[Episode 14663] [Episode 14663]"Why are my fiancees the only option for reincarnation?" Ranma asked curiously.
"Because only they have the requisite emotional attachment to you and the right spiritual resonance to make them suitable hosts. Your mother might have the emotional attachment to you, but her fixation on that seppuku contract puts that at risk. She also hasn't been near you for over a decade, so her spirit doesn't resonate at the right frequency." Botan explained.
That didn't really make any sense to Ranma, but magic didn't make sense to him in general, so he simply shrugged and went on to the next question that was bothering him. "So what's going to happen to my body, anyway?"
Botan winced at that and was silent for a few minutes, fiddling with oar slung over her shoulder before finally replying. "It's... not pretty. I can show you, but you're not going to like it."
She waved her oar like a wand and a shimmering, mirror-like object formed in mid-air. A sense of dread gnawing at him, Ranma stepped up and looked into it. It showed Akane and his body being confronted by one of the girls- he couldn't tell who it was, and Botan shrugged apologetically when he directed an inquisitive glance in her direction. Whoever they were, they clearly didn't like what had happened to Ranma, and they were evidently just through with expressing their feelings on the matter verbally.
Akane did not take criticism well. Ranma had always known that (albeit he hadn't acted that way). And her reaction to the other girl was true to form- a hateful rant denouncing the other girl as a troublemaker and a slut who was always trying to steal Ranma, who was Akane's rightful property, and how she would never be able to take Ranma from her now. Then, the conversation took a turn for the worse. Ranma could only watch in horror as Akane, apparently hyped on rage and power, declared that if it was sex with Ranma the girl wanted, then that's what she would get- one snapped command to the zombie-like body that Ranma had once occupied, and it was on the girl- tearing at her clothes, beating her into helplessness, ripping away her underwear and its own, forcing itself-
Ranma recoiled with a strangled scream- crude and rough as he was, he did consider himself a decent person, and in his world-view a rapist was nothing but the lowest scum. Ever since he had gained his curse, which meant he was able to be on the receiving end of a pervert's attention, his hatred of them had only increased.
Botan waved her oar again, mercifully dispelling the mirror and cutting off the sights and sounds of what Ranma's body had been doing. "I am truly sorry, Ranma, but how else did you think that you would be given a new body to inhabit? Having been conceived of your seed, such a body is far more receptive to your soul."
"At least... at least tell me that Akane doesn't get away with using my body like that." Ranma pleaded.
"She doesn't. After that, she goes mad with power from effectively having your fighting skills at her disposal, but Cologne, Genma, and even Ryoga and Happosai band together to destroy your body, considering it their solemn duty to put an end to such a travesty. Because it lacks freewill and intelligence, they destroyed it easily. Akane was put in prison as an accomplice to rape." Botan answered.
Ranma could only nod grimly at that. Silence reigned for a few minutes as Botan allowed Ranma the time to collect himself. "Are you ready to be reborn now?"
"...Yeah, might as well get it over with." Ranma finally replied.
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