Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 80

**The Invisible Hunter** (姿なき狩人ハンター, *Sugata naki Hantā*) is the 80th 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 visit a hot spring where they enjoy the warm waters and colorful autumn atmosphere. This hot spring trip is then revealed to have been a grand prize that Gash acquired some time ago back in Mochinoki City. A flashback is then shown of Gash obtaining three lottery tickets from a man while he was out running errands. The man tells him that he can use those tickets at the Mochinoki Shopping Center Lottery and tells him that the grand prize was an all expense paid trip to a hot spring but he also mentions that the fourth prize was a whole yellowtail. Excited by the idea of winning yellowtail, Gash tries his luck at the lottery but doesn’t win it. Gash becomes disappointed with not winning but he becomes further upset when he sees other people right after him win yellowtail twice in a row. A man that happens to be passing through town, Garza, offers Gash the prize he had won at the lottery to cheer him up. Gash initially rejects the offer but Garza tells him it was the grand prize and that he wasn’t able to use it as he would be returning back to Africa the next day. Gash then eventually accepts the prize from him.

Focusing back on the present day, Kiyomaro and Gash walk back to their room at the inn they were staying at. Hana had not arrived just yet and the pair wonder what they should do to pass the time until then. Kiyomaro then sees a flyer left on the table which was not originally there when they had left for the hot springs. Kiyomaro then tells Gash that the flyer was actually a map that shows a secret hot spring not too far from where they were and he suggests they go check it out. While Gash and Kyiomaro eagerly head out to find this secret hot spring, they were unknowingly being followed by Garza and his demon partner Baransha. Following the map leads Gash and Kiyomaro to a hanging bridge. As they cross it, Garza comments to Baransha that their plan appears to be going smoothly but is somewhat suspicious of Kiyomaro as he was able to follow the map perfectly without getting lost. As Kiyomaro and Gash walk deeper into the forest, Kiyomaro notices that despite what the map shows and how closely they followed the directions, the hot spring they’re looking for is nowhere to be found. Upon seeing Kiyomaro and Gash realize that something was wrong, Garza and Baransha finally begin their hunt.

Garza casts *Wokeru* and Baransha aims her spell directly towards Kiyomaro and he is knocked down. Knowing that they’re vulnerable out in the open, Kiyomaro tells Gash that they need to move behind a large rock near them. He then asks Gash to take a look around for any signs of their enemy but finds nothing. Kiyomaro is still injured by the attack but he insists to Gash that they head back to where they came as they will be in danger if they stay where they are. When they get back to the hanging bridge though, they see that it was destroyed. Kiyomaro then makes the troubling realization that the whole trip to the hot spring as well as the map that was left for them were all part of an elaborate trap by an enemy team. Kiyomaro starts running and tells Gash that they need to move to a place with lots of natural obstacles and he explains that he figured out that not hearing the spell that was used to attack them earlier means that their enemies were attacking from a remote location. While they run, Baransha senses their movements through the woods and tells Garza that she suspects that they have a plan. Intrigued by Kiyomaro’s quick thinking, Garza asks Baransha what the most important attribute that determines their prey’s chance of survival was and she answers that it was intelligence. Garza then wonders how fun it will be to see how smart Kiyomaro really is and how far he and Gash will be able to escape from them.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Garza
* Baransha