Fai has stabbed Sakura with her sword, but she disappeared, her body and soul reft in two. Her body has gone to Fai's world of Seresu, while her mind, soul and memories inhabit the world of dreams. It is revealed that Fai was under a curse that made him kill anyone more magically talented than he. But when Sakura regained much of her memories, and the power to see the future, Fai had already been cursed to kill her.
Fai has been lying to everyone for as long as they have been travelling together, and now, he must return to the world of his birth and confront the past he has been fleeing from for all this time.
Fai was born as one of a set of twins with great magical power, but the birth of a single child was looked for, and the birth of twins unleashed great misfortune on the Kingdom. Fai and his twin, Yûi, were thrown into a valley where magic did not work to prevent their cursed birth from affecting the Kingdom. Until the King of the country went mad and sentenced everyone to death, old people and young people alike. Fai and Yûi were approached by two very different magicians, Clow Reed and the new King of Seresu, with offers to save them by taking them to different worlds. But Fai was dead, and Yûi wanted to save Fai, but couldn't. So Yûi took Fai's name and went to a different world. But Clow Reed put two curses on Yûi/Fai, and the first was to kill Syaoran. But what was the second, and how will its revelation affect the travellers? Is there any hope of getting Sakura back in one piece now that Clow Reed wants her, body and soul?
A book filled with revelations, and they will only continue in the next volume. Everything we think we know about Fai D. Flowright has been overturned. He's a liar, and isn't who we think he is. He never has been. While I can hope that something turns up in the next book, and he can somehow redeem himself from what he has done and what he's done in the far distant past, I can't see where this is going quite yet.
I was so ready to be over this series, but Clamp's works are so good that no matter how hard you want to give up on them, they keep sucking you back in for another volume and yet another. Seresu appears to be completely dead, but who is to blame for the condition of the Kingdom? Fai and his twin brother, or some other force? The fact that the twins were evil appears to have been accepted by all, but is it the truth, or was the King already showing signs of madness?
It's hard for me to believe that two innocent kids can cause so many problems and be judged as evil simply because they are twins instead of a single child, but it's not a new attitude by any means. Triplets were even worse, of course. I can't help but look forward to the next volume, but at the same time, I am afraid that Fai's time as a character is close to over.
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