Or just make it so that it's a one time thing and Ranma 'woke' up from the vision.
Uh, hello? "
Ranma tried to scream but her lungs were somewhere on the floor, so her scream came out utterly sile— ear-splittingly loud. She sat up in a jerk surveying the inside of the rail car with eyes bleary from sleep. What are you yelling for?” Akane asked her angrily." ? Already there?
hey should see one of the dead ends appearing like a tiny dead spot on their map,
Ah-hah, but it doesn't work in a map mode at the time, it only displays one number: distance to the token in meters.
Don't forget: it has a 2-inch monochrome display that could only draw black lines, no shades of grey. And very limited programming capabilities. The screen resolution is practically infinite, but that is of little help.
Akane's choice to close the portal happened moments before she did it though, it wasn't a dead end path until she decided to push the button.
Eh, her being irritated or absent-minded, and being hasty, is exactly what was causing the non-closed loop in the mega-forest before Brya used that zombie-raising construct. All her world-lines going through the portal with its broken safety mechanisms, with her making the same mistake in one form or other in most of them. It was a form of pre-destination made out of her predictable reactions and a pre-existing hardware failure.