Hayate no Gotoku! 277

Chapter 277

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Top text: Volumes 1 - 24 and all 9 Blu-ray and DVD volumes of the anime's second season are on sale now!!
Text: Lady Nagi is moving into her new house!! Due to various circumstances her moving is a heart pounding experience.
Title: Chapter 277 "Family ties and other connections can be found here"
Bottom Text: Hata Kenjirou

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Margin: As the Sanzenin household's move nears, the ghost priest makes his first appearance in a while. It may be broad daylight, but how calmly people accept his presence seems a bit wrong.

Box: Friday May 6th

Priest: Hmm...
Priest: What about this...?

Hayate: What are you doing, father?
Priest: Hm?

Priest: Well, you're leaving this house soon, right?
Priest: So...

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Priest: As you can see...
Priest: I'm packing my belongings.

Hayate: Eh!? You're packing!?
Hayate: You're planning on coming with us to the new house?
Priest: Well, yeah.
Hayate: Why are you acting like that should be obvious!?
Hayate: I can't let a ghost come with us!!

Priest: You may not like it...
Priest: but I have no choice!!
Hayate: Eh?

Hayate: What do you mean you have no choice?
Priest: Well...

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Priest: Even if I don't look it...
Priest: I'm the evil spirit that's possessing you.
SFX: Mumble...

Hayate: Ehhh!?
Hayate: Wait a second, father! You possessed me!?
Priest: Yes. Well, it's not exact, but I guess you could call it that.
Hayate: What is it exactly!? And why did you possess me!?
Priest: Well, I suppose to curse you to death.
Hayate: You're going to kill me!? Like I'd let you do that!!!

Hayate: Stop it right now!!
Hayate: I have enough trouble without it!!
Priest: Oh, don't be like that.

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Priest: You have a nice collection of peculiar traits...
Priest: and you have a susceptible disposition.

Hayate: That's my disposition for being unlucky, isn't it?
Priest: Well, I guess you could call it that.

Priest: But you're ability to get by even with that...
Priest: is one of your unique traits,
Priest: butler-kun.

Nagi: Ohhh.

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Nagi: I saw it at night before, but it has a different feel to it at day!!
Maria: Yes, it does...

Hayate: I've organized most of the luggage.
Maria: We can start living here today.
Nagi: Really!?

Nagi: Okay. I have to...
Nagi: check out the inside while it's still light out!!

Nagi: Let's go, Shiranui!!
Shiranui: Nyaahn!

Hayate: Lady Nagi really is excited about this.
Maria: Yes, she is...

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Maria: One thing about cats is...
Hayate: Yes?

Maria: When you take a cat to a new house...
SFX: Peek in
Maria: they like to go explore each and every room to check out the house.

Nagi: I see. I see.
Nagi: So this is what the foyer is like.
Nagi: Oh, and that's the bath.

Nagi: Ah, ha. And this is the kitchen.
Nagi: Oh, is this the dining hall?

Maria: It's pretty much exactly like that.
Hayate: Yeah...

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Nagi: Ah!! Hayate!! Hayate!!!
Hayate: Yes!?

Hayate: What is it, milady!?
Nagi: Th-this is terrible!!

Nagi: This thick TV doesn't have an HDMI port!!

Hayate: It's not just that, milady.
Hayate: It only takes composite video and it s sound is monaural.
Nagi: What!?

Nagi: Composite video and monaural sound...?
Nagi: Wh-what about my Blu-ray collection...?
Nagi: What about the 5.1ch surround sound...?

Hayate: It doesn't have anything like that...

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Nagi: N-no way...
Nagi: I can't play games with something this out of date...

Hayate: Milady...

Hayate: I'm really not sure a life without money is going to work...
Maria: It's going to be tough on her...

SFX: Click click
SFX: Beep

Nagi: Well, the video's a bit rough and the sound is pretty flat...
Nagi: but, yeah, I can still live with this.
Hayate & Maria: Huh!? She's handling this surprisingly well.

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Nagi: Didn't I tell you that...
Nagi: I don't need the right to the inheritance?
Hayate: Eh?

Nagi: And living off of assets borrowed from that old man...
Nagi: would be like living a borrowed life and I don't want that.

