Ranma easily remembered Ryoga’s habitual accusation: ‘Because of you my life is hell!’ After all, the Lost Boy had only yelled it at him yesterday. While mature reflection indicated that Ranma had, in fact, not improved Ryoga’s life in any great way, he had never deliberately tried to make the pig’s life worse, and the reverse definitely wasn’t true. Further, only slightly biased, reflection suggested that most of Ryoga’s problems were caused by his appalling sense of direction.
Ranma decided that, on the whole, he wouldn’t so much mind being accused of making someone’s life hell if it was actually true. Ryoga got lost on his way down the cliff. The huge sabretooth sat back and prepared to enjoy whatever random curse his sometime sparring partner gained…
…and goggled as, before he could unfreeze time, the Lost Boy vanished in midair. ‘Pig-boy can teleport?’
Leaning on the Great Will, Ranma found his friend. A white cliff rose behind the falling boy, and deep salt water hesitated, frozen in the moment of crashing into the chalk. In the middle distance, a medium-sized ship with ‘Sealink’ painted in large letters down the side steamed by. Not recognising the location, Ranma shifted his point of view upwards for a better look; and then a bit higher; and finally asked the Great Will directly.
[Dover, England] came the emotionless answer.
Ranma took a longer view of the enhancement he had just given his friend’s inherited curse, gently feeding the Great Will some common scenarios. Ryoga dropping off the roof of the Tendo dojo – and falling down the Chrysler Building. Ryoga jumping out of a tree – and landing on a huge snake in a very thick and tangled forest. Ryoga falling under control in a sparring match - and landing in a gym in Los Angeles. Ryoga hopping off the top of a fence – and some guys in towers at the corners of the wall shooting at him with machine-guns.
‘Perhaps that wasn’t such a brilliant idea,’ admitted Ranma to himself. ‘Alright – only one thing to do about it…’ [UNDO]
Ryoga reappeared, a metre above the Spring of Drowned Piglet. Feeling the press of time, Ranma made a quick decision to actively give the Lost Boy a worse curse than before, and especially a curse which would keep him from hiding with some girl as a ‘cute’ pet. There was one obvious choice, and he scanned across the valley looking for it.
A subjective minute later, his jaw dropped open. ‘There’s a Spring of Drowned Yeti riding Ox carrying Crane and Eel. There’s a Spring of Drowned Dinosaur. There’s a Spring of Drowned Kangaroo. All these springs, and there isn’t a Spring of Drowned Wild Boar? There’s no justice.’ Shaking his head, he decided, ‘No time to waste. I wanna make sure I don’t have any Amazons chasing after me this time around, so I’ll just swap the Piglet spring for this one and go to…’ [FAST FORWARD]
Reality restarted with a jerk, and Ranma watched as Ryoga fell the last metre into the
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