Not an Angel
Chapter Two. Ryo's Jusenkyo Curse!
Ryo lies down on his bed at Nasute's house reflecting on the recent events. No more armors, no more Samurai Troopers, no more senseless battles. Yet life had not finished with the five young heroes. Recently, Shin had twins, and now Ryo is thinking about the direction his life is headed. Out of all of the former Troopers, Ryo is now the only one who has never had a girlfriend. Even Jun now has a girlfriend. Ryo sighs, mainly because he doesn't want a girlfriend, but Shuu, Seiji, and Touma are insistant.
Ryo sighs to himself. He reflects back on the day he lost his father. He was with his father in China, helping him take pictures of the native wildlife. While in the wilderness, they had spotted a giant panda bear cautiously approaching a cute red haired girl. Ryo's father took advantage of the adorable photo opportunity and shot it. This caused both the panda and the girl to chase after them. Ryo had fallen a ledge and into a small, but deep pool of water. However, Ryo's father was never found.
"Every since that day, near those fated Jusenkyo springs...my life forever changed. I lost my father, and soon after that I became a Samurai Trooper. The reports said that he had been killed by a wild animal, but I never got to see for myself. Even though I'm no longer a Trooper...I still can't let go of Jusenkyo.", Ryo reflects.
"Hey Ryo! What are you doing?", Jun inquires energetically as he enters Ryo's bedroom.
"Oh, just thinking.", Ryo comments.
"About what?", Jun pries.
"Oh, about the past. Before I became a Trooper. It seemed so long ago. Did you want something Jun?"
"Shuu, Touma, and Seiji invited us to join them at the public baths!", Jun informs.
"Public baths? Well...uh...I don't do well at public baths.", Ryo stutters.
"Please, Ryo-nisan!", Yamano Jun begs.
"You can go on without me. You're a big boy. You don't need me cramping your style."
"I won't go without you!", Jun insists.
"Alright, I guess I can't get out of it. I'll go, but I won't join you in the baths.", Ryo informs.
"Hey Ryo! Glad you could come!", Touma greets standing in front of the bath house with Seiji and Shuu.
"Yah, Jun suckered me into coming.", Ryo admits as Jun smiles proudly.
"You're not going to get embarressed, are you?", Seiji inquires.
"I'm just here for Jun...I'm not actually going to get in the bath.", Ryo informs.
"Aw, come on Ryo, it'll be fun!", Shuu insists glomping onto Ryo.
"Ack! No!"
"Awwww Ryo-nisan!", Jun whines.
The four drag Ryo inside and pay their fee for using the baths. Ryo calms down as he takes a seat and begins washing his body with soap and cold water. Just as Touma finishes bathing, he is suddenly doused in icy cold water by Ryo. "RYO!!!!!" Ryo swiftly grabs two more buckets full of water and splashes the others. The foursome immediately go running after him with a vengence, but eventually give up and enter the bath. Ryo sighs and finishes bathing.
With his towel wrapped firmly about his waist, Ryo peeks over to the baths. "Hey Ryo-nisan, come in! The water's greate!", Jun insists.
"No thanks."
"You needn't be so shy, Ryo!", Seiji encourages.
"Hey, where's Tou......aaaaaaaaahhhhh!", Ryo exclaims as Touma pushes him into the warm water.
"Got you back, Ryo!", Touma proclaims with triumph as the others laugh.
Ryo finds himself at the bottom of the bath. The others dive down to chase after him. Ryo quickly removes his towel from around his waist and wraps it diagonally across his chest and lower regions. The four swim after him and Ryo desperately paddles up to the surface. "AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!", a black haired screams suddenly surfacing from the mens' side of the bath. She leaps out of the bath and runs towards the mens' changing area and snatches one of Ryo's extra towels and change of clothes. She quickly slips into his loose shirt and baggy boxers as she rushes out of the bath house clutching onto the clothes so as they do not fall off.
