Hayate the combat butler: The missing link

Success comes at last

Nagi's P.O.V.-

I am so excited today. So this is the feeling I always wanted to have.

I just received a mail now. It says that I have finally, finally won a manga competition. It is my first time winning one. I remember how I used to mourn over not winning one in my mansion. Hayate used to have a bad time for soothing me. How confident I was over my ability back then!

I will buy the watch for Hayate from the money I will have.

I thought to share the news with Isumi first, but she still can't use her cellphone. And it will take me so much time to reach to her mansion. Saku does not understand the importance of this news. Chiharu is in her part time job now. I think I should buy cake today, to celebrate to occasion with Chiharu and Kayura. They have helped me too much. I already mailed Hina about my winning, but seems she has not checked her mail yet. I am too much hyped up now. I am going to visit Wataru.

Although I know that I must not see it as a huge victory. My ultimate aim is to sell a trillion copies of my manga. I want to be something for myself, beyond being the daughter of the Sanzenin estate. It is my first step towards creating my own identity. It feels so good when you achieve something by your own hand after thorough hard work. I realized it when I had the competition with Ruka but I did not devote myself that much then.

I think I should inform it to grandpa too. He always taunted me about my manga. Yes, he would not think of it as a big success. He even will tease me that it took me so much time. I know myself too that I should have at least won one long ago. It's already June after all. But he will be at ease, to see me doing something on my own.

These days I can do most of the house chores on my own. I cook our breakfast and tiffin every morning. Kayura and Chiharu somehow deals with the dinner together as I stay in the pizza shop as my new part time job till evening. Chiharu is now busy with her part time job too as she wants to save money so that she can go to school again next year. But she has been too lazy these days. She works on a light novel till late night and does not wake up till noon. I did the same thing before, but now her daily routine gets on my nerves. Each day I have to wake her up. Seeing her lousy attitude in the morning, it is hard to believe that she was an important part of the student council of Hakuo.

I have improved in lacrosse too. I may not be the ace of the lacrosse club in our school but I love it. Maybe I could progress here as my father was a butler. It even helps me in my self defense.

We have recently shifted in the newly built tower apartment here. I can now do my laundry, wash dishes, cleaning without any problem. It can be said I am pretty efficient in those. I wonder how I could relax so much before while Maria had to work for me. Cleaning the mansion was not a easy task I guess.

But I thank her for leaving me. It gave me the chance to discover myself, that I really can manage everything alone. I am going to work hard more for my manga. I will study humanities after completing my high school studies, it will help me for to be a mangaka. Looks like at last I could fulfil the promise I made to Hayate while firing him. I no longer need anybody else's help. I can gain everything on my own, rely on my own power. My possibilities are endless. I even do not need .... Hayate's protection anymore. He will surely be shocked to see the present me I guess!!

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As both Hayate and Nagi managed to grew up overcoming their weaknesses, the time of their reunion gets closure