| Spinny | Too bad you couldn't tell the young master in advance about the Void Card, Eli. |
| Ruby | I feel the same. It seemed Sakura had a hard time handling the problem. |
| Eli | I've got Clow Reed's memory handed down from my previous life, but I wish it was clearer... But I've got to admit that Sakura did a great job. She surely deserves to be the master. |
| Ruby | She was also involved in your mix-up, about the sorceress in Hong Kong, right? |
| Spinny | Ruby's right. Was that because you didn't quite remember about her? |
| Eli | No, I didn't. But I faintly remember the barrette. That was what I gave to Mei, or Meitin... or Seuiyan? No, no, could it be Meifung, or that Gayan, or perhaps it could've been Wailam... Then again, could it possibly be Waimui? Ugh, if only my Clow Reed's memory had never gone this faint! |
| Ruby | Well, Eli, I should say, if only you were ashamed of yourself. |
| In Eriol's house on the evening just after Episode 55 Sakura and Sakura in Wonderland ended. | |
| Nakuru | What do you think Cheshire Cat Eriol in the Wonderland? |
| Suppi | Plain weird. |
| Eriol | It couldn't be helped. That was because Sakura was reading Alice in Wonderland. That wasn't my taste. |
| Nakuru | I knew it. Oh, I wish I'd been in the book. |
| Suppi | You mean you want to be Alice? |
| Nakuru | What? You don't like it? |
| Suppi | Not so weird as Eriol... but it'd be miscasting, too. |
| Nakuru | What about Rabbit Yue, then? |
| Suppi | Oh, hard to reply... |
| Nakuru | If only the book had been Blask Cat(1), there could have been the right role for you, Suppi. |
| Suppi | Who are you calling Suppi?! You want to see me embedded in a wall? |
| Nakuru | Uh... I don't know what you're talking about. By the way, what were you reading, Eriol? |
| Suppi | Something an ordinary elementary school student isn't supposed to read, I guess. |
| Nakuru | You bet. Kama Sutra(2) or The Misfortune of Virtue(2)? |
| Suppi | It could be Histore d'O(2), The Man without Qualities(2). |
| Eriol | ...... |
| Suppi | Seems like either of us guess it right. |
| Eriol | Where did you know about those books? |
| Suppi | They're all stored in this house. |
| Nakuru | I found many other books like them. |
| Eriol | You found more? Really? Where? |
| Suppi | Didn't you remember where you hid your own books in your previous life? |
| Nakuru | But I think I should say... You should be ashamed of yourself. |
|
(1) Written by Edgar Allan Poe.
The man, who killed his black pet cat, was getting fiercer hositility
against black cats, and one day tried to kill another black cat.
When his wife tried to hold him back, the man stabbed her by mistake,
then he ended up embeding her body in the wall in the basement to
cover up the murder. However, the black cat was unexpectedly embedded
in the same place, which was to reveal his murder to the polite. (2) They are inappropriate for an elementary school student to read, anyway. R-rated? | |
| Spinner | Hey, Eli, what's the matter with you, running out of the house impulsively like that? |
| Eli | Huh, I just got a terrific idea, Spinner. |
| Spinner | To cause a mysterious trick to draw the mistress of the Clow Cards out here? |
| Ruby | Hey, Eli, I have no clue why you have to do such a stuff. |
| Eli | Heh, you'll know it in a while. |
| Spinner | That's simple, Eli loves to see a cutie stuck in trouble. |
| Eli | Hey! What do you guys think I am? |
| Ruby | Whatever... I didn't want to go out this time... |
| Eli | Why not? |
| Ruby | I was just watching TV, Backstreet Boys were on. |
| Eli | Pah, just TV, huh? |
| Ruby | Hey, you just don't know how deeply I am into the show. You don't have a right to block me from my Nick Carter! |
| Spinner | Shh... don't make a scene like that. |
| Eli | You guys, I brought sandwiches for you, so eat them while we're waiting for Sakura to come. |
| Ruby | Yay! Sandwich! Yumm! |
| Spinner | Maybe 20 minutes to 30, before Sakura and the others get here. |
| Eli | Right. Her power has gotten so stronger that she senses my power on her own, so it's easier for me to draw her out. Just remembering back, I had to cause the endless torrential rain to make her aware of my presense when she was new on the mistress. |
| Spinner | You are right. |
| Eli | These days, all I have to do is just release my true power and sit on a branch of a tree for about half an hour. |
| Ruby | During which she senses your power, calls her friends, and changes into frilly stuff, right? |
| Almost 30 minutes later, Sakura in a battle costume runs into the playground of school with Madison, Li, Kero, and Yue. They are coming closer to the tree in which Eli is hiding. | |
| Ruby | I sometimes kind of think that Spinny and I merely help you fulfill your kinky interest or something... |
| Eli | Hey, this mission is not that... Shh... quiet. This is the time. Here comes my cherry(1)! |
| Ruby | What d'you call her? That's why I think you're weird, Eli. |
| Eli | Hmm, what a beutiful rainbow. That reminds me... |
| Spinny | Reminiscence mode, Eli, with a glass of Welch's? |
