Hayate no Gotoku! 269

Chapter 269

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Text: Protecting his lady's smile is a butler's duty.
Title: Chapter 269 "When we were young, we were shocked when we learned Izumi-chan's secret in Living Game."
Text in bottom left corner: Volume 9, the final DVD & Blu-ray volume of season 2, is on sale now!!

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Nagi: I'll be fine with...
Nagi: whatever house you choose.

Hayate: is...
Hayate: what milady said...

Hayate: but it's not like...
Hayate: just anything will do.

Hayate: Maria-san said a change of environment would be good for her...
Hayate: but I'm not sure milady will actually be fine with it...

Kid: Grampa!! Why did Alfred die?
Grampa: It's because the change of environment was bad for him.

Right margin: Lady Nagi has to leave the mansion. Her butler is in the process of searching real estate in order to find somewhere to be both a new home for her and a place she can rent out for income.

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Hayate: This is bad...
Hayate: I already knew it, but this is a serious responsibility...!!

Hayate: Anyway, I have 20 million yen.
Hayate: It will be hard to buy a house in Tokyo with that...

Hayate: but I have to do my best...
Hayate: for milady's sake...!!

Sakuya: You're leaving the mansion?

Nagi: Yes. I lost the right to the Sanzenin inheritance.
Nagi: It pretty much means that I've cut my ties with that old man.

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Nagi: No matter what I say, this mansion is his.
Nagi: So it's to be expected that I would have to move out once I cut my ties with him.

Mikado: I already told her she has a week.
Mikado: She has to be gone by then.

Mikado: I've already paid all of her tuition so she can continue going to high school as she has been.
Mikado: But she has to find somewhere to live on her own.
Klaus: B-but!! She can't live a normal life...

Mikado: It's no use arguing!!

Mikado: And, Klaus...I won't let you go with Nagi...
Klaus: Eh!? Why not!?

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Klaus: "Why...
Klaus: not"..?
SFX: Glance

SFX: Rinnng
SFX: Rinnng
SFX: Click
Mikado: Oh, Maria? It's me, Grampa Mikado.
Mikado: Um, about Nagi having to leave the mansion...

Mikado: I'm kicking her out, but you don't have to leave.
SFX: Cheerful
SFX: Fidget fidget
Mikado: This problem is between Nagi and me.
Mikado: If you like, you can come back here. I'd be quite happy.

Maria: Hmm.
Maria: Let me think...

Maria: Looking after Nagi now that she's lost her money...
Maria: sounds like it will be more fun than looking after you.

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Maria: Goodbye.
SFX: Click
SFX: Doo...
SFX: Doo...
SFX: Doo...

Mikado: You have to stay on my side!!!
SFX: Angry
Text left of Mikado: What the heck!! Really!!
Klaus: Eh!? B-but...!!

Sakuya: But y'know...?
Sakuya: What is Nagi actually planning to do?

Sakuya: It's not like we can't help her out.
Isumi: That's right...

Isumi: But Nagi doesn't want us to help her.
Sakuya: Eh?

Isumi: Because that girl...
Isumi: is quite stubborn...

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Sakuya: I guess it takes a stubborn person...
Sakuya: to understand another stubborn person.

Sakuya: But what is she really planning on doing...?
SFX: Smack smack

Chiharu: Did something happen...
Chiharu: with Sanzenin-san?
Sakuya: Oh, Haru-san.
Sakuya: It's just that...

Sakuya: a lot happened to Nagi on the trip...
Sakuya: and she lost her great riches.
Chiharu: Eh!?

Chiharu: That's...a big deal...
Sakuya: Hmm, well, I guess so...

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Chiharu: So that's why you have been worried about Sanzenin-san since you got back from the trip.
Sakuya: Eh?

Sakuya: Have I looked like I was that worried about Nagi?
SFX: Angry
Isumi: Yes.
Isumi: But I've been even more worried.

Sakuya: I see. Well, she's never listened to what people told her..
Sakuya: so I guess I am worried.

Sakuya: But I just thought she'd be fine...
Sakuya: because she has an excellent maid and butler with her.
Sakuya: I guess.

