Thanks to Elin B. and The Wanderer for those catches,
especially...

The Wanderer wrote:

"So if it faces Ryouga again," Ranma speculated, "It'll be as tough
as it was when I was fightin' it, and it'll know how to reflect his
Shi-Shi Hokouden, right?"
     

speculated, "it'll be as tough

I think it's either Houkoudan or Hokodan, though I'm not absolutely
positive. But I'm sure the last vowel is an "a".
   

It would be "houkou", and yes "dan" rather than "den".

 

...which is a mispelling that I have now corrected throughout
the fic. Much appreciated.

I've just noticed that "houkou" is probably yet another Ranma-series
pun. The standard translation of "Shishi Houkou Dan" is "Roaring Lion
Bullet", in which "houkou" is "roar" - but with a different kanji,
"houkou" can also have another meaning: it can mean "direction", and
appears as part of a construct meaning "no sense of direction". Which
would unquestionably be appropriate...


 

I am shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - at the notion that there
would be puns in Ranma 1/2. 

I haven't yet gotten around to re-reading these chapters, because I have
Issues with darkfic (which this in some sense is), but I've been
anticipating the continuation of "Relentless" for quite some time; if
and when we get to the point where the new chapters have been posted, I
intend to pick up and read through from the beginning again. (I'd just
read the new chapters, but I get the impression that there have been
rewrites of earlier parts, so why not take advantage of the excuse to
refresh my memory?) I'll probably have comments of my own to make at
that point.

 

I'll be looking forward to it...

Grayson Towler
http://www.talesfromthevault.com/relentless




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