Chapter 291
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Top: The net radio show "Hayasan" preview starts on 10/13!!
http://hayatenogotoku.comText: Humans and monkeys share 98% of their DNA.
SFX: Nod nod
Title: Chapter 291 "Everyone has their worries that no one else sees"
Bottom left: Hata Kenjirou
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Margin: I will become a popular mangaka. That was Lady Nagi's dream. Everyone is worried about her as she is depressed all on her own...
Nagi: My dream may not come true.
Nagi: No, it definitely won't come true.
Nagi: The future I was supposed to have is gone.
Nagi: All I can see now is darkness.
Nagi: How am I supposed to live?
Nagi: How am I...
Nagi: supposed to...?
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SFX: Chirp chirp
Chiharu: You can't contact the previous residents?
Hayate: No, it's proving unusually difficult.
Hayate: Well, it has been 30 years.
Chiharu: I see.
Hayate: So I was thinking of getting rid of all the old furniture.
Hayate: We may get more people showing up suddenly wanting a room like the other day.
Chiharu: That's true...
Chiharu: Well, it doesn't look like there's anything important here, so it shouldn't be a prob-
Box: That book's title made her heart throb.
Book titles left to right:
Ritual Magic
Black Magic
Encyclopedia of the Magic of the World
Modern Alchemy
Box: It made the teenage part of her heart throb.
SFX: Zone out
Chiharu: W-well, I should check the contents of all these books...
Chiharu: before it's too late.
Hayate: Okay...
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
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Chiharu: Hm?
On photo: The 28th...
Chiharu: Hey, Ayasaki-kun. Look at this.
Hayate: Eh?
Hayate: What does the 28th mean?
Chiharu: I don't know.
SFX: Stare
SFX: Pant pant pant
SFX: Dash
Hayate: That dog...
Hayate: I'm pretty sure it's...
Chiharu: By the way, how's your lady doing?
Chiharu: Is she...
Chiharu: still feeling down?
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Hayate: Yes.
Hayate: It must have been...
Hayate: a huge shock to her.
Chiharu: Her mother and father are gone.
Chiharu: The money that was protecting her so far is gone too.
Chiharu: And now it seems the dream that had been supporting her has been destroyed.
Chiharu: That...
Chiharu: must have been disheartening.
Nagi: Hayate...
Hayate: Yes!?
Nagi: I'm...
Nagi: going to school...
Hayate: Eh?
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Risa: Sigh. Today's the day they announce the results to the test from before Golden Week.
SFX: Ding dong
Risa: Well, it doesn't really matter to us.
Miki: That's right.
Izumi: That's for sure.
Miki: What a rare sight. It's Nagi-chan.
Risa: Oh?
Risa: You're here early. Are you starting to take your studies seriously?
Nagi: Yes.
Nagi: I want to have a proper career in the future, so I need to focus on my studies now.
Izumi: ...Eh?
SFX: Ding dong
Yukiji: I hope everyone who forgot their report last time...
Yukiji: has it with them today!!
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Miki: Eh? Yukiji...
Miki: You were serious when you said you we had to turn them in today?
Yukiji: Of course I was!!
Yukiji: Don't mock my job as a teacher!!
Yukiji: Agh, what's wrong with all of you!!
Yukiji: Do none of you have yours!?
Nagi: Here.
Nagi: It's my report.
Nagi: I'm sorry I forget it last time.
Yukiji: Fweh?
Yukiji: Eh?
Yukiji: Oh...you really brought it?
Nagi: Yes.
SFX: Chatter chatter
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Risa: What happened, Hayata-kun!!
Hayate: Eh?
Hayate: What do you mean?
Risa: Don't play dumb!! Something's up if Nagi-chan is being so serious!!
Miki: Tell us!! What happened!?
Miki: Or rather, what did you do!?
Hayate: Wh-what's wrong with...
Hayate: her getting serious?
Risa: Lots!!
Miki: If she acts all serious like that...
Miki: then we stand out too much!!
Hayate: Again with the ridiculous reasons...
Izumi: Seriously though, what happened?
Hayate: What happened...?
Hayate: Okay, I'll tell you, but...
Miki: Oh!!
Miki: Out with it already!
Risa: Tell us everything, Hayata-kun!!
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Hayate: What gives...
Hayate: your lives value?
Izumi: Hayata-kun!! That's mean!!
Risa: Hey!! Just because we're idiots, doesn't mean you can...
Text next to Risa's face: We were worried!!
