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| Location | Senpou Temple - Main Hall |
| Weakness | Shinobi Firecracker Stealth/Gachiin's Sugar |
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| XP | NG: 3000 NG+: 15000 NG++: 22500 |
Folding Screen Monkeys (見る猿、聞く猿、言う猿、, Seeing Monkey, Hearing Monkey, Speaking Monkey, ) is a required Boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. This Complete Folding Screen Monkeys Boss Guide gives you strategies on how to beat the Monkeys encounter easily, as well as tips, tricks and lore notes. This boss fight based on the Four Wise Monkeys which embody the principals of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, do no evil." You must kill in total all 4 monkeys that share a single health bar that is reduced by 25% upon killing a monkey. You will receive the Illusive Hall Bell quick item which allows you to reset the positions of the remaining Monkeys and yourself. This is more of a game of cat & mouse than an actual fight as the monkeys will run away from you, however each time a monkey is startled one or two monkey apparitions will be summoned to attack you. Upon killing the final monkey you will be transported to the Inner Sanctum.
Folding Screen Monkeys Location
Where to find Folding Screen Monkeys in Sekiro?
- Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo Main Hall: After defeating Genichiro Ashina and asking Isshin Ashina where the Mortal Blade can be found, interact with the table in front of the giant Buddha statue to be transported to the boss arena: the Hall of Illusion.
- There are four monkey bosses in total:
- "See No Evil," Mizaru in the Purple Robes will run away from you when it sees you approaching. It has really good vision, but poor hearing.
- "Speak No Evil," Kikazaru in the Orange Robes will alert all other monkeys when it spots you, which causes all of them to flee. It has poor hearing and vision.
- "Hear no Evil," Iwazaru in the Green Robes will run away from you when it hears you approaching. It has really good hearing, but poor vision.
- "Do No Evil," Shizaru in the White Robes, which is invisible, will follow you while making spirits that attack and inflict Terror. This monkey will leave glowing footprints indicating where it has been. Being invisible, it is a play on the oft-forgotten "Fourth Monkey," of the original "Three Wise Monkeys," proverb and mythology.
Folding Screen Monkeys Rewards
What do you get from defeating Folding Screen Monkeys in Sekiro?
- Memory: Screen Monkeys
- Puppeteer Ninjutsu
- 3000/3600 (without Kuro's Charm) Exp (NG)
- 15000/18000 Exp (NG+)
- 22500/27000 Exp (NG+2)
- 67500/81001 Exp (NG+7 and beyond)
- The Folding Monkeys guard the way to The Divine Child of Rejuvenation and the Mortal Blade she holds.
Folding Screen Monkeys Boss Guide Strategies
Sekiro Folding Screen Monkeys Video Strategies
Sekiro Folding Screen Monkeys Strategy Write-up
Gachiin's Sugar and Firecracker Method: Upon loading in, turn around approach the ledge and attack the invisible monkey. Use Gachiin's Sugar, run towards the bridge and grapple on the roof to kill the orange monkey. Next grapple to the center tree and use Shinobi Firecracker on the green monkey to stun him. This allows you to kill him before he runs away. Finally, grapple onto the left tree branch, grapple to the roof above, and head left. The purple monkey will run into the building, follow him down and use firecrackers once you land to stun the final monkey. Attack and kill him to finish this boss fight.
You will be summoned into the Hall of Illusions on a pier facing the Abyssal Hall. There are two Folding Screens in front of you depicting the four Monkeys: "See No Evil," Purple Robed Mizaru; "Speak No Evil," Orange Robed Kikazaru; "Hear No Evil," Green Robed Iwazaru; and a blank screen meant to indicate the presence of a fourth, invisible "Do No Evil," Monkey Shizaru. If front of you will be the Illusory Hall Monk, who you can speak with to discern how three of the four monkeys function: Mizaru will flee from you when he spots you;Kikazaru will alert all other monkeys when he spots you, causing them to flee; while Iwazaru will flee when he hears you. (He does not explain how the fourth, Shizaru, works however.) Once a Monkey has been killed, its depiction on the Folding Screen will show the monkey facing away from you.
Each monkey has a set starting position and will be reset to that position upon ringing the Illusive Hall Bell Quick Item. Those positions are as follows: "See No Evil" Mizaru will be atop the second rooftop on the left; the "Speak No Evil" Kikazaru will be on the rooftop above the Illusory Hall Monk; the "Hear No Evil" Iwazaru will be seated on the tree in the middle of the Abyssal Hall, behind the Illusory Hall Monk; and Shizaru will always start/be located right behind the player's initial spawn point in the Illusory Hall.
