Ekkusu [X] :: Clamp
VOLUME 7
:: translated by tenno yukie ::
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volume 06 ::
Holy Sword (SHINKEN I)
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Character File - Yutouji Satsuki
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volume 08
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volume 07
THEIR DESTINY WAS FOREORDAINED, 1999
X Holy Sword (SHINKEN I)
(tokiko's body explodes into pieces right before the two guys and the sword comes out of her body.)
fuuma : !!
(kamui just looks in shock as all the blood splashes on him... tokiko's head rolls over to his feet)
kamui (kneels, crying) : AHHHHHHHH
fuuma (thinking about his mother) : kaa-san... kaa-san... gave birth... to that sword... (cold sweat) and died... (kamui is still crying)
(some light suddenly surrounds the sword that's still floating in mid air)
tokiko (a ghost or spirit actually... appears) : ...don't cry ...i... ka...mu...i. kamui... don't cry... (kamui looks up in tears) this is my destiny. the destiny that I have chosen. there's no time for you to cry. take this sword and hide it in that place.
kamui (takes the sword) : eh...?
text : until that day comes... at the center of the five pointed star...
tokiko : in CLAMP academy. (she touches his face gently and begins to fade)
kamui : tokiko-san!! you still haven't told me anything yet! there's still so much I want to ask!!!
tokiko (hug him) : goodbye. my dear nephew. if it's you, perhaps destiny just may be altered. because you are kamui... (kamui gets flashbacks with his mother when he's young... then tokiko completely disappears) tokiko-san!!
kotori : KYAAAAA
(fuuma and kamui turns around at the screaming... kotori stares in horror at the blood and broken body pieces)
kotori : ...o...kaa...san...
fuuma : kotori!
young fuuma (in the flashback) : forget it, kotori. kaa-san died from sickness.
text : okaa-san
young kotori : wrong.
text : okaa-san!
young kotori : wrong!
young fuuma (hugging kotori) : that's not kaa-san. that's not kaa-san. kotori.
(kotori suddenly gets a rush of images... when she opened the sliding door to find the bloody pieces of her mother...)
text : okaa-san died in pieces.
(and fuuma's hugging her now)
kotori : onii...chan... is that... o...kaa...san...?
fuuma (hugging her tighter) : no!! that's not kaa-san! don't look, kotori!
kotori : o...kaa...san... turned into pieces... (her mom's head stared blankly at her) she died in pieces. KYAAAAAAA (runs toward the blood)
fuuma : kotori!
kotori (kamui grabs her in time, her hands still reaching out for the body pieces) : okaa-san! NOOOOOOOO ...o...kaa...san... (her eyes went blank) ...turned...into... pieces...
kamui (holding her face) : kotori...! look this way!!
kotori (stares blankly) : ...blood... (little kotori staring at the room) blood... everywhere... the deep red... the head... (little kotori staring at saya's head) the head fell off... a... AHHHHHHHHHH
kamui (trying to wake her) : KOTORI!! look at me!
kotori (beginning to get up) : head... (walking toward tokiko's head) ...kotori's... head...
kamui : fuuma! kotori is......! (fuuma was standing right behind him) fuuma...! (fuuma had that look like he was back in the trance) ...fuuma...? (the holy sword that kamui's been holding all this time suddenly started to give him a headache, fuuma just stares at him) fuuma...? what's wrong, fuuma!!
(kotori's walking toward tokiko's head, kamui jumps up to try to stop her, but fuuma grabs his hands and restrains him)
kamui : let go... fuuma...! kotori is...! (kotori's about to pick up tokiko's head)
fuuma (in kamui's ear) : ...two holy swords were born...... and... "kamui" also...
kamui (struggle) : ...fuuma... (fuuma lets him go) fuuma...? (kamui turns around to look at him, and fuuma has a really strange smile)
kotori (hugging tokiko's head) : ...head... ...kotori's... turned into pieces... head... (all this blood... tokiko's... her mothers...) ko...to...ri...'s... kotori...'s he...ad... (the floor that she's standing on starts to turn into water... and she's sinking) kotori's... ko...to...ri...'s... (sinking completely) kotori's...
