Spoiler Alert: The following contains major spoilers from TRC’s chapter 147 onwards. Read at your own risk!
Let’s see what happened so far on Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. Fai was cursed to kill those who’re stronger magically than himself (in exchange of his freedom). Fai stabbed Sakura a la Sakurazukamori. Sakura’s wish was to go alone to a dream where her feather was located (which was fulfilled--Sakura’s soul went to the dream while her body went to Celes). Fai offered his right eyesight to Yuuko as a price of his wish, which was contrary to his initial one, to return to Celes.
I must admit that I was extremely shocked when Sakura was stabbed. Knowing CLAMP (especially with chapter 120 still lingering in the back of my mind), I shouldn’t have surprised, but still. I was so dejected after reading chapter 148 (or was it 147? sorry, I read it online and didn't save it to my computer) that I refused to relate with anything Tsubasa-related for a whole week. Very unlike-me. I even changed my Tsubasa desktop wallpaper--featuring the gang with smile all over their faces (even Kurogane smiles!)--to “Hey Arnold!” because I couldn’t stand seeing them with such happy-joy-joy expression. Yes, call me crazy for obsessing over a manga to that extent.
Back to the topic.
In my review of chapter 146, I mentioned that something bad would probably happen to Fai (since his face was not present on the recollection of Sakura’s dream about the future), something bad that Sakura wished not to happen. Indeed. Fai was supposed to kill not only Sakura, but also Syaoran and Kurogane in a fit of madness. At least that’s what Sakura and Lantis foresaw. However, not resisting to Fai’s attack enabled Sakura to bid her final encouragement and goodbye to the rest of the gang (Fai in particular)--preventing Fai from going berserk in the process.
Painful as it was, recent chapters finally gave us some info on Fai’s past. Some things remains unclear though, like Fai’s motive for running away from Celes (Okay, it had something to do with Ashura-ou, but what was it exactly and why did he want to return there all of the sudden? Was it merely to regain Sakura’s body or was there another reason?), who and with whom he was being imprisoned long time ago (assuming it was LONG time ago), and why he was being imprisoned (it must’ve had something to do with Fai’s magical ability, but what’s the importance of locked him up because of it?).
As TRC coming closer to its end, we got to see recurring themes and incidents from CLAMP’s previous works such as wish and its consequences, (somewhat) double-identity crisis, brutal murder (stabbing) by the person you’re least expected, lost of eye/eyesight, premonition in a dream, and of course, hitsuzen (but that had already been mentioned way back in the beginning of the story). It’s fair to assume that we’ll be likely seeing more of familiar CLAMPish themes in the upcoming chapters.
Personally, I have no clue on how CLAMP will wrap up things between the gang (including Sakura; her soul, at least), Syaoran-clone, and Fei Wong Reed. After all, Fei Wong was the one who orchestrated everything in the first place: the death of Kurogane’s parents, Syaoran’s relationship with Sakura, the journey, and even Fai's curse seemed to be his doing as well. However, I suspect that--despite all the horrible things Fei Wong had done--it would probably be revealed later on that his true motive was not all incomprehensible. Selfish maybe, but understandable. You know, like Clow Reed’s true wish in Card Captor Sakura (even though Clow was by no means evil; mischievous maybe, but not evil). It would be very CLAMP-like to end a story like that.
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