"Let's see," said Mambo Jack, checking his records. "It looks like for the Evangelion crowd:"
"That doesn't count the rest of the girls that Bacchus chose, or Astrild's choice," finished Mambo Jack. "Just the Eva gals."
"So how is Doctor Akagi engaged to Ranma? Eros seems to have chosen oddly here," said the blue haired girl, thinking that usually Eros had better taste.
"He used a pretty strong arrow (mixed "Lust" "Agape" "Devotion" and "Desire"), and it threw the balance off. Actually, I think he was aiming at someone else, probably that older sister of Akane."
"Oh dear."
Mambo Jack nodded as he poured himself a drink. He wasn't cut out for kami-dom, as he'd freely admit. He was just an Urban Legend and one that would likely fade in time, the captain of a small ship that had operated in the Phillipines and Far East during the 1920s through the early 1940s. As such he was admittedly uncultured, coarse, hardnosed, and bitter. He tended to tone it down around kids but he also habitually swore like a sailor. He was not what you'd consider a gentleman by any stretch of the imagination. Yet here he was, playing chaperone to a young kid, and monitoring developments on another kid's lovelife. All he'd hoped for was a stretch of afterlife with a little shack, some woods, and a fishing pond out back. All he'd expected was a brief flash of pain and eternal darkness. It was hard to be an atheist when gods would go sticking their heads in to check on some kid's progress.
Jack wondered if maybe this was his penance and the whole Urban Legend thing was a crock.
"Jack?"
"Sorry, woolgathering," said Jack. "Let's see what's going on, shall we?"
Ritsuko Akagi, new school nurse at Furinkan, decided to sit in the gathering evening and have a really good cup of hot tea to work out her battle plans.
It wasn't like this Ranma would be difficult to persuade to have a relationship with her. A teenage boy would hardly be a challenge to manipulate. It was odd that she had been selected for this second chance, and it looked as if she would be at the very least resented by her competition, but she was fairly good at manipulating people - except where the Commander had been concerned. She was sure she'd be able to turn the others against each other, and then against Ranma, and then she'd have a clear playing field. First though, she'd have to get rid of the established fiancees. Which one to start with?
Resources - darn few. She had a few changes of clothing, a small microwave oven, and her documentation back in a tiny cramped apartment fifteen minutes from the school.
She had her intellect though, and that would put her at the top of this game.
As it was, she had her engagement to Ranma and the method was:
(Posted Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:28)
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