For A Birthday: A subway? In Nerima? [Episode 41980]

by Kestral

He'd gone down two flights of stairs before realizing Furinkan ward didn't have subways.

Okay. This was getting a little creepy now. Ancient catacombs beneath Nerima? Torches that seemed to burn without giving off heat? Old Wizard that was always the same distance ahead of him no matter how quickly he walked?

Ranma grit his teeth. He had to get a better gift for Kasumi than Ryoga! It was a challenge and Ranma Saotome did not back away from challenges. Unless there was math or something like that involved at least. That time he'd been challenged to a math duel involving differential equations and probability calculus had given him a migraine for almost two days.

Finally the chase ended in what COULD have been a subway station, except it would have been the sort of subway run back during the 1890s with maybe some architect indulging in the opium trade of that time.

"You came out of a selfless desire to help another," said the old guy in the wizard costume. "This is about as close as you ever get to a noble cause but it'll have to do."

"Uhm, the perfect present for Kasumi?" Ranma asked, crossing his fingers and preparing to run up all those stairs at high speed if the guy even looked like he was going to pull a cask of Jusenkyo water out. Hell, he might even make it to ludicrous speeds if anything out of his dream showed up.

"Yes," said the Wizard, "and here is the perfect gift for Kasumi Tendo - "

• all you need to do is say my name. It's written on the wall behind me."
  Ranma blinks. "Shazam?" (crackle BOOM) "How is this a gift for Kasumi?!"
  "You're older, wiser, and better looking. You work it out."
• this letter." The Wizard holds it up. "She will be accepted into a school for mages. The way will open to the holder of that letter and she can spend time learning whatever magic and techniques she is most suited for. All she needs to do is be here at the time mentioned in that very letter."
• this egg will hatch a magical companion to help and protect her in the days ahead."
• this egg will hatch a magical companion to help and protect her when her family and houseguests die two days from now."
  "Say what?"
  "It would be a pity for the innocent to suffer, after all it is her sister's fault for the doom to come upon all the rest of you."
  "It's all Nabiki's fault?!"
• something else

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