Miss Ranma

Chapter Twenty-Six

!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS"

"So who is he anyway?"

"He's Yujiro Hanma, otherwise known as Chijou Saikyou no Seibutsu(the strongest creature on earth)," Kenji said in answer to Akane's question.

Yujiro Hanma was a genius fighter of great power and skill, having mastered all styles of unarmed combat, his repertoire including karate, boxing, taekwondo, judo, ju-jitsu, wrestling, Thai-Kick Boxing, street-fighting, and countless others.

Yujiro had even fought against armed battalions of crack soldiers successfully defeating them with only his bare hands. It had gotten to the point that even the American armed forces had recognized his skill and power, U.S. generals giving him fealty and respect.

The warrior's displays of power and toughness had included stopping an earthquake with a punch to the ground, holding off one hundred armed, high level, armored and armed government agents, being struck by lightning with it having no effect, ripping a wooden table into two, and drinking a whole bottle of high-grade brandy in one gulp without any signs of intoxication.

"That's right. I suppose you're the mighty Kenji Tendo, the one who imagines he's a hammer-wielding god of thunder!"

"I am Kenji Tendo! Now step away from my fiancée!"

At that point, Yujiro rocked his head back and laughed. "I'm taking her for myself and there's nothing you can do to stop me!"

"Akane, take Ranma and get out of here," Kenji whispered.

"No, I want to see you fight this guy. He isn't so tough. I'll fight him myself if you're so afraid of him," Akane answered.

"Take Ranma and go!" Kenji yelled.

"No, I'm not going anywhere! I'm a martial artist too! And I'm sick and tired of everybody underestimating me! I don't know why this guy scares you so much, but he doesn't frighten me!" Akane answered, standing her ground several yards to the right of Kenji with her hands on her hips.

Suddenly, Yujiro turned towards Akane, his eyes boring daggers into her, keeping Akane from moving too much.

"Is that so?" Yujiro answered, paralyzing the frightened girl who couldn't even say anything back.

"Akane, look out!"

Before she could blink, Akane's assailant had dashed over to her at an inhuman speed, using his claw hand maneuver to tear off her clothes and most of her underwear, leaving her only in torn panties that left very little to the imagination. Upon taking hold of her throat, his eyes scowled into her as his sharp-toothed grin made her shiver helplessly.

"Not bad. You don't look as good as the other one, but you're not bad. Why you wore such a tight, body strangling bra is beyond me," the stranger said before tearing off her last shred of dignity. Then the eyes of the terrified girl turned towards her brother.

"Enough!" Kenji said as he was about to launch his ki hammer at Akane's captor until a bluish blur zipped right past him.

"I will stop you!"

Everyone turned towards the voice to see, "Kuno, this guy's too dangerous! Let me handle him!" Kenji yelled, stepping forward

"Silence, ronin! None shall bar me from my pigtailed goddess and the beauteous Akane, not even this strange haired man you fear so much. Have at thee!" Kuno screamed, his ki blade raised at the ready. Then he charged Yujiro with an uncanny speed which didn't impress the stranger who simply stood there and smiled, motioning for Kuno to come closer as he tossed the terrified girl towards Ranma, knocking the redhead down as she struggled to get up.

"You face the strongest creature on earth, little Samurai. It won't take long for you to die," Yujiro announced, rocking his head back.

"Have at thee, demon!" Kuno screamed as he hacked and slashed at Yujiro who had managed to avoid the ki blade that seemed to move at the speed of light, covering the area all over the stranger. Against these attacks, Yujiro barely moved to the right and left, keeping himself from getting hit.

Despite the disregard, Yujiro had for the samurai's skills the winds from Kuno's attacks had begun to make the stranger's hair fly backward. Eventually, the force of Kuno's fast-moving ki blade made Yujiro steadily backpedal, making tracks on the ground.

Upon a low growl, Yujiro backed up a little more. Then he moved forward, evading every sword swipe that moved faster than the eye could follow. And when it looked as if Kuno's blade would strike, Yujiro zipped on the ground around it, nailing Kuno with a roundhouse kick to the back.

"Ungh!" Kuno moaned as he fell forward.

Though the Kenshi was down, he wasn't out as he popped right back on his feet.

"So you're tougher than I thought. No matter. You'll meet defeat at the hands of the immortal Yujiro Hanma!" the warrior announced as a torrential wind passed through the area.

"I know thee not, but I am the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High!" Kuno announced with a flash of lightning in the sky.

