Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 82

**Being Hunted** (狩られる側, *Kara reru Soba*) is the 82nd 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 rests while Gash fights Baransha on his own. Baransha initially doesn’t consider Gash to be a real threat to her as she believed that her invisible form would make it easy for her to avoid him. Just after Baransha moves away from the direction Gash was running towards, she becomes shocked when she sees him continue to follow her and even manage to tackle her. Confused, Baransha asks her bookkeeper Garza if she was still invisible and he tells her that she was. While Gash relentlessly chases after Baransha, Garza wonders how Gash was able to follow her until he remembers the ginkgo nuts that Kiyomaro had covered his clothes with. It was because of that strong scent that was rubbed on Baransha that Gash was able to know where she was going.

Garza and Baransha then decide to fight Gash face to face and Garza casts *Doruku* to transform Baransha. Gash jumps in front of Baransha to prevent her from trying to attack Kiyomaro. Just before she could reach Gash, Kiyomaro stands up and reveals that he was able to regain some of his strength to cast spells and now he has the perfect opportunity to do so. Kiyomaro casts *Zakeruga* which hits Baransha at point blank and leaves her severely injured. Garza tries to escape from the battle with Baransha but Gash continues to chase after the pair throughout the woods. Garza and Baransha would eventually become completely backed towards a cliff where they have nowhere else they could run to. Kiyomaro uses this opportunity to question Garza about how he feels about becoming the prey but Garza refuses to admit defeat and adamantly believes that he still has the upperhand in the battle.

He then goes on to cast Baransha’s strongest battle form, *Gigano Gadoruku*, and her body becomes reinforced with strong and spiky armor. Frustrated that Garza had still not learned his lesson even after giving him the opportunity to, Kiyomaro casts *Baou Zakeruga* to put an end to the battle. Garza and Baransha are shocked to see that Kiyomaro and Gash were still able to use such a powerful spell and the pair take a direct hit by it. When the dust begins to settle, it’s revealed that Garza was somehow able to have protected Baransha’s book and the pair once again make their escape. Gash tries to go after them but Kiyomaro stops him and tells them that they’ll defeat them if they ever run into them again and that they should just appreciate the fact that they survived another battle. Kiyomaro praises Gash for doing well in the battle but Gash tries to tell Kiyomaro that he’s the one that did most of the work. Kiyomaro however tells Gash that he fought harder than him and has become much stronger.

As the sun rises again, Kiyomaro and Gash make it back to the hot spring to enjoy a morning bath after a grueling battle. Afterwards, they go back to their room to have breakfast. To their disappointment though, Kiyomaro’s mother Hana tells them that the food had already been cleared out because they had been gone for most of the morning.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Baransha
* Garza
* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Hana Takamine

### Spells by Appearance

* Gu Riaruku
* Doruku
* Zakeruga
* Gigano Gadoruku (Debut)
* Baou Zakeruga