Mahou Sensei Negima! 340

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 340: An Essence of Love is Born!♡
[Insert text: The firm promise we made that day is still with us now...]

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Asuna: Ugh... This outfit is ridiculous! There's so little fabric, I feel embarrassed just wearing it! I don't know how you can stand it!
Ayaka: Well, you'll just have to get used to it. This is what your life is going to be like from now on. // Besides which, from what I've heard... // ...outfits like this aren't exactly uncommon on the other side, are they?
Asuna: Well, no, but we're not there now! We're in Japan! / It's completely different! / [aside]I just want to get out of this party dress already...![/aside]
Ayaka: Don't worry. It suits you perfectly. / ...Your Highness.

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Asuna: And I told you to stop calling me that! / Coming from you, it just makes my flesh crawl!
Ayaka: I can't say I disagree. // I still have trouble believing that a violent individual such as yourself is really a princess.
Asuna: Nghhh... / [aside]it really pisses me off when you say it like that...[/aside]
Ayaka: Ahaha. Come to think of it, I still haven't got around to thanking you.
Asuna: Thanking me? For what?
Ayaka: Don't tell me you've forgotten. // We made a promise, before you left.
Asuna: Oh, right... that... / I promised I wouldn't let Negi get hurt, and I'd bring him back safely, right? // I'm not sure I can really say I kept it, though... / (I get the feeling he kept on getting himself so badly hurt you'd probably faint if I told you about it... / [aside]was there a single body part that stayed intact the whole trip?[/aside])
Ayaka: Hm? What are you talking about? // It's only natural that Negi-sensei and the others made it back in one piece. / I was talking about you.
Asuna: Huh?

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Ayaka: Thank you for making it back safely... / ...Asuna-san. // My life would be so much more boring without you around.
Asuna: Wh - What are you coming out with all of a sudden?! // That's really creepy. / Are you trying to manipulate me or something?
Ayaka: Excuse me...?! // What kind of way is that to respond to a sincere expression of gratitude and friendship?! You insensitive idiot!
Asuna: Well, I'm sorry for being such an idiot!
Ayaka: And to think you call yourself the Princess of a mighty kingdom!
Asuna: I didn't choose to start calling myself a Princess!
Kotarou: Hey. I see you're gettin' along great as usual.
Negi: Hello there, Class Rep-san!
Ayaka: Ah!

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Ayaka: Negi-sensei! How did you find the sights of Tokyo?
Negi: Well, it was quite -
Asuna: Negi!! You're late!!
Fate: We got caught up in a triple date.
Asuna: What?
Fate: I said, Kagurazaka Asuna, that we got caught up in a triple date. // A group of three girls invited us for a night out. And I must say, my two companions certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Asuna: Excuse me~~~~~?! What the hell have you two been playing at~~~?!
Negi: I - It wasn't like that, Asuna-san! We just happened to run into Kakizaki-san and her friends - !
Kotarou: Nothing happened! Nothing weird happened at all!
Ayaka: Chamo-san, what exactly is a "triple date"?
Chamo: Oh, Ayaka-ojousan... You really do live in a different world...
Asuna: [aside]so it was just Sakurako and her friends...[/aside]
Kotarou: So... / What are we doing today?
Ayaka: Ahah... // I doubt you'll be able to believe this, but... // We have come to Tokyo today to meet with the Prime Minister of Japan!
Kotarou: Huh? What're you on about?
Negi: Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, but that's why we all had to come as adults.
Asuna: Eh?!

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Asuna: Hang on, hang on! How are we even meant to get to see such an important person?!
Kotarou: [aside]this is just getting more and more out there...[/aside]
Ayaka: True enough, under ordinary circumstances it would be an extremely difficult proposition. / Even with my and Chizuru-san's connections, arranging a meeting with the Prime Minister would be pushing it. // But that... // ...is where this comes in! // Ta-da!♡
Asuna: Is that...a Pactio card?! When the heck did you...?!
Ayaka: Ahaha... This card grants me the ability to instantly organise a meeting with anyone, without the need for an appointment.
Fate: Very impressive... Abilities of this nature are extremely rare. Even I have never seen one before.
Ayaka: Hey - !
Kotarou: Meet with anyone, any time? // Even the US President? Or the Pope? / So what, does it make the person's staff let you walk right past - or even show you to him? // That's a crazy powerful ability. You could go around kidnapping influential figures left, right and centre!
Fate: No... The true value of this card lies elsewhere. After all -
Ayaka: Would you mind keeping your filthy hands off the evidence of the love that Negi-sensei and I share?!!
Fate: Ah...
Asuna: So when the heck did you... you know... form a Pactio with Negi?!

