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Originally Posted by kelvie

It's from the manga.... pretty late in.

Spoiler for minor:

Hina bugs Hayate about why he won't go out with Nishizawa (I think this was when they were shopping for a birthday present for Hinagiku), so Hayate drops the bomb and says he has no right to date a girl! His ex said so!

The ex-girlfriend's presence is more like Santa's presence in the beginning -- a character developed only to further Hayate's character; while in Kindergarden, Hayate went out with a girl who treated him really badly, and told him he had no right to date girls until he made more money.

She even gave him a swift kick in the stomach, and insisted that the pain he was feeling was love :P

I forget what her name was, but Hayate referred to her as something-tan....

It was A-tan...

She kicked him and when he said that it hurt, she said it was the "ai no itami" (pain of love)... She also had a "rich girl" appearance...