Ranma would agree with her, but the front of his shirt was getting soaked from Akane bawling into it and in his mind two strange concepts had come to roost:
_A) Something had gone wrong.
_B) He wasn't being blamed for it.
So Ranma fought down the urge to say something about how confused he was by the whole situation and just clumsily patted Akane on the back and wondered if women would ever make sense to him.
P-chan was lying in a daze. Akane was crying. Akane was being comforted by Ranma. Nabiki was acting like she'd pulled a Ranma. Akane was crying and it wasn't Ranma's fault. But something had gone wrong and therefore it WAS Ranma's fault but it clearly wasn't which meant...
Oddly enough this was the very effect Nabiki had tried to produce on Hotaru with those logic puzzles earlier.
"It's not my fault!" Nabiki exclaimed. "I'm just trying to turn off the robot and take her apart so I can sell the pieces to..."
Akane began bawling (again)into Ranma's shirt. Terms like "soulless bitch" and "evil mercenary" seemed to escape from that grip.
"NABIKI?!" Kasumi gasped. "You're that jealous of Hotaru?"
sniffle Hotaru's eyes teared up at this evidence that the big sister she'd hugged earlier in the day HATED her that much.
"How much money... never mind," said Genma as Glares Of Doom were briefly turned in his direction.
Nabiki flinched. Now the machine was crying. Waitaminute, machines can't cry. Right? Think about it later. "It's just business. Business!"
"WAAAAAAA!" The forecast for the Tendo Dojo includes a flash flood advisory. Soun wasn't sure if Nabiki was a lolicon-fixated lesbian, a murderous mercenary who might chop up family members to sell organs, or merely a Yakuza wannabe trafficking in pornographic pictures of his other daughters. From where he was looking, it was all bad.
Nabiki was about to comment further when she noticed blue scan lines running up and down her body. She slowly and with great apprehension turned back towards the android in question.
Marionette Saturn held her glaive ready as she finished scanning. "Subject: Nabiki Tendo. Analysis: No evidence of possession or youma control. Dark taint possible but outside my ability to detect."
Nabiki was just letting out a relieved breath when her father interrupted.
"It is late. We will discuss this in the morning." Soun went back to his room.
Everyone else was nervous of a sudden. The emotional outburst had suddenly sealed itself and Soun had shown the stoicism and self control of a true samurai. That was scary!
In the morning:
(Posted Mon, 19 May 2003 13:08)
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