Goodness. Nothing I say will take me back, I guess. Well, I might as well try.

She frowned, thinking back on that other day where Totochan (or whatever his name was) suddenly attacked them. Eventually, Hayate managed to catch him (who knows how?) and send him back to the Sakuya's Private Zoo: Open to Sakuya, owner only! zoo. Well, nothing to fret now. The thing that bugged her most, though, is the Hinagiku-chan. It felt so..

…

"Stiff?" A loud narrator's voice boomed the sky.

…

"Don't disturb my deep thinking!"

"Oh yeah, the stick that Hayate gave her is framed, and put nicely in her room."

"That's..!"

Anyway, it felt stiff.

"(Actually, it wasn't. It was as natural as you can get.)"

"I can hear you!"

Miss Katsura wasn't impressed.

Ayumu was, however, depressed.

She finished reading the "depressing" story Nagi Fires.

Didn't Hinagiku say that confessing was losing?

"Cheater, I tell you!"

Yeah, the narrator's voice was getting annoying too.

"Hey!"

Hayate wiped the sweat off his brow.

He asked for a job- and this is what he got? Being a maid?

Really, couldn't it have been at least a butler?

"Hayate! Tea, please!" Sakuya called, with a bundle of money in her hands.

"Yeah, yeah." He worked his way to the green kitchen.

I really need to get around writing this properly. This- is a poor excuse of a new chapter, finally released after practically half a year.