Hayate no Gotoku! 264

Chapter 264

01

Ayumu: Ahh...
Ayumu: Well, I guess the party's over after that showy performance...

Nagi: I don't know about that...
Ayumu: Eh?

Nagi: The dawn...
Nagi: after the final night isn't here yet.

Left margin: Once that dawn comes, they have to go back. Back to Japan...back to their normal homes...

02

Right margin: Chapter 264 starts out silently. And then "The Toll of the Bell Rings into the Future".

Text on the left: Volumes 1~22 are on sale now!!

03

Athena: When I left the palace and lost consciousness...
Athena: apparently Shirozakura was standing next to me as if it were protecting me.

Athena: I slept there for over a year...
Athena: so I don't know who that person was or where he came from...

Athena: But since I managed to leave safely...
Athena: I was always thinking that he, too...
Athena: must have gotten out with me.

Athena: But on that day last year...
Athena: when it woke within me...
Athena: it whispered to me.

Midas: Do you really think that man made it out of the palace?

Midas: You searched and you couldn't find him.
Midas: You just assumed he made it out.
Midas: But you really don't know whether he did or not!!

04

Athena: I have to check...! I have to go back to the palace!!
Athena: To do that...
Athena: To do that...!!

Athena: I need to...
Athena: get the King's Jewel...

Athena: Thanks to you, King Midas, who was possessing me, is gone.
Athena: But...I still need to check...

Athena: If he didn't actually make it out...
Athena: If he's still in the palace...I...!!

Athena: I...
Athena: I...

Hayate: Don't worry.
Hayate: He got home safely.

05

Athena: Eh?

Hayate: Because that person...
Hayate: was my big brother...

Athena: Your...
Athena: brother...?

Hayate: There aren't very many students with cross-shaped scars on their foreheads...
Hayate: The timing fits...
Hayate: And, most importantly, the way you said he acted and the things you said he said are exactly like Ikusa-niisan.

Hayate: So you don't need to worry.
Hayate: It's been quite some time since then...but he came back.

Hayate: So don't worry...

06

Athena: Th...
Athena: Thank goodness...

Athena: When I thought about the possibility that he was left behind in the palace...
Athena: I got so anxious and didn't know what to do...

Hayate: Well, shortly after that, he really did go missing, though...
Athena: Eh!?
Text right of Athena: Hawah!?

Hayate: But it's okay.
Hayate: He isn't the type who would die.

Hayate: He's alive and you're sure to meet him again.

Hayate: So you really...

07

Hayate: don't need...
Hayate: this King's Jewel anymore.

Athena: That's right...

Athena: What I need from now on is...
SFX: Donnng

SFX: Donnng donnng donnng

08

Ayumu: A bell?
SFX: Donnng donnng

Risa: Is the magic on Cinderella being broken?
Miki: Oh!! What's that, Risa!?
Izumi: Risa-chin, that's so romantic!

Risa: Whaaat!?
Izumi: Nyaah!
Sakuya: It sounds like it's coming from quite a ways away. Where's it coming from?

Isumi: It's the bell at Tennousu-san's place.
Sakuya: Oh, welcome back, Isumi-san.

Aika: Oh?
Aika: Welcome back to you too, Hero-sama.
Aika: Where did you go?
Hina: I just had a small task to attend to.

09

Hina: I just had to protect the peace of the world.
SFX: Donnng donnng

Maria: But...
Maria: it's like the bell is indicating the end of our trip.

Nagi: It isn't over.
Maria: Eh?

Nagi: It begins here.
SFX: Donnng donnng

Nagi: The toll of the bell...
Nagi: rings into the future...

10

Athena: That's right...
Athena: What I need from now on is...

Athena: We'll always be together from now on...
Hayate: Oh, it's already this late...

Hayate: Milady will probably begin worrying about me soon.

Athena: But...
Athena: That girl smashed the King's Jewel knowing that she would lose all of the Sanzenin inheritance...
Athena: What kind of person is she...?
Hayate: Eh?

Hayate: Hmm...
Hayate: Let's see...

11

Hayate: Basically...
Hayate: she's always mad.
Athena: Eh? Mad?

Hayate: She's always saying, "What the heck!! What the heck!!"
Text above Nagi: Seriously!! What the heck!!
Hayate: She's always saying "What the heck!!" about all sorts of things.

Hayate: When the sun rises in the morning, she says "You don't understand!" to it.
Hayate: When she gets in some water, she says, "It's the human body's fault for not being able to float."
Hayate: Whether she's talking about a mountain or a radio-controlled model car, she's always saying, "What the heck!! What the heck!!"
Text above top Nagi: What the heck!! What the heck!!
Text above right Nagi: What the heck!!
Text right of left Nagi: What the heck!! What the heck!!

Athena: Sh-she sounds difficult.
Hayate: Haha. Yeah.

Hayate: Milady is always...
Hayate: a bit difficult.

12

Hayate: But...
Hayate: The fact that I'm here now...
Hayate: is all thanks to her.

Hayate: In the 10 years since the two of us parted ways...
Hayate: a lot of painful things have happened.

Hayate: And I intended to keep on trying somehow or other...

Hayate: but on that Christmas Eve...
Hayate: when my parents sold me for 15 million yen...
Hayate: I...stopped caring about it all...

Hayate (flashback): In the end, those who don't follow the rules win in this world!!
Hayate: I decided... that I didn't really care what happened...

Hayate: I decided...
Hayate: I should just die...

13

Hayate: But milady saved me.
Nagi: Will you be my butler?

Hayate: Well, with the way she is all the time...
Hayate: every day has been pretty difficult.

Hayate: But thanks to her...
Hayate: I've met so many people,
Hayate: been reunited with so many people, and gotten so many wonderful things.

Hayate: So...
Hayate: To me right now...

14

Hayate: she is my life itself...

Athena: When I saw that smile...

Athena: I understood it all.

Athena: Hayate!!

15

Athena: I knew that...
Athena: if I cried and clung to him, I might be able to change his mind.

Athena: But I...
Athena: had already decided that I wasn't going to hurt him...

Athena: Don't go!! Don't leave me!! Stay with me forever!! Become my butler again...!!
Athena: Those words began to emerge from deep in my throat...

Athena: But if I said those things...
Athena: I knew I would just be hurting Hayate again...

Athena: I took the words in my throat...
Athena: and sealed them deep in my heart...

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Athena: I...
Athena: won't be going back to Japan.

Hayate: Eh?

Athena: So...
Athena: this is where we say goodbye.

Athena: Farewell, Hayate.
Athena: I'm glad I met you.

Right margin: Because she doesn't want to hurt Hayate again. The words she frantically pushed out ring in the air between them. Truly, at this rate...