

Hmmmm.

I assume this is not going to plan.

#...or is it?#Maybe Lava Lamp was TRYING to fill the room with an explosion of ink #The Splatoon Tactic if you will #I'm sure CLAMP will explain in just a moment #please hold #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 173 #Lava Lamp GUy #Seishirou #Listen I also love the TOMOYO reaction at the very top #because it could have been anyone #but they were like no yeah we want to draw Tomoyo #and its GORGEOUS

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Pikachu eat your heart out

#Can YOU find the Syaoran on the page?#*squints*#There he is!#Bzzt bzzt motherfucker #Tsubasa #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Vol 173 #Lava Lamp Guy #I’m really just appreciating #That the ball of lightning is like thirty times larger than him #How many Syaorans can you fit into a ball of lightning that big #How much magic does that take #Surely a LOT #Yet somehow still less than half of Fai #Amazing

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AND HE WENT INTO THE TREE TO GET INTO THE WORLD OF DREAMS!

OK OK OK I GOT IT

I HAVE SUCCESSFULY PARSED A MYSTERY EVENT

Also I think I actually love that Lava Lamp pulled Seishirou’s own move against him. Seishirou did this same thing in Edonis and just left mid-fight, and Lava Lamp was clearly watching and thought that’d be a pretty good idea actually.

The other thing it echoes is Infinity. Which means it’s confirmed: the traditional way into the world of dreams is to not tell anyone you’re going and then cause a shocking spectacle as your family watched helplessly from the sidelines as you vanish before their eyes. It’s tradition after all!

I do admit I thought retrieving Sakura would be like at the END of the plot.

But what does that mean? ARE we in the final stage of the plot? Are things really about to take off now? I assumed we had more worlds to go but maybe we don’t! Maybe this is it!

HOW MANY CHAPTERS ARE LEFT SIRI HELP

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Oh!

No! No thank you!

Not the cliff hanger I would like today!

It’s very careful not to show any hint of sleeve to betray who the hand belongs to. It’s even hard to tell if the billowing fabric obscuring the person is part of their costume or just an extension of Sakura’s dress, like we saw in the opening cover.

And even though it’s not the same dress as the cover image, she does still have petals around her!

Hopefully they’re the Sakura type of petals in the dark and not the Seishirou brand of petals in the dark.

Either way I’m very glad I’m leaping right into the next chapter because having this hanging over me would be maddening.

#what a handful #liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Vol 173 #Tsubasa #Sakura #and HAND #Is it Evil Wolverine?#Is it Lava Lamp?#Is it Syaoran?#Is it SEISHIROU?#I must know!#In minutes!

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Chapitre 173 - The Wish to Overturn

Oh gosh don’t you love how we get a Sakura cover and it’s gorgeous with a touch of overwhelmingly sad?

Oh! And there’s text! I almost forgot. It should say something along the lines of: Fragments of dream, falling all round, not even knowing, if she will awaken to the morning.

Which adds an even sadder layer to the whole thing, so yay. Thanks CLAMP.

#vol 173

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