"You'd prefer 'St Grace's Court'?" asked Hephaestus.
"There are many things about Japan that I just do not understand," said Pluto as two maids approached the table. "That place is just one of them."
"Goshujin-sama," said one, "do you want to order?"
"We'll have two teas, English style, and omelette rice to start with," said Hephaestus.
"Ah, you speak Japanese very well, goshujin-sama," said the other maid of the two foreigners.
"Oh, I have many talents, my dear," said the Artificier with a wink.
"You come here often?" asked Pluto as he watched the two run off.
"No actually," said Hephaestus. "I usually go to either Akibanana in Singapore or Schatz Kiste in Akihabara. This one - there seemed something odd about it."
"Like the girls are all guys crossdressing?" asked Pluto, who then smirked. "Or I should say 'were guys.'"
"Hmmm, you do like the whole 'punishment fitting the crime' angle, don't you?" asked Hephaestus on hearing a few squeals off in the direction of the employee-only areas.
Pluto merely smiled a bit.
"So what are you planning to do about that Kuno fellow? Sixteen disasters?" asked Hephaestus, ignoring as a couple of panicked-looking maids ran past their table.
"Yes, I'd originally planned on just switching the curse on that Saotome boy to Kuno, but leave the trigger in place. Or duplicate the curse. Saotome getting splashed would cause Kuno to change genders," said Pluto.
Hephaestus nodded, knowing that Pluto would want to tweak Saotome's nose while maintaining the polite fiction that it had been Kuno that had trespassed. It was one of those form or image kind of things, and Pluto was BIG on that.
"Once I'd actually dropped by though - it was an entirely different thing," said Pluto. "I can see how he got an astronomically high hubris score."
"Still, sixteen," said Hephaestus. "And 'disasters' instead of 'labors'?"
"It's unlikely he'd actually do labors, as he's not trying to prove himself or something," said Pluto. "So I've just put together a few odds and ends to hit him with."
"Well, there's an errant 'hero' there," said Hephaestus. "Using the old meaning of the term, not the newer definitions. I just arranged for him to have a big scroll of ninja techniques and a few ninja-maids."
"Oh? Ninja maids?" asked Pluto. "Like 'Ryoumou'?"
"Well, actually," said Hephaestus with a grin.
"Oh, I do think I'm going to have to take a look," said Pluto.
"S-s-sirs, here's your drinks," said the maid, looking a little dismayed and blushing a lot as she knelt by the table and began preparing the tea.
"Cream, no sugar," said Hephaestus.
"Cream AND sugar," instructed Pluto.
Tatewaki Kuno, age seventeen, the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High, immediately noticed all the black cars around his home.
He also noticed all the guys with black suits and sunglasses standing nearby.
He even noticed that Sasuke and his demented sister were outside the home.
"What transpires here?" demanded the noble scion of the house of Kuno.
"Seizure of assets," said one of the black clad men. "Pending a full audit by the Tax Bureau."
"Thou dressed as Yakuza thugs dare befoul Kuno holdings with thine touch? I say thee NAY!" declared Kuno, drawing his bokken. "I shall show thee the error of thy ways."
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