Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 70

**Homecooking of Love** (愛の手料理, *Ai no Teryōri*) is the 70th chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 8 on December 18, 2002.

## Plot

After sticking Gash behind Tio using Papipurio’s *Dareido*, Gash was able to attack Rupa and Hige directly with *Zakeru*. Hige takes most of the blow by being in front of Rupa but she is knocked down by Gash’s attack spell nevertheless. Rupa thinks that she can’t continue fighting but Papipurio pleads for her to keep fighting with him and expresses that they had worked too hard to give up so easily. As he does this, his spell book suddenly begins to glow and a new spell has appeared inside of it. Rupa asks Hige to fight alongside her and Papipurio as a team again but Hige erupts in anger over this. Hige then argues with Rupa and Papipurio and tells them that he refuses to team up with them anymore and insists on fighting on his own. Hige calls on Zobolon to get ready to attack and Tio prepares for this by turning to face Zobolon. Hige casts *Dogurakeru* but Tio blocks this attack using *Ma Seshirudo*. After the shield disappears, Hige suddenly appears out of the smoke and rushes toward Tio to attack her himself. As this is happening, Gash notices that he is starting to regain movement in his body as the effects of Papipurio’s earlier spell, *Poreido*, was wearing off. Tio flinches as Hige was about to hit her but when she opens her eyes, she sees that Gash had freed himself from her and takes Hige’s punch himself.

Kiyomaro and Megumi aren’t able to see what’s happening due to the smoke around the area but Gash and Tio tell them that they’re ready to attack again. Even as Gash and Tio get ready to use their last spells, Papipurio, Rupa and Hige are too distracted arguing amongst themselves to notice the pair about to attack. Gash and Tio then hit both teams directly using *Zakeru* and *Saisu* and they manage to destroy Zobolon’s spell book. Papipurio’s spell book remains intact though and Rupa casts Papipurio’s newest spell, *Mokerudo*.  At the same time that they use this spell, Megumi casts *Seushiru*. Inside the shield, they discover that Papipurio’s newest spell is actually a thick smokescreen and the two use this in order to escape the battlefield. Gash, Kiyomaro, Megumi, and Tio are dumbfounded seeing Papipurio and Rupa run away but with the battle finally over, they are now free to spend the rest of the day enjoying the amusement park like they had initially planned.

After spending some of the day checking out the different rides, the group sits down together on the grass for lunch. There, Megumi and Tio tell Gash and Kiyomaro that they had made some home cooked meals for them to enjoy and Megumi is the first to show off what she made to Kiyomaro. Tio is somewhat nervous to give Gash the lunchbox she had made for him and tries to build up the courage to present it to him. Kiyomaro notices the lunchbox Tio was holding behind her and Tio ends up telling Kiyomaro that she made the lunchbox for him. Megumi is surprised to hear this though and thinks back to when she and Tio were first making the meals together. At that time, Tio tells Megumi she was making a lunchbox for Gash and she made the portions of food especially big as she took into consideration that Gash has a large appetite. To give Tio some alone time with Gash, Megumi tells Kiyomaro that she forgot to get drinks and asks Kiyomaro to come with her. When Gash and Tio are left alone, they’re both silent until Tio notices Gash drooling over the lunches that were in front of him. Seeing that Gash was eager to eat, Tio gives him the lunch that she originally made for him. Gash asks if he could really eat it and Tio smiles and tells him that she put her heart into making it and to go ahead and eat.

As the day comes to an end, the group goes on the merry-go-round as their last ride. As they sit near each other on the ride, Megumi thanks Kiyomaro for allowing her to have such a fun day off and tells him that she’d love to do something like this again in the future. After this, Kiyomaro asks Gash about how he enjoyed Tio’s lunchbox. Gash ends up saying that he prefers yellowtail more which causes Tio to become angry and she strangles him over this.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Leopardon Papipurio
* Rupa
* Hige
* Zobolon
* Gash Bell
* Tio
* Megumi Oumi
* Kiyomaro Takamine

### Spells by Appearance

* Zakeru
* Mokerudo (Debut)