There's no going back to those days,
but I swear that now, I'll beat out your sorrow
I may not overcome it unharmed,
exhaustively marking the footprints
of the journey to meet you again
You once taught me that
the pounding of the heart is what drives us on
They haven't taken our future away,
and knowing that, I can go on
Just go on
As long as you smile, as long as you can sing,
that becomes everything that I desire
Wow
The courage you've given me, the kindness you've shown me,
gives me the strength to look forward and walk on
I shall have my wish granted.
That's the scar that I gave you.
What is that?
The Princess's feather!
King Ashura told me
that when the moon is at its highest point in the sky,
you can go to the castle, if you come here.
King Ashura...
Princess! What are you doing here?
Moko-chan told me that one of my feathers was here.
Both of you, come here.
Where is King Yasha?
Dead. He has been for some time now.
Then, who was that just a moment ago?
A phantom. A projection of him,
made to look by that feather as though he were alive.
The battle with the Yasha clan has been long.
One day, as I was crossing swords with King Yasha, I realized it.
King Yasha had fallen ill.
The reason why I was able to wound King Yasha,
when the two of us should have been evenly matched,
was because of his illness.
I had a dream.
But, it wasn't a dream.
What are you doing here?
When we can only confront each other at the moon castle?
I see...
It was King Yasha's spirit.
King Ashura died, and became a spirit, who came to me.
To say an eternal farewell.
But, the next day,
King Yasha came to the moon castle, when he should have been dead.
He had been made into a phantom, by the feather's power.
I could not bring myself to dispel King Yasha,
even without the scar I had given him.
Even though he was just a phantom.
Is this what you were looking for?
Yes.
Then I'll return it to you.
Is your wish granted?
Then, now it's my turn.
You don't mean...
It is said that whoever controls the moon castle
is able to have their wish granted.
I, Ashura, control the moon castle.
I now make my wish-- my true wish!
Sure enough, even having obtained the moon castle,
it seems my wish is too weighty to be granted.
King Ashura! The castle is crumbling! Quickly, this way!
No.
Quickly! King!
I said no.
King Ashura!
Syaoran...
If you give up, everything is finished.
Keep on wishing. Fervently... fervently...
No matter who you may be...
...no matter what anyone may force you to do...
Keep on wishing. Your true wish.
Syaoran-kun!
Today more than yesterday, and tomorrow more than today.
Every time you fight, you grow stronger. That's the strength, all right.
The castle that could not grant my wish now crumbles, does it?
My true wish, to have King Yasha brought back to life,
could not be granted after all.
Nobody is able to bring the dead back to life.
Not even a being we would call a god.
Whose teaching is that?
It's one of the things I've learned on my journey.
I see.
A god, huh?
King Ashura!
Can you hear me, witch?
I hear you.
Syaoran and Sakura...
If it weren't for those two, I might not have ever made up my mind.
I have a request.
I will need compensation, commensurate with your desire.
I know.
Then what do you wish?
Make me and King Yasha gods in the world to come.
Why?
As testament that there are things that even a god cannot do.
Those who have crossed over to the underworld can never return.
Like a burning flame, not a single thing is the same in the flow of time.
Let us tell others that it is because we change,
and because we can never return,
that they should live the only lives they have without remorse,
by making us gods.
King...
Sakura...
If you ever find even a portion of the remains of the two kings,
then please, be good enough to bury them together, as a pair.
Syaoran...
If you would.
All right.
Is this... a new world?
Nope.
It looks like we're back in the land of Shara.
Is that you, Fai-san?
Mm-hmm. Kuro-pon and I are the honest-to-goodness, genuine articles.
The place where we landed was a world called the land of Yama,
where the Yasha clan lived.
Mokona wasn't there, so Kuro-run and I couldn't understand each other.
But Kuro-pi more or less understood the Yasha clan's language,
so I left all the talking to Kuro-pi,
while I made myself out to be a man of extremely few words.
Why were your eyes a different color?
I don't know the reason why, but as we stayed in the land of Yama,
they just gradually became darker.
But, in that case, you could have told us when we first ran into each other.
Oh, well, Kuro-pooey said--
Don't tell him, you idiot!
He said that if you knew it was really us, Syaoran-kun,
that you wouldn't fight like you really meant it.
He's still your teacher, Syaoran-kun, even such that he is.
What do you mean, even such that I am?!
Is that right? Thank you very much.
Yay! Kuro-sama is acting bashful!
Who are you calling bashful?!
He's angry!
Hold it!
He's bashful, he's bashful!
Are you awake, Princess?
Where are we?
It looks like we've returned to the land of Shara.
Madame Karen!
Are you not feeling well, or something?
Did you collapse by the roadside?
My, you poor thing.
Do you live nearby? What's your name?
Um, don't you remember us?
Do we know them?
Beats me.
You must have us confused with some other people.
We belong to the Suzuran Troupe.
Oh, it's you guys!
