Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 53

**An Important Matter** (大切な用, *Taisetsunayō*) is the 53rd 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

Kiyomaro, Gash, and Canchome are lead to the local hospital by Folgore’s scent and Canchome expresses concern if Folgore had injured himself. After seeing a nurse walk by, Kiyomaro suspects that Folgore was there to flirt with the nurses and he tells Gash and Canchome to look for Folgore starting from the bottom floor while he goes to the top floor. Kiyomaro rushes up the stairs and soon finds Folgore speaking with one of the nurses. Kiyomaro shouts out to the nurse saying that Folgore was likely there to grope her and the nurse becomes angry and throws him out the window and into some water below. Gash and Canchome see Folgore as he is falling and they both go outside to see him. Folgore is then seen being chased outside by a group of nurses as well as by Kiyomaro, Gash and Canchome. As they’re all running, Kiyomaro confronts Folgore about his antics flirting with various women in town and Folgore proudly admits to doing this. In response, Kiyomaro casts *Zakeru* and electrocutes Folgore. After Folgore falls, the other nurses try to attack him as well but Folgore manages to drag himself away from the commotion. He then takes out a letter from his pocket and tells himself that he needs to hurry as he has an important matter to take care of. Not long after, Kiyomaro, Gash, and Canchome notice that Folgore is suddenly gone again.

Back inside the hospital, Gash leads the group to the pediatric unit where Gash points out the room that Folgore was in. Kiyomaro enters the room expecting to finally get his hands on Folgore for the trouble he had caused him the entire day but stops when he finds Folgore handing out various gifts to the child patients in the room. While watching this, Kiyomaro realizes that the toys, flowers, and candy that Folgore had bought earlier were all specifically for these children. Kiyomaro then sees Folgore announce to the kids he will be giving them a special concert for everyone on behalf of a young girl who he had promised to come visit. Kiyomaro realizes then that the girl that Canchome had mentioned that Folgore was going to meet was this young child who wanted to see him perform. Folgore then sings and dances for the kids and everyone can be seen enjoying the performance. Kiyomaro smiles seeing this and decides to leave quietly. Before he goes, Folgore stops him and offers for Kiyomaro to come see his London concert later that afternoon but Kiyomaro politely declines saying that he already enjoyed seeing his concert in the hospital. Kiyomaro then simply tells Folgore to survive to the end of the battle and Folgore promises him that he’ll protect Canchome to the very end. Kiyomaro smiles and both he and Gash decide to leave and start preparing to head back to Japan.

Some time later, Kiyomaro and Gash return to the university where Seitaro teaches at. While Gash is outside, Seitaro tells Kiyomaro he wanted to show him an interesting artifact that was discovered in Africa. Seitaro takes Kiyomaro to a room in the university that was storing this artifact and he unveils it to Kiyomaro. The artifact is revealed to be a strange stone tablet depicting a detailed carving of a demon with letters beneath it that resemble the language of Gash’s spell book. Kiyomaro is shocked to see something like this exist at all but Seitaro goes on to mention that this tablet was discovered among other relics that date back 1,000 years ago, which is the same length of time in which the previous battle between demons took place. Seitaro notes that he can’t quite confirm this just yet but he plans on conducting more research into it. He then offers to give Kiyomaro a photograph of it and asks him to let him know if he happens to find anything out about it.

Outside, Kiyomaro and Gash prepare to head off to catch their flight. Before they go, Seccoro, Jem, their respective families, and other individuals they met come to see them off. Additionally, a small horse can be seen right by Gash’s side and Gash tells Kiyomaro that this horse seems to be following him wherever he goes. Just before they leave, Jem tells Kiyomaro and Gash not to forget about Yopopo and the two promise her that they won’t. Kiyomaro and Gash share their final goodbyes with everyone and are driven to the airport by Seccoro’s father. As they leave, the horse that was with Gash begins to panic and tries to get something out of some nearby bushes. He is then seen desperately trying to follow after the car while carrying a spell book behind his back. On the airplane, Gash and Kiyomaro reflect on the time they spent in England and hope they will see the people they had met there again someday. At the same time, Canchome finds himself suddenly taken away in a circus truck calling out to Folgore to help him. Folgore runs after Canchome and at the same time he scolds him for ending up in this unusual situation by following strangers.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Canchome
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Parco Folgore
* Umagon
* Seitaro Takamine
* Seccoro
* Jem
* Cook
* Dartagnan

### Locations

* England
	+ London