"You are simply another fool I shall destroy!" Yujiro called out as he charged the samurai who did likewise.

At the last moment, Yujiro jumped into the air, kicking downward as his heel struck Kuno's head, smashing him into the ground.

"Ungh!"

And before the swordsman could get up, Yujiro maneuvered himself behind his opponent, kicking and punching him countless times until Kuno went crashing to the ground.

"You're beaten!"

"Never!" Kuno screamed upon getting to his feet and striking his surprised opponent with his blade, knocking him high into the sky.

"Aargh!" Despite the lethality of Kuno's powerful attack, Yujiro's innate toughness allowed him to keep himself from any kind of injury as he touched down with more than a little bit of pain.

"Fool, you will pay for that!"

"Nay, foul demon, I shall strike thee down for good!" Kuno called out as he moved in on his opponent, his ki blade blazing!

However, before the fast-moving swordsman could get to him, Yujiro stomped the ground, creating a tremor that moved under Kuno's feet, sending him upwards into the air and ruining his equilibrium. At that point, Yujiro shot into the air towards Kuno's feet first, striking him in the head with a flying kick that rocked the samurai's head back almost knocking it off.

"Ungh! I fight on!"

Yujiro had heard about the high caliber of martial artists in the Nerima area, but he was still surprised at the temerity of the samurai buffoon in front of him. Thus he took a deep breath and ran towards his opponent at superhuman speed, seeming to disappear right in front of him, reappearing right behind him striking the surprised Kuno hundreds of times, ending his barrage with a brutal kick to the back that would have killed or maimed most people but still dropped the samurai to the ground.

"Forgive me, my love. Ungh!"

Akane had a look of shock on her face as Kuno's blank, unmoving eyes looked up into the sky. Then she looked up at her tormentor.

"Enjoyed the fight, my dears?" Yujiro said as he turned towards Akane and Ranma who had surprised looks on their faces.

Akane's naked body shook like a leaf as Yujiro looked upon her with a smile and lick of his lips while Ranma struggled to get up.

"Get away from my sister and fiancée, Yujiro!" Kenji demanded as he pointed his ki hammer in the warrior's direction.

Then Yujiro turned towards Kenji. "Is the blue-haired girl your sister? She has some promise. Thus I shall impregnate them both. Who knows which of my progeny will prove to be the strongest?" Yujiro answered as he admired the two healthy young girls.

"Never! You'll have to go through me first."

"You think you can protect your women with that puny hammer of yours? I find that a little hard to swallow, you jockass!" Yujiro screamed, giving Kenji a wicked smile and an intimidating glare that would have terrified most other martial artists.

"Yes!" Kenji answered without fear.

"Really? I'll have each of them for my purposes. You can leave like a coward, keeping your life intact or you can die fighting me."

"I'll fight you to the death if necessary," Kenji replied.

"So be it. Prepare to die," Yujiro answered, putting his hands up as if attempting to grasp at his shoulders. Then he rushed towards Kenji at an inhuman speed as Kenji did likewise.

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At the Michelin rated restaurant run by the amazons, Mousse explained everything that had happened with Ranma and Ryoga.

"So Ryoga has used the Koi Rod of Love on Ranma?"

"That's right, Great-Grandmother! What can we do?!"

"Calm down, Mousse. Let me go through my notes to find out what we can do to free Ranma from this Ryoga character and make her yours instead."

"Really?"

"Yes, now let me go into my backroom and get to work. In the meantime, find Ryoga and Ranma and see what you can do about keeping things from getting too far," the elder woman ordered, prompting the avian to go outside and make his artificial wings appear from nigh invisible slits on his Chinese robes near his shoulder blades, allowing him to take off into the sky after a flying leap.

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As the two warriors headed for each other, Kenji let his ki hammer fly, striking Yujiro in the chest with it.

"Ungh! You must have gotten stronger since the last time I easily defeated you. You may even have more brute strength than I have. But that doesn't matter. All those steroids you've taken aren't going to help you in the slightest against me."

During the time Yujiro had defeated Kenji, he had finished the fight by knocking him down a cliff supposedly to his death over a hundred feet to the valley below. Kenji had survived due to the fact he had used his ki hammer to propel himself upwards enough to keep from crashing into the jagged rocks and river below.

