Episode 145

**Screams That Won’t Reach. Ted VS. Cherish. More Important Things Than King** (届かない叫び テッドvsチェリッシュ 王より大切なもの*, Todokanai Sakebi Teddo tai Cherisshu Ō Yori Taisetsuna mono*) is the 145th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime and first aired in Japan on February 19, 2006. Events that occur in this episode and the remainder of the anime’s Faudo arc are entirely anime exclusive and do not follow the events that occur in the manga.

## Overview

Ted reunites with Cherish after searching so long for her across the world. While Ted is glad to see her again, Cherish feels differently as she has harbored a strong hatred towards Ted under the assumption that he had harmed her parents and disregarded the kindness she and her family had shown him in the Demon World. Determined to find a way to open Cherish’s closed heart, Ted takes on her attacks on his own and pleads to her to remember that he cares about her more than anything.

## Plot

Kiyomaro’s group encounter Cherish and her bookkeeper Nicole in the next room inside Faudo while on their way to the control room. There, Ted finally reunites with Cherish after searching for her all this time. From the control room, Riou confirms with Cherish that she’ll be able to handle the group on her own as she’s still following his orders. Zaruchim joins Riou and asks why Cherish is being deployed to fight Kiyomaro’s group as she wasn’t an experienced fighter like the other demons. Riou assures him that this won’t be a problem and that in case of anything, he had set a trap in the room she’s in. Focusing back on the group, Ted tries to approach Cherish but she suddenly attacks him using *Gou Kofaru*. After doing so, it’s revealed that Cherish views Ted as an enemy and that Ted had done something that caused her to feel this way.

After getting back up, Ted attempts to ask Cherish to hear him out but Cherish refuses as she’s still deeply hurt by the things he had supposedly done. Ted’s allies ask Ted about what’s going on but Ted tells everyone to not intervene as he wants to resolve things with Cherish himself. Cherish however, still angry with Ted, attacks him once again with *Gou Kofaru*. While down, Ted begins to think about how it was his fault that Cherish had shut her heart away and remembers a time when he had first spoken to Cherish about the battle to decide king. In a flashback memory, Cherish and Ted are seen sitting together at Cherish’s home talking about the battle that was going to start soon. Cherish tells Ted she feels uneasy about it but Ted expresses how much he’s looking forward to it and how important becoming king is to him. When Ted suggests he’ll become king by whatever means, Cherish asks him if he’d defeat her in the end to achieve this. It is then that Ted realized that becoming king means having to trample over what’s precious to him and he had not understood this when Cherish brought up that question.

During the current battle, Cherish suddenly attacks Ted again this time using *Gare Kofaru* and knocks him down again. Gash and his allies try to reason with Cherish and tell her that she doesn’t need to fight on Riou’s behalf anymore but Cherish refuses to listen to them as she views them all enemies because they have defeated numerous other demons during the battle. Seeing Ted hurt, Gash and Kiyomaro nearly decide to intervene and help him but Gide requests that the group let Ted handle things as he was trying to fulfill his own responsibility in risking his life to get through to Cherish. Ted walks toward Cherish again, thinking how he needs to tell her what the most important thing to him really is, and is struck down again by another attack spell. While knocked out, Ted begins to think about when he had first met Cherish in the Demon World and how Cherish herself opened his own closed heart.

In a flashback, it’s revealed that Ted was viewed by others as an outcast who frequently gets himself into fights. Because of this, Ted had viewed everyone as an enemy and mainly tried to look after himself. After a particularly bad fight, Ted limped his way onto Cherish’s doorstep. When opening the door for him, Ted collapses onto the floor which frightens Cherish. While there, Cherish tries to tend to Ted’s wounds but Ted insists on being left alone. Cherish then slaps him for his argumentative behavior. After that, Ted eventually comes to accept Cherish’s help and is treated well by both her and her family. Before he can finish thinking back on these memories, he’s woken up by Gide who calls out to him to get back up and reminds him of how far he had come just to see Cherish again. Another flashback is then shown of one fateful day when Cherish had seen an explosion from the distance where her house is and rushed back home. Ted and Cherish’s parents were inside the house when the explosion takes place. Ted only takes minor injuries from the blast of it and when he tries to confront the demon responsible, he’s too late as they quickly disappear. In the middle of the rubble of Cherish’s home, Ted tries to see if Cherish’s parents are okay. Cherish walks in and sees Ted with her injured parents and immediately suspects that he had been the one responsible for the crime.

Focusing back on the present day, Ted again tries to tell Cherish that he was not the one that attacked her family but Cherish refuses to believe it. Ted however then goes on to tell Cherish that she is the most important thing to him and that she should already know this as well. Cherish is taken back by this but then orders Nicole to prepare to read their strongest spell. Ted stays put where he is and braces himself for the attack. Nicole casts *Dioga Kofarudon* and Cherish ends up intentionally aiming the spell just off to the side from Ted. Cherish then falls to her knees as she remembers a time where Ted had once promised her that he would protect her during the battle. Ted finally approaches her and the two share a hug as Cherish finally believes that Ted truly cared for her. From the control room, Riou, disappointed in this turn of events, sets off the trap he had prepared in case of this. The room that Ted, Cherish, everyone else was in begins to violently shake as Faudo’s Heart Guardian suddenly appears and captures Nicole.

Nicole desperately struggles to free herself but in the process ends up dropping Cherish’s spell book. Faudo’s Heart Guardian sets the spell book on fire which causes Cherish to begin disappearing. In the brief time she has left, Cherish apologizes to Ted for not believing in him but she expresses how glad she was to at least be able to see him again. She thanks him for all the effort he went through in searching the world for her and believing in her before she soon disappears in his arms. Furious over losing Cherish, Ted takes on Faudo’s Heart Guardian on his own in a battle. Ted’s strong emotions suddenly manifest a new spell for him in his spell book and the spell book itself begins to emit a strong light. Gide casts Ted’s newest spell, *Makushimamu Naguru*, and with it, Ted instantly defeats Faudo’s Heart Guardian in a single powerful punch. After defeating Faudo’s Heart Guardian, Ted collapses and the group come to his side. They see that Ted appears to be resting peacefully and in his sleep, he thinks about a happy memory of Cherish.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Ted
* Gash Bell
* Gide
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Megumi Oumi
* Tio
* Lien
* Alishie
* Riya
* Cherish
* Nicole
* Elly
* Arth
* Keith
* Canchome
* Momon
* Parco Folgore
* Elle Chivas
* Vincent Barry
* Riou
* Zaruchim
* Laoxing Mo
* Zofis
* Faudo’s Heart Guardian

### Spells by Appearance

* Gou Kofaru
* Gare Kofaru
* Dioga Kofarudon
* Makushimamu Naguru (Debut)