![]() ![]() He wants Syaoran to see this mark grow, and he does for many many years. ![]() Nadeshiko is able to see it seemingly because of her strong magical abilities, but as for Syaoran….the reason he can see this is because Fei Wang Reed wished for it, and this is yet another stage of his manipulation tactics. Sakura herself and the rest of her family are unable to see it, except for her mother Nadeshiko and of course Syaoran. Upon Syaoran’s hasty return to Clow and without even saying goodbye to his parents, he is immediately met with guilt when he sees Sakura and sees the death curse looming over her chest. As we know, Syaoran is nearly killed by Fei Wang’s attacks and is transported back to Yuuko’s in his own world to be treated, and he makes a wish to return, his price being a one way ticket with no promise of return. ![]() This statement will become the first of many that Fei Wang uses to try and manipulate Syaoran. Sakura is recognized to have been given a death curse that will eventually consume and kill her, and when Syaoran attempts to fight him, Fei Wang Reed states “You will fight for the sake of your wish? Will your wish and mine become the same?”. The hand you were unable to grab due to a moment’s hesitation…has decided the path for the future to come”. This choice would of course affect the path of everything afterwards, exactly to Fei Wang Reed’s plan, and from the very beginning, he plants a seed in Syaoran’s mind by stating to him “The future resides on the other side of our choices. Shadows began to envelop her, and when Syaoran reached out to take her hand and pull her out, he hesitated for a moment and chose not to grab it as he did not want to ruin all of the hard work she had put into her purification rites by touching her. His target appeared to be Sakura, and Syaoran desperately attempted to save her. On the day of Sakura’s 7th birthday (which was also Syaoran’s), Fei Wang Reed appeared and attacked them in the pool within the ruins of Clow. The moment I am referring to in particular is young Syaoran’s (the real one) fateful 7th birthday with Sakura. But I consider this moment in my mind to have come ‘first’ as it was the catalyst that started this whole fiasco to begin with. Rather than starting in the order that CLAMP presents it, I’m actually going to start in “chronological” order, and I have the word chronological in quotes here because technically time flows in a circular motion here rather than in a linear direction, which ultimately becomes the main root of the conflict. With that said, let’s dive in! And hold on to your butts, cuz’ this is gonna be a long one (like seriously, I wrote 27 pages, please help). Endings are one of the hardest things to write in a story, but I hope to explain this in a satisfying way that helps any left confused better understand the overall situation in the final battle as well as how things were left off. Sometimes they are messy, and even CLAMP is not excluded from this from time to time. It’s also fair to put a disclaimer here that not all endings are perfect. This “explanation” I write may also be more of a summary, but I think it will help those who looked at the pages and did not understand what was happening visually. But no need to fear! Chrissy is here! I’m going to do a deep dive of the ending and do my absolute best to explain it as simply as possible, but know that some of this is just a theory as some questions were never fully answered by CLAMP and simply left to our imaginations. Many have understandably experienced a lot of confusion regarding the ending of Tsubasa. ![]()
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