[Episode 20146] [Episode 20146]She'd dismissed it as silly. After all, if she could bind people to do whatever she wished, she could always find a way to control those 'other' problems. So she took from whomever she felt, took whomever she felt, and did her business, confident that everything had been perfect. Even this one, as she bound Ranma's will to her own, would become one of the house.
She thought that right up to the moment that the ki-claws slashed through her abdomen. Numb shock came first, as the cat stared back at her with malicious eyes; she knew the cold eyes of a predator, and somehow her markings hadn't worked. She felt a strange haze coming over her vision and felt so tired... then realized in the last moments where she'd gone wrong with her methods as Ranma began to nibble on raw muscle.
After all, her initial command to Ranma had been to 'eat her'...
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Akane sat by a dresser, slowly combing her hair, even brushstrokes to clear her mind. She could lose herself in the rthythm, so that's what she did, every stroke quieting the blackness that had formed in her soul.
She blinked for a moment, then inched closer to the mirror. The diamond... the geas was fading. She looked at other parts of her body, at other markings Kasumi had used to bind her, and realized that the ones that directly involved her sister had vanished.
Her eyes widened. That wasn't supposed to happen, unless...
She burst out of the common room that the girls shared and ran for Kasumi's bedroom. Ranma was on all fours, devouring Kasumi as though she were prey. Blood and gore decorated the bedroom, painting the floor and walls crimson.
She bit her lip; tears began to form in her face - tears of relief. She forced them back for a moment; something had clearly gone wrong with Ranma... but what? Had Kasumi tried to experiment with the controls, only to have them backfire?
Slowly, she eased herself to a sitting position on the floor. If Ranma was acting catlike, then... "Here, kitty, kitty..."
Ranma looked up from her meal and regarded Akane carefully. Her head tilted to one side, a move Akane remembered cats making when analyzing something. After a few seconds, Ranma ripped off a chunk of Kasumi's leg, carried it over, and placed it in Akane's lap before returning to her meal.
Akane looked at the piece of her sister, and frowned. One killer was dead... but what of this new problem?
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