The robot, or the person controlling the robot, is angered so before she lists the fifth one, aims its guns to kill her when she yells out "HAYATE!". Just before bullets from the robot hit her, a teenage boy in a suit with blue hair rescues her. She tells him the opening is about to start, and so to quickly introduce himself, but he only gets out the words "I'm the Sanzen'in family's." out before the theme song starts.Īfter the theme song, a little boy asks why Santa doesn't give him presents, which the reply is that he is poor. Then Santa tells him that although he is poor, it is those who work hard that will smile in the end. The young boy then is introduced in the future as Hayate Ayasaki, a 16 year old boy working hard as a bicycle delivery boy for money for his worse-than-useless parents and the boy who was seen before the opening theme. After finishing the delivery in progress, his employer fires him after finding out that he is still in high school, and gives the salary to Hayate's parents. Normally, this wouldn't have been so bad, except his parents have a habit of spending all of their money on their dreams (which is actually wasting it through gambling).īy the time Hayate had gotten home, all that was left was some small change and his parents were gone. His parents had also left a debt of 156,804,000 yen as a Christmas present from borrowing money from loan sharks and had planned to sell him to the Yakuza in the black market(though they are referred to as the "very generous people" or "very kind people"). Soon after, the Yakuza henchmen come, but he manages to break a window and escape. In an extremely desperate situation, Hayate plans to kidnap a little girl (who is introduced as the Nagi Sanzen'in from before the opening theme) standing in front of a vending machine in the park. Santa appears in his mind again telling him the same thing at the beginning of the episode, but this time Hayate punches his imaginary face. Unfortunately, two other men try and mess with her. Instinctively, Hayate jumps out from his hiding spot and scares them off. Hayate gives her his coat since she was cold. She thanks Hayate for helping her and tells him he can ask for anything from her. Hayate then asks her to come with him, though it sounded like he was confessing and that he 'wants her' and 'decided to take her away', when he was actually asking permission to kidnap her. Nagi, thinking that this was confession of his love towards her, agrees to go with him ('go out on a date'). Unfortunately for Hayate, another two criminals appear and they kidnap Nagi as Hayate is busy making the anonymous ransom call (though he accidentally says his name, wastes the last of his money and gives up).