“Arabian Nights” is a good example on how a story-teller should bring up her/his story. Keep the audience in suspense the whole time the story is being presented. Leave the story at the opportune place so that the audience would crave for more. I don’t think CLAMP would need to turn to “Arabian Nights” for guidance though, because they’re successfully doing so in Chapter 146. They leave enough (not too much, not too little) information for speculation and at the same time, leaving us curious to what will happen next. Just brilliant.
Chapter 146 consists mostly of fighting scene between Syaoran and the robot (automata). But that’s not the reason why it’s so interesting.
Reason no. 1: Fai, his mental state, and his interaction with Kurogane. Now that Ashura-ou had awakened (once again reminded by Chii), it seemed that Fai was thinking about running away. It’s not stated explicitly, but we can assume that from Fai’s thought and gesture. Then, out of nowhere (well, not really), Kurogane grabbed his (Fai’s) arm. (Fangirls would be squealing seeing it; I know I did ^_~)
This particular scene perfectly mimics the infirmary scene in Card Captor Sakura (when Yukito stopped Touya). It’s also equally as important. Call me crazy for overanalyzing things, but Kurogane doing so signified once again that he cares about Fai, that he knew something was amiss about Fai, and still, he didn’t give a damn about it (to make it fair, I’m sure that the rest of the company feel the same way).
The interesting thing was that how surprised Fai looked receiving the gesture. After what Kurogane (and others) had done for him, Fai should’ve known how much he cared about him. It looked as if Fai never had people truly cared for him his whole life that when somebody really did, he had hard time believing it.
Reason no. 2 (and this one’s substantially more important than “reason no. 1”): the future Sakura saw in her dream. I have to admit, I’m rather confused about it. In the previous chapters, Sakura declared that she wished to be able to cross dimension alone and choose which dimension to go because there’s something she wanted to change about the future. So, I always assume that the future she wanted to change would be happening in that particular dimension, not in Infinity. However, in Chapter 146, Sakura said that “The future I saw in the dream was something in this final battle. I won’t allow such a thing”. I’m completely at loss there.
But just lets’ forget my confusion for now. There’s something else about the dream, which is purely (my) speculation, but it’s worth to think about. At the scene where Sakura said that the future she had seen had been something in that final battle, glasses were shattered around her (it looked exactly like the scene in “X” where Hinoto mentioned about her dream). On those shattered glasses, there were faces of Syaoran and Kurogane. But Fais’ wasn’t there. Does it mean that the future had something to do with Fai? Will something bad happen to him during the course of the fight?
We’ll just happen to wait for next week to find out the answer. Hopefully, we’ll see what the future is (and whether Sakura could change it or not) and what Fai’s true motive really is (and if we’re lucky, more about his background).
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