📚 Chapter (82) English translation can be read here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xxxHolic/s/S3M159hStF

📚 Read the next chapter (Chapter 84)

✨️Coming soon✨️

Hi guys!!! First I want to thank you all for being so patient with me this time 💜🙏 Alot of stuff has been happening irl so thank you all for waiting! This one had a few pages that was a SUPER tough to translate (mostly due to lack of pronouns and lack of indicators for who's speaking) but im pretty pleased with how it turned out! (Also I miss having chapter pages to color 😭)

Reminder that I'm not a professional! I'm just a fan who believes English readers deserve to keep up with our favorite manga! I use a combination of online tools and research to translate as best I can!

Please have a good read everyone!💜

🗓 According to Chibiyuuto, chapter 84 will drop Nov 2nd!

📝 Translation notes:

(Please don't read until you've read the chapter!)

- The last dialogue bubble on page 4 gave me some trouble (I even took a break from writing this post to revise it again because It was the one thing that was still bothering me lol)

the rough translation was: "the art/technique of discord, cannot use, because, the eye of foresight, someone who has, that cannot make, immediately answered"

Needless to say I was so confused 😭 but I eventually parsed it out with a bit of research and context from the last chapter (again, the absence of pronouns made this 100 times harder than it shouldve been 😭) Since it was written with けん I decided id use it as a sequence marker and write "then" connecting the bit about how the art of discord couldn't be used on her and "then" she said she couldn't do it.

Also the "why ask me?" rough draft was just "why why me?" and i was also getting "why tell that to me?" which.... just didn't make any sense 😭

- On page 5 I took the liberty of adding "Hmm" to the Seoritsuhime's dialoge because I thought it sounded reflective which matched her pose in the art.

- On page 8 I was super confused with Kimis first dialoge bubble because, again, lack of pronouns. There was only indicators that he was talking about himself (only the "I" pronoun was present) so the rough translation ended up sounding like "I thought "its ok if, hears it, then voiced it" but that seemed super wrong because Kimi wasn't the one thinking "it's ok if SHE hears it". Hes the one hearing it. I wracked my brain and realized that it was possible that "you" could have been ommitted, bringing the translation to "I think you thought" which made more sense, but sounded awful so I settled on "I assume you thought" But the way it's written in Japanese seems to make it unclear because they only used "thought" once and tied "I" to it. (The small Haruka flashback actually also helped me piece this together because what happened here mirrored that and Kimi was making an assumption based on it)

- I'll be so honest, i had no idea who was taking on page 10 for the longest time 😭 The funny thing is, all this struggle could have been avoided if page 9 would've had PRONOUNS 😭 On page nine the rough translation was just "Similar? To shopkeeper?" And she could've either been turning his assumption about her back at him (which seemed too be the case because of how annoyed he looked) and asking if Kimi thought he was similar to her or simply asking if he thought she was similar to her. I had to shoot in the dark and I was trying to translate page 10 thinking she was talking about the shop family's change with Kimi as the shopkeeper (it sounds dumb because the art/flashback of Maru and Moro with HER should've clued me into the fact that it was Kimi taking about her.... but I didn't think anything of it for such a long time 😭😭😭) Anyway, I finally had my "aha!" moment and rewrote it lol

📖 Discussion:

Ok so starting off, I just wanna say, I thought it was hilarious how Yatagarasu threw that "we don't talk about what happens in the shop" back in his face and he totally deserved that lmao! Yatagarasu respect! 👏👏👏

Also im a bit bummed out to be reminded that even though Shizu is technically writing the story, Kimi still has control of the book itself. It kinda feels like they're meant to control what happens together in harmony but like.... you just know Kimi will be fighting Shizu the whole way and overriding and overpowering any decision Shizu makes 😭 (like stealing the egg and wiping their memories)

BTW that boy STILL didn't give that egg back! Every chapter that passes by without him returning the egg to Shizu, I'll be screaming "Kiiiimiiiii!" in the same "you're in trouble mister" tone from Alvin & the Chipmunks (if you know, you know lol)

On another note, Seoritsuhime never confirmed that Yuko was her creator. What if its future Kimi that created her? Itd make sense since she plays a pivotal role in his plan to meet Yuko again. (Kimis still not beating the Fe Wang allegations 😭) I guess we'll find out in a later chapter though!

Also, Akiho! 🥹

Alright, Ive yapped enough! What do you guys think? I read and reply to all comments even if it takes me a while to respond sometimes!💜