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Everyone stared at the Bubble Dolphin struggling to swim around inside the bucket. After a moment of silence, they all burst out laughing.
"Pfft, hahahahaha!"
"Firona, this is your biggest catch? Are you serious?"
"What happened? After all that time, this is the only unlucky thing you managed to hook?"
"You were the one who suggested a fishing competition, yet this is the result you brought out in the end. What a perfect ironic joke~"
"Ah, I can't take it anymore, my stomach hurts from laughing."
Firona, red-faced and embarrassed, tried to defend herself.
"I didn't want this either! This stupid fish bit my hook more than ten times! It just wouldn't stop clinging to me!"
Weimeng laughed gleefully at her misfortune.
"Maybe it fell in love with you!"
Ye Chen asked back in confusion.
"Then couldn't you have just put it in the bucket first?"
Erigat agreed with a puzzled expression.
"Yeah, I don't see what the problem is."
Firona began to stammer again.
"I-I did do that, but..."
Oko followed up curiously.
"But?"
Firona lowered her head in dejection and answered honestly.
"Other than it, I never caught anything bigger. Everything I caught afterward was smaller than the last..."
Xiya suppressed her laughter as she comforted her.
"It's okay. That's just fishing—the luck factor is huge~"
Like a wilted flower, Firona looked as though she wanted to cry but had no tears.
"Why did every one of you get such a bountiful haul, while I was the only one who came back with this unlucky thing? It's infuriating!"
Once everyone had shown off their respective catches, a brief discussion quickly determined the winner of this fishing competition.
Xiya and her Kailong crayfish claimed the championship without suspense, earning another limited-edition rainbow ice cream cone.
Next, they decided