There was a concern in some parts of the world. Tribals bred true. With human/Tribal pairings, the resulting offspring was only very rarely NOT a Tribal. Tribal/human pairings were not uncommon. Tribal/human pairings often had lots of offspring. Therefore the second generation of Tribals was a bumper crop with over 200% growth rate over the previous generation. This was a little less in areas where multiple Tribals all seemed to attach themselves to a single human.
Which had an odd effect. Those worried about the flood of nekomimi and such were less disapproving when these group relations occurred. The majority of humans didn't worry about this, partly because the Tribals were all fairly cute and certainly didn't INTEND any harm. Partly the majority didn't care because there still weren't a whole lot of Tribals when viewed as a percentage of planetary population. There were also the few experts who were consulted on this who thought it likely that the process would level off eventually.
It was well known, in certain circles, that if two catgirls fixated on the same guy there would be occasional friction. There would be occasional spats. There would be occasional scheduling conflicts. There would be occasional times where the guy found himself all alone and two catgirls engaged in a territorial dispute somewhere else.
However, Ranma found himself dealing with another problem altogether caused by events that were completely beyond his control. While only a certain percentage of real cats had a reaction to catnip, all nekomimi reacted to catnip. This was not the problem though, even though he had three increasingly amorous catgirls hanging onto him.
The problem that Ranma faced was not how different the timeline was, but the similiarity thereof.
Several years ago, Genma had heard of the amazing fighting potential of the female nekomimi. Most male nekomimi tended to be a bit lazy, but the females tended to enjoy physical activities. It was when their protective/maternal instincts got involved that one risked awakening a sleeping dragon. Even vicious nasty amoral criminals hesitated to hurt a child if there was a nekomimi around. In fact, it was really best if one avoided doing such a thing. If her mate was anywhere nearby, killing or severely wounding that mate might very well trigger the same reaction.
Having such stories, even without any details, about an apparently very impressive martial art technique - naturally Genma had wondered how he could get Ranma to acquire it.
There had been the time he had tied Ranma up quite securely in fish sausages and other kitty treats, then thrown him into a pit of catgirls he'd managed to catch. That hadn't gone well at all. In fact he was hoping that the kitties who had freed Ranma and declared they'd marry him never learned where Ranma was. Though they'd probably forgotten about that by now.
There had been the time he'd tried the same thing with adult catgirls locked in a gymnasium with him throwing Ranma in from a vent in the ceiling. Genma's mind shied away from that recollection, though every time the weather shifted a few of those old injuries still hurt.
Not one attempt to teach Ranma the special technique had worked, but something else HAD occurred. Ranma was terrified of catgirls. Not that he'd grow so frightened that he'd manifest a split personality where he thought he WAS a catgirl. No, he simply got more and more frightened.
Even as his body was reacting to all the rubbing and petting, Ranma fainted.
Which was terribly disappointing to the three daughters Tendo, but was better than some of the potential problems.
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