Hayate no Gotoku! 293

Chapter 293

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Text: They have the same problem...
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Title: Chapter 293 "chAngE"
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Margin: To help sell he needs to wear a maid uniform. It's only logical.

Sign: Keep this area clean!
Hayate: Sigh...!!

Hayate: Why am I dressed like this again?

Kotetsu: Ha ha ha. What's wrong with it?
Kotetsu: It's what's letting you get in before the convention begins.
SFX: Flip

SFX: Wham Smash
Hayate: Don't peak while I'm changing!!
Kotetsu: Gyaaaaah!!

Hayate: Seriously. I can't believe I have to let everyone see me like this...
Hayate: instead of just Lady Nagi.
SFX: Twitch twitch
SFX: Fold fold

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On photo: The 28th and...

Hayate: Come to think of it...
Hayate: what exactly is this?

Hayate: Oh, well.
SFX: Slip in...
Hayate: I'll look into it later.

Hayate: Now, where is Lady Nagi?
Kotetsu: H-hey, wait!! You have to help me sell my dojinshi first!!
SFX: Pant pant pant pant

SFX: Pant pant pant

Chiharu: Hmm...

Chiharu: This figure that Kaoru-sensei made...
Chiharu: really looks like Yukiji...I think...

Chiharu: Ehh...? Does that mean that he...
Chiharu: Ehh...?

Nagi: Hee hee.
Nagi: Ah ha ha...

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Nagi: Heh heh...
Nagi: Ah ha ha ha.

Nagi: Uuh ha ha ha ha.

Chiharu: So Fly Dolphin's new work is funny?
Nagi: Hm?
Nagi: Yeah, it's hilarious!!

Nagi: It kind of reminds me of something I would make.
Nagi: I can feel the burning spirit that went into making it!!
Chiharu: Ha ha. It's true it is kind of like yours.

Nagi: And yet...
Nagi: The book is good...

Nagi: but no one...
Nagi: is coming to buy it.

Chiharu: Everyone has only just gotten in.
Chiharu: They're all going around the wall getting copies of the books they want the most.

Chiharu: Until they're done with that, not many people will come to the island area over here.
Right arrow: Wall
Left arrow: Island
Chiharu: They'll probably be here once an hour has passed.

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Nagi: I see. But...
Nagi: how many people will buy this book?

Chiharu: Who knows.
Chiharu: Bet even if we don't know that...
Chiharu: the customers here are people who have come all the way to a dojinshi convention, so they'll buy it if it's interesting.

Nagi: Really?
Nagi: I mean, the people here are all true otakus, right?
Nagi: And true otakus are argumentative and will harshly criticize things that they think pervert the things they love.
Nagi: Will that kind of person buy something just because it's interesting?

Chiharu: Yes.

Chiharu: They'll buy it if it's interesting.
Chiharu: At the very least, the people here...
Chiharu: seek out interesting things with a desire greater than that of a normal person. They always want to find that kind of thing before anyone else.

Chiharu: So no matter how much they criticize a work, how much it perverts something they love, or how argumentative they may be...
Chiharu: they won't regret spending money on it if it's interesting.

Chiharu: Not being able to lie...
Chiharu: about that...
Chiharu: is the pride of an otaku.

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Chiharu: Just believe...
Chiharu: in that.

Luca: Yeah, yeah.
Luca: This is perfect!

Luca: It's a bit hard to move in...
Luca: but this'll work for today.
SFX: Shut

Luca: Now then...
Luca: time to go.
SFX: Chatter chatter

Nagi: But...
Nagi: it's almost noon and no one's even read it.
Chiharu: Yeah, well, it doesn't really have a cover that draws the eye.
SFX: Chatter chatter

Nagi: But we have to get them to read it first...
Kaoru: Thank you very much!

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Kaoru: My dojinshi costs 3000 yen because it comes with a figurine...
Kaoru: and I've sold 43 copies.

Chiharu: Kaoru-sensei seems to be doing well.
Nagi: Damn it. Why is his selling so well!?

Kaoru: It's the difference in love.
Nagi: Hah?

Kaoru: What determines whether people buy it or not...
Kaoru: is the difference in love!!

Chiharu: L...
Nagi: Love...?

Kaoru: I've poured all of my love into this figurine. And it wasn't easy.
Kaoru: That love...the strength of that feeling...can be seen in the details...the quality...in every part of the figurine!!

Kaoru: That's why it's inevitable for it to sell!!
Kaoru: This is the power of love!!

Chiharu: The...
Chiharu: The power of love...?

Chiharu: Are you saying that's how much you love Yukiji!?
Chiharu: Although, personally, I'd rather not have someone's love for me take on that form!!

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Nagi: Damn it. I'm going to sell at least one copy...
Nagi: no matter what it takes.

Kazuki: Oh!!?
Kazuki: If it isn't Nagi-san!!

Nagi: Ah...You're...
Kazuki: Kazuki!! I'm Kazuki!!
Kazuki: So you remembered me!!

Kazuki: Our meeting here must be a sign that we're fated to be together!!
Nagi: Um...
Nagi: I-I'm not so sure...

