Hotaru smiled. "I'm sure that we'll be great friends then!"
"If ya say so."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Not really, but I kinda have strange luck in the friend department."
"Like what?"
"Most people that I meet either want ta beat me, or marry me. Sometimes both."
"Oh my... But I'd never do that!"
Ranma shrugged. "I guess not, but it ain't like I got a lot of people skills."
"That's okay," reassured the Sailordroid, "I think that you're a very nice person."
"Ya do?"
"Hm-hm," she pronounced with a definate nod.
"That's real nice of ya. Kinda makes me wonder..."
"Why is that?"
"Ya seem ta be a perfectly good... y'know."
"Yes..?"
"Well... Then why ain't ya supposed ta... um... cost more."
"Excuse me?"
"I mean that you're pretty an' nice an' all. So why ain't anyone lookin' ta buy ya?"
Hotaru proved that she was engineered well enough to blush shyly. "Thank you..."
"I can answer that very simply," interjected Kumiko.
"Yeah?" went the pigtailed boy.
"You see, most individuals that purchase female androids tend towards the... more obviously attractive forms, if you know know what I mean."
"Actually... no."
"Let's put it this way. They want girls with pretty faces and..," she trailed off, cupping her hands a bit away from her chest.
"What d'ya... Oh."
"Yes. 'Oh.' Those tend to be gentlemen mainly, and they like to have something to help pretty up the house. But on to business."
"Okay."
"Would you like to make a purchase, or is there anything else that you would like?"
"I guess that I'll:
(Posted Fri, 09 May 2003 06:36)
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