Hayate no Gotoku! 294

Chapter 294

01

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

Housen: Yes, yes.
Housen: Now that's what I call detail.
SFX: Imposing presence

Housen: Now...
Housen: Lets go.

Housen: We need to take care of that photo of the 28th...
Housen: in order to protect the secrets of that land.

Margin: This is "Hayate no Gotoku!", a manga full of cool robots!!

Bottom: This is the story of the bonds between a butler and his lady. It's going to be a drama in Taiwan too.

02

Top: Volume 26 goes on sale on 11/18!! The limited edition comes with a picture of Maria!!
Title: Chapter 294 "Renaissance Passion"
Text: The Shonen Sunday Editorial Department is waiting for people to bring in their own manga.
Bottom: The net radio show "Hayasan" is airing on Onsen!! http://www.onsen.ag/
Below that: Hata Kenjirou

03

Guy: So you think you can make a book...
Guy: that sells better than mine with that burning spirit of yours?

Nagi: Wh-
Nagi: What?

Guy: I'm asking if you can draw a better manga...
Guy: than my Maizumi Laboratory can.

Guy: Or what?
Guy: Are you saying you can't?

Guy: Seriously...
Guy: You're...
Guy: all talk!

Nagi: F...

04

Nagi: Fine!!
Nagi: I'll do it!!

Chiharu: She sure got onboard with that quickly...

Nagi: I'll definitely...
Nagi: draw a manga better than yours!!

Guy: Okay.
Guy: We'll settle this at the next Comisun on June 12th.

Guy: We'll each have 100 copies printed...
Text: 100 copies
Guy: and see who can sell more!!

Nagi: And what happens to the loser?
Guy: They're punished.
Guy: Well, that's what I'd like to say...
Guy: but it won't be necessary.

Guy: The disgrace of having to pack up and haul away all of your unsold dojinshis...
Guy: will be more than enough!!

05

Nagi: A dojinshi...
Nagi: battle.

Nagi: What do I do?
Chiharu: Don't ask me...

Chiharu: I mean, since you've accepted the challenge...
Chiharu: you'll just have to make one.

Chiharu: But has your burning spirit for manga...
Chiharu: come back to you?
Nagi: Eh?

Nagi: W-well...
Nagi: Come to think of it, my burning spirit...

06

Nagi: was crushed in that moment.

Nagi: I lost all confidence in myself...
Nagi: and became afraid of the future.

Chiharu: And...
Chiharu: what is a burning spirit in the first place?
Chiharu: If it's just the effusion of your spirit, then his dojinshi has it too.

Nagi: A burning spirit is...

Nagi: A burning spirit...
Nagi: is...

07

Nagi: Passion.
Chiharu: Eh?

Nagi: It's the passion that...
Nagi: makes you spend so much of your life...
Nagi: on manga!!

Nagi: With this book for example,
Nagi: I can feel the burning spirit coming from it...
Nagi: because its author clearly spent a lot of his or her life on manga.

Nagi: I can feel that passion.
Nagi: I can feel the desperate feelings!!

08

Nagi: If I have that...
Nagi: I'm sure I can draw a manga that the readers will enjoy!!

Chiharu: Well...
Chiharu: If that's all you had to do to sell manga, it wouldn't be so hard.

Chiharu: But...
SFX: Pat
Chiharu: That's right.

Chiharu: This is definitely a step in the right direction.
Chiharu: So draw your manga!!

Nagi: Right!!
Nagi: But we have to sell this book first!!

09

Luca: Burning spirit...
Luca: and...
Luca: passion.

Luca: This is the second time...
Luca: someone has complimented my manga.

Luca: MY manga.
Luca: Th-this is...
Luca: my very first dojinshi.

Luca: So...um...
Text: The final day of Golden Week.

10

Chiharu: Hehh....
Chiharu: I can sense quite a bit of talent and passion for a first dojinshi.

Luca: R-really?
SFX: Stand up
Chiharu: Eh? Y-yes.

