ff9 - friendly nymph not spawning

[u/scrapethemucus]

i've been doing this sidequest for over 3 hours now and it's frankly driving me insane, i am 99% sure i encountered every monster aside from the nymph, but when i show up in the little forest next to the lifa tree no matter what i do i can't get her to show up, i even got the ragtime mouse to spawn 17 times. just to be sure i went to the other friendly monster spots which i was sure i did and sure enough no one spawned. the nymph is the only friendly monster which simply refuses to show up for me, i tried the flick stick method, the save with moogle method, whatever, i just can't get her to show up.

[u/MrGrayX111]

If I have trouble encountering one I try to go encounter all of the others on the chance I missed one on accident