Hayate no Gotoku! 289

Chapter 289

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Text: The afternoon tea is included. Pros also have a personal maid cafe.
Title: Chapter 289 "I'd like for you to think that all mangakas are like this!"
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Margin: Lady Nagi is holding the manuscript she is so proud of. This is a serious battle being called "coming over to his studio to play".

Nagi: Everything rests on this first step!!!

Nagi: I'll become a mangaka...
Nagi: who sells an unprecedented 1 trillion copies!!

Ayumu: By the way, what kind of manga did you draw, Nagi-chan?
Nagi: Eh?

Nagi: Um, well...
Nagi: I have it here with me to show Ashibashi-sensei...
SFX: Squirm

Nagi: D-do you want to read it?
Ayumu: Yeah.

Hayate: You're really going to let her read it?
Nagi: What do you mean by that!?

Nagi: Okay.
Nagi: You can look at for just a bit.

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Text: Important Detective ~Summary~
Text: Im Portant is the daughter of a family that runs a flower shop and works at a cafe and as a police detective. She is a professional werewolf who can make pasta al dente using magic powers.
Text: Day after day, she battles invaders from space using Mesopotamian culture and Plamo Im.
Text: She thoughtlessly invested the ten billion yen she got from selling a damaged enemy diamond.
Text: Will Japan's stock prices reach a price of 40,00 yen again? Next Chapter: Is there anything more she can do!?

Nagi: W-well?

Ayumu: Ohh...
SFX: Tap tap
Ayumu: So this is your manga.

Ayumu: Nagi-chan...
Ayumu: Your manga is really good.

Hayate: S-seriously?
Ayumu: Yeah. It was drawn really well.

Ayumu: It's amazing you can draw this well at 13.
Ayumu: I'm impressed.

Nagi: I-I see...

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Nagi: I really am...
Nagi: a genius!!
Hayate: Um...are you serious?
Ayumu: About what?

Hayate: I mean, did you really...
Hayate: understand her manga?
Ayumu: Understand...?

Ayumu: Isn't...
Ayumu: all manga like that?
SFX: Smile

Hayate: S-so that's it. Nishizawa-san doesn't read manga.
Hayate: She wasn't expecting anything of it to begin with, so the strange content didn't bother her!!

Nagi: Ah ha ha ha ha!!

Nagi: I can...
Nagi: see the future, Hayate!!

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Nagi: If I don't get this ready for serialization now...
Nagi: I won't make it in time!!
Hayate: U-um...

Hayate: This is bad... I really...
Hayate: don't see how this could turn out well.

Nagi: Okay, let's go get Ashibashi-sensei to read it right away!!
Hayate: U-um, milady!?

Nagi: Hyah!!
SFX: Ding dong

SFX: Silence

Hayate: H-he isn't answering...
Nagi: Odd...

Nagi: Maybe he's out.
Nagi: Hmm, what's going on?
SFX: Ding dong

Nagi: I mean, he said...
Nagi: he had time today.
SFX: Ding dong

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Azumamiya: Cut that out!!!
On headband: Worthwhile Effort!!
Azumamiya: Why are you bothering a mangaka at his studio in the morning!!?

Hayate: ...Huh?
Hayate: Azumamiya-kun?
Azumamiya: Huh? Hayate...

Ashibashi: Hey, what's going on, Koutarou-kun?
Azumamiya: Ah...sensei...

Ashibashi: Oh, Nishizawa-san and the others are here.
SFX: Pat
Azumamiya: S-Sensei!! These are the people you said were coming today!?

Azumamiya: What about the assistants to save us!?
Ashibashi: Hm? No one like that's coming.
Azumamiya: What!? Do you know how much trouble we're in this week!?
Ashibashi: Ha ha. We'll be fine.

Ashibashi: Do you know what they won't drop no matter how often the deadline is extended or not met?
Ashibashi: That's right, my manuscript!
Azumamiya: This is no time for making jokes!!!

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Hayate: Just out of curiosity, when is the deadline this week?
Azumamiya: Four days ago.

Nagi: Four days...
Hayate: AGO?

Hayate: Um...is that really okay?
Azumamiya: Of course not!!
Azumamiya: They long since finished the printing!!

Ashibashi: Ah ha ha ha. That's funny.
Azumamiya: This is no laughing matter!!

Azumamiya: Seriously!! You haven't slept in two days, so you need to sleep for at least an hour or two!!
Ashibashi: I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm the mangaka that can do the impossible, remember?
Azumamiya: Yes, yes. I know!!

Nagi: Um...
Nagi: What about my manuscript?

Azumamiya: Do you really think someone...
Azumamiya: who hasn't slept for 2 days can make a proper judgment on that?
Nagi: Oh, right. Sorry.

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Box: A small break.
SFX: Zzz...

Azumamiya: Anyway...
Azumamiya: While he sleeps, I'd like to at least make some progress on the backgrounds.

Azumamiya: Can you...
Azumamiya: draw backgrounds?

Hayate: W-wait a second.
Hayate: We can't just do that all of a sudden. We're complete amateurs.

Azumamiya: Not a problem.
Azumamiya: As long as it could draw lines, a cat would be fine too!
Hayate: Ehh?