"I haven't taken steroids. It's called the hard work of merging the science and logic of the West with the art and emotion of the East. I even lost a strength contest to a huge sumo wrestler recently. But after that, I did everything I could do to increase my strength and endurance including visiting an alternate dimension where I increased my abilities to superhuman levels. I've even upped my speed and reflexes while making myself nigh-invulnerable to small arms and conventional attacks. So bring it on, Yujiro!"

"Did Kenji say he went to an alternate dimension? He does have an unusually massive increase in power from just a couple days ago. I can sense it from here. He's even stronger than Ryoga. Did he enter a version of the Room of Time? I'll have to ask him about that assuming I get the chance," Ranma thought as she reached deep down inside and focused on speeding up her recovery.

"Ooh!" Akane moaned, still in shock over what had almost happened to her.

"Alternate dimensions? Balderdash! You're simply full of tricks and ridiculous notions. Power is all that matters. However, I'm happy to see you've gotten stronger. This will make killing you all the more satisfying. Aaaaaah!" Yujiro screamed as he balled his fists and flexed his muscles with powerful energy raising everything around to float upwards. Then he moved in on Kenji at an inhuman speed.

Yet to Yujiro's surprise, Kenji moved with a comparative speed of his own. Thus before Yujiro could get to his target, he found himself struck with the business end of Kenji's ki hammer.

"Oof! More tricks, Kenji Tendo?"

"You silly rabbit, tricks are for kids!"

"Whaaat?!"

Kenji laughed as he made another ki hammer appear in his hands and swung it around hundreds of times within seconds before letting it go, striking the powerful martial artist straight on once again.

"Aaargh!" Yujiro screamed as the flying hammer knocked him off the ground and several yards back, prompting him to use acrobatics to land on his feet.

"Using a weapon! I'll shove that hammer up your ass sideways before I'm done!" Yujiro called out as he leaped up and over Kenji in an arc until he had touched down right behind him.

"My ki hammer is a part of me. It's not as if it's a weapon I brought to this fight! Oof!" Kenji answered, turning around to face his opponent in less than a second only to take a powerful blow to the chest, impressing the strongest creature on the planet.

"This guy is harder than concrete steel. Even Oliva and the guy I just beat weren't this resilient. Destroying this guy is going to take some time."

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Upon finishing reading everything he could about the Koi Rod of Love from his private library and on the internet, Gosunkugi flew into the air, leaving his home and heading for where he figured Ryoga would have taken Ranma.

"Ryoga normally likes living in out of the way places. Since he isn't anywhere in the city, I'll check out the uninhabited mountains near Tokyo," Gosunkugi speculated as he quickly flew through the air in his incorporate, ghost-like form.

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Upon being shoved back by Yujiro's recent attack, Kenji tossed a ki hammer at his opponent who sidestepped the attack letting pass by him. Then he moved in on Kenji who did likewise.

"You expect that attack to work a second time? You rely on it too much. You have a good amount of power, but you're lacking strategic skill. Oof!" Yujiro cried out as the returning hammer struck him from behind and knocked him forward setting him up for the wind up of another ki hammer attack that sent Yujiro several feet up in the air. Then Kenji shot up passed him, waiting for his opponent with another ki hammer using an ax handle attack that smashed Yujiro's head in, sending him crashing to the ground.

"Ungh! Grrrr!"

Before Kenji knew what was happening, Yujiro shot up into him, striking Kenji countless times. Then Yujiro ended the barrage by raising his foot and letting come crashing down on his opponent's head.

"Aargh!"

Before Kenji could recover, Yujiro struck with hundreds of punches and kicks, nailing Kenji with strikes all over the place.

"Aaaagh!" "Yujiro would have killed me if I hadn't toughened up so much recently. As it is, I'm in a world of pain."

Despite having lost the initiative, Kenji wasn't out of the fight yet as he answered back with the "tenshin amaguriken!"

Thus they each stood their ground, striking each other with hundreds of punches, kicks, blocks, and counter-attacks.

"Wow! Kenji has modified the tenshin amaguriken to include kicks and blocks the same way I've done," Ranma thought as she watched the fight.

"W-what's happening?" the barely aware Akane got out as she did her best to cover her naked body.

"Kenji's fighting for both of our lives, Akane. Why didn't you simply pick me up and leave when Kenji told you to?"

"I don't like anybody telling me what to do," Akane mumbled as she lay on the ground as she was shivering in a fetal position.

While Akane figured out where she was, Yujiro had shoved Kenji back several feet with the force of his hands moving forward.

"Aaagh!"

