"Running Deer is _last_ person that Shampoo would call soft," 
she said with a smile.  Finished lacing up her boots, Shampoo stood 
up.  "Let's go show these soft Japanese a couple of _real_ fighters!"

You're in danger of wandering. Keep focused. Wrap up other-Shampoo's 
situation and dispense with the new characters--they serve no purpose.

    "RANMA!  HOW DARE YOU BETRAY AKANE LIKE THIS!"  Ranma looked up
to see a figure falling out of the sky at him, the sun at its back,
a large umbrella shape held above the head.

Other-Ranma is hopelessly out-matched by the Lost Boy, martial arts 
ability or no, but when he's occupying real-Ranma he should be able to 
avoid Ryouga--IF he doesn't have lapses or fail to go all-out.

I granted the fight with Mousse earlier, because the difference between 
them may have been great enough to allow for other-Ranma's lapses. There 
is a very small difference between real-Ranma and Ryouga, however.

I'm making a point out of this because I can't stand inaccurate fight 
scenes.

On a further canonical note, Ryouga typically doesn't charge Ranma. On 
the few occasions when they've fought, Ryouga would go up to Ranma and 
issue a formal challenge.



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