No Need For Ranma

 is the 71st chapter of the manga and the second chapter of the Dojo Destroyer Arc.

Ranma goes out with Shampoo much to Akane's frustration. Akane punches a wall before her match, and injures her hand rather badly, thus handicapping her against the Dojo Destroyer. Ranma's date gets off to a bad start as he tries to steal the Instant Nannīchuan Powder and run away.

Ranma Meets Shampoo
Ranma is running along a wall for his date with Shampoo, all the time thinking about the Instant Nannīchuan Powder whilst sining "never going to be a girl again" to himself. Suddenly a bucket a water appears and begins flying towards Ranma, which he dodges. Soun then appears on the wall and notes that just a few more inches and he would've hit Ranma, when Ranma sees Soun he asks him what he did that for. In response, Soun, with tears in his eyes, calls Ranma a traitor and asks him who he can abandon them the day that the Dojo Destroyer is meant to return, Ranma just smiles at Soun while telling him that he'll be back before they know it.

Akane, with Nabiki in tow, appear at the bottom of the wall where Akane tells Ranma to take his time since she'll defeat the Destroyer with her left arm alone. She then proceeds to punch the wall and reduces it to rubble. Ranma (who'd jumped into the air before Akane punched the wall) tells Akane that this sounds good to him and gives bids them farewell. Soun then asks Akane if she's sure she'll be all right, to which Akane says she'll defeat the Destroyer with her right arm alone. Nabiki then pipes up and asks Akane if she wasn't just talking about using her left arm a minute ago, while Soun repeats himself in asking Akane if she'll really be all right. Akane, crying slightly due to the damage she did to her left hand when she punched the wall, just says that she wishes that they'd both shut up.

Ranma, meanwhile, has made his way to Sakura Park where he soon meets up with Shampoo for their date.

Cast in Order of Appearance

 * Shampoo (human)
 * Ranma Saotome (male)
 * Soun Tendo
 * Nabiki Tendo
 * Akane Tendo
 * Betty
 * Tofu Ono
 * Dojo Destroyer
 * Kasumi Tendo

Trivia

 * While Ranma runs along the wall at the start of this chapter, there is a sign which says "Yamada Music Academy", coincidentally a character in Rumiko Takahashi's later work,, there is a character called "Yamada".
 * Similarly the name "Sakura Park" could be a reference to either Sakura or Sakura Manabu who appear in Takahashi's other works, Urusei Yatsura and respectively.