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No More

[TimeRunner's ten-minute response to the One Hour Challenge]

	Ranma stared at the blood on his hands. "No more," he said. "I'm finally
free..."
	His fingers closed, right hand balling up to a fist. "Have I sunk so low?"
he asked himself. "I have resorted to... this... act... just to get rid of
her? Just to get her out of my hair? Have I grown so cold that this killing
bothers my conscience only as much as it does when I skip class? That I can
face it so matter-of-factly?"
	He lowered his arm, shaking his head slowly. "Get a grip, Ranma," he
muttered. "What's done is done. At least she'll never bother you again.
She'll never hang all over you again. It'll never freak you out again.
She'll never stalk you, sneaking up to you and grabbing you from behind,
scaring the beejeezus out 
of you again."
	He wiped his brow with the towel slung around his neck. "All the spots you
put me through, all the compromising situations you put me in... That's all
over now. I've put an end to it, finally. And all I have to show for it," he
said, wiping his hands on his towel, "is a bloody towel."
	For a moment, he was silent, as if in remorse, then he chuckled. He threw
the towel down, onto the lifeless body of a cat, lying in a pool of its own
blood, its neck snapped. "No more," Ranma finally said. He turned and
started to walk away, but then he paused. He turned his head to look back, a
look of regret crossing his face, which with a shake of his head drove away.
	"Goodbye," he finally said, "Hanachiyo."
TimeRunner

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