Hayate no Gotoku! 249

Chapter 249

01

Isumi: May I...
Isumi: destroy that stone...?

Hayate: N-No!!
Hayate: I can't do that even if it's you who asks me, Isumi-san!!

Isumi: Is that so...?

Isumi: I won't hurt you Hayate-sama...!!

Isumi: But I will destroy that stone...
Isumi: by force if necessary!!

Text in left margin: That stone controls the fate of the world...and Isumi is drawing in to attack Hayate!!

02

Sakuya: Wait!!
SFX: *flip*
Title: Chapter 249 "The Final Decision"

Text in right margin: ...And Sakuya draws in on Isumi.

03

Sakuya: Why are you getting in to battle mode so quickly...?

Sakuya: It may be that that stone can destroy the world...
Sakuya: but it may also be a precious memento.

Sakuya: You can't just all of a sudden destroy it...
Sakuya: Ask him about the circumstances around it first!!

Hayate: Umm...
Hayate: It's not a memento or anything like that.
Sakuya: Eh?

Hayate: If I let someone else have this stone or it gets destroyed...
Hayate: Milady will lose the inheritance of the Sanzenin family!

04

Sakuya & Isumi: Huh!?

Box: Hayate explains the situation regarding the stone.
Box: Anyone unfamiliar with that situation should read Volume 21.

Sakuya: I see...
Sakuya: So that's what it is.

Sakuya: Given that, could we trick her by pretending to destroy it or something?
Isumi: No.

Isumi: There's no way someone like the board chairman would mistake a fake for the real thing.
Isumi: She won't accept it unless we destroy the real one in front of her or show her the destroyed remains of the real one.

05

Sakuya: Is that so?
Sakuya: Then we have no choice.

SFX: Beep beep
Hayate: Who are you calling, Sakuya-san?

Sakuya: Gramps.
Sakuya: I'm gonna ask him myself.

SFX: *click*
Sakuya: Ah, hello. Gramps?

Mikado: Oh, Sakuya?
Mikado: How are things in Greece?

Sakuya: There's something I want to ask you, gramps.
Mikado: Something you want to ask me?

Mikado: What is it?
On paper:
Listener's Corner
Tokyo Section Sanzenin Mikado
Usarin Name Warutama
Hello folks at the cafe!
It's almost summer, now. Summer always makes me think of somen. Do you folks at the cafe like somen? Personally I prefer Donbei.
[TN: Donbei is a brand of instant noodles.]

06

Sakuya: Well, it's about Nagi's inheritance and that stone...

Mikado: Is Nagi's butler there?
Sakuya: Eh?

Mikado: Put him on.
Sakuya: Gramps wants to talk with you.
Hayate: Eh? With me?

Hayate: Hello.
Hayate: Sakuya-san gave me the phone. This is Ayasaki.

Mikado: I see you understand the rules.

07

Hayate: ...The rules?
Mikado: That's right. It's a test over whether you can be a butler of the Sanzenin family or not.

Mikado: A test over whether you will sacrifice someone in order to protect your master.

Mikado: Just so you know, there won't be any changes made to the conditions regarding the inheritance.
Mikado: There are plenty of people who could be my successor.
Mikado: If you lose that stone, Nagi really will lose the right to be my successor.

Mikado: She won't be able to live in that mansion.

Mikado: She won't be able to use the villas owned by the Sanzenin family...
Mikado: in Mikonos or Shimoda. She won't be able to use the helicopter or plane.

Mikado: And she will lose the hundreds of trillions of yen...
Mikado: she would be getting in the future.

Mikado: No matter how hard Nagi works, she would never be able to get that kind of money.
Mikado: She would never again be able to live the exorbitant life she currently lives.

08

Mikado: She has been spoiled by that luxury.
Mikado: She has been protected by money ever since she was born.
Mikado: Do you really think she could live a life without money?

Mikado: If you want to choose Athena over Nagi, go ahead.
Mikado: If Nagi loses the inheritance, you won't be able to work as her butler.
Mikado: You would probably become Athena's butler.

Mikado: And your debt of 150 million yen...
Mikado: would be transferred onto Athena.

Hayate: Wh-why?
Hayate: Why...are you doing this...?

Mikado: Why...?

09

Mikado: Why...

Mikado: Because even if I became Santa...
Mikado: I wouldn't give you any presents...

Mikado: Well, choose the conclusion you want...Just don't tell Nagi or Maria about this. If you do, it ends then and there.
Hayate: Ah!! Wait!!

Hayate: He hung up...
Sakuya: Gramps sure seems serious...

10

Hayate: And he told me not to tell milady or Maria.
Hayate: I agree with him on that.

Isumi: I will investigate the stone and the board chairman...
Isumi: But you should tell as few people about this as possible.

Isumi: But I would like for you...
Isumi: to make your decision within a day, Hayate-sama...

Hayate: My decision?
Isumi: Yes...

Isumi: If you destroy the stone...
Isumi: and we separate the honored spirit from the board chairman...
Isumi: we can save her.

11

Isumi: But in doing so, Nagi will lose the right to be the successor of the Sanzenin family.
Isumi: It will bring misfortune upon Nagi.
Isumi: Destroying the stone...is the same thing as...
Isumi: destroying your relationship with Nagi...

Isumi: If the stone is taken or you give it away, the honored spirit wins.
Isumi: Nagi loses her inheritance and we most likely won't be able to save the board chairman.

Isumi: And the final choice...
Isumi: is to manage to protect the stone for a couple of days without anything happening.

Hayate: For...
Hayate: a couple of days...?

Isumi: The union of the board chairman and the honored spirit...
Isumi: is advancing and accelerating.

12

Isumi: In another couple of days...
Isumi: it will be impossible to separate them even if we destroy the stone...

Isumi: If that happens it isn't like the board chairman will die.
Isumi: And she won't be filled with evil and become an enemy of the world.

Isumi: And it's not necessarily true that she doesn't want to be united with it...

Isumi: If the honored spirit unites with her...
Isumi: and she still wants the stone and attacks you...
Isumi: if I get the help of great-aunt Zanka and the others, we might be able to hold her off and seal her powers.

Isumi: But even if we seal her powers...
Isumi: once her soul has united with it, she can never go back to how she was.

13

Isumi: The board chairman would lose her past...
Isumi: She would become a different person...
Isumi: in such a way that no one wouldn't be able to tell.

Hayate: Lose her past...
Hayate: Become a different person...

Hayate: A-tan...

Isumi: If you protect the stone...
Isumi: you may hurt the board chairman.
Isumi: But you would be able to protect Nagi's smiling face.

Isumi: Hayate-sama...

14

Isumi: Who do you...
Isumi: want to protect the most?

Isumi: Who is the most precious person...
Isumi: to you?

Isumi: No matter what path you choose, I won't question it.
Isumi: There may be a way to separate the spirit from the board chairman even if you don't destroy the stone.
Isumi: I will look into it.
Isumi: There may be further choices.

15

Isumi: But no matter the choice, Hayate-sama, you must be the one to choose.
Isumi: That's why you must decide.

Isumi: I will hear your conclusion tomorrow night.

Isumi: Until then...
Isumi: think about what you will do...

Box: And while he still had no idea what to do...
Box: the following morning came.
Box: When this day is over, he will just have to return to Japan the following day.

16

Box: The final day...

Box: of this long Golden Week...
Box: begins.

Text in right margin: Hayate's choice as a butler and as a man approaches!! The next chapter marks 5 years of serialization!! The cover and color pages will mark the 250th chapter!!