"A--Akane.  What are you doing in Chicago?"

        "CHICAGO?!?" blurted Ranma.  "This is NERIMA!  How can you get
the idea you're in CHICAGO?"

        "I'm not?"  Ryoga said with some disappointment.  "Darn.  That's
where I was headed.  They have the greatest hot dogs in Chicago."

        "How would you get there, anyhow?" asked Akane.

        "Walking."

        "How can ANYONE walk to Chicago?" demanded Ranma, unbelieving.

        "Well, I've done it before.  It's just outside of Osaka, after
all... isn't it?"

Bwaaahaaahaaahaha!!!!

        "I do not believe you," said Ranma, shaking her head.  Akane,
dumfounded, just gazed.  And went to check the family atlas on the
off chance that there was a Chicago outside of Osaka.

        Oddly enough, there was.  The mystery would continue...

*blink* *blink* There is?!?