Ranma 1/2 story from Shonen Sunday Week 8, 1990 (Ranma 1/2 Volume 12, Part 2) Original story is Copyright (C) 1990 Takahashi Rumiko/Shogakukan Translation is Copyright (C) 1990 AmaTran/Ragnarok Part 2 of 5 Bouken! Kouchoushitsu...no maki (Adventure! Principal's office...episode) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Furinkan High School, the principal's bizarre balloons continue to swing in the wind with their "BOYS" and "GIRLS" banners as all is chaos within the school... Students: (angry) That stupid principal!! Does he think we're just going to let him give us marubouzu haircuts!!? Kunou, dressed in his usual traditional clothing and armed with his bouken [wooden sword], accompanies the students as they run amuck in the school hallways... Female student: (upset) There's no way we're going to get our hair trimmed to okappa-style haircuts!! Male student: (determined) No matter what, we have to grab that coconut with the school regulation exception in it!! Kunou: (serious) Hm. I, Kunou Tatewaki here in Furinkan High School have my limits... (angry) Foolish school regulations like marubouzu haircuts, crushing me with determination! (angry) It's over, principal!! Kunou suddenly thrusts his sword forward, where Ranma happens to be. Ranma leaps up high, narrowly avoiding injury and permanent emasculation. Ranma: (annoyed, kicking Kunou in the face) Who's the principal, who? Akane: (worried) You're acting so strange. And we're only searching... Someone watches the students search on closed-circuit TV... Students: (frustrated) Where's the principal's office!!? Inside an office filled with Hawaiian souvenirs (wooden totem pole, surfboard, palm trees, etc.) sits the principal, preparing a kana "Aloha" sign. He watches cheerfully as the students make a discovery... Students: (heard over TV) It's the principal's door!! Principal: I'll have to invite everyone in pretty soon. He presses a red button on his desk, causing a wall of water to surge towards the surprised students. Everyone is swept in by the sheer force of the cold water, including a changed Ranma. When they finish coughing up water and looking around, they spot a a square of light in an otherwise dark room, which leads them to believe that... Students: We're underground!! Akane: (confused) Wh-what is this... The lights come on in full force. Akane sees that they're in a... Akane: (surprised) Jungle...? As the students gape at all the coconut trees and birds flying around, a repulsively familiar voice makes an announcement... Principal: Welcome to the principal's office, everyone!! High up on a coconut tree, the principal is securely tied to the trunk, strumming his ever-present ukulele. Principal: (laughing) Have fun in a Hawaiian mood! Some students angrily try to hit the principal with soccer balls and volleyballs while others armed with brooms and mops wait below. Students: (angry) What kind of nonsense are you saying! Get down here, you jerk!! Suddenly, Akane senses something behind her... Akane: Hm? Jungle animals (ape, panther, tiger, lion, cheetah and crocodile) leap out at the students. The ape lunges with its fist at Akane, who barely stops it. She's shocked to discover that in the ape's hand there's a... Akane: (surprised) Ba, barikan! She flips the ape to the ground, stunning it. Other students have already discovered the peculiar weapons the animals have... Students: (dodging barikan) What kind of Hawaiian is this!!? Akane begins fighting the animals in earnest. They are no match for her and begin to fall. She suddenly notices that... Akane: (to herself) Ranma... Ranma's not here!! The other students examine the fallen "animals" ... Students: (incredulous) Why, if it isn't the school teachers inside!? What were you up to, you bastards? The teachers, still dressed in animal costumes, begin to cry. Teachers: But, the principal made us do it... Even though I have three kids here... Student: (furious) That's pretty sad. Akane: (shouting angrily) This is dirty, principal!! At about this point the students discover that... Students: (pointing to the tree) He's gone! He got away!! (upset) Seems like he still hasn't given up on making bouzu [priests with shaven heads] out of us. Anyway, let's split up and look for that coconut! Akane: (concerned) Oh, I wonder where Ranma has gone this time. On a beach somewhere nearby... The principal, relaxing on a cot, enjoys his artificial seashore, complete with fake seagull outlines and a heat lamp. He strums on his ukulele.... Principal: (singing) "It's still full of traps, good luck everyone." As the waves come in, a particularly strong wave dumps a kayak on top of the principal's head, knocking him over. Principal: *OUCH!* Then, he spots the girl that the waves also wash up. Principal: (surprised) *OH!* The girl is Ranma, dressed in an island-style short sarong. Flowers in the hair, bangles around the left foot and a seashell tied on the right side complete his "island girl" outfit. He's murmuring unconsciously... Principal: (concerned) What's wrong, girl. The principal lifts Ranma up by the shoulders, without getting any response. Principal: *HEY GIRL!* The ever-present barikan comes out... Ranma: (kicking principal in the face) Female students get okappa haircuts. I'm not a female student. Ranma clasps his hands together and assumes a piteous pose, tears running... Ranma: (sadly) I need the coconut with the school regulation exception, and I've come all the way from the neighbouring island for it. Principal: (incredulous) *OH...!* A little while later, admiring a blue-sky background and fake seagulls... Principal: (serious) Is that so... It's for your father's delicate constitution... Ranma: Yes... He told me that there's nothing else he would eat... Principal: You're very considerate of your family... Ranma looks on in amazement as the principal sheds... Ranma: (to himself) A tear...!? Principal: (wiping tears away) *Sorry...* I finally remembered my son... Ranma: You have a son? The principal, without his sunglasses, looks up with tears still streaming from his eyes... Principal: (fondly) Three years ago, I was missing... Ranma: (pensive) Hmmm. A moment of silence passes by, with the two just staring into the depths of the artificial clouds of the blue-sky background... Principal: (shades back on) Now girl... You have a father? Ranma: (funny expression on face) ..... ..... (shyly smiling) Since I told you that because of his delicate constitution he can only eat the coconut with the school regulation exception, I wonder if you won't tell me where it is? Principal: (delighted) *OH!* Such filial piety. I know! I'll cooperate with you. Ranma: (delighted) You'll give me the coconut!? As the waves crash behind them, the principal pulls Ranma close while magnanimously declaring: Principal: We shall go on a search for the coconut with the school regulation exception!! Ranma: (mystified) Hm!? (annoyed) Just a second, don't you have it?... The principal laughs loudly (in English) at the question... Principal: (grinning) I've lost track of where I hid it. Meanwhile, in the "jungle"... Student: (searching) Blast it, there's lots of coconuts... Akane: (determined) Keep looking, no matter what! Elsewhere in the "jungle", Kunou is held captive by various predator plants... Kunou: (upset) I'll show you, evil principal! I, Kunou Tatewaki, shall punish you!! Students: (looking on) Oh, it's an insect-eating plant! First time I've ever seen one. (searching) Damn it, the principal's office is so wide!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next: Kouchou no musuko...no maki