Hayate no Gotoku! 244

Chapter 244

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Text and title on right: I have no complaints with this fate, but... Chapter 244 "Even Though I Love You... Because I Love You..."

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Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!
Hayate: You...remember me, don't you!?

Athena: Yes.
Athena: I remember you.

Athena: You're...
Athena: the butler I failed to kill back then.

Text in right margin: Even thought it's been 10 years, she has to remember. They can definitely return to how they were. Can he reconcile this with A-tan who he sees in his dreams?

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Hayate: Eh?
Hayate: No, no...
Hayate: Failed to kill...?
Hayate: Ah...A-tan?
Athena: Now that you've come, I have no choice.

Athena: You trusted those parents of yours that I told you not to trust...
Athena: And you went to stay with those pieces of trash you called parents instead of me...

Athena: I'm clearly better when compared with those pieces of trash, and yet you so easily abandoned me!!
Athena: You left me to be alone in that castle forever. Did you even think about my feelings!!?

Hayate: U-umm...
Hayate: Well, I...
Athena: Also...

Athena: I'm the board chairman of Hakuou, so I know!!
Athena: I know what you've been doing recently!!

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Athena: Even though you have me, you've been going after girl after girl...!!
Hayate: No, no!! I haven't!!
Hayate: Wait!! What's with this indecent imagining!! That isn't how it is at all!!

Athena: Hayate, you....You...
Hayate: Wait!? Um...
Hayate: A-tan!?

Athena: I hate yoooooou!!!
Hayate: Kyaaaaaah!!

Hayate: I...
Hayate: get the feeling I had some kind of horrible dream...

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Hayate: But...
Hayate: She definitely remembers me. I know that for sure.

Athena: I hate you, Hayate!!
Hayate: Well...I don't really expect her to say she loves me...

Hayate: Anyway, for now...
Hayate: I want to speak with her!!

Hayate: If she's the one who treated my wounds, she has to be nearby...

SFX: *close*

Hayate: Um...!!

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Hayate: She's not here...

Hayate: But this place sure is big...
Hayate: Finding her in here will be pretty hard.

Hayate: And if I search for her too noticeably...
Hayate: he might find me again and I could end up in trouble again. I need to be careful...

Hayate: No!! That doesn't matter!!
Hayate: Right now, I just have to find her!!

Hayate: No matter how big it is, it's still a house!! I just have to search thoroughly!!
Hayate: A-tan!!

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Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!
Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

Hayate: A-tan!!

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Hayate: This place is huge...!!
Hayate: Haa
Hayate: Haa
Hayate: Damn it...!! Why do rich people have to live in such huge houses...?

Hayate: Ow!!

Hayate: This is bad... Even though my wounds were treated...
Hayate: My body won't do what I tell it to at all...

Hayate: Where are you...
Hayate: A-tan...!?

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Athena: Hayate...
Athena: So he's realized I remember him...

Athena: I hid without thinking, but what should I do...?
Athena: What should I say to him...?

Athena: I could...
Athena: just let him leave like this...

Athena: But...
Athena: what about the stone!?

Athena: I absolutely need the stone!!
Athena: In order to open the path to the garden palace, I need to get the original stone...!!

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Athena: It's right in front of me!

Athena: But if I take it, what will happen to Hayate?

Athena: He'll at least no longer be able to stay with the Sanzenin family...
Athena: He'll lose the peaceful life he finally managed to obtain.

Athena: I heard about how his parents tried to sell him for a 150 million yen.
Athena: And I've heard about how...
Athena: he's had a horrible life for these past 10 years thanks to those parents of his..

Athena: If I had been a little calmer back then, I might have been able to save Hayate.
Athena: When I think about that, my chest hurts.

Athena: So...I was always searching for him.
Athena: I had decided that next time I would save him from his parents.

Athena: But that wish didn't come true either.

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Athena: He failed...
Athena: the entrance exam by 1 point?

Aika: Well, I won't say there are a number of inadequacies in the exam problems, but...
Aika: Kirika-san deemed it a failure...

Aika: It's just that we've received word from the Sanzenin to reconsider it and the board of directors said to leave it up to the chairman...

Aika: What should we do? It was already decided...
Aika: so should we just stick with how it is...?

Athena: When I found you...
Athena: you had already been saved by someone else...

Athena: That was fine...
Athena: As long as you were happy.

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Athena: So I was always watching you...
Athena: You were saved by someone else and I watched you as you smiled with someone else.
Athena: Always watching... Watching from afar...

Athena: The curse of your parents had been released from you.
Athena: You had finally achieved a peaceful life...

Athena: If I take the stone...!! You might lose it again.
Athena: You'll lose it again and it'll be my fault...

Athena: But...if, because of that, you were to wander on the roadside...
Athena: And this time I could...

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Athena: I'm such a...
Athena: horrible person...!!!

Athena: At that time!!
Athena: I drove you away from me...!! And I left you alone for 10 years!!

Athena: And yet I still...
Athena: Want you to say you love me...!!

Athena: I don't want you to see me...
Athena: I don't want you to meet me...
Athena: when I'm like this.

Athena: I don't want to take away your peaceful life.
Athena: So just leave without meeting me...!! Stay a stranger forever...!!

Athena: Hayate!!!

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Hayate: A-tan?

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Athena: ...Ah...

Athena: Oh, no...!!

Hayate: Wait!!

Hayate: There's...
Hayate: one thing I want to ask you...

Athena: What is it?

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Hayate: You...
Hayate: remember me, don't you?

Hayate: A-tan...

Text in right margin: They've lived seperately for 10 years. The two of them are already living out different fates. What will Athena's answer to Hayate's question be...?