Hayate: So you're really never going back to the mansion?
Nagi: That's right.
Nagi: Actually, I bet if I went right now to take the Sanzenin fortune and become the head of the family, I could talk that old man into doing it...

Nagi: but I don't really need such an excessive fortune...
Nagi: if it's just for my own sake.

Nagi: That said...I don't intend on living without money for the rest of my life either.
Hayate: Eh?

Nagi: From here on I'll use my own abilities...
Nagi: my own intelligence and courage, to get that money!!

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Nagi: Anyway, I still have the 20 million yen I was going to use to buy this house left...
SFX: Type type...
Nagi: so I'll invest it all in stocks and in the FX market to get more money!!
Hayate: Wow, that sounds questionable...
Maria: That's the thought pattern of a Neo Neet.

Nagi: And then...
Nagi: there's this house.

Nagi: There are...
Nagi: 6 rooms left over.

Nagi: Let's lease them out to people...
Nagi: and get some income from the rent!!

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Maria: I'm not sure that'll go very well.
Nagi: What!?

Maria: This building really is wonderful...
Maria: but apartments these days have autolocks, wood flooring, and separate baths and bathrooms.
Pamphlet:
Open layout
Easy commute and shopping nearby
- No key money required
- Surfaces refurbished
- Bath, bathroom, and autolock
- Good sun exposure and faces the south
- 7 minutes walking distance from the station
- Appliances included

Maria: And then we only have...
Maria: 6 tatami rooms built over 30 years ago.
Maria: Each room has its own bathroom...
Maria: but all the rooms share a common bath and the place is made of wood.
Maria: With our established rent of 40 thousand...

Maria: no one in this day and age...
Maria: is really going to want to live here, are they?

Hayate: It would be nice if we had some kind of unique trait.
Maria: Yes, it would...

Nagi: Um...
Nagi: We have a lot of cats.
Shiranui: Nyaah
Maria: I don't think that will cut it.

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Nagi: Fine!! Then I'll explore the place even further...
Nagi: and find things that will make people want to live here!! C'mon, Hayate!!
Hayate: O-okay!!

Maria: If it had been rebuilt into an apartment tower...
Maria: I'm sure people would come...

Nagi: Look. When you go up the stairs...
SFX: Squeak squeak
Nagi: it makes a squeaking sound so you can tell someone's there.

Hayate: I think that would be a negative trait...
Nagi: It's good for security!!

Nagi: Well, you can live the simple life because the tap doesn't do hot water..
Hayate: That's another negative trait.

Nagi: Tatami!! Japanese-style rooms!!
Nagi: It's warm!!
SFX: Whap whap
Hayate: People want wood flooring in this day and age...

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Nagi: Hmm...
Pamphlet:
Violet Mansion We have confidence in it, so we recommend it!
- In Tokyo
- 6 tatami rooms
- Individual bathrooms
- Joint bath
- 30 year old wooden building

Nagi: Maybe we really won't be able to find any tenants...
Hayate: We might not...

Nagi: Tch...

Hayate: We need unique traits..
Hayate: to this apartment building...

Priest: But you're ability to get by even with that...
Priest: is one of your unique traits, butler-kun.

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Hayate: I've got it, milady!!
Nagi: Eh?

Hayate: This apartment building...
Hayate: has a unique trait!!

Nagi: What is it?
Hayate: Let me see that for a second!!

Hayate: Tah-dah!! How about this!?
Nagi: Eh?
SFX: Hold out paper
Nagi: A 30 year old wooden apartment building in Tokyo with individual bathrooms, a joint bath,

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Nagi: 6 tatami rooms,
Nagi: and comes with a butler...?
Added bubble to pamphlet: Comes with a butler
Text near bottom of pamphlet you couldn't see before: Public Company Kame House

Hayate: That's right. These are the only apartments in the city...
Hayate: that come with a butler!!

Nagi: Ohh!!
Box: Their new life begins.

Box: Their new life...
Box: in the apartments that come with a butler...

Bottom: To be continued in Issue 31 being released on Wednesday June 30th

Margin: Having a butler really would make you want to live there!! It's exciting thinking about what kinds of people will come to stay in the rooms.