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— We were hunting Heckelian monkeys, — the man replied, then paused for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, before quickly correcting himself, — I mean, monkeys... Mammals... Primates, uh...
— I think he understood anyway, — the masked young man interjected, — he's probably not an idiot.
— These monkeys, named after the region where they originated, are very aggressive and have a habit of attacking travelers, destroying fields, and so on, so we organized a competition to eliminate them — whoever kills the most pests wins the tournament. At first, everything went well; the competitions were without serious injuries, and the participants and the few spectators who dared to venture outside the imperial walls had fun and were interested. But then things didn't go as planned. At some point, the king of the Heckelian monkeys appeared, a special subspecies of these primates that we had previously thought was extinct, and everything went wrong...
— Well, in short, there were a lot of corpses, and people lost interest in the hunt, not to mention the certain restrictions that the government imposed on us as a result.