It is a plane of existance between dimensions. It is called astral plane, dream realm, limbo, etc. It is the place where the spirit of the departed cross to another existence, also it is the plane where people goes when they dream, or they are in deep meditation.
It is a place where almost no one could hear you swearing. Almost.
All around Tokyo area, several people wake up, shrine maids broke from meditative state, and people with pysionic senses becomes beet red, in atomic rouge state, from head to toe.
Being on the road, one will always learn the worst swearings around. Ten year on the road and someone would acumulate swearings enoughs to make even a hardened street brawler to become red faced.
Right now the spirit of the being know as Saotome Ranma is just doing this. Swearing.
If his former fiancee thought that being called uncute is a bad thing. The words that Ranma was calling her now would make her dig a hole to the center of the earth by the heat generate by either rage and/or shame.
After Mihoshi granted Akane's wish, it killed Ranma's personality and mind by removing his soul from his body and replacing it with the compulsion of only obey her.
Of course, after the shock worn down, Ranma becames very upset, and end up doing the only thing he could to blow up the steam, since he doesn't have a body anymore.
After some very long subjective time, he calmed down, and sighed, shaking his head, just to sense someone tapping his shoulder.
Turning around, Ranma cames to face a girl with green-blue hair, brown eyes, face beet red and wearing some kind of kimono and carrying a wood oar.
"Saotome Ranma?"
"Yes" replies Ranma with a sigh.
"Hhhmmm... I'm Botan, I'm here to guide you to your next destination."
"Oh!"
"However, you must make a choice about your next destination. See, you are not supposed to be here until some years late, so some high ups decided to give you some choices about your fate."
"Why?"
"It's because your karmic account. Even if you have your faults, the punishments and the way the others treated you are way out of proportion. Also, some of the high ups thinks that your good traits overshine your bad ones. So they decided to give you a choice about your possible fate."
"What kind of choice?"
"You can choose to be judged to see if you can go to heaven or purgatory (many thinks that your old life are more like hell), to be reborn as the child of one of your former fiancees, to try for ascendency by doing some labors - tests to see if you are worthy or to replace one of your analogues in other timeline. This last option is possible because there are infinite timelines, in some of them your analogue end up in catatonic state because of some training that Genma imposed on him, so you would merge with him, bringing him and you out of his coma."
After taking a breath, Botan continues "You can take any time to think about it. In this plane, time has no meaning."
After thinking a little, Ranma decides...
(Posted Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:16)
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