Kazuki: Hm?

Kazuki: Ahhh!
Kazuki: Did you make that book, Nagi-san!?

Nagi: Hm? Um, no. That's...
Kazuki: Ah ha haaa!!
Kazuki: Wow!! This is a masterpiece!!

Kazuki: You really must be a genius...
Kazuki: to make a manga this good!!

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Nagi: Like I said, I didn't make tha-
Kazuki: Ta haaa!!
Kazuki: You got me!! You must also be a genius in the business world the way you got me to pick this up and read it without realizing it!!

Kazuki: It's like you're a genius in everything you do!!
Nagi: You're really something in your own way...

Kazuki: Well, this was really good.
Kazuki: I'd like a copy.
Nagi: Eh?

Nagi: Ah..
Nagi: That'll be 300 yen...

Kazuki: Okay.
SFX: Jangle
Kazuki: Here's 300 yen.

Kazuki: Well, Nagi-san, I have to buy some books for a friend, so I'll have to be on my way for now!!

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SFX: Jangle
SFX: Grip

Chiharu: Feels good, doesn't it?
Nagi: Eh!?

Nagi: Ah...
Nagi: Yeah...

Chiharu: Just think how it would feel if that was...
Chiharu: your own book you had sold.

Nagi: Yeah...
Nagi: You're right...

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Hayate: It looks like...
Hayate: I don't need to help out any.

Hayate: Okay.
Hayate: I need to leave before she sees me.
SFX: Turn

Hayate: Ehhhhhh!?
Hayate: Wh-why is Saki-san here!?

Saki: U-um, Hayate-san?
Saki: Why are you wearing that perverted and embarrassing outfit?
Hayate: Wow. She really asked that in a hurtful way!!

Hayate: O-oh, no!! I don't really care about being treated like a pervert... Well, I do actually...
Hayate: but what matters here is keeping Lady Nagi from finding out I was here.
Hayate: O-oh, um, well...!!

Saki: Ah...!!
Saki: Are you...
SFX: Clap

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Saki: taking part in...
Saki: the cosplay event!?

Hayate: Eh?

SFX: Chatter chatter

Guy: Can I take a picture?

SFX: Flash
Hayate: Go ahead!

Saki: Wow, Hayate-san. You're even posing.
Hayate: Yeah.
Hayate: But keep this a secret from Lady Nagi and the others.
Saki: Okay, will do.

Hayate: Sigh...
Hayate: What a pain.

Girl: Ajujushita!
Note at bottom: Ajujushita: Means "thank you".

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Nagi: Now we've sold 7 copies!
Chiharu: Yup.
Chiharu: The pace has been picking up.

Nagi: You were right. They really will buy it if it's interesting!!
Chiharu: Told you.

Luca: So it's sold...
Luca: 7 copies.

Nagi: Okay, at this rate...
Nagi: let's aim for selling all 50 copies!

Guy: Heh. That isn't going to happen.
Nagi: What!?

Guy: I was rushed over after I heard a little girl was selling a dojinshi...
Guy: but I guess I just got my hopes up.

Nagi: H-hey!! You can't...
Nagi: judge a book from just a quick glance like that!!

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Guy: Oh, I can tell from just that.
Guy: It's like this book doesn't have any of what's in style in it at all. And there's no experimentation.
Guy: Not having anything that's in style shows no thought was given as to what the readers would be hoping for.

Guy: In other words, no thought was given to the readers at all.

Guy: That can work if what it does have outdoes what's in style and has writing and art to match...
Guy: but this doesn't do any of that.
Guy: In other words, it isn't even worth reading.

Guy: And with that, I bid you farewell, little girl.
Guy: The next time we meet will be when you can make a dojinshi that can sell 50 copies like ours can.

Nagi: Wait!!
Nagi: You can't just say what you want to say...
Nagi: and then leave!!

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Nagi: It may be true that this book doesn't contain any of what's currently in style!!
Nagi: However!
Nagi: What matters most is that it had a burning spirit poured into it!!!

Guy: Ho hohh. So you think a book will sell...
Guy: just because it has a burning spirit poured into it?

Nagi: What!?

Guy: So you think a little girl with a burning spirit...
Guy: can make a dojinshi that can sell more than my Maizumi Laboratory?

Chiharu: Hm!? Maizumi Laboratory? Does he mean Circle Maizumi?
Chiharu: The one that made that book?
[TN: I romanized it as Circle Shinsen before. I used the wrong kanji readings.]

Box: And so...
Housen: Now then...
Housen: What to do?

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Housen: I feel like going with something a bit flashier than...
Housen: just lighting fireworks.
Dog: Woof

SFX: Chatter chatter

Housen: Hm. I see.
SFX: Hold
Housen: I'll go with that.

Housen: A surprised reaction would be nice.
SFX: Kihhhhn

SFX: Flash

SFX: Rise up

Housen: Now to...
Housen: get revenge for that surprise attack from before.

Box: To be continued in Issue 48

Margin: Has the appearance of a possible rival brought back Lady Nagi's burning spirit!? Meanwhile, things don't look good for Hayate.