Mouse: Surprise

Surprise's luck has never been much good. While still tiny, it tumbled off its mother's back and began a life on the far side of the sea, a lone mouse rummaging through garbage for food. But it still held on to its love of life, especially after a hearty meal!

One day, it smelled an extraordinary aroma of food drifting from a big ship, so it sneaked down into the hold, ate until its belly was round as a ball, flopped onto a soft cushion and fell asleep. By the time the salty sea wind woke it up shivering, the ship was who knows how far from shore. It clung to the porthole and peered out: nothing but endless sea all around. Now that's a Surprise!

And so, all in a muddle, Surprise tumbled into strange, bustling Weiyang City along with many Treasure-Bearing Mice who had crossed the ocean to find work.

Here even the chestnuts sold by the roadside come coated in sugar. Its eyes lit up, and it ran errands for the Cat Boss to earn a little bag. At night, curled up in a corner of the docks and hugging its warm stir-fried chestnuts, it thought, aggrieved yet content: it may have been tricked into coming, but the food here seems much better than before.

Ah well, never mind. Only it knows all the sweet and sour, bitter and spicy of this journey. Surprise licked its paw and decided to look tomorrow for a shop selling fresh oysters.

Translated by AI from the Chinese game text. It is replaced automatically when the official English text ships.