Hayate no Gotoku! 234

Chapter 234

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Text on the right: The night wind of the Aegean sea chills him... The moonlight pierces his body...
Title: Chapter 234 "I Would Remember Even After a Thousand Years"

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

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

Hayate: "I'll shorten Athena to A-tan."

Hayate: What was I hoping for?

Hayate: That she would remember me...
Hayate: I would tell her I was wrong...

Hayate: We'd get over the misunderstanding and get along again...
Hayate: And then...

Text in right margin: Athena...A-tan doesn't remember him. The beaten Hayate's heart sinks into darkness...

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Hayate: And then what...?
SFX: Honk honk!

Izumi: Heey!!
Izumi: Hayata-kuuun.

Hayate: Segawa-san...

Miki: Oh, so Hayata-kun is into the nightlife...
Risa: And he's alone...
Izumi: Did you go out to see the view at night cause you couldn't sleep, too?

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Miki: What are you saying!? Hayata-kun was definitely trying to pick up chicks!!!
Risa: Was it a blonde!? You like blondes, don't you, Hayata-kun!?

Hayate: No...I wouldn't do that...
Hayate: There's no way any girl would want me...

Miki: Wh-what is this...?

Risa: He has the atmosphere of a middle aged salaryman whose beloved wife just divorced him...

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Miki: Hey, Izumi!! Do something!!
Risa: You need to cheer him up with one of your love stories or something at a time like this!!
Izumi: Eh!? Why do I have to!?

Izumi: Umm, umm...
Izumi: Then, well...

Izumi: Hayata-kun...
Izumi: Have you ever kissed a girl!?

Hayate: Kissed...

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Izumi: H-huh!?
Izumi: Why did that make things worse, Hayata-kun!?

Hayate: Come to think of it...
Hayate: She's Hakuou's board chairman...

Hayate: Um...
Izumi: What!? What is it, Hayata-kun!! You can ask us anything, Hayata-kun!!

Hayate: Do you all know of...
Hayate: Hakou's board chairman, Tennousu-san?

Miki: Hm?
Risa: Oh, the board chairman?

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Miki: Well..
Miki: We do know about her...
Izumi: But she is famous after all.

Miki: Normal students like us...
Risa: have never actually had the honor of talking directly with her.

Hayate: Is she that amazing?
Miki: Well...
Miki: To put it simply, I'd be hesitant to approach her.

Miki: She's most likely the greatest genius of all the students who have ever gone to Hakuou.
Miki: She's strong, beautiful, and, as the head of the Tennousu family, is the owner of all its assets.

Miki: Her assets would probably...
Miki: rival those of the Sanzenin family.

Miki: But you should probably speak with the person at our school who has talked with her the most.
Hayate: Eh? Who's that...?

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Miki: Hina.
Hayate: Hinagiku-san?

Miki: Yeah.
Miki: They used to be what everyone talked about.
Miki: The strong, smart, beautiful...
Miki: board chairman-student council president combo...

Miki: But she hasn't even spoken to Hina since the end of last year...

Miki: There's a rumor going around...
Miki: that they had a fight...

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Hinagiku: Ah, so you're finally back!!
Hayate: Ah, Hinagiku-san.

Miki: Hey, Hina.
Risa: Have you been doing well?
Hinagiku: Why are you three here, too?
Izumi: We went on a night walk.

Hinagiku: Geez...don't make me worry by disappearing like that...!
Hayate: Sorry for worrying you...

Hayate: Um...by the way, Hinagiku-san.
Hinagiku: Hm? What?

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Hayate: Were you friends with the board chairman?
Hinagiku: Eh?
Hinagiku: With Tennousu-san?

Hinagiku: That's right...
Hinagiku: Actually, I entered Hakuou in high school, so I didn't know that she was the board chairman...

Hinagiku: I was walking on campus shortly after I started going there...
Hinagiku: I think it was near the old building...

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Hinagiku: There was a girl so pretty it surprised me...
Hinagiku: I just stared at her in fascination without realizing it.

Hinagiku: It made me think...
Hinagiku: that Hakuou was so amazing because it actually had a girl like this who was as perfect as a doll...

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Athena: Do you have some business with me, new student?
Hinagiku: Eh!?

Hinagiku: Um...!! Well...!!
Hinagiku: Ah....!! Uh...!!

Hinagiku: D-do you want to exchange email addresses?

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Miki: Just how rude a person are you...?
Risa: I'd go as far as calling that being reckless with her life...
Hinagiku: Sh-shut up!! I told you I didn't know who she was!!

Hinagiku: But that turned out to be a good thing...
Athena: You're interesting...
Text left of Athena: Hee hee

Athena: But unfortunately...
Athena: I don't have anything like that...

Athena: And when you ask a favor of someone when you first meet them...
Athena: it's better to name yourself first, right?
Text above Hinagiku: Ahh!!

Hinagiku: S-Sorry. I'm a first year, Katsura Hinagiku.
Hinagiku: Umm...
Hinagiku: And you are...?

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Athena: Athena...
Athena: Tennousu Athena.
Hinagiku: Athena?

Athena: That's the name...
Athena: of a great goddess of this world.

Hinagiku: And from then on, we started talking a little bit...
Hinagiku: And started to become friends...

Hinagiku: We sympathized with each other...
Hinagiku: about a lot of things. Like our families...
Hinagiku: And we opened our hearts to each other...

Miki: But you got into a fight, right?
Hinagiku: N-No, we didn't!!

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Hinagiku: Half a year after we met...
Hinagiku: We'd talked about a lot of things with each other...
Hinagiku: And I thought it seemed a bit reserved to keep calling her Tennousu-san.

Hinagiku: So how about we...
Hinagiku: refer to each other in a friendlier manner?
Athena: A friendlier manner?

Athena: So?
Athena: What cute name will you be calling me?

Hinagiku: Hmm, a cute name...
Hinagiku: Ah! You're Tennousu Athena, so I'll shorten Athena to...

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Hinagiku: "A-tan". How about that?

Hinagiku: Then she got mad and said that no one was allowed to call her that name anymore...
Miki: I'd get mad at that, too.
Risa: Your naming sense is as bad as ever.

Hayate: She remembers!!
Hayate: She...remembers me...!!!

Text in right margin: Hayate called Athena "A-tan". That name still holds an important meaning in Athena's heart...!?