The adventures, of the past year, had left their mark on Akane as she methodically disabled one attacker at a time without much difficulty. She was, however, outnumbered and couldn’t be everywhere at the same time. The thugs had realized this early on and tried to make use of this, but Akane’s counter tactic of ‘throw a thug at a thug’ disrupted their efforts some. The support fire in the form of thrown food and cheap souvenirs, courtesy of several bystanders, didn’t help in that regard. Neither did the ‘Speed Woodcarving’ martial artist, whom ran interference.
Nabiki’s voice, heralding her return to the fight, didn’t do much to ease the worries of the thugs as they saw their chances to success fall even further.
“There they are.” Nabiki shouted and pointed at the thugs.
“How dare you young ingrates threaten poor sweet Kasumi.” Happosai roared as he entered the fray, pipe at the ready.
Truth be told, the thugs did do their utmost best, both in trying to kidnapping Hitomi and getting away from an enraged Happosai. Their best wasn’t nearly enough for both endeavours. Happosai made short work of the thugs as he used his pipe to send them flying, along with a Happo Daikarin as a goodbye present. Finally cackling with glee, he made a quick check to see if he had missed any thug.
“Well, my good deed has been done for this year. Onward to liberate my pretties.” Happosai declared and briefly placed himself in Akane’s bosom, before streaking off with her bra to his original destination.
Ranma's little dryad, Chapter 7