Shuu surfaces and looks around and sees Touma with a perplexed look on his face. Seiji follows and Jun rises up next. "Where's Ryo-nisan?", Jun questions.
"Was it me, or did I just hear a girl scream?", Seiji inquires.
"Yah, I just saw a girl coming up from this side.", Touma comments.
"A girl? I didn't see Ryo at all down there. You don't think that he switched sides with the girl, do you?", Shuu wonders.
"If he did, then we'd be hearing a LOT of girls screaming soon.", Seiji notes.
After waiting half an hour for Ryo to appear, the four boys head back to their stuff and change. Jun picks up the remainder of Ryo's stuff. "Ryo-nisan's shirt and boxers are missing.", Jun informs.
"I didn't see him get out of the bath.", Touma notes.
"Do you think that he got out of the bath before that girl showed up?", Seiji suggests.
"I really don't know.", Touma admits.
"Yah, but Ryo-nisan wouldn't have just taken off like that without his stuff! And he wouldn't have left me without saying anything!", Jun insists.
"Yah guys, it's not like Ryo to leave his stuff behind.", Shuu adds.
The boys sigh in agreement and finish changing. They head over to Nasute's house to see if she could help them find Ryo. "Oh, he's upstairs in the bath.", Nasute informs.
"In the bath, but he was just with us at the bath house.", Touma informs.
"Now that sounds odd.", Nasute concedes.
"Yah, and here's his stuff!", Jun informs showing Nasute Ryo's bath supplies.
The four go inside and wait for Ryo. After a few minutes, Jun decides to go upstairs to check on Ryo. Nasute stays with the three former Troopers as the disclose the happenings at the bath house. Meanwhile, Jun enters the bathroom where Ryo is bathing. "Ack! Oh...Jun. I thought you were Nasute. What are you doing here?", Ryo comments, caught off guard.
"Ryo-nisan, you WERE at the bath house with us earlier, right?", Jun inquires.
"Yah.....", Ryo admits.
"Why'd you leave without telling us! How could you be so mean like that?!", Jun demands.
"I'm sorry, Jun, I just got freaked out so I took off. I'm...I'm...I'm afraid of...deep water. I thought I was going to drown, so I freaked out, grabbed my clothes, and ran off. I'm sorry I worried you guys, but I have a series fear of deep water.", Ryo confesses stepping out of the tub and draining it.
After drying off and changing into a fresh pair of clothes, Ryo and Jun head downstairs to speak with everyone. "Hey guys, Ryo-nisan has to tell you something!", Jun informs entering the room with Ryo. Ryo blushes as everyone turn their attention to him. He walks over to a chair and sits down, feeling like he's been put on the spot.
"It goes back to before I became a Samurai Trooper. I was traveling with my father in China, near the Jusenkyo springs. He saw a great photo opportunity of a panda, but after taking the picture, the panda attacked us and I fell into a deep spring. When I surfaced, my father was gone. I was told that he had been killed by the panda, but I never saw the evidence for myself. Ever since then, I have been very afraid of deep pools of water. That's why I didn't want to go to the bath house.", Ryo explains.
"Yes, but didn't you have to go in Toiyama Bay to awaken Shin?", Seiji questions.
"It wasn't willingly. I was terrified...I...I didn't want to go in...but then Naaza showed up and attacked me. He...he drug me underwater! And we were fighting...then Shin woke up. I...I...I didn't want...I didn't want...to be down there!"
"Oh...okay.", Touma notes.
"Well...now you know.", Ryo sighs, although he noted that they didn't actually know the real truth.
Ryo's friends finally head off on their seperate direction. Ryo breathes a sigh of relief. He had no idea how they would react if they knew the truth. True, it Ryo knows that it was wrong not to be open with them about everything, but with all of the stuff Shin's going through...Ryo doesn't want to be put on the spot. "I don't want to HEAR the kind of comments Seiji will make either!", Ryo thinks to himself.
