Hayate no Gotoku! 246

Chapter 246

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Sakuya: Well, you seem pretty injured...
Sakuya: but are you okay?

Hayate: Sakuya-san...and Isumi-san? What are you doing here?
Sakuya: Well, about that...

Isumi: We don't have time to explain.
Sakuya: Eh?

Isumi: It doesn't look like...
Isumi: she plans on giving up just yet.

Text in left margin: What is that that has appeared behind Athena...!?

02

Text in right margin: These two people whose power exceeds that of man or of the butler...will clash!?

Athena: I don't know who you are or where you came from...

Title: Chapter 246 "The Strongest vs. The Invincible"

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Athena: But you're in the way!!

Sakuya: Nwoooh! Here it coooomes!!

Sakuya: We're dead!!
Sakuya: We're dead, Isumi-saaan!!
Isumi: Don't worry. We won't die from just this.

Isumi: With this level of spiritual attack...
Isumi: my barrier can repel it all!!

04

SFX: *crack*

Isumi: Ah...no fair...
Sakuya: Hey, you're kidding, right...?

Sakuya: Nwaaaaah!!

05

Sakuya: Wait, Isumi-san!! What is this evil spirit!!

Isumi: That is not an evil spirit.
Sakuya: Eh?

Isumi: It is an honored spirit...
Isumi: An ancient spirit that possessed divinity whose name would appear somewhere in legend...
Isumi: So...that means...
Isumi: It possesses much greater power than a vengeful evil spirit would.

Hayate: But...!! Why is something like that...
Hayate: with her...!!

Isumi: I do not know.
Isumi: She is not by nature the type of person who would be possessed by that...

Isumi: If she had the necessary power, she shouldn't have had an opening through which it could possess her...
Isumi: What I think is...

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Isumi: She must have had an extremely painful...
Isumi: deep despair in her past...

Hayate: Eh?

Isumi: Things like that possess people through openings in their hearts.
Isumi: For it to possess her when she had that much power...

Isumi: something must have happened in her past...
Isumi: that was truly, truly painful. It must have been so hard on her, that she wanted to die...

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Isumi: A deep sadness that she could not stand...

Isumi: even though she has...
Isumi: so much power...

Hayate: A deep sadness that...
Hayate: she could not stand?

Hayate: Then could that be...
Hayate: what happened back then?

Hayate: Then that's...
Hayate: my fault...?

08

Hayate: ...My...

Athena: Seriously...
Athena: Could you maybe not destroy people's homes?

Isumi: She's the one who did it.
Sakuya: It was her!!

Isumi: But if destroying your house even to destroy us was not your true intent...
Isumi: I'm hoping that we can discuss this peaceably...

Athena: Is that so?
Athena: But what do you want to talk about?

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Isumi: About the castle...
Isumi: in which a god is said to live.

Isumi: Or perhaps...
Isumi: about the king who tried, but failed, to become a god.

Athena: We have nothing to discuss.

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Sakuya: Oh!! Way to go, Isumi-san!!

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Isumi: This may be a bit rude...
Isumi: but I will first suppress that honored spirit and then have you talk!!

Isumi: Technique Style - Eighth Leaf

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Isumi: Takemikazuchi!!!
[TN: This is the name of a god from Japanese mythology.]

Sakuya: Oh!! You did it, Isumi-san!!

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SFX: *twitch*

Sakuya: Owaaph!!

15

Athena: Did you...
Athena: do something just now?

Sakuya: Hey, Isumi-san!!
Sakuya: It's completely fine!!

Sakuya: Could you not go easy on it and do more of a one-hit kill or something!!!

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Isumi: It didn't work...?
Isumi: No way...

Sakuya: Eh?

Athena: You look surprised.

Athena: Could it be that...

Athena: you've never met someone stronger than you...
Athena: before now?

Text in right margin: Athena and the spirit that has possessed her...their power is beyond that of a human and she is no longer the Athena of old...!