Kasumi was being taught the sealed schools by working them under his direct control. ALL the Sealed schools, as Ranma had absorbed them as well as all else that Genma had ever known. This was only made possible by his direct control and impression of the skills into them. The sisters would be rigid in application at first, but as they used these skills, they'd improvise and make them truly learned muscle skills. That would by then have trained their bodies to keep up that level of performance, so Ranma could have capable warriors instead of Cat Hairs done the hard way.
Which brought up Akane. The youngest pet was being made to take hits constantly and healed quickly by applied doses of life energy for a bit, in her gaining the toughness of the Bakusai Tenketsu. Meanwhile she was being impressed with and induced to use and truly claim the various 'Amazon' arts Ranma knew from observation or outright training. A trend he intended to continue once he had his fill of the Niichezu complement (and thus knew all THEIR tricks.)
Nabiki was meanwhile evading, moving at speeds only possible by infusion of Ranma. As she was now the living fetish of action without thought, she was rapidly absorbing the Saotome style. Ranma had gained a sense of irony when he absorbed the former Nabiki, and having his pet be both a lesson in irony and a ass kicker supreme appealed to him.
They went through this until Ranma was running low on Ki. He wasn't centuries old, so he'd get it back normally or eat someone, then they could resume. After school, that is.
Kasumi settled back into her housewife style actions, subtly abusing and arousing Soun whenever not observed with the eager help of the sexually deviated harlot Nodoka had been rendered so he'd stay on track and obedient. Nabiki and Akane went with their Lord to school, maintaining the pretense of humanity and self-direction. However, Ranma had no plans to get beat up, so some actions were not as they had been.
As the ding-ding of the rapidly descending Bicycle of Doom filled the air (as a example), Akane attacked the fence as she had done once way back when on Ranma's second day in Nerima. This time it was so Nabiki could ease Ranma into a landing on their side of the fence, as Akane shouted "Shampoo! Ranma's father died, you heartless baka! You bitches are going too far!"
Ranma kept up his oblivious peacemaker role, but inside he was smiling as the startled and mortified Niichezu huntress tumbled into the canal and swam to the other side (to avoid triggering the Neko no doubt). "Hey, Akane, they didn't know or Cologne would have made some dumbass offer to take me in at their village. Wouldn't she?" That would of course be way too gauche for the Elder to do until later, but by making it sound moronic even to 'silly baka Ranma' the now sly Saotome knew that Cologne would be disgusted by the very concept for a while. Which bought him that much more breathing space.
The alacrity of Shampoo's departure (as witnessed through the viewpoint of pet Nabiki) indicated that the hook had indeed set. So they continued to school, the usual gossip and any from before ensuring that the relative silence of the three would be written off as a somber mood due to Genma's death.
Ranma walked right up the the tree Kuno used and slashed at it. He did so with the Saotome Honor Blade he had hidden in his own practice of the Hidden Weapons style, totally shredding the tree to sappy wood chips and leaf salad in the space of a second. He then snarled "Do not speak to me, do not refer to me. My father is dead. You of all people should know how I feel!" Inside he crowed with laughter, as the delusional snot might feel as delighted at the death of HIS father the Principal as Ranma truly did at having sucked down the lard tub's mind and life. So it wasn't like he even had to lie.
Ignoring the murmurs of shock from those students not already aware of Genma's death (or those scared to death of Ranma using a real Katana), Ranma hopped up to the fourth floor window and sat at his desk nonchalantly. Nabiki and Akane silently went in and did likewise at theirs, after using a single finger apiece to push the now catatonic Kuno back and forth like a wobble toy.
Ranma took the opportunity to do passive taps on the students and teachers, not attacking minds yet. This was to weaken their defenses for when he chose to have people to sell off. The taps meanwhile let him quickly copy whatever knowledge they had of his past and current classes. When the time came, he'd say he was acting dumb as per the tenets of Anything Goes. Since they'd seen him hold back habitually over the time of his stay in Nerima, Ranma was certain the cretins in school would buy it.
He couldn't help mental chuckles (while basking in the sick emotional adoration of his pets) at the idea of his next move:
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