shellphones | Video || A Crabulous Query

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Video || A Crabulous Query

Type: Video
Sender ID: catsgothistongue (Ranma)
To: Public
Subject: Crabs
Warnings: Small mention of broken arm, Ranma's general idiocy

[The video feed opens up to a calm, relaxing beach viewing with waves gently crashing on the shore and crabs scuttering along in their own little world. The screen would change to front-facing mode to show Ranma sitting on the beach, left arm bandaged and in a cast and a few crabs climbing on and off of him. He seemed almost wistful, as if he's about to poise a sagely question...]

Think anyone here tried cooking any of the crabs here yet? [... or not.] Or at the least tried to get a leg off the big one. Imagine how much you could make with just a leg!

[Ranma no.]

Just uh... Just a hypothetical. [He's totally not salivating right now.]

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You don't gotta do that. Like I said, it's fine. I've been through worse, I don't even feel it!

[He foolishly moved the ruined arm, which predictably made him wince in pain and suck in a breath.]

[Kaveh crosses his arms on video.

Does he need to say anything, Ranma?]

[He too will cross his arms. Arm, crossing the one working arm.]

... [Kaveh won't leave him alone until he does so, will he?] ... Fine, how much do you want?

Next time you get hurt, get your injuries checked out by healers. I know you're not going to stop investigating things, and I'm not asking you to. But this is a different world, and there may be things here you've never been hurt by before.

["think before you act" seems like an impossible ask for Ranma so let's go with this.]

Deal?

You don't gotta talk to me like I'm some little kid...

[Just because you're older and taller than him!]

But if it'll get you off my back, okay. I will.

I am explaining my position clearly, Ranma, that's just backing up my thesis.

[he sighs.]

Can you get to the house fine?

Could've explained your thesis in a way that didn't sound so patronizing. Even my old man wasn't so high-strung about all this.

[Because Genma Saotome is just the shining example of a caring parent.]

Yeah, I can be there in a couple of minutes. It's my arm that's broken, not my legs, 'member? [He said dryly before putting away his phone.

A few minutes later, he'll be at the front of the home of the architect twink and his roommate, knocking on it. Be glad he doesn't feel like coming through the window.]

[He is literally not being condescending ranma he is a SCHOLAR who CARES ABOUT YOU?

but fine he'll come open the door and--uh. wow. For one, he's dressed down, so just a messy bun. Loose shirt. comfy pants. the bags under his eyes could carry an entire grocery store.]

Ah, there you are. Here, we'll do this in the garden, I shouldn't do this inside the house.

[Also Ranma is still technically banned over the fish statue.]

[But why tho, it doesn't concern you??

Blink blink.]

Are you sure you're not the one who needs help? You look like crap.

[Tell your bf to grow up already, gosh!]

Huh? I'm fine. Don't worry about it.

[Bloom cores can't fix sleep deprivation, he tried that. But he'll just lead ranma to the back garden and an absolute fucking RIOT of plants that have clearly taken Kaveh's plant magic with gusto.

The flowers are beautiful, at least. Just also have grown like six feet high.

Anyway he's got a bucket of water.]

[Hypocrite. Ranma groused mentally to himself, finding this whole thing ridiculous and just an overreaction on Kaveh's part. That's put on pause when he sees the abundance of plants sprouted all throughout the garden. With how any are here, you'd think Kaveh spent entire years carefully planting, watering and nurturing them to get them this way.

Ranma doesn't stop himself from letting out an impressed whistle, looking high and low at some of the plants that are even bigger than him!]

Nice garden you got here.

[He commented lightly, though tensed up some upon seeing the bucket of water. The amount of times he's been splashed by conveniently placed buckets could not be understated.]

I think I may have given them a little too much magic....they're certainly enthusiastic.

[Kaveh shakes his head a bit, but speaking of magic...he's dipped his hand into the bucket and used a little to make a lilypad! with a bloom core on it. It turns gold when he picks it up but...weren't those the bombs he used before?

Why is he approaching Ranma with it.]

[... Is it more or less concerning that Ranma got a lot less tense when the bucket of water was replaced with the bomb.]

That's the healing grenade you used that one time, right? Cause if not, you can just come out and say you want to blow me up, though I'd hate for that to make a mess of this nice garden.

Bloom cores don't damage plants. But this should heal you, yes.

[...'should'?]

[Well that bodes well.]

... Eff it, hit me with it.

[He's been blown up hundreds of times by now. He should be fine.]

I appreciate your vote of confidence.

[He'll just hold the damn thing out to the broken arm and--BANG.

...it actually does feel quite pleasant! Enjoy that tasty healing.]

I've been blown up more times than I can count, so if all goes wrong--

[And there's the boom. The not-cell shattering ka-boom. What he felt was a really pleasant tingling sensation that almost felt like around the first time he learnt how to get his ki to instinctively speed up his healing. Only twice and less warm. The normal skin coloration returned back to its usual complexion, bones reconnected back together like velcro, and all open wounds sealed back up.

With his hand seemingly healed, Ranma undoes the sling and unwraps the bandages, showing his arm good as new.]

Well I'll be damned, you actually did it.

It's something I modified here, but they worked on Alhaitham before, so I was sure they'd work on you.

[Wait.

The bombs don't usually heal other people?

Why do they heal Kaveh???]

It was one of the doors that asks you for truth, wasn't it?

How does it even work? Where I'm from, explosions tend to destroy, not rebuild stuff or people.

[Given that Ranma went stark white at the assumption and froze like a statue, Kaveh hit the nail on the head.]

T-That's a thing? I didn't know, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

I've run into them a couple times.

[Kaveh snorts.]

Tell me what actually happened and I'll show you how the bloom cores work.

[Fuck.]

I-I mean do I really need to? You can already guess what happened.

You don't need to, but I'm not explaining the cores for nothing, so...

[He is applying everything he has ever learned from Dori and he's only a little sorry.]

[Is he really that curious to know how those work?

... Damn it.]

... So me and another guy, Heizou, you probably know him since he talked about you, were exploring a maze. We reached one of the doors and I, for his sake, bravely went first. And I might've flubbed the truth on the question it asked me a little. But in my defense, it was a stupid question no man in their right mind would answer!

[That's only about like half the truth.]

[Kaveh crosses his arms and stares at Ranma for a long moment.]

Bloom cores are made of dendro elemental energy reacting with hydro element, and explode a short time after they are formed.

[Give him half a truth, get half an explanation.]

I know hydro's water, but what's dendro supposed to be?

[Come on Kaveh, that's not fair!]

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