Hayate no Gotoku! 286

Chapter 286

01

Hayate: Sorry about the trouble. I thought you were someone else.
Hayate: I'm looking for something.
Girl: Don't worry about it. Everyone makes mistakes.

SFX: Stare

Hayate: D-do you need something?
Girl: Hmm...

Girl: This looks like a genuine butler uniform.
Girl: Is it cosplay?
Hayate: Eh? No. I'm a butler of the Sanzenin family.

Margin: One day, he met a curious girl in a park while wearing his butler uniform.

Bottom: Does a butler uniform - Hayate no Gotoku! - help camouflage you at night?

02

Text & title: This is a small meeting of fate. Chapter 286 "She has come to steal something precious of mine"
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03

Girl: Eh, you're a butler!?
Girl: You're actually a real butler?
Hayate: Eh...?
Hayate: Uh...yes.

Girl: I see. I see.
Girl: Hmm...

Girl: What's your name?
Hayate: Ayasaki. I'm Ayasaki Hayate.

Girl: Hmm...
Girl: Ayasaki-kun, huh?

04

Girl: I hope you find...
Girl: whatever it is you lost.

Girl: Well...
Girl: Maybe we'll see each other again some day.

SFX: Run off

Hayate: What I've lost...

Hayate: Ah!! That's right!!
Hayate: I have to find Tama!!

05

Tama: I'll survive...
SFX: Rustle rustle
Tama: I'll survive this!!

Isumi: Oh?
Isumi: What are you doing here, Tama?

Isumi: Are you...
Isumi: lost?

Tama: Lady Nagi's friend...Lady Isumi!?

Hayate: Hey, Tama!! ...Huh?
Hayate: Isumi-san!?
Isumi: Good evening, Hayate-sama.

06

Isumi: I see...
Isumi: You were taking Tama to the new apartment building.

Isumi: That sounds like it would be difficult.
Isumi: Tama is a rather large cat.
Hayate: Yes.

Hayate: And Tama has been living inside that large mansion for so long.
Hayate: I'm not sure if he can live outside.

Isumi: That's true.
Isumi: With such a big cat...
Isumi: if anyone besides Nagi or Maria-san saw him...
Isumi: they might mistake him for a tiger.

Hayate: Eh?

Isumi: So, Hayate-sama.
Isumi: How about this?
Hayate: This?

07

Isumi: The collar of the Nibelungs.
Isumi: If he wears this collar...
Isumi: everyone may end up thinking Tama is a pet cat.

Hayate: A collar?
Isumi: Yes.
Isumi: It is the only collar with a true lineage behind it that is passed down by the Saginomiya family.

Isumi: As long as he wears this collar...
Isumi: anyone who isn't a very suspicious person...
Isumi: will think Tama is a pet cat when they see him.

Box: The next day
SFX: Chirp chirp

Shirt: Tanuki-type Robot

08

Tama: Nyah...
Tama: Nyaaahn...

Tama: Nyah...
Tama: Nyaaahn.

Chiharu: Eh...?
Chiharu: What's with that huge-
Hayate: Waaah!!
Hayate: Chiharu-san!! Good morning!!

Chiharu: Um...Ayasaki-kun. What's that?
Hayate: Ahh!! That's a cat!!
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat

Chiharu: A-a cat...?
Hayate: Yes!! A cat!! It's a bit big, but it's Lady Nagi's wonderful cat!!!
Chiharu: Eh? But...
Hayate: It's a cat!! I swear it's a cat!!

09

Chiharu: Hmm...
Chiharu: I-I see.
Hayate: Yes! It's obviously a cat!!

Chiharu: I see. It's a cat.
Chiharu: A cat...

Hayate: I-I somehow managed to trick her.
Tama: Yeah, but that was close.

Hayate: Well, the residents are going to see you...
Hayate: but we need to do as much as we can to keep anyone else from seeing you.

Hayate: So hide here in Room 103 for now!!
Tama: O-
Tama: Okay...

Tama: But...
Tama: I can't live like this forever.

Hayate: That's right...

10

Tama: If only...
Tama: Lady Nagi could get the mansion back...

Hayate: Get...
Hayate: the mansion back...

Hayate: It's my fault that she lost the Sanzenin inheritance and thus the mansion.
Hayate: So I have to do something about it.

Hayate: But what...
Hayate: can I do?

Hayate: For now I need to find tenants.
Hayate: I need to find tenants so we can get some income from the rent.

11

SFX: Ding dong

Maria: Coming!
Maria: Who is it?

SFX: Slide...

Maria: Oh?

Hayate: Maria-san.
Hayate: If it's a visitor, let me-

Girl: Good morning, Ayasaki-kun.
Hayate: Eh?

12

Hayate: You're...

Girl: Oh, you remember me.
Girl: I'm glad, Ayasaki-kun.

Maria: My, isn't she a cute girl, Hayate-kun?
SFX: Stare...
Hayate: Eh!? No...!! Wh-what are you talking about!?

Hayate: Anyway...
Hayate: Why are you here?
Girl: Why am I here?

Girl: Maybe it's...
Girl: the power of love.

13

Maria: My, isn't she a cute girl, Hayate-kun?
Hayate: Ow ow!!
SFX: Squeeze
Hayate: Wait, wait. What are you saying!?

Girl: Hee hee.
Girl: Sorry, I'm just kidding.
Hayate: Eh?

Girl: Actually...
Girl: I've been looking for a place to live.
SFX: Rummage rummage

Girl: And I...
Bubble on paper: Butler included
Girl: came across this.

Hayate: Ah...
Hayate: That's...

14

Nagi: Yaaawn...
Nagi: I'm just not used to these Japanese-style rooms.

Nagi: Hayate.
Nagi: Hayate.

Nagi: Hayate?
Nagi: Where's breakfast?

Girl: It says it comes with a butler...
Girl: so I thought "What if?" and decided to come first thing in the morning.

Nagi: Hayate?

15

Girl: What a coincidence that I was looking for somewhere to live.
Girl: It let me be reunited with you so soon, Ayasaki-kun.

Girl: This really does...
Girl: feel like fate.

Hayate: Eh?

Nagi: Heeey!
Nagi: Hayate!

16

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

Nagi: Wha-...?
Nagi: Wha-...!?

Nagi: Hayateeeee!!!
Box: It was a noisy day in the apartment building.

Margin: A premonition of love blooms in the apartment building. Except Lady Nagi's rage is going to put a stop to that. It looks like this love is headed the way of tragedy.

Bottom: To be continued in Issue 41 being released on Wednesday September 8th.