Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 49

**The Mysterious Dance** (不思議な踊り, *Fushigina Odori*) is the 49th chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 6 on July 18, 2002.

## Plot

On the seaside facing toward the ocean, Kiyomaro and Gash ready themselves to test out their recently acquired fourth spell. Just as Kiyomaro is about to read it, Gash suddenly faces toward him and Kiyomaro stops himself from reading it altogether. He gets angry with Gash for doing this but Gash tells him he hears singing coming from the top of the cliffs. Underneath a tree, a young boy sings and dances. Gash finds this boy and joins him in his dance. Just as he is doing this, a girl from the top of the tree leaps down and begins repeatedly hitting Gash with a frying pan before taking out a spell book. Kiyomaro stops her from attacking Gash any further by grabbing her by the collar of her dress. The girl exclaims that she needs to defeat Gash but when questioned by Kiyomaro if she actually knows him, it turns out she had mistook Gash for someone else.

When Kiyomaro lets go of her, she calls to her demon partner, Yopopo to come get his lunch from her. When Yopopo unwraps his lunch next to her, the girl suddenly yells at him to eat somewhere else before reminding him that she hates him. After Yopopo leaves, Jem apologizes to Gash and Kiyomaro for what had happened earlier and offers them to join her for tea. The girl introduces herself as Jem and both Kiyomaro and Gash do the same. Gash suggests that Yopopo should join them for lunch too but Jem tells them that it doesn’t matter and that she doesn’t understand anything he says. Still thinking about Yopopo, Gash approaches him to introduce himself and have lunch with him. While sitting with Jem, Kiyomaro asks Jem about her having referred to Gash as a demon earlier. Jem goes on to talk about what she means about this and as she speaks, Kiyomaro is relieved to know that Jem doesn’t know that she actually was right about Gash being a demon. Jem then mentions to Kiyomaro that she’s looking for a specific demon in order to get revenge. Kiyomaro inquires about this and Jem claims that an incident involving this demon is Yopopo’s fault

Jem begins her story by telling Kiyomaro how she and her family had met Yopopo. In a flashback, Yopopo had come into the lives of Jem and her family one day and they offered him something to eat. Afterwards, they find out that Yopopo isn’t able to properly communicate with them and tell them anything about himself or where he came from. Jem however understood that Yopopo had already told them his name and Yopopo indicates that this is true. Yopopo then spends his days being a part of Jem’s family by helping her mother and grandfather around the house and spending time with Jem herself. At one point, Jem discovers Yopopo’s spell book and immediately begins looking through it despite his protests. Jem then reads aloud Yopopo’s first spell, *Mikeru*, and Jem suddenly hears an explosion occur behind her. Jem expresses her excitement in being able to cast Yopopo’s spells but Yopopo appears troubled knowing that Jem is now his bookkeeper.

Presently, as Kiyomaro and Jem watch Gash and Yopopo dance away, Kiyomaro asks Jem why Yopopo dances while they’re trying to get revenge. Jem answers saying that Yopopo’s mysterious song and dance has the ability to lure demons. After getting tired out from dancing with Yopopo, Gash returns to Kiyomaro and Jem. Gash asks if Yopopo had been dancing all morning but Jem corrects him to say that he had been dancing for a month straight. Jem mentions to the pair that it was Yopopo’s fault that her family was attacked by a demon and that he still dances in order to lure out the same demon who had harmed her family for revenge. Jem had tried to tell him to stop but Yopopo continued dancing regardless which is why Jem had grown to hate him. Unbeknownst to the group, the same demon and bookkeeper who had harmed Jem’s family was watching them from a distance, plotting to finish off Yopopo for good.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Yopopo
* Jem
* English Gentleman
* Kikuropu