"So what are you going to wish for?" Mihoshi watched as the boy's head scrunched up in thought, it looked painful.
"I...Wish...ACHOO!!!!"
"Kami Bless You," said Mihoshi, almost ritually. There was a faint sparkle of light in the air accompanying that statement.
"Can I try again?"
"Well..." Mihoshi considered. She was still here. Therefore that hadn't counted as a wish. "Okay."
"I wish... I wish..." Ranma thought hard. A snippet of song heard from one of Kasumi's gaijin records played through his head. "I wish I were a rich man. (deedle deedle diddle deedle deedle diddle deedle dum) "
"GRANTED!" Mihoshi said and vanished as she went to go off to her next stop.
"Hey waitaminute! I was... just joking." Ranma let out a deep breath. Another chance for a cure - gone. Darn. Oh well.
Unknown to Ranma, the wheels were already turning.
He was wealthy. Because Mihoshi was a Galaxy Police officer, the money was perfectly legal and legitimate. So Ranma did not gain wealth through Yakuza or similar holdings.
However there was also anime tradition to consider. There was rich like the Kuno family, which was to say that they were fairly well off but as evidenced by the first Kuno "yacht" being a rowboat - their wealth level was subject to fluctuation.
There was the more common anime definition of rich. Which was of the Shutaro Mendo, Kotoro Nambura, Mishima family, etc level of wealth. Which was to say unbelievable amounts of wealth. Private airports, private harriers, private armies, and palatial estates that seemed larger than the surrounding city at times. The sort of wealth that was greater than the GNP of roughly half the world's nations. The sort of wealth level where private spaceports and the like were certainly within the realm of possibility. The kind of wealth that could no longer be described as "filthy rich", and which might indeed be beyond "obscenely wealthy" and on into the realm of "so much money even Genma Saotome couldn't spend it all". Staggering amounts of lucre. Zillions of yen. Trillions of dollars. Lots of loot.
However, the wish was not for Genma to have the money. Therefore Genma didn't have any access to it. It was Ranma's money.
Mihoshi was a bit of a ditz. Okay, she was a lot of a ditz. Very enthusiastic though, and currently imbued with "phenomenal cosmic powers." So you can guess whether she'd go with "Kuno little bit wealthy" or the more common standard or raise the bar still further.
Yes she had:
(Posted Sun, 08 Jun 2003 14:00)
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