- Upon spawning in, immediately turn around and swipe once to knock the Invisible Monkey out of its invisibility. If you miss, simply use the Illusive Hall Bell again to reset the position of all the monkeys. Doing this/killing the Invisible Monkey first makes hunting the rest of them less tedious, as you won't have to deal with the Terror-inflicting Monkey Spirits the Invisible Monkey summons.
- Once you've finished off the Invisible Monkey, ring the Illusive Hall Bell again to reset the level. Immediately dash towards one of the two Folding Screens in front of you to hide from the Orange Monkey. Once the enemy alerted icon disappears, rush towards the temple and grapple towards the roof above the Illusory Hall Monk. Here, kill Kikazaru immediately, which will cause Mizaru to flee. Ring the Illusive Hall Bell, again.
- Kikazaru and Shizaru on the Folding Screens should now be facing away from the player. Run forwards and make a left towards the Roaring Hall, the room filled with water. Turn right and go out the door and up the stairs you will now be in the second building, beneath Mizaru. Go left out of the second building into the Light Hall, a room containing 4 statues and a note on the far wall. Interact with the door to the right of the note to open it; this will allow a wailing wind into the building that we will need later. Go to the center of the room, look up, and grapple once so you are on the Octagon-shaped ring above you. Face your character towards the second building so that the grapple point on that side of the roof is selected. Grapple, then sprint towards the Second Building Rooftop to find and kill Mizaru with a flurry of R1 attacks. Ring the Illusive Hall Bell to reset.
- Kikazaru, Mizaru and Shizaru on the Folding Screens should now be facing away from the player. With only Iwazaru "Hear No Evil" remaining, head toward the Illusory Hall Monk, and turn left towards the room filled with water. Next, turn right towards the second building on the left, and then turn right again to head through the hallway. Halfway through the hallway on the left, interact with and ring the large bell you find, then sprint towards the central tree, grapple to the branch on the central tree behind Iwazaru, and finish him off with a flurry of R1 attacks.
- When the last Monkey is killed, you will see the "SHINOBI EXECUTION" screen.
- After killing the final monkey, you will be automatically transported to the Inner Sanctum and receive your rewards!
Sekiro Folding Screen Monkeys Attacks & Counters
| Attack | Counter |
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| Monkey Apparition | Shizaru will periodically summon ghostly monkey apparitions to attack you. Mizaru will summon 4 monkey apparitions if it is startled by the player. These look & behave similar to the wild Monkeys found around the Senpou Temple. Monkey Apparition attacks deal physical damage and cause Terror build-up. Monkey Apparitions do NOT disappear after ringing the Illusive Hall Bell. |
Folding Screen Monkeys Lore
- The Folding Screen Monkeys, and the Hall of Illusions itself, serve to protect the Divine Child of Rejuvenation, as explained by the item: Memory: Screen Monkeys.
- Lore theories should be clearly marked as such.
Folding Screen Monkeys Notes & Trivia
- The Japanese name of the boss more heavily hints at there being four monkeys to find, as it lists three monkeys with a blank space after the comma after the third monkey, hinting again at the invisible monkey following you.
- This boss fight is based on a Buddhist/Confucian interpretation of the "Three Wise Monkeys," maxim, wherein each monkey represents the principles of: "See no evil; Hear no evil; and Speak no evil."
- The Fourth Monkey, alternatively referred to as "Do no Evil," or "Smell no Evil," is less often cited as part of the proverb, but still shares its origins with at least a Confucian interpretation of it.
- According to Wikipedia: Though the teaching had nothing to do with monkeys, the concept of the three monkeys originated from a simple play on words. The saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru (見ざる, 聞かざる, 言わざる) "see not, hear not, speak not", where the -zaru is a negative conjugation on the three verbs, matching zaru, the modified form of saru (猿) "monkey" used in compounds. Thus the saying (which does not include any specific reference to "evil") can also be interpreted as referring to three monkeys.
- Similarly: the Monkeys are sometimes said to go by the names: Mizaru (See Not); Kikazaru (Hear Not); Iwazaru (Speak Not); and Shizaru (Do No [Evil]), though this is often a byproduct of non-Japanese interpretations of the proverb and its associated mythology.