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Ayaka: Oh, you want to hear the details, do you, Asuna-san? The tale of our moment of passion...?♡ / I cannot say I approve of such unabashed prying into our personal affairs...
Asuna: Eh?!
Ayaka: ...But if you truly insist, then I suppose I have no choice! Allow me to relate the entire story!! / A tale of forbidden love between myself, Yukihiro Ayaka, and the innocent Negi-sensei!!
Asuna: Actually, forget it. // Seriously, stop.
Ayaka: Here I go! // It all began three weeks ago, on the second of September...
Flashback!Ayaka: (Asking me to meet him in the classroom after school, so soon after the end of the summer holidays... // What in the world could Negi-sensei want? // Alone in the empty classroom after school... Just the two of us, bathed in the evening light...! // I - I must calm myself! This is just an ordinary classroom, so why does it seem so... // No! Negi-sensei and I are teacher and student! We cannot allow ourselves to...)
Fantasy!Negi: I have a request to make... / Marry me, Ayaka!
Fantasy!Ayaka: Of course!
Flashback!Ayaka: (I - I have to get a hold of myself! I cannot let Negi-sensei see me like this!)
Flashback!Negi: Sorry to keep you waiting, Class Rep-san!
Ayaka: Negi-sen...!

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Flashback!Negi: Erm, C - Class Rep-san... // There's something... I need to ask you... // ?! // Class Rep-san?! Class Rep-sa~~~n!!
Flashback!Chamo: O - Oh, crap... Aniki! Healing magic, quick!
Flashback!Negi: I thought you said this would be the best way to ask Class Rep-san for a favour~~!
Flashback!Chamo: It must've been too much for her...
Flashback!Ayaka: Ahhh...
Flashback!Negi: Are you all right, Class Rep-san?
Flashback!Ayaka: N... Negi-sensei...? / I thought I... I saw you just there... in a sailor uniform...
Flashback!Negi: Th - That was just, erm... a dream! Forget it ever happened! // Th - The truth is, Class Rep-san... I know this may seem improper... // But there's an extremely important personal favour that I would like to ask of you...
Flashback!Ayaka: (A personal favour for Negi-sensei?! // Your wish is my command!!)

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Flashback!Ayaka: I see... / The Magical World... / ...and Mars... / ...and its impending collapse...
Flashback!Negi: I - I - I - I'm very sorry! / I know this must be an awful lot for you to take in all at once -
Flashback!Ayaka: Oh, not at all! / I - I do understand what you're saying! I was just so surprised that you chose to speak to me about it...!
Flashback!Negi: Huh...?
Flashback!Ayaka: Shortly after the incident that happened during the summer holidays... / ...Asuna-san explained to me all about magic, and the other world. // And though I should probably apologise for prying, I have taken the liberty of conducting a few investigations with regard to your father... / ...and so I was aware that before his disappearance, he had been taking an interest in the planet Mars, and in various industries connected to space travel.
Flashback!Negi: My father was...?! / Class Rep... I had no idea...
Flashback!Ayaka: With the explanation you just gave, all the pieces have finally fallen into place. / [aside]though I had never dreamed that the truth would be so grand in scale...[/aside] / But most of all, just the fact that you have turned to me for help... It makes me so...! // I will do anything and everything I possibly can, Sensei! Please allow me to be of assistance!
Flashback!Negi: C... Class Rep-san...
Flashback!Chamo: (Thanks to her personality, she comes across as a bit of an airhead most of the time, but this little lady is actually pretty sharp...!)

