Ranma is fed up of the multiple fiances and leaves for a year telling them to sort themselves out. When he returns he has a plan to preserve his honor and have a happy life. He will take a potion that will lock him as a girl and wipe her memories allowing her to live happily as a beautiful young woman. Everybody is sad but they all do their best to protect her and make her happy, unfortunately the schoolgirls don’t believe her and beat her almost to death and are shocked and horrified when she doesn’t change in the shower.