Episode 37

**Unstoppable Love! The Pure Love of a Hong Kong Girl**(愛をつらぬけ! 香港純愛娘, *Ai wo Tsuranuke! Honkon Junai Musume*) is the 37th episode of the Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Anime. This episode first aired in Japan on December 21, 2003.

## Overview

Looking for answers for her Wonrei's sudden disappearance, Lien demands her father to tell her about his whereabouts. After a brief physical confrontation, her father eventually tells her about his plan to get rid of him by having him sent off somewhere far away in order to prevent him from involving himself with Lien ever again. In the meantime, Lien is sent off by her father to live in Japan with her grandparents. While there, she ends up crossing paths with Gash and Kiyomaro and requests for their help in rescuing Wonrei with her.

## Plot

In Hong Kong Island, Lien confronts her father and demands answers from him in regards to Wonrei's disappearance. She initially receives only vague answers from him which only further upsets her. Fed up with her father constantly interfering and separating her from anyone she chooses to be with, she declares on the spot that she no longer considers him her father and then proceeds to attempt to force answers out of him through brute force. Although she kicks at her father with all her might, he effortlessly stops her attack and then strikes her down in one blow. While Lien remains on the ground defeated, her father tells her that Wonrei will be boarded onto one of his ships and sent off far away from where they are and in the meantime she is to live with her grandparents in Japan until then.

Three days later in Mochinoki City, Kiyomaro, Gash, and Suzume are seen walking together from school. While Suzume tries to talk and make weekend plans with Kiyomaro, Kiyomaro finds himself preoccupied with looking through the spell book and wondering about various things related to it. Suzume and Gash end up shouting at him for his attention when they notice how much he had been spacing out. While the two of them talk with Kiyomaro, Lien quietly walks by before she notices the red spell book in Kiyomaro's hands and recognizes it immediately. Meanwhile, although Suzume jokes at first that Kiyomaro might have his spell book stolen based on the fact he's always carrying it around out in the open, this ends up being what happens next as Lien makes a mad dash to grab the book from Kiyomaro's hands then quickly runs off with it. Panicked that their book had been stolen, Kiyomaro and Gash start chasing down Lien. Lien would run with their book to the corner of a building before she stops and places the book before her on the ground. As soon as Kiyomaro and Gash meet face to face to her, she first apologizes for having taken their book and then introduces herself. With tears in her eyes and desperation in her voice, she pleads with the two of them for their help in rescuing Wonrei. Although taken back at first with the sudden request, Gash and Kiyomaro end up deciding they want to continue to hear from her about her situation and Lien would continue telling her story to them at a nearby park.

At the park, Lien starts off her story by telling Gash and Kiyomaro about her father's background as a mafia boss and how his notoriety is the reason why anyone she tries to date runs away from her. She continues by then telling them about how Wonrei was the only one who never left her even after he learns about her father. She describes first meeting him at a restaurant one night where she was excessively eating to comfort herself after being left by another date of hers. Wonrei takes notice of this and advises her to stop what she's doing but Lien refuses. When Wonrei tries to grab her hand to make her stop, Lien struggles to free herself then kicks Wonrei in retaliation. Seeing Wonrei unfazed left her confused and she would then ask him why he did not choose to react to her kick. Wonrei would answer that he would allow her to continue striking at him if it would make her feel any better from the pain she was dealing with. Some time later the two of them would sit outside and talk. While Lien tries to tell Wonrei it would be best for him to leave so her father would not see him with her, Wonrei replies by comparing her to a bird trapped inside of a cage when she should be flying freely. Although Lien first responds to this by saying how her father would chase after her no matter what she would do, Wonrei persists and encourages her to fly freely anyways. Eventually, Wonrei's spell book begins to glow brightly and from then on Wonrei knew that Lien was his destined bookkeeper.

Wonrei would eventually tell Lien all about the Demon World, the battle to decide king, and his desire to be able to become king by winning the battle. Wonrei apologizes to Lien at first for how sudden it all is and how he never anticipated she would be his bookkeeper, but explains his goal of becoming king and warns her about the dangers she will face by being alongside him. Regardless of these dangers, Lien enthusiastically accepts these challenges in order to help him achieve his goal. While Wonrei helped train Lien in being able to cast his spells, Lien gave him martial arts training and together they were able to overcome many battles against any demons that challenged them. One day however, Wonrei abruptly tells Lien he is giving up fighting in any more battles which causes Lien to become both very confused and concerned about his sudden shift in attitude. Wonrei only gives her a vague reply saying that she is a very important person to him and doesn't want to get her hurt in the battles. This conversation would end up being the last one they would have as Lien would tell Kiyomaro and Gash that she had not seen him since. Just as she finishes telling most of her story to the two of them, two of her father's henchmen spot her at the park and come running after her. Anxious to get away, Lien quickly tells Kiyomaro that she'll be buying two plane tickets for him and Gash and asks them to meet her at 9:30AM the next day in the airport lobby to board the flight to Hong Kong where they will go and rescue Wonrei.

