"The Spring of Drowned Man just around the corner, sir. You lucky sir, all the springs have return, though not at maximum level."
The Jusenkyo guide continues his chatty lecture on the springs' history while his listener follows behind him faithfully. That is until said listener heard the magical words to 'cure' him of his curse. That was all it took. Next thing the guide notice was said listener making a beeline around the multitude of puddle water to the direction in which he pointed.
Despite after all the misadventures said person has been through for the past year, he fails to learn his lesson to look before you leap. Thus Ranma Saotome, the current heir of the Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu School of martial arts, who's spent the last week trudging through the rocky Bayankala Mountain Range of the Qinghai Province, once again commits a rather fatal mistake. One, he soon learns, will change the course of his life forever and make the past year seem like a midsummer's comedy.