(she's in this alternative dimension/water world thing, and the head that she's holding has her face on it... she seems normal in the water world)
text : who is calling me...... the water quivers. whose voice...... who? (walk around) it's warm... I'm in the water and it's so warm...... I want to stay here forever. (smile) forever and ever. (sees a shadow swimming in the distance) ......what's that...? a fish...? (it's a mermaid with saya's face) mermaid...? o...ka...a-san... okaa-san! (happily runs to hug her)
kotori : okaa-san, I'm so happy to find you here. I've been looking for you for so long. I'm lonely because I can't see okaa-san...... okaa-san, why are you here? why are you a mermaid?
saya : ...because i am a sinful woman...
kotori (surprised) : ...sin...
saya : ...i... for the one I loved, I entered a marriage without love...
kotori : one you loved?
saya : I thought it was alright for me to die for the one I loved... therefore, I married...... into the togakushi temple...
kotori : ...okaa-san... what are you saying...?
saya : ...she was special. ever since the time we first met, tooru alone was special. I knew that when I met tooru for the first time in high school... I will die for this person... because she's special... therefore... that day in togakushi temple, I choose to die for tooru.
kotori : okaa-san...?
saya : marriage for me... just meant to be married into the togakushi temple. as long as I can stay at togakushi, it didn't really matter whom. I was content just to stay at that place until the day I give birth to that sword for tooru.
kotori : that's a lie! but okaa-san and otou-san looked seemed so loving together... always seemed very happy...
saya : for me, only tooru is special. I was born for tooru, and died for tooru.
kotori (crying in disbelief) : but... but that's... a lie...!
saya (touch her face) : kotori... my daughter. you too, are the same as me... (her image dissolves) you will also die for the person you love.
kotori : kyaaaaaaaaaaa! (and she begins to sink into the water) [the pain... I can't breath...! (struggling, kamui and fuuma's image appears but she can't reach them) kamui-chan, onii-chan...! pain... (keeps on sinking) ...i will sink to the bottom of that darkness like this... maybe I won't be able to get out again...]
(lots of hands grabbing for her from the darkness that she's sinking into, but suddenly two wires wrap around her arm and pulls her back up.)
kakyou (if you seen the anime, he wasn't there) : it's dangerous... to fall like that, you'll never make it back.
kotori (half conscious) : who...?
kakyou : over here. come back.
(kotori begins to surface and she finds herself in a very strange room. it looks like another dimension... with floating boards just in the space around her but in the center of the room, is a floating surface with a bed on it. the bed is curtained and has a lot of wires attached to it.)
kotori (through the curtains, she sees there's someone on the bed with a lot of wires attached to him body and arms... like in the hospital) : who... ... are you?
kakyou : ..."the one who passes dreams"... (kotori's standing next to his bed now, though she still can't see him)
kotori : ...passes... dreams...?
kakyou : you were almost captured by a dream. because you have experienced something terrible, your heart refuses to awaken.
kotori : ...i am asleep?
kakyou : ... your heart.
kotori : ...heart...
kakyou : you were born with the gift of a dreamer. if you don't let that power awaken, you will continue to sleep like that.
kotori (crying) : my mother...
kakyou : even in the dream, you've seen terrible things. you were very close to self destruction.
kotori : you... saved me? thank you...
kakyou : ...don't cry... or else you'll be drowning in the "sea of tears" again.
kotori (surprised) : ..."sea of tears"...?
kakyou : didn't you almost drown in your dream, (sits up) that was the tears from your own heart.
kotori (lean closer) : why are you in bed...? are you sick...?
kakyou : ... I am the same as you. always being asleep. "until the day to chose the end of the earth".
