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He reached out and pressed his palm to the crystal coffin.

Fei-Wang shrieked. This was not the despair he had anticipated. The clone was not weeping. He was smiling.

Syaoran stared at the sleeping form of Sakura, which floated nearby, still incomplete, still waiting. If he refused, the real Syaoran would remain trapped forever, and the timeline would collapse. If he agreed, he would vanish. Sakura would wake to a stranger wearing his face. Fai and Kurogane would forget him. Mokona would chirp for a master who never was.

In the library of Clow Country, years later, Sakura would find a pressed flower in an old book. She would not remember who put it there. But her heart would ache with a sweetness she could never name. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle

“Syaoran?” she whispered.

The silver light detonated. Fei-Wang Reed screamed as the curse inverted, turning back on its caster. The magician’s body unraveled into pages of black ink, scattered across the void.

He was not the Syaoran who had grown up beside her in Clow Country. He was a clone, a perfect copy created by Fei-Wang Reed, a vessel for a curse and a son born from a stolen wish. The real Syaoran—the one with a mother named Yasha and a father named Fujitaka—had been sealed away as a child, his memories used to craft the puppet who now knelt in the dust. He reached out and pressed his palm to the crystal coffin

Fei-Wang laughed. “The wish is simple. The clone must willingly surrender his existence—every memory, every bond, every second of love—to the original. In return, the original’s suffering ends. And the clone… simply never was.”

A whisper slithered through the void. Fei-Wang Reed.

The magician materialized from the static between worlds, his smile a crescent of cruelty. “You’ve solved the final riddle, puppet. The feathers of Sakura were never just her memories. They were anchors. Each one you collected strengthened the spell that would overwrite the real Syaoran’s prison. And now, with the last feather… the exchange is complete.” The clone was not weeping

And somewhere, in the space between spaces, a boy who had never truly existed dissolved into a single, silent tear. It fell into the current of time, and where it landed, a small white feather grew from the ground—not a memory, not a wish, but the proof that a puppet had once become a person long enough to choose his own end.

“I accept the price.”

He thought, I am not real. But my love is.

He looked directly at the magician. His left eye, the one that held the curse, blazed silver.

It pulsed with a cold, silver light, unlike the warm, golden glow of Sakura's stars. Inside it, he saw a scene he had never lived: a young boy with fierce, determined eyes—the real Syaoran—whispering a spell to a witch in a shop full of clocks. The witch was Yuuko. The price was everything.