31 Curses and One Redhead

Ranma crossed his arms and snarled, "Kuno hates the real me, the guy!"

"Maybe it's just because you spurned him when he was a girl and is still angry with you for it," Kasumi suggested. "Buddhism teaches us a soul cannot rest until they can find peace from their past deeds. And maybe that is why your luck is the way it is, Ranma. Perhaps if you can win Kuno's heart back, you both may be able to move on." There was utter disgust on Ranma's face.

"Or maybe Kuno was a lesbian and resents the fact that you are not a girl in this life," Nabiki said with a smirk. Something else to twist Ranma's sanity! Wooden-sword boy was obsessed with samurai traditions, perhaps even the idea that homosexuality made you more of a man.

"Or maybe Kuno wasn't the original girl," the shivering Mihoshi said, reading something in her book.

"Wha-at??" the two asked, while the third went, "Oh, my!"

"It says here that 31 people and 11 animals have fallen into the Spring of Drowned Young Girl in the past 1500 years." She had goosebumps.

"So, Kuno may have been one of those 31 people, not the 32nd, the first girl?" Kasumi asks.

"I'm afraid so. By the Law of the Conservation of Magick, the spell would have found the nearest person who once had had the body of that girl." Since the book floated, she was able to hug herself and rub.

"But the wish was for the original girl, the first person to be drowned in that Jusenkyo spring!" Nabiki said, sounding like a businesswoman. "Until we know that the soul inside the redheaded body is that one and only original, you haven't fulfilled the wish!"

"Uh, um, that does sound right." And the blonde, tan and naked genie turned to Ranma, "I guess you're my master again!" She wanted to throw herself into his warm arms.

"That book knows exactly how many and what type fell into the cursed spring. Shouldn't it know who exactly they were?! Give us the identity of the original girl!" Nabiki strove to leverage the information she was given into getting more and key information.

"The Law of Conservation also carries with it Privacy Rules. It'll take time to negotiate the maze of restrictions and constrictions." Her teeth wanted to chatter.

"When it comes to getting around 'red tape', I'm your girl," Nabiki said, confidently.

"Oh, are you volunteering to take my place as a genie?!" Mihoshi smiled, hopeful.