- Like the Guardian Ape, the brown-furred Ape appearing in the Headless Ape fight, and the Monkeys found in the Sunken Valley Passage, the Folding Screen Monkeys are most likely based on Japanese Macaques.
- Although the Illusory Hall Monk claims that previous visitors have come into the Hall of Illusions, no corpses or human remains can be found throughout the area.
- Due to the way he talks, the claim specifies only one visitor with a purpose, and says that that visitor (essentially) disappeared - which could be an allusion to the fourth, invisible monkey. Him being someone with something to "Do" would also make him a good pun on "Do No".
Folding Screen Monkeys Image Gallery
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AnonymousIm late but i can help u for this whit a few strats,first have ready the suzaku fire umbrella or whatever,ako,gachiin sugars,loaded spear(for phase 3 when the centipede appears),any healing items i suggests having all,boss has 5 phases so be ready for a real 10 minutes or more fight,one of them wields a katana,other a spear and if u spot the invisible one it turns into a version of guardian ape,best use the umbrella here,also better get ready to deflect a lot here,and the 4th one is nothing special but can use mikiri counter on u and same as owl,can stab u if u get mikir,also mentioned best have divine confetti snap seeds,and its optional but if u want to u can cheese the monkeys whit weapons whit flame vent and oil.
Good luck,and have fun!
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It's genuinely surprising that this page did not talk about using GOKAN'S SUGAR. Because trust me, that makes this boss almost trivial. When you get into the sanctum, use your spring-load firecracker to kill the invisible monkey instantly. Then use Gokan's sugar and just run at the monkeys (one in front, one in the middle island and one to the left of the island). None of the monkeys can see you, and the hearing monkey becomes deaf too, so you finish their asses in two minutes.
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Every time, without fail, I'll kill three of them fairly quickly and then spend 15 minutes chasing down the last one.
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Sekiro has plenty of questionable bosses, but this is just a new low...
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They're a fun return visit to the puzzle-bosses of Demon's Souls.
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i love this boss, its "easy" in theory. not really much danger of death, But you have to actually think of what tf you are doing. its a soulslike and a hard one at that, so most bosses should be deadly and scary. but its variety and changing the mold that really sticks out every so often. i like it.
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Didn't even realize that there are four monkeys until ng+2. Must have gotten the invisible one while trying to hit one of the others
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I kinda feel bad for ringing the big bell to stun the green monkey that must have really hurt his ears
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Beat this first try but here we go:
I ran all of them down and slaughtered them like they deserved. No Shinobi tools, no skills, just katana and movement. Call this the scrub stomper. Not good at movement? You’re about to be.
The green one seemed to be more docile for some of you (on YouTube) It freaking TOOK OFF on me. So naturally I refused to change my strategy and eventually went to where it would go next, ripped my sword through a certain neck and BOOM.
Red Sword for the DRAGON LOOOOOOOORD.
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Wait a minute...
The "Speak No Evil," monkey in the Orange Robes will alert all other monkeys when it spots you, which causes all of them to flee. It has poor hearing and vision.
How the heck does it spot me from far with poor vision?
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Snap Seeds don’t work on the ghost monkeys but Finger Whistle does… I got them to kill the invisible monkey for me.
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Some info on this page seems wrong, the invisible monkey has nothing to do with the spirits spawning. The spirits start spawning after you kill any 1 monkey, and each consecutive monkey kill after that causes more to spawn. (Too lazy to edit the page myself so I'm just leaving this comment here instead)
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I'm down in a well and now I'm up in a tree. I am a Monkey and you can't catch me.
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I cannot be the only one who thought that the monk was the orange monkey right? I only had the orange one left at the end and couldn't find it so only this dude was left. Humans are monkeys (or well apes, if you wanna be specific), he explains how the orange monkey is the one that speaks and he also has orange clothing. To add to that, in english it's also a wordplay: monk(ey).
I thought "Haha, I figured out the puzzle with my gigabrain" so I started up my Ichimonji and smacked him with it and.... nothing happens. That was the most stupid I've ever felt.
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Loaded Spear is HUGE help in defeating the Folding Screen Monkeys Boss, especially the green one when it tries to run away from you after you ring the big bell. Thank me later.
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we get puppeteer ninjutsu after defeating the folding screen monkeys. so they were puppets. probably killed and made puppets by the ochi no miko chick. but she sure dressed that fact up beautifully lol
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Oh no! These enemies can flee from me as I approach melee range, it's not like I can 3-hit kill them with charged shuriken anyway
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monke... but also, monke.... but aalso, monke... but also, invisible monke...
