Hayate no Gotoku! 263

Chapter 263

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Athena: I called for you?

Brother: Yes.
Brother: So I will make your dream come true.

Athena: I see...

Athena: That's hopeless.
Athena: I can't leave this palace.

Brother: You can't leave?
Athena: That's right.
Athena: I angered a god and he won't let me out.

Athena: To enter and leave this palace, you need a King's Jewel with light within it like the one you have.
Athena: But I brought the anger of a god upon me and I can no longer touch King's Jewels.

Left margin: Hayate's brother has come running to Athena who is all on her own in the palace...!!

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Athena: That's why I can't leave.
Athena: I can't touch King's Jewels.

Athena: That's why you can't...
Athena: make my dream come true.

Brother: I see...

Brother: But if you CAN'T leave...
Brother: that means you WANT TO leave.

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Brother: If you said you didn't want to leave, it would have been hard to persuade you...
Brother: but if you simply can't leave, this is a simple matter.

Brother: We have to find a way for you to leave.
Brother: That will solve everything.

Left margin: Will his conviction save this girl...!?

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Athena: To tell the truth, when I first heard him say that...
Athena: I boiled with anger.

Athena: Don't make that idea...
Athena: flit before my eyes.

Athena: I don't need...
Athena: a dream that can't come true...!

Brother: So...
Brother: Is there no hint towards a way for you to leave?

Athena: That's why I decided to tell him what I didn't tell you, Hayate.
Athena: I wanted to let him know that it was something that couldn't be done.

Athena: "Denote justice using a sword in the Abraxas Pillar Forest. Then the path will open."

Brother: What's that?

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Athena: It's a hint towards leaving this place.
Athena: There was a forest when you came in, right?
Athena: The 365 pillars lined up there are known as the Abraxas Pillar Forest.
Athena: This is the Royal Garden that tests greed and bonds.

Athena: For those who have angered the god to leave, someone possessing a King's Jewel must come to save them...
Athena: and overcome the palace's various temptations motivating one towards the Power of Royalty or towards greed.
Athena: Then the two must clasp each other's hand and slash one of the pillars.
Athena: If they do, they will be shown the proper path leading out.

Brother: What?
Brother: That's surprisingly simple.

Athena: If they slash the wrong pillar...
Athena: the possessor of the King's Jewel will die.

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Brother: Die!?

Athena: Yes. The possessor of the King's Jewel will be killed.
Athena: I'm sure you saw all the old ruined swords around the pillars.
Athena: Those are what remain of those people.

Athena: There are 365 pillars in all! But only one of them is the correct one!!
Athena: You can't survive with the odds at 1 in 365!!
Athena: Do you have the courage to stand up to that!?

Athena: The people who come to rescue those here care about those inside enough to risk their lives to save them.
Athena: But those inside care enough about those coming to save them to not want them to die, so they don't tell them about this method.

Brother: If you are full of greed, you can't save them. If you have strong bonds, you can't save them.
Brother: I see...It's like it was created by a demon.

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Brother: But did you ever hope...
Brother: that you could tell someone about that method and they would save you?

Athena: Huh?

Brother: If you didn't care about the person, you could trick them into saving you, right?
Athena: Th-there's no way I could do something that horrible!!

Brother: Really?
Brother: But didn't you not tell anyone about this before because you thought you might be able to trick them?

Athena: I-I'm nothing like you!!

Athena: The person who came here before...
Athena: was a truly precious person to me...

Athena: If I told him about these conditions...
Athena: he would surely suggest we do it!!

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Athena: That's why I didn't tell him...
Athena: to leave with me!!

Athena: Truthfully...
Athena: I wanted to tell him to leave with me!!

Athena: I wanted to tell him...
Athena: to leave this palace with me so we could live together always!!!

Athena: But I couldn't tell him!!
Athena: Because I cared about him!!

Athena: Truthfully...when he told me to live with him outside of this place...I was so happy...
Athena: So I thought about telling him about all this...

Athena: And for just a bit...
Athena: I wanted to think up...another way we could leave...together...

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Athena: But it's all over...
Athena: I destroyed it myself...
Athena: It's my fault.
Athena: So I no longer need to leave...

Athena: So leave...
Athena: If there's something you want, just take it...

Brother: I see...

Brother: Then...
Brother: let's go.

Athena: Huh?

Brother: I understand what you want to say.
Brother: I understand how difficult the requirements are for you to leave...
Brother: and why you are refusing to be saved.

Athena: Th-then...

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Brother: But I can hear that your heart...
Brother: has been crying "save me" this whole time.

Athena: B-but if you don't choose the right pillar...
Athena: you'll die!!
Brother: I will choose the right one.

Athena: Eh?

Brother: There's...
Brother: a girl crying in front of me.

Brother: There are very few things called "righteous" in this world...
SFX: Crack
Brother: but a heart that wants to save a girl who is crying before it...is undeniably righteous!!

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Brother: And there's no way a man attempting to carry out that righteousness...
Brother: would not choose the right pillar!!

Athena: ...Wha-!?

Athena: Y-you idiot!!
Athena: A play on words isn't going to get you anywhere!!

Athena: Just leave me alone!!
Athena: I've...already decided I would be here alone forever!!

Athena: You don't have to worry about me...!!
Athena: I'll be alone forever...!! Alone forever...!!

Brother: You've done well...
Brother: bearing with being alone all this time.

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Brother: So...
Brother: you don't need to bear with it any longer.

Brother: It's true, what I said may have just been a play on words.
Brother: I may not...
Brother: choose the right pillar.

Brother: But, even so, please believe in me.
Midas: Kshaaaaah!!!

SFX: Spin spin spin

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Brother: I want to respond to your call.

Brother: I want to make your dream come true.

Brother: I want to make your dream...
Brother: come true!!

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Athena: There's someone I want to meet again...

Brother: Okay.
Brother: Leave it to me!!

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Brother: Well...
Brother: then, monster.
SFX: Land

Midas: Gaaah...!!

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Brother: I'm going to have you...
Brother: open the pathway!!

Athena: And...
Athena: when I came to, I was outside the palace...

Athena: But since I had slept for more than a year since it happened...
Athena: I had no idea who that was...

Athena: I have no idea who that person with the cross-shaped scar on his forehead was...
Hayate: Cross-shaped scar...
Hayate: on his forehead...?

Right margin: Hayate's brother freed Athena from the palace 10 years ago. But she does not know who he was. Where is he now...?