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[4 - redux]

Huge thank you to @five-p-m for hunting down alternate translations of this scene and putting them in the comments! I've edited this translation into the places that make the most sense to me (since Kodansha also had text in the wrong speech bubbles) and here we go! An actually readable version of these pages.

Some big changes include:

Lava Lamp and Watanuki actually feel like they’re talking to each other

It’s now clear they AREN’T planning on trading in Evil Wolverine’s curse

We can tell that Watanuki and Lava Lamp are going to help decipher appropriate prices for each other, to help arrive at the correct balance

And most importantly, they don’t just loudly announce “THE PRICE!” in the final panel, like Kodansha said. Here it’s much much clearer that their sentence trails off and they decide their prices off screen. When we return to them on the next page, they are opening their eyes again, having said their price where we can’t see. (see the Kodansha page below)

THIS ALL MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE.

I've looked up the original:

「侑子さんがいれば ふさわしい対価を 教えてくれるかも しれないけれど」 ("If Yuuko were here, she might be able to tell us the appropriate price.")

「今は・・・・ 居ないから」 ("But now… she’s not here so… ")

「自分の事は 自分では わからない けれど おれ達は 同じだけど 同じじゃないから」 ("A person doesn’t know about oneself However, we are the same but we are not the same")

「分かるかも しれない お互いの対価が ここから出るのに 見合うのか」 (We might understand If each other’s price for getting out of here fits/is proportionate)

「飛王が最後に かけた呪い」 ("The final curse cast by Fei Wong")

「大事なもので なければ 対価にならない」 ("If it's not important it can't become the price")

It seems like the official translator, Wiliam Flanagan, was confused by this dialogue. Which is super relatable! >_<

When Lava Lamp says: 分かるかもしれない  "wakaru kamo shirenai" — it could mean "I might understand" or "we might understand", there is no indication grammatically. So William Flanagan translated this part as "I may know the answer! I just don't know if it matches the price of leaving here!" and it makes sense to translate it this way. But Fail Manga's interpretation where Lava Lamp continues Watanuki's thought makes better sense and is probably closer to what CLAMP meant.

The readability of this page in the official version is not helped by the fact that the order of the word bubbles got messed up, as you've pointed out. 😔

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