(an image of kamui standing over earth, holding the 2 holy swords, and 2 pair of wings, the white feather and the black bony ones.)
kotori : the "earth" 's...... end?
kakyou : that's right. to decide how the earth will be afterwards.
kotori : who...?
kakyou : ......
kotori : is it alright if I come a little closer?
(the moment she touches the curtains, the room begins to fade and she's taken to another dream... standing by the ocean with seagulls flying overhead)
kotori : ...this place is...?
kakyou (walk up from behind her) : inside my dream.
kotori : your...? (turn around)
kakyou : because you are use to dreaming, I can do this and pass you my dream.
kotori (smile) : hello. I am kotori.
kakyou : kotori......... that's a pretty name.
kotori : tell me your name.
kakyou (you see... a guy with white hair and long bangs so you don't see his eyes) : kakyou...
kotori : ka... kyou... are you always asleep? and can't wake up no matter what?
kakyou : ......... until the "promised day".
kotori : aren't you lonely...?
kakyou : my heart has died a long time ago. so I can't feel lonesome.
kotori : no way... isn't there someone you want to see?
kakyou : ...... "the person I want to see"... is not in this word anymore. (he looked so sad for a second) not in any world...... anymore... .........
kotori (touched by his sadness, crying again) : did they die......?
kakyou : ...... you could say that.
kotori (runs up and hugs him) : that's so sad...
(the moment she touches kakyou, he could sense her thoughts)
kotori : you must really like that person. really thought they were special. I understand. your heart is crying... the feeling of sadness... the heartbreaking pain. I can feel it...
(kakyou sees the image of kamui from kotori... and a kamui with black wings and bloody tears appears in the middle of their dream.)
kakyou : ["kamui"......] (he pats kotori) ...this is not good. you're synchronizing with my heart... you'll die from heartbreak... ...you... know kamui right. now that I am synchronized with you, I can fee your heart. you are also related to the "end of the earth".
kotori : you just said "kamui", do you mean kamui-chan...?
kakyou (pointing for an image of kamui he made out of glass) : you see "kamui" like this.
kotori (a little confused) : eh? and you see him differently?
kakyou : as for me, (a crystal in the shape of a cross forms in his hand) "kamui" looks like this. "kamui"... "kamui" 's twin star will awaken soon.
kotori : ...twin star...?
kakyou : well... it's time to go back. or else your heart really will die. (takes kotori's hand)
kotori : go back...?
kakyou : you live in tokyo, don't you. (kotori nods) I just had a vision, so I'll just tell you.
kotori : vision...? (she suddenly finds herself standing over japan, a glass made japan *clamp sure likes glass stuff* kakyou points his finger and a piece of the city tokyo falls apart, kotori looks shocked and picks up the broken pieces of glass) where... is this?
kakyou : nakano district...... in seven minutes from now, it will collapse. don't go near there. (he creates a pair of wings in his hand and send it to kotori. kotori begins to fly away.)
kotori : kakyou...!
kakyou : your spirit is still in the sleeping state, probably won't ever awaken again. I'll see you.
(kotori flies out of the surface of the watery dream world... meanwhile, with the holy sword on the side, fuuma is still in the trance talking to kamui...)
fuuma : ...the time to chose is closing in. (pick up the sword) "kamui", (hold the sword to kamui's neck) chose your own destiny.
kamui : fuuma... (he's bleeding)
fuuma : "kamui", chose your own destiny. and the destiny of earth...
(kamui's blood drips, that drop turns into the earth, torn apart by the dragons who are fighting each other...)
kamui : FUUMA!!
fuuma : "kamui"...