Then Yujiro sped right past Kenji, creating after images of himself. Thus he attempted to kick behind his knee to injure him, but Kenji had shot his legs upwards, striking his opponent with upside-down helicopter kicks in a rapid-fire fashion.

"Yeearrgghh!" Yujiro screamed, his hair flying back with the wind created by Kenji's attack.

"You still have a lot to learn, Akane. Couldn't you tell how powerful the guy Kenji's fighting was, especially after how he fast he defeated Kuno?"

"I'm as good as either you or Kenji. And I hate how you keep underestimating me!" Akane got out.

"Well, how come this Yujiro guy frightened you to tears when he stripped you naked with shameless ease? This guy isn't one of the perverted boys who attack you at school. He's dangerous and powerful enough to frighten even Kenji," Ranma replied.

The memory of what had happened made Akane's face red and body shiver, realizing what could have occurred. Thus her arms covered her blushing body that went scarlet upon thinking about the galling humiliation she had endured in front of both Ranma and Kenji.

During the heated battle, Yujiro executed a somersault kick that missed Kenji's chin, but before Kenji could counter-attack, Yujiro's foot came crashing down on Kenji's head with speed and power, smashing him into the ground.

"Aaarrgghh!"

After having embedded Kenji into the ground with only his shoulders on up being out of the ground, Yujiro began to kick his opponent in the head mercilessly until the hammer-wielding martial artist burst up and out of his predicament, using his hammer to fly out of the entrapment he was in. Then he shot upward, slamming into Yujiro's midsection hammer first as he took him into the sky.

"Well?" Ranma asked.

"What?!"

"Shouldn't you have listened to what Kenji said?"

"I know what I'm doing!"

"Well, can you pick me up and take me back to the Tendo homestead?"

"I'm staying right here. I want to watch this fight! You can leave if you want!" Akane stammered.

"I can't leave, Akane. I can barely move as it is and neither can you. As soon as either of us recovers we need to leave," Ranma commented.

At that point, Akane said nothing as she stared at the battle taking place, her eyes brightening as Kenji's ki hammers appeared in each of his faster-than-the-eye-could-see hands, doing more damage on his opponent than he was receiving.

"Aaarrggh!" Yujiro screamed as he went flying backward and on to the ground. However, as Kenji made his way towards him, Yujiro popped up, striking Kenji in the stomach with a snap kick that was too fast for him to avoid.

"Ungh!"

Hidden behind some boulders was Elder Cologne who watched the fight with interest.

"I'm surprised Kenji Tendo is even able to stand up to the likes of Yujiro Hanma for so long. Even I have feared to deal with him. Thus we Amazons have made it a point to stay away from him unless the need to fight him becomes absolutely necessary."

"Is Kenji more powerful than myself or any of the other Amazon elders? If he survives this battle I need to get Kenji and Shampoo together, taking them back to Joketsuzoku as soon as possible. Elder Deodorant can do whatever she wants with Ranma except for making her chief elder in the future. That position is reserved for Shampoo!"

"However, there's still the problem of bringing Kenji to heal if he proves too powerful for us. Hmm. I'll have to think of something."

Upon finishing her thoughts, Cologne continued to watch the fight from her hidden vantage point within the countless crevices in the area.

From another area hidden within the bushes of one of the taller trees using a concealment technique, was Happosai who had sensed the previous fight Ryoga had had with Yujiro thus had decided to end a panty raid early to watch the climactic battle.

"This is surprising. How did Kenji get so powerful in so short a matter of time? Did he really go somewhere and train in a time warp? That's the only place he could have done something like that. But those places are hard to find and can only be used once. And even then that kind of training is extremely painful, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Sheesh, at this point, Kenji is capable of lifting hundreds of tons over his head. He can lift twice that much if he's just shoving something forward."

"Yujiro Hanma is regarded as the most powerful martial artist on the planet. Even I keep my distance from that guy. If Kenji manages to defeat this guy, keeping him in line will become a much bigger problem than I previously thought it would be."

"Losing that strength contest must have bothered him a whole lot for him to take a life-threatening risk like that. Even his agility, endurance, and durability have increased along with his fighting skills. Kenji may well have become one of the strongest fighters on the planet. How could an idiot like Soun have raised such a dedicated son? Come to think of it, Genma has also managed to raise a powerful martial artist even if she's only a girl. So go figure."

