"Uhm, well, she's a cook and she keeps the house and stuff and I've seen she reads medical books and stuff, and uhm," Ranma tried to figure out how to describe Kasumi. "She's nice but not all there if ya know what I mean. I mean she'll seem perfectly fine up until she does something like wave 'bye bye' to that dumb phoenix."
Upping chances of epic quest/adventure to 70%.
"How old is she?" Kumiko asked. "Does she read romance novels? Fantasy? Shojo manga? Any hobbies?"
Ranma scratched his head. "Actually I was looking for a vaccuum cleaner or something when I came in. She'll be twenty with her birthday. Dunno if she reads anything, haven't seen her do it."
"I see," said Kumiko, "well how about this unit?" A hologram of an apparently sleeping android appeared. "She's a used model, so she's a little cheaper."
"Used?" Ranma was in favor of saving money, but he didn't want something that would fall apart.
"We travel around a lot, Mister Saotome. As you may have guessed, we travel from universe to universe with our wares." Kumiko gestured and the hologram of the android rotated. "She was a great hero. She saved many lives, rescued people from disaster and she fought villains. She fought with all her considerable heart against terrific odds and eventually won. However she was damaged and eventually shut down. The very people she saved, in whose cause she had fought - many simply accepted her sacrifice. Others, a few, would have restored her but lacked the knowledge."
Ranma watched as scenes played in the air before his startled eyes. "Whoa." Not bad. Pretty good fighter. Didn't recognize the style off hand.
"We found her and repaired her. What we couldn't fix, we replaced. She is as close to her original condition as we could make her, but her own world has no use for her anymore. So here she sits, waiting for an owner. Someone to take her home. She might not be suitable for you, as she was used to epic adventure and battle."
"What's her name?" Ranma asked, a little curious now.
Kumiko had doubts but this particular android could certainly use a chance at happiness. "Her name is
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