"Okaaaay," Ranma drawled and gathered his ki. "But what do I wish for?"
"It's too bad you don't have a user's manual," Kasumi commented obliquely.
"I wish I did," Ranma agreed distractedly. "Now what am I going to..." and then it hit him. "Ouch! What was that for?"
Ranma peelled the leather bound tome off of his face and glared around. "Who threw that?"
"I think you did," Nabiki said in a shocked voice. "That's, uhnm, maybe your user's manual. Looks like there's something to this after all." A calculating look crossed her face as schemes and plots started to perculate in her head. With a cry of, "let's have a look," Nabiki snatched the book and pried the covers appart, or rather, made a futile attempt to so do.
Kasumi pulled the book out of her sister's greed grasp and handed it back to Ranma. "Maybe it's keyed to your palm print," she suggested and tapped the symbol on the front.
"There dosn't seem to be a lot of pages, does there?" Akane remarked as Ranma flipped open the cover. "And it's all in some strange language."
"It looks like an index," Kasumi offered.
"Oh like you can read that," Nabiki snorted. "Ah, you can't read it, can you."
"Of course not," Kasumi covered. "It just, looks the same as the index in the medical journals I borrow, that's all."
"Oh," Ranma said. "Well, you're right anyway, it is an index."
"So now you can read it?" Nabiki asked.
"Oh yes," Ranma agreed. "It says right here that the pages are scattered about. I'll have to go collect them one by one, damb it."
"You can't just wish them here?" Akane asked.
"No," Ranma disagreed and tapped a section of arcane text. "I have to fetch them in person. Some sort of divine union rule or something. However, I can use the manual to find them and it looks like the nearest page is right here -" His finger tapped down on a map (which Akane could have sworn was a blank page a moment ago) of Nerima. He was pointing to ...
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