It was one thing for Happosai to steal panties. Now he had killed cops. Cops tend to get very very intense about finding people who have done that.
So while Happosai and Taro were both very good at hiding, the search for them was going to be a bit less forgiving than if they had stuck to panty-theft and the occasional destruction of public property.
"Ranma is okay?" Shampoo asked as Cologne gently closed the door behind herself.
"No. 'Okay' is not a word I would use right now," said Cologne gently.
"Oh come on, the baka's going to be fine," said Akane.
Bonk!
As Akane rubbed the top of her head, the result of being bonked there by Cologne's staff, Cologne qualified her earlier statement. "When you and Ranma had sex under the influence of the flu, why didn't you turn to Happosai or your father for relief first?"
"Ewwwwww," said Akane.
"Exactly. You had the same raging lust as everyone else who had the flu, but you didn't go jump the neighbor's dog or just any male you could find, did you? You found someone you could consent to, so that even if you weren't completely in your right head, you still had some judgement." Cologne sat down. "Because you could accept Ranma as a sex partner, even if you normally wouldn't, it wasn't completely nonconsentual. Highly unlikely perhaps, but not a case of him raping you or you raping him."
"Okayyyy," said Nabiki holding her hands up in a 'time out' gesture. "So it wasn't... you don't mean?"
Cologne held up a collar. "This was forcing Ranma to some set behavior. It was a treasure of the Amazon village, something we guarded so that it would never be used again. Yet another thing Happosai stole long ago and which has finally been recovered. Next time, we'll pour molten rock around it or something. Worse, his Jusenkyo curse has been modified. When splashed with hot water, Ranma becomes a submissive horny slave girl. Cold water restores his mind but his body doesn't change."
The various girls looked mainly shocked now. One was puzzled.
"So right now Ranma is teetering on an abyss, depending on what occurs his mind could shatter. Everything he valued in himself has been destroyed." Cologne looked at the various girls and wondered how many of them would drop Ranma after this. "There is more."
"I'm guessing from your tone that we ain't gonna like this," guessed Ukyo.
Cologne knew these were young girls and inexperienced so she tried to lead up to it. "You know that injuries in a Jusenkyo cursed form carry over from one form to another? If Shampoo injures her arm, her form as a cat will have an injured foreleg?"
Kodachi finally asked for an explanation of Jusenkyo curses and what this had to do with Ranma.
It took fifteen minutes, pictures, multiple demonstrations of Shampoo's Jusenkyo curse, and repeated secondings by the various others in the room.
At the end of which Kodachi ran down the hall to the restroom and was heard being ill.
When she returned, paler than normal, Cologne continued. "Injuries in one form carry over to another. Well, when Pantyhose Taro raped Ranma in his cursed form..."
Cologne had to go into the gruesome details. Yes, Ranma's healing ability had kicked in and the vaginal wall breakages were mainly healed. There probably would be scar tissue, it wasn't as if he was intimately familiar with those areas. However she was likely sterile from the experience. Which meant that when/if he turned male again.
More than one of the young ladies had flinched, two had wept, as Cologne finished with the very real possibility that Ranma, whether male or female would be physically if not psychologically incapable of feeling sexual pleasure. The faces turned murderous.
"Happosai dies," said Akane clearly and distinctly. It was not an exaggeration, not an indication of slapstick violence to commence. It was a simple declaration of intent.
"Think I got a recipe for octopus okonomiyaki," said Ukyo as she checked the edge on her spatula.
"We all ally on this?" Shampoo asked. "Call truce until after Tarou and Happosai dead?"
There was no disagreement.
"The best thing for Ranma is if he can regain male form and thus reclaim some of his identity," said Cologne.
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