It was loud night that day, the fishermen laughing and yelling and the chirping of the crickets used for bait were, louder?
"Wait a minute how is that poss-."
As Fujima opens his eyes there is a cricket in front of him
For a few seconds they are just sitting there while the cricket breaks the silence. Confused, slowly Fujima slides out of his bed and grabs the edges then from where the fishermen were a loud slam could be heard then some extra cracking shortly after.
A few minutes later Fujima is trying to fix his roof and then a hard knock on the door is heard before he could walk over the door is kicked down and coins are tossed along.
Pausing to process what happened Fujima makes a dash to the coins but, he got a swift chop to the neck and was knocked out and In a odd twist of fate he was hoisted over the kidnappers shoulder just like the fish he had caught.
When he finally wakes up he is in a tent and unlike the fish with the kidnapper who happened to be the armored person asking around the village sitting in front of him yesterday. Before he could ask anything the kidnapper begins to introduce their self.
"I! am the daughter of honor my name is, Keiaru, now state your name!"
"Wait... You kidnapped me without knowing my name"
(Keiaru pauses for a bit)
"The villagers said you were the one who was best for my task"
"They would have said my name"
(Glossing over the fact that she forgot his name she shouts)
"Also it was not kidnapping it was recruitment"
"Ok ok jeez any way best for what task...kidnapper?"
Letting a loud sigh slip out Keiaru clears her voice, takes a deep breath and explains herself "our task here today is to catch the bandit king of the dead forest."
"The bandit king is a man unrivaled in strength throughout his entire region so I was sent here to arrest him."
After hearing of such a powerful bandit who was in his region Fujima thinks back to the conversation between the villagers before he was kidnapped.
"Is that what they were talking about."
(Fujima gives a thumbs up to let Keiaru now he is all ears so she continues.)
"He claimed an important river cutting off many villages from their main source of water and he is attacking the same villages and claiming them"
"Now he has set many outposts to enforce a tax on every village he conquers to fund his city"
Now holding her hand out she asks.
"So, will you work with me."
Fujima begins to think of how vital the river is to his village then thinking of when they took him in as a kid wrapped in nothing but rags and his trusty net teaching him to be a fisherman genuinely raising him even if he gained a knack gambling and many other bad habits as a kid.
So he decides to shake her hand.
"my name is Fujima Son of the net" which came off the top of his head (like this entire story)he gives him self the nickname because Keiaru did it and she was the first person who had a full name like that so he thought it was "formal" only to hear...
"Are you mocking me!?" then receiving a swift punch to the head
as Keiaru hands Fujima a knife she says "sharpen this to protect yourself on the way"
looking at the small knife Fujima questions "Just how can I defend my self with a grass cutter"
Pausing once more before she headed to her tent she tells him to "imagine gutting a fish they're tough right?"
"I guess" Fujima says unsure but as the day came they head off for the city.