Episode 118

**Kidnapped Gash! Trapped Over the Sea. Sinking Dartagnan** (*連れ去られたガッシュ! 海の上の罠 ダルタニアン撃沈, Tsuresarareta Gasshu! Umi no Ue no Wana Darutanian Gekichin*) is the 118th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on August 7, 2005. This episode is entirely filler and is not based on any chapters from the Konjiki no Gash!! Manga.

## Overview

Professor D’artagnan makes an unexpected visit to Kiyomaro’s home to discuss with him matters regarding the stone tablets being stolen. Kiyomaro tells him however that there was no need for that anymore since the things that the stone tablets were connected to had been resolved but this doesn’t satisfy D’artagnan who is frustrated with having lost his research subjects. To make Kiyomaro understand his perspective, D’artagnan takes Gash, Tio, and Umagon to his boat that was docked just outside of town. The sudden disappearance of these three causes their respective partners to become worried and they make their way to the boat in order to rescue them.

## Plot

Gash and Umagon are seen at the park, frantically running from Naomi who was looking to torment them as usual. Before Gash and Umagon are caught up in another one of Naomi’s traps, D’artagnan quickly swoops in and rescues the pair from her. Back at home, Kiyomaro tries to do his own research into Faudo before being informed by his mother that he had a visitor. When he comes down, he meets D’artagnan in the hall and remembers him as the cosplaying professor who works at the same university as his father. D’artagnan tells Kiyomaro he has matters he’d like to discuss with him in private so they move to Kiyomaro’s room. In there, D’artagnan explains he wanted to talk with him about the stone tablets he was tasked with looking into long ago and had only found out recently that they were stolen from the university. Before D’artagnan was able to go any further, Kiyomaro stops him to simply inform him that all matters regarding the stone tablets had already been resolved at this point. D’artagnan however claims that this wasn’t the point of the matter and tries to stress to Kiyomaro how he feels about having lost his research subjects but Kiyomaro was unable to sympathize with him on this. Determined to make Kiyomaro understand how he feels about this, D’artagnan tells him he had already gone ahead and taken Kiyomaro’s “research subjects”. He then makes an elaborate escape by jumping out from Kiyomaro’s window leaving Kiyomaro completely bewildered as to what he means.

Kiyomaro looks around his room for anything that might have been taken from him but finds nothing. He then gets a call from Megumi who asks if Tio was with him as she had suddenly disappeared by the time Megumi had finished her concert performance. Not long after this, Kafka Sunbeam shows up to Kiyomaro’s house to also ask about Umagon’s whereabouts. Remembering that Umagon and Gash were at the park, Kiyomaro, Megumi, and Sunbeam quickly head there in order to search for them. Just as they get there, they discover a strange package addressed to Kiyomaro and investigate it. Kiyomaro opens it to find a music box left for him by D’artagnan. The box plays a recording from D’artagnan that explains that he’s the one who has their partners and tells them to come to his boat at Mochinoki pier if they wish to get them back. Not wasting any time, the trio head to the pier and board D’artagnan’s ship.

On the ship, the group decides to investigate each of the cabin rooms one at a time. They find nothing of interest except one of D’artagnan’s traps which covers them in sea urchin and sea cucumber. When they look down the corridor of a different area on the ship, they briefly see Gash walking down the hall. When Kiyomaro runs after him in the direction he was going, he ends up finding D’artagnan instead who was dressed up as Gash. The group demand answers from him but D’artagnan quickly runs away to the deck of the ship. On the deck, Megumi spots Tio but when she runs over to her, she instead finds D’artagnan who was now dressed as Tio. When they confront him, he briefly mentions to him that his entire scheme was supposed to be a form of entertainment for everyone which the group refuses to believe. D’artagnan then asks the group what they wanted from him and they all shout at him to return their partners to them.

D’artagnan surprisingly abides by their request and calls out to Gash, Tio, and Umagon to tell them it’s time for them to go home. The kids however run past their partners and towards D’artagnan to ask him to play with them some more. It’s there that the group heard from the kids how much fun they had playing games with D’artagnan and how he was there for each of them when they needed company as their respective partners had been too busy to spend time with them. D’artagnan helps further emphasize to them how important it is to think of and be with partners more as it’s naive of them to only think that having connected hearts was enough to have a proper bond with them. Understanding this, Kiyomaro, Megumi, and Sunbeam apologize to their respective partners and promise them that they’ll do better by making more time for them. Just as things had reached a satisfying conclusion, D’artagnan accidentally pressed the self-destruct button for his ship as he was about to light his cigar, causing an explosion. Everyone makes it off of the ship fine however as Kiyomaro, Megumi, and Sunbeam are seen on a rowboat while D’artagnan, Gash, Tio, and Umagon were on D’artagnan’s speed boat cruising into the setting sun.

Some time after these events, Gash and Umagon are at home playing together in Kiyomaro’s room as Kiyomaro and Sunbeam talk right by them. In the end, it’s revealed that Kiyomaro ended up asking D’artagnan to look into the Faudo structure which gave D’artagnan something new and meaningful to dedicate his research to.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Berun
* Laoxing Mo
* Keith
* Zaruchim
* D’artagnan
* Gash Bell
* Umagon
* Naomi
* Hana Takamine
* Seitaro Takamine (Flashback)
* Pamoon (Flashback)
* Leila (Flashback)
* Albert (Flashback)
* Canchome (Flashback)
* Parco Folgore (Flashback)
* Kafka Sunbeam
* Demolt (Flashback)
* Dr. Riddles (Flashback)
* Tio
* Megumi Oumi
* Riou

### Locations

* Mochinoki City
	+ Children’s Park
	+ Takamine Residence
		- Kiyomaro’s Room
* Faudo

## Spells by Appearance

* Pendaramu Faruga (Flashback)
* Miguron (Flashback)
* Gou Shudoruku (Flashback)
* Baou Zakeruga (Flashback)
* Girugadomu Barusuruku (Flashback)
* Poruku (Flashback)