"Speaking of Ranma, there she is on the ground naked and helpless. Akane's in the same condition. Who'd have thought Akane's bosom was so healthy and full of life? And here I've been ogling Ranma when Akane's a hot piece in her own right. She needs a much larger brazier though. Maybe I should go over there and take a much closer look at them. The girls I mean. Heh, heh."

While the battle between Kenji and Yujiro waged on, Ranma struggled to get to her feet, took a deep breath, and walked towards the cave in a teetering manner, involuntarily moving to the left and the right as she stumbled to the cave.

"Where are you going?" Akane asked.

"Ryoga practically made a home inside this cave so I…"

"That makes sense, but why are you going inside the cave? I doubt there's anything of use to us in there," Akane called out.

"Ryoga has spare clothes in here. Or would you rather stay naked and afraid?!" Ranma called out from inside the cave.

"What?! Don't confuse me with yourself, Ranma!"

"Anyway, here. I couldn't find any pants, so each of us will have to go commando for the time being," Ranma said upon exiting the cave with two of the shirts and belts Ryoga normally wore, handing Akane a set which she snatched from her.

"You're welcome."

"What was that?"

"I said, 'You're well-groomed.'"

Akane glared at Ranma as she put the proffered clothes on as Ranma did likewise. As Ranma stumbled to the ground, she looked at the injured, unconscious form of Ryoga only a few feet away.

"It's taking me way too long to recover. Did this Yujiro guy deliberately tear the koi off of me in such a way to make it hurt so much? And that bastard Ryoga, using something like that to force me to fall in love with him after everything he said about me. How dare he?"

Then the clothed Akane walked over to Ryoga, took hold of his head, and placed it in her lap.

"Akane, what are you doing?"

"Poor Ryoga."

"Poor Ryoga?! What are you talking about, Akane?! You know what that pervert did to me?! He practically put me under his sexual control!"

Akane paused, regarding Ranma for a moment, staring at the redheaded girl intently. Then she answered her back.

"Sexual control? How often have you pranced around half-naked or naked all together as you deliberately excited a bunch of perverted boys? If anything, Ryoga was under your sexual control," Akane snapped back, letting Ryoga go and getting to her feet.

"What?!"

"You've been flaunting yourself both making all the boys pine for you while destroying the self-esteem of all my friends. Ryoga was helpless before your naked sexuality so he really couldn't help himself. And now you've attracted a martial arts psychopath that may well kill Kenji and abuse us for his pleasure. What's happened here is all your fault!"

"My fault?! Why must you blame me for everything?! I can't help it if my clothes come off during a fight. Then there's that old geezer who keeps ripping my clothes off. Then there was the time the rhythmic gymnastics team begged me to…"

"You deliberately took advantage of the team who was desperate for a win against Kodachi, making them promise not to get angry at you for your exhibitionism."

"That leotard was tight. I warned everyone about that! It wasn't my fault it got torn when Kodachi blasted me with a hundred daggers!"

"So?! The rhythmic gymnastics team rightly got angry with you when you paraded yourself in front of everybody there!"

"Oh, really? How about the time when that giant-sized Hako and his gang of thugs tore off your clothes? Was that my fault too?"

Akane glared at Ranma for a moment. Then she answered her. "Yes, it was all your fault."

"Mine?!"

"Because you wearing your bikini underwear, that perverted giant got turned on and brought his gang to school. If it wasn't for Kenji showing up, they may well have raped half the girls in the school!" Akane answered, giving Ranma a harsh glare.

"Weren't you the one who got angry at Kenji for even showing up to save the day? Now you're praising him for it?"

"I've apologized for being angry, all right?"

"And how about right now? You could have simply taken me and left the way Kenji wanted you to. But you let your ego get the better of you. And then this Yujiro guy stripped you naked after he did me. Does that make you a bad person? Or is everything still my fault?"

"Shut up!"

At that moment, Happosai appeared in front of the girls, regarding them as he puffed his pipe, prompting them to turn towards him.

"What do you want?" Ranma demanded of the leering old man.

Walking in front of them back and forth with his hands clasped behind his back, the old man spoke up.

"I was just curious about how the fight between Kenji and Yujiro Hanma was going. If Kenji manages to defeat the so-called Strongest Creature on Earth, the reputation of Anything Goes would rise. We'd no longer be a relatively unknown martial art. And it would all be because of me!"

"Because of you? Kenji's the one who trained smart and horrifically hard to the point he can even stand up against the likes of this guy."

"Listen here, Akane. If it wasn't for me neither you nor Ranma would be the martial artists you are today. And there's another thing."

