[Workplace Comeback + Ensemble of Brothers + Thrilling Battles + Heartbreaking Angst]
In the first year after returning from the pilgrimage, Sun Wukong slammed his hand on the table at a performance review meeting on Spirit Mountain.
“Old Sun fought 108 monsters, saved that monk 17 times, and had the tightening spell recited over him more than a hundred times. So what did I get? Master got promoted, Pigsy and Sandy got their share, and Old Sun is still a temp?”
When all the gods and Buddhas sat in silence, he tore up his evaluation form and flipped the review table.
The Tathagata asked, “Wukong, what do you want?”
Sun Wukong grinned. “If Spirit Mountain has no place for Old Sun, then I'll build my own department: the Three Realms Inspection Office. From today on, if there's injustice anywhere in the Three Realms, I'll take care of it!”
Later, when demons from beyond the realms invaded and the gods and Buddhas were powerless to stop them, people finally realized that the monkey who had overturned the table at that review meeting had long since become the Three Realms' last trump card.
By then, though, he had already lost too many brothers.