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Flashback!Negi: N - No, Class Rep-san! I can't get you mixed up in this! / As a student, your main concern should be your studies! As your teacher, I couldn't possibly do anything to interfere with that! / If you can just introduce me to your family, that will be more than enough; I really can't impose on you any more than -
Flashback!Ayaka: Stop talking like that at once, Negi-sensei!! I won't hear a word of it!!
Flashback!Negi: Ehhhhh~?!
Flashback!Ayaka: I, Yukihiro Ayaka, stand here now in awe and reverence at the weight of the responsibility and the destiny that you have chosen to bear!! / And the fact that you have chosen to turn to me for aid brings me greater joy and happiness than I have felt in all my life! // Please, show no restraint! Entangle me in in your life so that I might never escape!! // For you, I would venture to the depths of hell and the ends of the Earth!! // To earn your heartfelt trust is the deepest and most fervent desire of my soul!! // In this moment, at the age of fifteen, my life is already complete!! I have no regrets!!
Flashback!Negi: C - Class Rep-san, I, erm, think that may be going a little far...
Flashback!Chamo: Heheh... Aniki, I think at this point it would be crueler to let her feelings go to waste. / [aside]and hey, you're both still young! no matter what kind of crazy mistakes you make, there's always time to fix it![/aside] // Ayaka-ojouchan!
Flashback!Ayaka: Yes?
Flashback!Chamo: Seeing as you're so enthusiastic about this whole thing... // What do you say to forming a little contract with Aniki here, eh?

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Ayaka: And thus, the fateful moment drew near!
Asuna: Just get to the point already.
Flashback!Negi: Whaaaaat~~~?! A Pactio with Class Rep-san~~~~?!
Flashback!Chamo: Well, yeah! After she's shown such dedication to helping you out, how can you not?!
Flashback!Negi: I - I can see what you mean, but...
Flashback!Ayaka: Erm... May I ask what this... "Pactio"... entails, exactly?
Flashback!Chamo: We're talking a kiss, girl! A kiss! A great big smacker!
Flashback!Ayaka: A k...?! / A k - k - k - k - ?!
Flashback!Chamo: Hm?
Flashback!Negi: Class Rep-sa~~~n?!
Flashback!Ayaka: Th - This is all awfully sudden... // Surely there is a proper order to be followed... // C - Can it not wait until after we are married?
Flashback!Negi: ?
Flashback!Chamo: I think there's something seriously wrong with your "proper order".
Flashback!Negi: W - Well, then...

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Flashback!Ayaka: Wh - Wh - Wh - Whenever you are ready...
Flashback!Negi: R - Right... // ...!
Flashback!Ayaka: ...! // A... Aahhh... This is... Negi-sensei's... // So soft and tender, yet filled with an unmistakeable warmth... Ahhh... Aahhhhh...
Flashback!Chamo: All right! Pacti- // Hm?

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Flashback!Chamo: Whoaaa?! // (Wh - What is this crazy torrent of magical energy?! // This is totally not normal! // I... I guess it just goes to show how much Aniki's magic has grown! Da~~mn!!
Flashback!Negi: ?!
Flashback!Ayaka: (Negi-sensei...!!! // Negi-sensei...!!!!!!)
Flashback!Chamo: ?!
Flashback!Negi: Mmnh... // Mmnhhhh...!
Flashback!Chamo: (Th... This is...)

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Flashback!Chamo: (It's... It's not Negi at all! // This power is all coming from the little lady!! // The power of her passion for Aniki is so strong, it's sending the Pactio system flowing in reverse! // This is crazy! It's outrageous! // Little lady... // Is this... // ...the Power of Love......?!) // No, hang on!! Hold it, hold it, hold it! // The card's coming out of Aniki!! This is all backwards!! // And Aniki's practically passing out!! And kind of twitching!! / How much "Power of Love" are you using here?!
Chamo: (So yeah...)
Ayaka: And so this card... / ...is the sign of our unwavering love!♡
Chamo: (Ayaka-ojouchan certainly managed to prove the depth of her love, but...)
Ayaka: Ahh...
Asuna: Don't pull that face! What the heck kind of Pactio was that?! // [aside]are you trying to traumatise Negi for life?![/aside]

