Hayate no Gotoku! 310

Chapter 310

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Title: Chapter 310 "Strong Feelings, Strong Love. Are These Feelings Real?"
Top left: The theatrical anime will be released this summer!
Left: Those feelings may create a future.
Credit: Hata Kenjirou
Bottom: Volume 27 & the limited edition with a school calendar are on sale now!!

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Margin: What is a good manga...!? This is the first philosophical thesis anyone aiming to be a mangaka faces. What is Lady Nagi's answer?

Text: A blank sheet of paper...
Text: whiter than snow.

Text: On that white paper...
Text: she writes down what look to be her goals.
Paper:
<Goals>
-An easy to understand original story that no one has ever seen before.
-A manga overflowing with thrills and moving scenes that would excite anyone.
-Character types that will not fade even after 100 years.

Text: This is what the manga she wants to make...No!! What the manga she must make is like!!
Text: Everyone feels that way initially.

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Text: But!!
Text: You soon realize...
Text: that you can't think up anything like that.

Text: Long ago...
Text: people gave a name to this phenomenon.
Text: Nanchu Erosada [1493-1526]

Chiharu: They called it a desktop theory.
Nagi: Shut up, you idiot!!

Chiharu: There's only 3 weeks until the doujinshi showdown...
Chiharu: but you have to get through this problem first.
Nagi: Uuh...!! I know that!!

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Nagi: It's just...
Nagi: if I had something that fanned the flames in my heart, I would be able to draw something!!

Chiharu: Fan the flames...
Chiharu: in your heart...

Chiharu: Well, there are a lot of people living in this apartment building, so why don't you go ask Hina?
Nagi: I see. She would probably have some ideas.

Hina: Something that fanned the flames in my heart?

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Nagi: Yeah. Just tell us the event in your life that got the flames in your heart burning brightest.
Nagi: You've gotta have something. Like winning at a Kendo tournament or something.
Hina: Hmm...Well...

Hina: Hmm...

Hina: I guess it was when I got a new mother and father.
Nagi & Chiharu: Wow, that's serious...

Hina: Oh, and I don't mean the day I met my parents.
Hina: It was when I finally opened my heart to them.
Nagi: Yeah, yeah, I don't need the details. I don't think I can use that.

Hina: O-oh, come on. You're the one that asked!
Nagi: I don't want something like that. I want something more shounen manga-like!!
Hina: Ehh...?

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Hina: Then what about when I was abandoned by my previous parents and had nowhere to live and nothing to eat...
Hina: and onee-chan went and bought a roasted potato for the first time in 3 days. That flavor was...
Nagi: That's too serious!!!

Nagi: Not something like that.
Nagi: I want something you would find in a shounen magazine and that the general public would want to read about...
Hina: Ehh...?

Athena: What are you people going on about?
Nagi: Ah...

Nagi: You're...
Chiharu: the princess from some country?

Athena: You can call me Alice.
Athena: Well? What are you being so noisy about?

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Nagi: Well, I'm trying to find a story for the manga I'm drawing...
Nagi: so I'm trying to find a story that fans the flames of my heart.
Athena: A story that fans the flames of your heart for a manga?

Chisato: She may be young, but she's a princess. I bet she's got something.
Nagi: Yeah, she has to!

Nagi: Do you have a story like that?
Athena: Hmm. Let's see...

Athena: Well, I've never read this manga thing, so I don't really know the details...
Athena: but you want catchy and explosive material that will still be easy to understand for the readers, right?

Chiharu: Oh, that's a princess for you!!
Nagi: She gets this much better than Hinagiku!!
Hina: Well, excuse me!!

Athena: Then you can use what I saw last night.
Nagi: What you saw last night?

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Athena: Yes.
Athena: Last night was fairly humid for the end of May.

Athena: I was reading a book alone in the twilight...
Athena: and I heard a faint voice.
Hina: Ahh...

Athena: I gently opened the door...
SFX: Slide...
Athena: and looked toward the voice.

Hina: Pant...
Hina: Nnn...

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Hina: And there I saw my housemate writhing in anguish possibly due to dream while breathing sweetly.
Hina: Ahh...

