Books like Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 18

Finally the mastermind behind Sakura’s memory loss and the group’s quest is revealed, along with his motivations - Fei-Wang Reed, a magician whose goal is to gain the power to travel through time and space and can only do so once Sakura travels to all the realms and collects memories of them. It’s a bit weird how Sakura is a central part of his plan, but it explains why he scattered her memories throughout the various worlds. Sakura could have easily chosen at this point of revelation to live without her memories and completely halt his plans, but her caring nature won’t allow Syaoran to remain broken or for the rest of the team to not complete their goals. As they continue on their quest, though, it seems like things are getting even more dangerous as they have entered a realm where teams of combatants (themselves included) compete for prize money put up by the world’s mafia. The game they play may be referred to as “chess,” but the consequences for the players (and the team’s master, played by Sakura who has few fighting skills) can be quite deadly as the hosts of the game allow for rules of fair play to be broken. At the finale of this collection it seems that Sakura and company are doing quite well in the competition, but I won’t be surprised if they turn their attentions to defeating the mafia-hosts rather than simply beating their official chess opponents.