"So you're that new fighter from Seito," the thug with an ugly scar running though his right eye remarked. "The one that defeated Shigi?"
"Who wants to know?" Ranma challenged.
"I am Ganryo. I'm from Yoshuu Academy," the scarred thug declared. "We've received an Imperial Order to execute you so we will be your Executioners."
"Oh really," Ranma arched an eyebrow. "Only ten of you? I think it's more likely that idiot that sent you just wanted to get rid of some dead weight. Musta had a surplus of pea-brained thugs or something."
"Feh, the others are just here to keep you from running away like a coward," Ganryo snorted. "Bunshu and I are more than enough to kill you."
"Then I guess ya better stop yappin' and make your move, Scarface," Ranma shrugged.
"Well, then, if you're in such a big hurry then...DIE!" Ganryo shouted, leaping into the air with a fist aimed at Ranma's head.
Ranma stood calmly until Ganryo was nearly on top of him before unleashing a kick that caught Ganryo in the gut and instantly halted his flight. Time seemed to pause as Ganryo curled up around Ranma's foot, his eyes bugging out as he grunted from the impact. Then he was flying back the way he came to crash into a support column hard enough to crack the concrete.
However, Ranma didn't have time to see if Ganryo was going to get up as his senses screamed an alarm at him. He leapt straight up into the air as several kunai passed through the space he had been standing in. Twisting in the air, Ranma spotted his attacker, a girl with short, gray-green hair and a red, cross-shaped mark below her left eye. As he descended, the girl threw several more kunai at him.
Ranma slapped two of them out of the air as he landed and caught two more. He spun around and sent the two he caught back at her as high speed. The girl screamed as the two kunai buried themselves deeply in her shoulders and knocked her on to her back.
However, before Ranma had completed his follow-through he was grabbed from behind by the big, bald guy in a choke hold as a couple more guys moved in to begin raining punches and kicks to his body. Ignoring the blows the weaker fighters were hammering him with, Ranma brought his foot down on the big guy's right instep with a satisfying crunch.
Bunshu bit back a scream of pain as his foot was broken but only tightened his hold, further cutting off the blood flow to Ranma's brain. Having only seconds before he began blacking out, Ranma drove his elbow hard into Bunshu's ribs, cracking them audibly. He then drove his other foot into the larger boy's left knee, shattering the joint and this time tearing a scream from Bunshu's lungs. As his knee collapsed, bending in the wrong direction, the pain loosened Bunshu's hold and allowed Ranma to break free just in time to receive a baseball bat to the gut.
Ranma grunted as the bat hit with enough force to break across his belly and reached up to catch a crowbar that was heading for his head. He tore the crowbar out of the attacker's hands and flung it out of the immediate area even as he spun around and lashed out with a spin kick that caught the off-balance weilder in the jaw. The boy's jaw cracked loudly and several teeth exploded out of his mouth along with a spray of blood. Reversing the kick, he leveled the bat-wielder with a kick to the face, shattering his nose and sending him careening into his buddies, knocking them all down.
The next attack came in from behind again. Ranma spun to the side and connected with a spinning back fist to the back of attacker's head. Ranma barely had time to note it had been another girl he had just taken out as she flew several meters before sliding to a stop on her face when the first guy had gotten up and rejoined the fray, charging Ranma bodily.
Leaping upwards, Ranma caught Ganryo by the shoulders of his shirt and pivoted over him, tossing him head first back into the battered concrete pillar, cracking it further. He then continued into roll forward into a handstand as a chain sang through the space his head had just occupied. Shoving himself into the air with his hands, Ranma twisted himself around in the air and unleashed a kick at the chain-wielder. The other boy crossed his arms in front of his to block the kick but he wasn't prepared for Ranma's power. His forearms snapped like dry twigs and he was sent skidding backwards on his back, screaming in pain.
"Who's next?" Ranma growled to the remaining three fighters.
The three guys looked around at their badly injured comrades and then at each other. There was a pause as their eyes met in silent agreement.
"I'm outa here!" the first one shouted over his shoulder as he fled.
"No shit!" the other two retorted as they quickly followed the first one.
Ranma snorted in disdain and surveyed the broken bodies of those he had defeated. Of the seven, only three were conscious. Bunshu was on the floor rolling around in agony while clutching his shattered knee. The kunai girl was attempting to sit up and not having an easy time of it with her two kunai embedded deeply in her shoulder joints. The guy whose arms Ranma had broken was still on the ground moaning in pain.
"Call yourselves an ambulance," Ranma tossed at the kunai girl as he picked up his bag and walked off. He had a train to catch.
Ryofuu Hosen frowned from where she had observed the fight. Ganryo and Bunshu while not on the same level as the elite fighters were still highly ranked. This Ranma Saotome had beaten them like a drum, possibly taking Bunshu out for good depending on how badly his knee was damaged.
This did not bode well. Seito would be an even more formidable force with this new fighter joining their ranks and with his ties to Sonsaku, an alliance between the two schools seemed likely. Already there was talk of an alliance between Youshuu High and Nanyo Academy after Taishiji's successful coup against Ryuyu.
With Kyosho Academy being openly aligned against Totaku and Gogan High refusing to get involved, it seemed likely that Rakuyo would be overthrown soon.
Ryofuu just had to decide what she was going to do about it when the time came.
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