Athena: Really now...what kind of dream were you having?
Hina: I...!!
Hina: I was just hot!!!

Hina: And what kind of story was that!? How is that supposed to help!?

Nagi: No...it actually did help quite a bit.
Hina: Eh?

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Chiharu: So you've settled on explosive sex appeal that anyone can understand?
Nagi: Yes, I can't ignore that aspect.

Nagi: But I don't just want to do something with sex appeal.
Nagi: That isn't enough to get that tightness in my chest.

Chiharu: So...
Chiharu: what will give you that tightness in your chest?

Nagi: Traps...
Nagi: I suppose.

Nagi: Hayate!! Hayate, are you here!?
Maria: Hayate-kun is at work!

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Sign: Cafe Donguri
Nagi: Excuse me!!

Ayumu: Oh, Nagi-chan.
Hayate: What are you doing here, milady?

Nagi: I was at a dead end in coming up with an idea for my manga...
Nagi: so I'm looking for something that brings a tightness to my chest.
Hayate: Something that brings a tightness to your chest?

Hayate: If there's anything I can do, just tell me!!
Ayumu: Yeah!! I'll help too, Nagi-chan.

Nagi: I see...
Nagi: Sorry about the suddenness, Hayate.

Nagi: But...
Nagi: could you go cross dress?

Hayate: Ehh!? What are you saying?
Hayate: I don't want to wear a maid uniform again!?
Nagi: No!! You won't be wearing a maid uniform!!

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Nagi: I already know you're cute while wearing clothes like that!!
Nagi: That won't tighten my chest much anymore.
Nagi: So instead of that...

Nagi: I want you to wear the street clothes...
Nagi: that she came here in!!

Chiharu: Wearing the normal clothes of a girl he knows!?
Chiharu: NTR? That's pretty high level for a 13 year old!!

Hayate: No, no, no!! What are you saying!? That's a bit too much!!
Hayate: Don't you think, Nishizawa-san!?

Ayumu: I-if it's for Nagi-chan's manga...
Ayumu: If it's for Nagi-chan's manga, then...
Hayate: N-Nishizawa-san!?

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Nagi: Okay!! Then hurry up and change, Hayate!!
Hayate: Ehhhhh!?

Ayumu: By the way, are you Chiharu-san?
Chiharu: Eh? Um, yes.

Chiharu: Do you...
Chiharu: know me?

Ayumu: Yes.
Ayumu: Nagi-chan has been talking about you a lot recently.

Ayumu: She says you're a well-trained fujoshi.
Chiharu: That's wrong.

Hayate: Um...I'm done...
SFX: Open

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Hayate: H-how do I look?

Chiharu: Th-this is...

Ayumu: How do I say it...

Nagi: What dreadful...
Nagi: penetrative power!!!

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Nagi: Nhhhhh, here it comes!!
Nagi: Some kind of Sega Power is coming directly into my brain!!!
Ayumu: Ehh?

Nagi: Wait a second, Hayateeee!!!
Nagi: I'll go give form to the idea in my brain this instant!!
Hayate: Okay...please hurry.

Chiharu: That is amazing, Ayasaki-kun.
Hayate: Eh? What is?
Ayumu: Yes...

Chiharu: I honestly thought it would look good on you...
Chiharu: but I never thought it would look THIS good.

Ayumu: If I met you while you were dressed like that...
Ayumu: I don't think I would know you were a guy.
Hayate: Ehh?
Hayate: That's not true.
Chiharu: It's true. No one would be able to figure it out.

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Chiharu: If someone first met you while you were cross dressed...

Chiharu: I think they would think...
Chiharu: you were a girl, Ayasaki-kun.

Box: And the path of Lady Nagi's manga...
Nagi: Okay, until I finish my doujinshi...
Nagi: you stay dressed like that around the house.
Hayate: Ehh!?
Box: took an odd turn...

Bottom: To be continued in Issue 15 which will be released on Wednesday March 9th.

Margin: The girl who once met (cross dressed) Hayate stares up at the moon. It is a night of premonitions surrounding that too-perfect trap.