The next morning, Ryo takes a warm and refreshing hot bath. "Awww, and to think I'm going to take a cold one next. I kind of regret it, but I must.", Ryo comments. The door suddenly opens and Ryo screams like a girl! Nasute mimics Ryo's scream. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BATHROOM?!", Nasute screams in demand.
"Shut...shut...shut the door! Don't walk in on me like that!"
"WALK IN ON YOU?! YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! YOU'RE IN MY BATHROOM!"
"Please, Nasute, calm down. Just step out and calm down and I'll explain everything!"
"CALM DOWN! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN YOU BUST INTO MY HOUSE TO TAKE A BATH? RYO! BYAKUEN!", Nasute continues to scream. The girl in the tub sighs, drains out the warm water and instantly begins filling it with warm water. Nasute's jaw drops to see Ryo suddenly appear in the cold bath.
"Can you PLEASE get out now?", Ryo requests.
Nasute walks out backwards and awkwardly closes the door. She isn't sure what to make of what she just saw. She had walked in to see a strange girl in her bathroom, but then suddenly turned into Ryo. "Ryo?"
"Yes, it's me.", Ryo comments dried off and dressed.
"What...what...what is going on?", Nasute stutters, still in shock.
"I'm cursed Nasute. When I was in China with my father...I fell into a cursed spring. In cold water, I am a boy, in warm water, I am a girl.", Ryo explains.
"I...I...I don't believe it."
"I...I don't either...sometimes. I've been living like this since I became a Trooper.", Ryo admits.
Later that evening, Nasute invites Touma, Shuu and Seiji over. Although he hadn't been invited, Jun comes over as well. The former Troopers and Jun sit in the livingroom with a strange girl they had never seen before. Byakuen is laying on the floor trying to take a nap. "Hey Nasute, where's Ryo?", Touma inquires.
"Yah, where's Ryo-nisan?", Jun echoes.
"Well, forget about Ryo for the second, and lets us not be rude. I'm Seiji, and who might you be?", Seiji approaches the young lady with his smooth girl chasing voice.
"I think you got that wrong. You're Byakuen's lunch if you hit on me again.", the young lady informs as Byakuen looks over at Seiji with an evil smirk.
"Oh...kay.", Seiji comments nervously and backs off into his seat.
"Don't worry about Seiji. At least he isn't asking you to bear his child.", Touma teases.
Nasute comes back in the room and pours a bucket of ice cold water on the girl, transforming her into Ryo. "Ryo?!", the former Troopers exclaim.
"Ryo-nisan?!"
"What's going on here?", Shuu demands, but Nasute only smiles and leaves out into the kitchen.
"Hey Ryo, tell me I'm not crazy.", Touma inquires.
"What just happened here?!", Seiji freaks.
"What's wrong, Ryo-nisan?", Jun asks worried.
"Eh, oh, nothing.", Ryo retorts sweat dropping.
A few minutes of awkward silence, Nasute poors steaming hot water onto Ryo, transforming him into a girl. Ryo stands up and screams in a girly voice. "Not THAT HOT, Nasute!"
"Shall I get the bucket of cold water?", Nasute inquires.
"No! I'll...I'll be fine!", Ryo informs with water eyes.
"What in the HELL is going on?!", Touma demands to know.
"Yah, why do you keep turning into a girl?", Shuu asks.
"It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl....it's...just...RYO!!!!!!!!"
"Seiji-nisan, you're scaring me.", Jun informs.
"I'm sorry guys, but I wasn't entirely honest with you yesterday.", Ryo admits.
"So, you WERE the girl that came out from the mens' bath!", Touma notes.
"Ryo's a girl?", Shuu wonders.
"Of course not!", Jun insists.
"But...I am."
"Just...just for the moment. You'll...you'll be a guy again...right?", Seiji freaks out.
"I'm cursed. When me and my dad were in China, and chased by the panda, I feel into a cursed spring.", Ryo informs.
"So, you didn't fall into any ordinary deep spring, you feel into a cursed spring of Jusenkyo. Spring of Drowned Young Man?", Shuu comments.
