The Case of the Furinkan Stalker!

The Case of the Furinkan Stalker! (呪泉郷から来た悪魔 前編) is the 10th episode in the sixth season, Random Rhapsody, and the 120th episode overall.

Relation to the Previous Episode
None.

The Stalker of Furinkan High
On a dark and windy night in Furinkan, a woman walks along one of the streets when she begins to become nervous. The woman then begins running from whatever is behind her, but when she turns around, nobody can be seen. She then turns back, only to be met with a masked figure staring straight at her. The woman screams in terror, and the masked figure leaves her with a hairy caterpillar, which the woman detests, before making his escape.

The next day, Akane's friends start asking her if she's noticed anything different in Ranma's behaviour. Confused, Akane notes that Ranma seems the same as usual and retorts by asking if there should be anything she noticed. Akane's friends explain to her about the Stalker who dresses in a black cloak and a mask before Yuka goes on to reveal that yesterday when she left school late, after getting a feeling of being followed, she was stopped by the Stalker.

Once she finishes screaming from recalling the story, Yuka continues by explaining that when she saw the Stalker she hit him over the head with her Satchel and proceeded to run away. Hearing this, Akane comments that it seems like the Stalker came off worse in that situation, but Yuka retorts that whoever it was didn't deserve to make her so scared. The girls then go on to inform Akane that Yuka's the fourth victim that they know of, and that with every attack, the Stalker sprays his victim with ink before leaving them with a hairy Caterpillar. Akane quickly decides that the girls want Ranma's help to catch the Stalker so asks her friends if the Stalker had any distinguishing features, but the girls just sit in silence before Sayuri finally tells her not to get mad because things are about to get confusing...

Meanwhile, Ranma has just finished his lunch in another part of the classroom when he hears Akane scream "what?" at the top of her voice. Ranma looks over, but when he sees Akane being kept quiet by the other girls, so decides to leave her alone and take up Daisuke's offer to playing outside.

Akane's Attack
Some time passes and Akane watches Ranma playing with his friends from atop the School building. As she looks on, Akane thinks back to her friends revealing that they believe Ranma's the Stalker as when Yuka talked with the other victims they all noted that Stalker's pigtail, one victim even said that when the Stalker attacked her the Stalker identified himself as "Ranma Saotome".