Demonic Halo [Momo, Ranma]

”… Eh?” How’d he forget the name? Wait, he just tried to make his own spell right now – he thought he could, but maybe… Hinamori-sensei had a point. There was a fancy, funny Kidō plum spell right in front of him, ripe for use! But it did leave him wondering…

“Names sure have a lot of power.”

Good thing that she warned him against eating the Kidō plum, too. “Aww… understandable. It looks very juicy and tasty, though,” he sighed sadly, but he didn’t want to mess his mouth up even more than it was now. He was still wearing the damn bandages around his own teacher… oh yeah, he should probably take them off.

Gently unwrapping the bandages, Ranma expressed his comfort in her homely abode and revealed the cut that gave him the potential for a ghastly grin – akin to urban legend of some sort of ‘slit-mouthed woman’, he too was quite slit-mouthed. It looked like he’d tried to swallow a sword, and the blade cut through each side of his cheeks in the attempt.

“Aaaaaaalright, get in the Reishi plum, four-eyes,” he warned the target dummy before chanting the name, “Ume no Ki no Inkan… yeeeeeees, wrap him up in a plum, my precious Reishi…”

Ranma’s Reishi poured out, manifesting 8 orbs emitting a strong light. Kidō plum seal… it was like wrapping up a giftbox! With that in mind, he maintained his focus and manipulated the orbs to surround and circle around Four-Eyes until they unearthed themselves as spiritual ribbons. Great! He could go so far now…

But the ribbons had trouble shrinking the target. “Mnngh… I can wrap it in Reishi, but shrinking it is…”