Chimper #972
In Waterfall City, they say the river gives you what you need, not what you ask for. Hasuri only asked for a clump of Shadow Moss to grind into ink for their scholarly scrolls. Instead, while prodding the riverbed with a fallen branch, they slipped on a wet stone and accidentally hooked the legendary Gilded Carpโa fish thought to be a myth. Worse, its gleaming scales were tangled with an ancient, jewel-studded helmet. The crowd of chimps and frogs that gathered saw their stunned expression as the deep focus of a master, their panicked silence as humble stoicism. Now, they are hailed as the Fishing Sensei. The helmet sits on their head, a trophy from a victory they never intended, and they carry a gifted rod wherever they go, still just trying to figure out how to put bait on a hook.