In a message dated 7/8/2002 11:33:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rgorman@telusplanet.net writes:

        Ranma smirked, his pain hidden behind the wall of cheerfulness 

that he

projected. "Well, Tofu-sensei isn't exactly a traditional doctor. He has 

a lot

of experience with shiatsu, moxibustion, and so on. Actually, he's a 

pretty good

martial artist, too. In fact, he's able to read auras almost as 

effectively as I

can. So... he'll be able to confirm that I'm telling the truth."

Tofu is most definitely a traditional doctor.  It's just that his tradition 
isn't Western.  It's quite a bit older than that.  

     Good point. I'll change it.

        Ranko thought for a second. "Why go by school at all?" she asked, 

"I mean,

why risk it?"
        Ranma shook his head. "No. Akane... I can't... I won't... I won't 

let

that... that... bastard Kunou..."
        "Oh," she said, "You want to stop the morning fights, don't you?"
        Ranma nodded. "Yes. I may not be able to risk doing it directly, 

at least

not yet, but I will do what I can. I," he said, his voice taking on a 

tone of

determination, "won't let Akane suffer one minute longer then I have to."

Geez.  Ranma's kind of crazy.  

     Huh? Why say that?

        Ranma just nodded his head. "Well, we talked for a bit, and I 

wound up

mentioning Jusenkyo. One thing lead to another, and, well, Urd, the 

oldest,

offered to look up what our 'lessons' had been. She's the Goddess of the 

Past,

so it wasn't hard for her at all. Heh," he said with a smirk, "I probably
learned more from them than anyone else I'd ever met about the way the 

universe,

or should I say multiverse, actually works. After all, their job's to 

keep it

from breaking down."

You are spending an awful lot of time lecturing on the subject of Jyusenkyo 
curses.  If there are not going to be any curses in the future of this story
then shrink it down drastically or delete it entirely. If there are, then
I'd suggest still shrinking it down at the moment to "I was cursed but when
I learned the lesson the curse was there to teach me, I was cured", 
and providing more detail when it actually becomes important.  

     He's explaining more than just the curses, and it *WILL* be important in 
the future.

        "Two words, Old Fart. Mountain and Sea." Ranko was virtually 

boiling;

after Ranma had mentioned the Saotome Forbidden Techniques, she had gone 

through

Genma's collection of scrolls, eventually finding them. After seeing what 

they

were capable of (although she wasn't capable of learning them; Ranma was 

right

in that she didn't know more than the very basics of using her aura), her 

rage

towards her father had taken new heights.

Genma is perfectly right not to teach those techniques to Ranko and he
is entirely within his rights not to.  

     There's more going on than just what you know.

        Ranma pointedly ignored the argument, showing an uncommon degree 

of sense,

as Genma went into a credible impression of Happousai's 'Innocent Old 

Man' act.

Like the original, it didn't work very well.

Genma wouldn't play innocent there because he hasn't done anything wrong.
Instead he'd pull rank on Ranko, pointing that he is the sensei and she is
the student, and those techniques are sealed for a reason.  In fact it's
Ranko who should be on the defensive because she was misbehaving when she
went through Genma's private possessions.  

     Oh, he did something wrong, all right... again, I'm not telling you 
everything.

Don't make the mistake of assuming that Genma is a total doofus and that's
all there is to him.  He's more complicated than that.

     Perhaps, but he *IS* a fat, lazy moron, martial arts skill 
notwithstanding.



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