Ranma continued to work out in the backyard, trying to work through what he had learned.
He had learned his wife was a magic girl, who would live a long time, and had fallen in love with him. She knew events before they happened, but wanted him to have fallen in love with her on his own, without any coercing.
The second was that she was open to him sleeping with her friends, as long as she knew about it.
And the third was that his best friend Ukyo ... was a girl.
Now while Ranma didn’t know much, he knew a few things. His first insight was putting his wife in a pretty good light. She hadn’t forced him to do anything, would let him do anything, as long as their love remained true. Sure, she knew a lot about him, more than he probably knew, but the main thing was she had let it be his choice to fall in love with and marry her. Considering she could have stacked the deck in her favor, that was saying a lot about her character.
The second insight was especially strange to him. She wasn’t going to sleep with other guys, but he was allowed to sleep with other girls. Now he knew enough that many husbands would kill to have such an arrangement.
He was quite sure. Sex was ... excellent, great, fun, a better method of endurance training than anything he had come across ... but he didn’t know if he would be comfortable doing that with other girls, especially those Setsuna considered teammates.
He did wonder if they had already discussed it though. All day so far, Haruka had been looking at him strangely whenever she was up and spotted him.
“I’ll never understand women,” he muttered.
The third insight was very odd. He had been engaged to Ucchan? Could he even think of his best friend as anything other than a friend? Would Ukyo still want to be with him? And if they were engaged, why did his old man not tell him.
Then again, the fat panda hadn’t mentioned the Tendo engagement either until they were about there.
And if he had two engagements he didn’t know about ... were there more?
“Looks like I need to talk to the old man,” he muttered, before he paused. “Or is that Mom #3?” he asked, remembering how his mother and Tissue were dealing with his old man at the moment. Hell, he still needed to worry about his own ceremony to become a woman in the eyes of the Amazons.
But Setsuna said she’d take care of it, and he trusted her.
As he prepared to head inside and get ready, he noticed Haruka was staring at him again, her eyes still showing signs of lack of sleep, but that weird smile was back on her face.
He waved a bit, wondering what she was thinking, and why she kept looking at him like that.
She returned his wave for a bit, before violently shaking her head and storming off away from the window.
“Wonder what that was about?”
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