Entering the store, he was getting deja vu from the barely remembered flashes of dream. Next there'd be a guy in a bathrobe coming out.
"Ah, Mister Saotome-" began the wizard.
"I'm outta here," said Ranma. He opened the door, stepped out, ran down the street and around the corner.
Nope. Not gonna do it. Absolutely not going to do it. Anything that ended up with him engaged to Ryoga and Mousse was to be avoided like Popin Fresh at an Atkins Diet Center.
Ranma was just begin to sigh with relief when someone in tattered clothing grabbed him from an alleyway.
"Huh?! HEY!" Ranma began to shove the guy off when his hand slipped off all the blood on the guy. Waitaminute. Blood?! "HEY!"
"No time. No time, Ranma," said the stranger, drawing in a wheezing breath. "It's up to you now. Don't let them have it. By the love of all you hold dear, don't let them have it!"
"Huh?" Ranma asked, staring between the blood on his hand and the guy now slumped against the wall. "Do I know you?"
"Take it, Ranma," the guy said as he reached into his torn coat and drew out a small box. "Keep it safe. Don't let it out of your sight. If they get it..."
"What?! WHO?" Ranma leaned over the guy slumped on the cement. "Come on guy, give me a clue what's going on!"
"If they get it... too much... death... don't let them... "
Ranma looked down at the box in his hands, about the size of a standard tissue box, and the dead guy in an alleyway. "Okay. Now I'm seriously freaked out. And confused."
Ranma began fretting about it but then thought about what would happen if he was caught here. When had ANYONE ever believed he was innocent no matter how innocent he was?
Ranma went out of the alley, looked back and forth, turned back to look one last time.
The body was gone. No other exits he could see to the alleyway.
"I take it back. Now I'm seriously freaked out," said Ranma, though he noticed the bloodstains had remained. He quickly ran then roofhopped until he felt it was a safe distance away.
Then he decided that maybe whatever was in the box would give him a clue?
Ducking into a park and finding a nice secluded spot, Ranma discovered that the box contained:
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