It wasn’t exactly what they could ever have expected.
But here they were, stranded over 500 years in the past, during the feudal times of Japan. There was no running water, no guns, no technology of any kind that one had grown up to, and one had grown needing of.
One couldn’t exactly expect Jusenkyo to lighten up its water-magnet curse now, since running hot water was a luxury afforded to nobles with available slaves and firewood. And even if restoration of a birth form was a fire away, it did not make it any easier for the group. After all, this was a time where a woman’s right ended at her father’s doorstep.
Neither Ranma nor Nabiki had any clue how they had ended up in the past, but both were all to certain that it was not a shared dream, but a living nightmare.
But this was less so for Ranma, who was all too familiar with living without what could be considered a modern convenience.
So they were now in a time and world where demons were commonplace, where a female with brains was nothing to care about, where a fighter needed to have power beyond the normal.
Luckily, Ranma counted into that. But he found out he needed to use the Forbidden Saotome techniques to stand against the demons he was forced to fight. Some were mindless beasts that cared nothing for lives, only for death.
And then there were those who seemed almost human. She remembered many nights of having to comfort the pigtailed martial artists for taking those lives. He was even forced on one occasion to deal with an invading army of bandits.
It had been the only time Nabiki had ever witnessed the darkest actions of the Nekoken, as Ranma dipped into it to save the village they had been hired to protect from the gang. Neko-Ranma had cut through their ranks like paper, not even stopping as they cried out in terror for the “possessed soul” as it slaughtered them.
It was made worse by one fact: Ranma remembered it all.
But with her help, he maintained some sanity, keeping him from killing himself so as to not leave her alone in a world she couldn’t understand.
So, they went around as a type of exterminators, more dealing with mindless demons than arrogant humans bent on power trips.
But the stranded couple soon found that was not enough, no matter how much Nabiki could promote Ranma’s abilities. More often then not, many would see Ranma’s curse as proof as the fact he was either a demon, or cursed by the Kami. As such, payments were often what they could acquire after the village went to sleep. It was not a world where Ranma’s usual flippant attitude and easy-forgiving attitude was helpful.
So here they were, once again standing before an entrance to...
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