Episode 52

**My Beloved Gash! I am Patie!**(*愛しのガッシュ! 私はパティ!, Itoshi no Gasshu! Watashi wa Pati!*) is the 52nd episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime. This episode first aired in Japan on April 11, 2004.

## Overview

Kiyomaro competes against some of his fellow classmates in various athletic events during their school’s fitness examination. At the same time, a demon named Patie arrives in Japan after having searched the world for Gash who she claims is her one true love.

## Plot

As Kiyomaro packs his bag for school, he reflects on his recent encounter with Lord. as he’s about to reach for his spell book. Just then, Gash leaps onto him to remind him about the athletic activities that will be taking place that day at his school as part of the fitness examination and suggests that both he and the Vulcan 300 will be going with him. Not wanting Gash to tag along, Kiyomaro pins the Vulcan 300 to the ceiling and heads on his way to school leaving Gash stuck at home to figure out a way to get it down.

At school, Kiyomaro already beats a school record at the long jump and is praised for such by his fellow classmates.Yamanaka, who is the most enthusiastic when it comes to sports, takes notice of this and even formally challenges Kiyomaro to compete with him in the rest of the fitness exam events. Others such as Kaneyama and Iwashima also join in this challenge and even suggest they wager one portion of their lunch for each category. The aforementioned lunch on that day happens to be special as it consists of grilled eel, steak, melon juice, and the “gorgeous chocolate pudding strawberry cake”. Despite having been reluctant at first, Kiyomaro would come around to accept their challenge and compete with all his effort in the various sports against them. Kiyomaro, Iwashima, and Yamanaka would each win at least one one event with the exception of Kaneyama who had yet to win just one. When he has only one chance left in order to win the gorgeous cake from everyone’s lunches, Kaneyama puts everything he has into securing his victory.

Meanwhile, Patie and her bookkeeper Uluru arrive in Japan after having traveled throughout the world in search of Gash who Patie wishes to reunite with. Just as she and Uluru talk about him, Patie suddenly finds herself hungry despite having ate a short while ago. She soon smells fresh cake coming from a nearby truck and decides that she'll help herself to the contents of it. She then has Uluru cast her first spell, *Akuru*, towards the truck. Back at school, Kaneyama grows impatient waiting for the cake to arrive all while the other students enjoy themselves eating away at their food. An announcement would eventually be heard informing the students that the cake will not be arriving as it was discovered to have all been eaten and there would be no replacements for it. While Kaneyama finds himself in despair over the news, Kiyomaro quietly wonders to himself who could have possibly consumed all the cake.

As Patie finishes off the last piece of cake from the truck, she once again mentions Gash and how eager she is to see him again. Infatuated with just the thought of him, Patie would end up retelling the story of how they met to Uluru despite him having heard this countless times already. Patie begins her story prefacing that this took place in the Demon World where she one day saw Gash trying to catch fish on her private beach. She ended up falling in love with him on the spot and since then she had tried numerous times to approach him and get his attention. One day she finally does so and presents Gash with a special fish just for him and when she saw him accept her gift, she interpreted it as a sign of him accepting her love. Now that they're both in the Human World, she feels she's destined to have a romantic reunion with him but realizes that with them being both participants in the battle to decide the next ruler, they are likewise destined to fight each other. Despite this still, Patie exclaims that she doesn't mind such a fate and would even allow Gash to burn her book in order to make him the next king. Just as she confesses this aloud, she looks over and sees Gash standing nearby having heard everything she just said.

