It was a Rei series Eight. A slender young albino woman who had been born of a cloning vat and fastgrown. A specialty product developed by Gehern Corporation out of New Berlin. (Despite the fact that the city was forty plus years old, it was still named NeuBerlin on the maps, or 'New Berlin' in the Japanese media.) There were perhaps fifty of them worldwide.
Gehern's VirtuaFight Arena had been interesting but remained something for jaded wealthy individuals, the VirtuaBoy technology they'd developed for the mass market had turned out to have production problems and they'd had to postpone its release several times. Ranma had done well enough to win the Rei unit, but then delays in other developments had kept the minimally trained Rei around for six months before the scheduled training.
It was that training that would turn the Rei unit from a barely functional organic robot into something with real and useful skills.
Ranma was planning on training her in martial arts. She would be his first student. He'd already gotten her started on the basics and was looking forward to getting her into a reasonable sparring partner.
The customization in the training had been a difficult choice, but he'd finally decided on:
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