Konjiki no Gash!! Chapter 71

**An Important Person** (大切な人, *Taisetsuna Hito*) is the 71st 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

At home, Kiyomaro tells Gash about an important decision he has to make about whether or not to help a certain demon. He explains to Gash that while he’s not sure about whether or not this demon is good or evil, he notes that their bookkeeper appears desperate for help. Three days earlier on an island south of Hong Kong Island, an armed guard pushes Wonrei into a jail cell. Wonrei’s silence prompts the guard to question him as to why he wasn’t using his powers and what he was really up to. Wonrei responds saying he doesn’t plan on doing anything and the only thing he was thinking about was his partner Lien’s happiness. The guard accuses Wonrei of deceiving Lien and jabs the end of his rifle on Wonrei’s forehead. Wonrei doesn’t react to this though and tells the guard to leave as he wasn’t going to escape. When the guard goes, Wonrei thinks about Lien again and believes that allowing himself to stay locked up was the right thing to do.

On Hong Kong island, Lien demands her father for answers for Wonrei’s whereabouts and asks if he had taken him somewhere. Lien’s father simply tells her that Wonrei was somewhere she never heard of and Lien once again yells at him for answers. Her father tells her that he had to separate them because he was already aware that Wonrei wasn’t human but Lien argues that he had always broken up every relationship she had regardless of who it was. Lien then goes on to tell her father that his criminal background is the reason why nobody she dates ever stays with her and that Wonrei was the only person who stayed by her side even after learning who her father was. Lien’s father suggests that Wonrei was only trying to use her and Lien becomes even more angry. She declares that she no longer sees him as her father then attempts to attack him for answers. Lien aims her kick towards her father’s face but he stops it with just his hand. He then strikes down Lien then finally decides to tell her where he had sent Wonrei. Lien’s father reveals that Wonrei was in a jail on an island south of where they were known as Yougan Island. While Wonrei was being kept alive, he was planned to be sent to another country by the end of the week. Lien’s father then tells Lien that he’ll be sending Lien to Japan to live with her grandparents where he expects her to get over her feelings about Wonrei while there.

In Mochinoki City, Kiyomaro’s classmates Suzume and Iwashima try to talk with him while walking together but see that he appears to be too fixated with his red spell book to participate in their conversation. After finally getting his attention, Suzume jokes that someone might try to steal his book since he appears to be so fascinated with it. Just as she says this though, Lien sees him holding up his book and she runs in to take it from him. Lien runs away while holding the book up for his attention and Kiyomaro follows after her. She then leads Kiyomaro to an alleyway where she apologizes for taking his book and explains that she did that in order to speak with him in private. Lien then tells Kiyomaro her name and tears up as she begs for him to help her rescue her demon partner Wonrei. The scene then transitions back to when Kiyomaro was speaking with Gash about his encounter with Lien that day. As they think about her situation, they both can’t help but feel sorry for her.

Some time later, Lien is seen standing alone at the airport checking the time for her flight back home and sees that she doesn’t have much time left to wait for Kiyomaro. Lien then begins to question herself as to why she had asked another team to help her as they’re supposed to be enemies in the battle. As she thinks about how she’ll have to save Wonrei on her own, she begins to think back on various memories of him. In the first one, Lien uses Wonrei’s spell book for the first time and discovers that he is able to use his powers with it. At the same time, Wonrei realizes that Lien is his true partner. Wonrei warns Lien that her getting involved in the battle means that she could get hurt in it but he is participating in it to become the next king. Wonrei asks if she wants to join him in this battle and Lien happily agrees to help Wonrei. The two would then spend alot of time together training. While Wonrei helps Lien in utilizing his spell book to its full potential, Lien also teaches him martial arts. After they had defeated an enemy team together, Lien saw that Wonrei had gotten hurt during the battle. As Lien helps bandage Wonrei’s wounds, Wonrei asks why Lien wants to even fight with him despite knowing how dangerous the battle can be. Lien thinks about this for a moment and tells Wonrei that unlike other people who she met that would run away after learning about her father, Wonrei was the only one that stayed with her despite that and it made her feel very happy. Some time later though, Wonrei suddenly tells Lien that he doesn’t want to continue fighting and Lien desperately asks him why he had changed his mind on everything. Wonrei hesitates but only responds saying that she was an important person to him and he doesn’t want her to get hurt fighting for him.

Presently, as Lien keeps thinking about Wonrei, she’s suddenly approached by two of her father’s henchmen. Lien tries to run away but one of them grabs her by the arm and stops her. As she cries out for help, Kiyomaro and Gash arrive just in time and save Lien by using *Zakeru*. It’s then that Gash and Kiyomaro finally introduce themselves to her and tell her that they’re there to help her rescue Wonrei. After wiping her tears, Lien hugs Gash and expresses how happy she was to see them and that they were the kindest people that she had ever met.

## Features

### Characters by Appearance

* Umagon
* Hana Takamine
* Gash Bell
* Kiyomaro Takamine
* Lien
* Wonrei
* Lien
* Li Pakron
* Mamoru Iwashima
* Suzume Mizuno

### Locations

* Japan
	+ Mochinoki City
		- Takamine Residence
			* Kiyomaro’s Room
* China
	+ Yougan Isalnd
	+ Hong Kong Island