"Yes."
"So, there really is a cursed spring in China.", Shuu comments.
"You mean, Ryo's a girl?!", Seiji asks confused.
"Ryo-nisan can't be a girl!", Jun protests.
"I'm finding this hard to believe.", Touma confesses.
"I was born a girl. My real name is not Ryo...it's Ryoko. After I emerged from the spring, I met Byakuen, and was given my yoroi and returned to Japan. Byakuen has always known that I was really a girl."
"So...what are you going to do now?", Touma inquires feeling awkward, although not nearly as awkward as Seiji and Jun.
"Are you going to return to the spring and find a cure?", Shuu wonders.
"I guess now...I really should. You guys know that I'm a girl.", Ryo comments.
"I don't want you to be a girl! You're my Ryo-nisan!", Jun cries.
"Jun, just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean that I won't be Ryo anymore. I'm still the same hot-headed guy as ever, it's just that I'll have periods...and...and...can someone PLEASE talk me out of this!"
"What?!", everyone exclaims falling backwards.
"You didn't go back to be cured because you didn't want to have your period?", Nasute inquires.
"Yah...it HURTS! All of the cramping and bleeding...it makes all of our battles seem like NOTHING."
"I second that.", Nasute notes.
"PLEASE PLEASE, Ryo, don't become a girl every again!", Seiji pleads.
"You're the reason WHY I didn't want anyone to find out that I AM a girl, you hentai!"
"Look, Ryo's got to do this and when he...she's there, maybe she'll find out what really happened to her father.", Touma notes.
"Yah, maybe he fell in the spring too! I'll go with you!", Shuu speaks.
"No, I have to do this alone."
The next day, Ryo packs and Nasute drives him to the airport. Ryo refuses to let the others see him off. He doesn't want to create a scene, but deep in his heart, he knows that he will always be a Trooper, even after becoming a girl once and for all.
~Another Trooper leaves the battlefield.......
Chapter Two. Ryo's Jusenkyo Curse!
Ryo lies down on his bed at Nasute's house reflecting on the recent events. No more armors, no more Samurai Troopers, no more senseless battles. Yet life had not finished with the five young heroes. Recently, Shin had twins, and now Ryo is thinking about the direction his life is headed. Out of all of the former Troopers, Ryo is now the only one who has never had a girlfriend. Even Jun now has a girlfriend. Ryo sighs, mainly because he doesn't want a girlfriend, but Shuu, Seiji, and Touma are insistant.
Ryo sighs to himself. He reflects back on the day he lost his father. He was with his father in China, helping him take pictures of the native wildlife. While in the wilderness, they had spotted a giant panda bear cautiously approaching a cute red haired girl. Ryo's father took advantage of the adorable photo opportunity and shot it. This caused both the panda and the girl to chase after them. Ryo had fallen a ledge and into a small, but deep pool of water. However, Ryo's father was never found.
"Every since that day, near those fated Jusenkyo springs...my life forever changed. I lost my father, and soon after that I became a Samurai Trooper. The reports said that he had been killed by a wild animal, but I never got to see for myself. Even though I'm no longer a Trooper...I still can't let go of Jusenkyo.", Ryo reflects.
"Hey Ryo! What are you doing?", Jun inquires energetically as he enters Ryo's bedroom.
"Oh, just thinking.", Ryo comments.
"About what?", Jun pries.
"Oh, about the past. Before I became a Trooper. It seemed so long ago. Did you want something Jun?"
"Shuu, Touma, and Seiji invited us to join them at the public baths!", Jun informs.
"Public baths? Well...uh...I don't do well at public baths.", Ryo stutters.
"Please, Ryo-nisan!", Yamano Jun begs.
"You can go on without me. You're a big boy. You don't need me cramping your style."
"I won't go without you!", Jun insists.
"Alright, I guess I can't get out of it. I'll go, but I won't join you in the baths.", Ryo informs.
