Get That Compact!!

Konpakuto o ubae!! (コンパクトを奪え!!) is the 369th chapter of the manga. It is also the third chapter of the Cursed Mirror Arc.

Everyone attempts to retrieve the Magic compact from Mirror Ranma.

The Bait
The Tendo household decides that the best way to lure Mirror Ranma is to tie Ranma up on a tree as a bait. Their plan is to capture her as she comes to Ranma. But before she arrives, Kasumi calls them for dinner, leaving Ranma alone on the tree. Kasumi brings out Ranma's dinner and places it under him, but leaves after doing so. Ranma is unable to reach his dinner and can only smell the food that lay below him.

The copy then shows herself and eats his food in glee. After finishing, she jumps to him with the compact in hand. Ranma closes his eyes to avoid being trapped inside the mirror and the copy, seeing her love unable to move or see, leans in to kiss him. She is interrupted when Akane strikes her down with a mallet. Soun and Genma now come out with food still in their mouths ready to capture the copy. But when they approach her, they are hit with Hiryū Shōten Ha, and the Tendo sisters discover that Mirror Ranma is able to duplicate Ranma's abilities as well. Ranma tells them to let him down so he can take care of her, but Soun and Genma's disorientated bodies fall on top of him and he in turn on top of the copy.

Fight for the Compact
With Mirror Ranma successfully neutralized, they wonder what they should do with the Magic Compact. Suddenly, Happosai appears with his daily loot of lingerie and his pupils get an idea. Soun opens the mirror and tells him that there is rice on his face. Happosai looks into the mirror and is immediately sucked inside. Kasumi notices this and hands Happosai a bag of trash, which he grabs as he gets sucked in.

Mirror Ranma wakes up and joins Akane and Ranma's hands accepting that she lost. While they are distracted she jumps on Soun's head and reclaims the compact, then jumps again to Ranma to try and trap him again. Ranma puts on a blindfold and starts fighting blind to avoid risk of getting sucked into the mirror. The copy is unable to make Ranma look into the mirror and comes up with a different plan. She flicks a few rice on Akane then tells her to look at the mirror to clean her face. Akane doesn't fall for the trap and smashes her head into the ground. Mirror Ranma gets up and starts panicking, claiming that the mirror broke when she fell. When Akane comes closer she accidentally looks into the mirror and gets sucked in. When Ranma looks at his copy with anger, she runs off crying and takes the mirror with her. As Ranma chases after her, Tendo family worries for Akane who is trapped inside the mirror with Happosai.

Trapped
As Ranma chases his copy, he thinks of a way to get rid of her. he gives her a bouquet of roses. This is enough to charm Mirror Ranma and they sit together on a bench. While they're sitting Ranma gropes around her chest for the compact. He receives a playful but nevertheless painful punch to the face. She then closes her eyes and asks for a kiss. Ranma notices that there is a bump on her chest that he assumes is the compact. He reaches in and grabs the compact out of her shirt and opens the it to release Akane but finds it to be a fake. Mirror Ranma then walks away carrying the real one.

Meanwhile, Akane is running around inside the mirror with Happosai right behind her. A single left jab is enough to knock him out briefly. She wraps him with his sack and his panties to make a rope. Outside, Ranma is chasing after his copy. Suddenly she hits a sumo wrestler statue and the compact goes flying. It lands on the head of Kuno, who looks inside before Ranma can intervene. When he opens the compact, Akane sees light from above and spins Happosai around. She tosses it over toward the light to climb out, but Happosai comes right back down, accompanied by Kuno. Ranma is now in possession of the mirror and holds it down to release Akane. But when he does so, he finds that the mirror is unresponsive. Inside, Kuno and Happosai formed a wall to block off Akane, prompting her to come to them instead of leaving.

Cast in Order of Appearance

 * Ranma Saotome (male)
 * Soun Tendo
 * Genma Saotome (panda)
 * Akane Tendo
 * Kasumi Tendo
 * Mirror Ranma
 * Nabiki Tendo
 * Happosai
 * Tatewaki Kuno