"Please don't yell so loud," demurely said Elle afterwards. "My hearing is quite sensitive."
"You're an ELF?!" yelped Akane, staring at Elle.
"Can I have a cookie?" asked Nabiki.
"Yes, and I don't have any cookies," responded Elle as she fidgeted under the stares.
"RANMA is an elf?!" demanded Akane.
"Uh yeah," said Ranma with a shrug. "No big deal."
"Say that again in five hundred years," suggested Elle.
"Five... hundred... years?" asked Nabiki, vaguely remembering something about elves being immortal or something in some story she'd been forced to read in school.
"Well, yes," said Elle. "I vaguely recall someone saying that humans aged ten times as fast as elves. So you'll age ten years for every year Ranma or myself age."
"Which means I can outlast the old freak and still look young," said Ranma who counted that part as winning over Happosai.
"Ranma, he's your father, and he's really only a decade or so older than you isn't he?" asked Elle, glancing towards the heavyset man.
"Not him, the other old freak," qualified Ranma.
"Gee. Thanks," said Genma. "What about the Tendo engagement?!"
"No problem," stated Elle. "I'll wait. Which one of you is the current fiancee?"
Akane gaped, Soun scratched his head, Genma frowned.
"That would be Akane," said Nabiki, "so you mean by waiting, an elf lifespan is such that you'll be young a century or two from now, correct?"
"Yes," said Elle. "So are you Akane? The introductions weren't completed."
"I'm Akane," said Akane. "But how can you be an elf?!"
"Well, my mother and father were both elves," explained Elle. "At the time they got together and had a few children, then mother decided to lead a revolt and things went downhill from there in more than one sense."
"Ranma! How can YOU be an elf?!" demanded Akane.
Ranma had thought about this and decided simplest was best. "Thought I had a curse cure. I did. Side effects."
SPLASH SPLASH
"I really didn't need that," said a wet but still male Ranma.
"If this is some human custom," said a wet Elle, "I really can't say as I care for it."
"BOY! HOW CAN YOU NOT SHARE YOUR CURE WITH ME?!" said Genma as he started getting in Ranma's face.
"It didn't work that way!" said Ranma.
"So, can we be friends?" asked Elle of Akane.
"Uhm, you're both engaged to studboy here, but you want to be friends with your rival?" asked Nabiki, a little surprised at this attitude.
"Why not? I and Ranma will remember Akane for centuries to come," said Elle. "Why shouldn't they be happy memories and fond remembrance?"
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