The Amazons maintained his tacit permission to continue hounding him utilizing a two pronged approach. On the one hand he didn't like disappointing any girl. On the other hand he was frightened of what they might do if he categorically rejected Shampoo.
They had once been willing to kill him for a smaller offense. And while he wouldn't admit fear, Shampoo could trash any other fiancee in a straight fight. Ranma couldn't protect them all. And if Cologne helped, it could be a massacre.
Ranma was loathe to discipline Shampoo's excesses since he never knew what would make her angry. It would be ideal if he could use the Master's Way to guarantee Shampoo wouldn't try to carve someone up with her sword.
And if it were some sort of change that only was noticeable when she should be killing someone then it would hopefully remain unnoticed by Cologne and would provide warning when the shit hit the fan.
Ranma had no compunctions against doing this to Shampoo; he didn't see it as any different to the way Shampoo used the hypnosis mushrooms; something no one had ever apologized to him for. Besides, he intended it to benefit everyone else.
Getting her alone to put into a pliant state wasn't too hard. The only real difficulty was making sure she'd meet him without Cologne knowing or questioning where she'd been. Eventually he waited until Shampoo tried to jump him when no one else was around.
Ranma slapped his bottom in a childish and mildly insulting manner, and announced, "Can't catch me!" and ran to a place of privacy.
"Why'd you do that?" Shampoo demanded.
"I didn't wanna get clobbered for talking to you. If anyone saw me running away from you ta get here, they wouldn't care."
Having assuaged her doubts it was easy to get Shampoo under his influence. "Shampoo, you must be worried about fighting Japanese women."
Faintly she said "Worried?"
"Of course. Most women are too weak. Attacking them would be acting like a bully. You know Ranma despises bullies. You despise bullies.
"And if fighting weak women is bad, fighting stronger women could be worse. Everybody knows if they get lucky and win you have to kill them. And if they aren't strong enough to get lucky, then they're too weak to fight. This has been bothering you for a long time.
"And if they're worried about what happens if they win, they can't even fight their best, so fighting them doesn't teach ya anything much anyway."
Shampoo's face was fraught with worry until Ranma added, "Luckily you've finally thought of a solution. Use your martial arts skills to tickle your female opponents into submission. You can make them admit you've defeated them by leaving them helpless with laughter.
"And if they're too stubborn to admit they're out-classed by you, and if you can't prove they've lost by making them pee their panties, then you can use their helplessness while laughing to remove their clothes making it easier to tickle them. First their shoes, then their socks, then uncover their ribs until you've removed all of their clothes. The girls will have to give in either due to the tickling or due to embarrassment.
"You gotta leave girls their panties until the end though, so that even if they're too stubborn to give in verbally, you can make them pee their panties. And you gotta protect the girl from perverts until they're dressed otherwise you'd be helping perverts attack girls. If you leave a girl you've undressed before they get dressed, then anything that happens to them is your fault.
"Of course, Ranma Saotome is a guy whatever form he's in; so you treat him the same whatever form he's in. That means no attacking Ranma with tickling. Only girls. Against Guys or Cologne, or in a life or death struggle you'll fight normally, but against the other fiancees, you don't want to use a weapon, you want to tickle them into submission."
Ranma's orders to Shampoo had at least two unexpected side effects which Ranma hadn't considered. Shampoo had been somewhat restricted in fighting the fiancees because of the consequences, both the risk of it turning into a life or death situation and because it would anger Ranma. Tickling didn't have those problems. All the times Shampoo restrained herself need never occur again; the Amazon tickler was loose.
The other effect was due to his wording of the restriction against her tickling Ranma. Ranma insisted Shampoo treat Ranma as male regardless of his form. Shampoo was strictly heterosexual. Whenever she had jumped the female Ranma it was to momently turn him male again. While she had feelings for Ranma regardless of his gender, his female body did nothing for her, while his male body was quite desirable.
The new Shampoo had no interest in the bodies of other women, except the female Ranma's. With Ranma she was now just as likely to try cunnilingus as fellatio; and both pairs of buttocks were at the risk of wandering hands.
More importantly, Ranma had never minded much before when Shampoo's hands would play with his manly chest.
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