In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed. Chen packed up his fishing rod.
"What are you doing?" Sonoko asked Chen.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm done. Of the three hours, I'll leave the remaining hour to you. I don't believe you can beat me."
Chen pointed at the fish in his bucket. It was already full, while Ran and the others had only caught two fish each so far. Kazuha, meanwhile, had caught nothing at all.
Forget fish—even a tiny shrimp had eluded her.
"Looks like we've lost to Chen." Ran had already resigned herself to it. Even if she were given several more hours, it would be useless.
"How can you give up so easily, Ran? Let's keep going." Sonoko was unwilling to accept defeat and wanted to continue.
"Forget it, I've already given up. You do your best. I think it'd be better to take the chance to rest now."
Kazuha spoke to Sonoko. She had truly given up, and the reason was simple: she knew she had no chance.
She hadn't caught a single fish yet. Was her luck that bad, or were her fishing skills that bad?
Kazuha had gone fishing plenty of times before. This time, though, not even one fish had taken the bait. Her luck was probably just too terrible.
There was nothing Kazuha could do about bad luck. Luck was not something that could be changed, and there was nothing to say when it turned against you.
Ran's luck, on the other hand, was quite good. Fish bit her hook many times, but her fishing skills were not much to speak of.
So in the end, plenty of fish took the bait, but few were actually reeled in. Many hooked fish got away.
Sonoko was fairly average. Her skills were