| Ruby | Uh, just a grape juice? I thought it was wine. |
| Eli | Well, that rainbow reminds me back of my previous life in Hong Kong. |
| Ruby | It was all about when you were Clow Reed? |
| Eli | Yeah, in those days I was in depression cause I failed my business based on my magical powers. No money, nobody to depend on... I was starving. I was caught in a shower like a wet rag, and there was a rainbow in the sky like that... when I met this man. |
| Spinny | A man? Did he give you something to eat? |
| Eli | Right. Not only had he given me food but he suggested a new business. His suggestion was so interesting that I found myself nodding to every word he spoke. |
| Ruby | Did you start a new business with him? |
| Eli | Yeah. He was a man of ambition, and attractiveness. He had those attractive eyes glittering with desires for success, and glossy long hair his fingers ran through when he was talking about his plan. Every word and every action he made was stunning. |
| Ruby | Wow, I wonder how cute the guy looked like... |
| Eli | At one night, he made a confession that he was one of those who had a strong magical power. As a matter of fact, he had concealed his power until then. And he whispered another plan. Combining his magical power and mine, we would be invincible, he spoke... with his attractive lips... as he was running his delicate fingers though his glossy hair... You know what happened next... So I... |
| Ruby | Gulp... |
| Eli | It was unacceptable that I should be working for someone else. I believed I was the most powerful sorcerer in the land. I released my full strenth to destroy the attractive crook who tried to take advantage of me. Even though a powerful sorcerer he was, he was just a lame duck under Clow Reed's enormous power. Some psychological impact or somethig, he ended up losing his magical abilities. It was a sheer mishap, but... Yue kind of look like the guy... It might be because... |
| Spinny | Way too cruel! Didn't you have any humanity? |
| Ruby | Hey, where's the punch line? Don't tell me that's all. |
| Eli | Yeah, that's all. |
| Ruby | What gives?! I was just listening to your story, expecting... nothing? How come men are so careless of how to entertain their audiences!? |
| Nakuru | Hey, Eriol, why don't we go out just right now? |
| Suppi | Yeah, it's a pity for them if we're late. |
| Eriol | You're right. We'll get going in an hour. |
| Nakuru | An hour? Why not now?! You've had fun all on your own these days, Suppi and I just stayed bored at home. Tonight we're going to disable Yue and Keroberos from turning into their Earthly forms, aren't we? I am quite ready for it. |
| Eriol | It's not the time yet. |
| Nakuru | Why not?! |
| Eriol | I learnt a lesson. At the transformation of the Dash Card, I was sorry for Tomoyo. I'm responsible to consider never to let that happen again. |
| Suppi | Mr. Nice Man... only for women... as usual. |
| Nakuru | Then, what about now? Is it OK for her? |
| Eriol | Let's see now... On Monday, Thursday, and Saturday from 8, on Friday from 9, on Sunday from 8:30, taking about 40 minutes. I'll bet she's now just drying her hair. I'm sure of it. |
| Suppi | Hey, are you talking about... |
| Eriol | Her regular time to take a bath. |
| Nakuru | You mean you peeked in her bathroom?! |
| Eriol | Right. It was not as easy as it sounds, but I must have gone and taken this trouble. That's because of my pure devotion for the sake of her. |
| Suppi | What an excuse! |
| Nakuru | Only for you, Eriol. |
| Eriol | Zip it, you two. Ruby, how about it? I can let you peek in Touya taking a bath. |
| Nakuru | Touya? Wow, are you sure? ... Hey! I'm not like you! Don't take me so cheap! |
| Eriol | Uh, sorry... Kaho enjoyed that anyway... |
| Suppi | What the heck did you... |
| Nakuru | Oh, you should be ashamed of yourself. |
| Eli | So, that was it! |
| Spinny | What's wrong with you? |
| Ruby | What was it, Eli? |
| Eli | About the barrette of the sorceress in Hong Kong. |
| Spinny | Uh, you mean the one you don't remember whom you gave? |
| Ruby | Yeah, you didn't remeber who it was because you had so many choices.(1) |
| Eli | Shut up! But all the choices turned out to be correct! |
| Spinny | He's beginning to sound weird again. |
| Ruby | Absolutely. |
| Eli | Every one of those women was the one, even Waimui, Wangee, or Huehing. |
| Ruby | Oh, there's another choices. |
| Spinny | I just don't know what you're talking about. |
| Eli | It was that I had the Twin Card to make tons
of carbon copies of the barrette, and gave them out to those women! That's why I couldn't tell which one of them was the one. All of them were! Look, there's still this many barrettes left in the study! No wonder that I remenbered the barrette, at least. |
| Ruby | He's forgetting the priority to identify the sorceress. |
| Spinny | Tons of barrette, huh? Are you a manufacturer or something? |
| Ruby | At this rate, I guess he gave one to Layla. |
| Spinny | Could be. You wanna check the truth? |
