Ranma watched Nabiki and Akane disappear through the gates to their school with mixed feelings. He and Nabiki had been together constantly since she’d made the wish that had landed them in this situation, and he now felt a bit lost. But there was something else. A fear of losing something precious. His life had not left Ranma with the inclination to form attachments, to people or things. Experience told him that he always ended up losing both.
And now, out of the blue, he had formed both sort of attachments to Nabiki. As a person he wanted to be with, and as something he owned. Nabiki belonged to him, and letting her out of his sight went against all his instincts, which told him that letting belongings out of sight, meant out of his life.
He told himself firmly that he was not some grade school brat, hanging on his mother’s apron strings. He didn’t need Nabiki.
“Hey, buddy, move it,” a young voice demanded.
Ranma looked down and blinked as he saw a kid who couldn’t be anymore than eight years old.
The boy looked up at him through a large pair of glassed, a look of impatience on his face. “Are you going to move, I’m going to be late for class,” he said.
“Ain’t you a bit young to be going to school here?” Ranma asked.
The kid’s face twisted up in a scowl, which he seemed to put some effort into banishing. Once he had calmed down, he said. “Where else would I go? This is the only school for miles. You’re not from around here are you?”
“Huh, yea, I’m new in town,”
“Well, I’m Edogawa Conan. You’re likely used to the little in house school most places have. About twenty years ago, they experimented with a fertility drug in this area. The ladies gained an immunity quickly, but not before we had a massive birth rate spike for four years. We must have nearly three hundred students of high school age in the district. Sixty of them boys. That’s why we have such a large school, and why everyone of school age goes to the same school.”
Ranma blinked. He didn’t know the exact numbers, but he was pretty sure Furinken had over six hundred students, and that didn’t count the nearby schools such as St. Hebreki, His eyes widened,, as that thought reminded him of something, turning he looked over at where Kodachi had been left hog-tied by Akane.
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