A group of four men head to Japan to look for a rare Chinese artifact called the Dragon's Whisker attached to a Japanese male with a pigtail hairstyle, as they later sought Ranma Saotome as the possessor of this artifact. Ranma is repeatedly attacked by the four, learning what they are after, thereby refusing to give it to them. Although they initially seem weak, they eventually are able to remove the artifact from his pigtail, causing another one of his curses to be released.