Hayate no Gotoku! 261

Chapter 261

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Left margin: The noble spirit crumbles...It's over!!

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Ayumu: Wooow! What's this?
Izumi: It's beautiful.

Miki: Is this what they call a meteor swarm?
Risa: Something showy like this is perfect for the party's final show.

Aika: With this many shooting stars, you might be able to get a wish granted.
Maria: Instead of calling it a meteor swarm, I'd call it...

Nagi: A rain of light...
Nagi: Right...?

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Left margin: There isn't a single cloud in the clear night sky...And Chapter 261 is "Flirting and Flirting".

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Athena: Even so...

Athena: You really have a showy way of destroying people's houses.
Hayate: W-well...

Hayate: How should I put it...?
Hayate: I was desperately trying to save you, I guess...

Athena: But wasn't there another way you could have saved me?
Athena: Do you have any idea how much this house cost?
Hayate: I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry.

Athena: C'mon, Hayate...
Athena: It's been 10 years and you still can't see what's going on around you...

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SFX: Stare...

SFX: Stand...
Hayate: A-tan?

SFX: Turn

SFX: Step step step

Hayate: Eh?
Hayate: Wh-what is it?

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SFX: Sit...

Hayate: Eh?

Hayate: U-um...A-tan!?
Athena: Your legs!!

Athena: If you don't spread them a little more...
Athena: I can't settle in right!!

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Hayate: Eh...?
Hayate: Oh...

Hayate: S-sorry...
Athena: Geez...You're as tactless as ever.

Athena: Hayate...
Hayate: Eh?
Hayate: Y-yes!? What is it!?

Athena: My back...
Athena: is a little cold...

Hayate: Eh?

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Hayate: Oh...then...
Hayate: Take my jacket.

SFX: Squeeeeze...
Hayate: Ow!! Ow ow ow!!
Hayate: That hurts, A-tan. Why are you pinching me!?

Athena: What are you doing trying to make me wear a guy's jacket?
Athena: I don't want that...I...well...there's...y'know...

Hayate: But if there's a stole in this house that's just right, I wouldn't know about it.
Athena: I don't want a stole...!!

Athena: There's something that's more...nice and warm, right?
Athena: It's right behind me...and kind of dull...

Hayate: ...Oh...

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Hayate: Um...
Hayate: Is this...
Hayate: fine...?

Athena: Yes...
Athena: This is fine...

Hayate: But...when I embrace you like this...
Hayate: I can tell you're as tiny as ever, A-tan.
Athena: Id-...!! Who are you saying is tiny!?

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Athena: I've grown as a woman in various places in these 10 years!!
Hayate: Ha ha. I-I guess you have.
Small text in Hayate's bubble: Ow...
SFX: Poke poke poke poke

Hayate: To be honest it really surprised me when I first saw you.
Athena: Surprised you...?

Athena: Hayate, what part of my body were you looking at that surprised you?
Hayate: Eh!? U-um, well...
Athena: Answer honestly. I won't get mad.
Hayate: Eh!?

Hayate: U-um...
Hayate: W-well, it was...

Text above Athena: Staaaare
SFX: Spin spin

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Hayate: Um...y-your chest...
Hayate: I guess.

SFX: Squeeeeze...
Hayate: Ow ow!! That hurts!
Hayate: A-tan, you liar!! You said you wouldn't get mad!!

Athena: Really now...!!
Athena: You're as much of an idiot as ever, Hayate!!
Hayate: D-don't say that...

Athena: But I suppose I'll forgive you.
Hayate: Eh?

Athena: Because you did...
Athena: come to save me...

Athena: Thank you, Hayate...
Athena: I was...
Athena: very happy.

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Hayate: You're welcome.

Hayate: But A-tan. Do you remember what happened while you were...
Hayate: possessed by that thing?
Athena: Eh?

Athena: That's right...
Athena: Since about the end of last year, I've been slowly going crazy...
Athena: Especially when I arrived in Greece. I was conscious, but I had no idea what I was doing.

Athena: I was possessed by King Midas, an ancient noble spirit that tried to become a god using the Power of Royalty and the power of the Royal Garden.
Athena: He is controlled by greed so he used me to...
Athena: try to get back to the Royal Garden, regain the King's Jewel, and, most of all, to regain the Power of Royalty that was taken from him.

Hayate: Taken from him?
Hayate: By whom?
Athena: If I knew that, this wouldn't have been such a problem.

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Athena: But on that day 10 years ago...
Athena: just after I left the palace...
Athena: whoever it was took the Power of Royalty outside the palace.

Athena: At first I thought it was you.
Athena: I couldn't think of anyone else who met the requirements.

Athena: But I as wrong.
Athena: However, someone other than you...
Athena: definitely took the power from the palace then.

Athena: For some reason...
Athena: That person was able to correctly find the entrance connected to the palace...
Athena: they knew about all of the various tricks of the palace...
Athena: they weren't tempted by any of the traps...

Athena: and they had a King's Jewel that hadn't lost its light.
Athena: That old man and I had worked so hard to get the Power of Royalty...
Athena: and this person took it so easily without our noticing.

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Athena: It was like...
Athena: they were chosen by god.

Athena: Unlike thieves like me, that old man, and that noble spirit...
Athena: it was like they had been chosen to be its owner from the beginning.
Athena: They may have been called there by the Power of Royalty.

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Athena: They were like a person of fate...
Hayate: Fate...

Hayate: But A-tan. There's one thing I find odd!
Athena: What's that?

Hayate: To get into that Royal Garden, you need to have a King's Jewel, right?
Athena: Yes. And it has to be one that hasn't lost its light.

Hayate: But...then it's weird.
Hayate: Ten years ago...
Hayate: I didn't have a King's Jewel.

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Hayate: Also...
Hayate: how did you leave that palace...?

Athena: That's right...

Athena: There are still many things...
Athena: I have to tell you.

Athena: Well then, Hayate. How about I tell you what happened ...
Athena: after you left 10 years ago?

Right margin: The story of what happened to Athena once Hayate left and she should have been alone in that palace. And the mysterious story of this world, the palace, and the noble spirit.