Ryouko nodded grudgingly. "I know what you mean," she mumbled,
remembering her own fight with Ranma with some regret. "So, what's wrong
with him right now?"
"I am not completely certain," Herb admitted. "We both came near
doing something foolish, but I conceded the fight to him. I believe that
Washuu said he had pushed himself too hard."
Blinking in understanding, Ryouko nodded. "That would be bad," she
said quietly. "Well, you take care of yourself, and him, too. I need to
talk to Washuu about something."
For all the strength it confers, the Masu body almost seems as
if it's weaker than a human one at times. Or it could just be
that it doesn't have the inborn inhibitors that a human one
does.
"Oh," he said belatedly, shaking his head. "Sorry, Kuramitsu-san,
but the guidebook said that since she was commanding the fleet
containing the ship, Detective Makibi had the prerogative on contacting
us. Or not contacting us." He frowned, considering that, then shrugged.
Mihoshi nodded slowly, a thoughtful expression on her face. "That's
right," she said quietly. "I forgot."
Heh, they should get along just fine as partners :)
"Um, that's the one," he mumbled, eyes fixed upward as the chair
leaned back under Mihoshi's weight. "Kuramitsu-san, if you're not
careful--" His warning came too late, and Mihoshi leaned against the
chair a trifle harder, which caused the reclining back to knock her legs
out from under her, sending her sprawling atop Kintaro. "Mrph," he
concluded, unable to speak as Mihoshi's body muffled him, a pleasantly
suffocating weight.
I think Kintaro's going to have some more drawings for his journal
later :)
Also, the action here isn't quite clear to me. The way I'm seeing it,
Mihoshi leaned over the chair, and her weight caused it to recline, which
would have eliminated what she was leaning against and causing her to fall
forward. That's not exactly knocking her legs out from under her, but I
might be seeing it wrong.
"Oops!" she exclaimed, crawling about as Kintaro extricated himself.
"Eh, not a problem!" he dismissed cheerfully, his attention
momentarily distracted from thoughts of great justice by thoughts of
supple female Galaxy Police officers, and close quarters while training.
"Don't worry about it at all! I'll make some tea while you read that."
He spun in the narrow walkway between the sections of the ship. Mihoshi,
he'd learned, loved warm drinks. He'd learned a great deal about making
tea, once, shortly before he challenged a girl on a motorcycle to a race
on his bicycle....
I need to see more of this show :) I've only seen one episode, and it
looks like fun.
"Then come with me," he said simply. "Let's go somewhere else. I'm
not going to let you fight the crazy chick alone."
The blonde's eyes widened, and she gasped, but only hesitated a
moment. "Very well, I will go with you -- but we must leave now, Higurashi."
"Okay," he said, drained from aiding her, and collapsing once more
into the darkness.
This should be interesting.
A few inopportune minutes of wandering around, and a stray rain
storm, or a puddle, or any of the other countless things that his curse
nearly seemed to call upon to happen, and he would be snout to claw with
a reaver. As strong as Ryouga was, and as badly as the last few fights
had gone, he had no illusions as to how that fight would go.
Of course, that's if the reaver would bother to attack a little pig.
"Ryouga," the woman said levelly. "When we are at peace, we train.
When we are at war, we fight. Right now, we prepare for war, and this
means the time for training is over, and whatever disabilities we have,
we must get rid of, if we can."
"My curses?" he asked bluntly. "You said that you would get me and
Mousse water from the spring of drown man, right?"
One of them anyway.
"This isn't fair," he said quietly. "I fought and battled and
stabbed someone who called me a friend in the back--" he cut off,
laughing, hysteria cutting into his voice deeply. "I betrayed Ranma for
a chance at a cure, to leave him stuck as a girl forever!" He shook his
head, eyes still closed. "And after that, he forgave me, and saw to it
that me and Mousse got our curses unlocked first, when he could
have...." He swallowed. "I don't deserve this," he concluded in a
monotone, opening his eyes to regard the cask. "If anyone does, it's Ranma."