"What's that, old man?" Ranma answered, looking around as Happosai seemed to vanish into thin air.

"All the training you've done has made the buns of you girls beyond impressive, so firm yet so soft and fully packed," the old pervert said as he looked up the shirts of the bare-bottomed babes, placing his hands up to their derrieres.

"Go away!" the girls screamed, turning around and kicking the dirty old man into the sky in a coordinated attack subconsciously. Then each of them collapsed to the ground.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!"

The two martial arts warriors continued to fight. However, Kenji had begun to land more hits than he was taking.

"This won't do. It's surprising that anyone would even be fighting me for so long. Time to change the tide of this fight," Yujiro speculated as he surprisingly grabbed Kenji by his neck and slammed his head into the earth, bouncing it off the ground.

"Ungh!" Kenji came up from the ground only to be on the receiving end of countless punches and kicks from his opponent. Despite getting hit so many times or because of the blows he was taking, Kenji snapped out of his stunned state and made his hammer appear. Thus he spun it around at superhuman speed, creating a shield that blocked off his opponent's attacks.

The kinetic energy of Kenji's spinning hammer was so great as to shoot his opponent's long hair backward and upwards. Yujiro even had to step back against the force of Kenji's ki hammer.

However, instead of going head up against the force of Kenji's ki hammer, Yujiro executed a somersault, leaping over his opponent to strike him from in the back. Despite the speed and finesse of Yujiro's acrobatic maneuver, Kenji reacted quickly, making another ki hammer appear in his other hand and striking the warrior's attacking foot, breaking his balance as he fell. Then Kenji struck the landscape in front of Yujiro knocking the man off the ground.

"I'll get you for…"

"I'm not done yet!" Kenji called out as he threw the first hammer that had been spinning for a while. Then he sent it into Yujiro, knocking him back several yards into a large boulder near the cave Ryoga had called home for the last few days.

"Aargh!"

"Way to go, Kenji!" Ranma cheered, jumping up and down despite the exhaustive events of the day.

However, Yujiro wasn't out of the fight yet! To Kenji's surprise, his opponent came streaming out of the Yujiro shaped indentation he had created and struck Kenji with a fast-paced, energy-infused, flickering haymaker to his chest despite being a couple of feet away, slamming him a few yards back, forcing him to use his acrobatic skills to keep from stumbling.

Then Yujiro sped into him, slashing with his claw hand technique attempting to slice Kenji into a bloody pulp. However, upon the end of his claw barrage from which Kenji had finally shuffled back away, Yujiro noticed there wasn't a mark on Kenji even though his shirt was torn into nothingness. In addition to that, Yujiro felt as if his fingers had been blunted.

"How is it you're still standing?"

"I'm practically made out of steel." Then faster than the untrained eye could follow Kenji shot a ki hammer in Yujiro's direction. However, this time Yujiro sped past it and struck Kenji hundreds of times with punches and kicks. And when it seemed Kenji was stunned, Yujiro grabbed him and spun Kenji in a wind-up manner at super-speed before slamming him into the ground.

"Aaargh!" Kenji screamed as his head bounced off the ground after which he used an acrobatic flip that allowed him to land his feet only to have Yujiro take hold of him by his neck, choking him while his legs took hold of his legs, pinning Kenji down with his face in the ground.

"No one can escape this hold. Even giant-sized gorillas, lions, and crocodiles could not escape this hold before they died."

In reaction to his predicament, Kenji reached deep down inside for that little something extra. Then his body violently shook, shaking himself free of his captor.

"This is the end of the line, Yujiro!"

"Whaaaat?!"

Before his surprised opponent could act, Kenji screamed, "hammer time!" Thus Kenji shot hundreds of ki hammers into Yujiro, causing him to stumble backward.

"Aargh!"

And before Yujiro could recover, Kenji was on top of him. "Tenshin amaguriken!" Kenji screamed as he had a ki hammer in each hand striking his adversary at superhuman speed. Then Kenji smashed the two ki hammers together, merging them into one larger hammer. Upon finishing that, he spun around at super-speed, countless revolutions until he struck Yujiro sending him into sky screaming.

"I'll get you for thiiisssss!"

"Huff! Huff!"

"You did it, Kenji!" Ranma called out as she and Akane stumbled towards him.

"Indeed. You've done well, Son-in-Law."

"Cologne!"

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Be here next time when Cologne plays her hand to bring Kenji back to Joketsuzoku.