Ryouga normally wandered all over Japan, finding places that were not normally on any map.
The Forest of Lost Years being one of those shining examples. Even at a popular shrine, Ryouga could find a shop of magical items that other people's eyes tended to slide over without registering.
It was due to this factor that his life in all but a small percentage of worlds intersected that of Ranma Saotome. Ryouga found the unusual, and Ranma's life usually qualified.
Which was why, with Ranma having Ecchi's One Ring, and Happosai taking his two disciples into the Caverns Of Temptation, that Ryouga finding his own misadventure was inevitable.
Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Though for it to be a good thing he'd have found Akari Unryuu's sumo pig farm and spent the next two weeks in lemon territory.
Instead he found himself:
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