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Ayaka: With this, we can meet the President and the Pope every afternoon if we so desire~!
Fate: [aside]You find the most extraordinary partners, Negi-kun. How do you do it?[/aside]
Asuna: Right...... // So, uh, why are we going to meet the top brass of Japan?
Negi: Well, Class Rep-san's father agreed to lend us his support "as long as it is in the national interest".
Asuna: I see...?
Kotarou: Well, I guess that makes sense, huh? / [aside]so it's off to see the PM...[/aside]
Negi: And of course, I would like to pay my respects to the homeland of all my students.
Kotarou: Hah! You sure know how to act the gentleman, ya sneaky little Englishman!
Asuna: O - Oh...?
Negi: No, I really mean it. Hopefully we will be able to at least forge a tentative power balance, and begin paving the way towards international cooperation. From what little we've heard from Chao-san, I suspect that it would be dangerous to overconcentrate our efforts.
Kotarou: And then you're gonna start using patents and stuff as bargaining chips? This all sounds pretty shady to me...
Fate: Well, when it comes down to it, the Earth itself isn't in any immediate danger. We can hardly assume that all the world's nations will be ready to lend their support out of pure selfless goodwill. This world is hardly without its own troubles, after all.
Asuna: H - Hmm...? / ......
Negi: Well... Unprecedented new technologies, the promise of a vast new frontier on the Martian surface, possible selection as the host site for the construction of the Elevator... We have more than enough chips to bargain with.
Asuna: ...Nghh...
Fate: Ahahah... Sometimes I think you sound more like the leader of an evil organisation than I do these days.
Negi: ...I'll take that as a compliment, Fate.
Asuna: What are those boys looking so pleased with themselves about, with all that incomprehensible talk...?! / [aside]even Kotarou-kun...![/aside]
Ayaka: Is that not simply the nature of men, my dear Princess? / [aside]though you would do well to learn more of such matters yourself.[/aside]
Asuna: Oh, shut up. // ...Still, I guess I'm a little grateful for that nonchalant attitude of yours.
Ayaka: Hm?
Asuna: I mean, even after finding out that I'm a princess and everything... // You didn't act any different towards me at all. / That made me happy.
Ayaka: H...Hmph... / Well, how could I treat you like a princess when you're still such an insufferable idiot?

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Asuna: Who are you calling an incurable idiot~~~~~?! / [aside]now who's the insensitive one, huh?![/aside]
Negi: All right, everyone, I think we should get going! / If our meeting today goes well, I'll treat everyone to dinner!
Kotarou: Really?! Now we're talking~!
Ayaka: N - Negi, treating me to dinner...? My heart is all aflutter!
Asuna: Hey, I was talking to you!
Fate: Why are you people always so... noisy about everything?
Negi: Don't ask that with such a straight face, Fate...
Kotarou: Whaaaaat?! // Chizu-nee, you formed a Pactio with Negi an' all?!
Chizuru: Well, yes? // I spend a fair amount of time with him as well... // So it seemed like a convenient thing to do. / [aside]Chamo-san recommended it.[/aside]
Kotarou: I... I see... // [aside]she says it like it's nothing...[/aside] // Well, I guess you are the heir to Naba Industries and all that... // (Still, Negi's sure been "busy"... // Is this what they call an "enemy of all women"?)

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Chizuru: Hmmm...? Something wrong, Kotarou-kun? // You've gone all quiet.
Kotarou: N - Not at all! / Nothing's wrong!
Chizuru: Ahah... Come to think of it, I hear you made a Pactio yourself, with Natsumi-chan?
Kotarou: Wha - ?! / [aside]who told you that?! I mean - that was an emergency measure, and - [/aside]
Chizuru: Hmmm~? I see~~~? Eheheh... // Don't tell me you were hoping for one with me as well~? Oh, Kotarou-kun~~~!
Kotarou: I - ! / I - I - I wasn't - !
Chizuru: Aren't you just the cutest!
Kotarou: I was hoping no such thing! Wh - Wh - Why the heck would I w - want to - ?!
Chizuru: Eheheh... Ahahah... So why don't you tell me how it went with Natsumi-chan, hmmm~?
Kotarou: Wha - ?!
Chizuru: How was she...? I hope you were nice and gentle with her~~!
Kotarou: I - you - she - I - !
Natsumi: (How am I supposed to go inside now...?!)
[Insert text: The scent of love is everywhere~!♡]
[Bottom text: Next issue, Negima will be taking a break so that the author can collect data. See you in Shonen Magazine Issue 47, on sale Wednesday 19th October!♡]