"Hey Ryo! Glad you could come!", Touma greets standing in front of the bath house with Seiji and Shuu.
"Yah, Jun suckered me into coming.", Ryo admits as Jun smiles proudly.
"You're not going to get embarressed, are you?", Seiji inquires.
"I'm just here for Jun...I'm not actually going to get in the bath.", Ryo informs.
"Aw, come on Ryo, it'll be fun!", Shuu insists glomping onto Ryo.
"Ack! No!"
"Awwww Ryo-nisan!", Jun whines.
The four drag Ryo inside and pay their fee for using the baths. Ryo calms down as he takes a seat and begins washing his body with soap and cold water. Just as Touma finishes bathing, he is suddenly doused in icy cold water by Ryo. "RYO!!!!!" Ryo swiftly grabs two more buckets full of water and splashes the others. The foursome immediately go running after him with a vengence, but eventually give up and enter the bath. Ryo sighs and finishes bathing.
With his towel wrapped firmly about his waist, Ryo peeks over to the baths. "Hey Ryo-nisan, come in! The water's greate!", Jun insists.
"No thanks."
"You needn't be so shy, Ryo!", Seiji encourages.
"Hey, where's Tou......aaaaaaaaahhhhh!", Ryo exclaims as Touma pushes him into the warm water.
"Got you back, Ryo!", Touma proclaims with triumph as the others laugh.
Ryo finds himself at the bottom of the bath. The others dive down to chase after him. Ryo quickly removes his towel from around his waist and wraps it diagonally across his chest and lower regions. The four swim after him and Ryo desperately paddles up to the surface. "AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!", a black haired screams suddenly surfacing from the mens' side of the bath. She leaps out of the bath and runs towards the mens' changing area and snatches one of Ryo's extra towels and change of clothes. She quickly slips into his loose shirt and baggy boxers as she rushes out of the bath house clutching onto the clothes so as they do not fall off.
Shuu surfaces and looks around and sees Touma with a perplexed look on his face. Seiji follows and Jun rises up next. "Where's Ryo-nisan?", Jun questions.
"Was it me, or did I just hear a girl scream?", Seiji inquires.
"Yah, I just saw a girl coming up from this side.", Touma comments.
"A girl? I didn't see Ryo at all down there. You don't think that he switched sides with the girl, do you?", Shuu wonders.
"If he did, then we'd be hearing a LOT of girls screaming soon.", Seiji notes.
After waiting half an hour for Ryo to appear, the four boys head back to their stuff and change. Jun picks up the remainder of Ryo's stuff. "Ryo-nisan's shirt and boxers are missing.", Jun informs.
"I didn't see him get out of the bath.", Touma notes.
"Do you think that he got out of the bath before that girl showed up?", Seiji suggests.
"I really don't know.", Touma admits.
"Yah, but Ryo-nisan wouldn't have just taken off like that without his stuff! And he wouldn't have left me without saying anything!", Jun insists.
"Yah guys, it's not like Ryo to leave his stuff behind.", Shuu adds.
The boys sigh in agreement and finish changing. They head over to Nasute's house to see if she could help them find Ryo. "Oh, he's upstairs in the bath.", Nasute informs.
"In the bath, but he was just with us at the bath house.", Touma informs.
"Now that sounds odd.", Nasute concedes.
"Yah, and here's his stuff!", Jun informs showing Nasute Ryo's bath supplies.
The four go inside and wait for Ryo. After a few minutes, Jun decides to go upstairs to check on Ryo. Nasute stays with the three former Troopers as the disclose the happenings at the bath house. Meanwhile, Jun enters the bathroom where Ryo is bathing. "Ack! Oh...Jun. I thought you were Nasute. What are you doing here?", Ryo comments, caught off guard.
"Ryo-nisan, you WERE at the bath house with us earlier, right?", Jun inquires.
"Yah.....", Ryo admits.
"Why'd you leave without telling us! How could you be so mean like that?!", Jun demands.
