Ranma just stared at him as if he'd just grown two giant heads, fangs, and a forked tounge. "You're tellin' me that ya want me ta take your daughters ta be my slaves."
"Yes. I know your father, and he is just like the old friend I remember. Being raised by him would make you the best person that could own them, so that they won't risk being sold to another."
"All three of 'em?"
"That is how it is. I want to make certain that they will be taken care of after... And you are the one that your father and I have chosen for this task."
"Be proud boy!" Genma declared, "You will have three lovely ladies of your own, and no one will ever complain!"
'They might,' his son thought to himself.
"And since we set the arrangement so long ago, you need not worry about it."
That gave Ranma a little bit of relief since that meant that his father hadn't screwed anything up recently. Which included the reward money that the pigtailed boy had gotten for helping locate that illegal slavery operation. The practice itself was legal enough, but the idea of kidnapping regular citizens and turning them into slaves in secret was not something that could be accepted. He hadn't realised just how well he'd done in getting that information to the authorities until it was all over, but he did like the payment that they'd given him for his assistance.
"So, now the three of them will be your property son," Soun sobbed lightly, "Take care of them."
Dully, the teenaged boy turned and stared at the girls for a long moment before:
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