Nodding her head, the blonde Amazonchan answered, “That is correct, Master.”
Ranma nodded his head. “A Tamer can have more than eight pokégirls thought. And that has to do with taking a test?”
“Yes,” Gina answered affirmatively again. “The test is MUCH harder than the one a person takes to become a Pokégirl Tamer, but passing the test means a Tamer is allowed the technology needed to store his pokégirls electronically like data,” After a moment, the Amazonchan added, “And Sextome had passed the test, so you COULD put one or more of us in storage...” Gina winced. “If you really needed to.”
Sighing as Gina made a fearful face, Ranma felt really bad. And the fact that Grave and Sheila had SIMILAR looks wasn’t doing anything to settle Ranma’s rattled nerves either. “I won’t...” Ranma said seriously.
“But you’ll have to if you get any more girls,” Grave whimpered. “You have eight out now. Get another girl, and one of us, or HER will have to go into storage.”
Sheila whimpered. “And I don’t want to go back into storage again, either!”
Ranma blinked. “You’ve been in storage?”
Nodding her head, the little Shaguar whimpered, “It’s worse than just being in a PokéBall. There’s no real concept of time and you’re in the dark for what seems like eternity...” She shivered. “Sextome had only let me out because he was trying to sell off some of his excess pokégirls again and couldn’t find a buyer for me. He then just got lazy and never bothered to put me back into storage.”
Ranma gawked. “Excuse me!?”
Sighing, Gina nodded her head. “Yeah. Any pokégirls Sextome used to win would get put into storage.” Gina shook her head. “After that, when Sextome felt he caught enough girls, and they hadn’t been taken out by League programming for being in storage for too long, Sextome would sell the pokégirls to Breeder’s Ranches.”
Ranma’s eye twitched. “He sold you girls like cattle!?”
Nodding her head, Gina answered, “Yes. I mean, we ARE basically property. It’s his right to do with us as he pleased,” Gina shivered, “Including selling us for profit.”
His eye twitching considerably, Ranma said, “That... That’s not right!”
“I know it isn’t,” Gina said. “But that’s just how it is.”
Nodding her head, Sheila said, “I almost got sold to the Tendo Ranch, but the owner, a Breeder named Soun Tendo, didn’t like how I was so small and underdeveloped.” Sheila sighed. “He knew even if I was a very rare pokégirl, no one would buy me. I’m just not sexy enough.”
Pouting a little, Grave leaned over to her Harem-sister and gave the Shaguar a hug.
Ranma’s eye twitched considerably, and NOT because Grave was being comfortable with Sheila. He just couldn’t believe that Sextome would just sell these poor girls for money. And worse, he couldn’t believe that he would sell them to, “Soun Tendo?”
Nodding her head, Gina said, “Yes. Soun Tendo,” The Amazonchan blinked her eyes. “Come to think of it, that’s where Sextome unloaded the majority of excess pokégirls he got, either through PokéBattle, or just capturing them in the wild.”
Nodding his head, Ranma frowned. He should have figured that other people he knew back in his home dimension would have their own analogues on this world. “And worse, they sound like they’re just as bad as Sextome,” Ranma thought with a shiver. He SERIOUSLY hoped that this was a mistake, that maybe Soun wasn’t bad, and was just buying the pokégirls.
Noticing the series of facial expressions her master had, Gina tentatively asked, “Master? Is something wrong?”
Letting out a sigh, Ranma shook his head. “No, I guess...” He looked up at his Amazonchan. “Gina,” the pigtailed Tamer started seriously. “This ‘Storage’ stuff isn’t something I don’t want to have to do to you girls. Isn’t there any way I can have MORE than eight girls out at a time?”
Thinking a moment, Gina said, “Well, if you had Celestial pokégirls, you could have more out,” Gina said seriously. “Especially Megami! They are given such leeway compared to other pokégirls it’s not even funny.”
Ranma nodded. “Okay, so that would make at least nine out at once.” Ranma frowned. “Isn’t there a way to get more to stay out at once?”
Gina shook her head. “Not unless you have another Tamer acting as a ‘caddy’ of courts, being there just to have your excess PokéBalls on hand.” Gina shook her head. “But that’s NEVER been done,” The Amazonchan said. “I mean, no one goes to get a Tamer’s License, just to have someone else’s pokégirls on hand. I mean, they’re not THAT dumb.” Although, Gina had to admit, A LOT of Tamers were still VERY stupid.
However, Gina had unknowingly given Ranma an idea. “Wait a minute...” Ranma started seriously. “You’re saying if I get a second license, I could basically double the amount of pokégirls I have on hand?”
Gina nodded. “You could, but you can’t.”
“Why not?” Ranma asked.
Shrugging her shoulders, Gina said, “Tamers are only allowed ONE Tamer’s License. Which means they get only ONE PokéDex, and they need at least ONE pokégirl to start out with so they can successfully be a Tamer.” Gina sighed. “And you already have your license!”
The pigtailed man nodded his head. “Okay...” Ranma said slowly. “But how about women?”
Gina blinked her eyes. “What about them?”
“Can a woman become a Pokégirl Tamer?” Ranma asked seriously.
Blinking her eyes more than a few times, Gina was trying to figure out where he master was trying to get to with that line of thought. “What does that have to do with anything?”
“Gina, please just tell me,” Ranma said seriously. “Can a woman become a Pokégirl Tamer, or not?”
The blonde nodded her head. “Yes, a human woman CAN become a Pokégirl Tamer,” Gina said. “Although it is not advised.”
“Why not?” Ranma asked.
“Let’s see...” Gina started, taking a moment to remember all of the reasons women are usually discouraged from becoming Tamers. “A lot of women still have pokégirl genetics in them. Being around pokégirls for so long might accidentally trigger their own Threshold, turning them into pokégirls as well.”
Ranma nodded his head. “Anything else?”
“Well, there are illegally modified PokéBalls,” Gina said with a sigh. She held out her arms. “As you can see with me, if a girl has pokégirl ancestry, she can become a pokégirl because of them.” Gina shook her head. “And some male Tamers might just be dick-heads and try to PokéBall a female Tamer.”
Frowning, Ranma begrudgingly nodded his head. “You mean some of these Tamers would really do that to a female Tamer?”
“Of course!” Gina said in an annoyed fashion. “I’m sure Sextome did it all the time...” Gina winced. “No offense.”
“None taken,” Ranma said. He had started to really distance himself from the idea of Ranma Sextome, even if he was pretending to be him! “Now, any other reason why a woman would be discouraged from becoming a Tamer?”
Gina blinked. “Master, just why are you so curious about why women would become Pokégirl Tamers and what they would have to face?”
Ranma just smiled. “That... Is a secret.”
Ranma was surprised by the numerous face-faults he received as a response. Though he had to admit, Gina, Sheila, and Grave looked rather cute with their butts in the air.
Gina groaned. She really had one eccentric master all right. She then ‘eep’ed as she felt Ranma patting her butt. “So, Gina... Feel like helping me study to take my Tamer’s License test?”
Gina blinked her eyes. “Master? What do you mean? I told you that you already have a license and can’t get another.”
Smirking, Ranma said, “Watch me.” His smirk widened. “But in the meantime, teach me the kind of stuff that would be on a test!”
Gina nodded her head tentatively, unsure of where Ranma was going with this. “Okay...”
“That’s not very nice, Tanya…”
“Eat me, Megami.”
“The same thing we do every night, Pinky... Something Else!”
“Aw, gee-whiz, Brain. I was hoping to play Yahtzee.”
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