JustALEX said:
Oh Yay, maybe now Hayate will.....
What the fuck am I smoking.....anyone that has read this manga this long should know exactly what this is.
A cock tease!.....nothing less, nothing more.
If by that, you mean a PLOT POINT, yeah. Come on, it's pretty obvious that it will lead to something way beyond romantic conflict. We're given plot hints every chapter lately.
I only realized after a while how important this chapter is. I mean Hayate in love? Doesn't happen, he has so much on his mind with Nagi and pretty much everybody else. He's unable to put a person over people. Also he's a bit dense and has that backstory - if the manga took itself just a little bit more seriously, he wouldn't be able to trust people at all because of what he went through in his childhood. I think even his love for Athena is based on the fact she saved him. Kind of like it went with Nagi, only in this case it was mostly her who got the romantic vibes out of it.
Surprisingly Hayate is a bit like Medaka from Medaka Box O_O Only not so much played for action.
All in all - I think Hayate has yet to become a person who can love others romantically.