(kamui tries to push fuuma back, but he gets thrown back by a shield fuuma created.)
kamui : fuuma... (and fuuma just looks at him very coldly, suddenly the whole temple is hit with a high energy pulse, with the walls and windows blown out...) !! (he turns to find fuuma kneeling, the holy sword cast aside, holding his head in pain) ...fuuma...
fuuma : ...kamu...i...
kamui : ...fuuma, have you returned...?
fuuma : returned...? what are you talking about?
kamui : ! [again! he lost his memory! of the things that just happened...]
(suddenly both of them snap out of it when they hear a strange giggle...)
both : KOTORI!!
kotori (walking over holding tokiko's head, with a crazy giggle) : look... (holds out her hand, still with those glass pieces of tokyo) just a little longer... (look out the window) ...nakano will collapse. he said seven minutes later, it's almost time... (her eyes still blank)
kamui : ...koto... ...ri...
(thundering outside, and for a moment, kamui sees the thunder form an image of a dragon and hits nakano)
kamui : [DRAGON!?]
fuuma : !!
(the temple starts to shake very violently, parts of the house falling apart)
fuuma : kamui! kotori! (he runs over and grabs both of them and covers them, kotori still has that crazy smile)
(meanwhile in a much clearer image, a thunder dragon completely surrounds nakano. arashi and sorata both looks up in the sky in shock...)
sorata (still holding the phone) : !
people : kyaa! earthquake!?
(sorata shields arashi from the broken glass falling on them from the phone booth... yuzuriha also looks up suddenly from where she's at, on the train, which came to a sudden stop... daisuke is standing next to her, supporting her.)
passengers : kyaaaaa! kyaaa!
daisuke : are you alright?
passengers : yaaaaaa! earthquake!? it's so strong!
(in the office somewhere, the tables starts to shake and seiichirou looks up from his paper, while everyone else in the office is shuffling through their documents)
people : kyaa! the original! the original!!
(on one of those night streets, karan also looks up at the sky in the nakano direction from her room... kusanagi also turns to look at the nakano direction, somewhere, subaru tilts his cigarette and looks up at the thunder in the sky. in the lab where nataku is kept...)
scientist : earthquake...? it's so loud even underground, it must be amazing above. (nataku slowly opens his eyes...)
(yuuto and satsuki watches nakano burn from the roof of city hall...)
people (of the nakano district) : earthquake!? (blood and flying magic paper... seishirou smiles)
(in the basement of the parliament house, hinoto faints)
hien & souhi : princess!
(kanoe is sitting in her seat under the city hall building, smiling to herself, also in a sleeping state, in the dream, they meet...)
kanoe : ......another kekkai has been broken.
hinoto : ...kanoe...
kanoe : one of the land dragons... sakurazukamori. one of the kekkais that protects the nakano district, the nakano sun-plaza has been tainted by blood.
hinoto : what...!
kanoe : nakano district's kekkai broke. this earthquake made the nakano sun-plaza collapse.
hinoto (praying) : [..."kamui"!]
kanoe : ..."kamui". the one who can become a sky dragon or a land dragon. the key to the future of this earth. but... "kamui" might not just be one person.
hinoto (shock) : why do you!
kanoe : nee-san... I am your only blood relative. the one who can pass through your dream with you. although I can't predict the future like you do, I can peek in on you who passes into the future in your dreams. the other "kamui"... did you meet him yet? nee-san.
hinoto : ......
kanoe : I... just might've found him.
hinoto : !?
kanoe : the other "kamui." yes, "kamui" 's twin star. "kamui" 's two futures... nee-san. your prediction of the future has never been wrong. it's an absolute "tomorrow". but... perhaps "kamui" can change that. we'll see how long tokyo's kekkais can last.
hinoto : KANOE! why are you doing this, gathering the land dragons!? why do you wish for the destruction of this world? !
kanoe (touch hinoto's face) : ...it's for you, sister.
hinoto : ...for me...?
(suddenly another dream just passes through theirs, one of oceans and seagulls...)
kanoe : a dream...?
(and the other dream leaves)
hinoto : whose dream... just passed us!?
