Episode 74

**Dancing Flashes of Light! The Lone Warrior Pamoon** (*閃光乱舞! 孤高の戦士パムーン,Senkō Ranbu! Kokō no Senshi Pamūn*) is the 74th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime. This episode first aired in Japan on September 19, 2004.

## Overview

After finally figuring out the behavior of the mysterious stars that have been targeting them, Kiyomaro comes up with a plan to take the stars’ focus away from him and his group through the use of sound. Through this, he determines the location of the ancient demon who had been controlling the stars and casts a spell to reveal him and his bookkeeper. Now out of hiding, Pamoon shows the group just how powerful he is with his unique fighting style.

## Plot

In the aftermath of the battle against Belgim E.O, Canchome and Folgore profusely apologize to Dr. Riddles for not having been strong enough to save Kid whose spell book had been burned. After giving Dr. Riddles a fragment of the moon stone to heal his injuries, they vow to him that they’ll make sure they destroy the moon stone that’s been controlling the other humans and to fight harder for Kid’s sake. Just as they head off, Dr. Riddles slowly begins to get back up. He tells them that they won’t be able to achieve their goal without him and that he can’t stay lying down after all that Kid had done for him. As he gets back on his feet, he makes a promise there too that he will see this plan through to the end for Kid. Dr. Riddles then walks forward in stride to the next area of the ruins and both Folgore and Canchome follow just behind him.

Meanwhile from the perspective of Kiyomaro’s group, Kiyomro decides to test a theory he has about the stars that had been following them by having Umagon run around the room creating noise. As Umagon runs through the room in his *Gou Shudoruku* form, the stars focus most of their attacks on him as they rely on sound to find their target. Eventually, Kiyomaro would order Umagon to run towards the ceiling and just as he had thought, the stars’ attacks became less accurate the higher up he went. Kiyomaro then tells Umagon to destroy part of the ceiling and the debris that fell from it creates enough noise to not only disguise the footsteps of the group, but to also cause the stars to start firing in random directions. As they run, Kiyomaro thinks more about the behavior pattern of the stars and figures out where demon that’s been controlling them must be located based on the fact that the center of the stars’ orbit had always remained the same. With these things in mind, Kiyomaro has Gash aim towards the floor of the room and blows up a large hole in it using *Zakeruga*. Just as Kiyomaro figured out, the ancient demon that’s been controlling the stars, as well as their bookkeeper, were located beneath the ground and they finally show themselves after being discovered.

The ancient demon introduces himself as Pamoon, who is one out of the four most powerful ancient demons under Zofis’ command. With Pamoon now able to see his targets, his use of spells involving the use of his stars become more accurate and powerful leaving Kiyomaro and the rest of his group only able to either defend themselves or evade attacks. When they see an opening, Kiyomaro attempts to attack Pamoon’s bookkeeper directly using *Zakeru* but Pamoon protects him by creating a pyramid shaped shield around him with *Fashirudo*. Soon after this, Pamoon tries attacking the group once again through the use of his stars and nearly gets Kiyomaro when a star positions itself in front of Kiyomaro after he had fallen. Sunbeam however manages to save Kiyomaro just in time by moving him out of the way from the incoming attacks with perfect timing. When they have a moment to talk, Sunbeam advises Kiyomaro to not let the surrounding stars distract him and instead pay close attention to Pamoons eyes as doing so will allow him to sense the timing and rhythm of his attacks. After Sunbeam helps them evade a few more attacks, Kiyomaro and Gash try this strategy for themselves.

When Kiyomaro and Gash look into Pamoon’s eyes, they not only sense incredible strength behind them, but also a lingering feeling of fear as well. While they look at each other, Pamoon suddenly realizes that he recognizes Kiyomaro as the person who had been responsible for doing strange things to him while he was trapped in stone. Remembering this, Pamoon becomes engulfed in rage at remembering the sheer humiliation of the experience and unleashes his next attack spell, *Dēmu Faurga*, which creates a large laser grid from his stars. As the grid comes closer to him, Sunbeam casts *Gou Shudoruku* once again and Kiyomaro orders Umagon to knock away various rows of stars. Despite this, Pamoon controls his stars to attack in random directions again before finally gathering them together again to create a large x-shape for his next spell, *Ekuseresu Faruga*. Just as the spell was cast, Umagon rescues the group just in time from it.

After the dust settles from the impact of the attack, Kiyomaro calls out to Pamoon to ask him why he chooses not to fight against Zofis despite how powerful he is and that he should have more pride in himself than to serve under him. Thinking about this, Pamoon tells them that he did have pride in his strength during the previous battle to decide king but after witnessing what Zofis is capable of, turning other ancient demons back into stone again for disobeying him, he admits that the source of his strength now comes from fear. The episode then ends as Pamoon prepares another attack while declaring he will prove to them that there is strength to be born from fear.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Dr. Riddles
* Canchome
* Parco Folgore
* Dalia Anjay
* Kid (Flashback)
* Tio
* Lien
* Wonrei
* Megumi Oumi
* Genso (Flashback)
* Tsaolon (Flashback)
* Umagon
* Kafka Sunbeam
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Pamoon
* Lance
* Ferius
* Byonko
* Badios
* Patie
* Erujo
* Françoise Cardan
* Alvin
* Uluru
* Zofis

## Spells by Appearance

* Giga Ra Seushiru (Flashback)
* Zaou Giruerudo (Flashback)
* Farusu
* Gou Shudoruku
* Rashirudo
* Zakeruga
* Fei Farugu (Debut)
* Faruga (Debut)
* Zakeru
* Fashirudo (Debut)
* Dēmu Faurga (Debut)
* Ekuseresu Faruga (Debut)

## Manga & Anime Differences

* All appearances Patie, Byonko, Uluru, and Alvin have in this episode is entirely filler and they do not appear in the original manga chapters this episode was based on.

## Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* Details such as blood from injuries are cleaned up from characters in the VIZ localization but other things such as scratches and clothing tears are usually left alone. All bleeding seen on Dr. Riddles and Kiyomaro would be cleaned up in the VIZ localization