Hayate no Gotoku! 232

Chapter 232

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Hayate: Tennousu...
Hayate: ...-san?

Hinagiku: Yeah.
Hinagiku: You know who she is, right?

Hayate: Tennousu Athena-san.

Text in left margin: That name takes Hayate by surprise. That name occupies his heart.

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Text on the right: The distance to that back is...
Hinagiku: The young board chairman...
Hinagiku: of Hakuou Academy.
Title: Chapter 232 "Beautiful World"

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Hayate: Tennousu-san is...
Hayate: the board chairman...?

05

Hinagiku: Yeah, but...
Hinagiku: did you not know, Hayate-kun?
Hayate: Eh...?
Hayate: No...

Hinagiku: Well, it's true that even if it's someone as amazing as her, she's still young...
Hinagiku: So the actual administration is done by one of the five members of the board of directors, Kirika-san, who's the acting board chairman...

Hinagiku: Well, Hakuou is actually owned by the Tennousu family...
Hinagiku: so she'll start doing the actual administration eventually.

Hinagiku: But I'm surprised.
Hinagiku: I thought you knew about all this.
Hayate: Eh? Why would you think that?

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Hinagiku: Because one of the people on the board of directors is Nagi's grandfather...
Hinagiku: so I thought Nagi had told you.

Hinagiku: Well, it's only been half a year since you came to the school...
Hinagiku: so I guess you just hadn't heard.

Hinagiku: Huh?
Hinagiku: But that's weird.

Hinagiku: Tennousu-san...
Hinagiku: She skipped a few years and already graduated, and she doesn't show up at the school very often...
Hinagiku: She shouldn't have been at school since around the end of last year...

Hinagiku: Hayate-kun...
Hinagiku: Where did you here that phrase she liked so much?

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Hinagiku: Wait...huh?
Hinagiku: Hayate-kun?

08

Hayate: She's...
Hayate: nearby.

Hayate: To tell the truth...
Hayate: I had kind of already felt a presentiment to that end.

Hayate: Hakuou is a prestigious school that rich people attend.
Hayate: So I had a vague idea that maybe an extremely rich girl like her would be there.

Hayate: It's been 10 years...

09

Hayate: Does she...
Hayate: even remember me anymore?

Hayate: I said that horrible thing...
Young Hayate: A-tan...!!
Young Hayate: You can only say that because you don't have a mother or a father...!!

Athena: Hayate...!! I wish you would...
Athena: disappear from here!!!
Hayate: We left each other in such a horrible way.

Hayate: If she does remember me...
Hayate: what exactly should I say to her...?

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Hayate: If she does remember me...
Hayate: She...
Hayate: must have a grudge against me.

Hayate: Because at that time...
Hayate: She was right...
Hayate: and I was wrong.

Hayate: I betrayed her.

Hayate: And I hurt her...

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Hayate: There's something I have to say to her.

Hayate: On that day....
Hayate: There's something important I have to convey to her.

Hayate: If, one day, I do...
Hayate: finally meet her...

Hayate: I have to...
Hayate: tell her...

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Hayate: Since that day...
Hayate: it's been 10 years.

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Hayate: There was no need...
Hayate: to tell her my name or anything.

Text in right margin: He has been living thinking nothing but "If I ever do meet her". Next Chapter: A colored reunion. Time has begun to move again...