Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 75

**Gash’s Cold** (ガッシュの風邪 , *Gash no Kaze*) is the 75th chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 9 on March 18, 2003.

## Plot

After their recent trip to Hong Kong, Gash has become sick with a cold and has a slight fever. Kiyomaro assures him that with some rest he’ll feel better in no time and that his mother Hana will be back that evening to take care of him. Gash asks Kiyomaro if he can still go with him to school but Kiyomaro refuses without hesitation. Gash calls out for Kiyomaro to not leave him alone but Kiyomaro heads out anyway. Just as he Kiyomaro leaves his house, he finds Gash already outside in a duffel bag trying to get his attention. Kiyomaro however ignores him and continues on his way to school alone. Gash then begins to cry and calls out for Umagon.

In class, Kiyomaro is shown to be briefly talking with his friends about his Hong Kong trip before suddenly noticing Gash’s duffel bag at the back of the classroom with Umagon hiding just behind it. Kiyomaro distracts his classmates by redirecting their attention to the window before he swiftly jumps to the other side of the classroom. Furious, he begins tying up Gash and Umagon in order to get rid of them quickly but Umagon ends up attacking Kiyomaro in response. Kiyomaro’s classmates then notice Umagon running up to them while crying. Further chaos ensues when Kiyomaro’s homeroom teacher shows up and discovers Umagon and demands answers as to where Umagon had come from. Not long after this, Kiyomaro, Gash, and Umagon are brought to the center of the classroom to be questioned by Kiyomaro’s homeroom teacher.

The homeroom teacher asks for Kiyomaro’s perspective first and Kiyomaro tells him that he is not to be blamed for this because Gash and Umagon followed him without permission. His classmates however assume it is Kiyomaro’s fault and call him on leaving Gash home alone to begin with. Kiyomaro quickly points out that Gash wasn’t alone as he had Umagon with him which convinced his classmates that Gash had someone who was capable of taking care of him. Gash interjects that Umagon can’t do alot of basic tasks for him because of the fact he doesn’t have hands and that he had also eaten the lunch that was left for him by Kiyomaro’s mother. Kiyomaro is once again declared at fault for everything by his classmates and Kiyomaro starts another fight with Gash. Gash orders Umagon to attack Kiyomaro but Umagon instead gets distracted by Gash’s duffel bag and decides to go inside of it. Gash gets upset over this but before he can go on any further, he suddenly becomes dizzy and faints.

Some time later, Gash wakes up in the nurse’s office of the school with Suzume right by him. Suzume tells him that his temperature is back to normal after taking some medicine and that she was given permission to look after him by the homeroom teacher. Gash compliments Suzume for being so kind to him unlike Kiyomaro. Suzume tries to tell him that Kiyomaro is just as nice too but Gash disagrees. Just as he’s talking about Kiyomaro, he suddenly notices that Kiyomaro was there too. Kiyomaro tosses him another Vulcan 300 he had made and tells him that he’ll come see him again after school. After briefly visiting Gash, Kiyomaro walks out into the hallway and suddenly meets Apollo who had come to the school to look for him. Apollo and Kiyomaro briefly exchange greetings with each other before Kiyomaro asks him about Ropes who was not there with him. Apollo then pauses for a moment before informing Kiyomaro that Ropes’ spell book had been burned.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Umagon
* Suzume Mizuno
* Hiroshi Yamanaka
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Hidetoshi Nakata
* Wife
* Suzuki
* Kaneko
* Apollo Genesis

### Locations

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