It never occurred to her to even think that she had already paid off her college debts with the the money that working for GEHERN gave her for the talent that her doctorate represented.
The thing about the Janus technique was that it was not meant to arouse suspicion, or even draw attention, in the person at all. If the 'cover identity' called for a sexy babe who'd be willing to sleep with her owner on a moment's notice, then that would be what would be aimed for, even if the 'operative' was really a 'cold fish'. After all, having something stick out of place unintentionally made for an imperfect set up when one would want the situation to be completely under control. So, simply wiping her memories, or completely rewriting her personality were not options at that point.
It came down to the fact that, despite the locker room talk of teenaged boys, most legal guardians didn't give unlimited advantages to their charges. Sure, the slave might be attractive, but most didn't allow their charges to make all the decisions, never mind sleep with them. What the fact of the situation was that a legal guardian was supposed to be exactly what the title said it was. If a slave was so focused on sex, and being sexy for their master or mistress, then they couldn't make unbiased decisions. Hell, they couldn't even function without making someone else making decisions for them.
Now, it was possible for the guardian to sleep with her owner, but that was usually for 'older' charges, and the plan was to work that in for Ranma's new slave. There wouldn't be a desire to forget everything and screw him silly, but she wouldn't be adverse to the idea. However, the important thing would be that she could give him a stable 'home life', as she could organize things properly. This was not to be the sort of 'legal fiction' relationship, where the slave was merely a placeholder for the true decision maker. Rather, she had to decide things on her own as far as the ones who planned out her conversion would allow.
All that she knew was that she was now getting her way out of debt, and possibly going to receive a little to work with after the financial obligations were settled. Ritsuko understood that she was to have a 'Master', but then, that was to be expected in her situation. There was something that she knew that she had to remember about it, but all that she could recall was something about being a 'legal guardian'. Well, that wasn't all that bad of a position, as it meant that she could have some control over things, though she did have to wonder why she was sensing that she'd been put out over it.
Once she accepted that the position chosen for her wasn't so bad, things got to be a bit more... surreal for her, as she didn't exactly have a clear focus at the moment. The only thing that she could do was react, and right then, it felt like someone was pouring something into her head. It felt like it was information of some sort, but it was like it was waves crashing down to settle in a basin. At the same time, she felt like liquid was wrapping over her skin and sinking in to it.
Soon enough, she really didn't notice much of anything, as it was a bit too much for even her mind to handle.
Not that the workers at their jobs around her cared, as they kept on with what they were doing, not reacting to having things run as expected, while:
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