(all of tokyo is shaking outside, people running around screaming...)
people : kyaaaa
(and somewhere in a normal looking room, there's a bed covered in curtains, someone lying in there with wires all over his body...)
kanoe : the dream just now... whose dream...?
hinoto : was that... a dreamgazer's dream...?
kanoe : ...how...... it just "passed through" nee-san's dream......
hinoto : ......to be able to do that... a sky dragon......
kanoe (smile) : or perhaps, a land dragon.
(back in the temple...)
fuuma (look up) : [it stopped.] (to kamui) are you alright? (they both look at kotori)
kotori (still giggling) : kakyou was right. (really crazy look) nakano collapsed.
kamui : ...... ..kakyou...? (shakes kotori violently) kotori! look at me! kotori!!
kotori : hey. I almost drowned in the sea of tears...... okaa-san was there. okaa-san turned into a mermaid... (kamui and fuuma both looks at her in shock) it's kakyou... he saved me. he said, I'm really suppose to be dreamgazer...
kamui (think about hinoto and kanoe) : dreamgazer...!?
kotori (hold out her hand to display the glass pieces) : kakyou told me, nakano would collapse... don't go there... (smile) kakyou also knows kamui-chan... (an image of the crystal cross) "kamui" 's twin star is about to awaken. just about. (she faints)
both : kotori! (fuuma catches her)
kamui : ...twin star...
(sorata and arashi gets up...)
sorata : that was different from a usual earthquake.
arashi : ...a kekkai...
sorata : yeah, another broke.
arashi (look at sorata who's still holding her) : ......how much longer are you going to hold me?
sorata (*they make a cute couple ^.^*) : for life. (next... arashi kicks his butt...) ouch! OUCH!! (T.T) oh, even this pain represents nee-chan's love-----
arashi : ...... (lets go of him)
sorata (a time out sign) : enough of these cute little love jokes. (looks much more serious) the place is...
arashi : most likely-- nakano sun-plaza.
sorata : let's go see. might be a chance to meet someone from the land dragons.
(in the train)
daisuke : are you alright?
yuzuriha : yep.
daisuke : the earthquake just now...
yuzuriha : seems like a another kekkai broke.
daisuke : !!
yuzuriha : saiki-san, you're so nice! you were supporting me so I wouldn't fall. (smile)
daisuke (a little embarrassed scratch head) : it... it's alright...
yuzuriha (bow, bow) : thank you very much. (then she opens the train window)
daisuke : w...... what are you doing!!
yusuriha : we're almost at the train station, let's walk there together.
daisuke (sweatdrops, as a train full of people look at them) : b... but...
yuzuriha (already climbing out) : it's alright, it's alright! the train won't be moving for now. and we can't keep aoki-san waiting. (outside) hurry------
daisuke (shakes his head, blushing a little, then climb out with a sweatdrop) : ...
(somewhere... subaru chants one of his own spells... I guess to figure out who's responsible... and the spell returns him a five pointed star formed from sakura peddles...)
subaru : ...sakurazukamori...... (and he runs off into the crowd)
text : that reversed five pointed star. that's......
subaru : [sakurazuka's mark...]
(the next picture takes some knowledge of tokyo babylon... anyway, while subaru's running, he sees his own reflection on some glass on the side of the street, and in the reflection, there's a five pointed star on his hand... subaru looks at his hand with a strange expression... he keeps on running, assuming to nakano)
kanoe : ...do you still remember that dream...?
hinoto : ......
kanoe : that was... (kotori's image forms from glass) this girl's dream, right?
hinoto : !
kanoe : I know. nee-san you saw this girl's dream...... this girl is the same as a dreamgazer, she can see dreams of the future. unlike nee-san, she doesn't "want to see the future". she only puts off her "faint nervousness of the future" as a dream...... yes. this dream...
(the glass kotori fades into pieces of glass again and surrounds hinoto... the real kotori is standing in the center of the circle... more like a recap of the dream...)
kanoe : because it was such a strong dream... even I was caught inside.
