And that's exactly how the tournament worked.  Ranma and Johnathon fought
the final match.  Ranma won.  Johnathon came in second.  It's just that
Johnathon and his semi-final opponent both knew that no matter who won their
match, they would lose the final one, and in that tournament you only
got a prize for being the winner.  I'm a little foggy on how Lon Phat's
scam was supposed to work.

The winner was supposed to be one of Lon Phat's ringers... and thus the
prize money would be Lon Phat's.




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   Ranko leaned in and kissed Ukyo again. Mostly she wanted to know if
the same feeling was there again. It was.
   At this moment, being the worse possible moment for them to do so,
Ranma and Akane came into the restaurant looking for Ranko. They found
her, but neither of them expected to find her like this.
   "What the hell are you doing with my fiancee!" Akane shouted.
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Excerpt from Childhood of a Modern Dynasty Chapter 5