Chiharu: This manga is good.
Text: Ohh...

Luca: Th-thank you...

Luca: The other day, I saw a pro mangaka's manuscript in his studio for the first time.
Luca: It was quite a shock and I lost all confidence in myself.

Luca: Your words...
Luca: feel like they've saved me.

11

Luca: I am truly...
Luca: grateful.

Luca: Ah!! Oh, no!!
Luca: I don't have time to stay here!!

Luca: Crap, crap!!
SFX: Step step
Luca: I have to hurry!!

Saki: I didn't know you had this kind of hobby, Hayate-san.
Sign: Cosplay Area

Saki: Is cosplay as fun as I think it would be!?
Hayate: I-I suppose...

Announcement: And now it is time for...
Announcement: the free entry cosplayers to perform.

Hayate: Perform?
Saki: Oh, wow!! They're dancing over there!!

Saki: Aren't you going to join in, Hayate-san?
Hayate: No, please spare me that.

12

Kotetsu: Ha ha ha. Don't worry.
Kotetsu: I already entered you.

SFX: Wham

Saki: Is something the matter?
Hayate: Don't worry. I just made him behave so he won't stand out too much.

Kotetsu: You're not supposed to fight on the event grounds.
Hayate: Not a problem. I'll just dispose of you where no one will ever find you.

Saki: I'm going to go over there to watch!
Hayate: Okay, have fun.

Hayate: Y'know...
Hayate: cosplay has gotten pretty high level of late.

Hayate: I'm can't even tell...
Hayate: how you get inside of that costume.

Hayate: Amazing...
SFX: Grind grind...
Hayate: It really looks like...
Hayate: it could attack me at any second.

13

Hayate: Eh?

SFX: Whoosh
Hayate: Wha!!

Hayate: Wh-
Hayate: What is he doing?

Robot: Ggh...
Robot: Elim...inate...

Robot: Eliminate...Eliminate...
Robot: I must eliminate you!!

14

Hayate: Is he...
Hayate: not one of the cosplayers!?

Kotetsu: Hey!!
Kotetsu: What are you doing to my Ayasaki!?

Robot: Eliminate!!!
SFX: Wham
Kotetsu: Hbh!!

Hayate: He took out that idiot...I mean, Kotetsu-kun in one hit!!?
Hayate: Kotetsu-kun!?
Hayate: Could he be not human!?

Crowd: Oh!? What's going on?
Crowd: Is it a fight?
Crowd: Woah!! Look at that super cute bishojo maid!!

Hayate: Oh, crap!!
Hayate: It's against the rules to fight like this on the event grounds!!
Hayate: If this keeps up the event could get cancelled!! But then Lady Nagi would...

15

Hayate: This is the place...
Hayate: where she finally managed to get back on her feet.

Hayate: This is the precious place...
Hayate: where she managed to bravely take a new first step.

Hayate: I can't let her lose that...
Hayate: because of this guy!!

SFX: Loom up behind

SFX: Wham:
Crowd: Woah!!
Crowd: What's going on!?

16

Hayate: I'll clean up all the evil running rampant through the world!!
Hayate: I'll cook up anyone who is disturbing the peace!!
SFX: Flashing
Hayate: Here from the Maid Planet...
Hayate: I'm the maid warrior, Maid Star!!

Hayate: I'll kick your ass too,
Hayate: master!

Crowd: Ohhhhh!!
Crowd: It looks like a bishojo mini-skirt maid vs. robot performance is starting!!
Crowd: Hell yeah!!
SFX: Cheering

Hayate: Anyway!!
SFX: Grind grind...

Hayate: I'm milady's butler and I'll be your opponent!!
Hayate: Come!!
Box: And yet he clearly looks like a maid.

Bottom: To be continued in Issue 49, which will be released on Wednesday November 2nd.

Margin: The butler begins his battle as a maid to protect his lady and all of the manga-loving people gathered in the convention hall!!