Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Tsubasa Chronicle, xxxHOLIC, Tokyo Babylon, X, Card Captor Sakura, or any other works, which I might use - all worlds and characters belong to CLAMP; I am just using them to play out some of my speculations.
Warning: Plenty of speculation based on the mind screwy twists and questions which Tsubasa Chronicle left behind.
THANK YOU FOR READING "THE OTHER TWIN"!!!
"No way!! If Fai did such a thing, he'd end up unable to see anything!" Mokona protested vehemently.
"But…" said Fai, "that's about all I can pay…" A big whack followed that assertion, startling Kamui. Did the ninja just hit the magician, or were his eyes fooling him?
"I told you I'd hit you, didn't I?" Kurogane growled, pulling his fist back. He placed his hands upon his hips and continued, "Why would only you have to pay the price? If the princess's body is in that Celes-or-something country, then it's not just you that is going, is it?"
Price.
That single word, brought Kamui back to despair. Someone had paid for his ticket onto the figurative bus, called Mokona. But if the entire group was determined to go to Celes to retrieve Sakura's body, everyone would have to pay an extra fee to control the direction to which their journey would go. And Kamui had nothing to offer. What would he pay? What could he pay?
"Kamui." Kamui looked up. It was Mokona speaking to him. The image of Yuuko was gone. "We should get ready to leave now," Mokona said and hopped onto his shoulder.
Kamui frowned. "I have nothing with me," he said. He hoped that the little white bun would hear the emphasis he put into the word 'nothing'.
Mokona smiled. "Oh, then you're ready to go?"
Kamui sighed softly. "We'll see…" he mumbled.
When the group had readied themselves, they reassembled around Mokona. Mokona hopped onto Syaoran's shoulder and made contact with Yuuko, transmitting her face into the open air. "Everyone's ready," the little creature chirped to the image of the Dimensional Witch.
"Then, the four payments…" Yuuko said. "Hand over the prize money for the chess victory."
Hearing this from the Witch, Kamui blinked. Chess? He had not participated into the match…
Mokona voiced Kamui's thoughts before he could properly speak them. "But Mokona didn't take part…" the little bun-creature said.
"You did." Syaoran stared at the little white bun on his shoulder. "You we're with us properly. Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return."
"But I didn't." The group turned to stare at Kamui as he spoke. "I only arrived before the final battle. I have not been here properly to wait for you all." Kamui looked up at the Witch. "What will my payment be, Yuuko?"
Silently, Yuuko regarded Kamui with a long intent look. Then she said, "You should not be here, yet you are here. I have not received anything for your travelling, yet the price has been paid."
"What do you mean by that, Witch?" Kurogane demanded.
"It means that someone already paid my price for me to someone else," Kamui explained in Yuuko's place. He gave Yuuko a questioning look. "Who paid for me?"
"And to whom was the payment given?" Kurogane added, suspicion seeping into his voice.
"Those who paid your price are closest to you, yet are furthest removed from you," the Witch offered Kamui cryptically, but he was not fooled by it.
"Those?" he asked, "I have only one person dear to me."
"Who received the price?" Kurogane repeated, determined to get this question answered as well.
Yuuko, however, did not betray any more clues to the fellowship. "Kurogane," she said, "For a payment there must be a service. I have not received Kamui's payment, therefore Kamui cannot use my services. In short, no transaction has occurred between him and I. The service which Kamui receives at this moment comes from the person who has taken the payment. If you wish to know who this person is, then you must as Kamui. It is not up to me to tell you this."
Having said that, Yuuko ignored Kurogane, who desperately wanted to fire another question, in favour of Kamui. "Kamui, it is not up to me to solve your questions," she said, "but know that they will certainly be answered as you set out to find Subaru. That is inevitable." Yuuko paused to let the words sink in. She then continued with her following message, the importance of which she stressed by bending forward slightly as she spoke, "Understand, Kamui, that once you leave Celes, you cannot travel further with Syaoran, Fai, Kurogane and Mokona. The first price that was paid only allows you to journey past Celes."
"And the second?" Kamui demanded.
"You will cross that bridge once you reach it."
When the team was finally ready to go, Mokona and Fai combined their magic (as Mokona's magic alone was not enough to bring them all the Celes) and opened the trans-dimensional portal.
"Go," they heard Yuuko say. "To Celes country." And then, the portal closed behind them and they were once more travelling on the trans-dimensional paths.
"Are we there yet?" Syaoran asked, when suddenly another portal opened and a frozen landscape consumed by arctic storms emerged. With a sudden push, they fell out of the portal, but miraculously this time they landed perfectly on their feet. "This is…"
"… Celes." Fai took a few steps forward to stand at the edge of the cliff where they had landed. An enormous castle rose out from the depths before them, dominating the entire landscape.
"Where I was… Castle Ruval."
THEY'VE FINALLY REACHED CELES! WHAT SECRETS WILL BE REVEALED IN CASTLE RUVAL? KAMUI IS ONE STEP CLOSER IN UNCOVERING THE ANSWERS TO HIS QUESTIONS!!!