Mint (AST)

Mint is as one of Herb's two bodyguards who has served him since they were children, the other being Lime.

## Biography

Mint is a descendant of wolves, hence his speed, and due to zero interaction with women he has difficulty communicating with them. This allowed Kasumi to initially defeat him despite being both outclassed and exhausted. They've never been to the outside world, let alone seen real-life women. This caused them to have hard time coming to terms with Herb’s curse and often referred to her as princess despite Herb repeatedly and violently telling them not to. Herb’s obsession with Kasumi confused them even more so. Mint and Lime had caught Herb more than once brooding about her, and even talking in her sleep about her, a very unusual thing for Herb.

Initially Mint wasn’t that willing to fight Ukyo thinking she was a wolf this allowed her to get the upper hand and take the Kaisuifu from him and change back. After leaning that she was a jusenkyo victim he seems to have fallen in love with her going so far as to rescue her from Lime when the two groups fought over the Kaisuifu. Lime and Mint were forced to stay at the school dorm due to the fact that they had used up their funds and Herb’s curse meant they couldn’t send for more. Due to his inexperience with women Mint didn’t really know how to handle his attraction to Ukyo. So ended up just mostly just giving her odd looks, and attempting to hang around her as much as he could. Ukyo who quickly realized what was going on became increasingly uncomfortable.

Mint eventually came right out and asked Ukyo to marry him only to be immediately shot down. She tried to explain to him that he wasn’t in love only to grow frustrated when she couldn’t explain why he wasn’t and told him to leave her alone. Mint started asking the various women he knew for advice on how to win Ukyo’s affection. He first asked Herb who grew angry upon realizing why, but managed to calm down and remind him that she had a male mind. He then asked Makoto.

When Kasumi and Shampoo were kidnapped and held captive at Hotel La Bac. When it was discovered that the contained an anti magic field that also affected chi, Herb ordered Lime and Mint to go with the group to destroy its power source. As he was the fastest he performed reconnaissance.

Despite being left largely unsupervised, Lime and Mint surprisingly were staying out of trouble. Mint still moped over Ukyo's rejection, was a little resentful towards Herb, although he did not openly express such. Lime, on the other hand, was quite happy. His job at the school afforded him several encounters with the opposite sex, including the infamous Yotogi, although the latter's advances were enough to make even Lime nervous.

After Herb was officially engaged to Kasumi in order to save him from the Fox clan Herb moved into the San Cheng Huang in order to keep an eye on Lemon who was left in Kasumi’s stead. He also moved in Lime and Mint upon realizing that that since they don’t go to Furinkan High they couldn’t keep freeloading at the dorms. As Lime and Mint were moving in they were interrupted by the arrival of Ukyo. Mint quickly offloaded his goods onto the already overloaded Lime and rushed over, ignoring the other boy's annoyed call after him. . Herb’s order and a cold look from the chef put a stop to his awkward attempts at flirting.

When Kuno took the others on a cruise Ukyo decided to go back to the temple to train. Mint naturally went there with her. He was standing guard outside the indoor kitchens that Ukyo preferred to use when Ranma walked up. He told the Musk warrior to help up front and he’ll get her. He found Rippa talking with the priest so just hovered nearby. This is how Ranma and Ukyo found them nearly a half an hour later. After some quick goodbyes the threesome headed out, Ranma and Rippa hanging back slightly as Mint led the way and Ukyo followed behind him.