Nabiki scoffed silently before dismissing the thought. "The test was for all four grade levels, so I'm not surprised. Any luck with the weird questions?"
She watched as Ranma cocked his head without comprehension. "Weird questions?"
The middle Tendo arched a skeptical eyebrow back at Ranma. "What, you didn't notice anything unusual about that test?"
"Um, Oh!" The pigtailed boy's eyes suddenly lit up. "You mean that question about the trains and the crosswind, right?"
Nabiki blinked.
"I swear," Ranma continued, oblivious to the girl staring at him openly now. "Must have used three sheets of scratch paper for that one."
"Alright, Saotome," The Ice Queen simply shook her head while her annoyance increased. "Then I suppose you know which direction bio energy circulates through the brain?"
"Chakra? Mostly counter clockwise," Ranma shrugged as they cut through an alleyway to the next street and beyond that, the dojo. Nabiki's annoyance stalled with the response, and she stared at the martial artist for any ill fated attempts at levity. There was none.
"Okay then," Nabiki turned to another conversational tack, her sarcasm all but gone now that she had been thoroughly intrigued. "What color is tranquil energy?"
"Trick question," Ranma returned easily. "I mean, you don't exactly see Kasumi-chan glowing any colors, do you?"
"No, that's... But... No," The Tendo stumbled mentally before taking a moment to organize her thoughts. "Okay, but there wasn't a 'none of the above' answer to that question."
"Yeah, saw that," He shrugged, dismissing the observation as inconsequential. "Figured they probably wanted that one written in."
Nabiki outright stopped this time and it took a moment for the martial arts heir to realized that she had simply stopped at the ally's mouth. She stared at Ranma for another full minute, her mouth opening, then closing in regular intervals before finally coming upon a coherent thought. "You wrote in an answer... on a machine graded test sheet?"
Ranma simply nodded, and Nabiki pinched the bridge of her nose. "Saotome?"
The pigtailed boy answer hesitantly. "Uh, yeah?"
"I'm going to start charging you one hundred yen for every brain cell you kill," Nabiki deadpanned, walking past the martial artist before she suffered any more casualties.