(seven hooded people appear out of the water and surrounds kotori...)
kanoe : the sky dragons and the land dragons. the seven seals and the seven angles. the people related to the end of the earth has come to gather in tokyo. to decide the future of this earth.
kotori (caught by the white winged kamui) : ...kamui-chan......!! kamui-chan!! what's wrong!? kamui-chan!! (sees the reflection in the water) ! (black winged kamui looks at her sadly) help me! help me! kamui-chan!! (tries to reach for the reflection in the water, kanoe and hinoto watches, the white winged kamui dissolve into feathers)
kanoe : this girl also knows that there are two "kamui".
(hinoto is blown back by feathers, and through all the white stuff sees faintly that kotori is falling on to the earth)
text : no... I'm going to crash... the earth... the earth will be destroyed... and it's my fault... the earth... will be destroyed... no... definitely no... but if this continues, it will crash... earth... the earth that kamui-chan and onii-chan are on... IF THE EARTH WILL BE DESTROYED... (hinoto screams)
kotori : [then...]
text : LET ME BE DESTROYED INSTEAD...
(she falls into pieces)
kanoe (picks up a piece of the broken glass) : and... she will also die for the future of the earth.
(kotori breaking into pieces on top of the earth)
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volume 07 character file
YATOUJI SATSUKI
(after school, a bunch of girls waving to satsuki who's leaving on a bike)
girls : goodbye. (satsuki smiles and nods) kya----! she nodded at us! isn't that good, yatouji senpai looks good! and she's smart! good at sports and very cool! I admire her! this is a girls school! cool senpais are just good to look at!
(down the street, a car stops satsuki)
man : I'm here to pick you up.
(satsuki looks at him expressionless, later at the lab, she is inside a big computer with lots of wires... a full map of the tree of life...)
scientists : initiate.
satsuki : yesod *fundation*, netzach *victory*, hod *splendor*, geburah *strength*
scientists : perfect. only 14 years old... and she can understand "sephiroth" so well...
satsuki : hesed *mercy*, tiferet *beauty*, binah *understanding*, chokmah *wisdom*, keter *crown*.
(the above names are the sephirah of the tree of life... you can look up more on that if you want... that's all I'm going into...)
scientists : the girl love by computers, satsuki. us freemason's treasure.
satsuki (inside the computer) : ...boring. (the computer beeps) humans are really boring. it's only fun when I'm with you guy. "kamui"... (the pic of the crystal appears on the computer screen) the one who's just about to appear, the one who holds the key to the future of the earth. I am one of the "seven angels". supposedly has to fight these people called the "seven seals". "kamui" is probably something like ain soph (something beyond the existence of god). something the limited conscious of a human cannot reach. the absolute existence beyond god. maybe something like you guys. all existence other than you guys are boring. (all the screens display the letter X) "kamui"... might bring a little more fun.
scientists (waving at her from outside) : satsuki! next test.
satsuki : ...boring. I had enough of this place. ...you think so too?
(the computer beeps and the word "kill" is printed repeatedly on the screen... the image of the scientists fades... KILL)
satsuki : then... let's leave.
end of volume 7
7 THE CHARIOT
SHINKEN
1) the sword given by god
2) the sword that is offered to god
yukie's note : I believe I'm goings more and more towards japanese... I use to use "mother" or "brother" instead of okaa-san or onii-chan... but I believe these words r so commonly used that even people who don't know japanese at all will know them because they just appear so much in anime... other words I tend to not translate in X is... onmyouji... the japanese sorcerer that subaru and seishirou is... subaru and seishirou are cross characters from tokyo babylon... I am thinking of translating that whenever I finish x or rg veda... (which I probably will this winter)... and clamp academy is a cross from... well... clamp academy. by the way... the word togakushi... as in togakushi temple means "hiding sword"...
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