Thanks for looking after us earlier.
What are you talking about?
Oh, you finally showed up, did you?
It's those young men from Soseki-sama's place!
Every time I see them, they're so gentlemanly!
And handsome!
Today is truly an auspicious day.
We are humbled with gratitude that you would come to our shrine.
Cut that out, it doesn't suit you. You can just act like you always do.
Really? In that case, we'll avail ourselves of your offer, ladies.
Suddenly, those folks are getting along with each other.
It doesn't look like they know us, either.
What's going on here?
Hey, don't ask me.
We bring you a message from Madame Karen.
She says that even chance meetings are the result of karma from past lives.
Today is a joyful day of celebration.
All of you, please, come and join in the celebration.
What celebration?
--A wedding! --A wedding!
Suzuran-san!
And Soseki-san!
We really are grateful that everyone was kind enough
to gather here today for the two of us.
Once, here in the land of Shara, there was a long period of war, and--
Hey, none of that! We're supposed to be celebrating today,
so what's the point of addressing everyone so ceremoniously?!
M-Maybe you're right.
Of course I am.
What Suzuran-chan said!
Soseki-sama, if you back down now,
she'll henpeck you for the rest of your life!
Ladies of the troupe, and gentlemen of the shrine,
thanks so much for coming today.
Thanks to Soseki-sama's good graces,
we will be able to look upon our gods with our own eyes today
for the first time in a long time. Look!
Is that...
This statue, in the image of our gods, Ashura and Yasha,
has them enshrined here together, forever,
from the time it was made, down through to today,
never to be separated.
We're going to follow after Ashura-sama and Yasha-sama,
and never leave each other.
The statue of Ashura and the statue of Yasha are together.
What's going on?
Hey, look at that!
A-Are these...
They're what we were wearing.
Do those belong to you two?
Yes. The women of the troupe from the land of Shara had us put them on.
We took them off when we changed clothes in the land of Shura,
where we left them.
You mean, they stayed behind in the land of Shura.
What's going on? Why would something left in another world
be here in this one? Huh?
It could be...
...that the land of Shura was what the land of Shara was
in the distant past, couldn't it?
What do you mean?
After we dropped down here in the land of Shara,
couldn't we have gone into Shara's past,
which is where the land of Shura was?
And then, once again, we've returned to the land of Shara.
The location is the same, so we went from present to past,
and then past to present, moving only through time, huh?
You could ask this guy to find out, right?
How about it, Mokona?
Mokona doesn't really remember.
Good grief, whenever he's needed, he's no use.
Just like you, Kurogane.
What was that?!
But why would things be this different?
It might be...
If you ever find even a portion of the remains of the two kings,
then please, be good enough to bury them together, as a pair.
If you would.
The future was changed, then?
In the previous land of Shara, there was only one statue of Ashura.
The same for the statue of Yasha.
When I came from the future,
the people of the Ashura clan must have taken in what I told them then,
and in this statue of the two of them, which was created afterward,
they were enshrined together, inseparate.
Since their gods got along so well,
the conflict between them disappeared, too.
It does go along with that mythology they spoke of earlier, I guess.
That's great. Everyone seems to be happy.
Still...
Hey, white manju bun, doesn't this mean that you could have
just dropped us down in the land of Shura in the first place?
King Ashura and King Yasha's swords!
You've sucked in the insides of their guardian deities...
A-Are you sure that's okay?
Maybe you shouldn't have done that.
Mokona Modoki is all excited!
Here, Syaoran-kun, hold Sakura-chan.
To make sure you don't get separated.
--All right! --Hey, what are you doing?!
Making sure we don't drop somewhere else this time.
I have indeed accepted your compensation
for making you two gods.
That witch. To think that she had the power not only
to move things through dimensions, but through time, as well...
The woman possesses formidable magic power.
The witch is aware of it, all right.
The power in the ruins.
Just like Clow Reed was.
Although, while he may have been somewhat of a nuisance,
Clow Reed is dead. The only one who stands in the way
of my plans now is the Dimensional Witch.
What will you do now? You have no more moves now, do you?
It's true, I have made all the moves that I can.
But the situation changes daily.
I will have to start preparing some new moves.
You haven't yet realized
that the two of us have the power to change even yesterday
For no reason, I'm lonely (lonely)
with tears streaming down my face
I'm missing my one and only (only)
the one I trace out in the sky, and that's you
Take my, take my hand, and let's go on together,
reach out, reach out your hand, and catch hold of the wind,
take my, take my hand, and do not be afraid,
hold my, hold my hand, and I can fly,
when I'm with you
--Puu! --Puu!
Princess, why do you look like that?
What about you, Syaoran-kun?
Wow, everyone looks so cute, huh?
Sheesh, is this any time to be so cheerful?!
What is everyone so surprised at? Just wait until you see!
Tsubasa Chronicles, "Mokona the Artist."
Next time, your heart will pound over everything!