Ranma 1-2 — Manga

Ranma, in his male form, approached the cushion fortress. The baby hissed.

"And the ritual is incomplete," Herb snarled. "To reverse it, the vessel of the Matriarch's mind—that baby—must be truly terrified by the person she respects most. Then the fear triggers the reversal. She respects only two things: the Musk Royal Scepter and… you, Ranma Saotome." ranma 1-2 manga

"Yeah, yeah. Just get that cursed baby out of here before—" Ranma, in his male form, approached the cushion fortress

"You're going about it all wrong," Nabiki observed from the porch, eating Pocky. "You can't scare her with violence. She invented half those moves. You need to scare her with the unknown ." "To reverse it, the vessel of the Matriarch's

And Ranma, despite everything, found himself smiling back.

The vortex reopened. Light flashed. When it cleared, the baby was cooing normally, and the old woman blinked with the wisdom of her true age. The reversal was complete.

As Ranma gagged and Akane burst out laughing—the first genuine laugh he'd heard from her all week—the baby grinned a gummy, innocent grin.