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Box: Meanwhile with the supposedly "excellent" butler...
Hayate: Hmm...

Hayate: It really seems that normally speaking...
Hayate: buying an entire building with 20 million is impossible.
Poster:
Only 8 minutes to Kichijouji Station!
Air conditioning.
Special price!!
258 million 500 thousand yen

Hayate: But it's my fault things are like this.
Hayate: Carrying out milady's wishes is my duty as her butler!!

Hayate: Anyway...!! I have to grant her wish no matter what it takes...!!
Hayate: Excuse me!!
SFX: Open
Hayate: I have a question about your listings...!!

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Guy: Welcome!!
Guy: What kind of place are you looking for?
On magazine: Monthly Chivalry
[TN: The yakuza often refer to themselves using the term chivalry.]

Hayate: Eh?

Guy: Hm?

Hayate: Ahh!! You're the guy who tried to sell me...
Hayate: when my parents left me with that debt!!

Guy: You're the kid from back then...
Hayate: The Ayasaki kid, Hayate!!!

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Hayate: No, you're mistaking me for someone else.
Guy: Don't run away.

Guy: You don't owe us anything now, so you're just a customer.
Text above guy: Have some coffee.
Guy: I'll answer your question.
Hayate: You're not going to say the cost of that answer is 150 million yen are you?

Guy: You don't trust me. What did I ever do to you?
Hayate: Like I said, you tried to sell me!!

Guy: Well, let's forget about the past.
Guy: So are you looking to buy a house?
Sign: Chivalrous Real Estate
Hayate: Yes, I am...
Hayate: But, well...

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Hayate: Is there a nice apartment building...
Hayate: in the city center of Tokyo that I can buy for 20 million yen?

Guy: Of course there isn't,
Hayate: you idiot.

Hayate: S-so there isn't.
Guy: No!!
Guy: There isn't!!
Text: Decisive

Hayate: I see...
Hayate: Then what am I going to do...?
SFX: Depressed

Guy: I'm not saying there's no way you can get one though.
Hayate: Eh?

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Hayate: Th-then what do I have to do!?
Guy: It's a simple matter.

Guy: The price of an apartment building or a plot of land is determined by the asking price of the seller.
Guy: If the seller said 20 million was fine, then that would be enough to buy it.

Guy: But, well, if you want to get that...
Guy: you have to be prepared to work for it.
SFX: Straightforward

Hayate: It's for milady...
Hayate: I decided I would do anything!!

Hayate: Please!!
Hayate: I'll do anything, so tell me what I have to do!!

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Hayate: Um...
Hayate: I said I would do anything...

Hayate: but what is this!!?

Guy: "What is this"...?
Guy: A bishojo. It's a bishojo.
Text: Woah...

Guy: This was the most common method during the time of the bubble.
Guy: The "Ahhn, papa is letting me buy an apartment." strategy!!
Hayate: The "Ahhn, papa is letting me buy an apartment." strategy?

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Guy: Kids these days may not know about it, but in the 80s...
Guy: there were tons of girls who managed to buy an apartment solely on the fact that they were cute!!

Hayate: That must have been one crazy decade.
Guy: Yeah.

Guy: And we had just found a rich gentleman who seems to love girls with the exact type of looks you have!!
Guy: So if you negotiate with him looking like that, he might sell it for 20 million!!

Guy: Look!! Here he comes around that corner...
Guy: Now come on to him in a way that sounds like it's a coincidence!!

Hayate: Kh...This is for milady's sake so I have to have a heart of a demon...
Hayate: No...!! The heart of a bishojo...!!

Guy: Look!! Here he comes!!

Hayate: Here I go!!
SFX: Bump into
Hayate: Ah!! I'm sorry!!

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Hayate: Are you hurt?
Klaus: No, no. I'm perfectly fine.

SFX: Blush...

Hayate: Klaus-saaaaan!!
Box: He has 6 more days in which to find a house.

Right margin: Will "her" charm work on the gentleman of the bubble, Klaus-san, who "she" ran into at the street corner...!? Will "she" be able to buy the apartment building!?