When Ranma saw that a naked Ukyo was walking up to stand next to Shampoo, he threw his arms up and shook his head. "I knew it."
"'Knew' what?" Kuroda asked.
"Well, it seems that ya went and got just about every girl that I had a chance of bein' with."
"Oh?"
"Have ya been goin' around ta try and find the girls that have been around me?"
"Hardly. All we needed to do was just stick around, and it seemed that they came to us. It was the damnedest thing, almost like they popped up when we least expected it."
"Ta be honest... I can see how that'd happen," Ranma sighed.
"You can?"
"Yeah. They have a talent for that. 'Course, I woulda never expected them to show up like this...."
"Which is why we put them together in this way."
"Why's that?"
"You know them, and, well, it simply makes sense. We could sell them off, but this seemed to be our best option," Kuroda informed him.
"How's that?"
"Well, you were getting two, and as doing otherwise would cause trouble, we decided that you would appreciate having them where you could have them, instead of some rich boy who'd keep any one of them as a party favor, passing her around to his friends as the mood struck him."
"That'd... be bad. I'd prefer ta have them with me."
"We thought that you would. Besides, think of it this way. Not only will you be having your every need met from now on, but you have these girls hanging on your every word without them trying to do anything that you don't want."
"Hey.... Didn't think of it that way," Ranma admitted.
"We aim to please."
"Then what's your next thing ta do?"
"That's easy enough," Kuroda responded, and started to:
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