He agreed to go with the crab to collect the fruit. When they both arrived, the monkey was amazed at how beautiful a tree had grown from seed and how many mature perfumes the branches were loaded with. He climbed the tree quickly and began to pick and eat, as fast as he could, one persimmon after another. Each time, he chose the best and most mature he could find, and kept eating until he could eat no more. He didn't want to give a single one to the poor hungry crab who was staying down the tree, and when he was done all that was left was the hard, immature fruit. Imagine the feelings of the poor crab after waiting patiently, for as long as it had, for the tree to grow and the fruit to mature, when it saw the monkey wiping out all the good persimmons.
He was so disappointed that he ran around the tree to call on the monkey to remember his promise. At first, the monkey was unaware of the crab's complaints, but eventually, he chose the greenest, greenest persimmon he could find and pointed it to the top of the crab. Persimmon is as hard as stone when unripe. The monkey's missile hit its target and the crab was seriously injured by the blow. Again and again, as soon as he could lift them, the monkey ripped the hard persimmons and threw them at the helpless crab until he fell dead, covered with wounds all over his body. There he stayed, a pitiful scene at the foot of the tree he himself had planted. When the evil monkey found out that he had killed the crab, he fled from there as quickly as he could, in fear and trembling as the coward he was.
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