Hayate no Gotoku! 233

Chapter 233

01

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

Hayate: There was no need...
Hayate: to ask her for her name or anything.

Text in left margin: No matter how much time has passed, he wouldn't mistake someone else for her...

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Text down the center: The girl he once pledged eternity to.
Title: Chapter 233 "Dearest"

04

Hayate: I could tell at first glance...
Hayate: At first glance, I knew it was you...

05

Hayate: Ah...
Hayate: I knew I had to say something...

Hayate: Something...
Hayate: I have to say something...

Hayate: Something...
Athena: But I can only hear...
Athena: that your heart has always been crying "help".

Hayate: Something...
Athena: I'll lend you...
Athena: my left hand.

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Hayate: Something...
Athena: No one can hear you if you're that quiet!
Athena: If you're going to say that, say it louder!
Athena: So loud that...!!
Athena: The whole world will hear you from here!!
Athena: Call that name!!
Hayate: Say what?

Hayate: What...?
Athena: One day...
Athena: let's become adults...
Athena: together.

Hayate: What...?
Hayate: If I'm saying it to you...

07

Athena: Do you have a habit of getting lost in flower gardens?

Hayate: Eh?

Athena: But, unfortunately...
Athena: This is my house's garden...

08

Athena: I don't know who you are...
Athena: but please leave.

Hayate: Ah...
Hayate: She...

Hayate: doesn't remember me...?

Hayate: N-no...!!

Hayate: No!! It's me!!
Hayate: I'm...Ayasaki Hayate!!

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Athena: I already told you...

Athena: that I don't know who you are.
Athena: Weren't you listening?

Hayate: Th-that's right.
Hayate: I was just getting all excited on my own...

Hayate: I have...
Hayate: no proof that this person before me is Tennousu Athena...

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Machina: Athena!

Machina: I thought you'd gone out in the middle of the night...
Machina: but what are you doing in the garden?
Athena: Machina...

Hayate: Athena?
Hayate: He just called her Athena...!!

Hayate: Then...!! Then she really is...!!
Hayate: Um...!! Like I said, I'm...!!

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Hayate: Gh!!

Hayate: ...Wha...!!?
Machina: Who are you?
Machina: And what do you want with Athena!?

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Athena: Stop it, Machina.
Athena: You'll kill that boy.

Athena: Well, with that...
Athena: you shouldn't be going into people's houses without permission.
Athena: If you come here again...
Athena: you won't get off so easily.

Hayate: L-like I said, um...!!

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Hayate: ...She doesn't...
Hayate: remember me...

Hayate: That's right...
Hayate: If I think about it...

Hayate: It's been 10 years.
Hayate: 10 years have passed.

Hayate: If I think back on it...
Hayate: that was just a short time...

Hayate: It was a really important time for me...
Hayate: but for her...
Hayate: it might have been a completely worthless time...

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Hayate: If she really has forgotten...
Hayate: there's no reason for me to make her remember....

Hayate: If she really has forgotten...
Hayate: I don't need to...
Hayate: make her...
Hayate: remember those painful things.

Hayate: I should keep it locked up inside me forever.

Hayate: I'll keep these memories...
Hayate: inside me...
Hayate: forever...

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Machina: Hey.
Machina: That was him, wasn't it?
Machina: The butler who has the "King's Jewel"...

Machina: Why did you just let him leave?
Machina: If we had just taken it then...
Athena: Could you be quiet, Machina?

Athena: I've had enough of this conversation...

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Athena: Hayate...

Text in right margin: There's no way she would forget him. Although forgetting him might make her happier. The two have met again, and then...!!