I doubt that Ranma's is actually a curse anymore actually. It's part of
his gene's. That might actually give him a weakness in that it would turn
him completely human.
"Yeah," Ranma answered, grinning. "If _making_ people to do what you
want is the answer, how come it's not working?"
I'd like to see her answer to that :)
"You're aboard an orbital platform, Ranma-dono." The speaker came
into his sight, peering down at him... apprehensively. He squinted,
blinking. Her hair was darker than Sasami's, and slightly than
Tsunami's, but there was some undeniable feature of her that was _both_.
"Tsunami?" he ventured, struggling to a sitting position.
Slightly longer? Shorter? Need something describing how it's different
from Tsunami's.
Still leaning against Ranma, standing on her tiptoes, she sighed,
eyes closed, and the side of her face pressed into his chest. "Please,
Ranma-dono.... Please just let us be like this for a moment."
Enter Washu and sibling rivalry ;)
The walls were covered with leaves, which rustled softly, as if in
the passage of an errant breeze. A single open doorway betrayed a
fleeting hint of red hair, and echoed faintly with hurried footsteps.
"Oh, no," Ranma groaned, pushing away from Tsunami.
Or maybe not, not exactly anyway. I think Ranma's going to have trouble
adjusting to admirer's who don't brain him or each other when they
see him in compromising spots. Though he might realize that they're
hurt a little easier like this.
"No! No! Not that word," Ranma protested. "We ain't, uh, nothing.
Yet. Um. You know. Time. Reavers to kill. Stuff like that?"
Heh.
Ranma scratched his head, confused. "Okay. But, uh, Tsunami, you
really _don't_ need to call me Ranma-dono."
The girl dropped his hand, laughing lightly. "As you wish, Ranma...
Ranma. Yes." She giggled again softly. "I like the sound of that."
Just gets himself in deeper and deeper :)
Ryu grinned, nodding slightly. "So they're like pokemon, only evil,
right?"
"Pokemon are already evil," Yakumo returned flatly. "My servants are
merely vicious."
Heh.
"No one I know of," Rei said, shaking her head. "Hopefully, we'll
never find out."
Ryu glanced back at the pair of them, Ryu frowned, then stated,
"I've seen enough weird stuff for a lifetime already, thanks. Let's keep
winged men that let Ranma freeze a whole planet out of it, eh?"
Weren't there indications that it was necessary to save the planet the
first time around? I wouldn't think she would want to keep something like
that from Ranma.
"Sure thing, Fearless Leader," Ryu grumbled, unfurling the bolt of
cloth at his wait about himself, and vanishing from sight. His voice
called out, disembodied, a moment later. "Where'd you get so good at
this, anyway?"
cloth at his waist
The three women stopped abruptly, glowing at him. Ryu merely flashed
them a grin, waiting for Ryouga and the others to catch up. They did,
Ray, Makoto, and her friends slightly winded, everyone else unaffected
probably meant that the women glowered at him
Clearing his mind, he leapt upwards, bounding off a tree branch, and
giving himself a little extra height for his scouting. Likely, the
reavers couldn't manage to climb the trees, as much as they weighed. If
Hasn't seen them walking through the air, has he?
Yosho grunted, surveying the warriors, then turning his attention to
Herb again. "Let's go see what it is, then. Someone might be in danger."
"Yes," Herb said, breaking into a run, and trailed by his warriors.
Yosho paced him easily, and Herb grinned, adding, "This will be
interesting."
You like cliffhangers, don't you? :) Anyway, a nice chapter with a lot of
interesting things going on. Though I have to wonder why the reavers would
lay their "eggs" so near to the Amazon village. If that's what they are.
I'm assuming it was the green crystal that Jakago(?) gave to them that allowed
this, but we'll see. Hopefully soon ;)
Anyway, good work. I'll be looking forward to the next one.