Hayate no Gotoku! 177

Here's the last untranslated chapter from Volume 17.
This is the chapter right before the The End of the World arc.

Chapter 177 (aka Volume 17 Chapter 4)

01

Title: Chapter 4 "It's a machine that cuts out a piece of time using light"

02

Nagi: Wow. That hero show was really fun.
Hayate: Well, it seemed a bit disjointed to me...

Nagi: Hm?

Hayate: What is it, milady?

Nagi: Hayate. Do you remember this place?
Hayate: Eh?

Nagi: Here!! It was here!! In front of this vending machine!!

03

Hayate: Umm...
Hayate: Oh.

Hayate: Is this that famous Kuk*rus Do*n's Island?
Nagi: This isn't an island. And if you don't give me a serious answer, I'm gonna kick you.

Hayate: By the way, the Mobile Suit that Kuk*rus Do*n was in is often mistaken as an old Za**...
Hayate: but from the art it's a normal Za**.
Nagi: I told you!! I don't want trivia like that!!

Hayate: Ha ha.
Hayate: There's no way I would forget.

Hayate: This is...
Hayate: where I first met you.

04

Hayate: It's only been 4 months...
Hayate: but it seems really nostalgic.
Nagi: Yeah.

Nagi: But...
Nagi: As time goes on, you really do forget a lot of things.
Hayate: Eh?

Nagi: I mean, people forget that Kuk*rus Do*n's Za** was a normal Za**.
Hayate: Now you're continuing that conversation?

Nagi: I...
Nagi: really would like to leave behind something with substance to it.

Hayate: A film camera instead of a digital one?
Nagi: Yeah. Digital photos are great, but you really need film to leave behind memories, right?

05

Hayate: But that's the Sanzenin family for you. The camera you pull out is a Leica M7.
Nagi: Hm? What? Is this a high-class camera?

Hayate: Of course...
Hayate: Wow, it even has a Noctilux lens.

Nagi: You know a lot about cameras, Hayate.
Hayate: Ha ha.
Hayate: All guys love mechanical things like this.

Nagi: Hmm.
Nagi: Is that so?

06

SFX on the right: *snap*
SFX on the left: *smile*

Maria: What are you doing!?

Maria: You can't point a camera at someone and take a picture all of a sudden.
Nagi: That may be...But I'm surprised that you strike a pose as soon as a camera's pointed at you.

Nagi: Hm, this is a bit heavy.
Hayate: Well, it may be a bit heavy for you.

Maria: Then how about this one?
Maria: It's a Leica CM, a compact film camera.
Maria: It's lighter and easier to use than the M7, so you should be able to take better pictures.

Nagi: Oh, I like this one. It's cute.
Hayate: And the cameras you keep casually pulling out are all high-class ones.

07

Nagi: Okay. Let's go take some pictures, Hayate!!
Hayate: Yes, milady!!

SFX: *snap*

Wataru: What are you doing?
Nagi: Don't mind me. I'm just taking random pictures.
Wataru: Hey!!

Nagi: I think I'm becoming a real fan of this picture taking thing.
Wataru: Huh?

Wataru: Keh!!
Wataru: I wouldn't say anyone who takes pictures with anything other than a compact Program AE is a fan of photography.

Wataru: A real camera has a range finder!! Got it!?
Wataru: Auto focus is unnecessary. Doing it all manually is obviously better!!

08

Nagi: What's with that old fashioned camera?
Hayate: It's a Canon P. It came out about 50 years ago and has sold about 100,000 units.
Hayate: Speaking of range finders, around when the Leica M3 came out, they were the normal thing for cameras.
Nagi: Ohh.

Nagi: By the way, does that 50 year old camera still work?
Wataru: Of course it does!!

Wataru: Film cameras are a crystallization of the optics technology that humanity has created!!
Wataru: That's why old cameras work even without batteries unlike today's digital cameras!!

Nagi: I see. So you aren't popular with Isumi because you're so obsessed with this kind of stuff.

Wataru: Get out!!

Wataru: Geez...
Wataru: Haa
Wataru: Haa
Wataru: Haa
Saki: Calm down.

09

Saki: But since you got the camera out, how about you take at least one photo?
Wataru: Hm?

