Nice installment. More, please.
Nicely told, too. It can't have been easy keeping
Ranma's first-person narrative in character while giving
the reader exactly what they need to know to identify
the point of divergence. Even more interesting: someone
has the kettle. Unlike Richard Lawson's TOP (part one),
which tried to rule out ever getting the kettle back,
(and thus had to resort to some plausibility strains in
part two to actually get it back), you've given yourself
an out to produce the kettle at any moment you please.
So we're all set being chased by Konatsu in part 3...