| Eli | What are you two guys saying? Are you listening to me? |
| Ruby | May I ask, Eli, did you give one of those barrette to Layla? |
| Eli | Uh? |
| Ruby | I am asking you if you gave one of those stupid carbon copies to Layla? Can you hear me? |
| Spinny | We guess that's very why you remember the barrette. |
| Eli | ......! |
| Ruby | Uh-oh. |
| Spinny | Looks like he did. |
| Eli | OK, you guys can take as many barrettes as you like, so keep it a secret. |
| Spinny | No, who needs such barrettes?! |
| Ruby | Clow Reed and Eli Moon, you should be ashamed of yourself. |
(1) See Moon Family 11 Faded Memory
| Ruby | Hey, Eli. The visible form of each Card is modeled on something? |
| Eli | Hmm? Well... they kind of look like the women I used to know. |
| Layla | Women like a sword or a shield, too? |
| Eli | I'm talking about the human-like Cards. I may have created those Cards after how they looked and how old they were. |
| Spinny | I wonder how many girlfriends you had. |
| Ruby | Wait. The Light and the Dark are always along together... I guess they were twins or something? |
| Eli | What a good guess, Ruby. |
| Spinny | You used to two-time between twins? |
| Ruby | But how far did you keep steady with those women like Clow Cards? |
| Eli | Hey, don't be so nosy. It was my private past. |
| Layla | Mmm... |
| Eli | Layla, what's wrong? |
| Ruby | Hey, the Power Card is just a kid, so...? |
| Eli | Uh... that... my memory from my previous life is not clear. |
| Ruby | Don't tell me you did something bad to a kid that you have to conceal? |
| Eli | Don't take me that cheap. Why do you think that way?! |
| Layla | Even if it's all about your previous life... I can't forgive you! |
| Eli | Calm down, Layla! Knife is something to cut some food! |
| Ruby | I knew it. Eli and Clow Reed are both nasty. |
| Ruby | Hey, Eli. What was the call from Layla all about? |
| Eli | Hmm, she asked me what to write and respond to Sakura's letter. |
| Spinny | Are they exchanging letters? |
| Ruby | Heh heh, Sakura doesn't even know what's with Layla. |
| Eli | That's the way she is. Sakura is too pure to suspects anyone. |
| Spinny | But, Layla took care of the Sand, Return, and Maze at her shrine, right? Kind of dull of her she didn't figure out anything wrong. |
| Ruby | Wait! Layla took care of those Clow Cards?! |
| Eli | Yeah. The Return had to be activated at the shrine, and Layla was suppose to find the chance to activate the Sand Card. |
| Ruby | Did she activate it herself? |
| Eli | No, only found the chance, and it was me who activated it. |
| Spinny | Then what about the Maze Card? |
| Eli | I sometimes activated it, when Layla wanted me to. |
| Ruby | What for? |
| Eli | She had it trap the penny-pinching visitors inside who wouldn't buy amulets at her shrine. |
| Spinny | I doubt if she deserves to be a shrine maiden?! |
| Ruby | You and Layla... birds of a feather flock together. |
| Ruby | Eli, you really don't want to create your own magical cards in this life of yours? |
| Eli | Like I told you before, I have no intention of making any cards. |
| Spinny | Eli has currently no reason that he wants to recincarnate again, am I right? |
| Eli | That's true. If I created another deck of cards, I'd have to reincarnate to take care of the new master of the cards. |
| Ruby | And then Spinny and I could be the Elector and Judge like Keroberos and stupid Yue, right? |
| Spinny | Hey, you kind of sound like you want to be the Judge, Ruby? |
| Ruby | Of course, I do want to be! The Judge is the one who judges if the Cardcaptor deserves to be the master of the cards... Oh, if the Cardcaptor was a cute boy, I'd command him to use whatever cards he captured to make me the happiest woman in the... Teh heh heh heh... |
| Spinny | Ruby, what are you... |
| Eli | Wait, Spinner.
Let me say what you're going to say. You should be ashamed of yourself, Ruby. |
| Ruby | Daaah! You can't say that to me, Eli! |
| Ruby | Eli, there you go. I rented this video. |
| Eli | Uh, thanks, Ruby. |
| Spinny | You had her rent a naughty video again? |
| Eli | Hey, Spinner, watch your mouth. Who do you think you're talking to? That's a Harry Potter movie! |
| Spinny | Harry Potter? What made you want to see that one? I know you hated Harry Potter all becuse you didn't want anybody to call you Harry Potter. |
| Ruby | Yeah, I remember he said once before, ``I can't stand being taken as that minor little wizard kid.'' |
| Eli | Yeah, you two are right. But remember. Sometimes, the choice you gotta make is not necessarily the choice you want to make. |
| Ruby | Ha, that's what you said. I know the true reason. When you come step in my school and impersonate Harry Potter, you are surrounded by high school girls. |
| Spinny | Is it true? |
| Ruby | Yep, I've seen it a dozen times. They stupidly make a fuss, rubbing against his cheeks, and Eli merely looked like a dirty old man, and such... |
| Spinny | What kind of Harry Potter hater are you?! Eli, you should be ashamed. |
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