Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 22

**A Pointless Fight** (ムダな争い, *Mudana Arasoi*) is the 22nd chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 3 on October 18, 2001.

## Plot

It is June 8th, and somewhere near a German town by the Rhine River, a freezing battle takes place between Brago and Furigaro. As soon as both bookkeepers for the respective demons make eye contact with each other, they both cast a spell. Brago uses *Aian Gurabirei* to attack and Furigaro defends against this using *Sukeipu Gishirudo*. The shield breaks but Furigaro and his bookkeeper Gerhardt get away before *Aian Gurabirei* hits them. They then counterattack using *Ragikoru Fangu* which begins to appear beneath Sherie’s feet. Sherie hesitates to move and closes her eyes just as the attack is about to hit her, but Brago pushes her out of the way in time. In the process however, Brago’s left arm is cleanly sliced off by the attack.

Sherie closes her eyes again after witnessing this but Brago orders her to keep her eyes focused on the battle and reminds her that the one who keeps their eyes open the longest ultimately wins. Brago then suddenly appears next to Furigaro and Gerhardt while carrying his left arm in his mouth. With Brago in position, Sherie casts *Gigano Reisu* and the spell instantly destroys Furigaro’s spell book. After the battle, Sherie helps bandage up Brago’s left arm. During this, Brago points out that Sherie still has significant weak points and that neither of them will achieve their goals if this is left unchanged. Sherie hushes Brago by slapping his bandaged arm before going on to tell him that she won’t make any mistakes next time. She then swallows her pride to thank Brago for saving her during the battle but Brago tells her that he did that only so that his spell book wouldn’t be destroyed. He then goes on to state that the opponents they’re facing now appear to be stronger than the last and wonders how Gash will manage to survive.

At the park, Gash finds himself stuck at the top of a play structure by Naomi who is preventing him from coming down. Gash calls out to Kiyomaro, who happens to be nearby, to come help him by Kiyomaro only reminds him to come home on time for dinner later. As Kiyomaro leaves, he notices a young boy just outside the park carrying a spell book and suspects that a demon is nearby. Just as he wonders this, a tall man approaches Naomi to tell her to stop causing trouble for Gash. Naomi becomes frightened when she looks up at the man and runs away crying. The man then helps Gash come down from the structure and Gash hugs him as he’s happy to have been saved from Naomi. The man is then surprised seeing how Gash isn’t afraid of him. After he puts Gash down, he tells him that he has things to take care of and Gash sees that the man was keeping a small bird in his fanny pack. He tells Gash that he plans on taking the bird home to take care of it as it was injured. The boy carrying the spell book tells the man that they need to leave and the man and Gash say goodbye to each other before going their separate ways.

When he sees the man go with the boy, Kiyomaro begins to believe that the man is the demon partner and that he seems to have a kind heart. Kiyomaro then follows the pair around town and see some of the good deeds this man does such as helping an elderly woman cross the street and picking up trash that was spilled over. While eavesdropping on the pair, Kiyomaro hears the boy, Eshros, ask the man, Shinichi about how it feels to be back in town. Shinchi responds that while he’s getting used to how different things are now, he still feels a great deal of pain and anger being there. Eshros then suggests to Shinichi that they should destroy everything that upsets him as they’ve become strong enough to do that now.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gerhadrt
* Furigaro
* Sherie Belmondo
* Brago
* Sherie’s Butler
* Gash Bell
* Naomi
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Eshros
* Shinichi Akiyama

### Locations

* Germany
* Japan
	+ Mochinoki City

### Spells by Appearance

* Sukeipu Gishirudo (Debut)
* Aian Gurabirei (Debut)
* Ragikoru Fangu (Debut)
* Gigano Reisu