Wataru: Okay, I'll take a single picture.
Saki: Okay.

Wataru: Hey, since I haven't taken a photo in a while, how about you strike a pose?
Saki: Like this?
Wataru: No, put your hips more like this...

Nagi: And he does creepy things with his maid...
Hayate: This looks like some kind of minor crime.

Wataru: Never come baaack!!

Nagi: But we haven't been able to take any good photos.
Hayate: Well, if you want to record some memories, you have to plan it out first.

Nagi: Oh! Then...

10

Sakuya: Oh, a camera.

Sakuya: I've got a digital camera. It's a Ricoh GX100
Small text in Sakuya's bubble: I have a conversion lens in my bag.
Hayate: That's Sakuya-san for you. That's a high-class camera.

Isumi: I have a camera too.
Hayate: Eh?
Nagi: You do?

Isumi: Yes. It's an old camera, or actually a camera obscura.
Hayate & Nagi: Isn't that the camera that seals vengeful spirits in some game?

Chiharu: How about I take a commemorative photo of all of you?
Sakuya: Oh.
Sakuya: Good idea, Haru-san.

Chiharu: Okay, first I'll take a photo with your digital camera, Sakuya-san.
Sakuya: Oh, please do.

Chiharu: Okay, say cheese.

11

SFX: *snap*

Chiharu: Oh, I'm sorry. This camera seems to be broken.
Chiharu: I-it didn't take a picture.
Camera: *beep* Deleted.
Sakuya: What was on that picture, Haru-san...?

Hayate: Well, it'll be that way no matter what we take a picture of so let's go, milady.
Nagi: Y-yeah. On to the next place.

Ayumu: Ohh.
Ayumu: Film cameras sure are stylish, aren't they?

Ayumu: I'm a pretty big fan of taking pictures, too.
Hayate: Eh?

Ayumu: See, I take them all the time with my phone.
Text above Ayumu: Eh heh heh
Nagi: Wow...
Hayate: That's normal...

12

SFX: *jingle*

Hina: Huh?

Hayate: Oh, hello, Hinagiku-san.
Hina: Eh?
Hina: Hayate-kun?

Hina: Eh?
Hina: Huh? You two...
Hina: Um...

Hina: Well...
Hayate: What is it, Hinagiku-san?

Ayumu: Oh, Hina-san. Let's get our picture taken with Hayate-kun.
Hina: Fweh?
Nagi: Wha-!?

Nagi: Why do you two have to get your picture taken with Hayate!?
Ayumu: What's wrong with it? It's not like it's anything new!!
Nagi: It'll use up film, you idiot!!
[TN: There was a bit of wordplay I couldn't translate here. The way Ayumu said "it isn't anything new" literally means "it won't decrease anything" and Nagi's response was that it would "decrease the [amount of] film".]

13

Manager: C'mon, don't say that and be nice...
Manager: It's just one picture, okay?
Manager: I'll take it for you.

Manager: Okay, here I go...

Hayate: What's going on? I thought getting my picture taken with girls would be fun...
Hayate: but I get the feeling I've activated a major death flag!!

14

Nagi: Geez. Unlike with digital cameras, you can't delete something from a film camera once you take it.
Nagi: In the end, we didn't take any good pictures.

Nagi: I really wanted to take a picture with you in front of that vending machine.
Hayate: We can do it some other time.

Maria: Ah.
Maria: Welcome back.

Maria: How was it? Did you take any good pictures?
Nagi: No. They were all boring pictures.

Nagi: Oh, but there's one picture left.

15

SFX: *snap*

Nagi: Good, good.
Nagi: Yeah, we needed to take a commemorative photo of the three of us.
Hayate: Ha ha.

Maria: But are you okay without taking a picture of just you and Hayate-kun?
Nagi: Hm?

Nagi: Yeah, we can take that picture at any time.
Nagi: We'll take one in front of that vending machine sometime.
Nagi: Right!?
Hayate: Yes?

16

Nagi: Hayate.
Nagi: We'll be together forever.

Nagi: What?

Hayate: Nothing...
Hayate: That's right,
Hayate: milady.

Hayate: We'll be...
Hayate: together forever...