[Episode 115063] [Episode 115063]“Slut! Fuck-toy! You lost!”
Kuno winced as something in the girl’s hand cracked. He had to stop her. Kuno put his hands on her shoulders and gasped, the oily aura cloaking her burned like acid.
Ranma-chan shrieked and threw Kuno across the room to slam into the far wall then curled up in a ball. The little redhead wrapped her arms around herself, her nails dug into her sides.
Kuno’s face was set in a determined expression. He pulled her into his lap then slid his arms beneath hers so her nails were clawing at his flesh rather than her own. “Pig-tail Girl, I won’t hurt you. I won’t allow you to hurt yourself either.”
Ranma felt certain he should fight the embrace but he couldn’t find the energy. He stared blankly at his hand on Kuno’s arm, at the scratches and spreading acid burns. The black aura withdrew back into Ranma’s body, his hands relaxed. “Why do you care? You saw what he did to me.”
“Pig-tail Girl…”
“Ranma, my name is Ranma.”
“… Ranma, you are an angel, that a demon drug you into hell doesn’t change that you are still an angel.”
“I lost.”
“I suffer defeat at the hands of the cretinous individual who shares your name on an almost daily basis.”
The faintest hint of a smile touched Ranma’s lips at the reminder of past victories and at the simple normality of Kuno blatantly missing the fact that Ranma was the ‘Pig-tailed Girl’.
“There is no dishonor in being defeated, only in surrender.”
Ranma shuttered. “I can’t fight them.” He whispered, tears silently gathered in to corners of his eyes. “They took that away from me, it won’t let me fight them.”
Kuno shifted Ranma-chan so he was cradling the slight girl against his chest. The gesture offered a promise of protection and gentle concern that shattered Ranma’s remaining control. He buried his face against Kuno’s shoulder and sobbed.
“They broke your wings, but you’ll heal. I promise, fair one, Ranma. I promise you’ll fly again.”
Fifteen minutes later Ranma’s sobs tapered off. He slumped limply against Kuno, emotionally and physically drained in a way the most arduous training session couldn’t come close to touching. Blinking his eyes seemed like an insurmountable task. He felt numb, the bad things still lurked beneath the surface of his memories but he was too tired to think about them. He knew Kuno had designs on his female form but the older boy had shown an unanticipated restraint. He was placing Ranma’s needs above his own desires; it was an almost unprecedented experience in Ranma’s life.
Carefully Kuno picked up a limp hand that had been resting in Ranma-chan’s lap. Slivers from the broken mirror were embedded in her knuckles and arm. The cuts had almost stopped bleeding and her hands were starting to bruise and swell from the undisciplined attack on the mirror and the stone wall behind it.
The damage wasn’t limited to her hands. Splinters from the mirror and the wall had embedded themselves over the majority of her front. Ranma-chan’s face, breasts, stomach and thighs all bore traces of dried blood and sparkling fragments of glass.
Kuno glanced around the room. He couldn’t just leave her that and Ranma-chan was in no condition to look after herself. What to do?
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