Hayate: By the way, why are you here in the first place?
Azumamiya: Well...
Azumamiya: My mother...
Azumamiya: and my sister are mangakas.

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Nagi: Eh? Really!?
Azumamiya: Yeah.
Azumamiya: My dad was a mangaka too, but his manga didn't sell so now he's looking after the house.

Azumamiya: I've been learning manga skills since I was quite young.
Azumamiya: By the time I was 8, I could draw the ends of focus lines properly.
Azumamiya: I used to hate this lifestyle...

Azumamiya: but, when Nonohara left and I was on my own, this was all I knew how to do.
Azumamiya: Right now I'm working as Ashibashi-sensei's assistant!!

Hayate: Ohh.
Hayate: So that's it.

Azumamiya: By the way!!
Hayate: Yes?

Azumamiya: Who's she?
Hayate: Eh? Oh, you mean Nishizawa-san?

Hayate: She's no one really.
Hayate: She's a friend and a classmate from my old high school.

Azumamiya: I see...

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Ayumu: Azumamiya-kun...
Ayumu: was it?
SFX: Scoot scoot...

Box: Both their...
Box: instincts told them this.

Box: Yeah...
SFX: Rumble
Box: I won't be able to get along with this person!!

SFX: Rinnng

Phone: Sensei!? You have 3 more hours!! If we don't send your manuscript for printing in the next 3 hours...
Phone: we'll drop you!! You'll be dropped!! Hurry!! Get me the manuscript!!!

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SFX: Click
SFX: Doo
SFX: Doo

Nagi: I feel like...
Nagi: I just heard a phone call from the battlefield of a mangaka.
Azumamiya: It's over...

Nagi: Eh?

Azumamiya: There are still 3 blank pages. There are 5 pages that need the finishing touches.
Azumamiya: And there are four more pages that only have sensei's character lines on them.

Azumamiya: And yet we only have 3 hours until we're dropped!!!
Azumamiya: We could only finish it if we had Comic Master J here!!

Ayumu: Is drawing manga that hard?
Hayate: Well, yeah...

Hayate: But you can't give up,
Hayate: Azumamiya-kun.
SFX: Place...

Azumamiya: B-
Azumamiya: But Hayate...!!

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Azumamiya: What can we do with just you and two amateurs!?

Hayate: Don't worry...

Hayate: Doing the impossible...
Hayate: is a butler's job.

Azumamiya: Hayate...

Hayate: Here goes!!
SFX: Flame

Ayumu: A wok!?
Nagi: Why are you starting to cook, Hayate!?

Hayate: We only have 3 hours left!!
Hayate: And there are still 3 blank pages left!!

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Hayate: The first thing we need to do is wake him up...
Hayate: with my special nutritional drink.
SFX: Pour pour pour
Ayumu: Wah...

Hayate: Garlic, ginger, Asian ginseng, Chinese chive, liver, scorpion, gecko and much more... This would revive the dead if you gave it to them.
Ayumu: And the flavor!? What about the flavor!?

Ashibashi: Wooooah!!!
SFX: Open

Ashibashi: O-oh, no!! So much of the manuscript is still blank!!
Azumamiya: Sensei!!

Nagi: B-but can you really finish this...
Nagi: just by having your strength restored!?

Ashibashi: Heh heh heh...
SFX: Clink
Ashibashi: What are you saying?

Ashibashi: I may not look it...
Ashibashi: but I'm a professional mangaka.

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Ashibashi: It's because I can do the impossible...
Ashibashi: that I'm called a pro!!!
Nagi: Ohh!!

Nagi: Amazing.
Nagi: So this is...This is a professional mangaka!!

Ashibashi: Azumamiya-kun!! You take the large backgrounds.
Ashibashi: Ayasaki-kun, you look like you can draw, so you finish up by filling in the small background areas.
Ashibashi: You two can help Ayasaki-kun finish up!!
All: O-okay!!

Nagi: Ah...this is a pro's manuscript.
SFX: Flutter

Box: That was Nagi's first time...
Box: seeing a pro's manuscript drawn with the techniques of a pro.

Box: Until then she had only seen...
Box: her own and Isumi's manuscripts. The manuscripts of amateurs.

Box: She hadn't known the gap between her skills and the skills of a pro.
Box: That was when she realized it for the first time.

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Text: And it was...
Text: a great shock.

Nagi: Nothing but scribbles...
Azumamiya: Hey, now...

Azumamiya: He may be drawing these at an increased speed...
Azumamiya: but aren't you being a bit harsh to call his manuscript scribbles?

Nagi: No...
Nagi: That's not what I meant.
Azumamiya: Hah?

Nagi: What I drew thinking it was a manga...
Nagi: was nothing but scribbles.

Hayate: Lady Nagi...

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Box: Meanwhile...

SFX: Place

Chiharu: Yeah.
Chiharu: It's fine. I just got both of them.

Chiharu: Yeah, don't worry.
Chiharu: Leave the actual day to me.

Chiharu: Yeah.
Chiharu: So don't hold back and do your best.
Chiharu: I have high expectations of you,

Chiharu: Luca.

Bottom: To be continued in Issue 44 which will be released on Wednesday September 29th.

Margin: Lady Nagi has felt the distance between her and her dream of being a mangaka. And who is this girl...?