"Joan House, eh?" asked Kaede, looking outside the thick window at the rail line. "Sessha gets the feeling there is much history here."
"I think so too," said Setsuna. "I noticed three secret passages on the way in."
"Four," said Kaede.
"Hmmm," said Setsuna, her eyes attempting to find something on the wall separating her from her ojousama.
"Gee, look at these rules" advised Konoka, having picked up a pamphlet on a desk. "No fighting in the dorm rooms after five pm."
"Did my Oyaji make these rules?" asked Ranma. "I can understand that they don't want smoking inside old wooden buildings, likewise cooking or using space heaters. Did you see this Rule #25?"
"'No explosive or necromantic devices allowed in dormitories'," read Konoka. "Makes sense to me."
"'Necromantic devices'?" asked Ranma. "Them Triads are using stuff like that down South. It's one of the reasons the Yakuza have been having so much trouble."
"Well," said Konoka, flopping down on the bed while still looking through the pamphlet, "I can understand that. Don't zombies smell and dribble little bits of icky stuff? It'd make cleaning things up REALLY nasty."
"I don't think that's the point," said Ranma. "Hey, all right. There's a curtain ya can slide out."
"Aw, that's no fun," said Konoka, pouting cutely.
"Well, ain't Nerima built on a swamp? Bet the mosquitoes are bad in summer," said Ranma.
Someone (or something) began gently rapping and tapping on the wall between the two rooms.
Konoka smiled mysteriously. Ranma groaned.
"Secchan is so serious," said Konoka.
"I've noticed," replied Ranma.
"Do you remember when I fell in that stream, and Secchan found me trying to dry my clothes and you were setting up a fire?" asked Konoka.
"Yeah, and you told me you needed to dry them out because you couldn't let anyone know you'd ditched some ceremony," said Ranma, wincing at the memory. "She got SO upset."
The rapping had stopped.
"Or the time I was practicing flower magic and disintegrated my clothes, and when Secchan looked up you were trying to hand me the blanket," said Konoka.
"She got SO upset," said Ranma, wincing some more.
"Or that time the sleep faerie found us, and you protected me with your body," said Konoka.
"When she woke up, she was SO upset," said Ranma. "What's she getting so mad about, anyway? It ain't like I seen nothing."
"You've seen my panties," said Konoka.
"Well, not intentionally," addendumed Ranma.
"Maybe that's it," said Konoka, guessing that Setsuna probably had her ear to the wall at this point. "She's trying reverse psychology."
"Huh?" asked Ranma.
"She's trying to push us apart so that we'll get together," said Konoka, raising her voice slightly. "Oh. It's so big!"
A strangled scream sounded from next door.
"What's big?" asked Ranma.
"Please be gentle," said Konoka, still a bit louder than she needed to.
"What are you talking about?" Ranma asked.
"It'll be my first time with a man," said Konoka.
"Oh, I'm sure you've hung around with your father before," said Ranma.
"Ohhhhhhhhh, Ranma-sama," said Konoka, putting a forearm against her head and acting as if she would swoon.
SLAM! stomp stomp stomp stomp burst!
Ranma looked up at a wildly staring and panicked looking Setsuna, standing in the doorway.
Konoka giggled. "Secchan, you're so gullible."
Setsuna glowered at Ranma. "One move. Just one wrong move."
"Hey, I ain't doin' nothing," said Ranma.
"Aha! A double negative, so you WERE doing something!" verbally pounced Setsuna.
"Huh?" asked Ranma.
"Confess!" said Setsuna, her hand on the hilt of her sword. "Confess to your wrongdoings and I shall make your end swift and painless."
"It's after five," said an old man, seeming to appear out of nowhere behind Setsuna.
Setsuna whirled, drawing her blade and slashing out. The old man leaned out of the way effortlessly and seemed to disarm her by some reflexive nervestrike.
"No fighting in the dorms after five pm," warned the old man. "Oh, and young man. No hanky-panky on schooldays."
"No problem," said Ranma.
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