Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 57

**Until Then** (その時まで , *So no Tokimade*) is the 57th 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

Things begin to settle down at the Takamine residence as Kiyomaro and his classmates focus on their homework while Gash and Tio play with Umagon. Downstairs, Hana slices up watermelon and tells Kiyomaro to come and get them. Gash volunteers to do this instead and Tio follows to help him. After they leave, Umagon gets Suzume, Yamanaka, and Iwashima’s attention and shows off his spell book to them. He waves his spell book at them hoping they could look at it but Kiyomaro interrupts to tell Umagon that they’re all busy studying and that he’s bothering them. Umagon becomes angry but Suzume calms him down and tells Kiyomaro that he and Umagon will never get along if he keeps yelling at him. Yamanaka and Iwashima also express the same sentiment to Kiyomaro and suggest that Kiyomaro just be nice to Umagon if he wants Umagon to be nice too.

Iwashima then encourages Kiyomaro to repeat the phrase, “meru meru me” and say it with a smile on his face to try and appeal to Umagon but when Kiyomaro does this, Umagon laughs at him. Kiyomaro becomes both embarrassed and furious again and points at Umagon while yelling at him. As he does this, Umagon bites his hand again. Kiyomaro then finally reaches his breaking point and shouts at Umagon to leave and he refuses to keep him in his house any longer. Umagon then takes his spell book and runs away in tears. While Gash and Tio carry watermelon to Kiyomaro’s room, they see Umagon run past them and Gash asks Kiyomaro what happened. Kiyomaro tells him that he kicked Umagon out and Gash tries to argue with him. Kiyomaro stops him then tells Gash and Tio to continue this conversation with him in the hallway away from Kiyomaro’s classmates.

There, Kiyomaro finally tells them that Umagon is a demon. Gash is initially in disbelief but Tio confirms that this is true as she had seen Umagon carrying a spell book with him. Kiyomaro then continues and explains that kicking Umagon out was also necessary as he isn’t sure when Umagon could potentially attack them by letting him stay. Gash tries to tell Kiyomaro that Umagon was nice to him but Kiyomaro points out that Umagon had now bitten him twice. Gash then becomes frustrated with Kiyomaro and exclaims that Umagon would have attacked him by now if he really wanted to. Gash then calls Kiyomaro an idiot and runs off to chase after Umagon. Tio hesitates at first but decides to help find Umagon too. With both of them gone, Kiyomaro goes back to his room to help his friends with their studies. Upon opening the door, his friends confront him about him kicking out Umagon and they all appear to be visibly upset over what had happened. Left with no other choice, Kiyomaro decides to try and find Umagon.

Outside, Kiyomaro catches up with Tio and follows her to find Umagon. While running together, Tio asks Kiyomaro to allow Umagon to stay with them and tells him that she understands how Umagon feels if he’s all alone. Kiyomaro wonders what Tio means by this as they look for Umagon but when they get to town, they see Umagon holding out his spell book to various strangers in an attempt to get someone to look at it. Kiyomaro then remembers Umagon doing the same thing to his classmates as well. Gash, who was sitting off to the side watching Umagon, tells Kiyomaro that Umagon is most likely trying to find his bookkeeper. Kiyomaro is surprised to see that Umagon still had not found his partner yet but Tio tells Kiyomaro that it took her months before she finally found Megumi. She then goes on to explain that she understands how Umagon feels as being alone made her scared and anxious as other demons would often attack her despite her being unable to fight back without a partner. Gash also brings up that while they were in England, Umagon was happy to see him but Gash didn’t know anything about him as he doesn’t remember anything about his life in the Demon World but suspects that Umagon remembered him. Tio adds that Umagon most likely tried to find his bookkeeper in England but couldn’t find them. When he found Gash, he was happy just to see someone he knew despite them being enemies in the battle to decide king.

Kiyomaro then reflects that Umagon didn’t get along with him because he was already Gash’s bookkeeper and he could never become his partner. After some time, Kiyomaro tells Gash to bring Umagon home later and that Umagon can stay with them until he finds his true partner. At home, Kiyomaro gathers everyone in the house to announce that he had finally come up with a name to call Umagon. As Umagon waits to hear what this will be, he hopes that he’ll be referred to by his real name, Schneider. To Umagon’s dismay however, Kiyomaro settles on the nickname, “Umagon” for him which makes him upset. Despite this though, Umagon had officially started to live with Kiyomaro and Gash from then on.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Suzume Mizuno
* Hiroshi Yamanaka
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Gash Bell
* Umagon
* Tio
* Hana Takamine
* Umagon's Mother

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room