Somewhere on the island where Wonrei is being kept, Wonrei thinks back to various memories of different moments he had spent with Lien and all that Lien has done to help him in the battles. Wonrei would then go on to recall a point in time where he was confronted by her father, as well as his armed henchmen, who firmly tells him that he is fully aware of the fact he is a demon and of the battles that he is involving Lien in. Lien's father then tells him that he will not allow him to continue to endanger Lien in these battles and questions if he even has the strength to guarantee her safety at all. Seeing as how he's unable to answer it, Wonrei reluctantly agrees to abide by whatever he tells him to do. As he sits alone in the cell on the island thinking about this, Wonrei comes to the conclusion that things are better off this way with him being separated from Lien entirely. At the airport, Lien waits alone for Gash and Kiyomaro but as time passes and check-in time comes to an end, Lien starts to believe that they won't show up and realizes she will have to rescue Wonrei on her own. Lien would then be suddenly approached from behind by the same two henchmen she had run away from the other day and one of them grabs her in an attempt to take her away. Lien struggles to free herself from this but is eventually saved by Kiyomaro and Gash who use *Zakeru* to blow the two henchmen away. It is then that both Kiyomaro and Gash formally introduce themselves to her and tell her their resolve to help rescue Wonrei with her. Lien becomes overwhelmed with emotion at this and hugs Gash tightly while expressing her gratitude to the two of them.

All three of them would make their way to Lien's father's island where the security there are heavily armed. Before they do anything, Lien once again asks the two of them if they're certain if they want to help her and Kiyomaro responds by saying that even if they weren't going to help her they know that she'll still fight on her own. As soon as they ready themselves, the three of them charge through the island using Gash's various spells and Lien's brute strength to take down any guards in their way. As they chase down one particular henchmen through a corridor, he pulls a lever to activate various swinging log traps inside which ends up taking Lien down. The guard who is responsible for this questions Lien's motives and claims that Wonrei is simply trying to deceive her. Despite being injured, Lien still manages to find the strength to argue back in order to defend Wonrei. The guard scoffs at this and continues on to speak about how Wonrei is not even human and how deceitful he is and cares nothing about nobody other than himself. Hearing this causes Lien to become enraged and charge right at him. As Lien delivers a barrage of physical attacks to this henchman, she passionately argues on behalf of Wonrei about how he is none of the things that the henchman described him to be, how good of a person he actually is, and how much he means to her. As soon as she manages to take down this henchmen, Lien would fall back down to the ground as she is still in pain from the injury she had endured earlier. As Gash and Kiyomaro check up on her, they suddenly notice that the henchmen had suddenly appeared by the elevator that's in front of them and destroys the control panel for it with a large rock. He then tells them that with the controls broken, there is no way for them to be able to get to the top anymore and soon runs off.

Despite the elevator control panel being destroyed, Lien remains persistent on getting to Wonrei no matter what. She thanks Gash and Kiyomaro for helping her get to this point then tells them she'll be able to handle the rest of the journey on her own and starts climbing the rocky walls by the elevator. Although Kiyomaro wonders how Lien is still able to have so much strength within her to keep going, Gash concludes that it's her love for Wonrei that is keeping her going. As Lien slowly climbs up, she continues to think not only about Wonrei and his dream to become a protecting king, but also how much she cares about him and wants to help make this dream come true. While climbing, she ends up losing her grip and starts to fall but Gash ends up saving her from this fall by catching the end of her dress. Kiyomaro soon appears before them while on a now working elevator that he managed to repair the controls for.

At the top of the cliff however, a different demon, Zabas, and his partner, Galliont, take down the remaining guards surrounding cell Wonrei is being kept in. Although they came there eager to eliminate Wonrei, the two of them sense Kiyomaro, Lien, and Gash coming up the elevator to them and Zabas comments on how eager he is to be able to defeat two demons at once. Unknown to them of a new enemy awaiting them, the group in the elevator wait with anticipation to get to the top expecting to meet Wonrei there.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Li Pakron
* Lien
* Wonrei
* Suzume Mizuno
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Zabas
* Galliont

### Locations

* China (Debut)
	+ Hong Kong Island (Debut)
	+ Yougan Island (Debut)
* Japan
	+ Mochinoki City

### Spells by Appearance

* Zakeru
* Jikerudo

## Manga & Anime Differences

* In the manga, before Lien confronts her father in regards to Wonrei's whereabouts, Wonrei is shown being first put into the cell on the island and the henchman responsible for putting him in there hitting him with the end of his gun. This scene was not shown in the anime adaptation for this chapter.
* While Gash is seen with Kiyomaro and Suzume as they are walking down the street in the anime, Gash was not present for this in the manga and it was Iwashima who was accompanying Kiyomaro and Suzume. Kiyomaro would end up telling Gash about Lien's situation back at home.
	+ Likewise, although they were also shown briefly as well, Umagon and Hana also make a small appearance in the manga chapters this episode was based on but make no appearance in the episode itself.
* How Wonrei and Lien meet is different between the manga and the anime. In the anime, Lien meets Wonrei one night when he ends up seeing her excessively overeat and tries to stop her from continuing to do so out of concern for her health. In the manga, Lien happens to meet Wonrei by a street market in Hong Kong. When she asks him about where he's from, he ends up telling her that he's a demon and from a different world entirely.

## Censorship & Other Localization Differences

* The pipe that Lien's father can be seen smoking and the smoke that was emitting from it was removed entirely in the VIZ localization of the episode.
* Various firearms shown in the episode were edited over to appear to be glowing green.
* Blood that was seen on the henchmen who had destroyed the elevator's control panel was edited out in the VIZ localization of the episode.