Episode 122

**The Legend of Kaguya. Gash’s Summer Festival. The Girl Who Returned to the Moon** (かぐや伝説 ガッシュの夏祭り 月へ帰った少女*, Kaguya Densetsu Gasshu no Natsumatsuri Tsuki Hekaetta Shōjō*) is the 122nd episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on September 4, 2005. While this episode features some moments originally adapted from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga, this episode is mostly filler.

## Overview

Gash attends his first summer festival with Hana and Umagon but gets separated from them within a sea of people. At the festival, he meets Kaguya, a young girl trying to have fun at the festival while also hiding from a group of bodyguards looking for her. Despite having the money to play all the games she wants, Kaguya becomes dispirited however when she finds out no vendors will accept her large sum of paper money. Sympathetic to her situation, Gash offers to share what little coin allowance he has and asks Kaguya to show him how to have fun at the summer festival.

## Plot

Gash and Umagon are filled with excitement when they see Hana setting up festival lanterns around the exterior of the house. Gash goes to Kiyomaro’s room to tell him about the summer festival that will be taking place that evening but realizes in his conversation with Kiyomaro that he doesn’t know what a festival is. Kiyomaro then takes the time to tell Gash a bit about it and concludes that by the time it actually starts, he’ll know what a festival is. By the time the sun sets, Gash stands just outside of Kiyomaro’s room in hopes of asking Kiyomaro to go to the festival with him but realizes Kiyomaro is too engrossed in his research into the mysterious Demon World structure to want to leave his room. Despite this, Gash and Umagon meet Hana outside and the three of them walk to the festival together.

At the festival, Gash gets separated from Hana and Umagon by the crowds of people pushing him away. In the commotion, Gash loses most of his festival allowance and scrambles to try and find what’s left. A young girl nearby however hands him some of the coins he had dropped before retreating back to a corner she was hiding in. Gash tries to ask her some questions but doesn’t get much of a response as she was focused on remaining hidden from mysterious bodyguards at the festival who were looking for her. When one of them sees her, she asks for Gash’s help in getting away from there and Gash carries and hides her inside of his kimono. The two of them would then move to a more secluded location where Gash, dejected, looks at what’s left of his festival allowance and expresses how disappointing his festival experience had been. Kaguya overhears this and asserts that festivals are supposed to be fun and she had snuck away specifically to be at one that night. She then gives Gash a single bill worth ten thousand yen before deciding that she’ll show him how fun a festival really is. Gash then asks the girl for her name and the girl thinks about this for a moment before introducing herself as Princess Kaguya.

Back at the festival, Kaguya tries to use the ten thousand yen to participate in festival games but is constantly rejected due to the high value of it. Frustrated, Kaguya retreats to the back of the festival to sulk from not being able to enjoy her night as she had wanted. Sympathetic for her situation, Gash offers to share his last three hundred yen with her so she can show him how fun the games are. Gash uses two hundred yen to play the goldfish scooping game together with Kaguya. Gash fails to catch a fish on his first try, but on Kaguya’s turn, she and Gash were able to catch one together and had fun doing so in the process. They would then wander the festival for some time enjoying the sights before using the last hundred yen on a shooting game to win a prize. With Kaguya’s help, they manage to win a free yakisoba meal in which they would share together.

After having their food, Gash suddenly remembers that he was separated from Hana and Umagon and needs to find them. Hearing that Gash came with others, Kaguya suddenly becomes upset and refuses to explain why. Remembering that Kaguya had been hiding earlier, Gash asks about the strange bodyguards that were looking for her. Upon mentioning them, Kaguya sits back up and explains her situation by referring to the folklore of the actual Princess Kaguya. Kaguya tells Gash that as Princess Kaguya, she spends much of her time having fun in the world until the night of a full moon in August where emissaries of the moon come to take her back. Kaguya then begins to cry as she expresses how she desperately wants to keep enjoying the festival and not have to go back. Just after she tells Gash this, Kaguya’s emissaries find her. Anxious to get away, Kaguya begs for Gash’s help and the two of them run off. Just as they find themselves surrounded, Gash carries Kaguya on his shoulders and he runs atop the festival stalls at full speed to take Kaguya to the top of a building where they could be safe.

On the rooftop, Kaguya expresses to Gash how exhilarating the experience of flying in the sky was for her. She then suddenly turns away from him before asking how much of her story does he believe as she was starting to feel guilty for lying to him throughout their time together. Gash answers her by saying that he fully believes her story which brings Kaguya to tears again. She then takes out her cell phone that she had been carrying in her bag and answers it saying that she’s ready to return. Kaguya then tells Gash more about the legend of Princess Kaguya and explains that while Princess Kaguya was wealthy, rebellious, and a liar, she eventually learned that there were important things in the world that money can’t buy. By telling him things this way, Kaguya implies to Gash that she had discovered that during her time with him and she was now okay with returning home. Kaguya hugs Gash before giving him the goldfish she had caught and ties her hair ribbon around the top of the bag it was in. Kaguya then runs off to approach the helicopter that she was being picked up in where her emissaries refer to her as Lady Natsuko. As she’s taken away, she apologizes to Gash for having lied to him as much as she did but tells him that she truly did enjoy the time she spent with him. Gash tells Kaguya that he had fun as well and says his goodbyes as she returns home.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gash Bell
* Hana Takamine
* Umagon
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Elle Chivas (Flashback)
* Momon  (Flashback)
* Tio (Flashback)
* Megumi Oumi (Flashback)
* Arth (Flashback)
* Wife
* Kaguya

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room