"I'm sorry, Jun, I just got freaked out so I took off. I'm...I'm...I'm afraid of...deep water. I thought I was going to drown, so I freaked out, grabbed my clothes, and ran off. I'm sorry I worried you guys, but I have a series fear of deep water.", Ryo confesses stepping out of the tub and draining it.
After drying off and changing into a fresh pair of clothes, Ryo and Jun head downstairs to speak with everyone. "Hey guys, Ryo-nisan has to tell you something!", Jun informs entering the room with Ryo. Ryo blushes as everyone turn their attention to him. He walks over to a chair and sits down, feeling like he's been put on the spot.
"It goes back to before I became a Samurai Trooper. I was traveling with my father in China, near the Jusenkyo springs. He saw a great photo opportunity of a panda, but after taking the picture, the panda attacked us and I fell into a deep spring. When I surfaced, my father was gone. I was told that he had been killed by the panda, but I never saw the evidence for myself. Ever since then, I have been very afraid of deep pools of water. That's why I didn't want to go to the bath house.", Ryo explains.
"Yes, but didn't you have to go in Toiyama Bay to awaken Shin?", Seiji questions.
"It wasn't willingly. I was terrified...I...I didn't want to go in...but then Naaza showed up and attacked me. He...he drug me underwater! And we were fighting...then Shin woke up. I...I...I didn't want...I didn't want...to be down there!"
"Oh...okay.", Touma notes.
"Well...now you know.", Ryo sighs, although he noted that they didn't actually know the real truth.
Ryo's friends finally head off on their seperate direction. Ryo breathes a sigh of relief. He had no idea how they would react if they knew the truth. True, it Ryo knows that it was wrong not to be open with them about everything, but with all of the stuff Shin's going through...Ryo doesn't want to be put on the spot. "I don't want to HEAR the kind of comments Seiji will make either!", Ryo thinks to himself.
The next morning, Ryo takes a warm and refreshing hot bath. "Awww, and to think I'm going to take a cold one next. I kind of regret it, but I must.", Ryo comments. The door suddenly opens and Ryo screams like a girl! Nasute mimics Ryo's scream. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BATHROOM?!", Nasute screams in demand.
"Shut...shut...shut the door! Don't walk in on me like that!"
"WALK IN ON YOU?! YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! YOU'RE IN MY BATHROOM!"
"Please, Nasute, calm down. Just step out and calm down and I'll explain everything!"
"CALM DOWN! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CALM DOWN WHEN YOU BUST INTO MY HOUSE TO TAKE A BATH? RYO! BYAKUEN!", Nasute continues to scream. The girl in the tub sighs, drains out the warm water and instantly begins filling it with warm water. Nasute's jaw drops to see Ryo suddenly appear in the cold bath.
"Can you PLEASE get out now?", Ryo requests.
Nasute walks out backwards and awkwardly closes the door. She isn't sure what to make of what she just saw. She had walked in to see a strange girl in her bathroom, but then suddenly turned into Ryo. "Ryo?"
"Yes, it's me.", Ryo comments dried off and dressed.
"What...what...what is going on?", Nasute stutters, still in shock.
"I'm cursed Nasute. When I was in China with my father...I fell into a cursed spring. In cold water, I am a boy, in warm water, I am a girl.", Ryo explains.
"I...I...I don't believe it."
"I...I don't either...sometimes. I've been living like this since I became a Trooper.", Ryo admits.
Later that evening, Nasute invites Touma, Shuu and Seiji over. Although he hadn't been invited, Jun comes over as well. The former Troopers and Jun sit in the livingroom with a strange girl they had never seen before. Byakuen is laying on the floor trying to take a nap. "Hey Nasute, where's Ryo?", Touma inquires.
"Yah, where's Ryo-nisan?", Jun echoes.
"Well, forget about Ryo for the second, and lets us not be rude. I'm Seiji, and who might you be?", Seiji approaches the young lady with his smooth girl chasing voice.
