While heading outside, they could already hear a roar coming from the predator cages.
"That... sounded like the old Lina," Hohlbein realized. "She never leaves her cage because she's way too old for the acts..."
"I'd guess our culprit is nearby," Ranma said and sped up.
In front of the lion cage, a small clown was standing, while the old lioness inside was nervously roaring at him.
"Quiet down you stupid cat," the clown said in a voice well-known to both Ranma and Akane. "You only have something I need..."
"Hey, get away from there," Ranma shouted and lunged for the clown.
Said person turned around and quickly jumped out of the way. Now they could clearly see that it was Happosai, clothed in a pair of oversized trousers complete with giant shoes, suspenders, a bow tie and a bowler... all striped or spotted in bright clown colors. His face was painted red and white.
Ranma grinned. "Suits you, old lecher," she said. "But do you think anyone is going to take you seriously with that getup?"
"Why, Ranma," the tiny master of Anything Goes Martial Arts sneered. "Show your master a little more respect!"
"You're not my master," Ranma screamed and tried to jump-kick the clown. Happosai jumped up and bounced off the red-heads red head.
"You know you still have much to learn before you can beat me, you know that?"
"Well, if he can't do it, I can!" Akane yelled and threw a punch at the old man. Happosai jumped away and Ranma quickly retracted her head.
"Akane-chan, how nice to see you here," Happosai snickered. "And nice to feel you too..."
Akane went red with fury when she felt the ancient pervert's hands on her derriere. Shouting in rage, she tried to get at least one hit at the clown, but he was way too fast as he climbed all over her body, groping her here, fondling her there...
'Enough is enough,' Akane thought and pulled out her mallet. "HAPPOSAI NO BAKA!"
WHAM!
She missed, but at least the impressive size of the hammer scared Happosai away. Nervously he looked at her tool. "My, Akane, I think that's a new record, don't you think?"
He was right! All the time Akane tried to mallet perverts in her life, she never managed to pull out a hammer as big as the one she was now wielding.
Ami and the ringmaster watched the spectacle with gaping mouths.
"How can a single girl even lift that thing?" Hohlbein mumbled.
Ami chuckled. "I always had the feeling Akane was a pretty strong girl..."
"I think you forgot about me, you old freak," Ranma shouted. "MOKO TAKABISHA!"
Hohlbein stared even more as he saw the gleaming ball of ki flying towards the wrinkled clown.
'What a shame that I can't use my visor now,' Ami said. 'I'd love to know how Ranma did that.'
"Now you made me mad," Happosai shouted. "Happo Daikarin!"
Ranma yelped as the old man threw several of his dangerous firecrackers at her. But Akane reacted quickly, using her large mallet as a baseball bat and knocked the bombs back at Happosai.
"Yikes," the clown managed to say before he vanished in a big explosion.
When the clouds vanished, the charred form of the twitching martial arts clown was lying on the ground.
"Oh god," the ringmaster gasped. "They killed him!"
"Don't worry," Ranma assured him. "He's still alive... unfortunately..."
Akane just stared at her new mallet lovingly. She just realized, it was adorned with the roaring face of a proud lion. And she was proud of herself, having reached a new level of pervert-busting. She hugged the huge tool.
"From today on, I'll call you 'Pervert Buster Simba'!"
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A little time later, Happosai was tied up with steel cables and men's underwear. (Ranma assumed those would weaken him considerably!)
After a little search, they also managed to find the diary and the locked up clown Pepe. He told them Happosai had knocked him out from behind.
"How low can you get?" Ranma asked with disgust. "Why are you after the amulets after all?"
"And what were you doing with the old Lina?" Hohlbein asked enraged. He had managed to calm the old lioness down again, but that didn't calm himself down.
"N-n-nothing," Happosai stuttered. "I only wanted to take a look at her shiny fur..."
Ami smirked. "I think I know what he wanted. He must have read it in the diary, but I think I figured it out on my own."
"What do you mean?" Akane asked surprised.
Ami pointed to the lioness' tail. "That pretty bow is the same one she wore as a cub, right?"
"Correct," Hohlbein nodded. "It was a gift from my uncle. We never took it off. Why do you ask?"
Ami smiled. "Because I think the amulet we're searching for... is hidden within that cute little bow!"
"Say what?" Ranma shouted in surprise.
Hohlbein looked puzzled, but he walked over to the cage anyway.
"Lina," he called the old lioness, and she approached him. When she wasn't nervous, she was actually a harmless and gentle animal. She didn't even have any more teeth.
The ringmaster carefully reached for her tail and fumbled with the pink bow. After a while, he held up something shiny. "You were right, Ami... It's the lion's amulet! It was here, all along!" He laughed. "My uncle really chose a good place to hide it."
Akane smiled. The Leo Amulet... finally she would have her own powers...
Ami took it out of the ringmaster's hand and held it out for Akane. "Here, take it! It's yours!"
Akane nodded and reached out to touch the amulet...
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