Chained World: Trying out his new slave. [Episode 110172]

“So, Akane,” Ranma exclaimed cheerfully as the idea occurred to him, “let’s go see how good you are right now.”

Akane was startled out of her funk by the shift in topic but then fumed as it occurred to her that this was the thing she had most expected and dreaded since finding that a teenaged boy would be her owner.   “Look, you may be my owner but that doesn’t give you any right to… to…”   She couldn’t bring herself to say it, but found she was conditioned not to vent in any other way either, so was left simmering with restrained frustration.

“Huh?” asked a thoroughly bewildered boy.   “How am I going to know how good you are if we don’t spar?”

“Oh, you want to… aheheh.  Alright!”   She covered her embarrassment by bouncing up and dashing to the doorway.   She beamed back at him with a brilliant smile.   “I promise not to hurt you.”

“Sheright,” Ranma smirked as he followed her out to the dojo and concentrated on distracting himself with his favourite activity.   “Don’t hold back, okay.   I want to see how much you’ve got to learn.”

Akane snorted as he followed her out of the room, determined to wipe that smirk off his face by showing him what she was made of.

One embarrassingly short, but energetic, sparing session latter, Kasumi leaned over Ranma to hand him a towel, sniffed his aroma pointedly, and suggested that he should soak in the furro before dinner.

After a while, Ranma decided that he agreed and headed into the bathroom.   He stripped down in the changing room, slide open the inner door, and slipped into the steaming hot water with a sigh.   “What a day!” he muttered as he relaxed.

All in all it was quite a surprise to …