Episode 33

**Magic Mirror Arc: When Three Pieces Reunite**(魔鏡編 三つのかけらがそろう時, *Makyōhen Mitsu no Kakera ga Sorou Toki*) is the 33rd episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on November 23, 2003. This episode is entirely filler and is not based off any chapters from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga.

## Overview

Kiyomaro and Gash accompany Shion and Nyarurato as they bring their pieces of the magic mirror to Grisa, someone who Shion claims to have the third and final piece. While She and Nyarurato feel excited at the thought of no longer being forced to participate in the battle to decide the next demon king, Kiyomaro remains skeptical of the whole situation and decides he'll get some information out of Grisa first before handing over his mirror fragment to him.

## Plot

On a Sunday afternoon, Kiyomaro and Gash accompany Shion and Nyarurato on their short trip to visit Grisa who has the final third piece of the magic mirror. While still somewhat skeptical if Shion's claims that the magic mirror would be able to grant her and Nyarurato's wish, Kiyomaro also wonders about what kind of information Grisa knows about the Demon World and decides he'll try and get some answers from him when they meet. Their train ride ended up being a short one as they would then all get off at the next stop. Shion would then lead the group to the end of a street toward a dilapidated apartment complex where Grisa lives.

After finding Grisa's door and exchanging greetings, Shion introduces Grisa to Gash and Kiyomaro and informs him that they have the last piece of the mirror. As Kiyomaro gets a good look at Grisa, he realizes he didn't expect Grisa to be another demon just like Gash and Nyarurato. After a bit of talk, Grisa would eventually invite everyone in where he then went on to try and offer them refreshments and snacks as they settled inside the apartment. As they all sit down together, Kiyomaro first asks Grisa about the whereabouts of his human partner. Grisa responds to this saying that his partner, Hakase, is currently busy with conducting some research and reveals to Kiyomaro that his bookkeeper is a well known professor who had published various books on physics. Kiyomaro ends up recognizing him as he examines these books and comments on the complexity of the material in these books. At the same time, Kiyomaro wonders why Hakase would end up in such living conditions despite how accomplished he is. To prove there is much more than what meets the eye about Hakase and the apartment he lives in, Grisa would show everyone the various hidden hi-tech setups that's all around the apartment. After showing just about most of what the apartment has to offer, Shion would then eagerly ask Grisa if he's ready to put all the pieces of the mirror back together. Not wanting to act hastily, Kiyomaro asks Grisa if he would be willing to tell them all about the magic mirror first before doing anything else and Grisa agrees to tell them all of what he knows.

Grisa begins his story explaining that at the beginning of the battle to decide king, someone was responsible for shattering the mirror into three pieces and scattered these pieces across different parts of the world. Grisa continues and claims that while demons with spell books are destined to fight in this battle, the magic mirror is able to allow the user of it to withdraw from this battle without losing their spell book. While he tells them that he would have liked the idea to personally withdraw from the battle and simply live a quiet life, he felt sympathetic towards Shion and Nyarurato's struggles and wanted to help them instead. After telling his story, Grisa would then ask Gash and Nyarurato to show their pieces of the mirror to him and prepare to take them as they hold their pieces in front of him. Kiyomaro then suddenly interrupts Grisa and asks him about the whereabouts of his own piece which leads to Grisa admit that his piece is currently stored somewhere else. He then goes on and explains that this safe place happens to be some ruins Hakase had recently discovered that has a strong magnetic field that would be able to help with rejoining these pieces of the mirror. After hearing this, Kiyomaro decides he wants Grisa to take them all there to see his mirror fragment before they all give him their pieces. After Grisa agrees to this deal and watches everyone head out of the apartment before him, he thinks to himself how this scenario was planned from the beginning and appears to have no doubts that everything is going accordingly in his favor.

Soon the group would then fin themselves on a bus heading towards these ruins. As Grisa sits back, Hakase watches everyone on the bus through a hidden camera on the back of Grisa's hat. Realizing he and Grisa are close to achieving their goals, he takes a moment to reflect on when he and Grisa had first met. In a flashback, Hakase strolls down an empty neighborhood at night expressing his frustration and hatred towards those in the academic circle he had just been fired from. Grisa overhears this and holds out his spell book to Hakase while telling him that he would be able to get his revenge using the power of the book if he were able to read it. Despite this however, the two of them still continued to face many difficulties on their way to getting revenge given the fact that Grisa's spells were too weak to fight other opponents with. But with Hakase's help, they ended up finding unconventional ways to increase Grisa's spell power which had sufficed until the current day with them about to get the restored magic mirror.

When the group arrives at the last bus stop to their destination, they make the final stretch of the trip on foot through the forest ahead of them. As they all walk through the forest, Hakase continues to watch them all from a remote location through cameras installed everywhere. When they all make it inside the ruins, Grisa leads them into an altar where his third piece of the mirror can be seen on the wall just in front of them. Grisa then tells the group that they all must perform a ritual in order to properly reassemble the pieces of the mirror. The dancing that they all must enthusiastically perform ends up being to the tune of one of Folgore's songs and while Kiyomaro shows some hesitation to do this, he ends up complying for Shion and Nyarurato's sake. After Shion and Gash take their respective turns to place their pieces of the mirror with Grisa's piece, the mirror begins to glow bright as the three pieces of it become reunited once again. As the light from the mirror shines bright at everyone, Grisa would then quietly take the mirror and disappear through a trapdoor with it. Seeing that their plan was a success, Hakase then causes the ruins to collapse on top of everyone else inside the ruins.

After getting themselves out of the rubble of the fake ruins, Gash and Kiyomaro aim towards Grisa running in the distance and cast *Zakeru* towards him. While it barely misses him, it causes him to stumble over and gives everyone enough time to catch up to him. Despite thinking at first Grisa wouldn't be able to use any spells given that Hakase isn't anywhere visibly near him, Grisa still prepares to take aim at everyone. When Hakase casts *Faigaru* from a distance, the group sees that this spell only causes a small flicker of a flame to be produced from Grisa's fingertips. But using the radio he had in his other hand, he causes thick smoke to pour out from the radio and uses this moment as a chance for him to flee the scene once again.

 Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Shion Hibiki
* Nyarurato
* Grisa
* Hakase

### Spells by Appearance

* Faigaru (Debut)
* Zakeru

## VIZ Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* A crudely drawn pair of boxer shorts drawn over Gash during a scene where can be seen stuck on the train in the VIZ localization.
* The drunken blush seen on Hakase's face during some of the flashback scenes was edited over.
* Faigaru's flame color was orange in the original Japanese episode but would later then be recolored to blue in the VIZ localization.