    They both stay still in awkward silence before Patie finally processes that she really is speaking with Gash. Patie becomes overwhelmed with joy and as she happily skips toward him, she stops in place when Gash asks who she is. Patie tries to explain that she's his girlfriend but realizes she never told him her name before. When she asks if he at least recognizes her face, Gash bluntly answers no before realizing he should hurry on his way to Kiyomaro's school. As Gash walks away from her, Patie collapses to the ground in complete despair over having been clearly forgotten by Gash. Her sadness soon turns into burning rage as she swears she'll never forgive him for this and even decides then that she'll burn his book. Soon after, Patie chases Gash all over town all while Gash remains oblivious as to why she's chasing after him. The chase soon leads to Kiyomaro's classroom where Gash tries to get Kiyomaro to help him with his situation. Patie enters the classroom too and chaos ensues as she tries to find him among the students. While this is happening, Kiyomaro tries to ask Gash about why Patie is so angry with him but Gash answers saying he truly doesn't know. Kiyomaro would eventually figure out that Patie is a demon and that they need to get away to some place safer as they cannot fight with others around. Patie and follow them all throughout the school as they try to get away and all their running would lead them to the school's empty swimming pool area where they can finally talk.

Before Patie does anything, Kiyomaro asks her about what Gash had done to make her so upset. Patie explains she's furious because Gash had forgotten all about her and talks more about her feelings and things she had done for him in the Demon World. Kiyomaro then realizes that the whole situation is a misunderstanding as she's not aware of the fact that Gash had lost all of his memories of the Demon World and Gash did not intentionally forget her. Just as he tries to explain this to her, Gash interrupts him and further pushes the idea that he just simply doesn't remember her at all. Patie becomes even more angry with him for this and while Kiyomaro scolds Gash for ruining his chance to clear things up, Patie confronts Gash one last time to ask him who she is to him. Gash again exclaims she does not know her and Patie decides she's through trying to talk with him and orders Uluru to cast her first spell at them. She would then attack them with her first spell, *Akuru*, a water spell that pushes them both against the walls of the empty pool. Before Patie gets another chance to attack, Gash and Kiyomaro retaliate by casting *Zakeru* towards them. Patie would defend against this using *Ashirudo*, a water shield that is able to absorb *Zakeru's* electricity.

After having defended herself, Patie then sends this electrified water back towards Gash and Kiyomaro with *Aku Supureido*. With Gash and Kiyomaro at a clear disadvantage to their spells, Patie prepares to end their battle with her next spell, *Oruda Akuron,* a spell that creates several large water whips that Patie is able to control. The episode soon ends on a cliff hanger with Gash and Kiyomaro unsure with how to proceed against this attack.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Zofis
* Gash Bell
* Hiroshi Yamanaka
* Hidetoshi Nakata
* Noguchi
* Suzume Mizuno
* Mariko Nakamura
* Suzuki
* Takeshi Kaneyama
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Wife
* Patie
* Uluru
* Kaneko

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room
	+ Mochinoki Middle School

## Spells by Appearance

* Akuru (Debut)
* Zakeru
* Ashirudo (Debut)
* Aku Supureido (Debut)
* Oruda Akuron (Debut)

## Manga & Anime Differences

* The beginning scenes of this episode featuring Gash and Kiyomaro at home is entirely filler. The manga chapters this episode was based on begins with Kiyomaro already at school participating in the long jump.
* The amount of cakes Patie eats was never mentioned in the anime. In the manga, it's revealed she ate 700 of them.
* In the manga, Toyama was briefly seen teaching Kiyomaro's class. In the anime, Toyama had not been introduced yet and instead it is Kiyomaro's homeroom teacher, Hidetoshi Nakata, who teaches the class.

## Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* In the original Japanese episode, Kiyomaro's long jump distace is 4.9 meters or approximately 16ft. In the VIZ localization, Kiyomaro's long jump distance is 14ft 8in.
* A scene that originally pans upwards on a shot of Mariko was edited to start at just above her torso due to the length of her shorts.
* The English name spelling of Patie's name seen during her song was changed in the VIZ localization from "Patie" to "Penny".
* A closeup shot of the front of Patie's underwear was removed.
* A scene showing Patie punching Kaneyama in the face was removed and was replaced by repeating a scene showing the chaos of the classroom.

## Trivia

* The title card sequence in the Japanese version of the episode is the first in which a character other than Gash reads part of the title.
* The English dub of this episode features the story of Romeo and Juliet being briefly read aloud in Kiyomaro's class.