Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 72

**The Dangerous Island** (危険な島, *Kikenna Shima*) is the 72nd chapter of Makoto Raiku's Konjiki no Gash!!. This chapter was originally released in Japan as part of volume 8 on December 18, 2002.

## Plot

Gash, Kiyomaro, and Lien arrive on an island located close to Hong Kong where Lien’s partner Wonrei was imprisoned on. The trio take a brief look at their surroundings and see that the island is heavily guarded. Lien explains that this island is where her father’s criminal organization hides their treasures and weapons. Lien asks Gash and Kiyomaro if they’ll really help her with rescuing Wonrei despite the dangers that lie ahead of them and Kiyomaro responds saying that even if they don’t go, they know that she would go in anyways. With the three of them ready to rescue Wonrei, Kiyomaro casts *Zakeru* and Gash aims towards a group of guards. When another group of guards begin to fire at them using their weapons, Kiyomaro casts *Jikerudo* and the spell disarms all of them. After this, Lien runs in and starts attacking them herself. From Wonrei’s perspective, he sits alone in his prison cell listening to the commotion and wonders if Lien is safe.

As Gash, Kiyomaro, and Lien manage to make it further into the island, Lien is suddenly struck down when a log trap swings towards her and hits the side of her body. Gash and Kiyomaro stop to come to Lien’s side and the guard who had activated the trap overhears them refer to her by name. The guard then recognizes that Lien is his boss’s daughter and figures out that she came to the island to rescue Wonrei. The guard then calls her a fool for doing this and claims that Wonrei had been deceiving her. Lien argues that Wonrei is not a deceitful person but the guard tells her that he knows that he isn’t human and continues to assert the notion that Wonrei is manipulative and a liar. Furious over the way he had been talking about Wonrei, Lien suddenly gets up and begins to attack him. As she furiously fights back, she argues with him by pointing out all of Wonrei’s good qualities and how he had never left her even after learning about her father and his organization. After the guard collapses to the ground, Lien also drops down to the ground from exhaustion and Gash and Kiyomaro once again come to her side. Just as they thought things were over, they suddenly see the guard by the controls of the elevator that leads to the top of the island. Out of spite, the guard takes a large rock and smashes the controls to prevent them from going any further before quickly running away.

After this event, Lien stares at the rocky cliff that the elevator was right in front of for some time before telling Gash and Kiyomaro she plans to get the rest of the way to Wonrei on her own. Despite how injured she was, Lien begins to climb the cliff by herself. Gash and Kiyomaro try to tell her not to do this out of concern for her but Lien insists that she’s going and continues to climb up higher and higher. As she does this, she begins to think back on her various memories of Wonrei starting with when she had first met him by chance on the streets of China to when he had first expressed his desire to become a king who protects. Lien becomes shaky as she keeps climbing but she thinks to herself of how much she cares about Wonrei and is determined to help Wonrei achieve his goals no matter what happens to her. Just then, Lien suddenly loses her grip on the cliff and begins to fall. Gash, who had been climbing the wall not too far below her, catches the end of her dress with his teeth to stop her from falling. Lien then sees Kiyomaro catch up to them on the elevator and explains that he had managed to fix it up himself and they can use it to get to the top together. Unbeknownst to them however, another demon and his bookkeeper were already waiting for them and were eager to destroy both Gash and Wonrei’s spell books.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Lien
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Wonrei
* Zabas
* Galliont

### Locations

* China
	+ Yougan Isalnd

### Spells by Appearance

* Zakeru
* Jikerudo