[Episode 205162] [Episode 205162]Walking through the darkened streets lined with the low residential buildings of the Juuban ward, Ranma was beginning to wonder if this was a good idea.
Sure getting Jane and Six away from the Tendou home for a bit would make things a lot easier on everyone else staying at the Tendou home, including his father. Their absence would also make it less likely that some random person would pounce on him only to give Jane a playtoy to take her frustrations out on.
Getting to school on time wouldn't be a problem because apparently dragon flight within the city wasn't an issue. If things worked out and he decided to try living with his mother again, he might even transfer to a local school that would hopefully be more peaceful.
So the good side of things was that he'd get to spend time with his mother and things would hopefully be peaceful and not involve dragons squishing mere mortals.
On the bad side, this would also mean spending time with his mother and two overly sexy women. Two overly sexy women that insisted upon sharing his bed. Whereas in the Tendou home that might be a problem, his mother was likely to not only approve but give the girls encouragement.
Of course, the main reason Ranma was wanting to spend time in Juuban was to avoid trouble finding his two dragon wives, both of whom seemed to think massive violence cured all ills when dealing with annoying lesser beings.
That was why Ranma stared at the three girls in odd figure skating costumes standing atop a nearby roof and chattering while pointing at them. This brought both of his wives to a stop to also consider the trio of strange girls, with a dragon grasped firmly to an arm on each side of pigtailed lad.
Regarding the trio of girls with the same morbid curiosity she felt with the strangely behaving humans of Nerima, Jane found something of personal interest. "Those girls have a little magic power, and a few magic artifacts. The one with the strange hair actually has a fairly powerful artifact for a human."
Tapping the Mercury Computer Visor again, Sailor Venus tried to make sense of the readings the two dark general type women kidnapping the hunk were giving off. If only Mercury was still around to handle this stuff. "They're definitely dark general types. They're not human at all, so we have to save him from them!"
To the left of her fellow blond, Sailor Moon had some reservations as things had become increasingly complicated over time. "...but, what if he's a bad guy too?"
Bringing up the right of the trio, Sailor Jupiter was aware that while they'd met a lot of devious bad guys, they had also met some unexpected good guys. "Well, it's obvious he's not with them willingly, just look at them. Hey, that purple haired one is feeling him up!"
Sensitive dragon hearing caught the distant voices, the words heard doing nothing to brighten Jane's mood.
Fortunately for her, circumstances had forced the three remaining sailor senshi to give up the long speeches and be a bit more direct. "In the name of Love, release him or face the pretty soldiers of Love and Justice!"
Putting the declaration in context with what she heard earlier, Jane could only come up with a few conclusions for what the strange humans were doing. "Are these perhaps more of your 'fiancees' my Lord?"
Getting increasingly uncomfortable as the possessive grips of the two dragons tightened on his arms and acts of feminine ultra-violence began to look likely, the young man stared at the girls in the skimpy outfits. "I hope not."
Sitting in her room, Setsuna was worrying about what was going to happen to the senshi. As far as she was concerned, the whole situation was completely wrong.
For one the outers hadn't reincarnated with their senshi powers, so no Sailor Pluto. Worse for her, the Time Gates seemed inoperative. An augury into the matter had stated than only an important black box style part of the gate was missing.
That was bad, but as she still had her knowledge of the senshi Setsuna was at least able to keep some tabs on them using more mundane means, along with some not so mundane ones. She did have some minor divination ability and access to a senshi communicator, though neither provided complete information.
As for the senshi, there were only the five inners and it would likely remain that way seeing as even she was without her powers and she hadn't exactly been reincarnated into her role. The girls were also still fighting against Beryl, though with a number of notable differences.
For one, the war would soon be getting into the third year, much longer than it should have lasted. Tuxedo Kamen had only shown up briefly before being abducted by Beryl.
Prince Endymion was effectively commanding the war from Beryl's side with the help of an all female cast of Dark Generals. She wasn't entirely sure, but the battles against the senshi might have been purposely limited to find and exploit certain weaknesses about them. She didn't have details, but Endymion was currently in possession of Dark Mercury and Dark Mars among his 'generals'.
It actually managed to get worse from there as a number of other evil groups were operating in the area and coming into conflict with the remaining senshi. Heck the Doom Tree group had shown up and messed with the senshi briefly, only to leave in search of greener pastures with less competition. There had also been a short incident with a shikima, though it ended up getting killed before scoring a 'homerun' with any of the girls. The main thing from that encounter had apparently been meeting the ninja-girl hunting said demon, with the involved senshi vowing to have their first time at least be with a human.
It wasn't all terrible, as the senshi occasionally bumped into a girl with a winged lion companion that used a lot of magic. Such friendly encounters would have been unwelcome in the normal path, but here it had the pleasant outcome of at least confusing the bad guys a bit. It wasn't even unlikely that the extra bad guy groups were causing their own background interference. That was only a silver lining in the short term however as two evil organizations coming to blows typically ended with one much stronger group.
There was new hope tonight in that Ranma's path was now likely to diverge. Where normally he would be troublesome at the best in getting involved with the senshi, at the moment he was looking like the only chance for victory. He had already passed the Saffron test and the situation in Nerima had approached the point where he typically ended up leaving.
He did, except it was a trip to China for a cure, which didn't really count towards getting him to Juuban. Her contact in Nerima, a mystic she was helping in the magic area as payment, had called to report that Ranma had returned. Miyo had only seen fit to tell her that Ranma had returned with 'two pieces of artillery' and that the shit was about to hit the fan.