Miki: Don't say it like that!!? You're gonna make us cry!!
Hayate: N-no!! I wasn't talking about you specifically!!
Hayate: This is about Lady Nagi!! She's worried about...
Hayate: her dreams for the future and her own value!!
Hayate: So...um...
Miki: I see. So that's it.
Risa: So she's lost confidence in herself.
Miki: Don't worry, Hayata-kun!!
Hayate: Eh?
Risa: When she sees this, she's sure to regain her self-confidence!!
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Sign: Test Results
SFX: Chatter chatter
Top Line: Place - Name - Points (800 possible)
Second Line: 1st - Katsura Hinagiku - 764 points
Third Line: 2nd - Kasumi Aika - 752 points
Fourth Line: 3rd - Saginomiya Isumi - 745 points
Hayate: Those are...
Hayate: the results from the test.
Sign: 10th - Sanzenin Nagi - 706 points
Hayate: Ah!!
Hayate: That's amazing!!
Risa: Heh hehn. See?
Miki: Why are you taking pride in it?
Hayate: Milady, milady!!
Hayate: Look at this!!
Nagi: Hm?
Nagi: Oh, it's the results for the test.
Hayate: You got in 10th place with over 700 points!! Congratulations!!
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Nagi: 10th place...
Nagi: Over 700 points...
Nagi: Before I was in the top five.
Nagi: My grades have dropped...
Above Izumi: Nyah!
Nagi: This is all because I got so obsessed with manga.
Nagi: This is bad...
Hayate: Oh, no!! It had the opposite effect!!
Miki: No, not all, Nagi-chan.
Izumi: Yeah!! Over 700 points is amazing! That's a genius girl who skipped some grades for you!!
Risa: Just so you know, we didn't even get half that!!
Izumi: Yeah!
Hayate: That's a problem in and of itself.
Nagi: But...
Nagi: I'm not the best.
Risa: But Nagi-chan!!
Risa: People can't be the best at everything!!
Nagi: People can't be...
Nagi: the best in everything?
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Hina: Oh? What are you all doing?
Risa: Tchhh!! Here comes someone who's clearly the best at everything!!
Risa: Why did you have to appear now!?
Hina: Eh?
Hina: Eh?
Miki: Have some tact!!
Nagi: Hey, Hinagiku...
Hina: Hm?
Hina: What is it?
Nagi: Can I go to the Kendo Dojo today?
Hina: Eh?
Sign: Kendo Dojo
Hina: The Kendo club...
Hina: is actually on a break today...
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Hina: but since you're in the mood for once, I decided to go with you.
Nagi: Th-thanks.
Hayate: Is Lady Nagi okay?
Miki: Hina isn't going to go too far, is she?
Hina: Well, I don't know what happened...
Hina: but there are times when I just want to swing a shinai around.
Nagi: What about you?
Hina: Eh?
Nagi: Everything comes so easily...
Nagi: for you.
Hina: What are you talking about?
SFX: Pat
Hina: There's nothing that's come easily to me straight away.
Hina: And...
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Hina: there are plenty of things...
Hina: that I can't do the way I want to!!
Hina: There's nothing that's come easily to me straight away.
Nagi: But there's no way I can do it.
Nagi: No way...
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Chiharu: Do you...
Chiharu: want to go get some food?
Nagi: No.
Nagi: If I did, I'd know.
Nagi: I don't want to know. Know that I truly have no talent.
Chiharu: Okay...
Chiharu: Well, I suppose...
Chiharu: it was a bit too early for you.
Chiharu: But...
SFX: Flutter
Chiharu: do you think you would lose to this, too?
Nagi: This is the dojinshi I laughed so hard at before.
Nagi: If I reread it now...
Nagi: If I reread it...
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Nagi: No,
Nagi: I can beat this.
Chiharu: Bhah!!
Chiharu: Ha ha ha!! Wow!!
Chiharu: You've got more fight left in you than I thought!
Chiharu: Okay, okay.
Chiharu: If you have that much confidence left, it shouldn't be a problem.
Nagi: Eh?
Chiharu: I'm a little short-handed.
Chiharu: So you can help me out tomorrow.
Nagi: Help you...
Nagi: with what?
Chiharu: We'll be at a...
Chiharu: dojinshi convention.
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 46 which will go on sale Wednesday October 13th.
Margin: It's a place where other people drawing manga gather. A dojinshi convention is sure to be full of dreams. Next Chapter will have opening color pages for the 6th year anniversary!!
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