Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 78

**A Happy Day** (幸せな1日, *Shiawasena Ichi-nichi*) is the 78th chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 9 on March 18, 2003.

## Plot

Gash profusely pleads with Kiyomaro to take him to see a live show by the action hero Praying Mantis Joe at the Mochinoki department store because he is not able to attend it without a guardian present. Kiyomaro refuses to go with him as he claims that the show is too childish for him. Gash tries to show off how cool Praying Mantis Joe is to Kiyomaro by showing him a flyer for his show but Kiyomaro ends up drawing over it in marker which upsets Gash even further. Still intending on seeing the show anyways, Gash takes Umagon with him to the department store. While walking there, Gash goes on to tell Umagon all about Praying Mantis Joe and his various fighting abilities and how amazing he thinks he is. Remembering that they won’t be let into the show without a guardian, Gash wonders aloud what they could do about that. Umagon tries to come up with a disguise for this but Gash tells him he doesn’t think it will work.

Not long after this, Gash and Umagon run into Suzume who was also on her way to the department store. Suzume tells them that she’ll go see the show with them before also mentioning that she’s going to the store to buy a special pear doll. She explains that this doll is very popular and normally hard to get a hold of but she recently found out that it would be sold at a very cheap price at the department store. Just as she finishes talking about this, the group also run into Kiyomaro and Suzume’s homeroom teacher’s wife. Suzume asks if she was also going to the department store that day and Wife tells them that she is and that she plans on buying a super sharp kitchen knife that’s being sold at a fraction of the original price. She then goes on to describe how this knife could be used to slice just about anything with ease and how excited she is to get it. Wife then asks the group why they were all going to the department store and each share their different reason except for Umagon who didn’t have any other reason to go except to accompany Gash for the show. The group then all talk among themselves about how Umagon wouldn’t be actually able to help Gash with this and Umagon becomes upset hearing this. Wife then offers to buy Umagon carrots at the department store to cheer him up. Umagon had never tried carrots before but the group tell him that horses love carrots and that he would surely enjoy it too. With everyone excited for what they’re each looking forward to the most at the department store, the group continue on their way and even sing while walking.

Once everyone gets to the department store, they each all go their separate way to get what they’re looking for and plan on meeting on the rooftop for when the Praying Mantis Joe live show will take place. When each one of them find what they’re looking for however, they’re all met with a shocking surprise. Gash finds Praying Mantis Joe before the show and sees him take off his mask. Gash tries to hope that Praying Mantis Joe is still just as strong as he was expecting him to be but he then sees the man who was playing as Praying Mantis Joe is shown to be weak as he is attacked by another actor. Suzume buys a doll under the assumption it was the pear doll she was looking for but she finds out that the doll was shoddily disguised as the one she was looking for. Umagon tries a carrot for the first time but is repulsed by the taste and poor quality of it. The knife that Wife bought is revealed to be much smaller than what was advertised and it instantly breaks the moment she tries using it. Gash, Umagon, Suzume, and Wife are all shown to be both disappointed and distraught as their expectations of what they hoped to find at the department store had been quickly shattered.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Praying Mantis Joe
* Umagon
* Suzume Mizuno
* Wife

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room