Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 81

**Prey VS. Hunter** (獲物VS.狩人ハンター, *Emono VS. Hantā*) is the 81st 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

Kiyomaro and Gash make their way to an area of the forest where they’re surrounded by terrain that protects them from behind and their sides. Kiyomaro still appears to be injured after taking a direct hit from Baransha’s *Wokeru* but he assures Gash that he’s at least not too badly hurt since the spell was cast from a distance. Kiyomaro and Gash anticipate for their enemy to appear in front of them but they’re unexpectedly attacked from behind regardless by Baransha in her *Doruku* form. Gash and Kiyomaro reorient themselves towards Baransha to use *Zakeru* to attack her but she jumps away just before it reaches her. Kiyomaro then decides that they attack her bookkeeper instead and he points out the direction in which he heard her spell was cast. Before they could use another spell, they suddenly stop when they see a deer appear out from the bushes they were aiming at. The deer itself though is then shown to just be a decoy hat that Garza was wearing in order to trick Gash and Kiyomaro and he quickly gets away from the area while mimicking the sounds of a deer.

As the battle drags on, Kiyomaro and Gash waste several more spells trying to attack Baransha but miss every time. As they follow after her, Kiyomaro thinks to himself how strange it was that they’re not being attacked despite the many chances their enemies had for that. Baransha eventually disappears from the area and returns to where Garza was located. He tells her that she can go back to where Gash and Kiyomaro were after a short break as it was all part of their plan to fully exhaust their prey before finally going in for the attack. As the day finally turns into night, Kiyomaro is brought to the brink of exhaustion from the stress he and Gash are under by having to constantly look out for their opponents. At this point too, Kiyomaro wonders how many more spells he’ll be able to cast and what their next move should be against an elusive enemy. Just then, Kiyomaro hears the spell *Boruku* cast and he looks over to see Baransha standing nearby them. Kiyomaro casts *Zakeru* and Gash just barely misses Baransha as she jumps in the air. Kiyomaro casts the same spell again just before she lands in order to hit her but the spell goes directly through her as this was just an illusion of her. Upon using this last spell, Kiyomaro completely runs out of energy to keep fighting and finally collapses onto the ground.

Meanwhile, Garza and Baransha are seen gorging on large portions of food to recover their strength and enjoy themselves while keeping an eye on Gash and Kiyomaro from a distance. Gash helps Kiyomaro to rest against a large rock and Kiyomaro gives Gash some nuts he found to help him recover his energy a bit. He then tells Gash that he needs to be the one to lead the battle from there on, then shows Gash some gingko nuts he found as well. He tells Gash that these gingko nuts would be the key in helping them find their enemy and how certain he is that they’re going to survive and win the battle. Some time later, Garza and Baransha see an electrical explosion from a distance. While smoke fills the area, the two of them appear confused as to why Gash and Kiyomaro would use a spell at random like that. When things clear up, Baransha is able to see things better again but she informs Garza that Gash and Kiyomaro are nowhere to be found. Baransha and Garza would then go to the area where the explosion took place. Like Baransha had mentioned earlier, they don’t find Gash or Kiyomaro anywhere but instead see that the ground they were standing on is completely burnt.

Baransha then suddenly tells Garza that she sees Kiyomaro’s cardigan on top of a tree branch. She jumps up to retrieve up but upon grabbing it, she is repulsed by the smell of it. Garza investigates it as well and notices that the cardigan was also covered in a liquid too. The two of them then suddenly hear Kiyomaro as he tells him that the cardigan was covered in the liquid of crushed gingko nuts and they immediately begin looking around for where his voice was coming from. Baransha then notices an area of the ground that wasn’t burnt but as soon as she began standing over it, she is struck from below by *Zakeru*. It is then revealed that Gash and Kiyomaro had used an earlier spell to create a hole for them to hide inside as part of their plan to lure out Baransha and Garza. Although they had fallen for their trap, Garza remains confident that he and Baransha will still win as Kiyomaro had still not fully recovered from his exhaustion and that they also have a spell that turns Baransha invisible. Unbeknownst to them however, Gash was still able to smell the scent of the gingko nuts on Baransha and he is able to use this to his advantage in their battle regardless of not being able to see her.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Garza
* Baransha

### Spells by Appearance

* Doruku
* Zakeru
* Boruku (Debut)
* Gu Riaruku (Debut)