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i thought that the yellow footsteps are from the purple soul monkey then i turn around and i get hit i got where i got hit and i search to google how to beat this looking easy monkeys turned out to be hard and i know what to do i beat them stupid momnkeys
I felt like an idiot when I found out the footsteps are actually coming from the 4th monkey and hit accidentally. Well free memory I guess and most importantly Mortal Blade.
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Some people might find it extremely easy but i personally love the puzzle aspect of this boss fight
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I love how it being the silliest and easiest 'boss' in the game still rewards you with not only the memory of an extraordinary(lol) foe but also with one of the best skill the puppeteer ninjutsu. As if the whole section was a joke by from just like the mist noble.
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I've noticed a glitch that occurs sometimes after the fight. If you kill the last monkey in a dark area then Wolf's eyes will glow as if they have the night eye effect in the Inner Sanctum.
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Fourth Monkey is 見え猿 Miezaru ("Cannot Be Seen" ), not Shizaru.
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So I tried playing this like a hide-&-seek puzzle instead of darting around like the incarnation of speed Sekiro is, and it's pretty fun sneaking up on the monkeys instead of chasing them. What I did was basically show myself, get them to run away, and see if they are in a nice place to sneak up on. The orange monkey should the easiest to kill and should be your 1st target. If you can flank him unnoticed, it should be easy to sneak up on him with just the suppress presence & sound passives that you can learn or even a gachin sugar alone. To kill the green one, you need a gachin sugar on top of the sneaking passives and to get behind him like the orange monkey. The purple monkey is the most straight forward because you can corner him into 2 places where he is blind. And the last one just follows you around. Personally, I like letting it follow me for awhile, because while I do know where it is, I like having fun as if I didn't know. I also used ash to keep them in place because they react to it like any other mob, and then killed them with Ashina Cross. it was fun, like throwing a net over them. If you don't run around the place chasing the the monkeys like a madman, this 'boss fight' will be several times less frustrating and more enjoyable. It is a puzzle after all. No need to get riled up.
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Am I the only one who spent half an hour on this?? I thought for the longest time the 4th monkey’s noises were just ambience fit for a monkey boss battle, and the first time I saw its footsteps I thought they were mine hahaha took me a while to solve it. I thought that monkey was genius
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Kind of lame "puzzle" boss. You can open the one door to make it dark in that room for the sight monkey, and the waterfall room is loud for the hearing monkey. One is invisible, and you can hear him follow you, so I used X against a random wall around a corner and waited a moment then slashed at the air to get him revealed. One monkey also likes to hide up in the attic of the big building in the back, accessible by the stairs on the right of that building. If you're stuck, just stealth and stop/move slowly around to find where the monkeys are. And use the binocular to help
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The invisible monkey summons ghostly monkey illusions? Hum… no. If you kill him first, you have still some of them coming.
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It is wrong. The 4 Monkeys name in Japanese are: 見る猿、聞く猿、言う猿、見え猿. It is from the text get from the monkeys memory before you turn it in at the idol. It is Miruzaru, Kikuzaru, Iuzaru and Miearu. There is no Shizaru here...
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Green Monkey: Chase it to the ledge behind the bell by grappling to the tree and then to the bell walkway. Ring it to stun the monkey, then grapple up to the ledge to finish it off.
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So I bum rushed the three visible ones and just assumed that phase 2 was an endless spawn of purple monkeys where i had to kill a certain amount. Spin to win until a bunch of em are dead, and i got my shinobi execution.
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This fight is just a mess, no question. I guess there are supposed to be specific rooms to help you kill each monkey, but honestly, they're almost entirely unnecessary. The purple monkey scampers into the dark room in the tower so easily, I crouched on instinct going in there and killed him almost by accident. The orange and green monkeys are absurdly easy to just run down and kill, and I, too, didn't even know there WAS a fourth monkey; I have absolutely no idea how it died or if I was even the one to kill it, but I beat the boss without knowing it was there. This fight is an absolute joke; it isn't even a fight, really, and it's so easy you can't even call it an actual puzzle. It's just a waste of about ten minutes.
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Actually, the Japanese maxim/saying/proverb is called ”mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru” 見ざる、聞かざる、言わざ る see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil as the ”zaru” means ”do not” in old Japanese and Saru is monkey
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Okay so something weird happened. I was (on ng+2) grappling towards the bell to incapacitate the hearing monkey. During the last grapple, I hit the monkey and it fell to its death.