As Miyo had also informed her that she was skipping school at lunch to begin her vacation away from Nerima, Setsuna knew the girl was serious despite the rather vague information.
With any luck, the boy would decide to visit his mother either before or after Nerima reached the boiling point. If not, she'd give him a bit longer before venturing to approach him with a request.
That was when Setsuna mentally cursed as she felt the pull of magic upon her.
Dazed from the transportation and transformative magic, Setsuna took a moment to take in her situation.She was for one apparently in a darkened alleyway with the three active senshi, though that wasn't a good thing. That was partly because she was only wearing a collar, corset, thigh high boots and a single arm binder that was binding both of her arms behind her back, with her entire outfit done in black leather with plenty of straps and D-rings.
On a vaguely nice note she did apparently have her henshin pen now, though as it was currently functioning as a magic vibrator and not apparently under her control it was of dubious benefit to her at the moment.
Glancing around revealed Venus and Jupiter in similar straights, the blond in a similar outfit of pink leather with a Sailor V style mask and the tall brunette bound in a black latex pony-girl outfit complete with steel shod pony-boots. More worrying for different reasons was Dominatrix Queen Moon in her white leather with black lace outfit, though it was of some relief that the blond seemed to be only confused and embarrassed by her outfit. From the way she was staring at the whip in her hands, she was likely trying to figure out why she had an attack like "Call Me Queen!".
Completing the scene was Ranma, looking fairly concerned about whatever was going on, though he was apparently being anchored in place by the woman with chocolate colored skin and slightly darker short hair holding his arm. More concerning however was the purple haired woman holding the Silver Millennium Crystal. Just a glance at her stance and expression spoke of her superior and confident attitude that had her casually toying with the senshi. "How amusing Sire, they apparently use some sort of magical costume magic for their power and this little trinket controls them."
Turning her head to flash Ranma a grin as her long hair swished behind her, Jane turned back to indicate the group of indecently clad girls that were now apparently up to four in number. "They even have this harem sex-slave setting, but even then I'm not sure they would make suitable harem girls for you my Lord."
Somewhat distracted as she was failing to remove or deactivate her henshin vibrator, Harem Slave Venus was much less dignified than usual in her instinctive response. "Hey! We would too make good love-slaves!" Embarrassment at what she'd just said was buried under injured feminine pride and loneliness as the Harem Girl of Lust stood proudly with her chest out-thurst.
Hearing that and putting this in context with what she knew of Ranma's previous females, Jane had to surmise that these might just be more of his fiancees. So thinking she turned a speculative eye towards the young man in question. "Well, they do seem to at least be more suitable than those girls in Nerima. Will you be keeping them Sire, or shall I get rid of them?"
Rubbing the bridge of his nose as this was apparently going way out of control, Ranma's only reply was to grimace in thought.
Seeing that Ranma wasn't immediately jumping to their defense left Setsuna a tad worried as the purple haired woman seemed to be considering just how she was going to dispose of them. Moon wasn't going to be of any help as she was currently trying to hide in embarrassment behind a box. Jupiter seemed to want to say something, but her outfit included a gag, while whatever Venus was about to say likely wouldn't help.
As Ranma looked like he wanted to be somewhere else and not dealing with this, that didn't seem to leave a lot of options to Pluto. A quick glance at the two women with Ranma provided some answers as the details started to fall into place. That they were very strong, actively protecting Ranma and referring to him as a noble or Master all pointed to some sort of powerful magical servants. One of her alternate selves had encountered a Demon God Ifurita in a similar role and that had gone very poorly for the senshi as a whole.
Still, being a senshi was more than just wearing a silly outfit and showing up to blast strange monsters with magic attacks. They were supposed to be princesses as well, and diplomacy and wisdom were valuable traits in that regard. There was little need to ask what had actually happened as even with Mercury and Mars present, these things tended to happen with the senshi detecting something amiss and somehow starting a misguided fight.
So with that in mind, Setsuna strode forward to within speaking distance of Ranma, yet being careful not to arouse the defensive nature of the two women with him. Even Venus was impressed as the strange green haired woman managed to pull off dignified with a sexually flushed form bound in explicitly naughty bondage gear. Well, mostly dignified. Proudly displayed breasts at least.
Now standing within striking distance of Ranma, Setsuna prepared to use the technique Sailor Pluto had considered forbidden. A true method of last resort that likely wouldn't even be used in the most dire of straits.
It is at that point that Setsuna got down on her knees and bowed towards Ranma to set the proper self-image. "Please forgive them, and allow me to take their punishment myself."
Looking down with some concern at the strange woman that had just appeared from apparently nowhere, Ranma took a quick glance around to note that the green-haired woman at least wasn't upsetting the two dragons. Still though, that did nothing to assuage his concerns, but perhaps she could help with that. "Uh-huh. Don't suppose you can tell me what's going on?"
Straightening up to look at Ranma while sitting on her heels, Setsuna smiled pleasantly at the young man as her forbidden attack disarmed him. "Yes, It would be my pleasure to explain everything to you. Could we perhaps go somewhere more pleasant to talk?"
Nodding at the green haired woman, Ranma gave Jane a look that was apparently enough to mollify the shape-shifting mythical monster. "Very well, at least she does know how to show proper respect."
With that said the Silver Crystal in Jane's hand flared to life, changing the four senshi once more.
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