Instead, what he most needed to know was one particular bit of information that would make his life ever so much easier.
"How are they tracking me?" Ranma asked with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Ah, an important question," Yusef murmured, miming a tap on his lips with his scissors. "Such an interesting concept. But what you really should be asking is what you might have that they might follow."
"But they haven't been after me before. Hell, I haven't even seen these guys until recently. They didn't start showing up until...."
"Ah, now you begin to understand."
"They are after her, so they are tracking her."
"You could say something like that," Yusef drawled.
"That might just make things harder."
It took her a moment for her to understand what was being said, but when she did, Melfina shrank in on herself. "I'm sorry, Master. If I wasn't around, you wouldn't be in trouble."
"Don't start thinking like that. It's not your fault."
"Nope," Ranma told her, and then gave a small sigh. "Then again, I'd probably just be in trouble with someone else."
"You would? But if I wasn't here...."
"That's enough of that. I'm planning on keeping you around for a long time, so there's no point on arguing about it."
"Yes, Master. Thank you, Master," Melfina whispered.
Blushing just a bit, Ranma turned away from his slave. "What we're going to have to do is to see about getting rid of whatever their using to track you. Once we do that, things should get easier. Either we get rid of whatever tag they stuck on you, or get something to hide your presence."
"Ah, so you understand the methods of magical tracking," the barber mused.
"Like you said. I'm just really well traveled."
"Obviously."
Feeling a bit more secure about his situation, Ranma knew a bit more about what was going on around him. Even if Yusef's answers had been rather vague and not at all complete, he at least had something to work with, which was more than he had before. That gave him a direction to go in, and he hoped that he could find something that would help him get through this mess so that he could settle down to a normal life with his new slave... or what would pass for such for someone like him.
Aware that he would have to keep at least one step ahead of the pirates until that could happen, he started to think of where to go next, while:
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