A boy named Picolet Chardin II comes to Furinkan High and challenges Ranma to an eating contest. Picolet is lighting quick and food literally vanishes in front of him, causing Ranma to lose. When the Tendo girls tell Soun what happened at school he panics and tells them that 20 years ago, he and Genma lost a match to Picolet's father and promised their unborn daughters as his child's bride as payment for the food they ate. Now Picolet has come to collect and Ranma volunteers so that he can learn how to defeat Picolet.