"I think you got that wrong. You're Byakuen's lunch if you hit on me again.", the young lady informs as Byakuen looks over at Seiji with an evil smirk.
"Oh...kay.", Seiji comments nervously and backs off into his seat.
"Don't worry about Seiji. At least he isn't asking you to bear his child.", Touma teases.
Nasute comes back in the room and pours a bucket of ice cold water on the girl, transforming her into Ryo. "Ryo?!", the former Troopers exclaim.
"Ryo-nisan?!"
"What's going on here?", Shuu demands, but Nasute only smiles and leaves out into the kitchen.
"Hey Ryo, tell me I'm not crazy.", Touma inquires.
"What just happened here?!", Seiji freaks.
"What's wrong, Ryo-nisan?", Jun asks worried.
"Eh, oh, nothing.", Ryo retorts sweat dropping.
A few minutes of awkward silence, Nasute poors steaming hot water onto Ryo, transforming him into a girl. Ryo stands up and screams in a girly voice. "Not THAT HOT, Nasute!"
"Shall I get the bucket of cold water?", Nasute inquires.
"No! I'll...I'll be fine!", Ryo informs with water eyes.
"What in the HELL is going on?!", Touma demands to know.
"Yah, why do you keep turning into a girl?", Shuu asks.
"It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl, it's Ryo. It's not a girl....it's...just...RYO!!!!!!!!"
"Seiji-nisan, you're scaring me.", Jun informs.
"I'm sorry guys, but I wasn't entirely honest with you yesterday.", Ryo admits.
"So, you WERE the girl that came out from the mens' bath!", Touma notes.
"Ryo's a girl?", Shuu wonders.
"Of course not!", Jun insists.
"But...I am."
"Just...just for the moment. You'll...you'll be a guy again...right?", Seiji freaks out.
"I'm cursed. When me and my dad were in China, and chased by the panda, I feel into a cursed spring.", Ryo informs.
"So, you didn't fall into any ordinary deep spring, you feel into a cursed spring of Jusenkyo. Spring of Drowned Young Man?", Shuu comments.
"Yes."
"So, there really is a cursed spring in China.", Shuu comments.
"You mean, Ryo's a girl?!", Seiji asks confused.
"Ryo-nisan can't be a girl!", Jun protests.
"I'm finding this hard to believe.", Touma confesses.
"I was born a girl. My real name is not Ryo...it's Ryoko. After I emerged from the spring, I met Byakuen, and was given my yoroi and returned to Japan. Byakuen has always known that I was really a girl."
"So...what are you going to do now?", Touma inquires feeling awkward, although not nearly as awkward as Seiji and Jun.
"Are you going to return to the spring and find a cure?", Shuu wonders.
"I guess now...I really should. You guys know that I'm a girl.", Ryo comments.
"I don't want you to be a girl! You're my Ryo-nisan!", Jun cries.
"Jun, just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean that I won't be Ryo anymore. I'm still the same hot-headed guy as ever, it's just that I'll have periods...and...and...can someone PLEASE talk me out of this!"
"What?!", everyone exclaims falling backwards.
"You didn't go back to be cured because you didn't want to have your period?", Nasute inquires.
"Yah...it HURTS! All of the cramping and bleeding...it makes all of our battles seem like NOTHING."
"I second that.", Nasute notes.
"PLEASE PLEASE, Ryo, don't become a girl every again!", Seiji pleads.
"You're the reason WHY I didn't want anyone to find out that I AM a girl, you hentai!"
"Look, Ryo's got to do this and when he...she's there, maybe she'll find out what really happened to her father.", Touma notes.
"Yah, maybe he fell in the spring too! I'll go with you!", Shuu speaks.
"No, I have to do this alone."
The next day, Ryo packs and Nasute drives him to the airport. Ryo refuses to let the others see him off. He doesn't want to create a scene, but deep in his heart, he knows that he will always be a Trooper, even after becoming a girl once and for all.
~Another Trooper leaves the battlefield.......