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By sheer luck i managed to kill the orange and green monkey without needing to lure them to the rooms that were designed to impair their designated senses.
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It would've been a cooler puzzle boss if the game didn't let you so easily brute force it, unfortunate.
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Anyone else notice that the "seeing monkey" which we are told has excellent eye sight..... has to wear glasses xD
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Game appears to have bugged out for me. Despite immediately killing the white monkey, the game is still spawning terror inducing phantom monkeys, and the bell has zero damn effect on the hear no evil monkey. Great job FromSoft. Test your goddamn game next time.
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I noticed that if you use malcontent the invisible ape get stunned and visible.
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So it's only accessible after Genichiro, interesting. Even though you can access the whole temple in Senpou without killing Genichiro.
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I don't ever want to hear anyone talk about Micolash ever again.
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Okay easy way to do it -- As you spawn immediatly hide behind the left screen to your left and wait for the alerts to go away. Then grapple to the roof above that monk, and kill the monkey that is there. Ring the bell in your inventory/ Run to your left, then right, to a room with pillars and a big door. Open the door. Ring the bell. Grapple to the center tree, and the green monkey will jump away, above the big bell. Follow him but don't go exactly to where he is, instead ring the big bell that is there (not the one in your inventory, lol). Monkey will now be stunned right above you and you can kill him. Run back to where the door with the wind was and see if the purple monkey is waiting to be killed there. If not, ring the bell. Run back to where the door with the wind was. If he's still not there, ring the bell again and try to chase him away from his spot on the tree first. Ring the bell. Invisible one - i never managed to kill him at the start like some people do, he eventually randomly died when I fought the ghost monkeys. Randomly slashing around you seems to do the trick also
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Was this boss extremely easy for anyone else? I basically just sprinted and attacked the whole time and only lost sight of the green monkey for couple of minutes
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This boss fight was a let down. It’s way too easy. Every person I’ve seen play this has done it the first try without even using any real strategy. When I finished the fight I was thinking “was that it?”. It was unchallenging and boring.
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I chased all of them to one of the buildings, they fled to the top of it (not on the roof). Sneaked behind them with Gachi Sugar or whatever the hell you call it, and assassinated them.
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Remember they are animals (at least the other 3 excluding invisible monkey) so Firecrackers Prosthetic Tool is effective, especially against Speaking "Orange" Monkey. Just pop Firecrackers when you are close to it but out of attacking range.
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The arena has tools to help you! You can open a door to extinguish the lights, which will make it easier to kill the purple one indoors, and there is a bell which will stun the green one if you ring it while he's on the balcony right above it.
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This boss isn't hard enough to make players use their brain: - green monkey can be kill by grapple to the tree in the middle area when he's there. He can't hear you grapple or react fast enough to run from you - purple monkey is easy to accidently go to the dark room when you run around chasing other monkey - orange money can be kill by stealth - when others monkey is dead, you will run around and notice the footprint behind you is not human footprint and attack behind to check. This will kill the most privilege monkey
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Well I sure bumbled my way through this fight. Went in forgetting about the monk and immediately aggroed all the monkeys, accidentally chased the purple monkey into the dark attic but didn't kill him because he wasn't aggressive. Started wandering the area, set up the other dark room, finally got an idea what i'm supposed to do from the water room's note, then finally talked to the monk. Went back and killed purple, herded green into the waterfall room then ambushed him from above, stalked orange over the rooftops and shanked him, and it was only THEN i finally had a wraith monkey show up behind me, which freaked me out because i was expecting the fourth to be the real and actually dangerous boss. Immediately retreated to near the starting area, very warily fought the wraith monkey... and I think I accidentally killed the invisible follower, it looked like he popped right out of the wraith on a stab attack, and then he died. Had to come here just to make sense of the fourth monkey. I wonder if it's some kind of glitch that made the wraith monkeys spawn in such few amounts, or if it was some kind of bizarre miracle that i managed to accidentally evade them the whole time.
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Can you go back to this area ? I want to see the big crying monk. Or did i miss out?
Overheard in Senpou Temple's inner sanctum after the Hall of Illusions fight: "He got me", monke said of Sekiro's deathblow on him. "That ****ing Sekiro boomed me." Monke added, "He's so good," repeating it four times. Monke then said he wanted to add Sekiro to the list of Shinobi he works out with this summer.
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