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Chapter 208 is out!
Anther long chapter - I don't know why Clamp decided on long chapters now but all I can see keep it going! We begin this chapter with a conversation between Watanuki and Haruka in a dream. They have a conversation about the Chrysanthemum Festival which is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month according to the lunar calendar. Apparently this day is about purification; once Watanuki is awake from his dream he calls of a favor from the Ame-Warashi to bring him Chrysanthemum flowers with morning dew for which latter on he'll use them to make a Chrysanthemum wine (a purification wine) as she bring him the flowers he sense the Zashiki-Warashi aura who Ame-Warashi says picked up the flowers especially for Watanuki! I have to say that I just love her - she so adorable! Anyway later on Doumeki arrives home - yes you read right I wrote home! I just love the scene where Doumeki enters the shop and answer Mokona welcome by "yeah I'm home" - I don't think he ever called the shop his home, does this mean he lives there as well? All I can say the only way this scene would have been more amazing was if it was Watanuki instead of Mokona welcoming Doumeki home! Anyway Watanuki is making the wine in a very beautiful way - he remained me of a nymph the way he skipped over the water :). He tells Doumeki to bring the wine (after he leaves - I guess they don’t live together L) to three ladies - can you guess who? When Doumeki tells him that he should drink too and Watanuki is looking or maybe it smirking at him and say "right" and this is the point we are being left.
By the way according to Wikipedia the festival is happening tomorrow the 16th of October! So let me whish to all of you whose time zone is already on the 16th and those who like me have to wait for tomorrow: Happy Chrysanthemum Festival!
