Given, who he had trained under, he wasn't all that certain that monsters and devils didn't exist.
Of course, he didn't exactly have much of an ability to investigate the mysteries of the teachings that she was hiding. Not only wouldn't she really talk a lot about it, but he was a bit busy collecting his daughters. Bringing them all to the table at once was a job in itself, and he had to admit that it wasn't exactly something that was quick to happen, even if they were now slaves.
"So, what is the big news, sir?" Nabiki asked, her dry tone speaking more than her actual words.
Kasumi sent her sister an admonishing look. "Nabiki, he is our father and Master. If he wants to have us come listen to him...."
"I know that. The thing is that if he had to get all of us together, then there is something important to talk about, and I don't want to get derailed before we start."
"Ohhh...."
"Well then, can we start already?" Asuka asked, snorting in the harsh way that was her habit.
"I suppose that doing that would be the best option," their father allowed. "Girls, an old friend of mine, Genma Saotome, is coming here, and he's bringing his son, Ranma, with him."
"They... coming for a visit?" Shampoo asked, raised her brows.
"To stay."
"Worth knowing...."
"And Ranma is going to be your new master."
There was a long moment where silence enveloped everything to where even the wind was seemingly stilled.
And then Asuka, Nabiki, Kasumi, and Shampoo exploded into a yell. "WHAT?!"
"You girls are going to be his slaves."
"Just a reminder," Taki pointed out archly. "We just came back to you."
"I know that, and if I could have a perfect world, you girls would be with me forever."
"And you're giving us away."
"There is a promise that I made years ago...." Soun trailed off.
"You promised to give us away then?"
"To secure your future."
"Excuse me?"
The Tendo patriarch sighed. "What I would have wanted to do would have been to simply unite the two families. But with things being the way that they are.... I needed to make certain that your futures would be settled."
Asuka gave him a sour look. "And this would do it?"
"Absolutely. I would know that you would have a young master who could keep you girls for the rest of your lives, which would be lived out here, at this dojo."
"You're giving us away... just to keep us here? That doesn't make much sense."
"Actually it does," Nabiki murmured, pursing her lips and leaning forward, ignoring how her low collar revealed how her cleavage moved with the motion. "Think about it. Daddy isn't going to live forever, and this will avoid the inheritance taxes on the property."
"That's what I was going with... in part. Sort of," Soun admitted, looking slightly put out by her comments.
"Basically, he's avoiding the sort of mess that took us away in the first place, in a way."
"It is a slave's direction in life to go where her Master sends her," Akane murmured.
"Yes, there is that."
Once again, Soun mourned the loss of the innocence of his daughters, and hoped that this arrangement would help them, while:
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